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Eagles
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???> Captain Blood, Haxoe, Hextex, Mad Max.
Eagles is dead.
Swede Arrow joined Strange.
Eaglesoft Inc (ESI)
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???> Butcher (crack), Christian, Depeche Mode, Fletcher, Mitch, Prowl The
Fugitive, The Head Librarian.
Boards; PROWLS PLACE (usa, 09/90), NEW YORK (usa, 09/90).
Eaglesoft came over from the C64 scene in the very first days of the Amiga
scene, and started doing the same thing they did on the C64: crack games.
They dominated this scene around 1987.
Eclipse [old]
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The old Eclipse is little-known, and all that the group ever amounted to
was releasing a few cracks from Rasta Catcha. There is no relation to the
new group using the name Eclipse.
Eclipse (ECL) [new]
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FIN> Axu (sysop 'SWAPDATA', 10/91), Daxer (swap, ex D-Mob, new ca 06/92),
Dodger (trade, 07/91-09/93), Marvel (gfx music, 09/93), Optic (code,
09/93-08/94), Peeri (code anim, 09/93), Soldier (music, ex Compact,
09/93-08/94), Target (trade, 07/91), Tom & Jerry (trade, 03/94),
Velocity (swap pack trade, 09/93), Vixen (org music trade, 12/92-
09/93), Werewolf (trade sysop 'DRAIN PIPE #2', 10/91-04/95).
HOL> Bassnote (music, 09/93), Bazz (gfx music trade, 09/93), CFI (org code
trade, 09/93), Crash (sysop 'CRASH CORNER' EHQ), Enigma, Mad Max
(sysop, 09/93), Mr.Zen (gfx, 09/93), One (gfx, 09/93), President
(sysop 'THE WHITE HOUSE', 09/93), Seven, Spy (gfx sysop, 09/93-08/94),
Teak (swap sysop 'NASA HEADQUARTERS', 09/93).
ENG> Amos (sysop, 09/93), Aquafresh (music swap, later Eltech old, 09/93),
Darkman (ex Plague), Denzil, Grasshopper (trade sysop, 09/93), Jarman
(music, 09/93), Melon (gfx swap, 09/93), Moz (gfx, 09/93), Recoil (ex
Plague), Saint M (swap, ex Cyanide), St0m (swap, 09/93), Turbo (code
gfx, 09/93).
GER> The Stranger (music, 09/93).
IRE> Arc, Axel, Brendan, Dionysis, Gazzer, Green Beret (sysop 'FORBIDDEN
PLANET'), Hokum, James, Jay, Polaris, Punisher.
USA> Caffeine (sysop 'PSYCHOSIS').
???> Bronx Warrior.
Finnish coder Relax was kicked due to inactivity late 93.
Dutch coder and sysop Overlord-X ('CODERS GRIB') was kicked due to
inactivity late 93.
Americans Panther (sysop 'OBITUARY') and Metoner (trade) both joined TRSI.
This means the American section is officially dead (late 93).
English swapper and packemaker 8-Ball (ex Cyanide, old handle Psi) joined
Infect.
English sysop Image ('IMAGEWORKS', ex Quoram, 09/93) joined Quartex.
Destinator (ex Destiny, new mid93) changed his handle to Real, then left
to build an English division of Infect mid 93.
The English division fusioned with Relay into a new group called Ghost.
Headache (File).
Landscape (File).
Teknicolor Dreams (Slideshow).
Guru Meditation II (1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro).
code: Optic, gfx: Spy, music: Soldier.
Split 24th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition.
review: Ooooh boy, where to start? Well, the best thing about this little
intro is the faked Guru meditation towards the end. I guess the name of
the intro should have given me some kind of hint as to why it suddenly
'crashed', but oh no. I was totally fooled and for that alone this one
deserves a star. Too bad the rest of thing sucks horses... isn't good.
[glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Eclipx
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Axe joined Nerve Axis late93.
Ecstasy
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Ecstasy was an English demo group. Meltdown was one of the founders.
1990 - English graphician Havok left the group late 1990.
1991 - Englishman Taurus left the scene around june.
English musician Nightshade joined Crusaders.
Intro (1992?, ECS Intro).
code: Count Zero, gfx: Shreck, music: n/a.
Weird Pack Intro (1992?, ECS Intro).
code: Orlanski, gfx: n/a, music: Rogue Male.
Ecthelion
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NOR> Cybermage (founder), Madwand (founder), Quark (founder).
Ecthelion was formed by three former members of Avalanche; Quark, Madwand
and Cybermage.
Eden
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Bluesilence and Clary joined from Nova france briefly, before they took
most of Eden's french members with them to Next Generation Crew. They are:
Gandbox (music), Slaine (gfx), Sylver and Silk.
Effect (1992-)
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HOL> Clone (code), Dazzler (code), Hi-Fi (code music sysop), Kim (mascot),
Radavi (founder mainorg www sysop 'WILD PALMS', doublememb Royal 96,
09/93-96).
pc section:
HOL> Hawk (music, late95), Native (founder code inactive, 09/93), Striker
(gfx, 09/93).
PREVIOUS MEMBERS - Kiwi (code swap pack, new early93-12/93), Scan (hol sysop
'DREAMSCAPE' WHQ, 03/94), Sceptre (Martijn Boekhorst, code, 09-10/93),
Stranger (ex Silicon Ltd., late 92-09/93), Take, Target, Usura (swap, new
mid93-09/93).
Boards; THE PUNICA OASE (hol, 07/95).
Effect is a dutch-only demo and board group, formed in the middle of 1992 by
Acute, Native, Radavi and Striker. The group has since grown a pc division,
but Radavi is still the leader of both sections. Their old homepage,
http://www.xs4all.nl/~radavi/effect/effect.html, appears to have gone from
the web.
Dutch sysop Rubyx ('THE STALLION') left.
Doz (ex Divine, old handle Ike, new late92) got kicked.
Original founder Acute left the Amiga and joined Hypnosis on the PC
instead.
Cloak, MSW (Edwin van Rijn, music, 09/93) and Probe were kicked because
they released an intro with some offending text at the Bizarre 1996
party.
Black Eagle, Sad, Striker and Maverick (music, new late 92-09/93) were
kicked late 94. This is a little strange, since Striker is actually one
of the original founders!
I Want Your Sperm (Demo).
Efreet
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Deep Pan (1996, 06.07, Intro).
3rd in the South Sealand Party 96 intro competition.
Elanthia (1991-1994)
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CAN> Neo-Dyne (James Ojaste, moral support, 07/94), Nitrolyte (Tim Park,
code mainorg, 07/94), Ogre (aka Grey Mouser, music, 07/94), Tlotoxl
(Alexis Glass, code music, 07/94), Tuxedo Dolphin (Brandon Havey, gfx,
07/94).
Elanthia was a Canadian demo group of 5 members who, once upon a time,
decided to try making a demo to help disprove the notion that Europeans are
the only ones who make demos. The result was "Debut". The group was born
around 1991 and died around 1994, as all the members eventually ended up at
different universities and got too busy with their real lives. Thanks to
Tlotoxl for information.
Some of Tlotoxl's music can today be found at http://mutagene.net, and
Nitrolyte's anime site can be found at http://www.fiction.org/www/ddp/
Debut (1993, 10.04, ECS File).
code: Nitrolyte, Tlotoxl, gfx: Tuxedo Dolphin, Tlotoxl, music: Grey Mouser
(AKA Ogre). info: The demo is in NTSC. Slight bugs; keystrokes fall
through to system, audio filter left on at end. Try pressing space bar
during the scroller for a surprise!
Electra
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Tracker left late92.
Avenger joined Mad Elks.
Electron (1992-)
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FIN> Crux (swap), Duplex (founder, 92), Prophet.
Electron is a finnish demo group, formed by Duplex/Divine in the early parts
of 1992. They are now dead. All the lamers were kicked, and the remaining
members formed a new group called Phase. This concerns _AT LEAST_ P-CU
(swap).
1992 - Blink left the group to form a finnish division of Zenith with some
friends in the early part of the year.
Electronic Artists (EOA)
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Electronic Artists changed their name to Visual Arts.
Electronic Force, The
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???> Asterix (gfx, 88), Silicon (code gfx, 88), Zeta (code gfx, 88).
The Electronic Force Demo 1 (ECS).
code: Silicon, Zeta, gfx: Asterix, Silicon, Zeta, music: n/a.
The Electronic Force Demo 2 (1988, ECS).
code: Silicon, Zeta, gfx: Asterix, Silicon, Zeta, music: n/a.
Release at the Vortex 42 Party.
Electronic Knights, The (TEK, 1991-)
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GER> Banana (founder gfx music, 91-04/98), Bifat (Tim Müller, code gfx
music, aka Captain Bifat, 12/92-12/98), Crunchy (code sysop1 'THE
FACTORY', ex Sceptic, mid96), Fuszy (codeAM+PC sysop2 'THE FACTORY', ex
Sceptic, 05/94), Mac (founder swap, 91-), Maxwell (sysop 'ANTARCTIC
STATION' EHQ, mid96), Placid (Joachim Sobczak, music, ex Analog),
Plasma (ex Analog), Red Knight (swap, ex Awake), Steve (sysop 'DIGITAL
WORLD' WHQ, also in Section 8, Real! and Quasar, 10/98), Toxic (ex
Design).
FIN> Deep Madness (swap, 93), Dexter (music, 93), Informer (swap).
???> Cybin (gfx, 04/98), Iraner (code, 05/94), Mendrik (ex Acrid), Montana
Rice (ex Awesome), Prince (ger? gfx, 12/92-05/94), Red Knight, Deal
(gfx, 05/94), Siriax (ex Acrid), Zycro (trade).
TEK was a German demo group, formed in 1991 by Mac and Banana.
1992 - Doktor, Not Weelan, Fred and Liquid all joined Parasite in june.
German swapper Agony (ex Paradise) joined Desire.
Nearer my God to Thee (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro).
code: Captain Bifat, gfx: Prince, Banana, Captain Bifat, music: Banana.
9th in The Party 92 40k intro competition.
Rampage (1994, 13.05, ECS 1MB Trackmo).
code: Captain Bifat, Fuszy, Iraner, gfx: Seal, Prince, Banana, Magican/
Trygon, music: Banana.
review: This demo begins with slowly moving toothed wheels - which look
so nice that I am still using them as background of my WB - and you are
asked to wait while loading... Open your ears, watchers of this demo,
because "Rampage" starts with such queel muzak by Banana that I would
give him a big bonus point therefor if I could, while the group's name
bumps up in wodden letters from the right side. Afterwards a "Rampage" of
steel is to be build up by little pixels collecting themselves together
followed by a simple spaceship taking its journey over a brown-colored
voxelroutine. Then circling vector balls, rotating 4x4 textures, morphing
dot-cubes, cool mirrored vectorobjects and vectorlines, some plasma and a
dot-flag with the group`s logo are shown up. Somewhere between you are
forced to watch a really ugly girl (Beware! This could make you go gay
;-)) but that is the one & only bad point of this stylish production I
still could watch ten times more. The trackmo ends with a really long
endscoller shown by a very colorful font (even changing a bit the way the
scroller goes) while the guys of TEK provide you a second musictune.
All in all a very good show with the right length to be watched twice
or three times in a row without losing its interest... [zito]
ZIT tested A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 1mb fast.
A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast.
Choose (1996, 05.04, Demo).
Released at The Gathering 96, but has no placing in the competition...
E- (Electrons At Work) (1998, 12.04, ECS/AGA 1MB Trackmo).
code: Bifat, gfx: Bifat, Cybin, music: Banana.
10th in the Mekka Symposium 98 demo competition.
review: This production starts with a cool idea: a great animation of the
demo's title, made by Cybin. Besides is running (again, as in all TEK
demos) the cool but strange music composed by Banana featuring some very
nice atmospheric parts. Then you can see the presentation of the group's
name in an asia-styled logo followed by an ugly 2x2 or even 2x4 interlaced
zoom of an rotating cube. Afterwards a little tunnel which looks lame at
the start but is pretty nice at all, on what a smooth brown/lilac-colored
voxel-landscape is to be seen. At the end you are able to read, as always
in TEK demos, a cool long scroller with a nice one-colored font.
All in all some nice gfx and texts between the too few parts. Also too
short, especially for a whole trackmo! Why so senseless old-skool in
1998??? Not to be compared with "Rampage". [zito]
ZIT tested A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 1mb fast.
A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast.
Elefant Klubben
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UltraBra Demo (1993, 05.08, Demo).
9th place in European Computer Conference 93 demo competition.
Element (EMT)
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NOR> Arcane (01/96), Chriz (swap trade, doublememb Apathy 06/96, early98),
Madsen (sysop 'REALITY BYTES', triplememb Honey and FLD [no entry],
01/96), Ten! (swap, doublememb Encore [details], late96).
???> Frenzy (nor? doublememb Encore, 01/96).
Elevation (-1993)
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ENG> Reflex (sysop 'A KIND OF MAGIC' EHQ).
GER> Charlie (sysop 'APOCALYPSE NOW', 04/95), RCF (sysop 'TRADERS HEAVEN',
ex D-Tect), Synchronizer (ex Submission), Ziptronix (sysop 'SPEED
WHEEL', ex Submission).
???> Creator (ex Decade, rejoined), Dr.Dre (ex Dytec), Gettler, Grind King,
Icecube (ex Dytec).
Boards; FLASHTRADE (swe).
Elevation was an illegal crew that was (I believe) relatively shortlived.
After failing to release anything for a while, the whole group decided to
call it quits. They released an intro to announce the fact in late 93.
1993 - Swedish Striker joined Submission early 93.
The Swedish division of Legend joined.
American sysop Rotor ('GATES OF ASGARD' WHQ) joined Razor 1911 old.
Elevation Died! (1993, late, ECS Intro).
code: Pink/Arise, gfx: Falcon/Arise, music: "Intro Number 91" by WOTW/
Essence.
review: This intro is nothing special, just an acceptable logo, a glenz
vector and a text plotter. It was not made to impress, just to tell the
world the news that Elevation died. The release date is based on the
module, which is dated 8/93. [glenn]
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Elexion
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Elexion is now Hoaxers!
Elicma
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GER> DAW (re-scene late92), Nightmare (Manfred Fischer, music swap,
doublememb Anarchy [pc], 11/91-12/94).
???> Warrior (gfx, new late92).
Most old Elicma members left to form Trash mid 91. Nightmare did NOT leave
in mid 91, as stated in some mags.
Stone joined Acume.
Eltech [old]
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NOR> Cosher (code), Hellrazor (raytrace), Pink Panther (sysop), Preacher
(code gfx), Splash (/Xcode sysop).
ENG> Blind Man (sysop), C-Rad (music), D-Code (gfx swap, new late95),
Dr.Octave (music), Inferno (music ascii), Loopy (sysop), Loz (code
gfx), Mic Flair (org trade), Orion (code), Quakers (code sysop),
Realitor (code swap, late95), Screech (music), Sire (sysop 'MAN EATS
DOG', new 04/96), Spangly (code music, ex Neo, new 04/96), Violator
(trade).
AUS> Muse (music sysop).
???> Aquafresh (music, ex Mellow, new late95).
The originally British group Eltech died, and some Norwegians later
restarted the group. Among others Dr.Death (01/97), Maze and Skinner from
the original group are also in the reborn variety.
Outcast is now an Eltech production (04/96).
British coder 2Cool left.
British musician Assassin left.
Finnish swapper Splatterhead joined Scoopex.
English swapper Lithium (pack 'Lunch Pak', 01/97) and graphician and
swapper Wade (late95) joined Gods late 96.
English swapper Devistator (ex Neo, new 04/96) joined Abyss.
Hurricane left the scene 04/96.
Kurgan, Mr.Anonym, Sheela and Tipper got kicked late 95.
Eltech [new] (ELT, 1997-)
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NOR> Dr.Death (Yngve Dalland, music swap, early98), Maze (Stian
Gudbrandsen, music swap, doublememb Massive, early98), MCS (Kjell
Espen Johansen, swap, old handle Skinner, early98).
Boards; CAFE CHATTERBOX (whq, late97).
The old, originally British group Eltech, was reborn by Norwegians members
late 97 or early 98. They made a cracktro for Fairlight.
Elven 11 (E11)
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ITA> Darkman (code, ex Ram Jam, 06/98), Manta (code gfx, ex Vajrayna, old
handle Aga, 12/96-06/98), Mat (gfx, ex Vajrayana, new mid 97-06/98),
Rio (code gfx sysop 'DISASTER AREA', ex Vajrayna, 03/97-06/98).
???> Calca (music, 06/98).
Elven 11 is an Italian demo group. As far as we can see, the group showed
its first signs of life with the 4k intro "Another Rainy Day" [12/96] by Dip
and Aga at The Party 96.
1997 - Sometime between the release of "Another Rainy Day" late last year
and Mekka Symposium this year, Aga changed his handle to Manta. So, at Mekka
Symposium the group released their first demo, "Smart" [03/97], and came in
at an ok 5th place. Italian musician Parsec (ex Biosynthetic Design, 03/97)
left E11, and possibly the scene. Coder and graphician Slat (ex Vajrayna,
03/97) left the scene. Italian coder Dip (ex Vajrayna, 12/96-03/97) left the
scene.
Kermit (old handle Guru Trasher) left.
Another Rainy Day (1996, 28.12, AGA 4k Intro).
code: Dip, Aga, gfx: none, music: none.
6th in The Party 96 4k intro competition.
review: "ARD" is a really good 4k'er, actually! It opens with a bumpmapped
Elven logo, and continues with what looks like an inverted voxel - with
creaters rather than hills. This is followed by some blooming,
mathematically created shapes in beautiful colors, before another bump
example with a moveable lightsource. The show is rounded off with a real
showstopper; a real good voxel routine. The entire 4k intro is set to a
'soundtrack' that sounds a lot like a heartbeat. E11 certainly managed to
cram a lot into this small space, and here's one reviewer who's certainly
looking forward to the next one! =) [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Smart (1997, 30.03, AGA 4MB HD Multifile).
code: Manta, Slat, Dip (additional), gfx: Mat/Vrn, Rio, Manta
(additional), Slat (additional), Vision-X/Degeneration (additional),
music: Parsec. 5th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition.
review: "Smart" is short but sweet, with good effects and excellent
design. It opens with an atmospheric intro sequence, with a 'motion
blurred starfield', over which the credits are overlayed. The combination
of this and the stringbased music at this point makes it remind me of
the intro sequence for Andromeda's mindblasting "Nexus 7" [12/94]!
It continues with a travel down a bumpmapped triangle tunnel, some very
colorful truecolor 'motionblurring crossfade' and 1x1 18bit truecolor
bumpmapping! The strengths of "Smart" lies in two things; its superior
design and its effort to push the limits of resolution and color.
Ofcourse, Parsec's commercial quality techno soundtrack is no drawback
either! However, its length is also a small drawback...a demo that
doesn't last more than a little while is not a party winner. If this is
anything to go by, then I expect E11 to produce a truly great piece of
demo entertainment sometime soon!
Multifile is a little misleading, as it's just a small executable and
a large data file. Though it will work on all 020+ AGA machines, it
requires at least 030-25 to maintain effect synchronisation. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
cooperation intro (1998, 03.01, AGA Intro).
Released at Trip 98 in cooperation with Nah Kolor [details].
Elysion (1993-)
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FIN> Blacksmith (trade, 03/93), Destiny (swap), Dr.Gassu (code trade, ex
Amaze, 03/93), Galaxy (gfx music, 93), Zecco.
SWE> Agressor (new early93), Claustrophobia (new early93), Dyson (new
early93), Jedi Knight (new early93), Pluto (code, new early93), Spirit
(new early93), Urban Hype (new early93)
???> Fenrir (gfx, 93), Nine (code, new early93), Rodder (gfx, 93), Shrike
(gfx, 93), Sure (code, 93), Tim (code gfx, 93), Zardax (music, 93).
Boards; ANGEL ICE (swe), BOXEN (ger).
Elysion was formed by German and Finnish ex-members of Dominators.
The Swedish division was formed by Urban Hype, Spirit, Pluto, Jedi Knight,
Dyson, Claustrophobia and Agressor. Some of those finnish members were
certainly earlier in Amaze...
Zorc was kicked out due to lazyness.
German swapper and trader Star left for Absolute 93.
Germans 3DK and Convey (Robert Olejnik, swap, new SLH11) left the scene.
BBS-Tro (1993, .01/.02, ECS Disk).
code: Tim, Sure, gfx: Shrike, Fenrir, Rodder, Tim, Galaxy, music: Galaxy,
Zardax.
Embassy (EMB)
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FIN> Bass-Cadet (gfx music, 08/97-98), Humanoid (code, 12/95-98), Sly (code,
12/95-98), Temen (gfx, 08/97-98).
Boards; THE GARDEN WHQ (fin, 98).
Embassy is a finnish demo group. Their old homepage, located at
http://www.helsinki.fi/~apjhamal/emb/, appears to have gone from the web.
Thrilled (1995, 12.08, Demo).
10th in the Assembly 95 demo competition.
Corona (1995, 28.12, Demo).
code: Humanoid, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
6th in The Party 95 demo competition.
Casting (1997, 10.08, Demo).
code: Sly, Humanoid, gfx: Bass-Cadet, Temen, music: Bass-Cadet.
3rd in the Assembly 97 demo competition.
Back In Town (1998, AGA 4MB 030 Multifile Demo).
code: Sly, gfx: Sly, Bass-Cadet, music: Bass-Cadet.
review: Annoyingly, this is one of those demos with an every-other-pixel
c2p routine... No matter what anyone says, it will never look as good as
solid objects. Having said that, this is not an ALL bad demo, though there
is little in the way of groundbreaking effects (they do the standard
phong/bump-stuff), there is a certain level of competence evident. With
some better pacing, more handpixeled graphics, and a better slightly
better sense of what makes a demo work, these guys could go places. The
music is of very variable quality. Bass-Cadet's graphics are mostly of the
raytraced variety. OK then, but a little way to go yet.
I was unsuccessful at trying to run this from RAM, but once I ran from
HD with no startup-sequence, it worked wonderfully. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Embora
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Tomar (1997, 14.12, 64k Intro).
11th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition.
Fecha (1997, 14.12, AGA ?MB File).
6th in the Astrosyn 97 demo competition.
review: Sadly, "Fecha" is a demo that's more occupied with showing us
endless reruns of the same rendered spaceships/grabbed rollercoaster
ride than treating us to anything innovative or interesting. I'm sorry,
Embora, but this didn't manage to hold my attention for very long.
The good news is: The only way is up! OK, this is not BADLY done, it's
just that I feel it doesn't have much of interest for me as a casual
viewer. If it had shown all its animations just ONCE, and ran about 30
seconds, it would have gotten a much better rating!
This requires some fastmem, though the exact amount is uncertain.
Judging by the fact that I had to reboot to run it, should give you
some idea... [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
E.M.I
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Swedish graphician Rodney joined Absolute!
Empire (1990-)
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???> Batman (swap), Cobra (mainorg1 code sysop), Cross (code), Dave (code
crack), Hyperion (mainorg2 code), Jas (code, later Phenomena?), Led
(gfx), Mantronix (swe? music), Wergal (phreak), Nibbler (code),
Punisher (swap), Pez (gfx), Remo (code), Rip (phreak), Ripper (swap
sysop), UFO (sysop).
When Software of Sweden (SOS) died, five of its members formed Empire.
They were based in Sweden, and were mainly an illegal crew.
Parts of Empire joined Supreme.
Swedish sysop Istvan ('MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE') joined Red Sector Inc in early
1990.
EMS Design
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NOR> Stan (early98), Trump (Rolf G. Lunder, org music, old handle Frenger,
doublememb Apathy 12/96).
???> Adolf (music, late96), Conroy (music, late96), Robotronik (code swap,
late96), Stan (org code gfx, old handle Joker, late96-97), Wiseguy
(sysop 'OUTER SPACE', new early98).
EMS Design is a Norwegian demo group.
1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that Joker changed his
handle to Stan, that Vanilla joined, and that norwegian Hellrazor (code,
late96) left for Instinct. Subgud (code gfx swap, doublememb Halfmoon
Productions, new late96) left for Light late 97. Punisher left for Instinct.
1998 - 4Play was kicked due to inactivity early98.
Odorless (Demo).
EMT Design
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FIN> Zuuni (Jouni Matero, code, 09/93-08/94), KMC (gfx, 09/93-08/94).
Heliopolis (1993, 01.09, ECS Trackmo).
code: Zuuni, gfx: KMC, music: Dizzy/Red Chrome.
info: This refuses to run on my current machine even if I turn off the
caches and set chipset to original...so you'll have to be patient for
a review until someone decides to give me an A500 or an A2000... :D
It's double irritating since earlier notes tell me it ran on the A2000 I
once borrowed! Grrr... [glenn]
GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04.
Hard Day (1994, 07.08, AGA File).
code: Zuuni, gfx: KMC, music: "Bicykl0pedia" by Heatbeat/CNCD (Tracker
Packer 3 format). 12th in the Assembly 94 demo competition.
review: How this managed to finish DEAD LAST at the Assembly is a total
mystery, since this is one great piece of demo art! There's competence on
every level here, from the fabulous code to the excellent visuals to the
weird and wonderful tune by Heatbeat. And that's not all: It's ORIGINAL
too! Yes, there's a few effects here I haven't seen anywhere else, like
Silicon Fractals (the programmer's invention). Coolness! [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Encore [old]
------------
Digital Surgery (1992, 15.04, ECS File).
code: Daniel Senn, gfx: Erlend Klouman, music: Brainbug/Alcatraz.
4th in The Gathering 92 demo competition.
Encore [new] (ECR)
------------------
NOR> Ludde (Ludvig Pedersen, code, 01/96), Ten! (Tor E. Nygaard, swap,
doublememb Element, late96).
???> Frenzy (nor? doublememb Element, 01/96).
Ludde has coded a c2p routine that is used by several other coders for
their demos...it can a.o. be seen in Capsule's "Assault" [96] demo.
I find it highly unlikely that THIS Encore is the same as the one above.
Encore
------
POL> Caro (gfx 3d, 04/01), MDW (code, 04/01).
Seeing as this is a Polish group, I find it highly unprobable that they have
anything to do with any of the two groups above.
Serial Interference (2001, 15.04, Demo).
code: MDW, gfx: Caro, music: Substance/MAWI (Multichannel DSP).
11th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition.
info: Requirements according to the the info-file is: Amiga, PowerPC, 3D
acc with min 8mb of gfx mem, some ram, WarpOS, CyberGraphX, Warp3D,
StormMESA (OpenGL), AHI.
Endless Piracy (EP, 1990-).
---------------------------
GER> Cyfreak (ex Anarchy, new 09/91), Magic Drummer (sysop 'CRACK HOUSE',
later Skid Row, 09/91), Merlin (sysop 'WAVESPEED', 91), Shut Berlin
(sysop 'WORLD TRADE CENTER', 91), Skyfox (ex Desire).
SWE> Xor.
USA> Whiz (sysop 'PSYCHO TERMINAL' WHQ).
???> Anarchist (ex Endless Piracy), Angeldawn (gfx), Dual, Fix, Marc
(crack), Radical (ex Palace), Salvatore, Skillion, Skywalker.
Boards; DIGITAL AMNESIA WHQ (usa), BOARD ROYAL EHQ (ger), ACID JUNGLE
(ita).
Endless Piracy was born in 1990, and was based in Berlin, Germany.
They are now dead.
1991 - German sysop Sniffy ('SPIRITUAL HEALING') joined Energy mid 91.
Atomix (sysop) joined Syndicate.
The board '007 BBS' is now an Addonic board.
Germans Brainstorm and Warlord joined Alpha Flight.
German sysop Depode ('SPACE CENTER') joined Skid Row.
Germans Mike (sysop 'STATE OF MIND' still?) and Koto (both ex Anarchy, new
09/91) joined The Special Brothers.
Cascay (doublemember of Pulse) joined Avantagarde.
Sectorcharger, sysop 'LOGIC SYSTEM', joined 2000 AD.
Deathbone joined Creed.
Intro (ECS Intro).
code: Deathbone, gfx: Angeldawn (aka AD), music: n/a (Future Composer
1.4 format).
review: Another old intro, only set apart by the graphics by Angeldawn.
Truly a pixel master, AD, I've been a fan of his work ever since I saw my
first World Charts. So it's a sine-scroller over a text writer. Nothing
new. I've heard the music before, so it's probable that it's just ripped
and used here because they didn't have a musician. No release date
appears anywhere in the intro. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
EP Are Dead (1991?, ECS Intro).
code: Deathbone, gfx: AD, music: n/a.
End of Century 1999 (EOC1999)
-----------------------------
ENG> Akira, Blade, Dav, Devistator (swap, 06/91-92), Fleg, Hollywood
(music), Leaburn, Leopard, Lez, Real, Rico, Speed, Stryx, Subculture.
GER> Beatmaster (ex Red Sector Inc), Lord.
NOR> Bacon, Jackass, Rektum Rider.
SWE> Avenger (ex Mystic, old handle Captain Blood), Landreth (Kim), Noname,
Valiant (ex Mystix, old handle Cruizer).
FRA> Cypher and Mery (sysops 'HANG LOOSE').
???> Brutus, Chaos (new 08/92), Moschops (new 08/92), Muesli (swap, new
mid91), Optik (new 08/92), Powerfreak (ex Zone 7 [no entry]), Toxic
(re-scene SLH11).
Their swapper Muesli is supposedly female. Once-spread rumours about the
death of their English division were untrue.
1991 - Shadowman joined Argon mid 91. Messias and Jayce joined Hypnotic
mid 91. The german Agressor was kicked mid 91 and also joined Hypnotic.
1992 - Bob left late92.
Englishman Pazuzu (new 08/92) was kicked.
Zycro (ex Hypnotic) was kicked.
German Damion (ex Exort) joined Addonic.
Snowy, Mr.T and Boris were never members.
Paranoiak and Mercure (fra mainorg) both joined Eremation.
Englishman Cyborg changed his handle to Ikari and joined LSD.
Mixolydian (1991, ECS Musicdisk).
info: 10 average tunes.
7th Sence (1991, 28.12, ECS Demo).
code: Stormbringer, gfx: Android, PetsBand, Ramdam, Quaid, music:
Mixolydian. Released at the Iris New Year Conference.
Endzeit (EZT, 1998-)
--------------------
GER> Damion (Jens-Oliver Klokkers, founder writer, 06/98), Noogman (Torsten
Asholt, gfx, 06/98), RokDaZone (Henning Brau, founder org editor,
06/98), Virgill (music, 06/98).
ITA> The Ripper (Ivan Curzolo, writer, new 06/98).
NOR> Zack (gfx, doublememb Spaceballs, 06/98).
SWE> Blaze (code, ex Session, new 06/98), E-Moon (Daniel Collin, code, ex
Session, new 06/98), Prospect (Mikael Nattfalk, code, ex Subspace, new
06/98), Psycho (Daniel Eriksson, music, ex Session, new 06/98).
POL> Blaze (Patryk Kalinowski, swap, ex Nah Kolor and Floppy, new 06/98), X-
Ceed (Wojciech Panufnik, music, doublememb Floppy, 06/98).
???> Maq (code, 06/98), Pix (gfx, 06/98), Zig (code, 06/98).
Endzeit is a German-based demo group built on the ashes of what used to be
Germany's #1 group, Artwork. It was formed by Damion, RokDaZone and Noogman
shortly after the death of Artwork in april of 1998. Also italian writer The
Ripper joined up to continue his work for the diskmag "Generation".
They soon also built a strong Swedish section, recruiting members from
Subspace and Session. They also did the masterpiece of recruiting TWO
members called Blaze, both the Polish swapper and the Swedish coder!
1998 - Swedes Blaze (code), E-Moon (code) and Psycho (music) joined from
Session in june.
Generation #26 (1998, mid, AGA HD Diskmag).
code: Detector/ex Artwork, Eksec/Infect (additional), gfx: Zack (title1),
Orome/Talent (title2), Cougar (main), music: "Longing" by X-Ceed/
Endzeit^Appendix, "?" by Laxical/Scoopex (both Tracker Packer 3 format),
editors: RokDaZone, Damion.
review: Endzeit's first issue of Generation does not differ significantly
from the last ones released under the Artwork label. Little has changed;
the code is the same, the graphics are the same... [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Generation #27 (AGA HD Diskmag).
code: n/a, gfx: Pix (title), music: n/a.
Generation #28 (AGA HD Diskmag).
code: n/a, gfx: Pix (title), music: n/a.
Enemy
-----
Serbian coder Haralampie left to join Universal Soldiers (ROM3).
Energy (NRG)
------------
GER> Buster and Fuzz (sysops 'ATTACK OF THE KILLER B'S'), NCD (sysop 'SIGN
'O'TIMES', 91), Sniffy (sysop 'SPIRITUAL HEALING' EHQ, ex Endless
Piracy, new mid91), Stagediver (sysop 'WORLD IN A WORLD').
AUT> Doom, Malcom, Stranger (06/90), Zinkfloid (ex Grace, later TRSI).
BEL> Anthrax, Genius, Minister, Rainman (92).
FIN> Blast (swap trade, 02/94-late95), Blogath (music, 08/95), Branca (swap,
93), Comrade (org swap, old handle Docile Drawer, 93-02/94), Dr.Degree
(sysop 'RED ALERT'), MBD (code gfx swap, 02/94), Mr.Bigdick (swap),
Muffler (music, later Nah Kolor).
SWE> Black Wizard (ex Them), Chip (sysop 'NINTH HELL', ex Them), Fireball
(ex Them), Highbyte (ex Them), Maniac (ex Them), Maz (ex Them),
Noteman (music, ex Them), Techno (ex Them), Wave (ex Them).
NOR> Punisher (ex Cycron).
???> Anc (supply), Bhn (crack train), Brainwasher (supply), Catfish (crack
train), Dr.Grell (whq-illegal, re-TRSI), Dream Warrior (ex Damian), Lee
(crack train), Lord (supply), MCM (crack), Mike (supply), Nomad
(supply), Parallax (supply), Stripe (ex Unicorn, new mid91), Toccadero
or Troccadero (crack train), Trazer (ex Orient), Ufo (ex Orient), Zippy
or Zippo (crack train), Zyx (trade), 24X (trade, ex Noxious).
Boards; HANGAR 18 WHQ (usa, 02/94), DIGITAL CITY (02/94), GLOBAL CHAOS
(ger), FUTURE WORLD (ger, 09/90).
Energy was originally based in Austria. When the group Prime died, Storm
and most other members joined Energy (EuroChart #11). When Growl joined from
Orient, his cheatdisks went along with him, and will from now on be released
under the Energy label... Then Growl suddenly left, and I don't know what
happened to the disks!
Internal problems split the group into two parts; legal and illegal. All
graphicians stayed with the illegal part, and all the best members of the
legal section will probably join other groups or rebuild Quartex. When
Dr.Grell joined from TRSI (mid 94) he rebuilt the illegal part of Energy,
and became the world modem organizer for the group.
"Analtro" [02/94] announced MBD's plans to open 'THE FUNNY FARM' BBS,
but there's no information if there was ever any opening. Zoro (trade) has
never been a member, even though he has claimed to be. At one time, now
famous Austrian coder Antibyte was a member; he is now the leader of
Scoopex.
1990 - Stranger coarranged the Energy Chaos Party in Austria in june with
members of Chaos (c64).
1991 - Commander X got kicked mid 91. Austrian Perseus left to join a PD
group mid 91. Blackstar, sysop 'DARK CENTURY', joined The Silents mid 91.
Optimize, sysop of 'UNITY FIELDS' left mid 91, and joined Legend. Belgian
sysops of 'METAL IMPACT', Mad Shitbrain (aka Maddy, new mid 91) and TCB (ex
Destiny), both left to join Agile. Junkfood changed his name to Candyman and
joined Scoopex mid 91. Another source claimed he joined Legend, but this
seems to be untrue - or at least something that happened later. Austrian
cracker Stranger left the scene for a while to work on a game, late in the
year.
1992 - Austrian trainer G-Tronic, who joined mid 91, left for Scoopex.
1995 - Polish swapper Action joined Mad Elks late 95.
Storm (ex Prime, new late91) and Slider joined Awesome.
Shocker joined Pirates.
Homeboy joined Punishers.
Mr.Foley joined Bastards.
Austrian Coon-O joined Manitou.
Autrian Status Quo left to join Excite.
Major-Midi (ex Jetset) joined Paradise.
Tesla, sysop of 'ROAD HOUSE' left to be independent.
Beltram, Badamon and Mithrandir (all ex Enigma) moved on to Agile.
The boards 'DARK MIRROR' (usa, mid91), 'PROJECT D', 'PANIC ZONE' and 'NO
CARRIER' were all kicked.
Wild Rage got kicked, and left the scene. Therefore there will never be any
more issues of the diskmag he was editor of, "Scene Lyrics".
A lot members left for TRSI, OHM and Quartex. Some members from the illegal
section rebuilt Quartex in Austria.
Danish swapper Growl (ex Orient) joined Fanatic.
Musician Snoopy (ex Union, 12/93-02/94) joined TRSI.
Greili (code), Antitrack and austrian Jason (aut sysop 'RAP CENTER' later
'HIGH ENERGY' closed) were all kicked.
Swedes The Joker, Excel, Atheist, MRK, Nivek and Pete (all ex Limited
Edition) joined Vision).
Sound Splash IV (ECS Musicdisk).
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Backlash (13 tunes!).
Analtro (1994, 21.02, ECS Intro).
code/gfx: MBD, music: "Time Bomb" by Snoopy/Union 08/93.
review: It's been a long time since I've seen such an appropriate name
for a logo'n'texplotter intro. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Enigma
------
SWE> Scythe (sysop 'NORTH CONNECTION', ex Dazzle).
NOR> Bjarre, Karl, Keb.
GER> Skyfox (sysop 'SKYFOX', 91).
???> Chrome (swe? ex Dazzle), Penthagon (ex Legend), Wizard (swe? ex
Dazzle).
Boards; SPECTRUM (WHQ ger).
Mike (sysop) left.
Hawk and MPS joined Utopia.
Beltram, Mithrandir and Badamon joined Energy.
Deelite (ex Triad) joined Strange after six months. He didn't last long
there, though, and rejoined Enigma before moving on to X-Trade.
Eon
---
NOR> Amateur, B.I.T (music, later Majic 12), Cobra (gfx, 04/93), Fallos
(Sven Deuschmann, swap), New Michelangelo, Pennywise (Rune Johansen,
swap), Positron, Viper, Zacco, Zurbitz.
Eon were a Norwegian demo group that wasn't noticed much outside their
native country.
1993 - Cobra came 2nd in the graphics competition at The Gathering in
april with his picture "Pencil Dragon"!
Intro (1991, 30.05, ECS Intro).
Ephidrena (EPH)
---------------
NOR> Cheetah (Sondre Kippnes, gfx, 11/96-04/01), Cyberstarr (John Kenneth
Grytten, code, 11/96), Frequent (Åsmund T. Johansen, music swap,
11/96-04/01), Loaderror (Espen Åmodt, code gfx, 11/96-04/91), Zixaq
(04/01).
???> Wad (gfx).
Ephidrena is a Norwegian demo group.
2001 - The group release their new demo "Adam Malysz" at Mekka Symposium
2001 in april, where also Frequent contributes a tune to Contraz' 64k intro
"1 Week".
Mnemonic (1996, 16.11, AGA 4MB Multifile).
code: Cyberstarr, Loaderror, gfx: Loaderror, Cheetah, music: "Senseless"
by Frequent (The Player 6.1A format).
2nd in the Kindergarden 6 demo competition.
review: By no means exceptional, "Mnemonic" does show some promise for
the future of this young Norwegian group. Slow effects mean that the
coders need to do some work on their routines, but after all I guess
this is true for most coders :). Also the design of the demo leaves a
little to be desired, but it will come with time and experience. The best
effect here - for its originality alone - is a shadebob-like caleidoscope
effect which is truly psychedelic. Frequent's music is nothing
exceptional. It's been two minutes since I exited the demo, and I can't
even remember the melody :( Bad news for any composer.
The exit routine crashed in the competition since it was crunched
with StoneCracker. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Recycled (1996, 05.04, Demo).
8th in The Gathering 96 demo competition.
Kugalskap (1996, 05.04, Demo).
9th in The Gathering 96 demo competition.
Concrete (1999, 28.12, Demo).
code: Loaderror, gfx: Zixaq, music: Frequent.
Winner of The Party 99 demo competition!
J (2000, 28.12, AGA HD Multifile Demo).
code: Loaderror, gfx: Cheetah, music: Zixaq (main), Frequent (intro).
2nd in The Party 2000 demo competition.
review: "J" opens darkly and atmospherically, without really coming to
life anyway in the opening titles... The design seems good, and there's a
little mood coming over you, but then it closes down and starts to load
and decrunch again before you can really settle in, and it all takes a
little too long, so much of the initial mood is lost. Ephidrena could have
benefitted greatly from creating their own loader, and thereby loading
party-by-part, making the demo come together more fluently.
But we wait and then, SUDDENLY, sparks of light, a kicking techno tune
and a tunnel with light particles inside... wow! The demo continues with
just superior design, and the is actually quite good, especially during
that slow break during the 'dark skies over the desert' part. Ephidrena
seem to use a lot of digitized or retouched graphics, but as long as it's
done to good effect and for the sake of design - such as in this demo - I
do not have many complaints about this approach. The effect that looks
almost like smoke or fog being puffed around, which appears under their
credits, is just amazing. Then the demo shows one last spark of life with
a 'bird' it seems animated by LOTS of vectorlines, before we seemingly
travel backwards outside the demo world, through the tunnel we entered and
finally with a glimpse of the structure from the intro in the distance...
There is no question that "J" is a good demo, but there are a few things
that make it less than a GREAT demo. For one, a question needs asking: Why
does this demo JERK on my machine, as if sometimes the processor can't
quite keep up, while at other times it can? On other demos, effects either
move fast or they move slow - never a little of this, a little of that...
Explanations, Ephidrena? Hmmm... But the biggest drawback of all is the
lack of FLOW created by the long pause between the two parts. This is
still a significant production in an otherwise stagnant amiga demo market,
but with just a little more polish (like making a proper loader), this
could have been just a little better... A nice plus for the music, which
is above average for amiga demo-techno =) Personally, I'm more of a
rock'n'roll guy, me, but I recognise good work when I hear it. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Adam Malysz (2000, .04, AGA HD Multifile Demo).
producers: Loaderror, Cheetah, Zixaq, Frequent.
4th in the Mekka Symposium 2000 demo competition.
review: "Adam Malysz" is a very bleak, dark and industrial demo. It's more
about its ambience and atmosphere than about its effects, we feel. At
times it seems a little split in perspective though, with one part being
the dark, dirty cyberpunky style and the next still dark and dirty, but
with more of an...eastern bloc feel to it, if anyone understands that.
From neo-tech to old and sad. A lot of effort has obviously gone into the
design of the backdrops in other graphics in this demo, much more than has
gone into the coding and music. It feels like the coder's reusing the same
routines several times here, with minor variations. Most effects are in
shades of grey too, which doesn't help much. The music is not good either,
I can get a feel for what they were going for, but not quite get there. I
can't quite put my finger on it, but I feel this demo is not all it could
be. It just didn't get me excited. Well, at least it worked on my old
workhorse, which is more than I can say for Floppy's demo at this party =]
The demo requires setpatch before it will run. No exact credits appear
anywhere in the demo or in the archive. Naturally this requires some fast,
but how much is anyone's guess. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 32mb fast/3.1.
Epic
----
GER> Dot (old handle Wave), Judas (Christian Alfs, music, ex Fate, old
handle Satan), Wotan (Christian K, ex Exort, old handle Conan).
1991 - Englishmen Vawred Computator and Mig (old handle AWOL) left for
Cyrus around june.
Epidemic
--------
NOR> Pitcher (sysop 'ASYLIUM', 03/92), Terje Hagen (sysop 'TRASHCAN',
02/95-05/97).
Epsilon (http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~idr)
------------------------------------
???> Dancing Fool (code, 92-08/93), Haze (code, 08/93), Link (gfx, 92),
Mad Max (music, 92), Vision (code gfx music, 08/93).
No Prayer for the Dying (1992, ECS File).
code: Dancing Fool, gfx: Link, music: Mad Max.
Some Assembly Required (1993, 10.08, ECS Intro).
code: Haze, The Dancing Fool, Vision, gfx/music: Vision.
11th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition.
Epsilon Design (e^D)
--------------------
NOR> Terminal Silence (doublememb Vision, new 04/96).
???> Cenobite (ascii), Chrombacher (ascii), Cybergod (ascii), Desoto (org,
old handle Splat), Fatal (ascii sysop), Frame (ascii), Gozz (ascii),
Harpoon (ascii), Java (ascii), Juan (mainorg sysop), Rasta (ascii),
Sandman (org sysop), Stash (ascii), Tommy (ascii).
Boards; SANCTUARY WHQ, ASYLUM SHQ, ANOTHER STEP, DOMESTIC SUBWAY, MONASTERY
OF BLUR, RAVELAND, ZILLION HOURS.
Epsilon Design is foremost an ascii artist group, and all members (AFAIK)
are ascii artists.
1996 - Crusader (doublememb Giants, new 04/96) left to join Mo'Soul 06/96.
Twister joined with 'FLASHBACK' late 95, but news dated 04/96 claims it's
offline forever. I have removed Twister from memblist too.
Equalizers
----------
???> Sharp (code gfx, 04/93).
40k Intro (1993, 07.04, ECS 40k Intro).
code: Sharp, gfx: Sharp, Sarek/NAX, music: Dr.Fruid/Frogs.
10th in The Gathering 93 40k intro competition.
Equinox (EQX)
-------------
SWE> Budweiser (gfx music, ex Supplex, new early93, 03/93), Case (gfx, ex
Emotion [no entry], 03/93), Chip (code, 03/93), Cybertron (sysop
'AUSGEBOMBT', triplememb Alpha Flight and Orient, 11/94), Deetroy
(Jocke Eliason, music, 03/93), D-Luxe (Joakim Falk, gfx music,
03/93-01/95), Insane (swap, ex Relax, new mid 91-03/93), Jonez (gfx,
07/92-94), Loxley (Johan Svensson, music, 94-07/95), Macroman (trade
sysop 'TRADERS PARADISE', later Therapy and Infect, 03/93), Marwin
(sysop 'DISORDER', 01/95), Mazon (music, ex Addonic, 12/92-03/93), Puke
(trade, 03/93), Rapid Angel (sysop 'RAPID HOUSE'), Rille (sysop
'IMAGINE', 01/95), Rioter (whq code sysop 'MEDIA CENTRE' earlier 'TOTAL
OVERDOSE', 07/92-07/95), Sleepwalker (gfx music, ex Supplex, new
early93, 03/93), Snoopy (sysop 'EAGLES NEST', 01/95), Steam (Joakim
Ulfeldt, music, 03/93), Terminator (sysop 'TECHNO CITY', new early93-
03/93), Thug (music, 07/92-03/93), Xstaz (sysop 'ICE PALACE', 03/93),
Zendor (trade, ex Zeus, new mid91-03/93), Zool (sysop 'ZOOMED REALITY'
EHQ, new early93-03/93).
FIN> Fuzzray (org trade swap, 03/93), Simpson (Jonne Hellgren, swap, ex
Dictators, new 08/92-03/93), Supra (gfx, 03/93).
NOR> Black Angel (sysop 'WONDERLAND', 03/93), Chipdancer (swap, 03/93),
Cyntex (music, 03/93), Elfin (93), Fake (swap, ex Demons Design, new
early93-03/93), Fizban (code gfx, 03/93), Icebyte (gfx, 05/93-94),
Mandrake (music, 03/93), Mirandir, Mr.Nico (gfx sysop 'ATLANTICA',
03/93), Nethead (gfx, 93), Of Course (gfx, 03/93), Ray (org code,
03/93), Spector (code music, 03/93), Tee Djay (code, 03/93), Vip
(Lasse, code, 03/93).
SWI> Ipsos (late91), Silence (code, ex Chronos, new late91).
GER> Tripex (ex Coma).
FRA> Monty, Pats.
CAN> Diskomate (sysop 'NO LIMITS', 03/93), Suicidal Angel (trade, 03/93).
???> Cee Dee (swe? music, 07/92), Chrome (gfx, 94), Duke (12/91), Lord
Wimsey (swe? gfx, 03/93), Stix (ex Chaos, new late91), Tripwire (gfx,
93), Tweeter (ex Relax, new mid91).
Boards; PSYCHOTIC ASYLUM (swe, 03/93), A DIFFRENT WORLD (swi).
Equinox was a swedish based demo group, under the leadership of coder and
later sysop Rioter. Rioter, the original coder and editor of the "European
Top 20" also coded the "Tequila Chart" for Complex and The Doodles^Shock;
see Complex' entry for reviews. Please note that I am not 100% certain that
the board Rioter sysop's is 'TOTAL OVERDOSE', it's just my conclusion based
on elimination.
1991 - Dragnet sold his Amiga and bought a synth in september. The French
section was kicked out late in the year. Coder Wilderness left the Amiga
scene late in the year. Master Freez joined The Special Brothers late 91.
French sysop Captain Kirq had a visit from the Police, and therefore found
it safest to close his board and leave the scene late 91. Enigma, Imperator,
Maverick, Skyhawk, Starwars, Stormbringer, The Ace, The Invisible and Zorlac
were all kicked late 91. Finnish musician Stargazer joined from The Special
Brothers in september, but was back in TSB within 2 months (confirmed in
november). Finnish sysop Dope ('MOTOWN') left between october and november.
1992 - The Finnish section left to form a new group called Stellar early
in the year. Sauron's pictre "Beauty and the Beast" won the graphics
competition at The Gathering 92 in april!
1993 - "European Top 20 #4" [01/93] was released in january. Swedish
Phrasher (ex Dictators, new 08/92) left the scene, while 6pack and Lecter
(traders) joined Fairlight early in the year. Two important releases came in
march; the musicdisk "Sonical Fantasia" [03/93] and "European Top 20 #5"
[03/93]. Danish musician Reggae left mid 93.
1994 - Swedish musician D-Luxe released the CD 'Physiology' together with
Lizardking/Razor 1911 in 1994.
Finnish musician Mog (old handles Metronome and McGee, 03/93) joined
Delicious.
Disk joined Silver Productions.
Danes Roscoe and Subra joined Razor 1911.
Swedish sysop Silencer ('REPULSE', 03/93) joined TRSI.
Swedes Valiant (code), Avenger (music), Fatal, Magnum (gfx, new early93)
and Wizard joined Defiance.
Swedes Jackpot (swap), Electro (code swap, ex Dictators, new 08/92) and
Breeze (music, ex Megaman/Dictators, new 08/92-03/93) all joined Desire.
Norwegian swapper Messiah (ex Destiny) joined Banana Dezign.
Finnish swapper and trader Darky (03/93) joined Parallax.
Graphician Disc joined Rebels new.
Swedish sysop V-Cut ('TRADERS ISLAND', then 'ZOOMED REALITY', ex Majic 12)
joined Addonic. The board later returned from Addonic, with a new sysop;
Zool!
Syndrome joined Sonic.
Norwegian graphician Sauron moved from Norway to Denmark, and joined Static
Bytes (RAW4) in order to be member of a group closer to where he was.
English graphician Opus (03/93) joined The Silents.
French musician Zorglub (09/91) joined Analog, probably as early as 1991 or
1992.
So What (1991, ECS Demo).
Hydrocephalus (pre 1992, .07, ECS File).
European Top 20 issue #1 (1992, .07, ECS Filemag).
code/editor: Rioter, gfx: Jonez, music: Thug, Cee Dee.
European Top 20 issue #2 (1992, .09, ECS Magchart).
code/editor: Rioter, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
European Top 20 issue #3 (1992, .11, ECS Magchart).
code/editor: Rioter, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
European Top 20 Special Issue #1 (1992, .12, ECS Magchart).
code/editor: Rioter, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Information: Special The Party 2 report issue!
European Top 20 issue #4 (1993, .01, ECS Magchart).
code/editor: Rioter, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Sonical Fantasia (1993, .03, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk).
code: Rioter, gfx: Opus and Tripwire (title), Opus (font), Lord Wimsey
(loading logo), Jonez (additional), music: Breeze, D-Luxe, Thug, Steam.
review: SF opens with a fullscreen title picture while loading, before we
launch into the main menu to the first bars of the first tune presented
here. This is very nicely oldskool-style designed. An Equinox logo by
Jonez resides at the very top of the screen, in shades of blueish grey,
looking anything but exciting. At the bottom of the screen, a bar with
five clickable icons appear, and each icon can be clicked more than once
for additional information. All the space between these two are occupied
by a texplotter/music selector, presented in a one-plane blue color
overlaid on a 3d starfield. It's simplistic, but - damn - it works =] The
text that is choosable with the icons is not really very interesting, and
the main thing to attract anyone to this release is probably the music,
which in all honesty is pretty good. D-Luxe has three tunes in this
collection, and his tunes reminds us heavily of something Phenomena
members would make; polished synth-pop with nice melodies but perhaps
lacking a little soul. Breeze also has three tunes here, and I like his a
little more. They roughly follow the synth-pop tradition also, but the
addition of a little more experimental bass and leads makes them more
interesting to me. Thug has just a single tune in this collection, but his
"Forever Lost" is to me the best tune of the bunch. Others might feel
differently, I don't know =] Steam's tune is also synth-pop with a techno
edge, with an upbeat theme, and instruments that sounds like they were
stolen from Lizardking! =)
The tunes included in the collection are "Infinite", "Calm" and
"Universal Dreams II" by D-Luxe, "Forever Lost" by Thug, "Honey Nut Loop",
"The Blue Dune" and "Walking Lonely" by Breeze, and finally "Losing The
Baluns" by Steam.
A secret part can be accessed by pressing the right mouse button while
loading. This part - code Rioter, gfx Budweiser, music Breeze - is hardly
a showstopper, with its slightly sexist imagery and squeaky chiptune, but
at least contains a long scrolltext =p In it, Rioter announces he has
landed a job coding games (with graphcs by Jonez) for Black Legend
Software, if anyone can tell us what game he worked on there we'd
appreciate it... It also says 'march 93', which is the closest to real
release date we could find on this disk!
This review was made possibly with the use of Stingray/Darkage's fixed
version, released on the 18th of august 2001. I was slightly disappointed
by the lack of documentation for this release, but it works just
wonderfully so why worry? Thank you again Stingray for another wonderful
fix! =] [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
European Top 20 issue #5 (1993, .03, ECS Magchart).
code/editor: Rioter, gfx: Supra, music: "Lucia_Rock!!" by Breeze.
review: Graphically appealing, the swedish answer to the Eurochart is at
first look a competent little mag. The first thing you'll think, however,
is definitely that this looks a lot like the Eurochart... There's the
obligatory charts, a gallery section and the mag part. The biggest
difference, parhaps, is that this one is a little more geared towards the
illegal part of the scene. The magpart is fair, and about par with the
later releases of the EC. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Needs KillAGA!
The Beast of Prey (1993, 30.05, Demo).
10th in the The Computer Crossroads 93 demo competition.
In A Dream (1994, early, ECS File).
code: Rioter, gfx: Icebyte, Chrome, Opus, Disc, Supra, D-Luxe, Jonez,
music: Loxley.
Closed Apart (1994, 03.04, Demo).
11th in The Gathering 94 demo competition.
Technical Input (1994, 28.12, Wild).
7th in The Party 4 wild demo competiton.
info: Presented on an A4000.
Hydrocephalus II (1995, 14.04, Demo).
4th in The Gathering 95 demo competition.
10 Years of Fun (File).
code/gfx: Vip'n'Ray, music: Cyntex.
Released for the miniparty of the same name in Trondheim, Norway.
review: Not even fast on my machine! I don't know why the routines in
this production are so slow - I've seen some of these running at
respectable speed on unexpaned A1200's! There's the usual mapping,
shading, bumpmapping and the like, all set to a frantic underground
techno tune. I won't even go into that, hehe :) The graphics, as such,
limit themselves to a raytraced introduction logo. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Eremation (ERM, http://www.barbat.de/nb/)
-----------------------------------------
FRA> Brainwasher (Pascal Weitten, org code gfx, 06/92-09/97), Ferdinand
(music, 09/97), Photo$ (Nicolas Foltzenlogel, gfx, 08/92-09/97), Skull
(Didier Sauger, swap trade, 09/97).
GER> Dire (Nico Barbat, swap trade edit, 06/96-09/97).
NOTMEMBSANYMORE:
FRA> Axis (music, 05/94), Fireblade (code, 09/93-06/96), Lost (music),
Mercure (ex End of Century 1999), Sigma 909 (sysop 'BOOMING SUPPORT').
GER> Eldorado (swap).
NOR> Bright Brick (music, 08/92), Bullet Proof, Shade.
FIN> Albin, Optic, Zon (org swap).
SWE> Chimera (swap, ex Quartz).
???> Agatron (fra? gfx, 08/92), Iceman, Jeff (code gfx, 06-08/92), Parallax
(music, 08/93), Paranoiak (fra?, ex End of Century 1999), Speedy (code,
06/92).
Eremation is a French based demo group, without any real accomplishments to
show for themselves. They continually keep a pretty high standard for their
releases, but nothing ever seems to be extraordinary. AFAIK they've never
won a single demo competition.
1991 - Invisible joined The Flashing Bytes mid 91.
1992 - Thor (sysop), Roland (sysop), Nutcase (music) and Visage (gfx) were
all members of the finnish division for a while in early 92, before the last
three left to join the newly formed finnish section of Deadline. Don't know
what happened to Thor. =) Norwegian Massive left 08/92.
German swapper Speedhawk joined TSB.
Arbitrium, Arcatronic, Creon, Sensei and Picaroon joined Vogue.
Intro (1992, early, ECS Intro).
code: NewLook, gfx: Shade, music: Bright Brick.
Beerfriend Meet (1992, .06, ECS Fileslideshow).
code: Speedy, gfx: Cash/Mentasm, Jeff, Brainwasher, music: n/a.
Testing It (1992, .08, ECS File).
code: Jeff, gfx: Cash/Mentasm, Brainwasher, Photos, Agatron, music:
Bright Brick.
Braintro (1993, .01, ECS Intro).
code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, Cash/Mentasm, music: Sound Aestesis/NGC.
Nuts (1993, .04, Intro).
code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, Gremlins/Hypnos, music: Xtd/Mystic.
14k Intro (1993, .06, Intro).
code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, music: Chip Modules.
Adtro (1993, .08, Intro).
code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, music: Parallax.
Outlaw issue #1 (1993, 04.09, Diskmag).
code: Fireblade, gfx: Photos, Brainwasher, music: n/a.
Released at Saturne 93.
Trashcan Compatible (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro).
15th in The Party 93 40k intro competition.
Kin BBS Intro (1994, .02, Intro).
666 (1994, 22.04, Intro).
code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, music: n/a.
Released at the Saturne Party II 94.
Outlaw issue #2 (1994, .05, Diskmag).
code: Fireblade, gfx: Photos, music: Axis, editors: Brainwasher,
Fireblade.
Rage! issue #1 (1996, .06, ECS Filemag).
code/editor: Brainwasher, gfx: Geist/Gods (main), Photos (title),
music: Ferdinand.
review: Well, Eremation are certainly right when they announce that
this is the first diskmag that's BORN DEAD. They announce that this is
both the first and the last issue to be released! First impressions
are quite good, with design that's subtly different, nice clipart and
a colorful title picture.
Now for some serious criticism: What the fuck's the point of making
your mag multitask if it's gonna take ALL of your rastertime, probably
using some infinite loop that keeps eating those cycles!? This is the
height of idiocy. All the good things about a system friendly mag such
as this - useless. For the record, RAGE! means Review All Great
Events. Yeah, and use all the goddamn rastertime no matter what
processor we're running on. RAGE!AUATGRNOMPWRO! [glenn]
Erotic Design (ERC, -1997)
--------------------------
POL> Cook (doublememb Define, late96).
FIN> Mice (Mikko Ahola, swap, late97).
???> Cadmus (gfx), Elmek (music swap), Ike (code gfx), Pila (ex Convex
doublememb, new 06/96).
1997 - Artwork's "Generation #24" [04/97] reported that Enter (code,
11/96) left for Scum, that FML joined Scum as a doublemember, that Yappi was
kicked and left the scene, that polish MTC/Illusion (music) joined and that
polish Timer (triplememb Define and Squeezers) was kicked.
Polish members Informer, Flapjack (music swap, ex Convex
doublememb, new 06/96), Cooper (code, doublememb INF, 11/96), FML (music,
11/96), Carson and Rappid (gfx, ex Depth, new late96) all left for Appendix
early in the year. The King (Pawl Witek, swap, ex Old Bulls, new 04/96),
Misha (code) and MTC (ex Illusion) left the group and the scene. Amiflash
left for Nah Kolor. According to EuroChart #31, the group died late 1997.
Erotica (1996, 23.06, Demo).
3rd in the Polish Summer Party 96 demo competition.
The Black (1996, 10.11, 64k Intro).
code: Enter, gfx: Cooper, music: FML (The Player 6.1A format).
7th in the Gravity 96 64k intro competition.
review: Erotic delivers an intro of acceptable quality, with some fine
graphics by Cooper, but mediocre coding from Enter. It seems time has run
off from Enter a little, seeing as the effects he presented here were most
hot three years or more ago... Get this for Cooper's work, though - it's
top notch!
The intro seems to leave the system back badly; after exiting the intro
my machine guru'ed after a few seconds. The intro was the first thing I
ran, after booting up, so there's no doubt who the culprit was. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Errors, The
-----------
1990 - Norwegian graphician Bustman joined Crusaders in june.
Error Team
----------
Sinds (1994, 13.11, Demo)
13th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition.
E.S.A. (1988-)
--------------
SWE> Norton (10/89).
ESA was formed in the middle of june 1988. They are around 20 people in
Sweden, Norway and the UK.
Escape (-1990)
--------------
Escape is dead. First, the main coder in Germany sold his amiga. Then, the
German members joined Titanics at the CeBit (03/90) and some others joined
Success and Prime Evil. The Swiss members joined Piranhas. The Norwegian
members are reportedly doing something for their own...
ESG-242
-------
???> Madokan (code gfx), Power Rai (music), Rockeronic (music).
Antro (ECS Intro).
code: Madokan, gfx: Madokan, Cube/Arise, music: Power Rai.
City at Night (ECS File).
code/gfx: Madokan, music: Rockeronic.
Eskimoes (ESK)
--------------
GER> Boomer (sysop 'THE IGLOO' earlier 'X-TEC', 03-11/93), Cyclon (gfx,
03-11/93), Major Bandit (11/93), Rosine (11/93).
???> Crush (code, 03/93), Demon (code, 03/93), Taroz (music, 03/93), Venom
(ex Desert).
Fademan left the scene.
Greentro (1993, 12.03, ECS Intro).
code: Crush, gfx: Cyclon, music: Taroz.
Computer Crossroads 93 Slideshow (1993, mid, ECS Slideshow).
code: Crush, gfx: Cyclon, music: Taroz.
BBS-Tro (The Iglu) (1993, 22.03, ECS Intro).
code: Demon, gfx: Cyclon, Taroz, music: Taroz.
Essence (ESC, 1992-, http://www.s-sense.de/)
--------------------------------------------
GER> Chromag (Timm Albers, music, ex Dual Crew), Dascon (Bernd Hoffmann,
music, ex Iris, later TRSI, 12/97-01/98), Dodger (Daniel Koschera, swap
pack, new 94-95), Excess (Bjoern Barnekow, raytrace, ex Rebels), Howie
(swap, ex Agnostic Front, 12/93), Poldi (music, ex TRSI, old handle
Blackthorne), Rahiem (Frank Meister, org swap, ex Universal Soldiers),
Slam (Andreas Melchert, swap pack 'Broken Tankard', ex X-Trade), Slicer
(Michael Schroeder, swap pack 'Brainfood', ex Delicious, old handle
Fancy), Touchstone (Thomas Jansen, org code, ex Delicious, 04/99),
Virgill (music, triplememb Artwork and TRSI, new 94-01/97), WOTW
(music, ex The Silents, later Haujobb, 08-12/93).
MAL> Mop (Noel Baldacchino, edit, ex Alcatraz, new 02/94-97).
SWE> Phase (Torbjørn Malmer, gfx, ex Spaceballs).
SPA> Lantium (ex Goblins, doublememb Network, new late97), Phornee (ex
Goblins, doublememb Network, new late97).
???> Momo (gfx, 03/97), Storm (ger? swap, ex DCS).
Essence was formed by several ex-Delicious members. Their two biggest
assets are probably their coder Touchstone, and their diskmag ROM and its
editor Mop. Mop joined from Alcatraz in february 1994 since he wasn't
content with the way the diskmag he was editor for there, Compass, was
heading. The first issue of ROM was released in August of 1994. Nowadays
Mop also volunteers time as a coeditor of the PC diskmag Imphobia, from
issue #12 onwards.
1995 - Around the middle of the year, they recruited german musician
Blackthorne from TRSI, who soon changed his handle to Poldi and contributed
music to ROM #5 - the very issue where his joining was announced.
1996 - After persuading two famous artists of times past (musician Chromag
and graphicians Gfx-Twins) to return to the scene under their wings during
1996 they strengthened their German section considerably. They further
boosted their abilities with the recruitment of the entire French Skarla
crew in the late months of the year. Their demo "Makaveli" [12/96] reached
the second place at The Party 1996, which was the highest placing of an
Essence demo ever. Having lost them some time later, we can still say they
played an important part in building Essence's good name.
1997 - The end of 1997 saw Essence recruiting their first ever Spanish
members; the two remaining active guys from the old Spanish group Goblins.
These two simultaneously joined Network, to still have roots in the Spanish
scene.
1999 - Touchstone contributed to Haujobb's winning demo "Mnemonics"
[04/99] at the Mekka Symposium 2k-1.
Swedes Frame (gfx) and Origo (code) ended their double memberships, and
withdrew back to C-Lous late97/early98, since they felt they could not
contribute anything to the group.
After releasing their last demo for Essence, "Thug Life" [03/97] the four
frenchmen Horus (3D), Jamie (code), Marvin (music) and Norm (gfx) decided
to join Mystic (ROM9). The four had joined from Skarla, and also released
the memorable demo "Makaveli" [12/96] for Essence.
German swapper Elric (Carsten Henkelmann, ex Speedhawk/Rebels) left the
scene.
German coder-raytracer Cueball (Dirk Jager) joined from Rebels with Excess,
but soon after decided to leave the Amiga scene for the PC.
German coder team Zulu & Grey (ex Rebels) left. After a few months of scene
inactivity they joined Crux Design.
Dutch coder Infant (ex Facet's Pussy/Desire) and the Norwegians Christian
Meland (music sysop 'DREAMSTATE'/'ENIGMA' WHQ, doublememb Spaceballs) and
Tim were asked to leave the group. This means that the only non-German
member is now Mop. This would later change, of course. Anyone know what
happened to the third Norwegian, coder Sunjammer? Infant joined Session
12/95.
German musician Andy (Andreas Dubois, ex Nuance, 12/94-95) decided to leave
the Amiga scene to concentrate more on his career as a musician in
Anarchy PC. He was news editor of ROM upto issue #5. Years later, in late
1997, he returned to the Amiga as a member of his old group Nuance.
Main organizer P$ aka Powerswap (S. Paschart, ex Delicious) has decided to
leave the scene. Touchstone is the new organizer.
German graphicians D-Sign (ex The Silents, 12/93-94) and the Gfx-Twins
(Calvin Golowski and Arthur Skotnik, ex Universal Soldiers, 95-96) left
the scene in favour of game graphics). This is not strictly true anymore,
since the Gfx-Twins have now made a comeback in Scoopex!
Covert Action Team [CAT] (Groo and Rufferto, 12/93) and musician Dascon,
all ex Delicious, decided to leave the scene. Ofcourse, Rufferto's work
lives on in the form of the ROM fonts... :) Dascon regained scene
inspiration in late 97, and rejoined Essence after a short stay in Iris!
German celebrity graphician Fade One (Martin Sauter, ex Lego, new 94) left
the scene.
German coder Roman (Roman Kaczmarczyk, ex Agnostic Front, 12/93) left the
scene. Roman worked on "Cardiac Arrest" [92] and "A.S.S." [93].
Cardiac Arrest (1992, ECS Intro).
code: Roman, gfx: Groo & Rufferto, music: "Folklore" by WOTW (4ch MOD
format).
review: Just a nicely designed intro, nothing else... There's only one
main routine, a dot-cube that stretches, which isn't that much. OK.
[glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
Dreaming (1992, .12, ECS 1MB File).
code: Touchstone, gfx: Groo & Rufferto, music: "Dcn_Dreamteam.Final" by
Dascon (4ch MOD format).
review: Cool first dentro from Essence. Good effects, cool graphics.
[glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
A.S.S (1993, ECS Trackmo).
code: Touchstone, Roman, gfx: Groo & Rufferto, music: Dascon, WOTW.
info: An HD installer for this demo is available on AmiNet (in
games/patch, of all places).
Meeting Intro 93 (1993, ECS Intro).
code: Touchstone, gfx: Groo & Rufferto, music: Dascon.
review: Not terribly exciting I'm afraid. It's a scroll-selector, a
scrolltext, and a whole load of glenz-objects on the background.
Obviously made mostly for messages, it's not the worst of its type.
Selecting Groo & Rufferto's scroll displays their 3rd-ranked picture
from The Party 92. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
D (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro).
code: Touchstone, gfx: D-Sign, music: WOTW.
2nd in The Party 93 40k intro competition.
review: Once again Touchstone shows his flair for design. This one
doesn't contain anything revolutionary, but the way it is all put
together sets it out as a good intro. Nice and cute. [glenn]
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA helps.
Meeting Intro 94 (1994, ECS Intro).
code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade One, D-Sign, music: Dascon.
review: Ahh, cute! I seem to remember hearing that tune before
somewhere... Text-writer with moving background. Cool opening logo by
Fade One. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ROM issue #1 (1994, .08, ECS Trackloaded Diskmag).
INT - code: Roman, gfx: Covert Action Team, Nose/Jetset (logo), music:
Covert Action Team.
MAG - code: Touchstone, gfx: Covert Action Team (main), D-Sign (welcome),
music: "ROM Theme" by Dascon, "Weird Personalities" by
Lizardking/Razor 1911, rditor: Mop.
review: ROM kicks off in style, with three fabulous full screen
pictures from the Covert Action Team (CAT), and a suitably heavy tune
to accompany a kickin' intro. The mag itself doesn't do much worse,
opening with a great lego man by D-Sign.
The first picture seen in the intro is called "Ambush", already
released once before, for the graphics competition at The Party 3.
There, it was released under the fictious name of Artcore/Essence,
since CAT had already delivered one picture for the competition
(S.E.X, which came 6th). "Ambush" came 40th. Lizardking's tune "Weird
Personalities" was later re-used in the Razor 1911 musicdisk "Memorial
Songs II' [01/95].
A kickdown to KS 1.3 was required to get the mag working on my
setup. After this, the mag worked beautifully - without it, it didn't
even get to the intro. The mag itself seems well coded, apart from a
few obvious glitches here and there. I strongly doubt I have 717 MBytes
of chip memory, Touchstone...and I _DO_ have an MMU, no matter what
your mag says! The release date is an estimate, based on information
contained in the mag. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review!
ROM issue #2 (1994, .12, ECS Multifile Diskmag).
code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade One & Uno (titlepic), music: "Depths" by
Interphace/Andromeda, "Cranky Phonecalls" by Chromag/Rebels^Polka, "What
is a Cable?" by Virgill/Essence, editor: Mop.
review: There's certainly nothing wrong with the audio-visuals of ROM 2.
It opens with a stonking title picture by Fade One and legendary Uno,
showing a rather offensive shark. Very nice. The tunes are all okay too,
though Interphace's has the edge. VERY good, with a distinctive beat and
a certain groove factor.
Content-wise, ROM has always been one of the best mags, so there's not
really any reason not to download it and check it out... NOW! [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip 4mb fast/3.0 -- note: Highly unstable.
Lost Carrier BBS Intro (1994, 28.12, ECS Intro).
code: Touchstone, gfx: Cooper/Anarchy PC (logo), music: SMT/Haujobb.
Released at the Party 94, in cooperation with Lego.
review: It opens with a raytraced logo, and from then on it's a standard
intro, complete with background and text writer. Still, like most Essence
prods, nice design. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ROM issue #3 (1995, .03, ECS Multifile Diskmag, 2 disks).
code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade One (panel, clip), Gfx-Twins (welcome),
Rufferto (fonts), music: "Whales Forever" by Mel'o'Dee, "Join The
Microcosm" by Virgill, "Musical Empire" by Christian/Spaceballs, editor:
Mop.
review: The third issue of ROM was the first with a multitasking code.
This meant an almost total recoding of the mag, and the first version
released had several severe bugs, forcing Touchstone to release a fix
soon after. Contentwise; ace. Graphically; ace. Musically: out of sp-ace
;) Though the package available on AmiNet does not contain it, the
original release contained an intro by Sonik Clique. Mel'o'Dee's tune was
previously released at the Doom's Day Party 94 competition. That version
claimed a fixed version would be out later; maybe this tune is it? [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ROM issue #4 Intro (1995, mid.05, AGA Intro).
code: Touchstone, gfx: CAT, D-Sign, music: Virgill and Blackthorne.
review: Another nice Essence release, this 'intro' (550k) is cute.
There's funny graphics, funny code and a fun tune. What more to say?
Text synchronised to the (did I mention it was fun?) music indicate some
headlines, and that's it. OK for what it is. Not released with the mag
in the distribution on AmiNet, and therefore reviewed separately. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ROM issue #4 (1995, mid.05, ECS Multifile Diskmag).
code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade One (panel), Dwel/Desire (welcome), Rufferto
(fonts), Eye/Gloom (clip), music: Chromag "Stairways", TJM "Majestic" and
BrainBug/Talent "Sincerely Yours", editor: Mop.
review: This issue of ROM opens with a picture of a pig's face, no less!
This one came out so soon after the last one, it's most probably a world
record in release speed! Not much has changed in the looks department;
due to popular demand they've even used the great, colorful control panel
by Fade One a second time! The opening tune by Chromag is nice, calm and
sounds very professional - especially the fill-ins sound cool. It's also
a very nice gesture of the ROM team to allow a virtually unknown musician
from the UK, TJM, contribute with a tune. "Majestic" is also a calm tune
that creates a warm and fuzzy atmosphere. BrainBug delivers one of his
trademark funky guitar tunes, which is also a winner! So overall, ROM
scores top marks yet again in the audio-visual department.
The contents of ROM4 are certainly up to the usual standard, and
contain all the usual 'making of', news and debate articles.
I particularly enjoyed the articles about TRSI's history, Artwork, and
the making of Greenday. As usual, ROM is VERY Rewarding. The release date
is approximate, based on things written in the mag. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
The Malta Intro (1995, 09.07, ECS? 40k Intro).
code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade 1, music: Chris Meland.
3rd in the Somewhere In Holland 95 intro competition.
review: A big disappointment, this, from a quality coder like Touchstone.
It looks like it was put together in a real hurry, with not enough time
to put the thing decently together. It's real short, with two digitized
b&w pictures (both of which are totally unnecessary), and two effects; a
voxel landscape (which I suspect is supposed to be Malta) and a tunnel/
dungeon effect which could have been done MUCH better. I guess this was
put together in honour of Mop, but I think Touchstone could have done him
much better justice by not releasing it! [glenn]
ROM issue #5 (1995, .08, ECS Multifile Diskmag).
code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade 1 (welcome, panel), Rufferto (fonts), music:
"Hard Sun" by Poldi & Virgill, "Postludium" by Brainbug/Talent, editor:
Mop.
review: This will sound like I'm repeating myself, but there's not really
much to say about ROM except it's excellent as always. The articles are
interesting, the music's cool (especially Postludium!) and the graphics
are totally stunning! I'm constantly amazed by what Fade1 can do in so
few colors... Looking at this mag, you can clearly see how he became one
of the most respected painters out there!
This issue is their one year jubilee issue, by the way. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
CrazySexyCool (1995, 28.12, AGA File).
code: Touchstone, gfx: Louie/Insane, music: Virgill.
5th in The Party 5 demo competition.
review: I have only one thing to say about this: WOW! This is one of the
closest things yet to a perfect production! The code is top-notch, with
good, advanced, good-looking effects; there are four great pictures
(especially Sexy!) by Louie (now in TBL), and the music is simply groovy!
Do I need to draw you a picture? DOWNLOAD! [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ROM issue #6 (1996, early, ECS Multifile Diskmag).
code: Touchstone, gfx: TeeVan/Axis (welcome), Phase/Spaceballs (panel),
Sumaleth/independent (clip), Rufferto (fonts), music: "Funky Elements" by
Marc/Sector 7, "Funky Dog" by Jam & Spoon/indep, editor: Mop.
review: The first things that strikes you with the sixth issue of ROM is
the nice title picture of men's faces carved in stone by TeeVaan, and the
incredible groooove of Jam & Spoon's cool tune! It's so groovy, in fact,
that it kept me from getting into the mag for the first couple of minutes
just because I was busy listening! I actually have one slight thing that
irritates me a little; the panel graphics in this issue is actually the
worst they've ever had! [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Brainbow (1996, 05.04, AGA 40k Intro).
code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade 1, music: Virgill.
2nd in The Gathering 96 40k intro competition.
review: This is a good intro, and it's not hard to see why it made it to
second place. There's the usual shading/reflective mapping toruses, but
what sets it apart is the design, which has always been Touchstone's
strongest point. A good one. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ROM issue #7 (1996, mid to late, ECS Multifile Diskmag, 2 disks).
code: Touchstone, gfx: Sumaleth (clipart), Gfx Twins (welcome pic,
design), Rufferto (fonts), music: "Kulissit" by Muffler/Nah Kolor, "Milk"
by Radix/Balance, "Nose Hole" by Virgill/Essence^Artwork, editor: Mop.
review: Ahh, Radix' module is divine! Sorry, getting a bit sidetracked,
as usual. I just wanted to express how thrilled I am about the second
module on this diskmag. Hooray, scene musician rediscovers funk and
melody, puts intricate beat down in favour of a nice tune! Amazing!
This almost makes all those soulless techno beats worth it.
Ok, the mag itself. It's the same ROM, with the same quality articles.
Perhaps not as much of immediate interest as with the next issue, #8, but
still quite a lot to sink your teeth into. What can I do with an issue of
ROM but recommend it? [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ROM issue #8 (1996, late, ECS Multifile Diskmag, 2 disks).
code: Touchstone, gfx: Cyclone/Abyss (welcome), Sumaleth (main clips),
Acryl (clips), Fade 1 (clips), Gfx-Twins (design), music: "Return of the
Kulissit" by Muffler/Nah Kolor, "Asettelumalli" by Andy/Banal Projects &
Azazel/TBL, and "Love Will Come" by Poldi, editor: Mop.
review: An issue of ROM is always a pleasure to read, and this is
certainly no exception. You can always find some interesting article
here, and there's lots of relevant information for the Scenery editor
to incorporate into his amazing little collection of text files... :)
Seriously, the mag is very good. The code seems very system friendly,
happily multitasking with the rest of my system. As a matter of fact,
I'm running it in the background right now! Now, from the good to the bad
of this system: The mag doesn't release the audio channels when you turn
off the music, which means you can't run another player (HiP :) in the
background, playing a tune of your choice. Unnecessary, Touchstone!
The graphics are nice and functional, though not outstanding. I still
remember the images that came with some of the early issues of R.A.W, and
I doubt if I'll remember any of the images in ROM 8 in three years.
There's three tunes to choose from, neither of which really held my
interest. They're just my kind of music, but the excellent code doesn't
make that a problem, so why am I complaining? The mag is laid out in such
a way that it can just as easily be run from floppy as from your HD.
There are two data files in addition to the main executable, which means
that you place the second executable on a separate disk to run from
floppy. To conclude, it's a very very good mag. It's strong points - the
best articles - are the behind the scenes stuff, like Azazel talking
about the music for Tint (he's right - the first tune does suck :) and
the very knowledgable Sumaleth's graphics reviews. To my mind, he writes
a whole lot more interesting than Facet ever did for R.A.W! But what am I
keeping you for? Go download this from somewhere and leave me alone so I
can read the rest of it! [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Virgill Dreams (1996, late, AGA 4MB Multifile Musicdisk, 3 disks).
code: Touchstone, gfx: Phase, music: Virgill.
review: If you're into some seriously weird heavy metal tunes, with a
depressing touch, then this is the music disk for you. Those poems aren't
exactly cheerful are they, Virgill? This is (AFAIK) Phase's first
production for his new team. I know I'm certainly looking forward to his
next one :) The best thing abou this musicdisk, though, is undoutedly
the intro. It's nothing amazingly 'wow', but you can't do anything but
bow your head to Touchstone's amazing env- and bumpmapping routines.
Coolness doesn't half cover how great these look, but you get the idea :)
After the intro is finished, the selector itself actually multitasks
quite happily. To be quite honest, I'm running it in the background
right now, listening to the tunes while I'm typing this. This is
certainly the way to do it! VD can be run from floppy if so is desired.
It is called a 'christmas present' in the info text, suggesting perhaps a
december release - at The Party even? [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Makaveli (1996, 28.12, AGA File).
code: Jamie, gfx: Norm, Horus, music: Marvin (The Player 6.1A format).
2nd in The Party 96 demo competition.
review: The impressive thing about "Makaveli" is its SPEED. Sure, we've
seen objects shaded, mapped, raped and abused before, but never this
fast! Geez, these objects FLY around the screen! It's rare to see such a
good, advanced demo from someone you've never even heard of before - like
these new Essence members. Another thing that strikes me is the palette
choices. These objects are COLORFUL, and the same KIND of colors seem to
go as a red thread throughout the entire demo. Not the same colors as
such, just similar, which gives it a specific atmosphere. An orange
atmosphere, but still... Just some of the things you get to see is a high
quality fullscreen zoomrotator with stretching, a colorful tunnel, about
6 simultaneous spacecut Z-Buffer shaded objects and a couple of really
cool objects that I haven't seen before, like a rabbit (thank god! If I
ever see another yellow duck...) and a man-in-the-moon figure.
The music is strange, but then again it would have to be. All good
demos have music which is only classifiable by the guy who made it.
It's tradition among Amiga demos, and it's been with us ever since the
very first trackmo, Scoopex' "Mental Hangover" [04/90]. Oh god, that was a
great tune... Ehrm, getting a little sidetracked here, ain't I? Anyway,
Makaveli. It's good. Download it. I'm off to find the M.H. agafix.
No information on whether this requires fastmem, perhaps 4mb? [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ROM issue #9 (1997, ECS Multifile Diskmag).
INT - code: Prospect, Origo (t-mapper), Scout (c2p), gfx: Frame (design),
Claw (objects), music: Soul/Movement.
MAG - code: Touchstone, gfx: Louie/TBL (welcome), Frame/C-Lous (panel),
Sumaleth (clip), Alex/Corrosion (clip), Nope Dope/Pas Master (clip),
Rufferto (fonts), music: "In Your Eyes" by Marc/Syndrome, "Vincent's
Car" by Revisq/Anadune, "Elixir" by Marvin/Mystic, "Somewhat Rusty"
by Deelite/Balance, editor: Mop.
review: Another issue of ROM is here, this time with an intro by C-Lous.
It's a quite remarkable little intro, actually, since it almost success-
fully combines the 'shaded object' intro with the 'art' intro! It can't
really be described easily in my limited space, but it's got great, very
unusual design and a fast envmapped object :) Know all you need to now?
Oh, and Soul/Movement does the music - it's been QUITE SOME TIME since we
heard from that Swedish musician! It's nice to know he's not abandoned us
altogether...
Then there's the mag itself, of course. The opening article by Mop has
always got a wise word or two, and this one's no exception. His comments
about the amiga scene are spot on, and I noticed we share a lot of the
same thoughts about it. One thing that strikes me is how ROM now suddenly
has 4 modules instead of 3 or 2... In my view this is unnecessary, and
just eats disk space, especially when all 4 modules are as alike as they
are here. All four have a jazzy feel to them, with warm fuzzy instruments.
If I didn't know any better I'd think they were all by the same musician!
Please note that I'm not complaining about the quality here, just the
quantity :) Two modules should always be enough.
Why doesn't a multitasking mag like ROM deallocate the audio channels
when it's not playing anything? If you'd like to listen to some other
music with HippoPlayer while reading the mag, you can't! From this issue
on, ROM has a www presence at http://ROM.home.ml.org. [glenn]
GLE teste A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Thug Life (1997, 30.03, AGA 030 Multifile).
code: Jamie, gfx: Norm, Horus, Momo, music: Marvin (2 tunes, The Player
6.1A format). 3rd in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition.
review: Jamie is back to prove that "Makaveli" (12/96) wasn't a one-off
thing - and succeeds in style. "Thug Life" is even better than his
previous demo, with large, fast 3d scenes and good music! There can be no
doubt that Jamie's 3d routines are among the fastest on the scene. This
demo REQUIRES a 030 processor, but the processor-specific optimizations
also show. The 3d environments are further helped by some great textures,
which give most objects a dirty, brown cyberpunky feel. "Thug Life" is
professional in every respect, and should be in anyones collection.
Simply great. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
E.T.
----
Hartcore (1993, 08.11, ECS File).
code: E.T., gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Eternity Corp.
--------------
???> D-Man (ex Armada).
Ethic (ETC, http://www.ethic.de)
--------------------------------
GER> Big-Rat (Kai Hoepner, mainorg edit, doublememb Abyss early97, later
Nuance, 07/96-02/97), Bitbuster (code, 11/96), Cozmo (raytrace,
11/96), Frantic (raytrace, 11/96), Hawk Hunter (hardwaresupply,
11/96), Kit (mascot, 11/96), Lucas (modemorg sysop 'TEUTONIC PLACE',
doublememb Lightforce, 11/96-01/97), Madstop (code, doublememb Abyss
early97, later Nuance, 07/96-02/97), Magic Max (org, 11/96), Meta
(music raytrace, 11-12/96), Mr.U (code, 11/96), Nero (gfx, later
Artwork, 11/96), Tumor (raytrace, 11/96).
Ethic is a German-only team, most dedicated to the steady release of their
newsmag, "The X-Files". Magic Max's board was finally closed late 96, and
he is now active only as a funmember.
1996 - Castor (music) is no longer a member; he released a module at
Symposium 96 in april which said Castor/ex Ethic. Stingray was kicked after
some internal problems around april. German musician Pollux left the scene
in june. German coder Cueball sold his Amiga and bought a pc again, so he's
now left the Amiga scene for good. He was then kicked around june. German
graphician Heron was kicked in december.
German musician Mr.Melody (12/94) is no longer a member.
X-Files #7 (1996, 01.07, AGA Filemag).
code: Madstop, gfx: SMT/Artwork (title), Nero/Artwork (main), music: SMT/
Artwork, editor: Big-Rat.
review: Issue 7 was the first one with a coded interface, all previous
editions were just text files. I won't comment too much on the panel or
the handling, since it's exactly the same as the one used in issue #13,
reviewed below. The intro picture for this issue is rendered. SMT's music
is also quite adequate. This mag had multitasking right from the very
first issue. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
X-Files #11 (1996, .11, AGA Filemag).
code: Madstop, gfx: Odin/Illusion (title), Nero/Artwork (main), music:
Airon/Phase Distortion, editor: Big-Rat.
review: This issue opens with a moody title picture by Odin/Illusion.
I saw his slideshow "Walhalla" (11/96) for Illusion, and I didn't like it
that much, but this picture from the foogy morning in the woods is a lot
better. Not bad! I have split feelings about the music...one of the leads
reminds me strongly of 1988, and I can't seem to make up my mind if this
is a good or a bad thing... :0 Editorially, this issue is pretty much
like all the others. It's november and the scene is gearing up for The
Party, but that's about it. Another average issue. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
X-Files #12 (1996, 28.12, AGA Filemag).
code: Madstop, gfx: Acryl/Acme^Illusion^Session (title), Nero/Artwork
(main), music: Meta. Released at The Party 6.
review: Nothing exceptional about this release either, it's basically the
same old thing. The guest audio-visuals this time is a cosy, christmassy
picture by Acryl, as well as a pretty good tune by Meta. I have nothing
much more to say about this, really... [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
X-Files #13 (1997, 03.02, AGA Filemag).
code: Madstop, gfx: Raven/Nuance (title), Nero/Artwork (main),
Madstop, Big-Rat, Chaos!/Desire (mainmenufont), music: Hardfire/NGC and
Intense, editor: Big-Rat. Cooperation with Abyss.
review: From this issue on, X-F is a cooperation between Ethic and Abyss,
since coder Madstop and editor Big-Rat joined Abyss as doublemembers.
I started reading the mag, taking notes, but suddenly discovered - by
accident! - that it multitasks quite happily! That's great Ethic, but I'd
like to have been told before I filled half a page with notes ;) There's
nothing wrong with X-F presentationwise this time either. The only thing
you'll need to grow accustomed to is the way you read articles here.
Rather than flip right for the next page and down for the next article,
you flip right for the next article! I was a little confused by this at
first, but soon understood how it worked and after that there were no
problems.
The tune is quite comfortable reading music, in that it does not
irritate and it's not dominating enough to draw attention away from what
you're reading. And the title picture by Raven/Nuance is a treat for the
eyes. Overall, this is a good, polished issue. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Euphoria (1990-1991)
--------------------
SWE> Wico (sysop 'THE GANGZTER ZONE', 10/90).
NOR> Mr.Ice (swap, ex Cult, new 12/90).
FIN> Larry (swap, late90), Voyager (code, 91).
???> Bootlegger, Fly, Prince (ex Frantic), Shadey, Trashcan (ex Prologic),
Zontor.
Boards; SURSIK (fin).
Euphoria was born late, probably 09 or 10/90, when the group Doom changed
their name. Mr.Ice formed the Norwegian section of Euphoria in december.
1991 - The group died in mid 1991. Some members of Anarchy, Tetragon,
Horizon and all of Euphoria (including 'THE IRON GATE' BBS, ex RAF, new mid
91) formed Extreme.
There are no more Swedish or German sections.
The One (ex Prologic) joined Static Bytes.
TMB Designs (ex Prologic) joined Kefrens.
Tama (ex Prologic) joined Anarchy.
Foxhound left.
European Software Agency (ESA)
------------------------------
SWE> Mike The Pike (Erik Flodgren).
Evacue
------
SWE> Behemoth (music, 08/94), Crilla (code, 08/94), Käjsi (sysop 'SEAGREEN',
08/94), Wolf (gfx, later X-Trade?, 08/94), Ygram (code, 08/94).
Nil: (1994, 07.08, 40k Intro).
code: Ygram, Crilla, gfx: Wolf, music: "A Piece of Crap 1" by Behemoth.
23rd in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition.
review: Ehrm. The best part, I guess, is the font which isn't bad.
I'm sorry, Evacue, after this we're bound to believe 'att ni är kassa'.
And the name of the tune... how true =) Improve! [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Exact
-----
1991 - Phobos joined Byte Busters in the middle of the year.
Exage (1990-)
-------------
Exage was formed towards the end of 1990 by the groups Pegasus, Death and
Tomcats [no entries].
Exceed
------
SWE> Drakemule (org gfx, 09/92-94), Motion Lotion (gfx, aka Joe The Foe
(JTF), 09/92-94), Mike.
???> G.G (code, 94).
Exceed were a swedish demo group, likely not related to the later pc demo
group of the same name.
Mosaic - The Works 1991-94 (1994, AGA/ECS Slideshow).
code: G.G., gfx: Motion Lotion (JTF), Drakemule, music: Deelite/Razor
1911.
review: The bad thing of this little slide is that it starts only from
floppy without any reason of sense. Do not await bombastic pictures, but a
nice multimedia-like menu (music and animation of the character 'e') with
cool raytraced clips by Drakemule and some colorful pics by Motion Lotion
alias JTF.
The slide starts with two different pics - one appears only if you have
aga and one if you have disabled enhanced gfx or only have an ECS-Amiga!
At the menu you can choose the pics with LMB and infos about them with
RMB. And you are also able to watch half of them if you don't have AGA.
The music is a bit too dominating for a slideshow but although a good
track! My favorites by Motion Lotion are 'Mercenario' (the only real
picture) and 'Carving Good'. From Drakemule's nice traced clips I like
'Cyberspace' (dolphin jumps in water) the most! [zito]
ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast.
Excellence (XLNS)
-----------------
Poltergeist joined D-Mob.
Meltdown (ECS File).
Cooperation with Absence, see there.
Excess (EXS)
------------
SWI> Denis (swap, doublemember Apex, 12/94).
GER> Warlock (swap, late90).
Bubble changed his handle to Polygon Window and joined Depth.
Excide
------
???> Big B (music, 08/93), Milkman (code, 08/93), Ranx (gfx, 08/93).
Intro (1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro).
code: Milkman, gfx: Ranx, music: Big B.
6th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition.
Information: Does not work on A1200.
Excite
------
AUT> Status Quo (ex Energy, new late92).
Exhouse
-------
FIN> Judge (Petri Suutarinen, code, 08/94).
Crap!! (1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro).
code/gfx: Judge, music: n/a.
26th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition.
review: This is a waste of time, just a small logo with some color
effect in it and a textwriter. It finished dead last. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Exile [old] (1991-)
-------------------
NOR> Switch (code, 09/91).
SWE> Shike.
???> Rad, Systematique, The Bull.
The 'old' Exile has nothing to do with the 'new' ones; the identical names
are probably just a result of the new ones not knowing about the existence
of the previous group.
1991 - Norwegian graphician The Edge sold his machine and left the scene
around the middle of the year.
Dragon Bait joined Lunatics.
Norwegian musician Don-Cato joined Talent.
. Partyintro (1991, 29.09, ECS Intro).
code: Switch, gfx: The Edge, music: Melis/Cave (NoisePacker 3 format).
Released at the Arendal party.
review: This intro is clearly a case of 'too much', with lots of effects
thrown onto the screen. It was this group's first ever release, and
unfortunately, it shows. If they can learn the noble art of limiting
themselves, then perhaps they can produce something worthwile, but this
intro is just another 'let's release something' prod. These words are the
ones that are accepted: FUCK, HELP, SWITCH, CODERCHAT, QUIT, CREDITS,
EXILE, SWAP, JOIN, THE EDGE, SHIT. The Edge had already left the scene
when this intro was released.
. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Partyintro (1992, early).
Invitation to The Gathering 1992.
Exile [new]
-----------
???> Fazi (music, 08/95), I.F. (Piotr Bizunowicz, swap write, 08/95),
Jamer (xode 3dgfx, 08/95), Klatek (gfx, 08/95), Nim0 (Michal Buczko,
code swap, 08/95), Tuner (music, 08/95).
The 'old' Exile has nothing to do with the 'new' ones; the identical names
are probably just a result of the new ones not knowing about the existence
of the previous group. It is highly probable that most of these guys are
from Poland.
Opal Se Futec (1995, 30.08, 64k Intro).
code: Jamer, Nim0, gfx: Jamer, Klatek, music: Fazi (The Player 6.0A
format). Released for the Intel Outside 95 64k intro competition.
review: OSF opens with some good graphics in the introduction, then
shows a fast fullscreen zoomrotator. Next is a texturemapped globe, and
then it's pretty much over. The best thing about it, I guess, is the
AMOS error message that appears towards the end, which I'm sure was a
fun joke when it was shown on the big screen. This would have benefited
greatly from some improved music. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Exit
----
USA> Comic.
???> Chrome, Coke, Cube, Pacman.
Drumtex joined Cytax.
Norwegian swapper Deathbringer joined Flash Productions.
Quo Vadis? (1990, 28.12, ECS File).
Winner of the Theatre & Network Party '90 demo competition!
info: Also known as '3D Demo'.
Exodus (1989-1990)
------------------
FIN> The Skum (01/90), Trug (crack, ex Animate).
IRL> Axl.
Exodus was a finnish demo group, formed by Apol and Ripper in 1989 after
their previous group Deathstar died. It is highly probable that also Sulky
Fellow (code) and Unknown Artist (music) went along from Deathstar. Exodus,
in turn, died in june of 1990, after most members (Apol, Ripper, Sulky
Fellow, Unknown Artist) left to form Image with the entire group Unique and
members of Complex and Gate.
Little Vecs (ECS Demo).
Exort
-----
???> Darkman, Dealer, Mac Gil, Power Cult, Quark (re from Fate).
Exort is dead.
1992 - Aliex joined Cyborx in september.
Conan joined Epic.
Smash joined Amaze.
German Damion joined End of Century 1999.
Trax and some other members joined Fate.
Jesus P., Kahn, Gonzo, Douglas (ex Coast), Exciter and Sali-Adalat (ex
Sledgehammers, new mid 91) all joined Awake.
Exotic
------
Magic joined Unit 4.
Exotic Men
----------
FIN> Coltrain, Death, Delsio, Dipsomania (trade, 02/93-03/94), ED-209.
Devil was kicked out.
Experience
----------
???> Den (code, 01/93), Ender (gfx, 01/93), Jazz (music, 01/93), Jgl (code,
01/93).
Prolog (1993, .01, ECS File).
code: Jgl, Den, gfx: Ender, music: Jazz.
Extacy (XTC, 1993-)
-------------------
FIN> Perlon (code gfx music, 93), Spexx (gfx mainorg, 93).
DEN> Chronic (music, 08/93), Cytron (music).
NOR> Lord Red (gfx, 08/93).
ENG> Scimitar (code gfx, 08/93).
SWE> Altern8 (music).
Extacy was a finnish-based demo group, formed by Venom (finland), Chronic
(denmark) and Cytron (denmark) after leaving Rave. Venom changed his handle
to Spexx around the same time - most probably early 93.
In addition to Lord Red, coder Nastro was a member of the Norwegian
section for a short while. He coded the group's only assembler-intro before
leaving for another group; all other productions were in fact coded in AMOS.
English coder Scimitar coded Extacy's only demo release ever, "Transfusion"
[08/93]. Perlon made a few intros, and released issues of the "Subconscious
Terror" pack. He also used the handle Blue Nun for a short while before
recerting to his original handle. Eventually the group died away due to
Spexx' (main organizer) inactivity, and the members left the scene or joined
other groups. Cytron eventually joined Depth, while Spexx was later in
Distance, Millenium, Tulou, Outlaws, Nautika and eventually Nah Kolor (under
the handle Alvin).
Thanks to Alvin/Nah Kolor and Mermaid/Scoopex/Creators for information.
Broken Sword (Intro).
code: Lord Red, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Down the Stairs (Intro).
code: Scimitar, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Snottro (Intro).
code: Lord Red, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Transfusion (1993, 09.08, demo).
code: Scimitar, gfx: Lord Red, music: Chronic.
8th in the Assembly 93 demo competition.
Extend (EXT)
------------
FIN> Argon (music, 08-11/96), Codex, Crom, Dr.Acid, Duke (gfx, 08/96),
Duce (gfx, 12/93-08/96), Electric (gfx, 11/96), Orbis (Heikki Pora,
code gfx www, 08-11/96), TBB (music, 08/96), Zero (code gfx, 08-11/96).
Extend is a finnish demo group, born as an offshoot from the very successful
c64 group. Several of these members are also active cross-platform, doing
both amiga and c64 work simultaneously. Finnish coder Orbis was a member of
Halo 08/94, don't know how he got from there to here =) Their old homepage,
http://www.hoikka.com/extend/index.html, appears to have gone from the web.
1996 - The group released the 64k intro "IFA" [08/96] to a disappointing
8th position at the Assembly 96 in august.
Sections (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro).
6th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition.
Quu (1996, Demo).
Released at Demolition 96.
IFA (1996, 18.08, AGA 64k Intro).
code: Zero, Orbis, gfx: Duce, Loppu, Hoppu, music: Argon.
8th in the Assembly 96 intro competition.
review: Mostly HAM8 effects here, like colorful ripples and the like.
I'm sure it's hard to code, but it's not all that interesting to look at,
I'm afraid... And the music or graphics doesn't save it either. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Insane (1996, 18.08, AGA HD 4MB File).
code: Orbis, gfx: Orbis, Duke, music: TBB.
7th in The Assembly 96 demo competition.
review: A little large (4mb filedemo!) for what it offers, this is still
a short but sweet production. There are certainly some goodlooking
effects here, like a trip down a wiggly road (animation?) and a cool
colorful tunnel trip complete with moving lights. The music on this
doesn't appeal to me at all, it's just monotonous and irritating. That
bass has actually given me a headache now! [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Kiitos? (1996, 23.11, AGA 8MB HD File).
code: Orbis, Zero, gfx: Electric, Orbis, Zero, music: Argon (The Player
6.1A format). 5th in the Demolition 96 II demo competition.
review: "Kiitos?" is a nice production from Extend, with some goodlooking
and colorful effects. Unfortunately, the demo doesn't move too fast on my
machine. The text file mentions an 040/40mhz or better is recommended,
and I have no trouble believing that. Design is adequate though, and
neither graphics nor music gets too much on your nerves. There's not a
lot of actual drawings here, but what there is is mostly functional.
Overall, I'll have to confess I quite like this, though it's quite short
for the filesize (2mb, or 4mb unpacked!)
The unpacked demo binary contains the text string '$VER: Kiitos v0.33
BY Extend (22.11.1996)'. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Extensors
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GER> Botex (sysop 'TEKKNOZOID').
???> Zyx (code music, 93), Trauma Projects (gfx, 93).
Hypnautic Hammer 2 (1993, early, ECS File).
code/music: Zyx, gfx: Trauma Projects.
Extreme (1991-)
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FIN> Bootlegger (Jan Lindfors, swap), Deshay (swap, 92).
???> Hitchcock (ex Rebels), Twist (music, 08/91).
Boards; IRON GATE WHQ (usa, ex Euphoria, new mid91).
Some members of Anarchy, Tetragon, Horizon and all of Euphoria formed a
new group called Extreme in the middle of 1991.
1991 - The French division of Extreme is dead. Krom, Postcard, Atwill,
Shup, Clawz (08/91) and Bilbo all joined Delight late 91. Freddox, Fletch
and Fishbone joined The Special Brothers late 91.
Slaine joined Palace.
Barrax joined Brainstorm.
The Finnish division of Extreme is dead. Some members joined Brainstorm.
Exult
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GER> Daddy-O (swap, early92).
???> Lyzanxia (late90).
Exult was a mainly German group.
1990 - C. Dawn left for Supreme around may.
Most Exult members joined Endless Piracy mid91.
Jolly Roger (Diskmag).
info: Mentioned in the january 1991 edition of Eurochart, so it was most
probably released sometime in 1990. Articles in both English and German.
Exxon
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NOR> Splash (sysop 'FLAME STRIKE', 10/94), St. Eagle (Vidar Lekanger, swap,
94).
???> Mr.X (code, ex Sepultura).
Boards; KEY STROKE (nor).
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