Abandoneds (ABS)
----------------
HUN> Phil (Goga Attila, code).

Phil coded the Abandoned Noter V1.0. And that's all we know about these guys
thus far :)


Abase
-----
Abase was a finnish group.
  1990 - JH left for Cross around august.
  1991 - January saw Highlander leaving for Companions.


Abnormal (ANM, 1988-1989)
-------------------------
NOR> Buzz (Stig S. Bakken, code gfx swap, 02-03/89), FIG, Hot Dog (swap),
     Power (Geir Ove Reitan, code swap, 02-03/89), Snowbear, Stone (05/89),
     The Bright Lion (code, aka TBL, ex Sphinx, 02-03/89), Zeb (Sebastian
     Hongrø, 02-03/89), Zuggly.
???> Tim (music, 88), TLW (06/89).

Abnormal are a Norwegian demo and cracking group, born on the 16th of june
1988 when the two groups The Hidden Forces (THF) (Rocky, Hot Dog, Power, ZTH
etc) and Laser Cracking Service Norway (LCS) (Hero etc) merged. Their first
demo was "Snubnosed" [07/88], and there was also an amiga section. Thanks to
http://norway.c64scene.org for some of the real names and demo information,
and to Zeb for some information.
  1989 - Danish coder Trap'88 (02/89-) joined The Ruling Company sometime
after march this year, losing the '88 from his handle at the same time.
The group coorganized the IT, Razor 1911, Abnormal, Hoaxers, Network
Gigaparty in june. Norwegian crackers Rocky, Fist and Hero (all 88-) were
persuaded to join Illusion in september, and with three of its crackers
gone, Abnormal died. Zero The Hero (code, aka ZTH, 02/89-) joined AMOK, then
later Panoramic Design, where also Zeb was later a member.

  Snubnosed (1988, 10.07, demo).
  code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Tim. Released at the Ikari Party.
  info: Their first demo!

  Amusing Part IV (demo).
  Made in cooperation with Actual Cracking Crew (ACC).

  Freaks In Space (1988, demo).

  Lazy Pigs (1988, demo).

  Merciless (1988, demo).

  Plague (1988, demo).

  Seeker 3 (1988, demo).

  Seeker 4 (1988, demo).

  Seeker 5 (1988, demo).

  Seeker 6 (1988, demo).

  Sick (1988, demo).

  Thrill Seeker (1988, demo).

  Trap Crap (1988, demo).
  info: I think it's safe to assume that this one is the work of Trap'88?

  Z-Circle & Abnormal (1988, demo).

  Zealous (1988, demo).

  Hawkeye, The Rip (1988, 29.08, intro).
  review: A classic musicrip :) After a couple of brief introdocutory text
  screens (which you progress through by pressing the fire button of the
  joystick in port 1), you are launched into the main part - the loader
  picture from the game "Hawk Eye" by Thalamus, with full possibilities to
  mix the music. This feature was apparently also present in the game. The
  rip itself was done by Fist (on the 24th, 4 days prior to release), with
  (presumably) additional coding by Hero. The entire package is one single
  62 block file.
    The original graphics for the game were drawn by Jaco van T. Riet and
  Arthur van Jole. The music is by Jeroen Tel. [glenn]

  Indicator (1988, 08.10, demo).
  3rd in the Razor 1911, The Cartel and Abnormal demo competition.

  Bad Loosers (1989, demo).

  Cooool (1989, demo).

  Indicator (1989, demo).

  Intro Collection (1989, demo).

  Kinky (1989, demo).

  No Style (1989, demo).

  Waterproof (1989, demo).

  Welcome TBL (1989, demo).

  Seeker 7 (1989, demo).

  Seeker 8 (1989, 27.02, demo).
  Released for the demo competition at the Rawhead, Bros and Suppliers
  party. Also known as "Party-Seeker".

  The Unicorn (1989, 27.02, demo).
  code: Rocky, Buzz, ZTH, The Fist, gfx: Buzz (main), Power (chars), ZTH
  (chars), Tox/Dexion (chars), music: FIG, Johannes Bjerregaard/independent.
  Released for the Rawhead, Bros and Suppliers party demo competition.
  review: The Unicorn is a fair demo, with one part that stand a little out
  from the norm. That is the second part, with the multicolored chessboard
  travelling at you at high speed, and the slightly 'laidback' vertical
  scroll on top of it, was quite nice and original. Coding is fair, but
  nothing outstanding here, and graphics are also ok. Overall, this is a
  nice demo, if nothing exceptional.
    There is no exclusive music, and the music credits above are for the
  last two parts; In the first two no credit was given. The demo is a single
  file, containing 4 demopoarts. [glenn]

  The Unicorn II (1989, demo).

  Illegal (1989, 25.03, demo).
  code: Trap'88, Rocky, Power, ZTH, gfx: Power, Trap, Redstar/? (chars),
  Moonray/Rawhead (sprites), Blitz/2000 AD (logos), Unitrax/Oneway (logos),
  music: Cheyens (x2), Zagor/Horizon (exclusive!), JCH/Vibrants (x2), Rock/
  Finnish Gold, 711/?, Jeroen Tel/Maniacs of Noise, "Hunter's Moon" by Matt
  Gray, Johannes Bjerregaard/Upfront, "Fire Eagle Intro" by Soedesoft.
  Released for the demo competition at the Ikari and Zargon party.
  review: With a massive 14 parts, it's sort of a given that they're not all
  gonna be outstanding. Having said that, there are a few innovative parts
  worth noticing here. The first one that stands out is the second one, with
  its original and goodlooking take on the dots syndrome! Very colorful and
  nice. Other parts that stand out are the presumed record-breaking 55
  multiplex sprites (earlier held by Horizon with 52) and the picture
  stretcher on the x-axis - suitably dubbed the x-stretcher. Also the very
  last part looked nice, with lots of moving rasters. Trap coded most parts,
  with the other three throwing in a few. They seem to have no graphicians
  or musicians of their own, though some friends in other groups seem to
  have helped out with some of the graphics. Overall, this is quite an
  acceptable demo, with some highlights and (as usual) lots of filler parts.
  [glenn]

  Party Report (1989, 25.06, intro).
  code: ZTH, gfx: none, music: n/a.
  review: Well, this is just a text plotter, nothing more, announcing the
  results of the demo competition at the party they arranged with Hoaxers,
  Razor, Network and It in Trondheim, Norway. No credits are given for the
  music, so I can only assume it's ripped. The charset is the standard
  commodore one, only raster-ed in some. So in effect, this is a no-
  production, included here only for the sake of completeness. [glenn]

  Lame'n Lousy (1990, demo).


Abomination (ABM)
-----------------
In november of 1997, most members joined Damage.


Abyss
-----
USA> Changeling (code, 12/87-02/88), Doppleganger (crack, 01-02/88),
     Jimmy Z (sysop 'ABYSS HQ', 88), Longshot (import, 01-02/88), Raster
     Blaster (code, new 01-02/88), The Last Dragon (code import, 88), The
     Sorcerer (import, 88), Whiplash (01-02/88).

Boards; 'THE CONCENTRATION CAMP' (usa, 01/88).

  1989 - Toad and Mr.Stack (both ex Galaxy) left for Paramount in december,
after a brief stay.

  Hardcore (1988, 05.01, File).
  code: Changeling, gfx: see review, music: see review.
  review: What we have here is a six-part demo, entirely done by The
  Changeling. The graphics and music are all ripped, from games like IK+,
  Test Drive, Project: Stealth Fighter, Commando and Rampart. As you might
  expect, this doesn't offer a lot in terms of variation or fabulous
  graphics, but comes across as an early, fair demo. No frills, though.
  Raster Blaster was welcomed as a member in a part dated 04.01-88.
  [glenn]

  Hardrock (1988, File, 3 parts).
  code: Raster Blaster, gfx: uncredited, ripped, music: ripped.
  review: Though technically a demo, Abyss still persist in calling this a
  'music selector' due to the high amount of ripped music; none of which is
  credited. Design is nothing special, just average, and so is the code.
  [glenn]


Abyss Connection (AC)
---------------------
GER> Cruise (swap, 12/91), Per (Jens Nahrgang, swap, 03/92), Serge (Marco
     Mattick, swap, 12/91-02/92), The Mysterious Art (code, aka TMA, 01/92),
     Tanja (ex Effect, new 12/91).

TMA released an improved version of Abuze-Cruncher, V3.2.
  1991 - Reject and Lance were kicked in december.

Germans Elwood (code gfx) and Scum (gfx) joined WOW.


Accept (ACP)
------------
GER> Brownie (Matthias Heinz, 09/94), Gizmo (Stephan Heidel, swap, 95),
     Mr.Nobody (Daniel Schutz, swap, 01/95), Ned (swap, 09/94), Rorschach
     (Stefan Glueck, swap, 01/95).
POL> Meff (Sebastian Masilewski, code crack, 05/95).
???> TMM (code, 05/95), Mal (gfx, also in Black Code Design, 08/94).

TMM is also behind releasing the "Tools For Fools" disks.


Accuracy (ACY)
--------------
TUR> Axl (Murat Oktay, music), Falcon (Ali Fuat, swap, early91), Kadem
     (Kadem Aslan, code), Mr.DJ (Ufuk Metin, code), Sharp (Ozden Irmak,
     swap, 09/95).
SWE> Royal (gfx, 09/91), Snarl (sysop 'SKYLAB', 01-02/93).
GER> Lash (swap, 03/92).
AUT> Frib (gfx).
???> Stingray (tur? code), The Joker.

Accuracy was the name of an Amiga group, which also had Turkish members. Any
connection? DJ releases a series of tool disks for the group.
  1990 - Belgian swapper MMC (aka Mr. Merlin Cool) joined Giants in
december.
  1991 - The entire Turk section of Dualis joined early in the year, and
brought the magazine Garfield News, which later became Splash.


Accuse
------
Accuse was formed by Ream (code crack supply) from Triad, as a fun group. It
was likely closed when Ream moved on to Alpha Flight 1970 in the middle of
1994.


Acheron
-------
POL> Exact (Ryszard Bednarczyk, swap, 01/96), Mr.Plum (Pawel Sliwkiewicz,
     swap, 01/96).


Acid [old]
----------
???> Dean (ex Zoids, new 12/89).

  1989 - Dean/Zoids joined in december.


Acid [new] (1990-)
------------------
Acid was reformed around september by New-H (former member of original Acid)
and A-Man/Tropic, Jean, Jesus and Mavil/Lazer.


Acrise [old]
------------
GER> Exult (swap, 03/92), Mendrake (swap, 12/91).
BEL> Clive (swap, 02/92).
HOL> Merlin (Marco Mannink, swap, 03/92), Twynn (Ruud den Bekker, music).
SWE> Achilles (swap, 01/93), Exalt.
???> Crossfire (crack swap, ex Vision, new 02/92).

Acrise is a mainly German group.
  1991 - Acrise was rebuilt, and nearly all members of Crush joined in
december.
  1992 - Crossfire joined from Vision around february.
  1993 - Cracker, trainer and supplier Riddler (03/92) joined Active early
in the year. Tyunn (code music) left for Silicon Ltd. around september.


Acrise [new] (1995-, http://www.acrise.com)
-------------------------------------------
DEN> Truss (Kurt Pedersen, swap, 09/95-01/96).
???> Bordeaux (mainorg, ex Excess, new 95).

Acrise was rebuilt by previous member Bordeaux late 1995.


Acsore
------
GER> Exic (gfx, also in Excess, 07/97), Hogan (gfx, doublememb Reflex
     [details], 07/97), Sush (gfx, also in Excess, 07/97).

Acsore are a German graphician group, with doublemembers from several other
top groups, like Excess and Reflex.


Action (1989-1991)
------------------
GER> Gadget (crack gfx swap, 04/89-01/91), Spitfire (org crack, 11/90-
     06/91).

PREVIOUS MEMBERS (pre 01/91) -

???> DP (ex Aidon, new ca 09/89), TMM (crack, new 09/90).

Boards; CHANNEL ZERO (usa, also Empire, 11/90-08/91), SHANGRALI (also in
     Victims, 06/91).

Action was a German demo and cracking group, born in 1989, and run by their
main cracker Spitfire. German musician A-Man (01-06/91) joined Arcade.
  1989 - German Cyco (code gfx) was kicked around september, and DP/ex Aidon
joined around the same time. TWP was kicked in december, and subsequently
joined Nato.
  1990 - German swapper Macryf was busted late january for post faking, and
subsequently left the scene to avoid further trouble. German coder and
cracker Jihad joined from Vision late january, after being pursuaded by
Spitfire to join. Marcus joined from Alpha Flight around february. He left
again around may, now after disagreements with the same Spitfire. Jihad
built his own group, called Hitmen. German graphician and swapper Accu left
in july, changed his handle to Public Enemy and joined Flash Inc. Cracker
TMM joined around september.
  1991 - The group was in importing and fixing partnership with NEI in
january. German Xox changed his handle back to Airwolf and left for
Paramount in january - which must be wrong, since Airwolf was definitely a
member in june!?. At least in june, the group was in importing partnership
with Empire. Oxyron's "Pravda #9" [12/91] reported that the group was now
dead. German crackers Crisp (90-06/91) and Hok (01-06/91) disappeared from
the scene, but reappeared in august 93 as members of RSI!


Action Force
------------
Finnish musician Flex joined Byterapers.


Active ([A], http://active.c64.org)
-----------------------------------
SWE> Injun Inc. (11/92), Riddler (Erik Lehto, crack train supply swap, ex
     Acrise, new early93-01/95), Stash (supply, ex Epic, new 05/93), Surfer
     (crack swap, 91-06/93), Thrasher (code crack train, new 12/91-11/92),
     Trident (Adam Dunkels, music, 08/97), Violator (supply).
HUN> Artlace (code music, also in Lethargy, new 09/93-08/97).
???> Defcon (11/92), Dexter (11/92), Doctor X (11/92), Viper (crack train,
     11/92).

Active are a Swedish cracker and demo group.
  1993 - Swedes Stash (supply, ex Epic) and Walker (ex Light) both joined in
may, but Walker quickly moved on to Genesis Project instead.

  Better Late Than Never (1997, 22.08, Filedemo).
  code/gfx: Artlace, music: Trident, ???/X-Rated.
  3rd in the AntiQ 97 demo competition.
  review: This is an ok little dentro from the swedes in Active, just a
  shame there's not more of it. It's primarily there to show off a rather
  impressive, though small, vector routine. The main part of the dentro has
  nice, minimalist design with a small Active logo in the bottom right
  corner, and a black 'window' of sorts in the top middle, in which all the
  vector stuff is shown. The routine does all the usual stuff, as well as an
  interesting extra: It can do glenz vectors too! I've never seen those on a
  c64 before... The music for the main part is also worth a mention. [glenn]


Actual Cracking Entertainment (ACE)
-----------------------------------
GER> Coco Industries (mainorg crack, ex Hotline, 09/87-03/88), Falcon,
     American Fighter.
NOR> Firkin (crack, 02-03/88), Gene (02-03/88), Smash (03/88).
???> Dr.Strange (aka DRS, 02-03/88), Soft Tiger Crew (03/88), Han Solo (new
     02/88), Zero-Cat (02-03/88).

Actual Cracking Entertainemnt (ACE) was a cracking group, formed around
september of 1987 by Coco Industries from Hotline. The group had two strong
sections; in Germany and in Norway. Soon after its forming, the original
members were joined by previous members of The Magic Circle (MCL). TPI/
Beastie Boys joined too, but left soon after with two of the members from
MCL.
  1988 - February saw the departure of Silents, as well as the joining of
Han Solo.


Actual Trading Generation (ATG)
-------------------------------
HOL> Baby-Joe (Willy Voesten, gfx write, aka BBJ, 03/90), Floyd (Yves
     Vrancken, swap, 09-10/90), Jack (swap, 03/90), SPC (Paul Kessel, code
     write, 03/90).
GER> 3DK (editor, ex Orion, old handle Slime, new 02-08/90), Jack Daniels
     (editor, ex Orion, new 02-03/90).

PREVIOUS MEMBERS -

???> Trax (gfx, later The Ruling Company).

Actual Trading Generation was a dutch-based demo group.
  1990 - The diskmag "Corruption #1" [03/90] was released, and announced
a.o. Baby-Joe stopping swapping to concentrate on graphics and the joining
of Jack Daniels and Slime from Orion. Slime changed his handle to 3DK around
august.
  1991 - TTT left, and joined Dominators under his new handle Grizzly Adams.

  Corruption #1 (1990, .03, Diskmag).
  INT - code: SPC, gfx: MSI (char), Trax/The Ruling Company (corruption
        logo), Scrap/Genesis Project (atg logo), music: Maniacs of Noise.
  MAG - code: Einstein, gfx: Baby-Joe, music: "Myth" by Maniacs of Noise,
        editors: Jack Daniels (main), Slime (main), SPC, BBJ.
  review: After a passable but ultimately uninteresting intro, we are
  presented with a magscreen that is a little cluttered imho. Everything
  (including an irritating moving logo) is located on a single screen - the
  article selection tool, the actual reading section and even a small
  graphical display on the left hand side of the screen. Actually, that is a
  pretty nifty idea; there is an animated picture of an alien or something
  on top, and below that is the name of the current article - f.i. Charts.
  I do believe this was the first time this was ever done. Control is by
  joystick only. The entire design is pretty ... blue. :)
    Editorially, the mag is nothing extraordinary at all, but seems well-
  written, and the english is for once not irritatingly bad ;) There is
  nothing extra to read in this first issue, really, you get the normal
  sections that is present everywhere - editorial, news & rumours, charts,
  interview (Charles Deenen/Maniacs of Noise), reports (this time a cruncher
  test and the story about the death of the new Orion), sex story (most
  useless chapter ever, anyone?), wanted (contact addresses) and reactions.
  The release date is a mystery, since no indication is given anywhere in
  the mag itself of anything but the year of release. However, they have
  voted Crest's "Mac Donalds Restaurant" [02/90] as demo of the month, abd
  mention at the very end of the last chapter that 'the next issue will be
  spread in venlo april', so we estimate march.
    News that Beatmachine had joined 20CC was incorrect. We're also unsure
  about the news that 'Gunnar' left Blasters for Fairlight, as we have been
  unable to verify a member with that name in FLT. Oh, and the news about
  Play Power (PP) changing his handle and joining Shape was repeated twice
  :) The mag comes in a total of 9 files, totalling 268 blocks. [glenn]


AEK Crackware Essen 2099
------------------------
AEK were an early cracker group based in Essen, West Germany.


Agile
-----
SWE> Elric (swap, 02/89), Fangoria (06/88), Injun (crack, 06/88), Syncro
     (02/89), Trinity (code, 06/88).
USA> TWG (sysop?)

Agile was a sweden-based cracking group, active in at least 1988 and 89.


Agnus
-----
POL> Yoshi (Daniel Andrzejewicz, code).


Agony Design
------------
POL> Druid (Robert Kan, code, also in Avantgarde, 07/95-01/96), Glut (Partyk
     Dawidziuk, swap, 09/94-09/95), Moog (Sebastian Bachliñski, music, 07-
     09/95), Morris (Pawel Pawlak, code, 06/94-09/95), Sailor (Mirek
     Giecewicz, gfx swap, 07-09/95), Shogoon (Wojciech Radziejewski, music,
     07-09/95), Techno (Wojtek Wrona, swap, also in Fatum, 01/95).
GER> Dr.Kaos (Martin Ritcharsky, swap, 07-09/95), Pat (Patrick Schimpke,
     swap, 07-09/95).
HUN> Trooper (Balazs, swap, also in Atlantis, 11/94-07/95).
???> Astaroth (gfx paperart, aka AST, 07-09/95), Chash (swap, 09/95),
     Comanche (pol? gfx, 07/95-97), Digger (gfx, 07-09/95), Explorer (pol?
     Adam Kazmierski, code, 09/95), Hornet (09/95), Inco (code, new 01-
     09/95), Jetan (gfx, 07-09/95), Owen (gfx, ex Triad, new 09/94-09/95),
     Roder (gfx, also in Reflex, 07-09/95), Skyle (gfx, aka SKL, 07-09/95),
     Sliver (gfx, 07-09/95), Sonor (09/95), Stone (gfx paperart, ex Charged,
     new 01-09/95), Viper (gfx, 07/95).

Agony is a mainly Polish demo group, organised by Druid. The group's
official 'sign' is a square. Druid has coded several utilities, including
"Professional Graphics Shower" V0.4" and "Alternative Cruncher 1.1" and 2.0.
Explorer's dos routines, QDOS, are among the most commonly used on the scene
for loading and saving! Morris made the popular NoteMaker tool "OctaNoter".
  1995 - Druid left his second group Chromance around january, and instead
F4CG took this place in his scene life. Inco (code), Stone/Charged (gfx),
Compod/Charged (music) joined, while Scarlet got kicked - all around
january. August/September saw the recruitment of swapper Chash, while Polish
musician Compod (Roman Majewski) left the group. Druid and Moog both ended
their involvement with music label Amorphis. Druid instead became a
doublemember of Avantgarde, while Roder will do double duty in Reflex from
now on.

  Love (1995, 11.07, Trackmo).
  code: Druid, Inco, KM/Taboo (loader), gfx: Astaroth, Comanche, Jetan,
  Roder, Digger, Skyle, music: Shogoon.
  Winner of the 4x4 Puke party demo competition!
  review: The Polish coders in Agony show us how true design is achieved on
  small platforms... This demo has surely had a lot of attention put into
  its linking of parts - and coming away from it, you remember the links and
  the graphics better than you do the actual effects. This doesn't matter
  tremendously though, as you still come away with a positive feeling. This
  group has a lot going for it, and their graphicians are certainly second
  to none! The mind boggles at what a really technically advanced coder
  could do with these graphicians... Shogoon's music is pretty good (I
  especially favour the 'the end' music), but perhaps not so fitting to a
  production to this, that would have benefitted from more energic tunes.
  A great demo, nonetheless.
    When first starting the demo, you are given the choice of pressing
  either 1 (demo) or 2 (note). The welldesigned note was coded exclusively
  for this demo by Colabor/Vermes with additions by Druid, and featuring
  graphics by Sliver (amazing super hires pic on the left side of the
  screen) and Skyle (fonts). The music is by Shogoon. The demo uses TurboDos
  by KM/Taboo, and occupies two entire disksides, with a nonstandard
  filesystem. We do not know what (if any) party this was released at, but
  there were quite a few parties in Poland this year, and it does seem
  unlikely that such an elaborate demo was not released at a competition.
  Reviews of this demo was presented in a.o. Excess' "Nitro #19" [12/95].
  [glenn]

  Gravity 97 Invitation (1997, File).
  code: Inco, gfx: Comanche, music: n/a.
  review: This comes across as a very clean, very professional invitation.
  The left hand side is occupied with a very nice B&W graphic with a Gravity
  97 logo, and the rest is occupied for the text. At the bottom of the
  screen are two icons, up and down, and you move a cropsshair with your
  joystick over one of them, and press fire to scroll the text. The
  proportional font is clean and readable. Very nice. [glenn]


Ahead
-----
Ahead were an Austrian group. At one time one of their members managed to
draw a logo forgetting one of the letters in the group's name!
  1989 - Jacky and Aacon (ex Wild Boys members left to form Brave [no entry]
in december.


Air Design
----------
ITA> Zagor (swap, 10/90).


Airwolf Team (AWT, -1995)
-------------------------
GER> Courage (late94), Lightside (swap, late94), Mac Guyver (late94), Razor
     Ramon (Gunther Stadelmann, swap, late94).

Airwolf Team died in (mid?) 1995. Some of its members (a.o. Gonzo) formed a
new group called Cascade, which unfortunatel died almost immediately. Most
of their members later formed DMAgic, and are also behind the magazine GO64!
  1994 - MHD and Lyon joined Feniks late94.


Akrak
-----
  1990 - Scorpio left the group for Science 451 in july.


Albion Bros (ALB, http://biotop.umcs.lublin.pl/~ptracz/)
--------------------------------------------------------
POL> Dr.Soft (Krysztof Kwacz, swap, 09/95-01/96), Fisher (Michael
     Plaszynski, swap, 01/95), KMEG (Piotr Tracz, aka KaeMEGie, swap,
     95-03/98), Worm (Adam Dzuvian, swap, 01/96).
???> Questor, Stilgar, Yap (code, 95).

Albion Bros (often referred to as just Albion) is a polish demo group.
Yap coded the NoteMaker utility NoteYaper (95). The group is dead now.
Thanks to previous member Unlock (now in Padua) for help! :)


Alcoholics, The (-1991)
-----------------------
GER> Citizen (code), Crime De'sign (gfx swap), Flexible (swap, 01/91).
???> Jity (ex Babygang, new 12/89).

  1989 - Jity joined from Babygang in december.
  1991 - TBB joined Presence in december, meaning Alcoholics are dead on the
c64.

  1990 (1990, Demo).


Alpha Flight 1970 [old] (AFL'70)
--------------------------------
GER> Frankie Double Team 2100 (code, aka FDT), Marc (swap crack edit,
     11/89), Tom (edit, 89).
???> B-Man (new 02/90), Christian (crack, ex Manowar, new early91), Cronos
     (ex Warboy/Red Sector Inc., new 11/89), Glenn (ex Madman/Red Sector
     Inc., new 11/89), Headhunter (new 02/90), Martin (crack, ex Manowar,
     new early91), Mike (new 02/90), Scorpio (ex Alpha Flight 1970, new
     08/90), The Gothic Man (code, 12/87), The Sky (ex Alpha Flight 1970,
     new 08/90), TMB (ex Byterapers, new 09/89).

Boards; THE PHANTOM GUILD (usa, new 11/89).

AFL'70 was originally a German demo and cracking group, consisting of
members like later Amiga legends Frankie Double Team (FDT). The Gothic Man
wrote the Alpha Flight crack intro editor.
  1989 - New American board, THE PHANTOM GUILD. TMB joined from Byterapers
around september. Dirk was caught from the police around september, and
about 250 floppies were seized.
  1990 - Marcus left for Action, Ralf was kicked out, while B-Man,
Headhunter and Mike joined, all around february. Powell left the group in
may. Sky'n'Ass and Tom Taylor both left for Paramount, while Scorpio and The
Spy joined from Alpha Flight 1970 around august.
  1991 - Cracker duo Martin and Christian joined from Manowar early this
year.

  Relax #1 (1989, .09?, Diskmag).
  code/gfx/music: n/a, editors: Tom, Marc.
  review: Just a single file and 50 blocks, but this very first edition of
  Relax manages to cram in quite a bit of info anyway. In addition to the
  usual news, rumours and charts, there is also an interview with Ross/
  Sphinx, and little else. They do promise more for the next issue, so let's
  see... The outfit is really basic, and the selection method of the 10
  different articles (most just say 'more next issue!') is mildly
  irritating. The "Relax" logo at the top of the screen with sparkles is ok,
  though. The music is a cover version of "The Look" by Roxette, done by
  SOMEONE in afl (according to text in the memory). There doesn't seem to be
  ANY credits in the mag, apart from the names of the two editors. Oh well,
  perhaps they did it all then :) The logo is signed "Tpa".
    The release date is, as usual :), little more than a guess. It is based
  on information within the mag of an upcoming party in late october 1989.
  They do mention the mag will be released on the third saturday of every
  month. [glenn]


Alpha Flight 1970 [new] (AFL'70, 1993-, http://www.afl1970.net)
---------------------------------------------------------------
GER> Chotaire (music, 09/95-12/97), Chrysagon (12/97), Danzig
     (12/97), Eco (12/97), Ignorance (crack, 09/95-12/97), Marc (org write,
     09/94-12/97), Rayden (Patrick Zeh, code gfx music, also in Chalice,
     also in Breeze and Cyberpunx 06/99, 05/96-12/97), Skinhead (Jochen
     Ehlers, crack hack trade, old handle Supreme, 08/93-12/97), Xerox (gfx
     sysop 'THE ESCAPADE' EHQ, ex Excess, new mid94-12/97).
N-L> Styx (Jurgen Mol, org swap, 09/94-12/97).
POL> ALG (12/97), Archangel (ex Vermes, new 01/96-12/97), Baldhead (code,
     12/96-12/97), Wizard (music, 12/96-12/97).
ENG> Derbyshire Ram (crack supply, ex F4CG, also in Remember, new 12/97).
SCO> Caledonian (12/97).
NOR> Zapotek (Sveinung Bergkvist, swap, later Axelerate, 09/95-12/97).
SWE> Violator (12/97).
USA> Rug Rat (sysop 'EDGE OF MIDNIGHT' WHQ, 12/97).
???> Argos (12/97), Chash (12/97), Goldhand (12/97), Lynchbit (12/97), Mad
     Hatter (12/97), nd! (04/03), Ned (12/97), The Heretic (12/97), Zatt
     (12/97).

Boards; ANTIDOTE (swe, 12/97).

PREVIOUS MEMBERS (pre 12/97) -

GER> Agressor (09/94-01/95), Arne (Arne Puszelski, music, new 93-12/95),
     Case (phreak, new 08/93), Dark (09/94), Dr.Disk (new early93), Honesty
     (09/94-01/95), Jack Alien (crack, ex X-Rated, new early93), Leeway
     (09/94), Max (crack, 91-01/96), Pha Q (01/95), SecretMan (trade supply,
     re, 09/94-01/95), Skid Row (code crack fix gfx trade, 09/94-01/96),
     Starkiller (swap, 09/94), The Sys (91-mid94).
ENG> Shuze (Paul, code crack swap, 09/95-01/96).
POL> Blaze (crack swap, also in Galicya, new 09/95), Titanic (Roman
     Jedlecki, swap, 01/95).
HOL> Ream (Jorgo van Osch, code crack, ex Accuse, new mid94-01/96).
SWE> Stash (09/94).
USA> Ancient Mariner (sysop 'THE EVIL ISLAND', ex Chromance, new 09/94-
     01/96), Pol Pot (sysop 'HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA' WHQ, ex Arcade, new
     mid94-01/96).
???> Amuze (crack, 95), Avalanche (ex T'Pau, new 05/93), Bizarre (09/94),
     Centaurion (crack, ex Charged, new mid94-09/94), Cryonic (01/96),
     Curlin (ger? crack, ex Motiv8, new 09/94-01/95), Darius (09/94),
     Diamond (09/94), Flash (ger? code gfx, new 01/96-01/97), Hawk (code, ex
     Presence, new mid-09/94), Leader (code, ex Hysteric, new mid-09/94),
     Mario (leader founder, 09/94), Menace (founder, new early93), Mercenary
     (01/96), Murphy (09/94-09/95), Peacemaker (ger? crack, ex Motiv8, new
     09/94-01/95), Pernet (ger? music, 12/96-01/97), Racoon (ger? ex Motiv8,
     new 09/94-01/95), Spider (09/95), Vortex (ger? ex Motiv8, new 09/94-
     01/95), Xenox (01/95-01/96).

AFL'70 was reborn for real at the CeBit meeting in Germany, in the first
half of 1993. Earlier in the year, Airwolf/Success released a few cracks
under the AFL'70 name as a joke. Their old leader Mario took back the
reins.
  1993 - Rough was a member for approximately two months. Avalanche joined
from T'Pau in may. Icarus joined from Red Sector in may, only to leave the
scene a few days later. Link was kicked out of the group in august, after he
supplied the group with the original of "Rings'n'up" which proved to be a
rerelease and not a new game. German phreaker Case joined, also in august.
Stephen (ex Triumwyrat, new early93) left for Epic in september, and started
cracking again. Natas got kicked in october, when they also told that
rumours that Sting had returned to the scene were false.
  1994 - Around the middle of the year, Ancient Mariner (sysop of their WHQ
'THE EVIL ISLAND') joined Chromance, but they were soon reinforced with the
old Arcade board 'HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA'. They alse recruited their new EHQ
'ESCAPADE' from Excess around this time. German graphician RRR decided to
end his double membership, and be in Oxyron only. German Ramirez left for
Talent. In september Peacemaker, Racoon, Vortex and Curlin all joined from
Motiv8. In addition that month, dutch swapper Spectator left for SCS-TRC,
Supreme renamed back to Skinhead, and Ancient Mariner returned from his stay
in Chromance with 'THE EVIL ISLAND'. Mutant-X joined around december.
  1995 - American Mutant-X was kicked out again after a very brief stay
around january. Cracker and swapper Blaze joined from Xenon (by way of a
very brief membership in Chromance) around september. He will stay in
Galicya as his second group. Max and Marc were both forced to reduce their
activities, due to new educational duties. This means Styx is now the new
co-leader together with Marc. Chotaire's board 'THE PIRATE ISLAND' got
formatted, and will not go online again. Chotaire sold his bbs equipment.
Pol Pot's 'HOLIDAY INN CAMBODIA' is also down, since Pol Pot is working on
his own C*Base mod, and will hopefully go up again soon. Ancient Mariner is
about to reopen 'THE EVIL ISLAND' too, after his accident a while back.
Skinhead is set to join the army in october, in which time Ignorance will
take over the role as main cracker.
  1996 - Former leader Skid Row returned to the group and the scene,
Archangel/Vermes joined to form a new Polish section, Flash (code gfx)
joined and finally Rick/ex Paramount returned to the scene and will serve as
a swapper - all around january.
  The demo "Getoese" by Rayden was planned for release at The Party
96 in december, but they missed the deadline and was unable to participate
in the competition.
  1997 - The end of january finally saw the release of Rayden's "Getoese"
[01/97] demo. Dutch Calypso (code crack swap supply, 01/95-) left late in
the year, and is now probably only in Amnesia. Chotaire returned to active
membership around november-december! Englishman Derbyshire Ram also joined
the group from F4CG around this time. He decided to keep his double
membership in Remember.

  Getoese (1997, 31.01, Multiload Demo, 1 diskside).
  code: Rayden, Baldhead (additional), gfx: Rayden (main), Cyclone/Abyss
  (title, santa anim), Flash, music: "Intro", "Majik" and "Powerful" by
  Wizard, "Wizardry'96" by Rayden and "The End Tune" by Pernet.
  review: The main problem with "Getoese" is its pacing; the irq loader
  simply doesn't take us to the next part fast enough to maintain our
  interest in the demo. Which is a shame really, since this is a nice little
  production with some interesting effects and some excellent design here
  and there. Especially the introductory credits sequence had my hopes up,
  since it has a simple but effective and attractive design. After this we
  get to Cyclone's cool title picture (which was previously used in Abyss'
  "DisIsSid III - Getoese" on the amiga!). Then we come to an interesting
  effect; a fullscreen picture by Rayden of a muscular man, perhaps a
  gladiator, has some plasma effects overlaid to nice effect. Then a cool
  dissolve to Flash's B&W hires pic "Breathe With Us" before we are taken to
  the next effect a 512-dot dottunnel. Then another fullscreen pic by Rayden
  appears, "The Tiger" (with which he finished 11th at The Party 96), hardly
  his best. Next is a sort of blocky shaking plasma part, nicely executed.
  Another variation on the pic-with-plasma effect comes next, but the first
  instance was much more successfull. No author is credited for this picture
  of a sunset, but it's likely by Rayden. Then comes a grey screen with a
  b&w partly jigsawed picture of a naked woman on the right hand side, and
  some text in german on the left. The second-to-last effect is a big Tut-
  Ankh-Amon pic scrolled up and down the screen, quite a pointless part
  really, before the big text saying THE END.
    The demo comes with a selfcoded, simple noter by Rayden with some more
  precise credits and additional information. The demo was originally to
  have been released at The Party 96, where they narrowly missed the
  deadline, and was instead released at the end of january 97 - likely
  outside of any party. [glenn]


Altobrows
---------
Swedish coders Dino and Rowdy joined Fairlight (probably late 89 or january
90), so the group died without ever releasing a single thing.


Ambush
------
  1996 - Swedes MacX and Punisher both doublejoined Equinoxe in january.


Amnesia (AMN, 1990-)
--------------------
HOL> Calypso (Terry Wntinck, crack gfx swap, ex also in F4CG, Silicon,
     Alpha Flight 1970, 01/93-12/97), Dr. Will (05/93), Light (05/93), Riggs
     (05/93), Seal (05/93), Viking (05/93), Wizvis (05/93).
GER> Bizarre (also in Trance, 12/92-05/93), Firefly (new 02-05/93), Slayer
     (05/93).
FIN> Radical (ex Wrath, also in Astral, new 02-05/93).
DEN> O'Neill (music, ex Starion, new 12/90).
???> Artix (ex Success, new 09/93).

Amnesia was formed in december of 1990 by danish musician O'Neill, formerly
from Starion. The group also features other ex-Starion members.
  1992 - Bizarre joined Amnesia as his second group (he is also in Trance)
in december.
  1993 - Calypso changed groups from F4CG to Topaz Beerline in january, all
the while retaining his double membership in Amnesia. Firefly joined from
Vagabonds around february. Radical joined from Wrath around februrary, and
joined Astral as his second group in may. Calypso finished his army service
in may. Artix joined from Success in september.
  1997 - Calypso left his second group Alpha Flight 1970 late in the year.


AMOK
----
DEN> Drax (Thomas Mogensen, music, ex Nato, new late89-01/90), JO (Jesper
     Olsen, music, 88-06/90).
GER> OMG (Oliver, swap ex-editor, 04/89-12/90), Volker (code, 06-12/90), Yup
     (ex Offence, new 06/90).
NOR> Zero The Hero (Haavar Hojem, aka ZTH, ex Abnormal, later Panoramic
     Designs, new late89).
HOL> Hein Design (gfx, later Blackmail, 06-12/90).
???> Atomic (new 09/89), Bandit (new 09/89), Burp (new 06/90), Chris (code
     gfx, 04/89-01/90), The Judge (ex Tropic, new 02/90).

Amok is best known as the group that released the popular diskmag,
"Sex'n'Crime". It was released every month, normally at the legendary Venlo
meetings, until the 21st and final issue in december 1990. They had a german
subgroup called Future Technologies.
  1989 - Atomic and Bandit joined around september. They were seriously
reinforced late in the year, when they were joined by Drax/Nato, Stone/
Bonzai and the entire group 20CC (as a subgroup)! This didn't last long
though, as 20cc left again in december to exist on their own once again.
  1990 - The Judge/Tropic joined around february. "Sex'n'Crime #26" reported
that Stone (ex Bonzai) had sold his computer and left the scene, that Jesper
Olsen was back on active duty for Amok, and that Yup and Burp had joined the
group. Vibrants musicians JCH and Link left the collaboration around june.
  1991 - The subgroup Powerzone (mainly Spook from Germany) was kicked out
in january.

  Sex'n'Crime #2 (1989, .04, Filemag).
  code: Chris, gfx: Chris, music: JO, editor: OMG.
  review: No fuss with this mag; just grab your joystick and start reading!
  Seriously, the top of the screen has a pretty cool green logo going from
  side to side, with a little text on top, and the rest of the screen is
  occupied by the text area. The way SnC works, you can scroll through the
  entire text with up/down on your joystick, or jump to specific chapters
  with left/right. A nice idea really, and it works well. Editorially this
  issue most interestingly contains a minireport from the Ikari and Zargon
  party and an interview with Scrap/Contex. [glenn]

  Sex'n'Crime #10 (1989, 23.12, Filemag).

  Sex'n'Crime #11 (1990, .01, Filemag).
  INT - code: Chris, gfx: Vip (logo), Chris (logo, charset), music: Thomas
        Mogensen.
  WRI - Volker, gfx: Chris (charset), music: Vibrants.
  MAG - Volker, gfx: Hein Design/Density (logo), OMG (charset), music:
        Jesper Olsen, editor: OMG.
  review: Preceded by first an intro, then a small note explaining some of
  the in-mag keys, this 11th issue of SnC is not much different from the
  others. This is, apparently, the second issue with a new code, and some
  problems from the first issue have been cleaned out. The editorial content
  is the usual stuff, as well as an interview with game graphician Thomas
  Heinrich/X-Ample. [glenn]

  Sex'n'Crime #16 (1990, late.06, Filemag).
  INT - code: Volker, gfx/music: Authentic Arts.
  MAG - code: Volker, gfx: Hein Design, music: Jesper Olsen, editor: OMG.
  Released at the Venlo meeting.
  review: Another issue of SnC, by now you pretty much know what you're
  getting... Lots of news, a small interview with Raistlin/Genesis Project,
  who has now left the scene, and an OK intro with nice graphics and music
  by independents Authentic Arts. [glenn]

  Sex'n'Crime #21 (1990, 22.12, Filemag).
  code: Volker, gfx: Hein Design (main), Bizzmo/Genesis Project (girlface),
  music: ???/Artline Designs (intro, uncredited!), music: Jesper Olsen
  (main), editor: OMG. Released at the Venlo Meeting.
  review: The last ever issue of S'n'C opens with an ok, but standard intro.
  Pressing space brings up a good fullscreen picture of a girl's face, done
  by Bizzmo/Genesis Project. We have to press space once again to be taken
  to the actual mag. Now, I have never been a big fan of S'n'C's control
  system; it's clearly a first generation solution. The graphics are little
  more than functionable, and the mag's contents is loaded with extreme
  aggression. It's not so much a case of writing about the scene as a venue
  for telling other people how lame they are. And let's be frank, that
  doesn't really add up to a lot of enjoyable reading for any outsider.
  There's not much meat on the bones here. There are also no real 'articles'
  except for the introduction piece; this mag is made up of news and
  adresses. Not all that interesting. [glenn]


Amorphis
--------
POL> Compod (Roman Majewski, music).

  2003 - Cleve died early this year. Details are unknown.

  Galaxy II (2003, late, graphics collection).


Anarchy
-------
HUN> AMN (Tony Bertok, gfx, later Resource, 08/97-12/98).

  1998 - AMN released the picture "Hellraiser" for the graphics competition
at TP98, but was unplaced. The picture itself was a conversion of
Cougar/Sanity's famous "Dog" picture from the amiga, and was presented with
a ripped piece of music from legendary game composer Rob Hubbard.


Ancient Temple, The see The Ancient Temple
------------------------------------------


Angry
-----
  The Tribune (1995, .09, Diskmag).


Antic (1989-, http://www.awesume.se/scene/)
-------------------------------------------
SWE> Bagsy (Magnus Lindberg, code swap, early91), Baltzar, Creeper (Kim
     Nordström, gfx, ex Flash Inc., new 05-12/93), Depeh (Goran Johansson,
     code swap editor, 06/90-09/93), Incubus (Robin Forsberg, swap write,
     02/92), Jason (Ulf Andersson, crack swap sysop, 89-91), Joe (gfx, later
     Wrath Designs, 08-12/93), Jordan (Micke Johansson, code sysop 'SUBWAY',
     also in Flash Inc, 02/93), Probe (Rahel Azad, code crack), Sky (code,
     ex Virus, new 07/90), Star (Ulf Hagström, gfx swap write), Trash
     (code), Twix (ex Virus, new 07/90), Ufo (ex Zyrox, new 06/90), Xor
     (Daniel Färnkvist, org trade writer, 06/90), Zealot (gfx, 07/90), Zyron
     (Johan Åstrand, code music swap, also in Swemix and The Remembers,
     08/93-12/94).
GER> Andre (also in Oxyron, early93).
???> Eliz (ex Gothic Design, new early93), Jakob (music, new 06/90), Trash
     (new 03/91).

Antic is a demo group based in Sweden, formed by Jason, Spirou/Zyrox, Xor
(Spirou's neighbour) and a few others in 1989. Baltzar was Jason's brother.
  1990 - After recruiting the group The Mob, Explorer became an Antic mag,
and "Explorer #2" [06/90] was released in june. The Mob then ceased to be a
group in its own right entirely, and all members became full Antic members.
The demo "Ethic" was released, followed by "Explorer #3" [07/90], which
announced that there were now 12 members in the group. Before the release of
"Explorer #4" [08/90], The Lord/Cicen and Bom tried to form a new group with
Twix/Virus. This didn't work out, and consequently The Lord joined Impact,
Twix joined Antic and Bom remains groupless. Additionally, also Sky (code)
joined from Virus.
  1991 - Trash joined in march. Swedish swapper Jason left the group th do
his military service in august.
  1992 - Swedish organizer and cracker Spirou left for Fairlight.
  1993 - Swedish swapper Incubus joined Triad early 93. Swedish top
  graphician Creeper joined from Flash Inc. in may. Depeh was busted for
stamp faking around june, but will not stop swapping. Zyron's "Music-
Collection #17" [08/93] was released in august, and within Zyron told the
world that he was only two months removed from his 8-month army service.
He did however manage to push out the first issue of his new music
collection series before he left; "Opera Omnia #1" [09/93].

  Explorer #2 (1990, 10.06, Filemag).
  INT - code/gfx: Depeh, music: TGD/Royalty.
  MAG - code: Depeh, gfx: Rainman/Royalty (logo), Depeh (char), music: TGD/
        Royalty, editor: Depeh (main), Bom, P-Jay/Royalty, Xor.
  review: This is the second issue of Explorer, and the first to be released
  under the label of Antic. The first issue was under the label of The Mob,
  and this one also is... kind of. Since last time, The Mob has become a
  subdivision of Antic, their 'magdivision', as they write inside. This
  means all previous members of The Mob are now also in Antic, and all
  subsequent issues are to be considered Antic releases.
    Ok, with that cleared up, we can start reviewing the mag then! After the
  intro, which is exactly like the one from the first issue (except for the
  music), we enter a mag that has undergone quite a few changes for the
  better since last time. First of all, there are now twice as many lines of
  text on each page, which is a big improvement. A new EXPLORER logo graces
  the top of the screen, and all sections of the mag also have their own
  sprites, displayed underneath the text while you read. Editorially the mag
  has also clearly improved, with a lot better material than last time.
  There are still some unecessary filler, like the 'interview with a lamer'
  (the interview with Jedi would have been interesting; this is not) and
  most of Bom's Corner. The control method is the same space or joy method
  as last time.
    I'd say this mag has matured greatly since the first issue in pretty
  much all aspects, and once they get a regular flow of interesting articles
  it's got potential to be among the better ones. It's still very much a mag
  for the swedish scene though, with little or no news from the rest of the
  world. The mag comes in a single 94 block file. [glenn]

  Explorer #3 (1990, .07, Filemag).
  INT - code: Depeh, gfx: Depeh, ???/Cosmos Designs (1x1 font), music:
        Drax/Vibrants.
  MAG - code: Depeh, gfx: Rainman/Royalty (logo), music: Link/Vibrants,
        editors: Depeh (main), Bom, Spirou, Ufo.
  review: More changes came with issue 3 of Explorer. Not only was the mag
  graced with a new intro, now that The Mob had ceased to be a group in its
  own right, but the magcode had also evolved - with even more changes
  promised for the next issue. It had now progressed to a point where it was
  quite good, in just three issues. Not many interesting articles were
  published this time either unfortunately, mostly news - but good signs
  were showing in that the content was gaining a more international flavour.
  The mag says in the intro it was released "week 29", which is roughly the
  end of july, isn't it? The release announces the joining of Ufo/Zyrox and
  Jakob.
    The mag comes in a single 91 block file. [glenn]

  Explorer #4 (1990, .08, Filemag).
  INT - code: Depeh, gfx: Depeh, ???/Cosmos Designs (1x1 font), music:
        Drax/Vibrants.
  MAG - code/gfx: Depeh, music: Drax/Vibrants, editors: Depeh (main), Jason,
        Xor, Spirou.
  review: The intro from the last issue is recycled here, and the credits
  remain the same. The mag itself, though, has undergone even more
  transformations since the last issue. The screeen is now split in three,
  so to speak. The bottom half is occupied by the text, which now looks a
  lot like reading an issue of Mamba - except thankfully there are no
  'amusing' animations within the text. The top half though is vertically
  split in the middle, where the left half has the article selector and the
  right part has a red Explorer logo moving left to right and back again...
  repeatedly =) It's not the most beautiful mag design in the world, but it
  works.
    This issue announces Bom's leaving the group, as well as Twix and Sky
  joining. The mag comes in a single 90 block file. [glenn]

  Up The Limits (1991, 01.04).
  Released at the Horizon Easter Party.

  Beyond Imagination (1991, 02.11, Demo).
  Released at the Jam Party.

  Lunacy V (1992, 19.04, Demo).
  3rd in the Easter Conference 92 demo competition.

  Lunacy 7 (1993, 30.05, Demo).
  3rd in The Computer Crossroads 93 demo competition.

  Music-Collection #17 (1993, 18.08, Filemusic).
  code/music: Zyron, gfx: Joe.
  review: Another collection of 10 tunes from Zyron, plus the one in the
  intro. Yes, the intro. Visually, this is the best part of this collection,
  with an actual logo from Joe and a nicely unusual font for the title. I
  also like the tune, so thumbs up all round for the intro. The collection
  itself, where you get to choose the tunes, save them to disk, fastforward
  or even show how much rastertime they occupy, is a lot more drab. It's
  actually just slightly better than a text-only display, with a real ugly
  2x2 font by an unknown artist chosen for a scroller and a title. Those
  tunes in full then, "The Gnome" (intro), "Mars Mission", "Meatballs",
  "Rain Forrest" (sic), "Lucky Strike", "Hallucinations", "Studioline!",
  "Calm Surface", "Potato Chips", "Colored Shape" and finally "Burning
  Candles". Actually, the tune "Calm Surface" contains a bug that manifests
  itself only on newer sids. A corrected version of this tune is included
  with an accompanying note, detailing the problem.
    The intro scroller in this collection announces it's the last one to be
  released under this name. Subsequent collections will bear the name "Opera
  Omnia", and the first edition of that series was released the following
  month. [glenn]

  Opera Omnia (1993, .09, Filemusic).
  code/music: Zyron, gfx: Joe.
  review: "OO" is a music collection, comprising 10 pieces of music from
  workaholic musician Zyron. The show opens with a simple yet effective
  intro sequence, highlighted by a good fullscreen OO title picture by Joe.
  The main part has an OO logo at the top of the screen, with the rest
  occupied by the list of songs. Features of the player includes the ability
  to turn on/off any of the three voices, fast forward, as well as the
  innovative feature of pressing RUN/STOP to save the current song to disk!
  The featured music pieces are "Funk-A-Duck", "The Quad", "Black Dreams",
  "Cottage Cheese", "Aching!", "Understand Me", "Tic-Tac-Toe", "Cotton
  Brain", "An Own Moon" and "Flesh & Blood". The music for the intro
  sequence is called "Shorted Hallucinations". No release date is mentioned
  anywhere in this production, what stands above is based on research. All
  the songs are dated (in memory), and they were all made in august and
  september 93 - the last one dated 11th september. What sticks in your mind
  after viewing this is unfortunately not Zyron's music - what it's SUPPOSED
  to showcase - but more Joe's good graphics. Nice but not essential.
  [glenn]

  Beyond Imagination 2 (1993, 28.12, Demo).
  Split 8th in The Party 93 demo competition.

  Lunacy 6 - The Lost Sequel (1994, 06.08, Demo).
  Released for the Assembly 94 demo competition, but unplaced.

  Dein Zycrex (1994, 28.12, Demo).
  4th in The Party 94 demo competition.

  Retroactive (1995, 28.12, Demo).
  code: Depeh, gfx: Creeper, music: Zyron.
  6th in The Party 95 demo competition.


Anubis (http://listen.to/anubis)
--------------------------------
  2001 - Exile's graphic collection "Exillent Pixels" was released mid to
late this year.

  Exillent Pixels (2001, mid to late, Slideshow).
  code/music: n/a, gfx: Exile.


Anxiety (1991-)
---------------
Anxiety is a swedish cracking group, born around march of 1991, with former
members of Paramount and Hitmen.


Apidya (APD, http://www.apidya.prv.pl)
--------------------------------------
???> A.D.Arvell (03/03), Any (03/03), Cobra (03/03), Doc of Desire (03/03),
     Drake (03/03), Frazes (03/03), Kiler (editor swap, 03/03), Rea (03/03),
     Reiter (mainorg music, 03/03), Snerg (03/03), Spider (03/03), Thorgal
     (03/03).

Apidya is a polish demo group, leader by Reiter.
  2003 - Even though a disagreement flared up between Reiter and Rea in the
early months of this year, it was cleared up and Rea stays in the group.
Kiler (previously independent) joined as a zine editor and swapper.


Arcade (-1993)
--------------
GER> Tyree (supply, early93)
???> Twilight (code).

Arcade was a German cracking group. After their death, german Joe Cool is
looking for a new group to join.
  1992 - Arcade were in cooperation with Deadline, under the name
Arcade and Deadline.
  1993 - Early in the year, swapper TBB joined Chromance and Darklord joined
Red Sector Inc. Germans Hok and A-Man (music, ex Action) joined Legend in
may.
  1994 - American sysop Pol Pot ('HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA') joined Alpha Flight
1970 around the middle of this year.


Arcade and Deadline
-------------------
ENG> NME (crack, later Illusion, 92).

The cooperation was announced in a crack intro from around mid 92. Their
american board 'LINK TO PERFECTION' was never really online.


Arcoss (ACS)
------------
HOL> Garth (Martijn van Beek, swap, 09/94-01/95), Torture (Marten Wiese,
     swap, 09/94-01/95).
GER> Donar (Jan Duettmann, swap, 95).
???> Sinister (Christian, gfx, also in Extacy and Entropy, 12/94).

Arcoss also released the diskmag Mendip.


Arise
-----
POL> Katon (Lukasz Gokbiewski, gfx, also in Lepsi De, 10-11/02), Turbosnail
     (Klaudiusz Sobolewski, swap, 95).
???> Bimber (gfx, 10/02), Fenek (code, 04/03), Sensei (code, 04/03).

Arise is a demo group.

  Deep Blue (Demo).

  Biba 2 (2002, 05.10, Demo).
  code: n/a, gfx: Katon, Bimber, music: n/a.
  Winner of the North Party v7.0!
  info: Reviewed in "Domination #17" and Oxyron's "Attitude #5".
  Katon's winning picture from North Party 7 is included in the demo.


Aristocracy (ARY, 1994-)
------------------------
USA> Asmodeus (09/94), Natas (09/94), Cyberad (09/94), Rug Rat (sysop 'EDGE
     OF MIDNIGHT', 09/94).

Aristocracy is an american fixer group born around september 1994. It was
formed on the ashes of the previous group PSi, with two boards from the
start, 'EDGE OF MIDNIGHT' (also supporting Chromance) and 'FORTRESS OF
DOOM'. They are mostly doing fixes for Chromance. The original six members
were Asmodeus, Natas, Styx, Cyberad, Rug Rat and Stablizer (who almost
immediately left).
  1994 - Stablizer left for Demonix around september. Styx left around
december, for Demonix.


Armageddon (1992-, http://www.liberty.com/~petars/armageddon/)
--------------------------------------------------------------
Boards; VIRTUAL REALITY WHQ (usa, also in TRC, new 05/93).

Armageddon is an american importing and fixing group, formed around february
1992 by Deadshot, Moloch, Gerky, Carcass, Zaldron and Technisis (sysop 'THE
BACKDOOR'). Soon after formation though, Deadshot, Gerky and Technisis left
again... and soon after Zaldron left for TSM, leaving the memberstatus at
just two members; Moloch and Carcass.
  1993 - Zarhan left, while VIRTUAL REALITY was recruited as the new WHQ in
may. After kicking their best fixer Massive joined Onslaught in august, the
group seem to be falling apart. Their remaining fixer, TWC, was also kicked
for not living up to expectations, Bambam got kicked, and later Moloch,
Carcass and Faust left.
  1994 - Moloch (code supply) joined F4CG in september.


Array [old] (1989-1989)
-----------------------
GER> TJ Lazer (swap, 03/89), Zeron (swap, 03/89).

Array was a shortlived german cracking and demo group, born early in the
year by Wolfman and Moonwalker/Tec and the best members of Hellcats. They
died after about half a year of existence. Most members then joined ATG,
Success and other groups. Freddy left to form Thrash.

  Array Is Born (1989, 18.02, File).
  code/gfx: Moonwalker, music: n/a (part 1), 20th Century Composers (20CC).
  review: This is a two-parter, with both parts being equally uninspiring.
  The first part declares the group Tec dead, while the second is just...
  boring :) AFAIK this is the only release Array ever made. [glenn]


Array [new]
-----------
  1991 - Teze left the scene in december, but Merlin and Exult will take
over his contacts.


Ars Publica
-----------
???> Alex (ex Cross, new 06/90).

  1990 - Alex joined from Cross around june.


Art Design
----------
Art Design was formed by Baracuda (who was also the main organizer). Among
the other members were Firefox (Guenter Dahmen, germany, code), Genetic,
Tatanka (Stephan Harloff, germany, swap), John Sinclair (Malte Take,
germany, swap) and a few others. After Baracuda left the group, Firefox took
over the organizing duties. Among their best productions, we find
"Hitmix1-3", "Greencard" and "Fun-Collection". Thanks to Jak T Rip for
information.


Artificial Intelligence Enterprises (AIE, 1986-)
------------------------------------------------
AIE was a two-man group, consisting of Andy and Magnum, born in december of
1996. The only sign of life we've ever seen from them is the intro preview
"Nothing Special" [12/86].

  Nothing Special (1986, 21.12, Intro).
  code/gfx/music: n/a.
  review: Wowsers. A screenful of text waving from side to side, and...
  that's it. No music, no real graphics. Apparently the font was ripped.
  Enough time wasted on this.
  [glenn]


Artline Designs (ALD, 1990-)
----------------------------
FIN> Antti Hannula (gfx music, 90), Antti Kangas (code, 90).

Artline Designs was formed by Flex (music), Apollyon, Scorpion (Antti
Kangas) and some others from Contex, after that group died. They were
presumably a finnish group. Flex did his last work for the group in 1992,
but never left. He resurfaced as a member of Scallop in 1999, still
retaining his double membership in ALD.

  Music-Pack (1990, Musicfile).
  code: Antti Kangas (musicroutine), gfx/music: Antti Hannula.
  review: This is a single-file compiation of nine pieces of music, and a
  one-screen affair. The overall impression is nevertheless quite nice, with
  a good logo at the top of the screen and various non-obtrusive
  colorcycling going on in the chars that occupy the rest. The music pieces
  are actually quite good, and Antti Hannula shows a good sense of melody
  and structure here.
    The music presented are "Quite Acid", "Superstitious", "Weekend",
  "Fanfarewell", "Conflex", "Artlight Zone", "Ghettoblaster", "Russian!" and
  "Wonderland". [glenn]


Art Project
-----------
German musician Sony (95) was later in Smash Designs.


Arts of Darkness (AOD, http://www.artsofdarkness.de, 2000-)
-----------------------------------------------------------
GER> Silver Fox (Marcus Hinzmann, mainorg, 06/00-).

Arts of Darkness was formed at the end of june 2000, as a german demoscene
group. Their main organizer is Silver Fox.


Ascraeus (ASC)
--------------
TUR> Madhead (Levent Delibas, code).
POL> Naphalm (code).
???> Aegis (code), Arcane (gfx), Ksin (gfx music).


Asphyxia (ASX, 1989-)
---------------------
POL> Anthrax (code gfx, 12/94), Chris (Krzysztof Gubala, code, new 08/92-
     12/94), Extern (music), Grisha (code music), Jane (code gfx music,
     12/94), Kruger (gfx, 12/94), Sudo (gfx, 12/94), Zyphar (gfx, 12/94).

Asphyxia is the oldest active c64 Polish demogroup, born in 1989 after three
groups (Deuter, Slaves Of Keyboard and Cruel Soldiers) fusioned into
Asphyxia. The group has a pet character, Hagar, which can be seen in some of
their demos. They used to have an ftp site at ftp://serek.arch.pwr.wroc.pl/
pub/ASPHYXIA, don't know if it's still there...
  1990 - The first megademo, "Gasping 4 Air", is released.
  1991 - The second megademo, "They Live", is released.
  1992 - Chris joined in august, from Parados Design. The third megademo,
"Nightmare" is released at Asphyxia's own party in Glogow, Poland.
  1993 - Chris is interviewed in Oxyron's "Skyhigh #2" [03/93]. The fourth
megademo, "Grave Story" [12/93], comes 4th in the demo competition at the
Antia and Elysium party.
  1994 - The group's fifth megademo, "From Beyond" [12/94] won the demo
competition at the Elysium party!

  From Beyond (1994, 29.12, Multifile Demo, 2 disksides).
  code: Chris, Jane, Anthrax, gfx: Jane, Anthrax, Kruger, Sudo, Zyphar,
  music: Jane, Extern. Winner of the Elysium Party demo competition!
  review: A very uneven demo from this polish group, but apparently it was
  enough to win a small polish party... It uses an irq loader to load all
  its parts, which range from cool to awful. It opens looking like it's
  gonna rock a lot, with a cool fli 'A' animation spinning on the screen,
  but sadly it doesn't manage to keep this cool opening up. Sometimes it
  presents cool parts, like the vectorcube with different shapes on all
  sides and even some convincing glenz, but the overall quality leaves a
  little to be desired. Graphics is also very uneven, from some downright
  bad work here and there to Jane's two facial portraits who are real works
  of art... Music is overall of acceptable but uneven in quality. [glenn]


Astra
-----
N-L> Atomic Design (Luciano Pinna, code music, 07/88), Fawaja (Frank
     Scheelen, code gfx, 07/88).

  Something About Music (1988, .07, File).
  code: Atomic Design (main), Fawaja, gfx: Fawaja, music: Atomic Design.
  review: The only plus this production receives is for originality; it
  presents music in a way much like the later classic "Music Dream"
  musicdisks by Phenomena on the Amiga. Only nowhere near as good. And the
  music sucks. And it takes forever to get started. You should be getting
  the picture by now, shouldn't you? [glenn]


Astral
------
FIN> Agemixer (Ari Yliaho, music, also in Atlantis, 08/94), Radical (also in
     Amnesia, new 05/93).
HUN> Speedy (Balazs Szücks, swap, 03/92), Wap (Adam Werderits, swap, 03/92-
     09/94).

Boards; DREAMS FLOWER GARDEN (fin, 02/93).

  1993 - Radical joined Astral as his second group (also in Amnesia) in
may.


ATG
---
HOL> Floyd (gfx swap, 06-07/90).
???> Three Dimensional King (06/90).

  1990 - Dutch swapper and graphician Floyd co-founded the graphics group
Optic Design with Tim/Silicon around june. Curse was one of two ATG members
that left to form Ruthless, also around june. Slime changed his handle to
Three Dimensional King (!).


Atlantis (ATL)
--------------
SWI> Avalanche (sysop 'POWERENGINE' EHQ, 10/93-09/94), Dr.Science (swap,
     09/94-01/96), Dr.Zoom (Tobias Erbsland, music, 09/94-02/95), Robocop
     (swap, 10/93-01/96).
FIN> Agemixer (Ari Yliaho, music, also in Astral, later Scallop, new
     01/95-96), Mr.Giga (swap, new 09/94-02/95).
POL> Darklord (Marcin Ropella, crack swap, ex Feniks, new late94-02/95).
N-L> Troop (Dimitri Harinck, swap, also in Slash Designs, 02/95).
DEN> Freddie (Anders Hansen, swap, 09/94-01/96).
USA> Dr.Doom (sysop 'FORTRESS OF DOOM' WHQ, new mid94-03/97).
???> Aegis (code swap, new 01-02/95), BA (02/95), Benno (09/94-02/95),
     Backslash (09/94-02/95), Chaotic (ex Rebels, new 02/95), Darkness
     (02/95), Gangstar (new 09/94-02/95), Hi-Top (10/93-02/95), Human
     (09/94-02/95), Kirby (crack, 09/94-09/95), Lala (09/94-02/95), Racer
     (09/94-02/95), Ram Jam (new 09/94-02/95), Rebel (09/94-02/95), Skull
     (Bouke Kramer, music, 09/94-02/95), SMD (gfx, ex Motiv8, new 09/94-
     02/95), Snap (10/93-02/95), Thirt (02/95).

PREVIOUS MEMBERS -

HUN> Trooper (swap, also in Agony, 09-12/94).
GER> Cavron (sysop 'STATE OF THE ART', ex TRC, new 10/93), Dr.Disk (ex TRC,
     new 10/93), Jack Alien (crack, ex TRC, new 10/93), Renegade (code gfx,
     ex TRC, new 10/93).
NOR> Dr.Who (Eirik Kittelsen, swap, 01/96).
N-L> Syco (Joost Martens, swap, 09/94).
???> Didi (crack, 95), Doc (crack, 10/93-95), Dreamlover (09/94), Lynx
     (09/94), Underdog (09/94).

Atlantis was a cracking group, and also released the diskmag Immortal Flash.
  1993 - After the joining of the german section of TRC (Jack Alien,
Dr.Disk, Renegade and Cavron) in october, Atlantis is now for the first time
a cracking group! Cavron brought with him 'STATE OF THE ART', and Avalanche
opened 'POWERENGINE' this month.
  1994 - SMD/Motiv8 (gfx), Ram Jam, Mr.Giga and Gangstar all joined in
september.
  1995 - Agemixer (ex Astral) and Aegis joined, while Intruder left for
Excess around january.


A Touch of Class [old] (ATC, -1989)
-----------------------------------
USA> Asterix (08/88), Bluebeard (01/88), Brute Force (01/88), Cheap Shot
     (01-08/88), Judas (01/88), Kid Commodore (08/88), Madman (08/88), Major
     Theft (01-08/88), Pudwerx (code crack fixer, later Avantgarde,
     01-08/88), Storekeeper (05/88), Wolverine (01/88).

Boards; 22 ACACIA AVE. (usa, 01-08/88), THE LIGHTHOUSE (usa, 01-08/88), THE
     ALTERNATE FACTOR (usa, 08/88), JERSEY HOTLINE (usa, 01/88), CLUB DED
     (usa, 05/88), THE WAREHOUSE EXPERIENCE (usa, 05/88).

ATC were something as rare as an actual American cracking group! There
weren't a lot of those; just Eaglesoft of any importance; most were doing
imports in America. The group died in august of 1989.


A Touch of Class [new] (ATC)
----------------------------
USA> Pudwerx (code crack fix, 06/90).

A Touch of Class was an american importing, fixing and cracking group.
  1990 - The group went into an importing partnership with Illusion in june.
  1991 - Early in the year, original supplier Problem Child left for Empire.


Atrix
-----
DEN> Exulans (crack, new 01/91).
???> Butch (ex WOT, new 05/90).

Atrix was a danish cracking group.
  1990 - Butch joined from Warriors of Time around may.
  1991 - Circumstancial evidence leads us to believe Danish cracker Exulans
joined from Dunex around january.


Attract
-------
  1990 - Swedish swapper Onani/Contrast changed his handle to Vertical and
joined around june, but rejoined Contrast the following month.


Audial Arts
-----------
???> Rodney Balai (music, 91-94), Ronny Pasch (music, 90-92).

Audial Arts was a dutch music group.


Authentic Arts
--------------
  1990 - Creat and Kai went looking for a new group around august, since MCA
left the scene and EXE went inactive.


Avantgarde (AVT)
----------------
GER> Cupid (Christian Heilmann, gfx, 01/96), Deff (supply, 09/94-01/96),
     Jack Alien (Robert, code crack, 09/94-03/96), Jack Daniels (Tobias,
     09/94-01/96), Mac Gyver (swap, 95), Skywolf (gfx, 09/94-01/96), Suicide
     (Christian, code fix, 09/95-01/96), Tricom (09/94-01/96), Weasel (also
     in Pandora, 09/94-01/96).
ENG> Derbyshire Ram (Barry Joynes, crack supply swap, later Remember, 09/94-
     01/96).
DEN> Metal (01/96).
POL> Druid (code, also in Agony Design, new 09/95-01/96), Trimone (supply,
     new 09/95-01/96).
???> Astaroth (01/96), Chameleon (09/95-01/96), Cyborg (09/95), D-Ram
     (crack, 95), Eliminator (09/95-01/96), Rage (09/95-01/96), Renegade
     (crack, ex Excess, new 09/95-01/96).

Boards; DREAM PARK (usa, 09/95-03/96).

PREVIOUS MEMBERS (pre 01/96) -

GER> A-Man (09/94), Darklord (09/94), Hok (09/94), Intruder (crack supply
     swap, 07/95-03/96), Magic Man (09/94), Nevis (09/94), Peter (09/94).
SWI> Freestyle (09/94-95).
ENG> Steve (sysop 'STRAYLIGHT' EHQ, 09/94).
USA> Prodigy (sysop 'TERMINAL OBSESSION' WHQ, 09/94).
???> Iron Cat (music, new 09/94).

Avantgarde was a german-based illegal cracking group, and one of the leading
ones in the time they were active. Jack Alien released an improved version
of Matt/Tera's STUBBY-Noter, V2. Suicide rejoined the scene in this group;
his last one was Chromance. American fixer Pudwerx is no longer a member.
  1994 - Swiss coder Dave and Englishman Richie left the scene around the
middle of the year. A big setback for the group came in september, when
american fixer and sysop of their whq 'THE FORUM' finally decided to leave
the scene to concentrate on his real-life job. This left the group without
both a fixer and a us board, though they were hopeful that Prodigy's
'TERMINAL OBSESSION' would be up again soon. Their musician Iron Cat also
rejoined the group this month, after finishing his army duty, while
Pbxcellence left the group.
  1995 - Polish coder Druid joined as a doublemember from Agony Design
around september, establishing a polish section. He was joined original
supplier Trimone, who is supposed to be a wellknown personality in the scene
under another handle... Decilion (09/94) left both the group and the scene.
Renegade joined from Excess around september. Weasel joined Pandora as his
second group.
  1998 - German cracker Thorn (09/94-) left for Remember in july.

  House Party (1995, end.09, Multifile demo).
  code: Jack Alien, Suicide, gfx: Avalanche/Atlantis (houses), Jack Alien
  (chars), RRR/Oxyron (chars), music: Red Devil/Fairlight (exclusive!), Guy
  Shavitt (exclusive?).
  review: This is the first ever Avantgarde demo, and quite an amusing
  little production it is too. It is all based on a party (and we're talking
  the beer'n'girls variety here) held at Jack Alien's house in Bensheim,
  germany from 7-10 september, and we're shown some pretty fun and
  surprisingly goodlooking parts. No revolutionary code here, but a good
  sense of design and humour help this with lots of charm. They mention in
  the endpart that it took a little time from the party to the release of
  the demo, so the release date is an approximation.
    The negative part of this demo is the glorification of cannabis in the
  scrolltext. Stupid and unnecessary. [glenn]


Avatar (ATA, 1991-1992)
-----------------------
Avatar was a shortlived american importing and fixing group, formed by
Mutant-X and Shadow from Paradox in december of 1991. The group died after
just a few releases around february that same year, and Mutant-X moved on to
Dominators.


Avengers, The (TAV)
-------------------
USA> Guildsman, Jimmy Z, Long John Silver, Natas Kaupas, Sinbad, The Last
     Dragon (code), The Sorcerer, Zombie.

TAV were another American importing group.


Axel
----
Axel is dead. MNS (Mirek Giewicz, POL) changed his handle to Sailor when he
left, and is doing a new Polish mag called 'Astoria'.


Axelerate (AXE, 1997-, http://www.axelerate.net)
------------------------------------------------
POL> Asterix (code, new 98-09/98), Bolek (Piotr Bator, swap, new 09/98),
     Cactus (Pawek Bol, mainorg paperart swap, later Oxyron, 97-09/98),
     Copieya (code, 09/98), Data (music, new 09/98), DJ Sharp (music,
     09/98), Firebee (music, new 98-09/98), Klax (music, also in Oxygen,
     new 09/98), Legion (code, 09/98), Panda (code, 09/98), Phobos (music,
     09/98), Scarab (gfx, 09/98), Stix (music, new 98-09/98), TSD (code
     crack, 09/98).
NOR> Zapotek (Sveinung Bergkvist, swap, 00).

Axelerate is a polish demo group, formed by Cactus at the end of 1997.
  1998 - Their first demo was released, called "Grease" [98], announcing the
new memberships of Asterix (code), Firebee (music) and Stix (music).
September saw the release of the "Phobos Music Collection" [09/98], in turn
announcing that Bolek (swap) and Data (music) had joined, that Klax had
joined as a doublememb from Oxygen, and that Firebee had bought a pc and
would probably decrease his c64 activity some in the future.

  Grease (1998, demo).
  code: Legion, Asterix (additional), Rat/ex Axelerate (additional), gfx:
  Azgar/vaudeville, Scarab (additional), music: Klax/Oxygen, Phobos.
  review: "Grease" is this young group's first demo, and it does display a
  lack of experience. Among the effects we're shown is some plasma
  variations, shadebobs, sineplots and some linevectors. The graphics are an
  especially weak point in this demo, with some uninspired logo efforts.
    Probably released outside of any party (and thus hard to place in time
  without any additional hints), the demo announces Asterix' reentry into
  the scene in this group, and the joining of Firebee and Stix.
    The demo is a single file, but is accompanied by a note (code: Fero/
  Unreal, gfx: Azgar/Vaudeville, music: Phobos/Axelerate) with credits and
  some other small things. [glenn]

  Phobos Music Collection (1998, 28.09, musicdisk).
  code: Copieya, gfx: Copieya, Zeus/ex Axelerate, music: Phobos.
  review: The first thing that happens is that you're given a fullscreen
  choice between a note and the collection itself. The note (code: Legion,
  gfx: Scarab, music: Klax) tells us the usual things; the credits, the
  memberlist etc. The collection itself is a single static screen where you
  can select any one of the 24 available tunes. The graphics in this part
  (by Zeus) is pretty uninspiring. The music is average to good. [glenn]