Eagle Soft Incorporated (ESI, 1981-)
------------------------------------
USA> Kombalar (Chris, new 07/87-01/88), Mitch (crack, 12/87-09/88), Rik
     (crack, 11-12/86), Simple Solutions (new 01/88), The Head Librarian
     (John, 12-01/88/87), The Music Man (new 01/88), Tinman (new 01/88).

Probably the oldest pirate group in existence anywhere (and certainly the
first americans doing their own cracks!), ESI was actually formed in 1981 on
the VIC20. They released cracks for the c64 as early as at least 1986. In
their crack of "Ace of Aces" dated 9/4/86 (probably meaning september), they
listed three members named By-Tor, Scorpio and 'Me' (we're guessing Rik), as
well as two boards, 'DATASHACK I' and 'DATASHACK II'. For a long time they
had the only decent American c64 cracker, Mitch.
  1987 - A crack released in mid july announced Kombalar as a new member.
  1988 - A crack released in mid january announced three new members; The
Music Man, Simple Solutions and Tinman.


East Group, The (TEG)
---------------------
  The Long Way (1993, Demo).
  code: Mc Byte, gfx: Private Soldier, music: Odysseus.
  info: Early demo from new group. Features nice music and graphics, plus a
  charplasma effect.


Eastenders Cracking Crew (ECC)
------------------------------
ENG> Makk (crack, 12/87).

ECC were an English cracker group, active around 1987-88.


Easy
----
GER> Jinx (swap, 02/90).


Ebola
-----
???> Mephisto (hun? gfx music, 08/97).


Effect
------
GER> Larry (swap, 12/91).

  1991 - Norwegian swapper Sodan joined Gloom, while Tanja joined Abyss
Connection, both in december. Sodiox joined the group from Compagnions.


Electronic Choir, The (TEC, 1990-)
----------------------------------
The Electronic Choir was a music group formed around august 1990, with only
one member; Jesper Thorndahl.


Elektronic Knights, The (TEK)
-----------------------------
???> Banana (music, ex The Supply Team, new 87-88).


Elite
-----
  1992 - Sting and Maniac left for Genesis Project around february.


Elysium (ESM)
-------------
POL> Therion (Kuba Prochocki, swap, also in F4CG, 01/95).
???> Blondi (gfx, 93), Brush (code, 93), Carrion (gfx, 93-09/95), Gaston
     (Sebastian Thiel, also in The Imperium Arts), Gryf (gfx, 93), Jetboy
     (code gfx, ex Skylight, new 05/93), Master Jay (ex Vantor, new 05/93),
     Scow (new 05/93), Sparti (new 05/93), Tensi (new 05/93), Zephyr (Kefir,
     late95), Zore (swap, 05/93).

Boards; PALACE OF DOOMNESS (ger, 02/93).

  1993 - Jetboy/Skylight and Master Jay/Venator both joined in may. Scow,
Sparti and Tensi all joined in may. Hain (code) and Brush (code) left for
Success in august. Hain released an improved version of the Cruel Cruncher,
"Elysium Cruel V2.9+".
  1995 - Cruise left Elysium around january, and is now only in Taboo.

  Obornik (1993, Demo).
  code: Brush, Jetboy, gfx: Blondi, Gryf, Carrion, Jetboy, music: Brian/
  Graffity, Longhair.

  Late Ejaculation (2002, 05.10, Demo).
  2nd in the North Party v7.0 demo competition.


Emanuelle
---------
This is not an actual group, just a heading I needed to review a few issues
of the diskmag "Emanuelle". Though done by two members of TAT, it was
released as an independent production.

  Emanuelle #1 (1991, 23.02, Multifile Diskmag).
  code: Ayatollah, gfx: n/a, music: Charles Deenen/Maniacs of Noise,
  editors: Ayatollah, Gazza. Released at the Venlo Meeting.
  review: Well, the outfit certainly has an original choice of palette...
  The article selection screen (joystick control only) looks ok, with a
  naked woman on the left, the articles on the right, and a scroller at the
  bottom, but the article reading page is pretty drab, to be honest. It
  features black (and red blinking) text on a grey background, and
  absolutely no design. They do promise an improved mag engine for the next
  issue, so we can always hope for improvement.
    Some original editorial content in this debut issue, though perhaps not
  with the best scene-focus... They actually feature an entire article with
  the name 'Sport News', if that's any indication ;) The interview this time
  is with swapper Glasnost/Legend. The producers of this mag sure got a lot
  of held from Commander/ROLE... [glenn]

  Emanuelle #2 (1991, .04, Multifile Diskmag).
  info: Announced as to be released at the Horizon Easter party in issue 1.


Empire (EMP, 1991-)
-------------------
USA> Mercenary (fix, 09/94-09/95), Problem Child (ex ATC, aka PC, new
     early91-08/91), Rich (06/91-09/94).
???> Booze (code fix, 06/91-09/95), Intruder (code, 92), Mayhem (06-08/91),
     Sequencer (music, 08/91-92), The Crumbsucker (06-08/91), The Extremist
     (06/91-92), The Last Dragon (code, aka TLD, 06/91-92), Tristan
     (cardhacker, new early91-05/93), Vizz (fix, 09/95).

Boards; CHANNEL ZERO WHQ (usa, also Action, 06-08/91), MYSTIC CAVERN (usa,
     92).

Empire is an american importing groups, doing trainers and fixes on european
game releases. They were born in the first months of 1991, probably around
april. The original members were Extremist, Rich and Booze, but two
additional recruitments were quickly done; wellknown original supplier
Problem Child/ATC as well as card hacker Tristan. Mercenary and Rich are
brothers.
  1991 - The group was in importing partnership with Action in at least
june.
  1993 - Tristan rejoined the group in may, but the november issue of "The
Pulse" reported that he was gone again, possibly back in prison some say...
  1994 - American sysop Mizar/ex Napalm ('MENACE 2 SOCIETY') joined around
september; the board also represents Genesis Project. There were also
rumours that legendary fixer Booze would return to the scene.


Emulators
---------
Emulators are were a retro-cracking group, formed by The Ignorance (as the
only member =]) to release 'perfect' versions of older games.


Energy
------
  1990 - Belgian swapper Osiris changed his handle to Glasnost and joined
Transcom 05/90.
  1991 - Rainman and Cruel joined WOW in january.


Enigma (ENI, -1993)
-------------------
GER> Elegance (paperart swap, ex X-Ray, new 02/92-early93), Joe Cool
     (02/92).
NOR> Fist (crack, 10/91), Hero (crack, 10/91), Richie (crack, 10/91), Sauron
     (crack, 10/91).
USA> Pudwerx (fixer), The Basilisk (sysop 'GEE SPOT', later Legend, 10/91).
???> Frank, Ignorance (ger? ex X-Ray, new 02/92-early93), Jatagan (gfx, ex
     X-Ray, new 02/92), Magic Man (crack), Ninja, Peter, Phentagon (93),
     Rygar (crack), The Last Dragon, Trigger (code, ex X-Ray, new 02/92),
     Wrath Child.

Boards; THE UNEARTHLY FLOWER (nor, 10/91).

Enigma are a German cracking group. The Norwegians were in Illusion both
before and after being in Enigma.
  1992 - Deff left for Dominators around february, and also Weasel was
dismissed from the group. However, most of X-Ray (chrysagon, ignorance,
trigger, jatagan, elegance) joined this same month!
  1993 - The group died in may, as main cracker Chrysagon (ex X-Ray, new
02/92-) left for Talent and let the group die =(

  Mamba #25 (1992, 19.02, Diskmag).
  info: Last issue of Mamba ever.


Entropy
-------
HOL> Angel (Marijanne Wiekens, swap, 09/94-95), Bulldozer (Barry Pypers),
     Natiness (94), The Mistress (ex TAT, new 02/93), Unicorn (Harry
     Wiekens, swap, 03/94-95).
POL> Nephelim (Blazej Strazak, swap, also in Fatum, 09/94-01/95).
ENG> Gremlin (Gareth, swap, 02/93), Silver Bullet (Kenny Brown, swap,
     01/95).
???> Dr.Will (ex TAT, new 02/93), Shaun (gfx, 03/92), Sinister (Christian,
     gfx, also in Extacy and Arcoss, 12/94), TBB (ex TAT, new 02/93), TMB
     (ex TAT, new 02/93), Uzzy (code, 03/92), WHW Design (gfx, 03/92), Xayne
     (music, 03/92).

Entropy are a mostly dutch group. Nastiness and Mistress were editors of the
mag 'Tribune'.
  1992 - Uzzy released a text editor called Text Speed V1.0 in march.
  1993 - TBB, TMB, The Mistress and Dr.Will (all ex-The Ancient Temple) all
joined in february.

  The Tribune #49 (1994, 28.12, Diskmag).
  Released at The Party 1994.


Epic
----
DEN> Crossfire (Kim Andersen, code crack, 03/92-06/93), Decade (05/93), Doom
     (old handle Flower, 05-10/93), Jason (swap, 02-05/93), Marie (05/93),
     Loyalty (05/93).
HUN> Stephen (Stephen Visy, crack, ex Alpha Flight 1970, new 09/93).
BEL> Clive (05/93), Cruel (sysop 'WAREZ A'LA CARTE' EHQ, 05/93).
HOL> Merlin (crack, 05/93).
GER> Eddie (sysop 'THE GRAVEYARD' EHQ, 11/93), Sonic (modem, 05-10/93).
SWE> Fresh Prince (Thomas Andersson, swap, ex Light, new 09/93), The Torch
     (05/93).
NOR> TG-ACME (Tonny Gundersen, swap write, 05-06/93).
USA> Dutchman (sysop 'POWER SURGE' WHQ, new 05/93).

Boards; PARTICLES (usa, 05/93), CYBERDOME (ger, also in Legend, 05/93).

  1992 - Stiff and Mercy both joined from Triad in december.
  1993 - SMD (Mercy and Stiff)'s stay was a short one; they left for
Mechanix around february. Merlin left the scene, while Mason left to reform
Mechanicus 2124, all early this year. Epic and Device went into cooperation
early this year (pre 12.03, at least), but the coop broke down in may.
Objector never joined the group despite claiming so; Dutchman joined;
Swedish Stash was their new original supplier, but quickly moved on to join
Active; Mac's 'DREAMLINE' was dropped (and is now only in Jam), and finally
two boards were opened this month, Crossfire's GATEWAY and Cruel's WAREZ
A'LA CARTE - all in may. Fairlight's "Reformation #3" [06/93] referred
information that rumours were goind around that Merlin recracked some games.
Stephen/Alpha Flight 1970 (crack) and Fresh Prince/Light joined in
september. Doom changed his handle to Doom in september. Around november
Crossfire's GATEWAY was closed, and THE GRAVEYARD became the new EHQ.


Epic + Device (1993-)
---------------------
???> Cruel (ex WOW, new early 93).

Boards; DREAMLINE (swe, 03/92), CYBERDOME (ger, 03/92), PARTICLES (usa,
        03/92), POWER SURGE (usa, 03/92).

Epic and Device went into cooperation in early 1993.


Equinoxe [old] (EQU, 1988-)
---------------------------
SWE> 3V (Markus Norsted, gfx, 05/89), Emaze (Stefan Collin, 05/89),
     Mankish (Magnus Edgar, 05/89), Princip (Mattias Åslund, 05/89), Verdun
     (Michael Collin, 05-06/89), Werner (Martin Klintefelt, 05/89).

Equinoxe was a swedish demo group, its name taken from the Jean-Michael
Jarre album of the same name. The group was originally formed in early 1988
under the name "Tomcats", but this group dissolved after a few months, and
gave birth to Equinoxe. The original three members were 3V, Viper (later
Verdun) and Princip. Thanks to 3V for corrections and information! :)


Equinoxe [new] (EQX)
--------------------
GER> Antifan (Christian Grun, code, 93-10/96), Warp (Markus Peter, mainorg
     code, 01/96).
POL> Grafee (Jarek Gregorowicz, swap, 01/95).
SWE> MacX (swap, also Ambush, new 01/96), Punisher (also Ambush, new 01/96).
???> Agnus Dei (01/95-01/96), Apis (01/95), Bitbreaker (01/96), Caledonian
     (new 01/96), Chipsi (01/95), Droopy (01/96), Echo (music, ex Comic
     Pirates, new 01/95), Goat (01/96), Jack (01/95), Jayz (01/95), Mav
     (01/96), Nucleus (01/96), Olsen (music, new 01/95), Parson (01/95),
     Pollux (01/95), Suck (01/96), Tale (01/95), Wile Coyote (01/95-01/96).

PREVIOUS MEMBERS (pre 01/95) -

NOR> Fli (Leif I. Bilstad, swap, mid94).

Equinoxe was a german-based demo group. Antifan is the author behind several
utlities, including Voodoo-Noter.
  1995 - Mr.Friese and Suzuki both got kicked out around january. At the
same time Echo/Comic Pirates and and Olsen/Feniks - both musicians - joined,
and Mav left the group due to school and personal problems. He may have
returned later, since we have a record of him being in the group as late as
january 96. At the X95 party in april, Stan left for TRSI.
  1996 - Warp (formerly Mr.Warp) returned in january to take over leadership
of the group, hoping to revitalize a group that had all but imploded and
died. He immediately recruited MacX (swap) and Punisher (both will remain in
their original group Ambush as well) and newcomer Caledonian.

  Fuel (1993, .06 or .07, Demo).
  code: Mr.Warp, AEG, Dasheele, Antifan, gfx: Mr.Warp, AEG, D-Signa/Maniax,
  Ivan & Kyle, music: The Blue Ninja/DOS, Mace/Secure, Bad, Mr.Warp, Reyn
  Ouwehand, DJ/Vaganbonds, Kristian Rostoen, Benno/Topaz, Kyle, AEG, The
  Syndrom/Crest. info: Apparently features 2x2 sideborder scroll over 7
  splits, a world record.

  Antifan's Toolbox (1996, 10 or later, Tooldisk).
  code: Antifan, gfx: none, music: none.
  review: A toolbox containing three of Antifan's own tools, and not
  half bad if I may say so myself :) The three tools are Voodoo-Noter
  V2.1, Stuff-List Editor V2 (to keep your demo collections organized),
  and finally Dir-Master 7.0, which seems like a really good utility if
  I could get it to work properly... This doesn't do any amazing tricks,
  but the ones it does do it does very well. [glenn]


Escape
------
  1990 - War was kicked out around february.


Eternal
-------
HOL> Wizvis (Antoine van Wel, code swap, 03/92).

  1992 - The Yank left for Success around february.


Euratom
-------
???> Hayes (music, 89).


Event (-1990)
-------------
  1990 - Event died, and Transfer left for Pulsar around february.


Exact
-----
  1990 - Tomcat and Ice joined in july, but Tomcat quickly moved on to
Vision and Ice just left.


Excalibur (EXC)
---------------
USA> TDO (12/91), The Ozz (12/91), X-Factor (fix, 12/91).
???> Robodude (new 02/90).

Boards; SECOND TO NONE (also Legend, 12/91), WICKY WORLD OF WARS (new ca
     02/90).

Excalibur was an american importing and fixing group.
  1990 - Asterix joined around february, but got kicked in june. Robodude
also joined around february.


Excess (EX!, 1989-, http://excess.iscool.net)
---------------------------------------------
GER> Black Duke (Tassilo Schutz, code, 07/97-03/03), H-Bloxx (Ralf
     Mackowiak, crack swap, 95-03/03), Master S (swap, 95-03/03), Red Rock
     (crack swap, 02/93-03/03), Spinball (code crack, ex Mental, new 09/94-
     03/03).
POL> Variat (swap, 03/03).
???> Creb (03/03), Danzig (03/03), Eco (03/03), Ghost (03/03), Luka (also in
     Trance Designs, 02/93-03/03), Nameless (02/93-03/03), RHX (code, new
     95-03/03), Sentinel (crack, 02/93-03/03), Stormfront (crack swap,
     03/03), Tadpole (03/03), The Pro (03/03).

PREVIOUS MEMBERS -

GER> Darkman (swap, 12/91), Exic (Andreas Nickel, gfx, also in Acsore,
     07/97), Gash (Alexander Peters, crack, 95), Scratch (Henning Scharrer,
     swap, 09/95), Spermbird (swap, ex Trinomic, also in Chromance, new
     02/93-09/95).
N-L> Bordeaux (Tim Harris, swap, 95), Cat (Bart Hendrix, gfx swap, 02/93-
     01/95).
BEL> Stormbringer (swap, 03/92).
USA> Light (sysop 'ICELAND', 02/93).
???> Authentic (ex Maniax, new 09/94), Beat Up (gfx, old handle BTS, ex
     Mental, new 09/94-95), Benno (code music, 02-05/93), Blue Angel
     (paperart, 02-05/93), Collector (swap, 02-05/93), CST (crack swap, 02-
     05/93), Decoy (music, also in Natural Beat, 02/94-95), Dumper (code
     crack trade, 02-05/93), Firelord (gfx paperart, 02/93), Knobby (trade,
     ex Paramount, new 05/93), Liquid (ex X-Ample, new 09/94), Moses (ger?
     code, 95), Mr.Rage (code swap, 02- 05/93), Nebular (code crack music,
     old handle Orphan, new 95), Pneumatix (code, 02-05/93), Pulse (code
     trade, ex WOW, new 05/93), Sempai (gfx swap, 02-05/93).

Boards; SANITARIUM (ger, 95).

Excess are a German demo and cracking group. Brothers Raistlin (code) and
Kreator (both ex Pyrotech) formed Excess with some old members of DCS, this
was around 1989... Kreator later went to the amiga, and Raistlin joined
Rough Trade.
  1991 - Thunderstorm was kicked, while Bigfoot (swap) joined in december.
  1993 - Bigfoot joined Paramount in january. German swapper Spermbird
joined from Trinomic around february. Mystic, Longdrink, Anesthesia and
Galaxy were all kicked out around february. Pulse/WOW (code trade) and
Knobby/Paramount (trade) both joined in may.
  1994 - German sysop Iron ('ESCAPADE') changed his handle to Xerox (not
Xenox as written some places) and joined Alpha Flight 1970 around the middle
of the year. A lot of movement occurred in the member mass during september;
Authentic/Maniax (swap), BTS/Mental (gfx), Spinball/Mental (code) and
Liquid/X-Ample all joined, while Sgt. Pepper (Norbert Kroker, ger, swap,
02/93-), Mindcrime, Josh and Luka (Erik Nissen, ger, gfx, 05/93) were all
kicked or left on their own accord. Luka may have alter returned; at least
the group has a member with this handle in 2003. This month also saw the
recruitment of a new whq board, CHAOTIC FACTOR. The board did not stay long
in the group, and was dismissed around december.
  1995 - "Nitro #19" was released late in the year, and brought a lot of
news about the group; Renegade (crack) left for Avantgarde around september,
and they lost their american board DEAD ZONE (sysop Trouble) to Onslaught
also around this time (confirmed in [O] in september); Spermbird joined
Chromance as his second group; Outlaw and New Design both left the scene;
Holy Moses left to join the rebuilt Pandora; Bordeaux left to rebuild his
old group Acrise; BTS changed his handle to Beat Up; RHX (code) and Orphan
(code crack music) - who renamed in Nebular - joined the group. Coder,
cracker and musician Nebula left for Hardcore around september. Former main
organizer and cracker Sentinel left the scene late this year. He may have
later returned.
  1997 - Graphician Sush (also in Acsore) left the scene this year, sometime
after july.

  Nitro #15 (Diskmag).

  Nitro #16 (Diskmag).

  Nitro #17 (Diskmag).

  Nitro #18 (Diskmag).

  Nitro #19 (1995, late, Diskmag).
  INT - code: Spinball, gfx: Beat-Up (face), ???/Parsec and
        Glare/Smash (logo), music: n/a.
  MAG - code: Spinball (menu), Gash (reader), gfx: Beat Up (dragon), Thomas
        (selection logo), Alian Prophet (reader), Cat (reader chars), music:
        "Chameleon" by Pri, "Kromazona", "Silent Eclipse", "Formid Acid",
        "Compotune", "Psychosturbed" and "Nitro" by Decoy, "Sadox" by Jeroen
        Tel, "Ice Waffle" by Xayne, "Shinding" and "Sandwich" by Cosowi,
        "Dedication" by Jeff, "Toy Palace" by Fanta, "Smooth Criminal" by
        Danko, "Emorave" by Nebular, "Doletimin" by Deek, "Paranoia" by
        Syndrom, "Love 3" and "Love 4" by Shogoon and "Trip & Pluto" by
        Metal, editors: H-Bloxx, Red Rock, Gash, Decoy, Master S, Beat Up,
        Spinball.
  review: After a fair intro that fails to excite too much, with a b&w
  rendition of Conan the Barbarian on the left, a textplotter on the right
  and a logo at the bottom, we press space to begin reading the mag. First
  impressions of the menu is much better, with a cartoony dragon on the left
  and a nice logo. The menu is done entirely in black and grey, except some
  raster-colors occassionally moving through the Excess logo and the
  currently selected article. The reading section is also likeable, with
  graphics at the top and bottom complementing each other, and the rest of
  the screen reserved for reading. Text can have many colors on the same
  page and there are two font sizes. In addition, some animated sprites are
  also present. I never liked those (always hated Mamba's overuse of these,
  for instance), but at least here they are not THAT obtrusive. Control is
  by joystick only, left/right to flip pages. If you accidentally press
  fire (to return to the menu) while reading, and you select the page you
  were at, it reloads the entire page. There are 20 chapters in this mag,
  each with their own piece of music... I am uncertain whether all the music
  here is exclusive or not; at LEAST Danko's tune I believe to be an older
  one.
    Editorial highlights include interviews with Vengeance/Onslaught/MSI and
  Shuze/Alpha Flight 1970; reviews of Agony's "Love" and Smash Designs'
  "Desert Dots". They spell Mr.Cursor's name wrong in the 'Did you
  know' chapter, Herzig instead of the correct Herzeg. This issue saw the
  burial of the sections Confrontation, Smileys, Remembering, Foreign Words
  and Music Market, and the arrival of the new ones Did You Know, The
  Rivals, Underground and Floppy Stuff. We are uncertain of the release
  date, but it is sometime after mid july of 1995... [glenn]

  Nitro #20 (1996, late.01, Diskmag).


Exile
-----
HUN> Abject (music, 94), Cube (Kolos Esztergalyos, 94), Dale (code, 94),
     Edhellon  (code, 94), Flimbo (gfx, 94), Inside (gfx music, 94), Jode
     (Marton Hegedus, 94), Oscar (code, 94), Splash (94), Szaby (Szabolls
     Nagy, also in Leader, 94), Vistar (94).

Exile is a Hungarian demo group.

  Inhumanity (Dentro).
  code: Dale (main), Edhellon, Oscar, gfx/music: Inside.
  info: 4th at the Fun Factory Party (no info found yet, sorry!), their
  first demo production. No credits printed in demo itself, credit info from
  printing in "Vector Overdose" [94].

  Vector Overdose (1994, Multifile Demo).
  code: Oscar, Edhellon, Dave, gfx: Inside, Flimbo, music: Inside.
  review: Exile's second ever demo production, already shows some promise.
  "VO" is an irq-loaded demo, trackmo style, and opens with an "intel
  outside" logo. Some cool graffiti-style logos by Inside then appears,
  before the vector stuff begins. I really must say I was mildly impressed
  with the speed of the code in this demo; big vector objects moving at
  quite acceptable levels of speed and smoothness. And another thing that
  impressed me, now that I think of it, was Flimbo's fullscreen picture.
  Very cool, an artist I'm certainly looking forward to seeing more from!
  As you may have guessed from the title, this demo features almost all-
  vector effects, like a tv-box (ever thought you'd see one of those on the
  64?), faaast morphing dotshapes, checkerboard cube, hiddenline vector, an
  amazing dotscroller and finally a 1-color texturemapped vector which they
  keep on the screen for WAY too long.
    The real drawback to this demo is simply that it's too long, causing the
  soundtrack to loop several times before the demo is over. Some more pace
  and perhaps dropping a couple of the effects would have strengthened the
  demo. The accompanying note was written in a noter coded by Clarence/
  Chorus with music by their own member Abject. [glenn]


Exodus (XDS)
------------
USA> Cure (ex Crazy, new 07/90), Executioner (Joel, fix import, 11/89-
     04/90), Gazoo (11/89-10/90), Grim Reaper (code fix, later North East
     Importers, new 01-10/90), Skreemer (05-10/90), Stormbringer (Steve,
     code fix, 11/89-05/90), Warewolf (11/89-10/90), Warez King (new 01/90).

Boards; WILD WARES (usa, also Genesis Project 04/90, 11/89-05/90), WAREZ
     CASTLE (usa, also Crazy, 01/90).

Exodus was an american importing and fixing group, active in 1989 and 1990.
Thanks to Executioner for info and help, and being a terribly nice guy! :)
  1990 - Grim Reaper and Warez King joined, while Flyboy (11/89-) left the
group with his board 'FABULOUS DISASTER' in january. They were in importing
partnership with Dominators in may. Cure joined from Crazy in july.
  1991 - The group reportedly had only two members in january.


Exon
----
???> Bedrich (gfx, 01/04), Jammer (music, also in MSL and Samar, 10/03).


Experts (1989-1991)
-------------------
Experts was a Turkish group, and among its founders was Wisdom who was later
to be found in Crescent.


Explorers, The
--------------
SWE> Babyface (crack, 87), Bad Boy! (crack, 87).
???> Aha (87), Alien (87), Argon (87), BL (87), Creator (87), Crypton (87),
     Fraction (87), Frankie (87), Guide (87), Mad (87), Meathead (87),
     Mummyman (87), Neon (87), Once (87), Radon (87), Shan (87), Xenon (87),
     X-Ray (87), Zacke (87).

The Explorers were a cracker group that had at least a section in Sweden. If
it was BASED in Sweden, or if there were other sections is uncertain yet.


Extacy
------
HOL> Troop (also in Slash, 09/94).
FIN> Butcher (Teemu Vilander, paperart swap, 02/93).
???> Sinister (Christian, gfx, also in Arcoss and Entropy, 12/94).

Polish coder Morris (08-10/93) was later (06/94) in Agony.
  1993 - Scow and Cewin left for Vision around february, and took their mag
Culture (previously Mirage) with them.


Extasy (XTC, 1990-1991)
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FIN> Servant (supply, ex Fairlight, new 06/90).
DEN> Nam (sysop 'NEVER, NEVERLAND', 08/90-early91).

Boards; SUPER CONDUCTOR (usa, 91), DIGITAL ILLUSION (fin, 91).

Extasy was formed around late may 1990 by Rockstar and Servant from Contex,
after a brief stay in Fairlight. They were a Finland-based cracking group.
  1989 - Doyle left to form Trash late this year.
  1990 - Finnish swapper TMB joined from Motion around july. Nam opened the
board NEVER, NEVERLAND around august.
  1991 - Around april or may, the group died and most members - Rockstar
(crack, ex Fairlight, new 06/90), TMB (swap), Drake - left to form a new
group called Victims together with members of Dynamix.


Extend (EXT)
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FIN> Barfly (code, 12/98-05/01), Electric (gfx, 12/93-05/01), Junkie
     (12/98-05/01), Tape (code, 12/98-05/01), TBB (music, 12/98-05/01),
     Thor (music, 11/97-05/01).

PREVIOUS MEMBERS -

FIN> Barracuda (Toni Nisula, music, 11/97-12/98), Wide (music, 11/97-12/98).
???> Argon  (12/98), Atte (12/98), Captain H. (crack), Dr.Acid (12/98), Duce
     (12/98), Micke (12/98), Scapegoat (12/98).

Extend are a finnish demo group, and among the best still active. They also
did a few cracks, but this was a minimal activity for the group.
  1993 - Dr.Acid left for Genesis Project in october. He must have returned
to Extend at a later date, as the entry above should testify to.
  1998 - The group's only contributions to the Assembly in august this year
was a picture by Electric and a tune by Barracuda. The group saved its
demopower at the scenes main event, and instead released "Orangi." [12/98]
in december at the much smaller Zoo party. This strategy proved a success
for them, as the demo WON the demo competition =)
  2001 - The group won the demo competition at Escape 2001 in may with
"Kuppa 2" [05/01].

  Orangi. (1998, 06.12, Demo).
  code: Barfly, Tape, gfx: Electric, music: TBB.
  Winner of the Zoo 98 demo competition!
  review: Now, THIS ROCKS! Electric's amazing graphics topline this demo,
  which also feastures a truly amazing piece of code - what appears to be a
  3d scene, one of those 'inside the donut' things. Short but sweet, with a
  dead cool logo and two fullscreen pictures - this is a nice, neat package
  that fits nicely in anyone's download folder. Go! One of Electric's two
  fullscreen pictures, of the woman's face surrounded by eyes, is actually
  "My Trans", his graphics competition winner from Zoo 97.
    The demo is 9 files, totalling 403 blocks. Electric also did the
  exclusive cover painting. [glenn]

  Kuppa 2 (2001, 12.05, File Demo).
  code: Barfly, Tape, gfx: Electric, music: AMJ/Side B.
  Winner of the Escape 2001.fi demo competition!
  review: Oh boy. Disappointment, disappointment. Again, the saving grace is
  a fullscreen picture by Electric, but there is precious little else to
  recommend this one. They seem to have a little fun with an interlaced
  screen mode, but no good effects materialize from the experimentation -
  just some colors, and nothing more. But the real nail in the coffin is
  AMJ's horribly monotonous music... arrrgh. You can do so much better,
  guys. This winning the demo competition at Escape says a lot about the
  competition. It is not mentioned inside the demo that AMJ is not a member
  of this group, except for the fact that he is not on the memberlist. No
  name for his tune appears in the memory, just a copyright message. There
  were no graphics or music competitions for the 64 at this party, so the
  picture and tune are likely not released outside this production. [glenn]

  Orivesi (2001, .08, Demo).
  5th in the Assembly 2001 oldskool demo competition.


Extreme (1991-1992)
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???> Delta (ex Deathsector, new 12/91).

Extreme was formed around january 1991 by Crisp/ex GOD.
  1991 - Delta joined from Deathsector in december.
  1992 - Extreme died around february as B-Wyze, Copkiller, Lifestyle and
Skeletor all left for Success.