Padora
------
Original supplier Defjay joined Success early 93.


Padua (1989-, http://www.padua.org - ftp://ftp.padua.org)
---------------------------------------------------------
GER> Hi-Lite (Marc, code gfx, new mid98-11/02), Hoogo (code, 00), Leonardo
     (code, 12/94), Lubber (code, early91-10/03), Steel (Mario Laugell,
     music, also in Success, 02/92), Steve (swap, early91).
ENG> Cupid (gfx, 00-07/01).
BEL> Vip (gfx music, also in WOW, Role, Cyberzound Productions, 07/98-
     04/03).
POL> Cactus (Pawel Bol, code editor, also in Oxyron, 01/04), Polonus (Pawel
     Soltysinski, code gfx, aka POL, ex Science 451, new early91-10/91).
FRA> THK (swap, 12/90).
SWI> Unlock (Andy Joos, also in Vantage [pc], 10/01-04/03).
SWE> Raze (Hans-Peter Fischer, music, also in scs-trc, 07/00).
GRE> Alias Medron (gfx, also in Samar, 04-07/03).
CAN> Anonym (Frank Michlick, code, 89-07/01).
???> Lord Hypnos (code, 03), Waz (music, 01-03).

Padua is an international demogroup. Among its original founders were german
Anonym. Anonym (canada) and Cupid (england) are both originally from
Germany. Polonus develops a music editor which first went under the name
VoiceTracker, then later Music Mixer. The first versions of VoiceTracker was
released under his previous group, Science 451. In a mail from Anonym, I was
informed that at least swedes Jadawin (Kalle Norrman, music, 00) and Powpin
(both ex Warriors of Time, new 03/91), Mad (eng music, 12/93) and Roman (ger
gfx, early91) have not been members for quite some time.
  1991 - Polonus joined from Science 451, while swedes Jadawin and Powpin
joined from Warriors of Time around early march.
  1992 - In august german The Syndrom (also in TIA) joined from Sunrise.
  1993 - The Syndrom's membership didn't last all that long, and he left the
group for Crest sometime between january and april. Diabolo joined from
Lower Level in may, and immediately released a demo.
  1994 - Chiefy left for F4CG in september.
  1995 - Creat (gfx) left for Hardcore around september.
  1995 - Hi-Lite joined from Hitmen around the middle of the year.

  The Final Torture (1994, 28.12, Demo).
  code: Leonardo, Anonym, gfx: n/a, music: Steel/Success.
  5th in The Party 5 demo competition.
  info: Steel's music is the only exclusive piece in the demo.

  <4KB (1998, 12.04, 4k Intro).
  code: Leonardo, gfx: n/a, music: Xayne (uncredited).
  4th in the Mekka Symposium 4k intro competition.
  review: I can't bring myself to love this; even though it's just 4k and
  has cool music, sinedots are just...so late 80's. [glenn]

  Mekka Symposium 2000 Invitation (2000, early, File).
  code: Hoogo, gfx: Cupid, music: Jadawin.
  review: Very focused on just getting the text out in an orderly fashion,
  this invitation intro comes across as very professional. It features a
  green, almost unreadable Mekka Symposium logo down the lefthand side of
  the screen, with the rest devoted to the text. It uses a proportional
  font, which is quite readable despite its size. The routine also supports
  graphics, which facilitate the inclusion of maps of the area etc. Very
  professional, very focused, hardly going to set the demoscene on fire, but
  gives a very solid impression. Annoyingly, it doesn't ever really identify
  itself as a Padua productions, but the producers are Padua members.
  [glenn]

  Mekka Symposium 2001 Invitation (2001, early, File).
  code: Ophis (intro), Hoogo, Anonym, gfx: Morris (intro), Cupid, music:
  "Setback" by Vip (intro), "Whitby" by Waz.
  review: Hey, for once an innovative invitation intro! =) For us
  nostalgics, the text-adventure approach was a real pleasant surprise. Nice
  one guys! =D Hehe. Ok, this invtro opens with a minimalist intro, with no
  real point to it, except to show that they can do those fractal triangle
  thingies. Ok, space pressed and we're into the invitation itself. The text
  adventure, whose goal is not really clear, actually seems to have a pretty
  ok parser. You can walk around the MS area, but the location descriptions
  are a little sparing, and it's easy to get lost. Anyway, the whole
  adventure thing can be bypassed for the invitation text by writing the
  words 'I Am A Lamer' into the game =] Along the right side of the screen
  is a Padua logo running down, and a slate of letters forming various words
  to the right of that. Nice to see some people trying to make an invitation
  intro just a little different. [glenn]

  Embryo (2001, 15.04, Demo).
  code: Lubber, gfx: Hi-Lite, music: n/a.
  2nd in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition.

  Scene News Network (2002, Demo).
  code: Anonym, Cupid, gfx: Jailbird, music: n/a.
  info: The demo was reviewed in Domination #17.

  Breakpoint Invitation (2003, early, File).
  code: Lord Hypnos, gfx: Vip, music: Waz.
  review: Padua presents a functional single-file invitation to Breakpoint
  03, with some pretty ok graphics by Vip - who certainly has his own style.
  A greay textbox is overlaid on a fullscreen picture, and moves around as
  you press space to view the pages. The first textbox page is a nicely done
  b&w bp logo, by the way. The music is unremarkable. There's nothing much
  more to say, really... It works, it looks ok, it does the job. I even
  kinda like it a little ;) [glenn]


Palace
------
FIN> !Cube (music, also in Trauma [pc], 11/97), Flotsam (music, 09/95-
     01/96), Rockstar (Juho, code crack, new 09/95).
???> 2ny (01/96), Ace (01/96), Arctic (01/96), B.P. (01/96), CounterAttack
     (01/96), Delta (01/96), Hoffi (01/96), Junkie (01/96), Kreator
     (01/96), Oca (01/96), Page (01/96), Pain (01/96), Undertaker (new
     01/96).

PREVIOUS MEMBERS (pre 01/96) -

???> Genius (music, 08/94).

Palace is a finnish-based demo group.
  1995 - Wellknown cracker and fixer Rockstar (previously in groups like
Contex, Extacy and Talent) joined around september, and at the same time
Flotsam announced his return from his army service and to active duty for
the group.
  1996 - The Undertaker/Quartex [amiga] joined up in january.


Panavision
----------
  1990 - Zipper joined TAC'2048 around june.


Pandora [old]
-------------
???> Attraction (08-09/93).

Pandora was a danish demo group.
  1993 - The people behind "The Pulse" magazine (Dr.Zivago and Duke) joined
in july, as did Idol/Dominators (who promptly joined the staff of said
magazine). The first issue for Pandora, issue #2, was released at the
beginning of august. The next issue came exactly a month later, and
announced the joining of two new members, graphician Sun Dancer from The
System (who contributed heavily to the issue) and swapper KBS from Nerds.
Now, the goddamn thing is my copy of issue #4 is corrupt, so I don't know
what happened, but by #5 everyone was in a new group, Regina. This means at
least Dr.Zivago, Duke, Idol, KBS, and Sun Dancer...

  The Pulse #2 (august) (1993, 02.08, Multifile Diskmag).
  code: Dr.Zivago, gfx: Duke, music: Moz(ic)Art (intro), Jens Christian
  Huus/Vibrants (mag), editor: Duke (main), Psychobilly/Red Sector Inc,
  Maduplec/Crest.
  review: Unfortunately, I can not offer a full review of this diskmag since
  I can not get it to work properly through CCS64, perhaps it's my diskimage
  there's something wrong with, I don't know... So I can only tell you a few
  things from the one chapter I _CAN_ read without the mag crashing when I
  try to load something else =(
    This mag announced Dr.Zivago and Duke joining from Gridpoint, and Idol
  joining from Dominators. [glenn]

  The Pulse #3 (september) (1993, 01.09, Multifile Diskmag).
  code: Dr. Zivago, gfx: Sun Dancer, music: The Syndrom/Crest/TIA, editor:
  Duke (main), Attraction, Psychobilly/RSI, Maduplec/Crest, Brego/RSI.
  review: Pulse has received a new outfit for its third issue. It's quite
  similar to the last one, in how it looks, but with one important new
  feature: The chapter menu is now to the right of the text, vertically.
  The control method has also changed, you now use the joystick where you
  previously used +/-, return and space. It loads new chapters quite
  snappily, but the loader is also very sensitive. Set your 1541 emulation
  to 'normal', not 'fast' in CCS64 guys! The contents of the mag this time
  is not very exciting, the only real article is the profile/interview on
  Jerry/Triad. We're anxiously awaiting the next issue's World of Demos
  column, though...
    The accompanying note corrects the music credits in the mag. Originally
  Drax/Vibrants had agreed to do the music, but never came through, so they
  had to use The Syndrom's tunes instead... [glenn]


Pandora [new] (1995-)
---------------------
GER> Weasel (also in Avantgarde, new late95).

Pandora was rebuilt in late 1995. Weasel doublejoined from Avantgarde
shortly after. DUNGEON is the whq, and SANITARIUM is the ehq of the group.


Panic Design
------------
FIN> Debris (Jarno Laitinen, gfx swap, 09/94-08/98), Deetsay (music,
     11/97-08/98), Jer (code gfx music, also in No Name, 95-08/98), Lemming
     (Janne Granberg, swap, 01/95).
???> Brizz (music), Dr.Voice (music), Mire (gfx, 08/94), Throne (Janne
     Turunen, swap, 95), Warlock (music).

Panic is a finnish demo group.
  1998 - Assembly in august brought the group's second triumph in as many
years; "Speedway 2" [08/98] was again the winner of the demo competition!

  Speedway 2 (1998, 08.08, Demo).
  code: Jer, Dow Jones (loader), gfx: Debris, Jer, music: Agemixer/Scallop,
  Deetsay. Winner of the Assembly 98 demo competition!
  review: Let me just open by saying I was disappointed with this demo. This
  was after all an Assembly winner, and as such should be something a little
  more special. Unfortunately, this time the results do not reflect quality
  - it was simply best of three bad demos. Most of this demo is presented in
  an every-other-line-blacked-out mode, probably to save rastertime, but
  which makes the demo look extremely bad - even from a distance. In this
  respect, to get fast 3d on the c64, the Smash Designs 4x4 approach is
  preferable. All this might have been tolerable had the 3d been of an
  outstanding quality, but again we can unfortunately not claim that this is
  so. There are a few simple objects - good old duck.3ds, a torus, a cube -
  but they all look too much like animations - and bad ones at that. The
  demo opens and carries on for the entire first diskside with a tune by
  Agemixer that is engaging techno, but becomes repetitive towards the end.
  The main music for the second diskside is by Panic's own Deetsay, and is
  also a pretty good tune. The endpart - or endpic to be exact - has the
  best music in the entire demo, a calm melodic tune by Agemixer done back
  in 1996. Overall this winner leaves me with a sour aftertaste...
    Debris' compopicture for ASM98 appears in the second part (diskside) of
  the demo. [glenn]


Paninaro (PAN)
--------------
HOL> Bam Bam (sysop 'DOWNTOWN', 98/89).
???> Falco, Magnetic, Paco, The Yattering (eng? crack, 08/89), Tri-Dos (eng?
     crack, 08/89).

Boards; DESTROY (usa, 07-08/89).

Paninaro was a cracking group, possibly based in Germany and England.


Panorama
--------
  1990 - Shimada, Hardy and TWF joined Vision in september.


Panoramic Designs (PD, 1990-)
-----------------------------
NOR> Bjørn Røstøen (code gfx, 04/90-05/91), Haavar B. Hojem (code, aka HBH,
     04/90-92), Henning Rokling (music, 04-06/90), Lars Hoff (music,
     Prosonix, 04/90-04/91), Marius Skogheim (04-06/90), Morten Salthe
     (code, 06/90), Olav Mørkrid (code music, 04/90-05/91), Ole Marius
     Petersen (gfx music, Prosonix, aka OMP, 04/90-04/91), Pal (gfx, ex
     Offence, new 05/93), Richard Nygaard (code gfx, aka RND, 04-06/90),
     Stein Pedersen (code gfx, Prosonix, 04/90-04/91), Stig Bakken (06/90).

Panoramic Designs was an all-Norwegian demo group, born in the early months
of 1990 mainly by former members of The Shadows and Abnormal. The fact that
all members used their given christian names and not handles anymore was a
rather unique quality back in those days. Only the swedish group Pretzel
Logic probably preceded them in this. The group further had the strength of
having top norwegian musicians Prosonix as members.
  HBH stated in his demo "The Pezed Bars" that he had left the group for
another one. Olav made an improved version of the Turbo Assembler.
  Olav Mørkrid was previously known as Omega Supreme, Bjørn Røstøen was
previously known as Moonray in Shape, Rawhead and Shadows. Haavar Hojem was
previously ZTH/Abnormal.
  1990 - In july, the group co-hosted the 'Bergen Party'.
  1993 - Norwegian graphician Pal joined from Offence in may.

  Pixel Magic (1990, 14.04, Demo).
  code: Marius Skogheim, gfx: Marius Skogheim, Bjørn Røstøen, music: Ole
  Marius Pettersen, Lars Hoff.
  Released at the Swedish Elite Easter Conference.
  review: While later demos are great, PM shows us an earlier PD. Only the
  final part really shines a little, with its bob-like helicopter in a part
  that looks inspired by the vectorballs part of the Red Sector "Megademo"
  [09/89] on the Amiga. Other than that, music is the main reason to
  download this. The final part contains a cover version of Iron Maiden's
  "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" if you're into that sort of thing.
    The party of release (and hence the release date) is a little bit made
  up of guesswork on my part, since the demo does not quote a year of
  release, only that it was released on the 'Horizon easter party'. There
  were no HZ party in 89 (that I am aware of), and HZ were coarrangers of
  the Swedish Elite Easter Conference 90 - held during the easter holiday.
  There is indications in the demo that this is an early release for PD.
  The demo is a single file, containing 3 demoparts. [glenn]

  Digital Delight (1990, 30.06, Multiload Demo).
  code: Bjørn Røstøen, Olav Mørkrid, Morten Salthe, Haavar B. Hojem, gfx:
  Bjørn Røstøen, Richard Nygaard, music: Lars Hoff, Stein Pedersen, Richard
  Nygaard. Winner of the Bergen Party demo competition!
  review: Another nice demo from PD! The main strength of these guys seem to
  be - apart from the obvious musical excellence - their design. They make
  it look like their productions are a little more than just effects strung
  together. This demo also presents some other niceness, like the cool and
  original intro with the the gun; the horizontal twist-scroller and the
  concluding part, with 55 sideborder dycp's over a great Elfquest picture
  by Richard Nygaard... All to nice, exclusive music! Yeah, I like this...
  [glenn]

  That's The Wave It Is (1991, 30.03, Demo).
  code: HBH, Bjørn Røstøen, Olav Mørkrid, gfx: Richard Nygaard, Bjørn
  Røstøen (chars), music: Geir Tjelta/Moz(ic)Art, Ole Marius Pettersen/
  Prosonix, Richard Nygaard.
  4th in the Horizon Easter Party demo competition.
  review: Another nice production by PD this, with the natural climax still
  being Richard Nygaard's fantastic pictures. In this demo it comes at the
  very end, and sure takes its sweet time displaying onto the screen! The
  rest of the demo is quite ordinary, to be blunt. As always, nice music.
  The demo is a single file.
  [glenn]

  Destination 91 (1991, 30.03, Demo).
  code: Stein, gfx: Ole Marius, Stein (chars), music: Ole, Stein, Lars.
  Released at The Horizon Easter Party 91.
  review: PD present an original, goodlooking 'music demo' in cooperation
  with Prosonix here. That means five tunes of supreme Prosonix quality, and
  quite frankly that just can't be a bad thing! :) When the graphics are
  cool too, and the coding part works, you've pretty much got yourself a
  winner. Just note that this demo focuses on the music, not on coding, so
  there's no fancy effects. Just some cool graphics (love the two cool dudes
  talking!) and even cooler music. Niceness. Also known as "Destination II".
  The demo is a single file. [glenn]

  From Panoramic With Love (1991, 17.05, Demo).
  code: Olav Mørkrid, gfx: Bjørn Røstøen, music: Lars Hoff/Prosonix.
  review: Hehe... More of an intro than a demo, this one was released just
  to fuck over Flash Inc. Apparently a small argument at the Horizon party
  earlier in the year resulted in notes being spread, containing harsh words
  from the Flashers... And so we have war. :-) The intro is quite nice,
  though extremely simple. It's just a large scroller across the middle of
  the screen, and lots of pumping hearts all around it. The demo is a single
  file. [glenn]

  Psykolog (1991, summer, Demo).
  code: HBH, gfx: MS, music: Centurions (game), Transformers (game), Auriga
  (game), Zig Zag (game), Paul Norman "Forbidden Forest" (from the game),
  Zeb. Released at Panoramic Designs and Hoaxers party.
  review: I'm sorry, but I refuse to review HBH's dope fantasies. Please
  keep your addictions to yourselves. Promoting LSD is pathethic, and it
  seems to me like you've missed most of what the scene is about. The demo
  is a single file. [glenn]

  Mentallic (199x, Multiload Demo).
  code: n/a, gfx: Richard Nygaard, music: Olav Mørkrid, Lars Hoff, Stein
  Pedersen.
  review: Now, this is a weird demo... And one that certainly lives up to
  its name! You see, there's not much in the way of normal scrolltexts
  here... All that is occupied with small, noncoherent and suicidal stories.
  Trust me, it's weird. It's a good thing then, that there's so many cool
  effects on offer! The first showstopper for me was the 'marbles' scroller.
  These are balls with a letters mapped onto them, making up a scroller. The
  balls bounce, and as they do, the letters swim around 'inside' them, as if
  they were filled with water! Very cool. Also worth mentioning is the
  'blue' part, with its plasmalike effects, and the amazing picture in the
  endpart. [glenn]

  Pez in My Brain (199x, Demo).
  code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
  review: There are no credits given with this demo, but from the facts that
  HBH coded 'The Pezed Bars', and this also contains dope romantic elements
  (pictures of pipes and marihuana leafs) I'm assuming he's behind this too.
  Nice last part with the balls. Probably did that on a day when you had no
  grass in the house, eh? The demo is a single file. [glenn]

  The Pezed Bars (199x, Demo).
  code: HBH, gfx: HBH, Bjørn (chars), music: Paul Norman, Johannes
  Bjerregaard, ???/Origo.
  review: I'm not gonna review this piece of shit dope promoter of a demo.
  HBH announces that he's leaving for another group. Thank god. The demo is
  a single file. [glenn]

  Parapsykolog (1992, .05?, Multiload Demo).
  code: Olav, HBH, MS, gfx: Olav, MS, HBH, music: Jip/Purebyte, Geir Tjelta,
  Rodland, Drelbs, David Whittaker, Stairway to Heaven (the game).
  review: What is this fucking shit!? I can't believe PD would release this
  pile of digital dung. They can't be fucking serious? I refuse to comment
  further. Well, OK, the plasma shit was kind of okay.
    The release date is a guess, based on them mentioning an easter party
  in the past tense. It's uncertain whether MS is Marius Skogheim or Morten
  Salthe... [glenn]


Papillons, The (TPI, -1988)
---------------------------
DEN> Alpha, Zaz.

The Papillons were a legendary, early Danish cracking and importing group.
They were declared officially dead in july of 1988.


Paradise
--------
???> Mihai (write, 01/04).


Paradize (PRZ)
--------------
N-L> Genius (gfx swap, early91), Hobbit (new 02/92), Moron (crack swap,
     01/91), Reyn Ouwehand (music, new 02/92), Silco (Silco Huang, code
     gfx supply swap, old handle Angerix, early91-early93).
???> Adam (code, new 02/92), Artix (swap, 02/92), Cybex (swap, 02/92), Fox
     (code, new 02/92), State (code, new 02/92).

Paradize is a dutch demo and cracking group group.
  1991 - Predator left to help form Death in january.
  1992 - February brought news of three new coders joining (Adam, State and
Fox), of great musician Reyn Ouwehand joining, and of Moron getting busted
by the police. As a result of this, anyone previously swapping with him are
asked to instead contact Silco, Artix or Cybex. Silco changed his handle to
Angerix for a while, in order to avoid problems with the post office, but
later changed it back.
  1993 - Queen left for Legend in may.

  Wet Dreams 2 (Demo).
  info: Late 91 or early 92.

  Hard Target (1993, early, Demo).
  code/gfx: Silco, music: various.
  info: 69% in Fairlight's "Reformation #2". The demo contains 6 parts.


Paradox [old] (-1992)
---------------------
Paradox was an american importing and fixing group.
  1992 - The group died around february, as Mutant-X and Shadow left to
build a new group called Avatar.


Paradox [new] (PDX)
-------------------
GER> MC Byte (Carsten Keppler, swap, 95).
???> Donar (crack, 95), Kinley (crack, 95).

Paradox was a cracking group.


Paragon
-------
SWE> Hellraiser (crack, 12/90), Poseidon (Levon Saldamli, code crack,
     12/90).
???> Maximillian (new late89), Modesty (new late89), Poupin (new late89).

Paragon was likely a swedish group.
  1989 - Junior, Hilux and Delta were all kicked late in the year after
allegations from the scene of ripping. At the same time they were reinforced
with Poupin, Modesty and Maximillian.
  1990 - Swedish swapper Walker joined from Warrant around june, and was
busted on the 14th of september for illegal swapping: this was the first
ever bust in sweden.
  1991 - Jerker left the scene around april due to his military service.
Uncle X left for Hotline in December.
  1992 - Hellraiser (crack, 12/90) joined Cascada on the pc mid 92.


Paramount [old] (PMT, -1991)
----------------------------
GER> Airwolf (Norman Schnitzer, swap, ex Action, new 01/91), MCL (supply,
     89), PD (gfx swap, 02/90).
???> Breaker (code, 09/89), Domino (90), Dr.Death (ger? new 09/89), Fanatic
     (crack, 12/90), Gorilla (ex Sire, new 08/90), Jinx (crack, late90),
     Magic Circle (new 09/89), Mr.Stack (ex Abyss, new 12/89), Parallax
     (crack, late90), Phantom (ger?, 89), Sky'n'Ass (ex Alpha Flight 1970,
     new 08/90), Stefan (ex Duplex, new 05/89), Steve (ger? 89), TC (ger?
     89), Thage (code), Tom Taylor (ex Alpha Flight 1970, new 08/90),
     Violator (ex Tristar, new 12/90), Whitcher (ger? 89).

Boards; BOOT CAMP (usa, 90), MAD MAD WORLD (usa, 90).

Paramount are a German cracking group. They used to be in importing
partnership with Random. Rick (90) left the scene at some point, but
returned to the scene in Alpha Flight 1970 around january 1996.
  1989 - Stefan joined from Duplex, while Morris was kicked out around
september. That same month also Joe Cool, Magic Circle and Dr.Death joined
the group, and Breaker was caught by the police. He decided to stop all
illegal activities, and instead concentrate on coding a game. Parabound left
for Rough Trade Inc., while Toad and Mr.Stal joined from Abyss in december.
  1990 - Expert was kicked out, while Hybrid left for Hurricane around
february. Toad (ex Abyss, new 12/89) left for the reborn Fusion early this
year. Sky'n'Ass and Tom Taylor/Alpha Flight 1970, Gorilla/Sire and
Wildstyle/Vision all joined around august. Sting (crack) was busted in
september, but continued in the group. Twist joined from Conflict around
september, and released an issue of the diskmag "Coocooc" under that label.
However, due to conflicts with the original editor (Roy), he was not allowed
to continue the mag. Twist then left for Hitmen in december.
  1991 - January saw Jack Daniels and 3DK leave the group for Genesis
Project, taking the mag "Corruption" with them, and Airwolf (swap) joining
from Action. Scratcher (code, 89) was kicked around february. The board
WARES DOMINE went to Triad sometime in the first few months of the year. The
group was then dealt a fatal blow when their most active crackers, germans
Sting (89-) and Maniac (89-) took Joe Cool (89-) with them and departed for
the Ikari + Talent cooperation in late march or early april. Former member
Wildstyle then recruited Tyger, Brego, Godzilla and Crockett for his newly
formed c64 section of TRSI, and thus the group was dead. :(

  The Real Demo (Demo).
  info: Voted demo of the month in "Relax #1".

  Corruption #8 (1990 late?, Diskmag).
  review: This was the last issue released under the Paramount label;
  subsequent ones were released by Genesis Project.


Paramount [new] (PMT, 1993-1993)
--------------------------------
GER> Lynx (Joerg Kosicki, ex Hitmen, crack swap).
???> D.R.I (swap), Exhibit (swap), Hunter (lead crack modem), Spitfire
     (crack modem), Syndicate (code).

Paramount was rebuilt on january 1st 1993 by Hunter/Talent, Syndicate,
Spitfire and Dynasty. The group was extremely shortlived, and died after
only a few weeks of existence. Their death was mostly due to a supposed
copy party being arranged by Hunter, which proved to be nothing but a joke.
The members of his group, who had travelled far to attend, did not see the
humour. Read the articles about this incident in Fairlight's "Reformation
#2" [05/93] and "Reformation #4" [07/93].
  1993 - Bigfoot joined from Excess in january, and several first releases
were made. Slayer left for the Amiga scene early this year. Lynx/Hitmen was
recruited as a cracker around february. At this time things started to get
sour, as Bigfoot let several bad members join, and as a consequence Spitire
and Syndicate left the group after just over 1 month of membershop. Co-
leader, cracker and modem trader Bigfoot left the scene, while Knobby
(trade) left for Excess in may. Cracker, modemtrader and main organizer
Hunter rejoined Talent around june, and thus the group was 100% dead.


Partners In Crime (PIC)
-----------------------
ENG> Rasta (gfx), Romeo (code).

Partners in Crime are an English demo group.

  Raster Magic (Filedemo).
  code: Romeo, gfx: Rasta, music: ripped.
  review: Just an intro screen and a raster-heavy mainpart. A small plus for
  using their own graphics, but that's the best I can say about this too...
  [glenn]


Pentacle
--------
The Pentacle was a german group consisting only of two members; Gremlin
(code) and Dueco. Their most known release was likely their cooperation
crack with The Wanderer Group of the classic game The Great Gianna Sisters
in 1987.


People of Liberty (POL, http://www.pol.c64.org - http://www.pol-c64.de)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
GER> Nafcom (Joerg Droege, edit, 03/03).
ENG> Merman (Andrew Fisher, swap, also in ROLE, 11/02-03/03), Richard
     (music, also in Civitas, 03/03).
???> Cbmhardware (code gfx hardware, 03/03), Chrome (03/03), Der Fuchs
     (03/03), Drake (03/03), Megatron (03/03), Phyrne (03/03), Psychodad
     (03/03), Spatz (03/03), The Overkiller (03/03), Truss (03/03), Wormaus
     (03/03).

People of Liberty are a primarily german group, busying themselves among
other things with the diskmag Scene World (http://www.sceneworld.c64.org).
  2003 - Cbmhardware (now there's an innovative handle ;) joined early this
year as a coder, graphician and hardware expect. Satyr left the scene.
Richard/Civitas (music) joined the group.


Phantasy
--------
POL> Centrax (Damian Stupien, swap, also in Samar, 11/02).


Phobia
------
  1993 - After joining just a month earlier, Wisdom left to help form
Crescent in april.


Phuture
-------
The homepage for their diskmag is http://home.sol.no/~zapotek.
Former european section of Bad Bytes Entertainment Software, Phuture from
Relax #12.

  Relax #11 (1995, .07, Diskmag).
  info: Some controversy was caused over RRR's title picture, which some
  individuals claimed was a converted copy of SEQ/TRSI's "Farfunda" on the
  amiga. It was in fact hand-pixeled on the c64, as explained in the
  following issue's editorial, but BASED on that picture.

  Relax september edition [#12] (1995, 30.09, Diskmag).
  code: Fuben/Oxyron, gfx: RRR/Oxyron (main), Skid Row/ex Alpha Flight 1970
  (charset), music: Pri/Oxyron, editors: Marc/Alpha Flight 1970 (main1),
  Max/Alpha Flight 1970 (main2), RRR/Oxyron (main3), Deff/Avantgarde, Fuben/
  Oxyron, Pri/TIA/Oxyron, Scroll/Megastyle Productions.
  review: Make no mistake, Relax is an extremely attractive magazine. It
  benefits greatly from the pixling talents of RRR, as well as from the
  coding talents of Fuben. It all comes together in a mag that looks damn
  good, from intro to menu outfit. The overall design of the mag -
  graphically and userfriendly-wise - is also extremely good. There is
  simply VERY hard to make a mistake with a layout this clean and clear-cut.
  Just perfect :) If this sounds like I'm laying a lot of praise on the
  audio-visual aspects of this mag, then that's because I do! ;)
    The main reading screen is slightly less visually striking, being
  actually text-only. Having said that, Relax has used a very readable,
  excellent proportional font, stretching the entire length of the screen
  from left to right. Various minor graphical effects (rulers, bullets and
  the like) help keep things organized, and the entire read is smoothly
  scrolled vertically by using the joystick for an enjoyable and relaxing
  read.
    Another thing that puts this mag above the rest is how extremely well-
  written it is. We've been used to accepting some dodgy english from
  diskmags in the past, but this mag is certainly a cut above the rest in
  this respect. This issues editorial content includes the usual news (rrr),
  release charts (marc, deff), board charts (marc, rrr), mail charts (rrr),
  interview with Duke/ex Regina (rrr), Back to the Roots (rrr), Demo Reviews
  (Byterapers "Extremes", Beyond Force "7 Years" - scroll, fuben, pri, rrr),
  Open Letter and finally advertisements. In fact, I feel this issue has
  struck a pretty perfect nerve of how much reading material a regular mag
  like this should contain. Not too much, not too little.
    Though Max and Marc are the two ranking editors in the credits, there is
  little doubt that this is entirely RRR's mag. He made the look, and he
  wrote (or co-wrote) most of the articles. This was Deff's last issue as a
  regular editor, as he secured a new job at the record company DMG Ariola,
  and was forced to move to Berlin. [glenn]

  Relax #13 (1995, 20.11, Diskmag).
  info: Proposed release date.

  Relax #14 (1995, 31.12, Multifile Diskmag).
  code: Fuben/Oxyron, gfx: RRR/Oxyron, Skid Row/ex AFL (charset), music:
  Angee/Therapy, Arne/AFL'70, editors: Marc/AFL'70, Max/AFL'70, RRR/Oxyron.
  info: Intro counts down to new year, then starts fireworks. Good music and
  excellent font in the intro. Also great mag music.

  Relax february edition [#15] (1996, 25.02, Multifile Diskmag).
  INT - code: n/a, gfx: rrr/Oxyron, music: Zardax/Origo Dreamline.
  MAG - code: Fuben/Oxyron, gfx: rrr/Oxyron, Skid Row/Alpha Flight 1970
        (charset), music: "Retrograd" by Zardax/Origo Dreamline, editor:
        rrr/Oxyron.
  review: Another graphically stunning intro opens the 15th edition of
  Relax; rrr once again proves he is one of the very best artists working in
  the scene today. The background picture for the textplotter in the intro
  is rendition of a fantasy picture, possibly (but don't hold me to this)
  originally done by Boris Vallejo - of three women posing, almost as trees,
  with some actual trees in the background. Amiga artist Archmage/Andromeda
  won The Gathering 93 graphics competition with a rendition of this same
  image ;)
    The mag itself still looks smashing, and carries its clean design from
  earlier editions. The logo used for the menu this time is another great
  one from rrr. Little or nothing appears to have changed in the code since
  the last reviewed issue (#12). Editorially, apart from the usual news and
  charts, we can read an in-depth and interesting interview with Metal/
  Vibrants, as well as reviews of some recent demos. A good issue, though
  perhaps not an outstanding one. [glenn]

  Relax #23 Winter 98 (1998, 01.02, Diskmag).
  editors: Marc/AFL, RRR/Oxyron, Violator/AFL.

  Relax #24 spring 98 (1998, 13.05, Diskmag).


Pirates
-------
  1991 - Coroner was caught for cheating stamps in january.


Plush (+H, http://www.plush.de)
-------------------------------
GER> Cosowi (Enno Coners, music, 12/94-04/97), Fanta (Alexander Rotzsch,
     music, also in Bass, later Oxyron, 12/94-01/95), Krill (Gunnar
     Ruthenberg, code, 04/00-01/04).
???> Caprice Design (gfx swap, 12/94-04/00), Dow Jones (code swap, 12/94),
     Honk (swap, 12/94), Map (mainorg code swap, 12/94), Mip (gfx, 12/94),
     Seba (gfx, 12/94), Tecmo (code, 12/94).

Plush is a german demo group, who has also recently started doing a few pc
intros.
  2003 - Krill contributed some additional programming to the release of
Onslaught and Wrath Designs' diskmag "Vandalism News #40 - Ruby Edition".

  Plushworld (1996, 07.04, Demo).
  4th in the Symposium 96 demo competition.

  +H4K (2000, 23.04, 4k Intro).
  production: Krill, Caprice, Fanta.
  Winner of the Mekka Symposium 2000 4k intro competition!


Plutonium Crackers ([PC])
-------------------------
GER> Alien, CJW, Don.

PC were a cracking group, active around 1987.


Poison
------
GER> Ace (gfx swap, 02/90), Warlord (swap, 02/90).

  1990 - The Guard was busted by the police around february.


Poltergeist (PGT)
-----------------
FRA> Al Capone (swap, 04/89), Bugboy (crack swap, 04-08/89), Lypstick
     (crack swap, 04/89).
???> Hellraiser (code, 08/89).

Poltergeist were a French cracking group.


Powerage
--------
NOR> TN (Kay Arnesen, code, 01/97).
N-L> Funkilla (Edwin de Nijs, swap, also in Genlog, 95).

TN coded the utility "Mandelbrot Generator V1.0" (01/97).


Powers of Pain (POP)
--------------------
HOL> Enforcer (Niklaj Eijk, swap, old handle ILT, 10-12/90), Sonix (ex
     Conflict, new 07/90).
???> Ixon (ex Oregon, new 05/91).

Powers of Pain are, apparently, a dutch group.
  1990 - Sonix joined from Conflict in july. Centauri joined in december.
ILT changed his handle to Enforcer.
  1991 - Ixon joined from Oregon around may.


Pragmatix
---------
NOR> Hans-Jurgen Hansen (code gfx, 03/89), Jesper Larsen (gfx, 03/89).

  Pro! (1989, 25.03, Intro).
  code: Hans-Jurgen Hansen, gfx: Jesper Larsen, Hans-Jurgen Hansen, music:
  JCH/Vibrants. Released for the Ikari and Zargon party demo competition.
  review: What were they thinking? Entering a 36 block intro in a demo
  competition? An not even a very good one... Enough said. [glenn]


Presence
--------
GER> NRG (swap, 03/92), Terminator (swap, 03/92).

Coder Hawk joined Alpha Flight 1970 mid 94.


Pretzel Logic (P.L, 1988-)
--------------------------
SWE> Fredrik 'Rico' Blom (code, 90-91), Johannes Sjogren (gfx, ex Visual/
     Science 451, new late 91), Jonas Holmsten (gfx, 90-91), Mikael
     'Micke' Edlund (gfx, 90-91), Rastan (11/89), Sanke M. 'SMC' Choe
     (music, also in The Imperium Arts, 91-04/93).

Pretzel Logic is a Swedish demo group, born in November 1988. In a
memberlist in the note for their demo "The Royal Scam" [91], they claim to
also have an Amiga coder, Fredrik Eriksson. The name of the group comes
from an album title by Steely Dan.
  1993 - In the first few months of the year, SMC joined the musicgroup The
Imperium Arts as his second group, and made quite a few tunes for their
release of "Zakplayer 3.2" [04/93].

  Gaucho (Demo).
  Apprently made before the game 'Phaedra'.

  Phaedra (Game).
  code: Fredrik Blom, gfx: Mikael Edlund, music: SMC/Skyline Technics.
  review: Phaedra is, quite simply, just another TETRIS. No frills, really,
  just another TETRIS. There are far worse than this around, of course, but
  there are also quite a few that's better. Some better brick graphics and
  some sound effects would have helped a lot! The game is a single file.
  [glenn]

  Batmania (1990, spring, Filedemo).
  code: Fredrik Blom, gfx: Jonas Holmsten, Micke Edlund (chars), music: JCH
  (intro), Maniacs of Noise (demo).
  review: A pretty standard tie-in demo, made to 'cash in' on the then new
  'Batman The Movie'. The intro part is a simple logo and upscroller, while
  the demo part is a standard scroller and an animated picture of the batguy
  himself. All graphics seem original, and quite acceptable. Both music
  pieces are ripped, but are quite good.
    Found a copy of this on a disk where everything else was from may 1990,
  so that may give you a good indication that the release date was somewhere
  thereabouts =] [glenn]

  The Royal Scam (1991, late, Multiload Demo).
  code: Fredrik Blom, gfx: Mikael Edlund, Jonas Holmsten, music: Sanke Choe,
  JCH/Vibrants, TDM/Triad.
  review: Another nice demo from Pretzel Logic, with some nicely designed
  parts. The best two are the one with the animated person in the swing, and
  the Palm Beach part. A nice demo, with glimpses of a good atmosphere in
  places. There's nothing really wrong with this demo, it's just not
  fabulous. It's good, but not exceptional. All included music (including
  the JCH tunes) appear to have been made exclusively for this demo. This is
  supposedly the first time ever a tune is released written by JCH in his
  digi player (samples, not just synthetic sound). There is also a note in
  addition to the demo. They‘ve used their own noter, and it's pretty nice.
  It was coded by Fredrik Blom, with graphics by Mikael Edlund and music by
  JCH/Vibrants. This demo introduced Johannes Sjogren as a new member.
  [glenn]


Pride
-----
  1993 - Coder, cracker and graphician Ollie left to join Chromance early
this year.


Princes
-------
GER> Asmodis (org swap, 03/92), Ecstasy (swap, 02/92).


Prizma
------
???> Scarface (90), Wizlord (90).


Probe
-----
  1990 - Disc left for Motion around february.


Process
-------
  1990 - Challenger left for Warriors of Time around february.

  Searching '90 (1990, Demo).


Profik
------
Profik is a hungarian demo group.

  Mergezo Anyag 3 (1995, 02.12, Demo).
  code: Profi 1, Profi 1.5, gfx: Profi 2, music: Roy/Replay.
  Winner of the Liquid 95 demo competition!

  Fatal (T)Error (1996, 20.07, Demo).
  info: This demo presents what is supposedly the c64's first phong torus,
  but it is claimed in Oxyron's demo "ReLIGHTening" [09/96] that this
  routine is NOT realtime, and that theirs is therefore the first real
  implementation.


Profile (1993-)
---------------
Profile was born around may 1993. Their member Raz (code) made the game
"Hagar The Horrible".


Propaganda
----------
Propaganda is an independent diskmag.

  Propaganda #18 (1995, .07, Diskmag).

  Propaganda #19 (1995, .09, Diskmag).


Prosonix
--------
NOR> Lars Hoff (music), Lynx (Diderich Buch), Ole-Marius Pettersen (music),
     Stein Pedersen (music).

Prosonix was a Norwegian music group, doing music for demos and games. IMHO,
they were among the best music groups out there!! Thanks to Lynx for
appreciation ;)
  1989 - Lynx left Shadows to be in Prosonix only around december.


Proxyon
-------
FRA> Redwing (Philippe Soreau, swap, 03/92).

Dutch coder and cracker Zar joined Chromance.


PSI
---
???> Megmyx (music, also in Storm, 08/94).


Public Enemy (PE)
-----------------
USA> Alien (code, 12/87-02/88), Alley Kat (12/87), Deathrocker (02/88), Kid
     Ice (02/88), Megatech (02/88), The Codebreaker (code, 12/87-02/88), The
     Perplexer (import, 12/87-02/88), Youngking (02/88).

Boards; THE AFTERMATH (usa, 02/88).

Public Enemy as an American importing group.


Pulsar
------
GER> Jake (swap, early91), Nothingface (also in Clique, 03/92-early93).
DEN> QED (crack, later Triangle 3532, 05/90).
AUS> Cruze (swap, 03/92).

Pulsar are a German cracking group.
  1989 - After TMB, 2705 and two amiga members (Woody and Legal Eagle) left
around september, the group was declared dead in Relax #1, which in
hindsight seems to have been false. Coder Jog joined DCS in august.
  1990 - The cooperation with WWE broke up around february. Transfer joined
from Event around february.
  1991 - The early part of the year saw the departure of Transfer (crack)
for the Amiga, and with their only cracker gone, several mags concluded that
the group was dead. They were wrong.


Purebyte
--------
???> Yip (music, 86).


Pyrotech
--------
When the group broke up, brothers Raistlin (code) and Kreator left to form
Excess with some previous members of DCS.


Pyton
-----
  1991 - Bullseye left to help form Death in january.