Vagabonds
---------
GER> Voyage (Stefan Redelsky, swap, 01-02/93).

Vagabonds was a cracking group.
  1993 - Firefly left for Amnesia around february.


Varsity
-------
AUT> Andrea (swap, 02/93), Dannie (Reinhard König, swap, 03/92), Marc (swap,
     02-03/92).
???> Stax (music).

Varsity was a demo group. Andrea was female, a pretty rare occurence in
those days. Nice to see that the scene has progressed at least A LITTLE
in this respect since then. :)
  1993 - The group lost a coder and cracker, when Vector left for Sunrise
around february. Tragedy struck the group in april, as Charlie was killed in
a car accident travelling to a copy party in sweden at easter time...

  Girls (1992, 28.12, Demo).
  Released for The Party 92 demo competition.


Vaudeville
----------
POL> Shapie (Tomasz Loga, gfx music).
???> Azgar (gfx, 98).


Venator (1993-)
---------------
Venator was built by previous members of Hitmen in february of 1993.
  1993 - Master Jay left for Elysium in may.


Verdict (1991-)
---------------
???> Druid (founder supply swap trade), KRS (founder music supply swap).

Verdict was formed in january of 1991 by Druid and KRS from Culture.


Vermes (VMS)
------------
???> Colabor (code, late95), Eye (music, 12/94), Harti (gfx, 12/94), Trash
     (code gfx, 12/94).

Colabor coded the painter utility "Super Hires Interlace Editor".
  1995 - Colabor contributed a noter to the Agony demo "Love" late this
year.
  1996 - Archangel left to form a new polish division of Alpha Flight around
january.

  Exodus (1994, 29.12, File).
  code: Trash, gfx: Harti, Trash, music: Eye.
  2nd in the Elysium Party demo competition.
  review: Not a very good demo from Vermes this time, I'm afraid. Not really
  anything directly wrong with it either, it's just so utterly uninspiring
  and uninteresting. For every truly great demo you see, you sit through
  about a 100 boring ones. This is one of those 100. [glenn]


Vibrants (1989-, http://www.vibrants.dk)
----------------------------------------
DEN> Drax (Thomas Mogensen, music, also in Bonzai, later Crest, 89-09/96),
     JCH (Jens-Christian Huus, code music, 89-91), Laxity (Thomas Egeskov
     Petersen, music, ex Maniacs of Noise, new 09/90-08/94), Link (Klaus
     Grongaard, music, ex Cheyens, 89-09/96), Metal (Torben Hansen, music,
     90-94).
ENG> Deek (Richard Rinn, music, also in Genesis Project, new 07/90-93).

Vibrants was a music group, formed in september of 1989 by JCH, Drax and
Link as a subgroup of the AMOK music department. They quickly became one of
the most successful music groups on the C64, at times rivalling the Maniacs
of Noise for popularity. However, they were much more closely linked to the
demo scene than MON. Some of their members later continued working under the
Vibrants name on the PC.
  1990 - English musician Deek joined in july, but also kept his membership
in Genesis Project. Drax became a doublemember of the demogroup Bonzai
around august, and Laxity joined from Maniacs of Noise in september. Both
Laxity and Link contributed tunes to Crest's demo "2 Years Crest" [10/90] in
october.
  1992 - JCH finally abandoned the c64 platform for the pc this year.
  1996 - Both Drax and Link made exclusive contributions to Oxyron's demo
"ReLIGHTening", released in september.


Victims (1991-)
---------------
SWE> Dr.Cool (ex Censor).
FIN> Rockstar (Juho, crack, ex Extasy, later Palace), TMB (swap, ex Extasy).
GER> Drake (ex Extasy), God (crack, ex Dynamix), Roy (code, ex Dynamix), The
     Syndicate (code crack, ex Dynamix).

Boards; SHANGRALI (also in Action, 06/91).

Victims was formed early 1991 by Dr.Cool who was kicked from Censor,
together with his friend Adolf/Censor and most members of the recently
deceased groups Dynamix and Extasy. After everyone in the group slowly went
inactive around 1994, Adolf rejoined Censor to work on a game (Bouncy Balls)
with Bob.


Victory
-------
HOL> Asterix (swap, 03/92), Lonestar (swap, 03/92).


Virgin
------
???> Assasin, Dean (ex Mechanix, new 05/89), Drake, Dr.Cool (ex Galaxy, new
     89), John Sinclair, Luxor (ex Matrix, new 12/89), Mr.Mad, Nam (ex
     Galaxy, new 89), Rocha, Sensation.

Virgin. Thanks to NiM for information!
  1989 - Dr. Cool and Nam joined from Galaxy. Dean joined from Mechanix in
May. Dave and Rocker left for Contex around september. Luxor joined from
Matrix in december.


Virus
-----
  1990 - Swedes Twix and Sky joined Antic around july.


Vision [old] (VSN, 1988-1990)
-----------------------------
HOL> Shock (swap, 10/88), TSM (code, 10/88).
SWE> Bluez (ex Choice, new 05/90), Econ (ex Choice, new 05/90), Gryzor (ex
     Choice, new 05/90), Scooby (ex Choice, new 05/90), Status (swap, ex
     Choice, new 05-08/90), Zagon (ex Choice, new 05/90).
???> Blo (new 09/89), Hardy (ex Panorama, new 09/90), Macumba (ex 711, new
     09/90), Shimada (ex Panorama, new 09/90), Tomcat (ex Exact, new
     07/90), TWF (ex Panorama, new 09/90).

Vision was a primarily dutch demo group.
  1988 - The group achieved success with their very first demo, "Legalise
It" [10/88] topping the competition at the MGF + JOY + WWE party in
october!
  1989 - Blo joined, while Dutch graphician HPH (10/88-) left to work for
Double Density around september. Merlin left for WWE in december.
  1990 - Cracker Jihad (Vision was his first group) was persuaded by
Spitfire/Action to join Action late january. Swedes Bluez, Econ, Gryzor,
Scooby, Status, Zagon and Zinus were all recruited from Choice around may,
though Zinus' stay was short - he left around june. Finnish AMJ joined from
Motion, while Tomcat joined from Exact in july. Wildstyle left for
Paramount around august. Shimada, Hardy and TWF joined from Panorama, while
Macumba joined from 711 in september. Vision split up and died in november
and december of 1990. All the good Swedish and Danish coders went to Light,
and the entire german section joined Hitmen. WOW's "Internal #3" [01/91]
wrote that RAF and Curlin (crack) had joined Hitmen, but in reality RAF
never did. The mistake was cleared up in the next issue of Internal.

  Legalise It (1988, 17.10, Multifile Demo).
  code: TSM, gfx: HPH, music: various.
  Winner of the MGF + JOY + WWE Copy-Party demo competition!
  review: "LI" is an uneven demo, which shines more than it rusts, and is
  easily the best demo from 1988 I have seen. It's a multi-part demo, where
  the first part you load serves as an intro of sorts, and once you press
  space you are given a choice of loading any of the six other parts in the
  demo. None of these load further after viewing, but each can be loaded and
  executed individually. All code was done by TSM and all graphics by HPH,
  while the music is likely all ripped - and only with the correct credits
  given in two of the overall seven parts. After the intro, which is nothing
  spectacular, we will review each of the subsequent parts with their
  numbers as given in the selector:
    part 1 - We can assign no other name to this than tech-texh raster. It
  features rasterbars over large portions of the screen, while the middle
  features what seems like a 'band', don't know if it was done with
  rastersplits or whatever, but this band at least waves in a tech-tech like
  fashion. Music by Maniacs of Noise.
    part 2 - This one is nicely designed: the top half is occupied by a
  bouncing Vision logo with colors going through it, in a neon-light-like
  fashion. This is done over rasterbars, with a scroller over a starfield on
  the lower half of the screen.
    part 3 - This is the first 'wow' part, as it features a BIG colorful
  scroller at the top of the screen. Beneath this a blue Vision logo is
  given the tech-tech treatment, and below that again a blue planet travels
  from side to side.
    part 4 - This is rather unspectacular, with a VSN logo moving around the
  screen while exploding and imploding into itself... Below this is a
  scroller overlaid on a single rastersplit.
    part 5 - The best part technically, we suspect, this one brings a huge,
  big dotscroller top the top half of the screen! Vision sprites are
  bouncing around, and a great Vision-in-the-mountains logo rests at the
  bottom of the screen. I *KNOW* that music is on the tip of my tongue, but
  I just can't seem to remember who did it... =[
    part 6 - The concluding part has the text 'VISION NO.1' pressed across
  the bottom two thirds of the screen, done in the same font as used for the
  large scroll in part 3. In addition, this graphics piece moves slightly
  from side to side. A scroller at the top of the screen has a 'pseudo-sine-
  scroll' effect, in that it kind of changes level half-way across the
  screen... oh just download and watch, and you'll know what I mean! =)
    What makes "Legalise It" a cut above the rest, is the good (for its
  time) graphics, the sense of design and the very cool coding expressed in
  parts like the dotscroller. It's simply just a cut above the others, and
  that is what makes it just a little special. They mention in the scroller
  (in the intro I think) that this was their first demo. [glenn]


Vision [new] (VSN, -1993)
-------------------------
SWE> Inxs (swap, 02/92), Midnight Mover (sysop 'ILLUSION OF REALITY', also
     in Genetix, 02/93), Status (ex Light, new early92), Zagon (Magnus Lind,
     code, ex Light, new early92).
FIN> Cewin (ex Extacy, new 02/93), Scow (Arto Ahola, ex Extacy, new 02/93).
???> Cruel (10/93), Dishy (10/93), Diskbandit (10/93), Fozzie (gfx music, ex
     Noice, new 02/92), Heavyhead (10/93), Hubba (10/93), Iceball (10/93),
     Icon (10/93), Mr.Smart (10/93), Ray (10/93), Satan (crack, 92-10/93),
     Skyflash (code, new 02/92), Wolf (10/93), Xoss (10/93), X-Radical (ex
     Nirvana, new 05-10/93).

Vision was reborn. 'ILLUSION OF REALITY' is the oldest scene board in
Sweden!
  1992 - Crossfire (crack swap) joined from Unique but very quickly left
again to join Acrise, Skyflash (code) joined, Dealer (aka Curlin) left,
Fozzie/Noice (gfx music) joined - all around february. Zagon released
version 6.3 of his charpacker called Visiomizer in february.
  1993 - Scow and Cevin joined from Extacy around february, and brought
their diskmag Culture with them. X-Radical joined from Nirvana in may. Xoss
was reported as leaving the scene in may (source: Bodycount's "Vandalism
News #10" [06/93]), which must be a mistake, since I have a record of him
still being in vision as late october. Droves of people left in may; Wave
joined Camelot, Scope and Midnight Mover (sysop 'ILLUSION OF REALITY')
joined Triad, Malcom joined X-Factor, while Satan and Ray joined F4CG. This
last one is doubtful, as they are both recorded as members in october...
Fairlight's "Reformation #3" [06/93] carried news that the group had died.
Dr.Jones left in october, since he was unhappy with the activity of Satan
and the group in general.
  1994 - Zore (or Xore?, 10/93) joined Palace in september.


Visual Reality (VR)
-------------------
DEN> Ricky (code, ex Bonzai, new 02/92), Smash, Tricket (Jesper Jensen,
     sysop 'DOMINIC' WHQ, ex Dominators, 09/93), Walt (Anders Fogh, code gfx
     music, ex Bonzai, new 02/92).

Visual Reality were a Danish demo group.
  1992 - Danes Ricky and Walt were recruited from Bonzai around february,
surely adding muscle to the group's demo making abilities!
  1993 - Danish sysop Tricket joined from Dominators around september, after
that group died. He is also the group's pr person.

  Visuality III (1992, 28.12, Demo).
  code: Walt, others, gfx: JTM, Sanity, music: n/a.
  Released for The Party 92 demo competition.
  info: Third and last demo in Visuality series, apparently very good.
  Originally competed in The Party 92 demo competition in a single-file
  edition, then slightly improved and finally released to the general public
  in april or may of 1993.


Voodoo
------
POL> Blemish (Grzegorz Saczuk, swap, also in Tropyx and Draco, 07/03).


Vortex 42 (V42, 1987-1987)
--------------------------
Vortex 42 was a swedish cracking group, originally formed around may or june
1987 when The Limit Crew changed their name. The group died late the same
year, when Rygar, Bilbo, Blade, Judge and Radius joined members from The
Warlocks and Alpha Range 89 in forming a new group called Science 451.