Wanderer Group, The (TWG, 1987-)
--------------------------------
???> Detonator (01/88), J-Up (87), Lukullus (crack, ex Fantasy Cracking
     Service, new 12/87), Mr.Zeropage (01/88), Speedcracker (87), Rub
     (87-01/88), Tangerine (87), Tef (87), Trashian (87), Vip (87).

The Wanderer Group were a German cracker group, formed around september
1987, with famous members like Speedcracker (ex Trianon) and Starline.
  1988 - Inside The Building (previously Rubberduck) left the scene in
october.


Warrant
-------
SWE> Bagzy (swap, ex Disoner, new 06-07/90), White Lion (swap, 06/90).
HOL> Raymond (ex Cruisers, new 06/90).
???> Wizzy (swe? ex Choice, new 05/90).

Warrant were apparently a swedish demo group.
  1990 - Around may, Wizzy joined from Choice while Loyd was kicked from the
group. Swedish swapper Walker left for Paragon while Bagzy/Disoner and
Raymond/Cruisers joined around june.


Warriors of Time (WOT)
----------------------
???> Dolla (ex Megastyle, new 07/90), Dr.Stuff (ex Impulse, new 02/90).

Warriors of Time was a demo group, possibly based in Norway.
  1989 - Wawen left briefly for Genesis Project, before finally settling in
Dynamix, in december.
  1990 - Dr.Stuff joined from Impulse, CTN from Babygang and Challenger from
Process, all around february. Butch left for Atrix around may. Dolla joined
in july, after having been kicked out of Megastyle. Rooster, Tamtrax and
Challenger moved on to Bonzai around september, taking the mag Slowpoke with
them.
  1991 - Swedes Jadawin (music) and Powpin left for Padua around early
march.

  Moonwalk (1990, Demo).
  code: Tamtrax, Challenger, gfx: Rooser, music: Harmony Productions.


Warriors of Wasteland (WOW, http://members.aol.com/skonarkows/)
---------------------------------------------------------------
BEL> Chacke (crack, 91-06/93), Einstein (Ives, mainorg swap, 01/91-06/93),
     Matt (swap, 02/92-06/93), Stormlord (swap, 02/91-06/93).
GER> Iceman (Stephan Hofmann, code gfx, 07/98).
NOR> Wax (swap, 06/93).
???> Alive (06/93), Azzaro (06/93), Boca (06/93), Cliff (code, ex Cult,
     06/93), Drakkar (06/93), DST (04/98), Ispace (rejoined from Duel, new
     01/91-06/93), Kingpin (06/93), Morbid (code music, also in Rebels,
     06/93), Nantco (06/93), Pfk (code music, 07/98), Pussyfooter (rejoined
     09/94), Sorex (supply, later Nostalgia, 06/93-12/98), THCM (06/93),
     Tristar (06/93), Vince (06/93), WHV-Design (06/93), Vip (gfx music,
     triplememb Padua and Role, 07/98).

PREVIOUS MEMBERS -

BEL> Cruel (swap, ex Energy, new 01/91), Divine (Nico, code crack editor,
     01/91), Hires (gfx swap, ex Internal Affairs, new late90), Humanoid
     (music swap, 01/91), Jones (code crack swap), Rainman (ex Energy, new
     01/91), Turricane (swap, 02/91), Yoga (gfx), Zod (digitizer swap).
GER> Dense (swap, 01/91), Elwood (code gfx, ex Abyss, new late90-01/91),
     Scum (gfx), Vincent (gfx, ex Fresh, new 01/91).
NOR> Unix (code swap, ex Quintex).
SWE> Tech (swap, 03/92).
ENG> Maestro (Rodney, swap, 03/92).
SCO> Rimtrix (swap, 03/92).
N-L> Airtec (Maarten Dries, swap, 01/91).
???> Alien (Stefan Konarkowski, music), Apollo (trade), Beachtiger (ex Mega
     Power Design, new 01/91), Birdman (new 01/91), Clive (new 01/91), Death
     Stalker (ex Mega Power Design, new 01/91), Hitch (code), Jake The Snake
     (new 01/91), Joker (Gavin, swap, 02/92), Kid (code swap, ex Orion),
     Mayday (ex Disoner, new 01/91), Ranko (ex Akrak, new 01/91), The
     Overlord (code, new 01/91), Vinzz (gfx, 01/91).

WOW is a mainly Belgian cracking group, under the leadership of Einstein.
  1991 - The first 'real' issue of Internal, "Internal #3 - The Next
Generation" [01/91] was released at Venlo in january, announcing a.o. that
supplier Ziggy (who had joined from Legend not much earlier) had left the
scene. This left the group once again without an original supplier, but the
group held had an internal meeting in Antwerp to discuss their supplier
problems, and were confident that they would sort out their problems.
"Internal #4" [02/91] was thus released at Venlo in february. Belgian
swapper Tornado (01/91) left for F4CG early in the year. Hunter left WOW in
november after having some problems with Matt, and joined Talent.
  1993 - Belgian swapper Stormbringer joined Role, and Cruel joined Epic and
Device early in the year. Coder and trader Pulse left the group from Excess
in may. Witty (gfx) joined from Lithium in may, and contributed an intro
picture to Bodycount's "Vandalism News #10" [06/93] in june. Morbid joined
as a doublemember from Rebels, while Cliff/Cult joined up around june.
Corrosive, Witty, Roadkill and Silver (gfx) were kicked out in june! Silver
joined Red Sector Inc. in october.
  1994 - Pussyfooter rejoined as coleader in september.
  1995 - News that they had died around january (published in a.o. Newspress
#16) would prove to be false.

  Internal #2 (1990, .12?, Diskmag).
  code: Divine, gfx: Vincent/Fresh (logo), music: n/a.
  review: This is almost an internal magfile for the group, but still made
  as a production. It opens with an intro of sorts, with a red WOW logo with
  two bizarre blue faces on either side on top of the screen, and what seems
  to be two border patterns occupying the space beneath it. You expect some
  text or something to appear between these two borders, but nothing ever
  does, so you press space. The main part is a simple mag routine, with a
  logo at the top of the screen and text pages that can be flipped between
  with + and -. Not much to read, mostly (as mentioned) internal news and
  memberlist etc. The mag comes with a simple note, written with a
  notewriter also coded by Divine, "Madness V5". The music in the intro is
  entirely forgettable, while the main tune is nicely melodic.
    This mag announces a lot of changes for the group, most notably the
  joining of Divine - the first issue of "Internal" was released for his
  previous group Unicess. Kid (ex Orion) joined; Scorpie (gfx, ex Crest)
  joined briefly before moving on to F4CG; germans Elwood and Scum joined
  from Abyss; Hires joined from Internal Affairs [no entry]; norwegian coder
  and swapper joined from Quintex [no entry]; Yoga (gfx) joined with Divine
  from Unicess; Ispace left the group for Duel [no entry].
    Prior to the release of Internal #2, the group had experienced some
  problems; due to problems with their original supplier they were unable to
  make releases, and therefore lost their american section. This mag
  announced Ziggy had joined from Legend, thus giving the group a supplier
  again. A remark in the note lead us to believe it was released at Venlo,
  probably (but not certainly) in december. The mag is a single file.
  [glenn]

  Internal #3 - The Next Generation (1991, 26.01, Filemag).
  code: Divine, gfx: Vincent (intrologo), Scorpie/F4CG (maglogo), Elwood
  (big char), music: Image (intro), Prosonix (mag), editor: Divine (main),
  Einstein. Released at the Venlo Meeting.
  review: This issue IS quite an improvement on the last one, both as far as
  coding and content is concerned. The first news is that it is now
  published by Dynamic Design (DD), a WOW subgroup. It never becomes evident
  exactly who, besides Divine, is a member of this subgroup, but... =) This
  issue opens with a short, simple scroll informing us about DD and the
  release venue, before the real intro. They've used the logo from last
  issue's magpart, kept the borders from last issue's intro, and inserted a
  scroller inbetween these. The music is entirely forgettable. Space.
    The mag itself has gotten the biggest overhaul. First of all, it is now
  controlled with the joystick, which is a marked improvement on last
  issue's +/- method. The second BIG news is that this is now a REAL mag,
  not just WOW's internal mag (despite the fact that they've kept the name).
  This means increased editorial content; in this issue just news and a
  pretty uninteresting interview. The screen design is also new, there is
  now a new city skyline-style blue Internal logo at the top of the screen,
  with the words The Next Generation scrolling by. The news item about
  RAF/Vision joining Hitmen with Curlin is untrue; see the review of next
  issue for more information.
    This issue carries news of further big changes in WOW, perhaps most
  dramatically that Ziggy left the scene, again leaving the group without an
  original supplier. Members were admitted en masse, those whose joing was
  announced in this issue was: Vincent (whose logo was used in both the last
  and this issue) from Fresh; Hires from Internal Affairs (already announced
  in the last issue); Jake The Snake, The Exorcist (who promptly changed his
  handle to The Overlord); Birdman; Ranko/Akrak [no entry]; Rainman/Energy;
  Ispace/Duel (who rejoined); Mayday/Disoner [no entry] and Clive - 10 in
  total. Elwood was caught by both the post and the police, and so had to
  stop all swapping. [glenn]

  Internal #4 (1991, .02?, Filemag).
  INT - code: The Overlord, gfx: Vinzz (logo), music: none.
  MAG - code: Dicine, gfx: Scorpie (logo), Elwood (big char), music:
        Prosonix, editor: Divine (main), Einstein.
  review: After the uninspiring intro (OK logo tho') with absolutely NO
  music, for some reason, we reach a mag that hasn't changed one single bit
  visually since the last issue. Not only that, the very first page says
  'INTERNAL #003'! This REALLY IS issue #4 though. The rest of the mag has
  not changed much since last time; the usual news and release charts are
  ever present. There is even two movie reviews this time, for some reason,
  for Home Alone and Highlander 2. The music is the same great tune as last
  time; sad they couldn't find a new one for each issue... They misspell
  Glerc/Science 451's name in the news section. There's a letter published
  by Curlin/Hitmen, clearing up a problem with the news in the previous
  issue, where it was claimed that someone named 'RAF' joined the group
  together with Curlin; this is untrue.
    Also this issue presented some internal news from WOW; Rainman has coded
  two games and is searching for publishers; Cruel joined from Energy;
  Beachtiger and Death Stalker joined from Mega Power Design. [glenn]

  5 Years Of WOW (1992, 28.12, Demo).
  Released for The Party 92 demo competition.

  Home Invasion (1998, 18.07, Demo).
  code: Iceman (main), Pfk (intro), gfx: Vip (pic), Hogan/Reflex (logo+pic),
  Iceman, music: Pfk (main), Vip (end).
  2nd in the Wired 98 demo competition.
  review: This lost out to Smash Designs in this compo, and we can't say
  anyhting else than that that was a totally fair decision. While "Outbreak"
  was an above-average demo, "Home Invasion" is simply an average demo.
  After an introductory sequence with mostly b&w imagery and a plasma-like
  effect combined with occassional tv noise to present the credits, we are
  shown a "H.I." logo before the demo loads the next part. This part was
  mostly done by Pfk.
    The first effect in the next part is a colorcircle-zoomer, done in 8x8
  resolution, but quite nicelooking anyway... Then another "H.I." logo, this
  time in b&w. A nice shadebobs effect follows, a small poem and then onto a
  fullscreen pic by Vip. The next part has an awesome WOW 98 logo done by
  Hogan/Reflex, certainly the best image in this demo! Other than that, it
  features some tech-tech-over-rasterbars wizardry at the bottom of the
  screen and a greeetingsscroll. Then an otherwise unfilled screen shows us
  a poem, and then a picture of Bill Gates which is duly morphed into shape
  =) We end our show with a small picture of a dragon done by Hogan/Reflex,
  and a b&w image saying THE END with a little text overlaid explaining the
  name of the demo and where it was released.
    The demo comes with a note written using Nos Writer 1.1 by ZZR/Nitrus in
  july of 1996. It features the music piece "Sub" by Per Almered, which
  probably came with the writer. Iceman mentions a hidden part in the note,
  if anyone knows how to access this then we'd like to know =) The demo is
  multifile, but with a directory structure that obscures the real size.
  [glenn]

  Halfbaked (1998, 19.09, Demo).
  code: Raven, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
  3rd in the X 98 demo competition.


WASP
----
???> Lancelot (crack, 04/87).

WASP was a swedish cracking group. I have a definite feeling that we later
saw Lancelot in another group under another handle, but... if anyone knows,
we'd love to share the knowledge.


Weird
-----
???> THK (ex Opale, new 07/90).

  1990 - THK joined from Opale around july.
  1991 - The group started a cooperation with The Ancient Temple around
january.


Weird Science (WS)
------------------
DEN> Zoolex (Nino Arndt, music).

Weird Science was a demo group.
  1989 - German Snoopy joined from Contex, but was quickly kicked. He is
now known as Twilight Zone/NFC. Swedish coder Unifier left for Censor late
1989; he released a version of his program Contact Dealer for WS.


West Coast Crackers (WCC, -1987)
--------------------------------
SWE> HJ (founder), Nobody (founder), Zeb (founder).

WCC was a legendary Swedish cracker group, formed from the group SCM.
The founding members of WCC are believed to have been Zeb, Nobody, HJ and
Mr.Pinge. WCC died in april of 1987, when the two top crackers No.1 and
Galahad decided to leave to form a new group, the legendary FairLight. The
remaining members decided to form the group Relax (at least Mr.Pinge...),
and so the group itself ceased to exist.


Wicked
------
Wicked was Talent's lame-release group, active around 1990. :)


Willow (WIL)
------------
GER> Doc of Desire (Stefan Schauf, swap, 01/97), Floyd (Sven Tewes, mainorg
     music swap, 01/97), Scorpe (Sebastian Poschmann, 01/97).
???> Activater (gfx swap, 01/97), Assassin (code gfx, 01/97), Falk (gfx,
     01/97), Gunhed Battalion (code music, 01/97), Mr.Quark (Alexander
     Teufel, code gfx, aka MRQ, 01/97), Shay CPC (gfx, 01/97), Shri Sadhu
     (code gfx, 01/97), Socrates (gfx, 01/97), Sony (code, 01/97), Sputnick
     (code, 01/97), Terror (code, 01/97), Torj Antilles (org code, 01/97),
     Zeitgeist (code swap, 01/97).

Willow were apparently a german demo group.

  Learning To Fly (1997, 17.01, Compilation Disk).
  code: Mr.Quark, gfx: Socrates, Scorpe, music: High-Speed/ex Willow.
  review: We don't review many compilation disks here, but this one
  qualifies since it's made up entirely of own productions. Having said
  that, there's not much to shout about here, really. A few (old) utilities,
  a couple of (sad) game previews and there you have it. Nice graphics, ok
  tune, shitty one in the accompanying note. [glenn]


Wish!
-----
???> Da Blondie (hun? aka DB, also in Resource, 08/97-06/99).


Wizax 2004 (-1988)
------------------
DEN> Count Dracula (crack, 12/87), Faze (crack, 12/87), Kaze (12/87), Laxity
     (12/87), Scale (crack, 12/87), Warp (12/87), Wizz (code, 12/87).

Wizax 2004 was a Danish demo and cracking group.
  1988 - Just after they were reinforced by some of the ex-members of Jewels
in september, the entire group left to join Dominators just two months later
in november.


Wolfen (WLF)
------------
SWI> Iron Cat (code crack music, 09/90-01/91).
???> HCS (09/90), Joshua (09/90), Mr.Fox (crack, 09/90-01/91), Smash
     (09/90).

Wolfen was a cracking group, likely based in Switzerland.


World Wide Expressive (WWE)
---------------------------
HOL> Roger (swap, 02/90).
???> Merlin (ex Vision, new 12/89).

  1989 - The subgroup MAP left in november. Merlin joined from Vision in
december. Despite rumours, the group did not die on the c64 around november.
  1990 - Early, Sonix and Red joined Cosmos Design. The cooperation with WWE
broke up around february. TIR and Sonix joined Cosmos around february.


Wrath Designs (WD, http://www.wrathdesigns.net)
-----------------------------------------------
SWE> Blackdroid (gfx, new 91-08/96), Clone (gfx, 07/00), Ed (Eddie Svärd,
     org code music, 12/94-02/01), Joe (gfx, 12/94-07/00), Oxidy (code gfx,
     08/96-12/03), Stash (swap, 08/96), TMT (code gfx, 04/92-08/96), Wingo
     (Stefam Karlsson, swap, later Triad, 03/92).
???> Microgroover (music, 03/03).

PREVIOUS MEMBERS -

SWE> Avalon (Jonas Håkansson, music, 91-92), Dr.Widlove (09/91).
NOR> Zinia (Eirik Reitan, swap, new 12/91-early93).

Wrath Designs was a Swedish demo group, originally formed by Oxidy and
Avalon. An amiga section was formed by Blackdroid and Zealot late 1994.
Thanks to Blackdroid for information!
  1991 - Norwegian swapper Zinia joined in december, and became the only
non-swedish member of the group.
  1993 - Ozone's "Skyhigh #1" [01/93] brough the news that Wrath Designs
was dead, and its members scattered. It said Oxidy, Ed and Avalon joined
Fairlight, Static (03/92), Fozzie and Eliz rebuilt Gothic Designs, Visage
left the scene, and that Zzap (now in Betrayal) was kicked out BEFORE the
group died and not later, as he claimed. These news must at least be partly
incorrect, since the group was alive and well shortly after... Radical
joined Amnesia around february. Graphician Black Samurai was a member for a
few days in may, before leaving for Camelot at the TCC93 party at the end
of the month.
  1994 - The demo "Courtesy of Sovjet" [12/94], released at The Party in
december, came in at a respectable third position in the competition. It
was to become their last production for a year and a half, until the
release of "Stupidity III" in august of 1996.
  1996 - The demo "Stupidity III" [08/96] came 4th in the competition at
Assembly.
  2003 - Microgroover (music) joined early this year.

  Courtesy of Sovjet (1994, 28.12, Demo).
  code: Ed, gfx: Joe, Blackdroid, music: Pri.
  3rd in The Party 94 demo competition.
  info: Pri is not a member, but the music is exclusive.

  Stupidity III (1996, 17.08, Multifile Demo).
  code: Ed (main), TMT (doom), gfx: Joe, Oxidy, music: "Silent Memories"
  (demo), "Solved Track" (note) by Ed.
  4th in the Assembly 96 demo competition.
  review: S3 is certainly a fast-paced demo, managing to cram quite a number
  of impressive effects into a seriously short timespan. In fact, most
  effects rush by so quick you don't get much time to study them :) It does
  feature some extremely cool stuff, not least of which is one of the best
  Doom routines I have ever witnessed on the c64. Other impressive parts was
  (for me at least) the three moving, colored lightsources reflected onto a
  sphere, the nice plasma, and the 'eye' effect. All the onscreen beauty is
  accompanied by a very monotonous techno-style track that I personally did
  not find favourable, but they go some way towards explaining the choice of
  soundtrack in the note file (see below for more info). I will perhaps
  elaborate more on the different effects presented in the demo at a later
  date, when time allows me to sit down and watch it multiple times. The
  demo features two fullscreen pictures, an awesome facial portrait by Joe
  and an average title/lenin portrait by Oxidy. The entire demo is presented
  in a seamless style, with a single piece of music used throughout, and
  different parts loaded on the fly.
    A 75-block note file comes with the production, detailing its credits
  and production. The note opens with another fullscreen picture by Joe, not
  present in the demo itself. Code and music by Ed. This demo was reviewed
  on native hardware after provocations from Hollowman, Puterman and Hoth :)
  [glenn]