Baby Comas 5
Future Vision 1992, 28.12, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks.
Released at The Party 92.
Backdraft
Crusader-X joined Wildfire, but soon moved on to Dynamic SLH11.
Backlash
GER Wulf sysop DEVILS HOME open 93.
USA Baser Evil sysop COURTS OF CHAOS WHQ.
??? Legal Eagel code, 03/91, Ltd gfx, 03/91, Maker cosysop, Scampy
swap trade, 93.
Boards TIMEWAR.
Intro 1991, .03, ECS Intro.
code: Legal Eagel, gfx: Ltd, music: Silents.
Backstage
This group became a part of Ram Jam, maybe late 92. Among the people who
made the jump were Posdnuos, probably M.A.S.E + others.
Bacteria -1992
DEN Ace code, 12/91, Savage, SMB music, 12/91.
Bacteria was an exclusively danish demoscene group.
Danish graphician and swapper Toastmaster 12/91- joined Rebels, and the
group died as all the other members also left for various other groups.
Twinz got kicked.
Mr.Thorax joined Dreamscape.
BacPack Menu 1991, ECS Intro.
code: Ace, gfx: Toastmaster, music: funky...but it smb! by SMB 4ch MOD
format.
review: An OK but hardly innovative packkmenu, BacPack has all the
standard features of its kind. Theres a logo on top, a scroller at the
bottom, and oh yes - a selector in the middle of the screen. However, it
is passably executed, with some good graphics, making it a bearable
production. The issue reviewed here is 10. The intro needed KillAGA from
DOpus, but ran just fine from disk. Release date is uncertain, but it is
probably late december 91, prior to The Party. The disk was also
installed with Aces BacBoot 1.01, and an installer for this toolboot
was included in the c directory. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Bad Brothers BB
GER Anti-G code sysop OUTER SPACE, doublememb 100, 05-07/96.
Badcat BCT
FRA Gandbox music, 03/93, Harry gfx music, 12/92, Napoleon swap.
Partytro 1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Ron/Liquid, gfx/music: Harry.
8th in The Party 92 40k intro competition.
Bad Karma
BEL Bigophone, Crisp, Franky, Malcomn, Mosez, Phantom, Reti, TCB sysop
METAL IMPACT WHQ, 04/96, Zynix.
SWE Boone, Marwic sysop NUCLEAR WASTE.
SCO Candyman.
DEN Enzo sysop SKY TOWER.
GER Nino.
GRE Madboy.
AUS Trespass.
CAN Eric the Red sysop WHO CARES WHQ.
Boards CYBER GARDEN bel, DOXOLOGY bel.
Bad Karma were at one time in illegal cooperation with Crux, using the
acronym CBK.
Bad Trip
GER Bosinsky sysop DEIT TIME, 09/91, Mr.Trax sysop BIT JUNGLE,
09/91-04/95, Painkiller sysop HELL, 09/91.
Bad Zone
POL Ace mainorg code swap, Cooper gfx swap, Kovy music swap,
Mr.Kadde music swap.
ENG Budda code swap, Carp swap.
FIN Dump swap, new late96, Kure-4-Kancer music swap, new late96.
SWE Melfis gfx swap.
Baked Bean Design? BBD
??? Foxy ex Trilogy, new late93, Kiwi ex Trilogy, new late93.
BBD? are no longer a Trilogy subgroup. Foxy and Kiwi joined from Trilogy,
and B.Bop joined Trilogy late93.
Balance BLC, 1991-, http://hem.passagen.se/excelblc/
DEN Ayotte Thger Wessel, music, ex Chrome, old handle Blue Fox, 12/92-
95, Connor Jakob Steffensen, gfx, 07/92-04/94, Mad Smiley code,
06/96, Motion Anders Lundholm, gfx raytrace music, 07/92-12/93,
R.W.O Rene Wessel Olsen, gfx, ex Kefrens, new late94-12/94, Split
Niels Chr. Kvaavik, swap, 12/92-10/93, Unique gfx, 12/94, Wolfman
William Henrik Olesen, org swap, 07/92-95.
NOR Blaze ystein Kristoffersen, swap, ex Frogs, 10/93, Cantona Einar
Vestheim, swap, new 06/96, Chagall gfx, ex Frogs, 10-12/93, Cola
ascii swap, old handle Dizzy, doublememb Lingo, 10/93-94, DFence
10/93, Kefir music, ex Legend, Razorblade Geir Vestheim, swap
trade, ex Majic 12, 05/95, Ranx Dag Erlandsen, code, re-Stone Arts,
ex Frogs, 10/93, Terminal Silence music ascii, 12/93.
SWE Atheist music, ex Sunshine Productions, 08/95-06/96, Confidence
Magnus Isaksson, code, ex Duplo, ex doublememb Subspace, doublememb
Artwork, 08/95-12/96, Deelite Henrik Bertilsson, music, triplememb
Sunshine Productions and Razor 1911, 08/95, Excel Jani Oinonen,
mainorg gfx swap edit, ex Sunshine Productions, 95-02/98, Gorg gfx,
05-12/96, Grid gfx, ex Sunshine Productions, 08/95-late97, Pantera
swap, ex Sunshine Productions, Radix Jacob Svanholm, music,
triplememb Limited Edition and Smoke music, Vicious code, ex
Sunshine Productions, Xerxes sysop, Zero code, ex DCS, new late96.
FIN Xendi M. Alasaarela, gfx swap, ex Deadline, new 10/93.
ENG Bassline music, ex Defekt, Hampster gfx, ex Defekt, Jozz music, ex
Defekt, Kata Jacob Restrup, code, 04-12/94, Melone trade,
doublememb 2000 AD, ex Defekt, Overdose swap, ex Delicious, Quadrex
code, ex Defekt, Scotch gfx, ex Defekt, Tango org trade, ex
Defekt.
HUN Rack gfx, doublememb Absolute.
ITA Hedgehog code, ex Biosynthetic Design.
ISR Cyber Bug swap, ex Frogs, 10/93.
N-L Infant Rene van deer Steen, code, ex Subspace, new late97.
FRA Geist gfx, ex Gods doublememb, late96.
USA Starcam sysop WORLDS OF WONDER, ex Defekt.
??? Magic editor, doublememb?/ex? Nah Kolor, Pixel, Smartass swe? music,
05/96-12/96.
Balance was formed in Denmark by Wolfman, TNT, Split, Eddie and Spib in june
of 1991. Some musicpacks were the first releases from the group. The next
members to join were graphicians Connor and Idefix. Eventually yet another
graphician joined, Trade later handle Motion. The group still lacked a
real coder though, and their search ended after they recruited Wreko from
Divine. Their first real productions were the Necessary Drugs packs. Wreko
helped recruit another musician, Mazzachre, and soon after also a second
coder joined, called Scope. Spib then left because of lazyness, and coder
IC3 joined. They got their first board SUFFOCATION when Ramirez joined.
Now it was time for their first trackmo, Software Failure 91. Their next
release was a bbs intro, and then IC3 got kicked again due to lameness.
Their second trackmo, Deepcore 07/92, is released.
The turning point in BLCs career surely came with the release of the
first issue of their diskmag Magbox 07/92. This mag announced both new
musician Chyle as well as Mazzachres leaving for Focus Design. The group
was still 100 danish.
Balance is a demo group based in Denmark. Originally, Balance released the
diskmag MagBox. However, when the fusion with the Norwegian group Frogs
was decided, they brought with them THEIR diskmag Upstream. Ofcourse
there were some discussion as to what mag to continue publishing, and the
result was a compromise the mag retained the name Upstream, but used the
old MagBox code and continued the numbering from MagBox. The previous
editors of the two mags, Wolfman magbox and Cesium upstream were
coeditors of the new mag.
Coca and Cola formed the ascii-group Lingo while they were still in
Balance, so in effect they were doublemembers. Ranx started working at
Funcom late 1993, but would remain an inactive Balancer. Graphician
Chagall also got an offer from Funcom, but decided to go to England to
study art instead, so his further scene career is uncertain. Balance were
also coeditors of the danish chart Dansktoppen with Parasite from the
beginning, but the chart was later taken over by Polka Brothers.
1993 - The Finnish section was formed mid 93 by ex-members of Deadline
Dionysus, Bad Karma, Nutcase, Xendi and Alcatraz. Finnish Lohi ex
Diffusion left for the PC scene, and coder Xarium joined Parasite mid
93.
1994 - Norwegian swapper Messiah Banana Dezign doublemember joined
Spaceballs late 94.
1995 - Finnish musucian Nutcase code gfx music, ex Deadline, new 06/93-
mid95 moved over to the pc section of Balance mid 95. Coder Fizban decided
to leave the scene late 95.
Danish musician Subject ex Chrome, old handle Chyle, 07/92-01/97 changed
handle to Prophet and joined Scoopex 01/97. He was a doublemember of
Passion for a while, from late 94, but later terminated this double
membership.
Danish graphician and musician Cyboman joined Ambrosia late95.
Finnish sysop Roland left.
Danish coder Scope 07/92-01/95 joined Passion. Scope worked on demos like
Deepcore 07/92, Lost World 12/92 and Syndrome 12/94 as well as
the MagBox/Upstream code.
Finnish musician Dr.Fruid ex Frogs left the Amiga scene.
German coder Bailey ex Frogs, 04-10/93 joined Lego. Bailey coded Newstro
04/93 before leaving.
Norwegian coder Coca old handle Broth, 10-12/93 joined Cesiums new
group Session.
Norwegian musician Vegard! ex-doublemember left to be a member of Scoopex
only, but after a while he left them too and joined Melon Dezign.
Nik joined Desire UPS10.
Danish musician Tricktrax ex Chrome, 12/92 and hungarian graphician Nexus
6 ex Frogs, 10/93 were kicked. Tricktrax is now in Puzzle.
Danish coder Wreko Jesper, 07/92-12/93 left for the PC scene - more
specifically Diffusion PC.
Norwegian organizer and previous Upstream editor Cesium ex Frogs left
the scene for a while. As a consequence, his board OMAHA THUNDER
opened 03/94 was also closed 12/94. Some time later, he reentered the
scene with his own group, called Session, and reopened the board there.
Finnish members James old handle Bad Karma, Dionysus both ex Deadline,
new 06-10/93 and Dean left to join Decnite.
Danes Eddie Frederik Esbensen, music swap, 12/91-07/92, Immortal, TNT
raytrace, 07/92 and Idefix gfx, 07/92 all got kicked.
Danish swapper and sysop Ramirez SUFFOCATION joined Majic 12 RAW4.
Growl ex Chrome, 12/92 joined Orient.
Software Failure 1991, ECS Trackmo.
info: Holding down the firebutton when booting activates a secret part.
Deepcore 1992, 07.07, ECS Trackmo.
code: Scope, Wreko, gfx: Connor, Scope, Motion, music: Chyle.
Magbox 1 1992, 20.07, ECS Filemag.
code: Scope, gfx: Motion title, background Scope background, font,
Connor, music: Iceman-Theme by Chyle ProTracker MOD format, editors:
Wolfman, Eddie, Split.
review: The very first issue of Magbox is a little thin when it comes to
the amount of articles, and was meant to be a combination of diskmag and
messagebox like Chit-Chat. Graphics are only passable, and the music is
not particularly revolutionary either. The best and most interesting
articles this time was Wolfmans history of Balance DK, interview with
Hannibal/anarchy and a report and interview concerning the controversy
surrounding the recently held Hurricane party. There is also a lot of
really unnecessary humour stuff. The news item about Nexus 6/23 Celsius
Crew also spelt wrong, btw! forming a Hungarian division of Anarchy is
false. In fact, he joined Frogs and later - when Frogs merged with Balance
- became a Balance member!
The mag needs KillAGA to show graphics and play music correctly,
otherwise it works perfectly. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: Needs KillAGA!
DEN Chyle, Connor, Scope, Split, Wolfman
Magbox 2 1992, 03.09, ECS Filemag.
code: Scope, gfx: Connor title, fonts ++, music: Chyle, editor: Wolfman
main, Split, Scope.
review: Much improved graphics is the first thing that you notice, as well
as some nice music. Much more articles, and the music is better than in
the first edition too. The mag itself works fine with KillAGA, despite
some hiccups with the music replay and slight problems with the larger
proportional fonts. They also correct the incorrect news item about Nexus
6/23 Celsius Crew from the earlier issue. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: Needs KillAGA!
Magbox 3 1992, .11, ECS Filemag.
code: Scope, gfx: Connor, Motion, music: Sound Division.
Lost World 1992, 28.12, ECS Trackmo.
code: Scope, gfx: Connor, music: Dirty-Mary2-bf by Blue Fox.
14th in The Party 92 demo competition.
review: A nice, polished trackmo from the coder of the MagBox, later
Upstream diskmag. It has the polished feel of Andromeda or even
Phenomena...I guess its the graphics that give the impression. Some of
the logos or fonts could have been taken right out of any demo by those
two groups! Testament to Connors talent, I guess. Nothing TRULY out-
standing here...except perhaps the spacecut routine - that was unusual
back in 1992. Also, they present a glenz vector with LOTS of faces,
though the this is a new world record effects failed to impress me a
long time ago. Who cares if youve got four more faces on your glenz
than the next guy, when you cant even spot the difference with the
naked eye? Its the visual part that matters. Excite me!
Apart from the slime vector, which had graphical errors, I had no
problems running this on my system. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
MagBox issue 4 1993, ECS Filemag.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Personal Problems by Subject.
MagBox issue 5 ECS Filemag.
info: This was the last issue released under the MagBox name. The next
issue was Upstream 6.
Reality has no Meaning 1993, 07.04, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Wreko, gfx: Motion, Wreko, music: Subject.
4th in The Gathering 93 40k intro competition.
Newstro 1993, 07.04, ECS Intro.
code: Bailey, gfx: Rattle/PMC, music: Dr. Fruid.
Released at The Gathering 93.
Sound Barrier 1993, .04, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks.
code: Wreko, gfx: Chagall, Connor, music: Subject, Blue Fox.
info: Propaganda 4 brougt the news that Subject, Blue Fox, Connor,
Unique, Kata and Wreko were working on SB2, which was to be one of the
first AGA musicdisks. Correct me if Im wrong, but I believe that project
was never released...
Upstream issue 6 1993, 30.07, ECS Filemag.
code: Scope, gfx: n/a, music: Upstream6 by Subject/Balance ProRunner
1.0 format, editors: Wolfman, Cesium.
Information: UPS6 was the first release after the merger of Upstream
and MagBox it adopted the Upstream name and the MagBox code and release
number :
Released at Rendezvous 93 and at Assembly 93.
Meetro 93 1993, 30.07, ECS File.
code: Cola, gfx: Chagall, music: Travolta/Spaceballs.
Released at Rendezvous 93 and Assembly 93.
Gale Intro 1993, 30.07, AGA Intro.
code/gfx: Wreko, music: Sulphuric Ash by Nutcase.
Released at Galemands Gilde.
review: Why this requires AGA is totally beyond me, but there you go.
The only remotely interesting bit is the afterburned large dot routine,
which was slightly original if nothing else. Avoid. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Zoom Parallax Demo 1993, 07.08, ECS Multifile.
code: Panoramix, gfx: Tetsuo, Spiri, music: n/a.
Released at Assembly 93.
Smalltalk 1993, 20.10, AGA 22k Intro.
code/gfx: Scope, music: 22k by Subject.
Released at the Melon Birthday Party.
Upstream 7 1993, 30.11, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
code: Scope, gfx: Connor main, Chagall title, Scope fonts,
back, music: Foundations by Subject, editors: Cesium, Wolfman.
review: Another good issue of Upstream surfaces. Contentwise, this is
perhaps not their strongest issue, but I believe that is a mirror of the
demo situation at that time before the big AGA demos started appearing.
The scene was at a crossroads, people were busy experimenting with AGA
and consequently werent releasing demos.
Visually, this issue is OK, if not their best. Subjects music sounds
like hes trying to do a Lizardking cover...which is a little ironic,
given that the next issue came with a Lizardking soundtrack : Not a bad
issue, but then - Upstream rarely is! The original disk also contained
the 22k intro Smalltalk 10/93. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
The Party 3 Intro 1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Coca, gfx: Chagall, Coca, Cola, music: Terminal Silence.
review: Another not-bad intro from the Norwegian section. Theres no
wow routines here, but overall a nice intro. Chagalls no smoking
picture is cute... glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7/mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
Cutting Edge 1993, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Scope, gfx: Unique, music: Subject.
9th in The Party 93 40k intro competition.
H.A.S.H. 1993, 28.12, 40k Intro.
code: Wreko, gfx: Connor, music: Slide/Parasite.
13th in The Party 93 40k intro competition.
review: Not bad at all, with some fairly tasty dot routines. Its not
exactly Desert Dream in the dot respect, but not bad at all.
Surprisingly much grapics.
I once tried running this on my 1mb A500, but didnt have enough memory
even when depacking the file first. I cant positively say its an AGA
production, though. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
MrsKingTro 1994, Intro.
code: Mr.King, gfx: n/a, music: Subject.
Review: This intro is FAKE. This was revealed in Upstream 10, neither Mr.
King nor Subject had anything to do with it.
Upstream issue 8 1994, 02.04, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
INT - code: Kata, gfx: Connor, music: Juggernaut Jam by Subject.
MAG - code: Scope, gfx: Connor panel, Scope fonts, background,
Fairfax/Andromeda intropic, music: Water Below by Lizardking/
Razor 1911, editors: Wolfman, Cesium, Mount/Polka Brothers.
Released at The Gathering 94.
review: Upstream delivers quality with this issue, with some very nice
and interesting articles - like the Chromag interview. Theres nothing
wrong with the audio-visuals in the mag either the backgrounds and the
panel both have nice layouts. This was the first issue with a third
main editor, Mount. You wont notice much of a difference, though.
The option to save an article to disk is nice. The only reason this
qualifies as a multifile mag is the fact that the module is a separate
file. Not much more to say about this, except its one of the best ever
mags. One slight sniggle, though - a BIG BUG! When attempting to load a
new module, the mag crashes the moment I press the mouse button!
The intro is a rather bland affair, to be honest. It resembles those
old trailer intros Brainstorm used to release for Zine, without any of
the excellence of those. On the A500, the intro seemed somewhat unstable
when setpatch wasnt run first. The tune Water Below by Lizardking was
later used in the Razor 1911 musicdisk Memorial Songs II 01/95.
glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
Orgasmatron 1994, 02.04, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Coca, gfx: Buzz Fuzz, Kefir, Coca, music: Kefir.
12th in The Gathering 94 40k intro competition.
Upstream issue 9 1994, Diskmag.
INT - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: D0dstekkno by Subject.
MAG - code: Scope, gfx: n/a, music: Nutcase.
Syndrome 1994, 28.12, AGA File.
code: Scope, Kata additional, gfx: R.W.O, Unique, music: Culture
Shock by Subject. 14th in The Party 4 demo competition.
review: Im actually a little surprised that this didnt do better than
14th at The Party, though ofcourse there were a lot of good releases
that year. This one has very fast, mostly vector, routines timed to the
usual techno music. Some interesting stuff here, a.o. what was probably
the first HAM8 plasma. Did anyone do that earlier? The fire effect is
ugly and blocky, though. THAT effect has been substantially improved with
time! R.W.Os picture Zailorpower also participated in the graphics
competition at The Party, and finished on a split 39th place.
On my 030 machine, the road part fucks up graphically. I do not know
what causes this, really... Perhaps the routine is timed for a standard
14mhz 020 in some way...who knows? The demo works fine on a standard
A1200, no fast needed. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
note: See review.
Plantarium 1994, 28.12, Wild.
6th in The Party 4 wild demo competiton.
info: Presented on an A4000.
Upstream issue 10 1995, v.early, ECS/AGA File Diskmag.
code: Scope, gfx: Connor panel, R.W.O intropic, Scope fonts,
backgrounds, music: Off Piste.bf by Blue Fox.
review: One of the greatest diskmags of the time, Upstream has both
interesting articles and top presentation. You cant go wrong with this.
The reason for the ECS/AGA at the top needs a little explanation the
intropicture by R.W.O is in 256 colors, and if youre running on an ECS
machine, youll just get an explanatory text, like: No aga - no pic!.
The mag itself runs fine on most configurations. Needs req.library to
load modules or save articles. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Embryo 1995, 12.08, AGA HD Multifile.
code: Confidence, gfx: Grid, music: Atheist Deelite.
8th in the Assembly 95 demo competition.
review: An acceptable production from the Swedish division of Balance.
Nothing outstanding, just nice. The music is frantic demo-techno, and not
the worst of its kind. The demo includes two fullscreen pictures by Grid,
one of a screaming mans face with a twirl effect around it, and one
thats reminiscent of Hajimes metal people art, though of a kitten.
I did a search, and as far as I can see Grid did not enter any graphics
competitions during 1995. This probably means this is the only place
youll ever see these : One thing I noticed about the effects is that
Confidence seems to use a rather unique method of smoothing his
effects, almost reminiscent of the raster effects used in comic books.
Interesting... To conclude: Acceptable.
Does not require fastmem, but takes advantage of it if its there.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Freak 1996, 26.05, AGA 4MB File.
code: Confidence, gfx: Grid, Gorg, music: Smartass.
3rd in the Icing 96 demo competition.
review: To the sound of a heavy, boombastic tune by Smartass were given
a demo without much soul. The effects are of highly variable quality,
some are very impressive and others are not so hot. The big tunnel
routine is nice, and sort of reminds me of the tunnel in TBLs Captured
Dreams 03/97. The morphing env? object is too blocky though, I think
Confidence should have spent some more time on that. Theres only one
real piece of graphics here, a fullscreen picture of a womans face -
not signed but presumably by Grid, since it resembles his style. The best
effect here is a truly great one, though - an amazing light routine,
where were sort of looking into the light, and it changes a little. Its
awfully smooth and nice, and lifts the demo as a whole a lot. I guess
this is worth getting for that effect alone
I tried to run this with only 4MB fast and my Kickstart mapped to RAM
eating 512k in the process, and found I didnt have enough memory.
So if youre gonna run this on a 4MB machine, be sure youre not
remapping your kickstart, oki? glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Endolymfa 1996, 28.12, AGA File.
code: Confidence, gfx: Gorg, music: Smartass.
3rd in The Party 6 demo competition.
review: The best part of ENDOLYMFA is the opening, which with its fast
texture mapped and animated surfaces create a nice mood...which
unfortunately it fails to sustain through the rest of the demo. Its a
rather short demo too, which doesnt help matters that much. The effects
consists mainly of the usual env and phong objects, with an overweight on
toruses. The musics nothing special. A little disappointing.
In my eyes, Syndromes Subzero 6th is a much better demo than this.
Ofcourse, results are not up to me, but to the voters at The Party :
Seeing as the unpacked file is over 2MB in size, this will obviously
need a little more memory than the 2MBs of chipmem in AGA Amigas. I do
not know exactly how much, though, since the distribution doesnt have
any text describing requirements. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Ballcrackers, The TBC
SWE Axodry, Headhunter, Maxwell, Mr.Bond, No.1, Outsider, Smasher, Techno,
Vonix.
Nick23 joined D-Mob.
Transmutations ECS Musicdisk.
Bamiga Sector One BS1, 1986-1990
BEL Cbx 89, Ermida mainorg supply, 86-89, Lion 89, Lord Blitter
code crack, 11/88-89, Skylight crack, 11/88-89, The Bandit 89,
The Belgium Waffels code, 89, The Hobbit 89, The Red Baron 89.
HOL Switch code crack train pack, 89.
DEN The Free Traders code crack music, 89.
ENG The Demon music, 89, Toxic spread, 89.
CAN Double Density trade, 89.
USA The Agnostic sysop INFERNAL REGIONS WHQ, 89, Viral Empath crack,
11/88.
??? Chatterbox crack, 11/88, Necromancer swap, 11/88, Outbound new
12/88, Syncro crack, The Visitor swap, 11/88.
Bamiga Sector One was formed in Belgium in june of 1986 by Ermida and two
others. Their members later found their way into such groups as Kefrens
S.L.L. They were also in several cooperations, with a.o. Cybertech.
Necromancer and The Visitor are father and son.
1988 - An interview with Ermida in Crack Journal 10 11/88 revealed how
they were having problems getting crackers, seeing as Lord Blitter was
working for a large software company, Chatterbox went to the university,
Skylight is very busy at the moment with other things, The Big Fat Lamer is
abroad and wont be back until next year, and finally Viral Empath is now
busy writing protections ! for a large software firm Outbound joined in
december.
1990 - Danish musician S.L.L ex Red Sector left for Kefrens early
february. The group was declared dead early 1990.
Scroll Surprise ECS File.
Banal Projects 1992-
FIN Andy Antti Kujanpaa, music, 12/94-08/95, Boogieman founder, 92,
Boris founder gfx, 08/92-93, Epidemic code, ex Complex, 93-08/95,
Karbunkle founder, 92, Lopez new 10/93, PMB founder code, aka
Paul McBody, 92, Prayer founder gfx swap, 93-08/95, Suhu Juha
Sohlman, swap, ex Leader Productiond, new late 93-95, Ukulele founder
music, 93-08/95.
Banal Projects were born in late 1992 existed .08, and is an entirely
Finnish demo group - with a sense of humour
Dutch musician Mark/Rebels joined, but left for CNCD right away 08/93.
Charles 2000 Demo.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Dean The Player 6.1A format.
Rodeo 1993, mid?, ECS File.
code: PMB, gfx: Prayer, Boris, music: Ukulele.
NIVEL.exe 1993, late?, ECS Intro.
code: Epidemic, gfx: Prayer, music: Ukulele 2x The Player 5.0A format.
review: This cool little intro opens with a good picture by Prayer, set
to the opening bars of Ukuleles frantic and weird tune - VERY hard to
classify! Then were shown an amiga rules-like effect, only divided...
hard to explain really! At the top of the screen theres a B.P. logo.
Then theres the endpart, with a small mummi-troll Norwegians and Swedes
will know these in the left corner, and a fractal-triangle-zoomer.
Pressing and holding the right mouse button makes it turn the other way,
by the way : In addition, theres a good an unusual text writer. Not bad
at all, this! When you exit, you get a few bars of another module, which
is kind of...nice. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Mama 1995, Musicdisk.
info: Seven pieces of ethnic inspired music by Ukulele.
Seasick 1995, 12.08, 40k Intro.
code: Epidemic, gfx: Prayer, music: Ukulele The Player 6.1A format.
4th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition.
review: Yeah! This is more like it! Short, but good. I cant really find
anything to put my finger on here, except perhaps the weird tune...but
its by Ukulele, so what can you expect? The main effect consists of
bitmap manipulations done to a picture of Mickey Mouse seen from behind,
surfing. Coolness. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Bold 1996, 18.08, AGA File.
Director Epik Forrester. 10th in The Assembly 96 demo competition.
review: This is almost embarassing. This is only a selection of pictures
of celebrities, with the text The Banal and the Projects overlaid at
regular intervals. In the background you hear the theme music of...thats
right, The Bold and the Beautiful. Not wonder it finished almost last.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Banana Dezign BDZ
NOR Bob aka Jack Frost, Brainbug music, 11/93-04/94, Decoy Stian
Olsen, sysop SILVERHAWK, 02/94-97, IT sysop HOME ALONE WHQ,
doublememb Cryptoburners, 04/94, Jelace music, ex Destiny, Necro
code, ex Talent, 11/93-04/94, Optic ex Shamrock, 04/94, Pensplit
gfx, ex Talent, Teo 11/93, Znit Espen Skog, trade swap.
CRO Diablo ex Polaris, new 02/94, Dr.J ex Polaris, new 02/94, Elf
Code, ex Polaris, new 02/94-04/94, Metal ex Polaris, new 02/94,
Satan ex Polaris, new 02/94, The Ripper ex Polaris, new 02/94.
??? Leviathan, Mad Guru.
Boards TWILIGHT nor, 93.
Croatians Alpha music, ex Polaris, new 02/94 and Blue Deville gfx, ex
Polaris, new 02/94 left with Finnish musician Kristian old handle
Saracen, ex Destiny to join Talent late 95. Curiously enough, the news
where I found this used his old handle Saracen...did he change back?
Anyway, the Talent memberlist reflects the Saracen handle.
Norwegian sysop Hellfreak WARZONE, 93 got kicked.
Norwegian coder and sysop Mr.Z ex Talent joined Scoopex.
Norwegian sysop Micro-Pal THE WHITE HOUSE, ex Alcatraz, 93 left.
Norwegian swapper Messiah ex Equinox, Balance doublememb, 02/94 joined
Spaceballs.
Graphician Marlboro got kicked.
Croatian swapper Rod Svitlica Stanjoe, ex Polaris, new 02/94 left the
scene.
Banana Dezign was formed by It/ex Cryptoburners and Micro-Pal/ex Alcatraz.
There is some mysticism connected with Brainbugs membership. He was in
Alcatraz back in 1992, and contributed a tune to the music competition at
TG94 under the handle Brainbug/ALCATRAZ. However, he contributed music,
seemingly as a full member, to two BDZ productions between 11/93 and 03/94.
Was he a doublemember, perhaps?
Melbu 1993, 31.11, AGA Intro.
code: Necro, Bob debug, gfx: Marlboro logo, Necro fonts, music:
Brainbug The Player 5.0A format.
Made at the Combase93 party, but released later.
review: Not the most serious of people, these guys, are they? Another
minimal production this, with some very yellow scanned pictures of the
participants and filled vector bananas. The best thing about this small
prod, tho, is Marlboros logo. Very cool! The music is a heavy metal
riff thing, not Brainbugs best by far. This was probably a lot more fun
to make than it is to watch. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Bowel Movements 1994, 08.02, AGA Intro.
code: Necro, gfx: Blue Deville, music: Brainbug The Player 5.0A format.
review: Not much to see here, just a text writer over some red/orange
graphics mapped on a sphere, flying around. The humourous text is rather
fun though. Because we care. You can run the intro without AGA
installed, in which case youll get a requester saying that the demo
requires AGA to run and you get to hear the soundtrack.
VER: Bowel Movements 1.0 08 Feb 1994 by NecroBanana Dezign glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
S Ung Og Helt Uten Hr... aka Wonko 1994, 03.04, AGA File.
code: Necro, Elf, gfx: Optic, music: Shinin Ol Boots by Brainbug
TrackerPacker 3 format. 8th place in The Gathering94 demo competition.
review: Easily the best of the three BDZ demos I have... The design on
this is a lot more together than in the others. Nothing much to say,
except that the tune is rather fun : Theyve certainly kept their sense
of humour... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Band, The
BEL Flame Snake, Infernal Duo DMA and Thief, Sir 004 03/89.
NOR Hellraiser, Skyhawk, TFL, Vampire.
The Band was one of the first cracking crews, probably based in Belgium.
1989 - Skippy and Woody left for The Silents in november.
Basement 1995-
SWE Reverend D founder sysop TRESPASS, TBM founder code, later TBL?.
Basement was formed by TBM, Phase and Reverend D from Freezers in late 95.
However, Phase soon left for Insane, where he was kicked within a week.
B.A.S.F. 1994-
GER Lightforce Swap, ex X-Trade.
NOR Base, Odie.
??? Link ex scoopex, Parallax ex Scoopex.
BASF was formed by ex-members of Scoopex Germany.
Sysop Iceberg got busted jsut two days after he joined BASF!
German graphician Navy left Vanish to join, but soon moved on to TRSI.
Bass old
Meta joined Rebels.
Bass new 1993-
FRA Meta founder, ex Rebels, Patrick founder, ex Rebels.
Bass was reformed 93, after Meta and Patrick left Rebels.
Bass Crew
Hardcore Trax 1 1994 or pre, Music.
Basstech
??? Bareface sysop, new 09/92, Extaxy new 09/92.
Cedric joined Legend.
Boozo, sysop INTROSPECTIVE joined Noxious, but soon went on to
Submission.
Bastards
DEN Bitman gfx, 91, Gizmo ex Cult, new mid92, Michael Carlson sysop
MADE IN DENMARK, Surrounder gfx, old handle Bitman, TMT, Tuborg
Janus Lindahl, swap, ex Light, Wild Child Peter Walsted, swap.
SWE Mr.Foley ex Energy.
??? Melf music, 92, PMA gfx, 92, The Judge code, 92, Xerox.
Most members left to form a new subgroup for Crack Inc. 09/92.
Cyber Sounds 1991, ECS Musicdisk.
New Stuff 1991, early, ECS File.
code: n/a, gfx: Bitman, music: n/a.
Techno Trance III 1992, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk.
code: The Judge, gfx: PMA, music: Melf.
GLE tested A1200/020/2mb chip/3.0.
-- info: Crashes after showing titlepicture. Caches off has no effect.
Beastie Boys old BB
The Syndicate:
??? Art Force gfx, new 02/89, Dingo von Springberg code, new 02/89, Dri
swap, 02/89, Futurelight gfx, 02/89, Kevin swap, 02/89, Marco
swap, 02/89, Mel code, 12/88-02/89, Myk swap, 02/89, No.1 music,
new 02/89, Rene swap, 02/89, SkyDancer music, 12/88-02/89, Tibor
swap, 02/89.
BB was a group that came to the amiga from the c64 scene, and was pretty big
in the German scene for a while in the late 80s. Their most active members
were all in the subgroup The Syndicate of the Beastie Boys.
1988 - December saw the release of their classic Megademo 12/88.
1989 - The Syndicate/BB released a packdisk from the Bamiga Sector 1 and
Warfalcons party 02/89. At this party the group also released a new intro
which announced Dingo, No.1 and Art Force as new members, and said bye bye
to Alex and Rush. Mel had also planned a demo for this competition, but
could not complete it in time.
Norwegian graphician Fairfax joined Pure Metal Coders.
Megademo 1988, 17.12, ECS Disk.
code: Mel, gfx: n/a, Music: Lars by SLL/Bamiga Sector One, Part IV
music by TFC, Wondertec first, Skydancer and Opus Dei end by
SkyDancer. info: A truly classic megademo, with some great pieces of
music!
Sound System Demo 1989, 11.02, ECS Intro.
code: Dingo, gfx: The Dark Lord logo, n/a picture, music: Android by
Skydancer. Released at the Bamiga Sector 1 and Warfalcons copy party.
review: Another oldskool onescreen intro, this one is at least a LITTLE
original. The top of the screen feature a Beastie Boys logo moving from
side to side... This is done in classic demologo style, but is still not
the worst example of its kind... in shades of grey and gold. The bottom of
the screen is occupied by a bouncing scroller like a DYCP on the c64!.
The middle of the screen is the most interesting part, though - it
features a very nicely drawn picture of a pair of earphones, over which a
circle is laid. This circle has equalizers spinning around it... its kind
of hard to describe, but looks real cool! For an example of an oldskool
intro, you could go far worse than this. The name of the intro does not
appear anywhere inside, but was taken from the results. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: Needs KillAGA.
Beastie Boys new BB
GER Bandog code, 90.
Beastie Boys were reformed by some of the old members, and the entire group
Irongods.
Beatless BTL, -1995
SWE Tevie swap, late95.
Beatless was a swedish demo group.
1995 - Late 95, swedes Note swap, Iz, Leprechaun swap, McPudel and
Fugazi left for Giants, and Braindead left for Insane. The group was
therefore declared dead.
Summer ECS Intro.
code: Megabyte, gfx: Jamsam, Limpa, McPudel, music: Jamsam.
Beermacht.
GER Alfred sysop BEERKRUG WHQ, 09/91.
Beta Team BT
??? Roberts music, 05/94.
Roberts made a module for Mystics demo Vital 94, and thats all the
information I have on him...
Polish coders CBM80 and Larsen joined Mystic.
Beton Design
POL Human music, Kain Jakob Solich, gfx, Muaddib raytrace music,
Norweg music, Yoe Tomasz Szewczulak, music.
Beton Design was a demo group, under the leadership of Dr.Pacient. After
leaving the scene in april of 1996, Dr.Pacient changed his handle to Stealth
and moved to New York City, where he formed the company Stealth Studios
Interactive, Corp. to design video games for the playstation, pc and
xbox. The group also became the first commercial demo group in history,
after hiring TOM/TPDLKatharsis to code their first demo Roumble Rubble.
This and the subsequent Goldfinger were the only two demos made by the
group. Human, Kain and Muaddib never actively made anything for the group.
Thanks to Dr.Pacient for information!
1995 - Dr.Pacient won first place in the Intel Outside raytracing
competition in august!
1996 - Chrom and Skizo both swap left the group, while Wolf Dariusz
Gocol, code and Dr.Pacient Martin Smietanski left the scene in april.
Green 3d joined Anadune in june.
Rumble Rubble 1994, 12.08, Demo.
code: Tom/TPDLKatharsis, gfx: n/a, music: XTD/Mystic.
2nd in the Intel Outside 94 demo competition.
info: Direction by Dr.Pacient.
Goldfinger 1995, 30.08, Demo.
8th in the Intel Outside 95 demo competition.
info: Dr.Pacient accuses The Generat and another Union member for fucking
up their demo in the competition, thus making it place a lot lower than it
deserved. Quote: there was 6 world record, in goldfingers, Wolf with my
algorithms wrote 1pixel direct on bitplane gouraud shading twice as fast
as TOMs one, there was realtime city fuulscreen on eight planes, etc.
Betrayal
??? SCSI, Xag code.
Betrayals claim to fame are a few utilities by Xag, the most notable
probably being the JamCracker+ music composition program.
Talisman left the scene.
Einstein joined Punishers.
Betrayed
SWE Polarbeer sysop INFINITE LINK, 01/95.
Beyond -1992
??? Art of Noise music, ex Acume, old handle Moonwalker.
The best members of Beyond and Arise decided in late 1992 to join together
to form Abyss. These members were at least: Sodom code, ex Amaze, new pre
07/92, Duke, SMC, Skindiver, Toxic music, Neurodancer and Artline both
ex Agnostic Front. German superswapper Mr.King joined Analog.
Tool Intro ECS Intro.
code: Sodom, gfx: Toxic, music: Art of Noise.
Night Dreams 1992, 26.07, ECS File.
code/music: SMC, gfx: Toxic, Flo.
Beyond Force BF
FIN Boss code gfx, 12/89-08/93, GMN Olli Auvinen, code, aka Gremlin,
08/93, Hazor Tommi Lahtonen, code gfx, 90-08/93, Shumway gfx,
90-91.
??? Alistair gfx, 90, Andy gfx, 89, Drucer code, 06/88, Elysion gfx
music, 08/93, Jogi music, 12/89-90, Keith music, 89, Mr.Sam gfx,
91, Nimrod gfx, 90, Sage code, 90, Stranger code, 91, Zag code,
89, Zardax music, 08/93.
Beyond Force were originally a finnish c64 group, and when the amiga section
was born, several members coexisted on the two platforms, f.ex. Hazor and
GMN.
Demo 1988, 14.06, ECS File.
code: Drucer, gfx: n/a, music: Jason/TDT. Cooperation with Deathstar.
Multiplexor 1989, ECS File.
code: Zag, gfx: Andy, music: Keith.
Second Demo 1989, ECS File?.
code/gfx: Boss, music: Osterman/Scoopex.
Wild Beast 1989, ECS File?.
code/gfx: Boss, music: Jogi.
Party Demo 1989, 29.12, ECS File.
code/gfx: Boss, music: Jogi. Released at the X-Mas Party 89.
Sine Intro 1990, ECS Intro.
code/gfx: Boss, music: Jogi.
Flexible Logo 1990, ECS File.
code/gfx: Boss, music: Jogi.
Jumbosinus 1990, ECS File?.
code/gfx: Boss, music: Jogi.
Splitter v2.0 1990, ECS File?.
code/gfx: Boss, music: Jochen Hippel/independent.
Colorpulator 1990, ECS File.
code/gfx: Boss, music: Fleshbrain/Crusaders.
Jumbosinus v2 1990, ECS File?.
code: Boss, gfx: Nimrod font, music: Jogi.
Twisted Wriggler 1990, ECS File?.
code: Boss, gfx: Alistair, Nimrod, music: Maniacs of Noise/independent.
Still Hating 1990, ECS File?
code: Sage, gfx: n/a, music: Fleshbrain/Crusaders.
Mysterious Mixture 1990, late, ECS File.
code: Boss, gfx: Shumway logo, Charles Deenen/Maniacs of Noise c64
font, music: Death-Star by Fleshbrain/Crusaders ProTracker MOD
format.
review: Now, this is what makes wading through endless amounts of old
demos and intros seem halfway worth my time. Every now and then you come
across a small jewel, and this is just such an instant. Much thanks to two
elements - the music and the plasma-like effect that I really dont know
what to call : - a little magic is created here. Its one of those rare
little productions that create a little atmosphere... But stop reading
what Im wabbling on about, and GO GET THIS - hmm, that music is just an
amazingly wondrous piece...
After pressing left mousebutton to exit, you are shown a picture with
Hazors address for swapping, before the intro exits for real. It needs
KillAGA to work, but still destabilizes my system after exiting. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review!
First Try 1991, ECS File.
code: Stranger, gfx: Mr.Sam, music: Fleshbrain/Crusaders.
Expres 1991, ECS File.
code: Boss, gfx: Mr.Sam, music: Dean/Complex.
Oh No! 1991, ECS File.
code: Boss, gfx: Boss, Shumway, music: Fleshbrain/Crusaders.
Assembly Intro 1992, ECS Intro.
code: Boss, gfx: Hazor, music: Old Fart/Silents.
info: Possibly released for the Assembly party in august, but results that
year were restricted to the three top placers, so no record exist of the
other entries.
5 Years Intro 1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro.
code: GMN, gfx: Elysion, GMN fonts, music: Elysion.
12th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition.
review: I quite like this intro, which was made in celebration of BFs
five years in the scene on C64 and Amiga. Theres a few OK things here,
and you notice attention has been put into making it polished. Effort
pays off in Scenery: Nice one. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
The Wonderful Art of Hajime Soroyama ECS 1993, 10.08, ECS Slideshow.
code: Boss, Hazor, gfx: n/a, music: Zardax, Galaxy/Elysion.
info: There are two versions of this one for ECS machines and one for AGA
equipped ones. The sections have been kept separate here, since they do
not share exact credits or, presumably, appearance.
The Wonderful Art of Hajime Soroyama AGA 1993, 10.08, AGA 2MB Slideshow.
code: TNT, Hazor, gfx: Galaxy/Elysion font, music: Dens Design.
info: See review above.
Beyond 2000 B2000
NOR Disk Fixer music swap, Dr.Cruel music, Goldfax, Hawk 1989,
Megatron, Mr.Fox, Punisher, Raistlin, Tronixx music.
Spytrax left.
Seaside Boy joined Theatre.
Intro 1990, 27.01, ECS Intro.
Disk of Music 1990, 06.06, ECS Musicdisk.
Bice Twice
Sverige 1996, 05.04, Demo.
5th in The Gathering 96 demo competition.
Binary Boys
Halucinations 1991, 16.12, ECS File.
code: Byte, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Biohazard
Solarized 1996, 13.04, 40k Intro.
3rd in the Scenest 96 40k intro competition.
Bionic
Zebs 3rd Division 1990, ECS Musicdisk.
info: 6 songs from Zeb, presented in a dos-menu manner.
Biosynthetic Design BSD
ITA Metal Designer Antonello Mincone, code, later Scoopex, late95, Mr.Yo
sysop TRACKLAND WHQ, late95.
??? Dixie Flatline gfx, late95, Fra gfx music, late95, Lry gfx sysop
CYBERTRASH, late95, Sirio sysop, late95, Stun c-code gfx music,
late95.
BSD was probably an all-Italian, demooriented group. After Italian musician,
graphician and main organizer Parsec early-09/96 left for Elven 11, the
group died.
Italian coder Hedgehog surprisingly left for Balance.
Tenebra Demo.
Biotech
AUS Lex Luthor, Radiance.
Biotech is dead. Agro joined Mystix.
Birdhouse Project
More Members Intro 1994, 09.10, Demo.
Contribution for the Dooms Day 94 party demo competition.
Megademo! 1997, 30.03, Demo.
8th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition.
Bit Arts
GER The Fog swap, ex Sanity, new mid91.
Bitstoppers 1 BST
The original Bitstoppers were a classic cracking group.
Bitstoppers 2 BST, -1992
GER Bob Duncan sysop HILTON PALACE, 10/91, Oli sysop INTEC SYSTEMS,
10/91, Sargor sysop TOTAL KAOS, early92, Speed Patrick, trade,
early92.
USA Leviathon sysop TERMINAL FROST, New Jack sysop NEW JACK CITY.
Bitstoppers were a cracking crew started shortly after the death of Infinite
Perfection. They died in the middle of 1992.
Swedes The Master sysop SKY HIGH and Mercy joined Fusion early 92.
In Fusion, the boardname was PRESSURE POINT, tho...dont know when he
changed it!
Germans Rudi ex Skid Row and Selim left for Crack Inc., all other members
left for Fusion. Bitstoppers is therefore dead! 06/92
Norwegian swapper Jaffa ex Infinite Perfection sold his Amiga and left
the scene.
Bitstoppers 3 BST, 2002-, http://www.bitstoppers.de
Bistoppers was restarted in the middle of 2002.
Thanks to Shahin for information.
Bizarre Arts BZR
GER Antibrain org gfx music, 12/94-07/96, Axis code, 07/96, Azure
org code, doublememb Artwork details late95, 12/94-07/96, Coming
Art code music, 11/95, cr8y gfx, new 06/96, Daim ascii trade, new
06/96, Deetz code, new late95, Doomsday Boris Badasch, swap,
late95, Eagle raytrace, Halfbyte music, doublememb Pandemonium, new
06/96, Krusty trade sysop, new 06/96, Oson music, new 06/96,
Tracer code, new 06/96.
??? JMS gfx, 12/94.
Boards FICTION FACTORY late96.
Bizarre Arts is a purely German demo group, with ome pretty wellknown talent
being doublemembers from other groups.
1995 - Late in the year, Dreamkiller music swap and Suicide code both
decided to leave the scene. Sid and Dano, and the board DISABLE were
kicked, and finally german swapper and ascii artist Rave left the scene.
1997 - Azure, Antibrain and Fiver had a sequel to Television 02/96
planned for The Party 97, but ultimately they did not release it.
Pyrox 1994, 28.12, 40k AGA Intro.
code: Azure, gfx: JMS, music: Antibrain ProMizer 2.0 format.
9th in The Party 4 40k intro competition.
review: Who would have known Azure would rise to such heights? After
viewing this effort, you could easily have been forgiven for thinking
hed end up like all the other uninspired coders. What you get here is
ONE routine, the worlds first Ham8-plasma, as they claim. I have no
idea whether that holds true or not, but I do know that even back in 1994
full-screen plasma routines were hopelessly old. I find nothing here to
recommend this, other than the later fame of some of its creators. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Dice 1995, 21.05, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Azure, gfx: Fiver/Artwork, music: Antibrain.
Winner of the Nexus 95 40k intro competition!
review: Dice is a very, very cool little 40ker! It opens with some cool
fullscreen plasma, then goes on to show us a few objects of what can best
be described as plasmamapped vectors. It looks a little like very
colorful gouraud, if that helps any... Then it moves on to texturemapping
a cool picture by Fiver onto a cube and later a torus. The cube starts
spinning around, and so does the graphics on the cube! What can I say?
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Zimbabwe 1995, .11, AGA File.
code: Azure, gfx: Fiver/Artwork, Antibrain, Coming Art, music: Antibrain.
Released at the Voyage 95 party.
review: Oh, this was fun! Of course, the tune is what MAKES this demo.
Its a groovy techno thing, with some melodies that just kind of eats
themselves into your head and refuses to go away... The effects here are
timed to the music IN EXTREMIS, the effects sometimes changing to every
single beat of the music... The drawback here is that the effects are
repeated a little too often. Had it not been for that, this would have
been very close to a perfect production! The effects on display are not
too numerous, but a full-screen rotzoomer and a gouraud-donut are perhaps
the best ones. I *PARTICULARLY* enjoyed that...Lets see whats next.
In june 1997, Azure released version 1.4, which fixes some problems
on 040/060 machines, and fixes the classic The Player 6.1A bugs. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Both original and 1.4 version tested.
Television 1996, .02, AGA 4MB File.
code: Azure, gfx: Fiver/Artwork, music: Antibrain.
2nd at Convention 96 demo competition.
review: Not nearly as good as Zimbabwe, this production is still very
much Bizarre. Its - as they say - an experimental attempt to combine
videoanimations with demo effects. In my eyes, they do not entirely
succeed on their experiment, mainly due to two reasons: 1 Its too long.
Halving the size, using some of the better video like the cornflakes,
and throwing out some of the less interesting stuff would make this a lot
more desireable. And 2, the effects do not blend together in the way
that I suppose Bizarre wanted. Its two very different aspects, and there
is no actual successful merging. Requires an accelerator. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Fresh! 1996, 13.07, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Azure, Axis, gfx: Fiver2/Artwork, Sire object, music: Antibrain
The Player 6.1A forma.
Winner of The Summer Party 1996 40k intro competition!
review: Now, heres a very good intro! Lots of bump mapping here, and
some seriously FAAAAAAASt env and phong objects make this a very
enjoyable ride indeed! No wonder really, this is actually just the code to
Azures Phi 07/96 released for Artwork one week earlier with the
added value of Axis cool water ripple routine later used in his
SILIConvention 97 Invitation for Arsenic. But hey, that doesnt matter,
since this is STILL a very cool intro
Azure released a fixed version 1.1 in february 1998, which should work
fine with 040/060 machines, and had that good old The Player 6.1A bug
fixed. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Blackbirds
Viking left to form Byte Busters Norway in the middle of 1991.
Black Division
Black Monks was formed when Black Division and Mad Monks joined forces
under a new name in the beginning of 1989.
Black Jack -1995
FIN Grand Master B music, Janitor Janne Peltola, swap, Splatterhead
Vesa Kivisilta, swap pack, later Eltech, 93.
DEN Domain swap pack.
??? G-Sus gfx music AMOS.
Black Jack was a demo group based in Finland.
1995 - Late in the year, Raivo left for Ambrosia and the rest of the best
members formed a new group called Innocence. The group then died. AddBox
will from now on be an Innocence release.
Finnish sysops Akiro and Dr.Poop NAUSEA joined Scoopex.
Black Lotus, The TBL, 1989-, http://www.tbl.org
SWE Azazel Magnus Alakangas, music, ex DCS, new late95-03/97, Dig-It
Patrque Haggblad, code, 08/96-12/99, Exon code, 08/94, Gizmo code,
04/96, Im-Pose gfx, Kalms Mikael Kalms, code, ex Artwork, old
handle Scout, 98-04/01, Ken code, Louie Kenny Magnusson, gfx, ex
Insane, doublememb CNCD, 04/96-04/01, Rodney gfx, ex Axis, new
late95, 12/95-03/97, Rubberduck Johan Dohl, founder code, 89-04/01,
TBM code, Tudor Henrik Andersson, gfx raytrace modeller, old handle
Snorpax Tudor, 08/94-04/01.
HOL Danny Danny Geurtsen, gfx, doublememb Nah-Kolor, 04/96-03/97, Facet
Martijn van Meel, gfx, ex Virtual Dreams, doublememb Lemon. new, 04-
06/96, I-GO Thies Edeling, orgamiga code html edit R.A.W, Lowlife
Angelo Bod, gfx, ex Axis, SuperNao Michiel Krop, music, ex Virtual
Dreams, doublememb Lemon. new, 05/96, Tim code, ex Spaceballs.
NOR Magnar Magnar Harestad, music sysop NOISELESS, ex Spaceballs, old
handle Lizard, 06/96.
PREVIOUS MEMBERS -
SWE Cypher gfx, 02/96, Dickhead founder code, Fishbone gfx, Hitman
sysop BLACKBOARD, 08/94, Hokke code, 94, Igloo gfx, 02/96.
NOR Jeek Elemental code.
??? Axm gfx, 95, Eddieboy music, 94, Hook code, Kajiu music,
Overload ascii trade sysop, 04-06/96, Sag code music, Shark
sysop, Skyhigh code, Vfcon, Wolf music, 08/94.
The Black Lotus was formed in sweden in 1989, when Atari coder Dickhead and
his companion Rubberduck decided to build their own group on the Amiga.
Who could have known, back then, that TBL would once rule the Amiga demo
scene? From their very humble beginnings theyve managed to build a group
of truly epic proportions. After their breakthrough production Tint
04/96 at The Gathering 96, they went on to rule the amiga demo scene for a
number years - and even still come back to release the odd production today.
They were the first group to win at The Gathering two years in a row
Spaceballs have since taken over their record. Find video versions of their
recent demos at: ftp://mirror.support.nl/pub/tbl/download/movies/
Most members of TBL are today employed in the games industry. Dutch
members Danny, Tim and Lowlife work at Eidos Interactive
http://www.edios.co.uk, in the UK Kalms, Offa, Eq, Rubberduck och Louie
all work at Digital Illusions Computer Entertainment http://www.dice.se in
Sweden. Rodney also works/worked on games.
Thanks to Kalms for some information and corrections.
1995 - The demo Cybernetic 04/95 reached the 3rd position in The
Gathering demo competition, and was probably the groups biggest success
thus far. The intro Mind The Carrot 06/95 was the groups sole release
at Icing this year, reaching a disapointing 9th position in the competition.
At Assembly in august came the release of the demo Misery 08/95 -
finishing 12th in the competition. The steady flow of releases would
continue out the year, with the demos Que? 10/95 - 2nd at Remedy - and
Mindprobe 12/95 - 15th at The Party.
1996 - This was the year of TBLs big breakthrough. The year started
gently with the release of the demo Spectral 02/96 at the small swedish
party Creutz in february. It was at The Gathering in april their name would
be known, though. Through the release of the two 4k intros Gizmo 04/96
and EQ-4k 04/96 - 1st and 2nd in the competition - and the landmark demo
Tint 04/96 they made sure they would be a name to remember. Needless to
say, Tint was the clear winner of the demo competition. They did not rest
however, and already the next month they released the intro Mind The Carrot
2 05/96 1st and the demo Glow 05/96 2nd at the Icing party in
sweden. As if this was not enough, june brought the Remedy party to sweden,
and once again TBL were triumphant in both intro and demo categories, with
Tractorbeam 06/96 and Darkside 06/96 respectively. Their final
release of the year was the demo Goa 08/96 at Assembly, which finished
3rd in the competition. Apart from the jokey The Money Tribe 09/96, it
would be until late march next year that they released anything.
1997 - Captured Dreams 03/97 is the name of one of the best amiga
demos ever released, and a true landmark in the amiga demo scene. With it,
TBL became the first ever group to win twice at The Gathering. Sadly, the
truly great demo would be their only release on the amiga this year.
Swedish coder Noy 02/96- left this year to help form the new
group Dole. Swedish coders Offa Mattias Gruvman, 08/94-03/97 and Equalizer
Daniel Hansen, 08/94-03/97 both left the Amiga scene for professional game
programming careers. For the sake of order, they have been removed from the
member roster.
1998 - The Gathering, an event where they had been successful in the past,
became the venue of their comeback of sorts, with the winning intro
Imitation None 04/98. This would become another year with only a single
amiga release from the group.
1999 - Nothing was heard until december, and The Party. There, TBL shocked
the scene with the release of their new demo Rain 12/99, a full two and
a half years after their last full demo. The demo finished only third in the
competition, but was a sign that TBL was still a force to reckoned with. It
was certainly one of the years top demos.
2000 - In march, at the TRSAC party in denmark, TBL released another demo.
Senseless 03/00 won the demo competition!
2001 - Another year, another demo - Perfect Circle 04/01 won the demo
competition at the prestigious Mekka Symposium party!
Purgatory Disk.
Total Brain Collapse - TBC ECS File.
code: Hook, RBD, Offa, gfx: Monza, music: Shadow by Wolf.
review: Oooooh my god, boring! This is a horror example of how *NOT* to
make a demo. Its got a few, ugly effects, a soundtrack that I wont even
mention and effects like a hidden-line vector! Jeeeesus, filled vectors
was the norm in fucking 1990, people! Unadvanced, unexciting, unworthy.
Avoid! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
Nugget 1993, 03.03, ECS Disk.
code: Hokke, Ken, Hook, Dickhead, Rubberduck, Offa, gfx: Extreme,
Watchman, Tango, music: Wolf.
Twisted Minds 1994, AGA File.
code: Rubberduck, Hokke, Offa, gfx: Snorpax Tudor, music: Eddieboy.
Released at Dreamhack 94.
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
Phucker 1994, .08, ECS File.
code: Offa, Exon, Equalizer, gfx: Snorpax Tudor, Equalizer, music: Wolf.
Winner of the Borlnge party.
review: Thorougly unexciting - as usual for the early TBL demos.
The more of these I watch, the more astonished I am that these guys
actually made Glow and Captured Dreams later! The version reviewed is
the release version, the compo version had several bugs. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Cybernetic 1995, 14.04, Demo.
3rd in The Gathering 95 demo competition.
Mind the Carrot 1995, 17.06, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Offa, Equalizer, Rubberduck, gfx: Axm, Snorpax Tudor, music:
Rubberduck. 9th in the Icing 95 64k intro competition.
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Misery 1995, 12.08, Demo.
12th in the Assembly 95 demo competition.
Que? 1995, 08.10, AGA HD Multifile Demo.
code: Equalizer, Offa, gfx: Snorpax Tudor, Axm, music: Lizardking/Razor
1911 Mantronix/Phenomena. 2nd in the Remedy 95 demo competition.
review: This is actually rather good, much thanks to the two dynamic
cooperation tunes from two old favorites. Very very OK. Will run on
unexpanded A1200s, but fastmem and accelerators are useful. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Mindprobe fixed 1995, 27.12, AGA ?MB HD Multifile, 3 disks.
code: Offa, Equalizer, Rubberduck, gfx: Rodney, Tudor, music: Azazel
main, Hollywood/Axis The Player 6.1A format.
15th in The Party 5 demo competition.
review: Another not-too-cool older TBL release. This one hints at what
Tint will be, but does not quite make it. The whole demo is presented
in that annoying every-other-pixel-is-black mode, and if you ask me,
that is a major drawback. It just doesnt look as good as solid effects!
The most innovative effect here is a little hard to describe, but Ill
try. Its a magnified picture by Rodney in the background, and on top of
that theres two vectorcubes, spinning and space-cutting each other.
One is an RGB-vector, and the other is texturemapped with a small portion
of the mentioned picture. As the picture is magnified, its larger than
the screen, and the whole thing moves as the vectorcubes travel around on
it. Very very nice. The picture is Climber by Rodney, which came 2nd in
the graphics competition at The Party. Too bad the rest of the demo is
not equally exciting.
Azazels module was made in two hours, during The Party! This is also
very likely his first released module for TBL he was in DCS two months
earlier. Though itll work fine on an 020-14, at least an 030-28 with 2mb
fast is recommended. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Spectral 1996, .02, AGA HD Multifile, 2 disks.
code: Offa, Equalizer, Noy, Rubberduck, gfx: Cypher, Igloo, Tudor, music:
Azazel. Released at Creutz 1 96.
review: This is not half bad! Though it has some mysterious palette
choices, and the design is sometimes...well, enough about that...this
is one of TBLs better productions. Theres the usual shading and stuff -
and the usual Azazel music : Not much to say, really - an above-average
release from TBL. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Gizmo 1996, 05.04, 4k Intro.
code: Gizmo. Winner of The Gathering 96 4k intro competition!
review: Seems to disagree with my machine, once just showed the opening
logo and froze on a black screen, another time it got as far as popping a
nicely-coloured torus on the screen before freezing. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review.
EQ-4k 1996, 05.04, 4k Intro.
code: Equalizer. 2nd in The Gathering 96 4k intro competition.
review: This nice 4ker opens with some red-on-black quasi-plasma stuff,
which then turns into a tunnel of sorts. We travel into the tunnel, which
has The Black Lotus written on the walls, before coming to the coolest
effect in the intro, a sea of sorts of gradient blue-on-black. Then the
tunnel routine is repeated with the same blue-on-black palette and its
over. Be advised that the version reviewed is v1.1, and the file-id.diz
file claims its fixed, without specifying further. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Tint 1996, 05.04, AGA 4MB HD Multifile.
code: Equalizer, Offa, gfx: Danny, Facet, Louie, Rodney, Tudor objects,
music: Khan-Be-Phonk, Definitive Era and Fractured by Azazel.
Winner of The Gathering 96 demo competition!
review: A little slow to get started this, but when the second piece of
music kicks in, it takes off in a big way. Ah yes, the music. I cant
help thinking that with some other musician, this could have been a well
and truly GREAT production. As it stands, the first tune stinks big-time,
and the second ranges from lousy to great in what is a truly bizarre
mixture. It seems Azazel cant decide between techno and more traditional
demo music, and as a result he tries to mix the two with varied results.
The code here smells more of good ideas than truly advanced routines, but
is overall quite acceptable. So to sum up: The first part sucks, the rest
is quite good. Worth noting is that the compopictures from the artists
above are all included. Dannys 18bit truecolor picture seems to be an
elaboration on Lemon.thoughts, which won a clipart competition in
EuroChart I think some time ago. An OK production with GREAT graphics.
Recommended 030-28 or above. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Mind The Carrot 2 1996, 26.05, 64k Intro.
code: Offa, gfx: Louie, SuperNao hand object, music: SuperNao.
Winner of the Icing 96 64k intro competition!
review: This is one of the nicer intros Ive seen! It all opens with a
cool logo-picture by Louie, which is followed by several objects and
effects, the first of which is a shaded carrot! Placed in demo/aga on
AmiNet, but the system tester says no hardware requirement. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Glow 1996, 26.05, AGA 4MB HD Multifile, 3 disks.
code: Equalizer, Offa, gfx: Rodney, Louie, Facet, Tudor, music: SuperNao,
Azazel. 2nd in the Icing 96 demo competition.
review: Oh yes. This is the first truly outstanding TBL production I
have witnessed, and what a demo it is! Since last time theyve obviously
gotten some design help from their newest members. While some of their
earlier productions have looked a little weird, this one looks just
smashing! The demo opens with an animation of a spaceship leaving a space
station, to great accompanying strings music. After that, were treated
to the usual rendered objects and stuff, with one very important
difference: These are cool, advanced routines that look GOOD. Even their
rather untraditional palette choices now look smashing! What can I say?
TINT only HINTed at things to come! Recommended! Runs on standard A1200s
with enough mem, but recommends 030-28 or above. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Darkside 1996, 16.06, AGA ?MB File.
code: Rubberduck, Noy, Offa, gfx: Facet, Danny, Tudor, music: Lizard.
Winner of the Remedy 96 demo competition!
review: Darkside signalled a drastic departure for TBL. Gone was the
flashy techno, to be replaced with a tune by Lizard thats closer to a
film soundtrack than anything else. A lot of people were skeptical when
Darkside was released, but in my eyes this is one of their better demos.
It opens with some dots morphing to form the names of the producers. This
could have been done a lot better, the routine now looks downright ugly!
The titlepicture by Facet is one of his most surrealistic pictures ever!
The next picture is a raytraced one by Tudor, of a hand stretching out of
a monitor to touch the A1200 beyond...very good! Another good routine
here is the travel down spinning tunnel with the white light in the
centre... This looks like a precursor to the tunnel at the end of the
zoomer in the later TBL demo Captured Dreams 03/97!
I like Darkside. Its an unusual demo, in that it manages to create a
gothic atmosphere and still throw in a few good effects. The music
deserves a special mention its a highly original tune. The release
version apparently had some bugs, but a fixed version was later to be
put up on the TBL website. On my 4mb fast system, I couldnt run this
demo because I didnt have enough memory. This may have been due to
the fact that I map my Kickstart to fast ram, but I cant be sure...
It DOES require some fast, Im just not sure how much : glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review!
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Tractorbeam 1996, 16.06, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Offa, gfx: Facet, SuperNao, Tudor objects, music: SuperNao.
Winner of the Remedy 96 40k intro competition!
review: WOW! Ive just been blown away by an amazing piece of 40k intro.
This small file oozes professionalism from every pore. The effects are
good and plentiful, much more than Id expect to see in a 40k intro these
days. There are so many 1-effect-intros out there. This one opens with
some envmapped objects, which isnt all that unusual these days :
Next we travel down a rather cool yellow/green tunnel...which suddenly
has the objects from before in the middle! Its like Offas saying
maybe you can do that too...and this...but can you do them TOGETHER!?.
Next theres a tecturemapped sube spaceut with some envampped objects,
before it ends with what can only be described as motionblurred
fireflies. Not bad at all, TBL... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Goa 1996, 18.08, AGA ?MB HD Multifile.
code: Offa, Dig-It, Equalizer, gfx: Rodney, Louie, Tudor objects,
music: Azazel. 3rd in The Assembly 96 demo competition.
info: Azazels music from the demo also competed in the music
competition, and came 3rd. The timing was made on a 030-28. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review.
Note: Not enough memory to run!
The Monkey Tribe 1996, .09, File.
2nd in the Creutz 2 96 demo competition.
review: Intended as a parody on 3LE demos.
Captured Dreams 1997, 29.03, AGA HD Multifile.
code: Dig-It, Equalizer, Offa, gfx: Danny, Louie, Rodney, Tudor, music:
Fndr/? intro, Radix main. Winner of The Gathering 97 demo competition!
review: The show opens with a texturemapped tunnel, with credits texture-
mapped onto squares flying around. A CD logo is next, then we zoom into
the middle of the picture. At first it looks like a normal zoomer, but it
quickly becomes evident that theres layers and layers of fantastic gfx
before we hit the bottom! There, it smoothly integrates into some lights
flashing out at us in time with the music before the entire zoom process
is reversed. Only this time, we zoom back a little more than where we
started, and it becomes evident that were in a room with several
different tv-boxes hovering in the air. They all have changing pictures
on them, and we travel around until we settle on a picture of the side of
a skyscraper. This is now the main focal point, and soon a beautiful
dolphin comes swimming/flying by, reflected onto the windows of the
skyscraper. Its all very Beyond the Minds Eye. We see the dolphin
from three different angles before we move on. Next is an amazing, big
dinosaur object T-Rex?, sneering at us. This object is made up of MANY
polygons! Next were treated to Danny and Louies coop picture Angelic
Particles also winner of the TG97 graphics competition before we move
on to another showstopping effect... Were suddenly underwater, with calm
music and a soothing atmosphere. Next is another texturemapped tunnel,
this time with a moving lighstource. It goes on with some butterflies
flying around ancient architecture, before the show is rounded off with
not-too-good picture by Rodney.
CD has to be one of the best demos ever released, period. It seems TBL
has got most of their design problems out of the way, and this demo sure
kicks ass! One thing I especially noticed and liked, was the way the music
changed to the MOOD of the demo. For the faster, frantic parts there was
techno-style stuff, while underwater we were treated to a beautiful pan-
pipe mood tune. Great!
Swedish musician FNDR Jonas Hedeback was not a fulltime member. The
demo requires at least 4mb fast, and a 030-50 processor. However, the
system checker searches for 020+, so in theory it is possible to run on
inferior hardware... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Imitation None 1998, 11.04, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Rubberduck, Spite/?, Digit, Scout, gfx: Louie, music: Fndr/?.
Winner of Gathering 98 64k intro competition!
review: Who would have guessed - TBL are back with a small 40k sign of
life! Unfortunately, this ones a no-starter due to one very important
factor: Speed. Youre obviously gonna need a FAST machine to get this
baby to roll acceptably. So the keyword would be: Beautiful but
agonizingly slow. If youve got a fast machine, please do. Otherwise,
dont bother. Nice to look at, tho
FNDR Jonas Hedeback and Spite Erique Hemming were not fulltime
members. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Rain 1999, 28.12, AGA File.
code: Rubberduck, Dig-It, Kalms additional, Spite additional, gfx:
Louie, Tudor additional, FTHR additional, FNDR additional, music:
Carebear. 3rd in The Party 99 demo competition.
review: Just one word: WOW. This demo is testament to the demopower of
TBL, a group of almost unheard of talent. Rain was their first demo in a
while, with only the intro Imitation None 04/98 released at TG98 since
their amazing Captured Dreams 04/97 - demo of the year in 1997. Even
if I stay by my claim that CD is the best amiga demo ever, Rain comes
close to topping it. The only reason why Haujobbs Mnemonics 04/99 is
demo of the year this year and not this one, is that Haujobb made a demo I
could actually run on my machine
The demo is fluent, with great art direction credited to Louie and
design elements. Every single screen is well thought out, with a great
sense of the overall design, and the music fits perfectly to the
cyberpunk-y feel of the demo. There are effects in this demo that have
never even been done on the amiga, and effects that I simply do not have
words to describe. There is the most amazing phong shading, some voxels
towards the end, and... well, just lots and lots of greatness! D Rain
is an almost perfect demo, with all the elements coming together
seamlessly. This is the kind of demo you show to your friends to get them
interested in the demoscene. Just amazing.
This review was only made possible by our contributor SoLO, who
generously sent me a cd with the demo as an mpg file. The mpg was grabbed
from an a1200 equipped with a 50mhz 68060 processor. The demo itself is
not runnable at all on my machine, 50mhz 030 Probably requires a
shitload of memory, too. A rough guess would be 16mb.
Carebear Erik Lyden is probably NOT a fulltime member of the group. He
is, in case you didnt know, a musician with top finnish pc demo group
Orange. Neither FNDR Jonas Hedeback, FTHR Antti Jaderholm or Spite
Erique Hemming are fulltime members. The final screen in the demo,
before the end credits, features a picture and the text yeah, thats the
downside. The picture is grabbed from Luc Bessons fabulous film Leon.
We wholeheartedly recommend it glenn
Senseless 2000, 18.03, AGA 060 Demo.
code: Rubberduck, Kalms additional, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Winner of the TRSAC 2000 demo competition!
info: Apparently requires an 060 processor in order to run fast enough.
Received a favourable review in Nah-Kolors Devotion 1 00.
Perfect Circle 2001, 15.04, Demo.
code: Kalms, Rubberduck, gfx: Louie, Tudor, music: TraumaChildGenesis
FastTracker II XM format.
Winner of the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition!
info: Requires an 060 processor and about 20 megs of fastram. Can anyone
review this for me? Pleeeeeease? TraumaChildGenesis are the two finnish
musicians !Cube/Armada and Teque/Aggression. Developed with TBLs new
demosystem, NewAge.
Little Nell 2002, 30.93, Demo.
production: Kalms, Rubber, Louie, TCG, Emoon, Tudor.
Black Monks old 1989-
GER Dark gfx, later Red Sector Inc., 09/89.
??? Andy, Anvil ex Alpha Flight, new mid91, Archangel, Black Knight,
Captain Future, Delton ex Dynax, new mid91, Dr.Jekyll, Ego the
Avatar, Flash, Gonzo the Zazgul, Ivanhoe crack, 04/89, Snooper,
Wild Blood.
Black Monks was formed when Black Division and Mad Monks joined forces
under the new name in the beginning of 1989.
1990 - Shadow and Spirit left to rebuild Critters with Amiga Freak/Trilogy
mid 90. Dam joined Supreme around the same time.
Coder and cracker MnemoTroN ex Silicon League joined Spreadpoint with a
few other members.
Black Monks new
GER Ego code trade sysop BLACK MONASTERY, early92.
??? Anvil ex Alpha Flight, old handle Zychon, Claw music, 12/92,
Kamikaze, Moses, Pete, Rain, Willow.
Black Monks was reborn late 91 or early 92, with a mixture of old and new
members - in total 11 members. The first ones to join the new group were
Kamikaze, Pete, Moses, Rain, Claw and Willow.
German graphician Fade One joined Masque.
Black Robes BRB, -1992
FIN Coroner, Jayhawk, Mr.Mad, Plug1 trade, 02/93, Squirrel Fish, Stalker.
Black Robes was a Finnish demo group, perhaps most noteworthy as the
foreunner of the legendary Virtual Dreams.
1992 - Black Robes is dead! John Peel joined Digital Dr.Skull, Tsunami
ex Spaceballs, Alien, Groo 06/92 and Dr.Death formed Virtual Dreams.
Lappari and Hex joined Damones Bart left the scene. Matti Ja Teppo is now
also a member of Virtual Dreams, though how he got there is a mystery.
Finnish swapper Fozzie joined Fanatic.
Black Sector
ITA Apocalypse Now music swap trade, late95, Anubi gfx, late95, Bad
Jack hack AM+PC+CONS, late95, R.A. Min gfx music, late95,
Subwoofer gfx music, late95, Tryal codePC, late95, Ultimate Cyborg
code, late95.
Blade
FIN Jolly Roger, Zombie.
Blade was formed by ex-members of Poorsoft. They released an intro for the
Assembly 93 competition, but it wasnt shown on the big screen.
Blaze
POL Imperator gfx, Sky Radoslaw Gulczynski, swap.
Xenos joined Mad Elks.
Blitz
??? T.M.D. ex Firecrackers, new 12/90.
Intro 1991, .04, ECS Intro.
Released at the Anarchy Easter Party 91.
Bloodsuckers BS
FIN Bloodstone trade, 03/94, Hitman trade, 03/93, Hoffi trade sysop
THUNDERSTRUCK WHQ, doublememb Damones 93, 07/91-03/93, Illuminator
trade, doublememb Accession, 03/94, Rib, SCH, SCY trade, 10/91,
Wanton code.
SWE Highlander sysop SOMEWHERE IN TIME, 10/90.
GER Genesis sysop GENESIS POWER, 10/91, Pirate sysop BERLIN AMIGA
NEWS, 09/91.
??? Android ex Accession, Armalite, Chuck D, Communist, Cowboy, Cyborg,
Dr.No ex Alpha Flight, Mann, Mr.Wizz code, 12/88, Mutants, Rawak,
The Wicked, Zacae ex Alpha Flight.
Death, sysop SATANS PLACE rejoined Zenith.
German Flaxx ex digital joined The Silents.
Bloodbath In Paradise ECS File.
Mass Compensates The Brain ECS Musicdisk.
Turtle Meeting Intro ECS Intro.
Mr.Wizzs 1988, 12.12, ECS Intro.
Blue Crystal 1992-1993
Blue Crystal was a shortlived finnish group, likely formed around late
november 1992 by Wasp code music and Zakal code music. Axe swap
joined, then also Sphinx gfx music from D-29. All members joined Styline
in january of 1993.
A small group formed by Wasp Vesa Halttunen, coder musician and Zakal
Tuomas Nikkinen, coder musician in 1992. Axe Jyrki Lindlf, swapper
joined. Sphinx Aki Sopanen, graphician musician joined from D-29. All
members joined Styline in January 1993.
Bodyworks 1995-1995
SWE Axy org ascii sysop, Blade org music, Delery code sysop, Schizzo
music, Tekburn music, Visitor trade, later Subspace, Zcandaler
sysop.
Bodyworks was formed by Axy and Blade after the death of Deadline Design, as
an ascii and trading group. They dominated the trading scene of west sweden,
had a lot of members, and released several ascii collys. In addition the
swedish members, there were also a few in germany and the uk. Sometime late
in the year, Axy and Blade decided theyd had their fun, and declared the
group dead. Blade who had now learned to code was in Inhumans with Visitor
for a while, before helping form Subspace. Axy later surfaced as Phase/
Spaceballs and later in Essence.
Bomb Software 1994-
FRA Ben code, 12/96, Clawz Mathieu Berthaud, founder music, ex Complex,
doublememb Impact Studios pc, 09/94-12/95, Gengis Frederic Heintz,
founder code, ex Complex, 09/94-07/95, Hof gfx, 12/94, Made Carlos
Pardo, gfx, ex Scoopex, new late95-04/98, Suny gfx, ex Movement, new
late94-12/94, Titan Sebire Laurent, gfx, 04-12/96, Trajan gfx, ex
Dreamdealers, new late94-12/94, Zebig gfx, 12/94.
DEN Roscoe Steen Hillestroem, swap, ex Razor 1911, new late94.
GER Trasher Oliver Plink, swap, triplememb Sanity and Artwork, new
late95.
After releasing their last demo for Complex, Real 04/94, Bomb! was
formed by Clawz and Gengis in August 1994. Soon after, they recruited the
French graphicians Trajan and Suny, and the Danish swapper Roscoe. In
september, they then won the intro competition at the 3S Party with their
first release, the 64k intro Casual 09/94. They then worked hard for a
few months, and could present to the public at The Party 4 the demo Motion:
Origin 2 12/94. The original Origin 12/93 made for Complex had
secured Gengis the winner at last years party, but Motion didnt come in
better than 3rd.
1995 - Next they recruited top french graphician Made and spent most of
1995 working on their commercial game Fears, which was previewed at the end
of Motion and released in September. The game was done by Gengis code,
Hof gfx, Titan gfx, Suny gfx and Clawz music.
1996 - Following the completion of the game, Gengis and Clawz released
their last Amiga production in the Saturne 3 Invitation 07/96, and left
for the PC scene - where in addition to scene activities they are currently
working on an adventure game. Made now seems to be the only remaining active
Amiga member, contributing graphics to productions left, right and center -
though mostly for his old group Scoopex. However, he has lately begun doing
more and more 24bit pictures in high resolution, and now he also works
almost exclusively for the PC scene. Gengis and Clawz first joined Impact
Studios on the pc, before moving on to Oxygene. They are now back in their
own group Bomb!, though - and the pc section seems to become as powerful as
the Amiga one was in its time...
Casual 1994, 03.09, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Gengis, gfx: Hof/?, Walt/? car person, music: Blache Bleuche by
Clawz. Winner of the 3S Party 64k intro competition!
review: A cute and nice first production from Bomb. Nice font!
The music is kinda unusual for Clawz, but still good. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Motion: Origin 2 1994, 28.12, AGA Trackmo, 2 disks.
code: Gengis, gfx: Suny, Trajan, Zebig, Hof, music: Overtaking main
and Intermediate end by Clawz The Player 6.0A format.
3rd in The Party 4 demo competition.
review: Gengis and Clawz followed up the original Origin released for
Complex, who won at The Party the previous year, with this great demo.
The strongest point of Motion has certainly got to be its design.
It opens with a great loading picture by Suny I believe it also competed
in the gfx competition, which looks like it was inspired from the scene
in the introduction to the movie Cliffhanger. Then, an eye suddenly
looks at us. We zoom into the eye, and the demo begins. Were treated to
a variety of good effects, including fast voxel landscapes and various
vector environments. The real showstopper however, appears at the end of
the demo, when Gengis revealed the first real Doom routine - with walls,
floor and ceiling. For more of that routine, buy the game Fears, which
was developed by much the same team as this demo. The demo is timed to
one of Clawz techno tunes, which sounds great. Then again, few people on
the Amiga do techno as well as Clawz... The endpart requires some fast
mem, a fact that made it guru when it was originally shown at The Party.
However, the whole demo runs perfectly on unexpanded A1200s except the
endpart. It supports external drives. Whole-heartedly recommended. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Saturne Party 3 1995, .07, AGA File.
code: Gengis, gfx: Made, music: Kuulitte Oikein by Clawz ProTracker MOD
format.
review: This is certainly one of the smoothest invitation intros Ive
ever seen, and the one with the best graphics! It opens with a fullscreen
picture by Made, of a small green gnome, before showing a Saturne Party
logo with a vectorbased 3 zooming back in place. Then were taken to the
text selector, which is a set of tecturemapped cubes. The great thing is
that the cubes have two sides, one French and one English, so you can
actually select the language you wish to read the text in! The music is
also great, so what more can I say? This is one of the best invitations
ever - never mind that the party was cancelled at the date mentioned in
the intro, and wasnt held until april of 1996! For further irony, it was
at that very party that Gengis released his first production for the pc,
Impact Studios Bomb, cooperating with - yes, youve guessed it - among
others Made and Clawz :- This was almost certainly Gengis last Amiga
production. He was next in Impact Studios as mentioned on the pc, before
moving on to Oxygene and finally back to Bomb.
As for the release date, I found it on a pack where all the other
productions were from early .07, so its a pretty probable date. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Cyberia - ISO Opus 2 1996, 18.08, AGA 4mb HD Multifile.
info: Made contributed graphics to this Scoopex demo, making it a
coproduction. See Scoopex entry for details.
Shaft 7 1996, 28.12, AGA 4MB HD Multifile Demo
code: Ben, gfx: Titan logo, gfx, Made title, Axel objects, music:
Temple of Sun Remix by Legend and Yolk 8ch XM format.
Winner of The Party 96 demo competition!
review: Bomb!s amiga swansong containted what was perhaps the upto then
most advanced 3d scenes ever realised on the machine... Beautiful design
coupled with fast, great-looking env and bumpmapped objetcs and 3d scenes
made this one of the VERY best demos of 1996. Mercifully short, but
nevertheless a real powerdemonstration, S7 is - in my book - the second
best demo of 96. What was so special about the demo was perhaps that coder
Ben was a total unknown, and to our knowledge never released anything ever
again... Mades title picture is a special version of his Eden 377
which he came 2nd with in the graphics competition at the same party
with the title of the demo overlaid.
Please note that the version reviewed is tagged Revision 2.0, with a few
bugs fixed from the competition version. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Bomb Squad
FIN Baron trade, doublememb Malice pc, 03/94, Bright Angel trade,
03/94, Crime-Z99 trade, doublememb Alpha Flight, 03/94, Eibon
09/95, Fisu trade, 03/94, G.O.D trade, doublememb Alpha Flight,
03/94, Ice-T trade, 03/94, Leecher trade, 03/94, ScE trade,
03/94, Trash trade, 03/94.
??? Boheme music, 08/95, Brem music, 08/95, Mailman trade, 03/94.
Finnish trader Illuminator 03/94 joined Accession.
Ultimate Stress 1995, 12.08, 40k Intro.
9th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition.
Bonzai BNZ, 1994-1994
GER Cocoon Stefan Hardt, code swap, ex Savage, old handle Mayday, 03/94,
Dahaul Paul Kraus, music swap, ex Savage, 12/94, MDB Carsten, sysop
LOVE LIKE BLOOD WHQ, ex Savage, Ragman Mark, gfx, 03/94, Solid
Christian Meyer, swap music, ex Savage, 03/94, Sting Dirk Dallmann,
ascii swap.
??? Mirage gfx, 12/94.
Bonzai was formed by Sting/ex Proline. However, shortly after they were
formed Sting left to joined Alcatraz instead. The news of BOTH the birth and
death of Bonzai were in Propaganda 4 :. In addition to the Gimme Alcohol
demo, they also contributed the only game in the game competition at the
Dooms Day 94 party.
Fox joined Dominators.
German swapper X-Poole got an offer to join Platin, but instead went to
Nuance.
Love Like Blood File.
Sleepless Nights 1994, 13.03, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Cocoon, gfx: Ragman, music: 40k Intro Theme3 Solid 4ch MOD
format. Released at The Easter Party 94.
review: Im sorry Bonzai, but this intro just bores me. No redeeming
qualities, design flaws, and...well, that tune is just annoying. glenn
Gimme Alcohol 1994, 09.10, Demo.
Contribution for the Dooms Day 94 demo competition.
Bonzai Brothers 1995-
GER Cocoon ex Vodka, Dr.Avalanche Rene Kueppers, swap, ex Vodka, Risc
mainorg swap, ex Vodka.
After Sting lost control over Alcatraz, he formed BB with most ex members
of Alcatraz Germany ROM 4. Apparently, the Brothers in BB was
intentional, to avoid confusion with the PC demo group Bonzai. It didnt
help much, though, since in Propaganda 4s news section theyre
consistently referred to as just Bonzai : ...Still not sure if this groups
the same as the one above, due to some conflicting information. When
original organizer Sting left, swapper Risc took over as the new WHQ.
Hardy code and MBD left the scene late 95.
Finnish musician The Hooligan left to be in Fanatic only, late 95.
Maxx, Powl both ex Vodka and Gonzo all joined Illusion late 95.
German swapper Ghandy ex Rebels, new ROM4 and coder Toaster ex Vodka
left to join Gods.
German swapper and founder Sting ex Alcatraz joined Abyss late 95.
Bonzai Revival http://www.bonzai-revival.de
Appears to be a revived version of the good old Bonzai, with old member
Sting back again!
Boom Design -1994
FIN Hunter swap, 08/94, Mehukatti 08/94, Tri-State swap, 08/94.
Boom Design was a subgroup of Pulse, before all the members joined the
Pulse breakout group, Avantgarde in late 1994. Hunter rejoined the scene
late 1995.
Norsu Intro 1994, early, ECS Intro.
code/gfx/music: Mehukatti.
Convex Hull 1994, 07.08, ECS 40k Intro.
19th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition.
review: Unfortunately, a rather dreadful affair. The only real effect
here is a zoomrotator, and weve seen better. Not too interesting.
No credits appear anywhere in the intro. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
Booze
Anarchy Party Demo 1991, .04, ECS Demo.
Released at Anarchy Easter Party 91.
Borealis 1993-
NOR Felix swap.
Bounty
??? Wild Child, Modemia swap trade, 10/89.
Bounty was a mainly Danish group.
1990 - The group arranged the Bounty Party in august! Wally and others
left late 90.
Danish coder Gizwiz joined Kefrens.
Brainstorm BRS, 1988-1993
SWI The Accused Vermesser Mussler, code editor, ex Setrox, 10/89-08/90,
Bird code, ex Axxis, new 89-06/90, Chester Andre Schelker, founder
gfx, 05/89-08/90, Com code, 10/89-06/90, E.S.A. code, 10/89, Fly
code, ex The Perfects, new late90, Grubi music, 05/89-08/90, Luke
code, 10/89-06/90, Majestic founder code, 05/89-08/90, Odie gfx
sysop CHEESELINE, 10/89-08/90, Oli gfx, old handle Olivision,
05/89-04/90, Orlando Orlando Budelacci, code, new 89-08/90,
Scattergold 10/89-06/90, Sky code, Spirit swi? music, 12/89-
02/90, Taskmaster swap, new 03-04/90, The Edge 02-04/90, Truxion
gfx, 05/89-08/90.
GER Shadow swap, 10/89-08/90.
DEN Droid music.
??? Barrax ex Extreme, Cobold swi? 10/89, Extabulator, Mac, Mad
Freak ex Deadlock, Phazer, Scott swi? music, 90, Top Azz, Voyager.
Brainstorm was formed a short while before may 1989 by Chester gfx and
Majestic code, and their first release was Lazer Roll 05/89. During
the summer they recruited more members like Orlando, and at the end of the
summer vacation they were joined by the entire group Axxis. This group had
both a Swiss and German section, but the German section was found to be
substandard and was forced to leave after a while. Another member, swapper
Joker, left the scene soon after.
They had by now started planning what would become a legendary diskmag,
Zine. It was originally conceptuated as a cooperation between Brainstorm
and another big Swiss group at the time, Setrox, but the latter eventually
decided against being part of the project. Due to this, their coder The
Accused, who DID believe in the project, left them to join Brainstorm. The
first issue was released in october. They were now a totally Swiss group
again, except from two members Shadow, Yankee in Germany.
Sometime between issue 3 02/90 and 4 04/90 they decided to kick their
German writer Yankee 10/89-02/90 because he wasnt productive enough. He
was a freelance writer for D.I.S.C. for a while before finally joining
Addonic around 07/90. Also two new members joined, SixPack old handle
Angledust and Taskmaster, which left them with only one non-Swiss member,
Shadow. Swiss members Sixpack old handle Angeldust, new 03-06/90 and
Mr.Frost then left late 90.
1992 - Danish swapper The Pride ex Flash Productions left for Sanity
around january. A finnish section was opened around january, with Phazer,
Extabulator, Hoover, Mac, Top Azz and Voyager as members. The finnish
adventure was shortlived however, after Hoover left for Rebels and the
section died pretty quickly. After this experience the group decided to have
no more foreign members, and went 100 swiss again.
1993 - Brainstorm died in the end of 1993, after some key members - Axel
music, ex The Perfects, new late90, Tin gfx, new 03/92 and Rob Rose
code, 91 - found some things said in diskmags by Orlando, Chester and Oli
stupid. They felt that the name of Brainstorm had been tainted by these
interviews, and decided to declare the group dead. So the three members
instead started a new group called Brainstorm Productions, with the
intention to make a better, more demo-oriented group. Ofcourse, their plans
never became what they had imagined, and Brainstorm Productions never
released a single thing.
Swiss graphician Peace ex The Perfects, new late90 joined Scoopex late
92/early 93.
Metamorphosis ECS Demo.
code: n/a, gfx: Peace, music: Axel.
Lazer Roll 1989, .05, ECS Demo.
code: Majestic, gfx: Olivision, Chester, Truxton, music: Grubi.
Metal Demo 1989, ECS Demo.
Sound Disk 1989, ECS Musicdisk.
Zine 1 1989, .10, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, music: Zine-Sound by Spirit 4ch MOD
format, editor: The Accused, Majestic.
review: Another small piece of history... The very first issue of Zine!
The first thing that strikes me having read a couple of the later issues
is how little the layout has changed since that first issue. Its already
a nice mag, and probably the very first one on the amiga that scrolled the
pages, and not just faded in the next one. Theres no extraordinary
visuals or anything here, you just enter slap bang right in the middle of
the magazine. Editorially theres not much to shout about though, just 48
articles all included, and that includes a ridiculous amount of
interviews with more or less interesting scene people. This mag would
improve over time, though. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Zine 2 1989, 10.12, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, Olivision coop title, music: Zine-
Sound II by Grubi Spirit 4ch MOD format, editors: The Accused,
Majestic. Released at the Brainstorm/D-Tect party.
review: First thing that strikes you is that theres now an intro
picture of sorts as you load the mag...at least thats what I presume its
supposed to be... I cant see it unscrambled on my machine you see, and
caches off and original chipset doesnt help either : But it doesnt
crash and soon the second issue of Zine is staring you in the face.
Nothing has changed graphically, the mag looks the same, and almost reads
the same. Theres still endless interviews with standardized questions
for unknown groups, but just as in the first issue theres also a few
interesting articles. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Zine issue 3 1990, 07.02, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, Olivision coop title, music: Zine-
Sound III by Grubi 4ch MOD format, editors: The Accused, Majestic.
review: I still cant see the loader picture, so that is pretty much lost
on me, but the mag loads and you can immediately see that graphically it
is still the same. It contains about the standard amount of information by
now, some 60 articles - and still too many interviews. This issue
announced The Accused wasnt going to be working on the next issue since
he has to go to the army. New editor from issue 4 would be Orlando.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Megademo 1990, 21.04, ECS Megademo, 2 disks.
code: Luke, Bird, gfx: n/a, music: A.L.II by Spirit, Blizzard and
F.E. Backup1 by Grubi and Spirit, Jamming, Loader by Grubi, Points
of Echo and Street by Scott, Sparrings by Spirit.
Released at the RSI, AFL and Spectral party 90.
Zine 4 1990, 21.04, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, Oli coop title, music: Zine Sound IV
by Spirit 4ch MOD format, editor: Orlando.
Released at the Red Sector Inc, Alpha FLight and Spectral party 90.
review: Some new blood in the editor chair for this issue, since previous
editor The Accused had left for the army, was Orlando. And it seems the
change was for the better: They present a mag with more to read than ever,
99 articles this time! Some changes since last time, writer Yankee was
kicked, and their proposed party with Alcatraz was cancelled hence this
was not released there, as promised in the last issue. This was also the
first issue with a real news section though news that Shining 8 are dead
were WRONG :. This is perhaps the first GOOD issue, as far as the reading
goes, and it now comes across as a much more focused effort than the first
three issues. The music is NOT good... : glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Zine 5 1990, 03.06, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, Oli, music: White Song II by Grubi 4ch
MOD format, editor: Orlando. Released at the Alcatraz Pentcoast party.
review: Again, nothing has changed on the graphical front perhaps time
for a new logo?. But the improved editorial content is carried on, and
the news corner is much more extensive than last time. Also the interviews
that swamped the first issues of the mag are now more restrained, and with
people that are actually halfway interesting to read about! Theres a few
less articles than last time 72. This was to be Orlandos last issue as
editor, as The Accused had returned from his army service.
Just one almost priceless anecdote: After announcing rumours that IBM
are planning the release of a new home computer with an 80286 processor
possibly even 386 they claim, they deliver this little comment: That
sounds funny, a scene on a IBM-computer!. Oh, and this little newsgem:
Apple wants to produce a homecomputer, too! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Zine 6 1990, 20.08, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
code: The Accused, gfx: Chester, music: Black and White by Grubi,
editor: The Accused.
review: The Accused returned, with the first issue to have more than 100
articles. Some changes and improvements to the coding and the graphics had
also been performed, all changes to the better. This was the first time
actually, the first time EVER we saw the bar under the articles that
allows us to see how much is left of a given article - now a standard
feature in any diskmag. This issue also celebrated the first birthday for
the magazine, it was now one year old. Comparing this issue to the first
ones, you can certainly say that the mag had matured! This was also
another kind of celebratory issue, since last month the mag had finally
overtaken Alpha Flights Cracker Journal as the no.1 mag on the scene in
the Official Eurocharts! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Another Dream 1990, .08, ECS Demo.
Solid Communication 1990, .01, ECS Demo.
Zine issue 8 1991, 15.01, ECS Diskmag.
Zine issue 9 1991, ECS Diskmag.
Zine issue 10 1991, ECS Diskmag.
Sounddisk II - The Best of Grubi 1991, ECS Musicdisk.
Blitter Miracle 1991, late, ECS File.
code: Rob Rose, gfx: n/a, music: Axel.
review: Impressive for a 1991 demo, innovative coder Rob Rose here shows
us routines that shouldnt really be possible on the Amigas at the time
: - like texturemapping and an incredibly fast mandelbrot fractal
generator. The overall impression is good, and the fact that the texture-
mapped cubes dont always look as good as they could, is quite
forgiveable when you consider the achievement. The demo runs perhaps a
little too fast on my machine, and cuts to the next part at exactly the
moment when the credits are about to appear in the scrolltext. Peeking in
the executable doesnt help either, since Rob Rose is probably using his
own decruncher or something...I certainly couldnt rip it, at least :
Innovative but sometimes slightly boring. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Zine issue 11 pre 1992, .02, ECS Diskmag.
info: Issue 11 was the last issue ever released. The diskmag throne was
soon claimed by R.A.W...
Musicland 1992 late/1993 early, ECS Musicdisk.
code: Rob Rose, gfx: Tin, music: Axel.
info: ONLY works with fake fast!
Musicland 2 1993, ECS Musicdisk.
code: Rob Rose, gfx: Tin, Peace, music: Axel.
Brainstormers, The
Tune Disk 1989, 01.04, ECS Musicdisk.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Metalman-4 by BMD-NAT, Miguel 03,
Miguel 06, Miguel 07 and Miguel 14 by Miguel, SML29-War,
SML 01, SML 04, SML 05 New, SML 05, SML 06 and SML 09
HardVersion by SML.
Brain Wave 1989-
FRA A.Ch code, 03-06/90, Arrakis mainorg code, 03/90, Big M, Bytefox
gfx, 03/90, Lecolos code music, 03/90, Quasar, TIK gfx, 03/90,
Van Gogh gfx, 03/90.
DEN Krueger swap, later Kefrens, 03/90, Rain Man.
NOR Shinox swap pack, late90.
GER EBF swap, Hijack.
ENG Spellcaster swap, 03/90.
USA Sergeant Pepper modem, 03/90.
??? Matthew ex Savage, new ca 07/90.
Brain Wave is french demo group, formed by exmembers of Overgrowth no
entry and Phoenix in november 1989.
1990 - Towards the middle of the year, some members left to create a
French section of North Star.
Raistlin was kicked sometime around 03/90.
Just For Your Ears 1991, ECS Musicdisk.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Funschis/Zenith, Maniac.
Cooperation with Zenith.
Bravo 1994-
POL Phantom founder org gfx, ex Applause, Tolek Banan ex Applause, new
early95.
??? Flowmaster editor, new early95.
Bravo was formed by Phantom/Applause in 1994.
Bronx BNX, 1991-
TUR Astron Reha Bicer, code, ex Crash, Barbarian, Eugene raytrace, Gart
swap sysop1 SPLIT SEVEN WHQ, Hooligan, Hunter, Jam, Max music
swap, 06/93, Micro code, MS code, 93, Pentagram code, old handle
Phobia, 06/93, Sam, Swat ex Coast, Thunder, Turbo founder mainorg
gfx ascii swap sysop2 SPLIT SEVEN WHQ, 93-96, Victory swap, ex
Saints.
SWE DJ Jones music, 96, Fire ex Conqerers, Godhead ex Transfer,
Herlikhan ex Transfer, Malice code gfx, 06/93-96, Penny gfx,
early94, R2D2 ex Conqerers, Randy org, old handle Dot, late94.
FIN Deadbeat music, ex Zenon, new 93, Kazz swap, early94, Vortex ex
Paralysis, 93.
SPA Double R Jose Jordan, swap.
DEN Cruel, Helloween Jan Nielsen, swap, Shakesbeer.
FRA Dyze gfx, ex Nihondreamers.
USA BJ sysop MAELSTORM.
??? Bacteria ex Crossbones, Codian gfx, 93, Judge, Minotaur, Nemesis,
Ravetronic new late93, Zorlac ex Crossbones.
Boards THE BEER BAR aut.
Bronx was born in Turkiye in january of 1991, after the Zombie Boys changed
their name to Bronx. Vigo was among the founders. They are probably best
known for their oddly named diskmag Cemetery News and their controversial
packmag Auschwitz. Their BBS THE BEER BAR appears to have the same phone
number as FIRE AND ICE sys: Imagic/2000 AD, later Sceptic. The Swedish
section was reborn late 94, by Randy old handle Dot. Their swedish
graphician Penny was apparently female. News in Miracles Eternal 2 that
Dot had joined Balance was WRONG.
1992 - Swedish swapper Goose joined DAI mid to late 92.
1993 - Swapper Beast joined Cyborgs early 93. Dr.Mantrix left mid 93.
Bloody left mid to late 93. French trader Bombsquad left for Devils
late 93.
1994 - Stranger joined Saints late 94.
Mix joined Saints.
Mazz joined Freezers.
All Spanish members of Intense joined Bronx.
The German section was kicked.
Finnish swapper Zanu 93 joined Accession.
Turkish swapper Kickman ex Centura joined Miracle.
Turkish coder, swapper, trader and sysop Vigo left to form his own group
Coroner, but soon moved on to join Mystic.
AGA Dentro AGA File.
code: Micro, Astron, gfx: Turbo, Dyze japfont, music: Gore/Zenon
main, DJ Jones end.
review: True to tradition, Bronx dont bother with irrelevant things
like release dates the effects suggest this is from the early AGA
period, though, 1993 or 94. Who knows? None of the effects are
particularly impressive the best is the shadebob-like dot effect that
form patterns The rest are just block zoomrotators and dot-routines :
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Istanbul Style ECS Slideshow.
Split 5+2? Intro.
code: Malice, gfx: Eugene raytrace, Malice font, music: Watch by
DJ Jones Tracker Packer 3 format.
review: This one-screen not counting the fadeout spinning logo screen
BBS intro for the SPLIT 7 BBS clever title, then! comes without any
kind of release date. It was uploaded to AmiNet in early 97, but the
dates of the files in the archive are september 92...
The rendered spinning Bronx logos are nice. The music is a sort of
dance/techno hybrid with little variation or originality. Also, some sort
of shadebobs variation is active behind the font of the writer. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Faith of Black 1993, ECS File.
code: Pentagram, MS, gfx: Turbo, Malice, Codian, music: Max.
Portakal 1993, 03.06, ECS Intro.
code: Pentagram, gfx: Surfs Rocker/Independent, Malice, music: Max.
DJ Jones Chip Pack 2 1996, Musicfile.
code/gfx: Malice, music: DJ Jones.
review: Malices cool graphics are the main attraction of this small
chippack. Im thoroughly unimpressed by DJ Jones chiptunes, but then
again Im probably spoiled by all those great THX tunes Ive been hearing
lately... : Anyway, get it for the cute gfx. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0
-- note: Fonts a little weird...
Browbeat BBT
FIN D.N.A gfx, 05/89, Freddy code swap, 05/89, Infinity Juha Kouri,
code, 05/89-94, J-Zax 05/89, Mace swap, 05/89, Ruzzo swap,
05/89, Splatter code, 05/89, Zip swap.
Browbeat was a Finnish demo group, a section of the originally c64 group.
Finnish coder Infinity is the author of JNet, a transfer program between
the Amiga and the Commodore 64. They were accused of spreading the BGS-9
virus for the amiga.
Dots of Browbeat 1989, .05, ECS Intro.
code: Splatter, Freddy additional, gfx: D.N.A, music: Engura by ???/X-
Men SoundTracker format.
review: Well, a croweded screen is presented here at least! At the top, a
mediocre Browbeat logo in what is likely supposed to look like metal, is
encased on all four sides by beat indicators moving in time with the
music. Below this a small scroller moves, also with beat indicators to its
left and right, before another bigger scroller occupies the bottom part of
the display. The font used here is also made to indicate metal, but does a
much better job of it. Behind the entire display at all times a small
string of vector plots move, and the sines can be changed by pressing the
right mouse button. And thats about it really Some of the scrolltext
is really childish, and reveal these guys ages to be around 15... Plus
some parts are in Finnish, but I dont really feel like I missed anything
The music was ripped from X-Mens Party Invitation, which they admit in
the scrollers. This was Splatters first demo on any computer.
The intro appears to work perfecly with the use of KillAGA, but still
crashes on exit. This intro was found on Horizons Rack-Pack 16 pack,
released on the 2nd of june 89, plus there is mention one place in the
scrolltext that it was written in may of that year, so may is a 100
certain release date. It was likely not released at any party. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review!
Brutal
FIN Dna Antti Liljo, music swap.
NOR Decker.
Finnish swapper DNA has placed two ads in the same mag, one as DNA/Brutal
and one as DNA/Regency...
Bucket -1997
??? Digger swap, Judas code, Kordi code, Necroscope gfx, NoName
music, PinPong raytrace, The Soul code, Zaba swap.
Bucket is a demo group.
1996 - The group released X-Mans 64k intro Inside at the Intel Outside
3 party in poland.
1997 - The Soul code left the scene late 97, and Bucket died.
Inside 1996, 30.08, 64k Intro.
code/gfx: X-Man, music: Raze.
Released for the Intel Outside 3 64k intro competition.
review: Errr.... well, the chiptune is AMAZINGLY annoying and squeaky, but
despite that and the lack in design talent this actually contains some
halfway decent code at least... There is phong objects, mostly, and not
the most advanced ones, but theres also a phong space-cut routine that,
correct me if Im wrong, is probably actually a first. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Budbrain Productions
DEN Diablo Rene Bidstrup, music, Psycho code.
Budbrain is the brainchild of the two Danish madmen Diablo and Psycho.
Their unique style of demos changed the face of scenery forever when they
unleased their first Megademo onto an unsuspecting public in 1990...and
the second one was also a big success.
1992 - Sonet left to join Vixen in september.
Megademo 1990, 29.06, ECS Megademo, 2 disks.
Winner of demo competition at the Amiga Conference 90.
Megademo II 1990, 26.12, ECS Trackmo.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Diablo.
2nd in the Dexion party demo competition.
Byte Busters BB
GER Bomber sysop PEARL HARBOUR, ex Scoopex, DMC sysop FULL HOUSE
WHQ, Domestos swap, Loomex ex Sceptic, Mac swap.
FIN Fuzzray, Saxon, Sgt.Pepper sysop PARADOX BBS EHQ, Silverghost
sysop SOLID BALL OF ROCK.
SWE Uncle Acid Robert Falk, swap.
NOR Voodoo ex Zone 7, new mid91.
HOL Cubik swap, The Mega Bandit swap, late90.
ENG Rich, K-9, Overide.
USA Illuvatar sysop SPATULA CITY.
??? Daffy new 06/92, Twix ex Pirates, new ca 01/92.
Boards RENDE-VOUZ swe.
Byte Busters was a demo group.
1990 - Necro left late 90.
1991 - Danish musician Z.A.P was a member 90-91, and was later Hille/
Insanity.
1992 - Twix joined from Pirates around january. Mike Dee joined Grace
early92.
Swedish swapper Zaddo old handle Amory left for the new Rebels.
Swedish swapper Pace left.
German Pearl left the scene.
Timeless joined Infect.
Mike, sysop of STOLEN SLIME II joined Sceptic.
Jordanian Picasso new mid91 left.
Jordanian Eagle new mid91 joined St.Pauls Crew.
Jordanian Mutassem new mid91 joined Damage Incorporated.
Norwegian swapper Viking ex Blackbirds, new mid91 joined Amaze.
Norwegians Dr.Voodoo, Selwyn, Dr.Floyd and Cooper joined Paragon.
German swapper Rebel MC pack Beach Pak joined The Special Brothers.
Royal, Hydra, Obelix, Evileye, Sadist, Phobos swe, ex Exact, new mid91
and TLT were all kicked or left on their own accord.
Byte Syndicate
Kreator joined Desire.
Byterapers Inc. http://byterapers.scene.org
FIN Albert trade, 03/93, Drifter gfx, ex Vertigo, Dweezil new 12/90,
Grendel swap trade, 11/91-03/94, Heatbeat music, ex Sector 4, later
Rebels, new 12/90, Hoffi 03/89, later Bloodsuckers, Judge, Jugi
Perfecto music, later Jugi/Complex, 89, Merit swap, new 12/90,
Raduis ex SOS, new early90.
SWE Speed-Head music, 04/89.
??? Clever music, 04/89, CSA, Dark Young, Extabulator ex Society no
entry, Hotshot music, 04/89, Jonez, JS ex Dual Crew, Kannibal
ex Skid Row, Polo music, 04/89, Radish old handle Rogue, mid92.
Byterapers Inc. is a group with tradition perhaps one of the oldest groups
on the entire demoscene! They used to be big on the C64, and I believe many
of their Amiga members are originally from the 64. They have lately also
been making PC demos with great success!
1990 - Their Australian section was formed late 1990.
1991 - Turtle joined Sonic in september. Finnish sysop Illegal BYTE
ALLEY was a member for exactly one day in november, but was kicked because
of bad reactions to his board.
Whale was kicked.
T.O.B joined Damones.
Finnish trader and sysop Python TYPHOON, 07/91 joined The Silents.
Another source claimed he joined Complex.
The Australian division Birdzone new late90, Mogwai new late90 and The
Control new late90 all joined Insanity.
Muzzax I ECS Musicdisk.
Muzzax II 1989, 24.04, ECS Musicdisk.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Speedhead, Polo, Clever, Hotshot.
info: 12 pieces of music.
Muzzax III ECS Musicdisk.
Muzzax IV 1989, ECS Musicdisk.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Pole, Speedhead, Jugi.
info: Contains 12 pieces of music.
Muzzax 7 1991, ECS Musicdisk.
Bytestar
Vixen joined Flash Production.
Danes Fox and Spiderman joined Atomic Intelligence.