Cadaver CDR
NOR Baffle Dag Stensland, sysop BUMBLE BEE LAND, 08/94, Black Tornado
sysop GREENHOUSE, 04-09/93, Dr.Backup swap, ex Dark Cloud no
entry, Dr.Bully music, ex Majic 12, 04/93, Dr.Randy Per Einar
Forberg, swap, ex Tech, Frode gfx, 02/94, Gator code, 04/93, Jean
swap, old handle Calvin, ex Comix no entry, John Coven Jrn
Skjefstadmoen, old handle Covenant, swap, late95, Martin Myhre Martin
G.Myhre, sysop MADHOUSE ENTERPRISE, 04/93, Morgoth code, 04/93,
Mr.T sysop THE CRYPT, 04/93, Pathseeker sysop DARK SECRET WHQ,
04/93, Punisher swap, Splat! gfx, re-Acme, old handle Splatter,
04/93-02/94, Stratego sysop HARDCORE HEAVEN, 04/93, Tyrant Lasse
Stangeland, org swap edit, 92-04/93.
DEN Cytron music, later Depth, new 12/94.
SWE Amon Robert Falk, also in Mystic, Chimera Peter Swanqvist, swap.
BRA Bauer swap, 04/93.
FIN Overlord gfx, 03/94.
??? Crowley trade, board closed ROM3, Cyberpunch sysop HITNRUN,
busted 04/93, Eagle code, 04/93, Foxy gfx, 04/93, Joram nor?
code, 04/93-02/94, Noise Data sysop DIGITAL CITY, 04/93, Skynet,
Trouble sysop STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, 04/93, Uzi slave, 04/93, Vin
music, 07/93.
Cadaver was a demo group based in Norway. Most active around 1993, the group
is now dead.
Norwegian mainorganizer Thamuz Helge Norvang, old handle Trauma, 04/93
left the scene. Thamuz was one of two editors of the Cadaver diskmag
Aggression, and also one of two organizers.
Norwegian coder Slummy joined Spaceballs.
Norwegian graphician and swapper Snuffy joined Scoopex.
Norwegians Nirvana gfx, 04/93-02/94 and Ludde code joined Grotesticle.
Norwegian musician Jaw Anders Ormehaug, old handle Elipsion left to
pursue a professional music career. He has left the scene.
Norwegian sysop Decker HACKNHARD, ex Mirror no entry, 04/93 joined
Spacemarines.
Razorblade joined Mad Elks.
Mr.Fire, sysop REALISATION CENTER was kicked.
Splatter left to form Acme Project, but later rejoined as Splat!.
Duke, Birdeye and Li Chien got kicked 94.
Concept, DroopyD, N-Gin nor music, ex Triax, Necro, Overload 07/93-
02/94, Powermad and Scaremonger got kicked.
The Finnish division released an intro that the world HQ felt didnt live
up to their standards, so as a result the Finnish section got kicked out.
These were: Bit PC Code, Dectech PC Trade, Maniac, PetShopBoy Mikko
Virtanen, ex Diffusion, later The Hooligan/Fanatic, Safe, Seven PC
Code, Slayer and Slipper code, ex Diffusion.
Aggression issue 1 1993 or 94 :, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
code: Gator, gfx: Foxy panel, music: Dr.Bully, editors: Trauma, Tyrant.
Symbiostro 1993, .07, ECS Intro.
code: Joram, gfx: Overload, platter, music: Vin.
2nd in the Rendezvous 93 intro competition.
Marianne Myhrer - The Slideshow 1994, 26.02, ECS Slideshow.
code: Joram, gfx: Nirvana, platter, Overload, Frode, music: Anders
Ormehaug, Jaw.
info: This slideshow - of a girl Morgoth was in love with - got him in a
whole heap of trouble... It all ended with her finding out about the
slideshow, and suing Morgoth, on the grounds of a hidden part where you
could view a manipulated picture of the girl, with her head and someone
elses naked body...
Restricted 1994, 13.03, ECS Intro.
code: Slipper, gfx: Overlord, music: Petshopboy.
review: This intro is the finnish sections first production, and its
actually quite ok. Its a very standard design, with logo on top, vector
cube moving in the middle and scroller at the bottom. But the logo is
actually pretty good, and the design is quite adequate, so... This is by
no means a great production - there are a million of these - but its
certainly not the worst of its kind. The music is chippy. Even with
KillAGA, there are some graphical errors. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA!
Testiclo 1994, 03.04, Intro.
9th in The Gathering 94 intro competition.
Caffeine
??? Rascal code keyfilemakers, later Hellfire, 95.
Calibra 1992-
FIN Bearer 93, Dr.Header, Flashburn 93, Fresh-Kid Ice 93, Masque
Jari Laine, gfx swap, ex Addicts, new mid 93, Rastaman Timo
Laulainen, 93, Ripper, Tokela, Tonic ex Krafted, new mid 93, Zedi
Mikko Ilkko, swap pack.
Calibra was a Finnish demo group formed by previous members of Dictators,
Reflectors SF, X-Men and Success SF. They once released a roulette game, as
well as a dentro and some intros.
Netrunner joined Chrome.
Moonshine joined Stellar.
Finnish Yolk joined Addicts.
Finnish swapper Velsa ex Interactive got kicked. He joined Alpha Flight
in the middle of 1993.
Calypso
Calypso are dead. All remaining members joined Cyberdreams late 93.
Camel Corporation 1993-.
Camel Corporation was a Danish two-man crew formed by ICronite Anders
Mikkelsen, code and Milkshake Kent S. Jensen, gfx in february 93 after
they left Anarchy. As far as I know, Camel Lights 2112 93 is the only
thing they ever released.
Camel Lights 2112 1993, .02?, ECS Multifile.
Cannabis
NOR Woober Gran Myrland, mainorg crack music sysop ETERNITY.
GER Cannibal org sysop EXTREME TERROR.
SWE Kid Curry org sysop PET SEMATARY.
DEN Flozzy org sysop BATTLE FIELD.
FIN Speed Freak org sysop THE MAZE.
HOL Sal-One sysop BOONDOCKS EHQ.
??? Apollo sysop RIOT HOUSE, Brem gfx, Nino trade, Randall code,
Wraith trade, Zanok trade.
Boards RIOT HOUSE.
Cannabis was started and is lead by Woober.
1996 - Late in the year Jahmaal left, Lucifer sold his machine, and Nop,
Beavis and Filur got kicked.
Candle CDL
??? Aeroba code gfx, 94-11/96, Angel code music, 94-11/96, Cloud
music, 94-11/96, Lord Bizzare music, 94.
Slurry 1994, File.
code/gfx: Aeroba, music: Lord Bizzare.
Released for the Compusphere 3 demo competition.
review: Sorry, we do not review AMOS demos here. Please learn to code.
And while youre at it, learn to draw and compose music as well. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Terror 1996, 26.05, AGA 4MB Multifile.
code/gfx: Aeroba, music: Cloud.
review: Sorry, we do not review AMOS demos here. Terribly unstable, it
crashed my machine twice in different places. What Id seen wasnt good
enough to make me attempt at third time. Supposed to have been released
for the Icing 96 demo competition, but time ran out. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Kreijsi 1996, 19.11, AGA File.
code: Angel, gfx: Angel, Aeroba, music: Angel.
Released for the Compusphere 7 demo competition.
review: The biggest problem about this demo, I guess, is quality control.
Someone should have sat down with these presumably 14-year-olds and told
them to go home and practice some more before submitting this to the
public. The graphics are embarassing, the coding has goddamned after
burned line vectors as the main attraction, and the music...sort of
follows the style of the rest of the demo.
The demo is mostly built on supposed humour segments, where by far the
best is the tiled face that slides into place, only to have its eyes
flying around in its head, looking at small female breasts. The duck
stuff is almost as embarassing as the graphics, though... This demo works
on an unexpanded A1200...though this reviewer wishes it hadnt! Back to
the drawing board, Candle. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Elvis the Elvisp 1996, 19.11, AGA Intro.
code/gfx: Aeroba, music: Cloud.
Released for the Compusphere 7 fast intro competition.
Capsule CSL
SPA Barman music swap, 10/95-03/97, Dior code, Dr.Slump code,
Evelred Mateo Pascual, music, 10/95-01/98, Goreboy music, Keved
code, Kustom Ruben Alcanyiz, code, 10/95-07/97, Magnum gfx,
10/95, Oops! code, 06/97, Peskanov code, 06/97, Sativa raytrace,
Vader code.
??? Creatoor gfx, 10/95, Dixie spa? gfx, 10/95, Judas spa? gfx,
07/97, Nexus gfx, 10/95, Pink music, 07/97, Zaac spa? gfx,
07/97.
Capsule are one of the oldest and most well respected Spanish teams.
Spanish coder Darklord 10/95 is probably deceased, since Quicktro
06/97 is dedicated to his memory.
1997 - Spanish coder Flynn left late 97.
2000 - Spanish musician Estrayk Carlos Del Alamo, doublememb Nah-Kolor,
06/97- left the amiga scene for good early in the year, in favour of the
growing scene on the Playstation. Estrayk used to be one of the organizers
of the group.
Career 1995, 14.10, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Kustom, gfx: Magnum, Dixie end anim, music: Evelred.
Winner of the Euskal Party 3 64k intro competition!
review: Nothing very outstanding about this intro graphics and design
are ok, musics listenable... The most advanced effect, I guess, is the
burning ring. Nicest moment: Being kicked in the face towards the end.
Not bad not too memorable either. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Short 1995, 14.10, AGA 1MB File.
code: Darklord, gfx: Creator, Nexus capsule logo, music: Goreboy/N3.
3rd in the Euskal Party 3 demo competition.
review: Short is certainly an appropriate name! Its short and not
particularly sweet. The best effect has to be the zoom-rotator, which
looks good, but unusual. Cheating, people? Music is the usual frantic
techno. Its been done to death, and much better than this. If youre
tired of traditional music, try out Impulses Voyage In Storm 01/96!
And by the way, that ripple effect on the endscroller is bugged!!
030-50 recommended. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Assault! 1996, AGA File.
code: Kustom, gfx: ZooN/Silicon animbackground, music: Evelred The
Player 6.1A format.
review: Assault is a very SMOOTH demo, with most routines flowing by like
water through my fingers... It opens with a fast but undetailed flight
over a voxelspace landscape. It continues with some all-too-familiar
afterburned objects...see if any of these ring a bell: duck, torus, face?
The best routine in the demo, perhaps, is a colorful tunnel that we
blast through at a moderate pace at first, only to speed up considerably
as the music changes its mood. Nicely done. Assault does have a certain
sense of style, perhaps most evident during the stretching meteorstorm
credits part and the intro with the text that appears in time to the
soundtrack. To conclude, I guess I like this a little. If they could
get a decent graphician in, and consider trying out some new objects they
could very well make a killer demo sometime soon : The musics not
anything special, though. I do know that Evelred has won several music
competitions, so theres bound to be a few good tunes in him!
Please note that the version tested was an 040 fixed version released
to AmiNet 02/97. The demo makes use of Ludde/Encores c2p routine. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
First 1996, 28.07, Demo.
4th in the Euskal Party IV demo competition.
Changing 1997, 30.03, 40k Intro.
3rd in the Mekka Symposium 97 40k intro competition.
Quicktro 1997, .06, AGA File.
code: Peskanov, gfx: Estrayk textures, Oops! textures, objects,
Peskanov objects, music: Evelred The Player 6.1A format.
review: Capsule surprise us here with some pretty fucking amazing 3D!
Prior to seeing this, Id never heard of Peskanov - rest assured that
from now on Im VERY aware of this guy! Quicktro consists of scenes and
objects, much like many other recent demos, but the superior amount of
color and detail set this three notches above anything that came before
it. The main routines here are in HAM6 1x1, with the final toruses in
HAM8 1x1. Needless to say, it looks pretty f... amazing. Its hard to
speak about this demo without using some colorful language its the
only way to do it justice! Just wait till you see that galleon...
If this is Peskanovs idea of a quick production, then Im gonna be doing
what the figure in the first scene is doing once he releases a full demo!
Quicktro obviously needs a faster machine than mine to really shine,
but the 3D already knocks the socks off almost everything else even on my
machine. The music by Evelred is perfect for this production powerful
but minimalist. There ought to be a law against making demos that are
THIS good - it makes all the other ones look like fools!
Dedicated to the memory of Darklord. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Trailway 1997, 26.07, AGA HD Demo.
code: Kustom, gfx: Zaac pictures, Judas pictures, textures, music:
Pink The Player 6.1A format.
2nd in the Euskal Party 97 demo competition.
review: Oooh yes! They claim this is an unfinished demo in their
accompanying text file, and it does end rather abruptly... But what is
here is actually enough to qualify this as one of the best demos of the
year! The best thing about Trailway is its speed - everything runs fast
and smooth, no matter what effects are onscreen! The whole show opens with
a nice Capsule logo, then some credits appear. These zoom from behind
the screen and into it, and it looks very very cool Next is a
fullscreen Trailway title picture by Judas. Then a circuitboard texture is
mapped on a ball which bounces around...its hard to describe, but
download and be enlightened! : Then some text appears, backlit with
flying blue particles, saying are you prepared for demo ART? Next is
what appears to be two snow crystal objects, then the most awesome effect
in the demo: An animated envmapped face tries to break out through a box,
twisting this way and that in an effect that looks just stunning - a true
showstopper! Next is a fast texturemapped cityscape, followed by a cyber-
woman fullscreen picture by Judas...then the cityscape routine reappears,
only this time with a MUCH large scene - seemingly without losing ANY
speed! Its just so amazingly smooth... Then we see Zaacs first
contribution, a fullscreen picture of a screaming naked woman with the
british flag in the background...and then nothing, the demo just ends.
No information available on memory requirement, but well hazard a guess
at somewhere in the region of 4MB. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
The Last Inline 1998, 25.07, Demo.
2nd in the Euskal Party 98 demo competition.
Carillon 1992-1993
Carillon was formed by Dweezil and Heatbeat after Heatbeat was kicked from
the finnish section of Rebels. After releasing two demos in 1992, they
merged with Cyberiad in the first months of 1993 to create one of the best
ever Finnish teams Carillon and Cyberiad Institutes CNCD. At least
Heatbeat music, Destop gfx, WDO code and Major Tom music, ex Anarchy
came along to the new group. Despite rumours, Golem ex Anarchy never
joined DCS, and this was likely the last group the Finnish graphician was a
member of. It is believed coder and cofounder Dweezil went to Stellar at the
time of the groups death.
Finnish musician and graphician Dean 12/92 joined Damones.
Finnish members Wraith and Major Tom music left the scene 09/92.
Didnt Major Tom move on to CNCD?
Finnish Bloodstone was kicked, and therefore joined Scoopex 11/91.
Love Anarchy 1992, ECS Trackmo.
code: WDO, gfx: Destop, music: Heatbeat.
The Return of the Son of the Monster Magnet 1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: WDO, gfx: Destop, music: Maza/Rebels.
10th in The Party 92 40k intro competition.
Carnage
ENG Amida code raytrace trade, Cage sysop, Eon org trade, Iceman
code, Kei org code gfx ascii edit, Kenco raytrace trade, Mayhem
code gfx, Ruiner code trade, Spin code, Thrust music, Zebedee
code trade.
Boards REMOTE CONTROL eng, THE ORACLE eng.
1992 - Swedish musician D-Zire joined The Silents ca 04/92.
1996 - Sykotik joined Steps of Change 04/96.
1997 - English musician Wookie moved to the pc division late 97. English
graphician Hip was kicked late 97 due to inactivity.
Musician Gin joined Dual Crew.
Cartel -1990
NOR Achmed, Antichrist, Arny, FZ, Ozzy, Pab, Randy, Rockie, The Jack,
Varmint.
The entire group merged into PMC, and are now a part of that group!
They also released a demo to announce the merging, see PMC for details.
Some of the people this concerns is a.o. Lord Helmet ex Heatseekers,
Zapper and Ramjet.
Cascade http://www.cascade64.de/
SWE Astaroth code, Chainsaw, Lester, Mastermind.
N-L Jeffrey, The President.
DEN Whee L. Legaard, code, 90.
??? Gellerman new late90.
Boards SEARCH + FIND ger, 09/90.
The Danish section, with Whee as the only member, does not exist anymore.
They kicked Whee, but for some reason he didnt get the message and
continued to release Cascade productions for some time, much to the
annoyance of the Swedish members! Please note that Cascade has nothing
to do with the similarly named PC demo crew Cascada.
Swedish coder Phazor got kicked, and left the scene.
Swedish musician and swapper Skimmer left the scene 09/92.
Swedes M:ET ex Rebels, Nick ex Warfalcons and Zaxxan rejoined Rebels.
Transmit 035 File.
Cracklight 1988, 03.10, ECS Intro.
Released at the Double Density Crew, Level4, The Supervisors Copy Party.
Intro 1990, late, ECS Intro.
code/gfx: Whee, music: Martin Larsson.
review: I like this! The tune and the visuals make for a nice atmosphere
over the whole thing...blue, wavy, nice... Whee mentions an upcoming
vacation trip on 20.12-90, so its bound to be from sometime before that.
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Rising 1990, .09, ECS File.
Elektrica ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk.
code: Astaroth, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
review: This musicdisk opens with some VERY cool opening logos, before
settling on the basic but unexciting main screen. You can listen to the
opening tune, or press the right mouse button to bring up a selector.
Text in the scroller reveals that RISING was their last release, and that
some time has passed since then.
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Cache off.
Case
Musician Protas joined Freezers late 97.
Casyopea
??? Cooder music, Dr.Sky code, Greg code swap, Lordwader mainswap.
Noise joined Old Bulls 06/96.
Hades joined Deep 06/96.
Musician Bartesek joined Mystic late95.
Catastrophy
??? Quaid ex Grace, new early92, Yama ex Grace, new early92.
Dutch coder D Icelord joined Scorpio.
Nanodemo Demo.
info: Made by the dutch division.
Catch 22
1991 - Kross changed his handle to Azi and left the group in june.
Cavaleers
GER Risk John Walter, swap music.
??? Hardy code music, Toaster gfx raytrace.
Cave 1989-
FIN Dr.Feelgood, Ercwulff, Fang, Jupe, Lancer gfx, 92, Mr.Spiv Jouni
Korhonen, code, 90-92, Old Fart, Stinger import, 04/90.
DEN Anxious, Infinity, Logic, Magic, Proxt Lars Svenningsen, code gfx
swap, 11/89, Rare, Thunderboy, Tronic, Wombat.
GER Mimsamil.
ITA Yado.
USA Elf-Co sysop ECHO A CALL ON WHQ.
??? Melis music, 09/91, Synadex.
Cave is a finnish demo group, born after the group Panzerfaust changed their
name in the later part of 1989.
1991 - Phalcon joined Aero. In the middle of the year, the following were
kicked: Flyxer fin, Napalm fin, Curunir fin, Orion fin, Phalion
den, Airborne ger, Dr.Fate ger, Lemmy ger and Newark ger. Finnish
swapper Eku Vesa Ekholm left the scene mid 91. Rare left to form a new
group mid 91. Anyone know WHAT group?
Dope joined Legend.
Finns Fix, Hot and Perfect joined Coral.
LaWeird ECS File.
Celium 1991, 22.02, ECS File.
Revenge of Bob 1992, early, ECS Intro.
code: Mr.Spiv, gfx: Lancer, music: Double Trouble.
Celestial
Finnish coder Hook left for Genocide late 92.
Celtic
GER Avalon code swap, ex Avoid, new 06-10/90, Buckaroo gfx, 10/90,
Conan org swap, 10/90, Crown code, 01-10/90, Merlin swap, 10/90,
Mr.L code music, 10/90, Noise music, 10/90, Slayer swap, 10/90,
Xaik gfx, 10/90.
NOR Dr.M swap, ex New Wave.
FIN Pixie gfx, ex Wizzcat.
??? 16Beat music, new ca 10/90.
Celtic were originally a german group, who later took in some foreign
members. They were also behind the utility Demo-Maker V1.1 in 1989,
possibly the first program of its kind on the amiga?
1990 - Celtic grew stronger around june, when they entered into a
cooperation with Avoid, still under the name Celtic. They also kicked out
Slimer, Red Hawk and their german subgroup Highlander 4 spreaders. Bomber
and Pinhead from Highlander joined Amaze, while Koto and Guru from
Highlander joined Mindkillers. A new musician, 16Beat, was recruited around
october.
Plasmatronic ECS File.
Soundrevolution 5 ECS Musicdisk.
Demo 1989, 04.09, ECS File.
Rip-Demo 1989, 04.09, ECS File.
Celtic Frost
Finnish Masque joined Addicts.
Centolos 1994-, http://www.webmedia.es/centosis/
SPA Humphrey gfx, ex Necropolis, new early96-97, Barman swapper,
doublememb Capsule, Derethor org code, ex Sepultura, 12/94-97,
Wavemaker music, new early96-early98.
GER D-Orb trader, left 96
Centolos is a Spanish demo group, formed for fun in 1994 by various members
of other groups that had just died. In 1997 the group merged with Dosis to
create the group Centosis - and simultaneously moved the entire group to the
pc platform. They are well respected in the pc scene today, mainly due to
their role in organizing most parties held in Spain. Thanks to former member
Wavemaker now in Trinity and Glue for information!
1996 - Humphrey gfx, Ravana swap and Sapphire code joined from
Necropolis. Bladerunner swap joined early in the year.
1997 - Artworks Generation 24 04/97 reported that Specktro gfx was
kicked and left the scene, and that Derethor is the new organizer of the
group. Ravana swap, ex Necropolis left. McGyver music joined.
1998 - McGyver music left. Spanish coder Sapphire ex Necropolis left,
after winning the 4k competition at Euskal two years in a row with MD4I
07/96 and Asciiparty 07/97.
1999 - Bladerunner swap, new 96- left the group.
The Last Intro 1994, 29.12, ECS 4k Intro
code: Derethor, gfx Agnus Young ascii, music: none.
4th in the Euskal Amiga Party 2 demo competition.
Necrofagia 1995, 22.07, ECS 64k intro
code: Derethor, gfx: Specktro, music: Barman
Released as Posadas 95.
Oxygene IV 1995, 14.10, ECS 4k intro
code: Sapphire, gfx: Humphrey, music: none.
2nd in the Euskal 3 4k intro competition.
MD4I 1996, 28.07, ECS 4Kb musicdisk.
code: Sapphire, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Winner of the Euskal IV 4k intro competition!
information: The first 4Kb musicdisk ever.
Asciiparty 1997, 26.07, ECS 4k intro
code: Sapphire, gfx: n/a, music: Wavemaker
Winner of the Euskal 5 4k intro competition!
Centura
HOL D Icelord code, ex Scorpio, new 93, Metal Gear sysop SPHERICAL
DREAMS, ex Skid Row, Poison sysop POWER ZONE, Quasar code, ex
Scorpio, new 93, Radium Laurens van Klaveren, gfx music, ex Scorpio,
new 93, Wizard.
SWE Kid Curry sysop MISAIGON.
GER Outlaw, TMB sysop.
FRA Anonym.
??? Ellesar ex Vicious, new late92, Phantom sysop, .
Some of these names seem to reoccur below, in Cyanide...
Centura is dead!
Perlon joined Utopia.
Mr. Nuke joined Legend.
Turkish swapper Kickman joined Bronx.
French swapper Cerval ex Litany, new late93 joined Trance late93.
Zed changed his handle to Gemini and joined Pleasure.
Steef joined Legend.
Cerberos Design
HUN Big G, Bruce, Cunc, Edison, Silkie, Tope, X7.
??? Fresh Trash code, 10/91.
Cerberos Design is a group thats not very well known. Their coder Fresh
Trash coded the much used packer utility CrunchMania.
Everyone excpet Bruce, Cunc, Silkie, Tope, X7, Big G and Edison got kicked.
Some joined Design House, Soc.Brigade and 23 Celsius Crew.
Hungarian coder Comiga ex Soc.Brigade left the scene.
Hungarian coder Goophy joined Absolute!
Jean joined Surprise! Productions.
Champs, The
??? Atom, Buildex, Dr.Pablo crack, Syntax 2001.
The Champs were one of the first and greatest cracking crews!
Chaos
??? Cruncher ex Acume, James music, 93, Number 6 code, 93,
Thunderbolt music, 93, Uri music, 93.
Number 6 released the phone hacking tool MACK Maximum Access haCKer.
Brutus was kicked.
Chuck joined Submision.
MDMA, Schitzo and Case joined Defekt.
Tix changed his handle to Stix and joined Equinox late91.
Audio Dreams 1993, early, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Thunderbolt, Uri, James. info: 10 tunes.
Guru-Intro 1996, 05.04.
2nd in The Gathering 96 A500 Nostalgia demo competition.
Chaos A.D.
SWE Dezecrator Markus Merilainen, music sysop, ex X-Trade.
NOR Terminal Silence ascii.
USA Flatline sysop.
??? Aggressor, Hellhound, Pitcher, Prospect old handle Zacco.
Boards 4AM CLUB.
Chaos A.D. was born as a subgroup of Ram Jam. Chaos AD is also the title
of an album by Brazilian trash metallers Sepultura, which is probably an
indication of where they got their name.
Trouble was kicked.
Dee, sysop UNDERCOVER joined Delight.
Chaos AD died, and all remaining members joined Ram Jam.
Swedish musician Dose ex D-Lite/D-29, new PRP4 joined Trance.
The Norwegian division left, and some of the members joined a new group
called Duplo Digital ex Diffusion, old handle Nurnal and others.
Chaos Bros
GER Chavez Mark Buonfrate, swap, early98, Dr.Avalanche Rene Kueppers,
swap, early98.
Chaos Cooperation -1989
The entire group decided to join forces with Roadrunners in a new group
called Rebels. They released their first joint production in february 89.
Chaos Designs
Mohawk and Death joined Acme Projects mid 93.
Channel 42
DEN Deroy 90?, Grafictive code gfx, 07/88, Ice gfx music, 07/88,
Sionic 90?, Slim 90?.
Is Sionic the graphics ace that later worked in The Silents?
Technique 1988, 11.07, ECS File.
Code: Grafictive, Ice, Gfx: Grafictive, Music: Ice.
Chilblains new
??? Brain ex Unlimited, Gold Dragon swap, ex Unlimited.
Chilblains was rebuilt by The Brain/Unlimited.
Chip Lords 1992-
NOR CS800 gfx, Shrike code, Weejay music.
Chip Lords is a new group.
Chrome CRM
FIN Bongo swap, late90, Butcher 93, Chaosis code, 08/93, Coma old
handle Chaos... Chaosis?, 08/93, DJ Joge music, 08/93, Equalizer
swap, 08/93, Hacksaw 93, Maniac swap, ex Falcons, new 09/92-
08/93, Multiplex Toni Wilen, code, 08/93, Netrunner swap, ex
Calibra, 08/93, Ray 93, Shark 93, Sir Monkey 93, TC 93,
Tornado swap pack Stigmata, 08/93, Vulcan swap, late90, Whizz
sysop KLONDYKE, 08/93.
Chrome are a Finnish demo group mainly known for their Digital Discos
and Multiplex utility FileMaster.
1992 - Australian trader Heavyweight joined Addicts in september.
Alien left the scene.
Finnish swapper Royal69 restarted the legendary C64 group Wartec on the
Amiga mid93.
Danes Tricktrax, Subject, Blue Fox and Growl all joined Balance.
Finnish Deeprunner swap and Morpheus gfx, ex Stellar, new 09/92-08/96
got kicked.
Anarchy Party Demo 1991, .04, ECS.
Released at Anarchy Easter Party 91.
Digital Disco ECS Musicdisk.
Digital Disco II 1992, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: DJ Joge.
Assembly 93 Intro 1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Multiplex, gfx: Morpheus, music: DJ Joge.
9th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition.
review: In my book this will always be the puzzle intro. You see, the
design is based on pieces of jigsaw puzzles, hence... OK, anyroad.
Theres a few effects and a few textscreens. The best is some kind of
colorcycle-plasma thing and a non-textured Doom thingie. As youve
probably sensed, Im bored now so Im off to do something FUN instead!
If you want the graphics from this, just extract the IFFs from the
depacked file with WRip or a similar tool.
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Digital Disco 3 1993, late, ECS Musicdisk.
info: Generation 6 news said this would be released in January. However,
in their Assembly 93 intro they say its gonna be out soon.
Chronos
ITA Alphabit sysop ILLUSION, Batblaster sysop MUSICAL PHARMACY,
Eniac sysop IRON LAW, Vegamaster sysop LAST BIT.
USA Oldman sysop DREAMING CITY, 04/95.
Boards DARK STAR ger, 10/91.
Chronos is an Italian group, with some members in Switzerland.
Swiss coder Silence joined Equinox.
Chryseis CHS
FIN Albert sysop DEEP THOUGHT, 93-04/95, Goozer trade, ex Alcatraz,
new 10/93.
BEL Mr.Hyde sysop BLACK CRYPT, 04/95, Skrull sysop TEAM RANGERS,
Unix David Lovera, music, 04-12/94.
USA Apprentice sysop CD EXCHANGE, 04/95.
??? Arpegiator music, ex Anarchy, new late92-93, JMZ 04/94, Lazy Coder
code, 94, Mad Martigan code, 94.
Boards TOTAL RECALL WHQ usa, ex Paradise, new early93, MANIAC MANSION
bel.
Lazy Coder made the file packer utility Chryseis Cruncher.
3 From 1 1993, ECS Musicdisk.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Arpegiator.
info: With design stolen from the MTV music program.
80kb Intro 1994, .04, Intro.
production: Unix, JMZ. Released at Low Density 94.
Cinefex Design CFX, 1990-
NOR B.I.T music, later Majic 12, 09/91, Bjelland swap, late90, Dark
Angel, Dexter gfx, 09/91, Express Gunnar, late90, Fallos Sven
Deuschmann, code, late90-09/91, Floppy code, ex Wizzcat, new 09/91,
Hitcher, Mr.Nobody ex Wizzcat, new 09/91, Pushead, Slask swap,
late90, S.M.A.
??? Agent Criminal, BTS, Cyberpunk, Da Cato, Dr.Stein, Echo, Engineer,
Fodder nor? 09/91, Gekko, Great White, Icy, Imp, Latex, Mediator,
Morbid, Mosher ex Cosa Nostra, Nautic nor? 09/91, Sorcerer, Wilpet.
Cinefex was a Norwegian demo group, formed by former members of Alpha
Flight. Floppy and Mr.Nobody joined from Wizzcat at the Arendal party
09/91.
First Demo 1990, 15.05, ECS File.
Multiplex My Brain ECS File.
I Guess I Had To Release Something?? 1991, 29.09, ECS Intro.
code: Fallos, gfx: Fallos logo, Dexter font, music: Another One by
B.I.T 4ch MOD format. Released at the Arendal party.
review: A slightly innovative but ultimately deadly unexciting intro.
The innovative part is the logo, which has individual waving characters,
overlapping each other as the logo waves...but thats about it. Deadly
boring for the most part, with lousy graphics and thoroughly boring
music. The sinescroll bugs even with KillAGA. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Party Message Box 1991, 29.09, ECS Intro.
code: Floppy, gfx: Dexter logo, Floppy font, music: Neological by
B.I.T 4ch MOD format. Released at the Arendal party.
review: This message box is a rather plasma-heavy production, with an
overload of plasma-like color making its overall appearance one of too
much! The design is rather basic, with an unexciting Cinefex logo at the
top of the screen, a scroller at the bottom, and - youve guessed it - a
textplotter in the middle. It is, incidentally, this plotter that has all
those plasma colors under it. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA!
Circle 1993-1993
Circle was a swedish demo group formed in may 1993 by Schizo ex Noxious,
Colorbird, Some1 and Prime all ex Scoopex. The lifespan of Circle was
short, however, as both Colorbird and Schizo later in the year moved on -
first to join Alcatraz, then to form Illusion. Most members of Circle later
wound up in Illusion, and then eventually Razor 1911. Circle members that
moved on to Illusion were at least Lionheart ex Insane, Some1 and Prime
both ex Scoopex. As a consequence, Circle died.
Information in Balances Upstream 7 11/93 that Some1 and Prime joined
from Artech seem to be false.
Finnish Sphinx ex Styline got kicked.
Swedish graphician PGL joined Nova, but soon wound up in Illusion with most
of his old groupmates.
Sometimes I Wish I Was Famous 1993, 31.05, ECS File.
code: Colorbird, gfx: Butch/TSL, Tony/Alcatraz logo, music: Some1
Prime. 7th in The Computer Crossroads 93 demo competition.
review: The first and only? Circle demo is a rather forgettable
affair, unfortunately. Theres mostly vector and dot-stuff on offer here.
The tune initially sounds promising, with some nice use of speech samples
and stuff, but the novelty soon wears off. Too forgettable is my
judgement. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Propaganda 1 ECS Diskmag.
info: The first and only issue released under the Circle name. Issue 2
was released under the Illusion label, issues 3 and 4 under Razor 1911.
Circle of Power -1990
Circus of Power died late 1990, when all members decided to close the group
and instead join Abakus - thus creating theat groups Norwegian division.
Cirion
FIN Asa code gfx, 08/96-04/98, Mindeye Seppo Sinkkonen, gfx, 08-11/96,
Viggin raytrace, 08-11/96.
??? Turboboo fin? music, 09/96.
Hope 1995, 12.08, 40k Intro.
12th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition.
Showstopper 1996, 18.08, AGA HD Multifile.
code: Asa, gfx: Mindeye, Viggin raytrace, music: Carebear/Orange The
Player 6.1A format. 8th in The Assembly 96 demo competition.
review: A little bland, this. Theres the usual envmapping, but nothing
to excite me or make me say thats original. In a few short words, its
same shit, new and not necessarily better wrapping. The only effect I
really liked in this demo is the one with the angray face wrapped onto
the sphere. The face twists and waves in various ways. That was ok.
There are three raytraced logos and a fullscreen picture. The picture,
Adam Finds Eva by Mindeye also competed in the graphics competition,
where it was unplaced. It says nowhere whether it needs fastmem or not.
The system during the endscreen upscroller is weird...Left mousebutton
has no effect, while right exits. Weird... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Hope 2 1996, 28.09, AGA 64k Intro.
code: ASA, gfx: none, music: Turboboo The Player 6.1A format.
review: Taking into consideration the tag line 3 hour production, I was
positively surprised by Hope 2. Its a small, limited production, but
with some excellent core code work that shines through, and reveals some
good potential beneath the surface. This is a typical object intro, but
given that, its a nice colorful and pretty fat variation. My only real
complaint is the rather ungraceful exit it performed on my machine, with
the last note of the music beeeeeeping my ears to madness. For three
hours worth of work, this is very nice.
The C2P routine used was published to AmiNet dev/asm/asac2p2.lha
10/96, with the intro included in the archive. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fat/3.0.
Naturally 1996, 23.11, AGA 8MB FPU HD Multifile.
code: Asa, gfx: Mindeye, Viggin objects, trace, music: Carebear.
4th in the Demolition 96 II demo competition.
info: Seeing as I dont have a maths processor FPU, I have not yet been
able to see this demo. Is Carebear a real member, or did Orange pc just
loan him out? He participated in the music competition at the same party
under the handle Carebear/Orange and Jamm, so this seems most likely.
glenn
Hope3 1996, 23.11, 80k Intro.
6th in the Demolition 96 II 80k intro competition.
Citron hol 1993-
Citron was formed in late 1993 by dutch sysop THC/Justice MYSTIC PLACE,
but the group didnt exist long before THC moved on to legend, presumably
killing the group in the process. This group has nothing to do with the
Swedish group Citron. Citron-point.
Citron. swe 1993-
SWE Puh editor, S.Duvan Johan Alfredsson, founder code, 93-00, Slash
Johan Elm, swap, doublememb Peek pc, new 94-08/96, Tobias Jansson
founder, gfx, doublememb Sardonyx, old handle Electron, 12/93-12/96.
Citron. note the point at the end is a Swedish demo group, formed by
S.Duvan and Electron in early 1993. In 1994, Slash joined as a double member
from IFFTiC. In addition to their own diskmag Oepir Risti which they are
most known for, much of the team also helped C-Lous with their No Sense
mag.
Oepir Risti issue 1 1994, Diskmag.
code: S.Duvan, gfx: Electron, music: Jogeir/independent.
info: Intro is a nicely drawn logo by Chevron/The Silents. Music is by
Jogeir, and is a conversion of an old c64 tune original possibly by
Laxity. It was reviewed very favourably in Propaganda 3.
Oepir Risti issue 2 1994, Diskmag.
code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson, music: Orthanc by Lizardking.
info: The tune Orthanc by Lizardking was later used in the
Razor 1911 musicdisk Memorial Songs II 1995.
Oepir Risti issue 3 Diskmag.
code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson main, Prowler/Passion titlepicture,
music: Chip-Slayer! by Lizardking.
Oepir Risti issue 4 1994, late, Diskmag.
code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson main, titlepicture, music:
Propaganda 2.2 by Some1/ Razor 1911.
Oepir Risti issue 5 Diskmag.
code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson main, Drakemule/Exceed
titlepicture, music: A Way To Freedom by Lizardking.
Oepir Risti issue 6 1995, 28.12, Diskmag.
code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson main, Prowler/Passion titlepicture,
music: Lost at Home by Tip and Mantronix/Phenomena.
Released at The Party 95.
Oepir Risti issue 7 Diskmag.
code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson main, Frame/C-Lous titlepicture,
music: Wonder Smoke by Tip and Mantronix/Phenomena.
Oepir Risti issue 7I 1996, 25.05, Diskmag.
code: S. Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson main, titlepicture, music: Mittag-
Leffler/Nosebleed. Released at Icing 96.
Oepir Risti issue 8 1996, 28.12, Diskmag.
code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson main, Tobias Jansson/Citron. and
Prowler/ Passion titlepicture, music: Mittag-Leffler/Nosebleed, editors:
Puh, S.Duvan, Tobias Jansson. Released at The Party 6.
Oepir Risti issue 9 Diskmag.
code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson main, Prowler/Scoopex titlepicture,
music: Mittag-Leffler/Nosebleed.
Oepir Risti issue 10 Diskmag.
code: S.Duvan, gfx: Tobias Jansson main, Alvar Andersson and Prowler/
Scoopex titlepicture, music: Mittag-Leffler/Nosebleed.
Clan
POL Bubba mainorg code swap, doublememb Iris, late96, Ced gfx,
Danthalion music, Gilo music, Gizbern swap, Jigit gfx, Perry
gfx music swap, Phaser swap, Pudding Seba Potapinski, gfx swap,
late96, Scyman gfx music, Spirol code, Yoyo edit.
NOR Hurricane Lars Selvig, org swap, doublememb Void, late 96.
Classic old -1991
SWE Dezecrator music, later X-Trade, 12/89-90, Hoson swap, 07/90.
ENG Scooter ex Genesis, new late90.
ITA Mr.M sysop RED BLACK, ex Skid Row, new late90, Shark sysop
INFINITE DREAMS.
USA Armitage sysop THE MADHOUSE, 90, The Light sysop PURGATORY.
??? Braindead, Capricorn new late90, Clairvoyant, Dax, Garp, Jack, Modem
Boy sysop, ex Outlaws, new WHN1, Nuke, Plug1 code, 91, Problem
Child new late90, Rob Northern, Scan crack train, Skywalker, Sleaze
new late90, Swapperhead, The Jazz Syndicate supply, 90, The
Skeleton.
Boards APOCALYPSE usa, 06/90, PIRATE SHIPS usa, WARHAMMER swe,
EARTHSEA swe, THE LINE TO HEAVEN swi, THE LIGHT BBS eng, BURN IT
UP +33.
Classic was one of the better cracking crews based in Sweden, just like
Fairlight and Defjam. The leader was Stalker, and their main cracker was
Ringo Starr both later in the reborn Quartex. They died in late 1991
most probable or early 92.
1990 - English sysop Splatt! SPLATTER HOUSE EHQ, ex Vision, 09/90
joined Horizon late this year. Zelnik ex Oracle old and Prisoner of Wife
sysop whq both joined Paradox late 90.
Ringo Starr code crack, 90 left the scene. He later returned as a member
of the reborn Quartex, where I have him listed in 96 together with
Stalker!
German sysop Guru Josh TECH, ex Tristar, new 90 joined Storm 90.
Dutch sysop BamBam DOWNTOWN, ex Oracle old, new late90-91 joined
Quartex old.
Frenchmen Corsair code, Foxy and Mr.Video gfx, all ex Angels old joined
Skid Row.
German sysops TCM MAGICAL ZONE and Joker SADO CITY, both 09/91
joined Razor 1911 old.
American sysop Winter Mute MARTYRIUM, new late90 joined Alpha Flight.
He later returned to Classic when Classic was reborn.
Swedish sysop Wico INNER CIRCLE joined Razor 1911 old, but left them
for Scoopex a few days later. Then he joined Rebels!.
Intro 1990?, ECS Intro.
code: Ringo Star, gfx: n/a, music: Dezecrator.
Andis Demo 1993, 05.08.
2nd place in the ECC93 demo competition.
Classic new CLS, 1993-
SWE Rob org modemorg trade salecard, 06/94-07/95, Ozone sysop FAR
OUT, ex Complex, 01/95-06/96.
ENG N.O.M.A.D crack, 11/93.
GER Apollo supply, 07/94-07/95.
USA Professor sysop ICE STATION ZEBRA, WHQ 11/93, 11/93-04/95.
??? DogBone supply, 11/93, Kenshiro ex Outlaws, Rastaman spread, new
06/95, V-Cut new 06/95, Whoosh trade, re 06/95.
Boards PIRATES HAVEN usa, WHQ 07/94, 11/93-07/94, MARTYRIUM usa,
07/94, PET SEMATARY swe, EHQ 07/94, 11/93-07/94, TERROR DOME swi,
11/93-07/94, CYCLONE hol, 07/94, SCARA BRAE ger, 07/94, TROPICAL
PLACES eng, 11/93, WORLD DOWNFALL ger, 11/93.
Classic was reborn with some of the old members and a lot of guys from
Ministry in late 1993. Whoosh was a former sysop, who later rejoined as a
trader - confusion city :
1995 - Stain is no longer a member 06/95.
1996 - American sysops Glacier and Black Ice ICE FLOW NORTH, 07/94 are
no longer members 06/96.
Classified
FIN Major Tom Mika Keskikiikonen, code music.
Major Tom is the author The Holy Noise musiceditor, used in the musicdisk
of the same name. He was later or earlier? a member of Anarchy, then
Carillon.
The Holy Noise 1993, ECS Musicdisk.
code/music: Major Tom, gfx: n/a.
Clique CLQ
??? Bloody trade, new 06/96, Cool Shot sysop, triplememb of Hoodlum and
Virtual Dreams, Cooper music, Detail code trade, ex TRSI, new
04/96, Kris gfx cosys, ex Scoopex, new 04/96, Master code, new
06/96, Melih code, Mit code, new 06/96, Ravel gfx, Remix
trade, Smile trade, new 06/96, Sparky code trade, XTD music,
doublememb TRSI and Mystic, new 04/96.
Clique is a demogroup based, I believe, in Turkey. They are closely related
to their mothergroup from the c64. They announced that Sonik Clique stole
their name 04/96. Sonik Clique is mainly demoscene-related and Clique is
mainly modem-related, but they think they were the first to use that name
04/96. The groups homepage, http://www.clq.com, appears to have gone down
indefinitely.
Clones
FIN Awkward, Brainbreaker, Gizzy swap, 01/90, Helix, Idle, Jurkis, Ooze,
Particle, Sir Arthur.
AUS Psycho.
1990 - Nikki Corruption left clones late this year.
Cloned Stuff ECS File.
Securitate Party Intro ECS File.
C-Lous CLS/C!S, 1993-, http://w1.312.telia.com/u31212216/
SWE Claw Jan Almqvist, gfx raytrace music, 12/95-08/97, Crazy D Fredrik
Johansson, swap, Frame Joakim Bengtsson, mainorg gfx ascii swap
editor No Sense, ex Medicine, doublememb Subspace ROM9, also in Peek
pc, new late94-09/97, Origo Mattias Nilsson, code, triplememb
Subspace, 08/96-08/97, Prospect Mikael Nattfalk, code, ex Ram Jam,
doublememb Subspace, later Endzeit, 04/95-08/97, Racoon Lucas Edman,
music, doublememb Darkage 02/98, new late97-02/98, Scout Mikael
Kalms, code, doublememb Artwork late96 and Appendix 07/97,
08/96-08/97, Zent Fredrik Johansson.
GER Case78 ascii swap, triplememb Scoopex details and Head!, 96.
??? Devotion swe? code, new 97-08/97, Reverend D swe? sysop, TMK gfx,
08/97.
C-Lous was a swedish demo group, born in 1993, and with the leadership of
Frame. They grew from a local swedish group to one of international
proportions, with a few of the scenes foremost coders - Origo, Prospect,
Scout - as members. The groups first demo was released at the MCS Party in
july of 1993. Crazy D and Zent have the same real name....
1996 - The intro Rektum Analis 08/96 finished 5th in the Assembly 96
64k intro competition. Swedish graphician and swapper Pozz Patrik
Johansson, 12/95-09/96 decided to leave the scene some time after this, and
Rektum Analis was his final production for the group.
1997 - Swedish musician duo Some1 and Morrow 08/96 left to join Rebels
in august, after making music for one of their recent demos. Frame
contributed a logo to Abyss Klub Diznee 4 - Beverly Hills Coped 09/97
music file demo.
Swedes Mega music, Mr.Mygg music, 12/95, Stardust gfx, 11/95 and TmX
gfx, 04/96 all left to form a new group called Dole.
Swedish swapper Slash left, he is presumably still in Citron.
Musician Jozef has left the scene.
Swedish sysop Qen ODIUS, ex Solitude left for Squash.
Musician Raiden ex Insane is no longer a member.
Swedish swapper Yaffle joined Insane.
ECC 93 Intro 1993, 05.08, Intro.
7th in the ECC93 intro competition.
Suicidal Tendensy 1994, 02.04, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Origo, gfx: Claw, Pozz, music: Claw.
Released for The Gathering 94 40k intro competition.
review: This was supposed to compete in the Gathering intro competition,
but was disqualified because the decruncher needed fastmem. Origo was
reportedly VERY upset. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Suck Dick 1994, fall, AGA Intro.
code: Origo, gfx: Frame, Pozz, music: Ccccp by Mr.Mygg Tracker Packer
3 format.
review: An average intro from Origo, with most of his common effects.
That means a zoomrotator this time with a smiling purple face is
always present... This intro looks like any of his other 40/64kers,
only with less chippy music. Too bad Origo couldnt use the extra space
to create something more worthwhile... Seriously lacking in originality.
And why the excessive profanity, Origo?
Special thanks to Pozz for at least helping me date this, at least
approximately. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
At The Party 1994, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Origo, gfx: Pozz, Frame, music: Det E Gott Med Snacks by Mr.Mygg
ProTracker MOD format. 12th in The Party 4 40k intro competition.
review: Works fine on the A2000, but was obviously made on a faster
machine - the effects take forever to finish. Also, the opening graphics
are somewhat fucked if colorcycling wasnt intended...and given the way
it looks, I think not! It works perfectly fine on the A1200. Press the
right mousebutton to pause the zoomscroller and text. glenn
GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Das Omen 1995, 01.04, Demo.
2nd in the Virtual Conspiracy 95 demo competition.
Time Square 1995, 01.04, 40k Intro.
code: Prospect, gfx: Frame, music: Destructor/Obscene.
2nd in the Virtual Conspiracy 95 40k intro competition.
review: Its the design more than the code that sets Time Square apart
from the competition, and secured its second place. Effects here include
a chunky tunnel, yet another variation on the cityscape from Pygmy
Projects Extension and some spacecut spheres. But, as mentioned, its
the design and execution that sets it apart. It has an air of
professionality to it. glenn
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Virtual Conspiracy 1995, 01.04, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Origo, gfx: Pozz, music: Mr.Mygg. Released for the Virtual
Conspiracy 95 40k intro competition, but was unplaced.
review: Apparently, theres something wrong with the way graphics are
displayed here, since several effects look strange on my system - even
with KillAGA - and the first effect isnt properly displayed at all.
Due to this its hard to judge the intro as a whole, but it doesnt
really look like Ive missed something. Interestingly, this intro ALSO
has a variation on the Extension cityscape! Ultimately quite limited.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: See review.
Freebased 1995, 18.06, ECS 64k Intro.
code: Origo, gfx: Pozz, music: Morrow Some1/Razor 1911.
Winner of the Icing 95 intro competition!
review: Not bad at all, this little intro. It opens with a nice little
C-Lous logo by Pozz, then continues onto a gouraud/texturemapped spacecut
routine. Next theres some bitmap manipulation on a picture of a face...
Theres a couple of more routines too, but you get the picture.
The tunes not too bad, though the chipfactor is a little high.
Though the intro works fine on my machine, it obviously runs too fast
for its own good... Some of the objects really sprint off! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Assembly 95 40k Intro 1995, 12.08, 40k Intro.
5th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition.
Instinct 1995, 07.10.
Released at Party Remedy 95, apparently out of competition.
Masque 1995, 12.11, Demo.
2nd in the Compusphere 5 demo competition.
Life With a G-String 1995, 28.12, Demo.
code: Prospect, gfx: Frame, Pozz picture, Slime/Rebels logo, music:
Feel the Hedgehog by Mr.Mygg Tracker Packer 3 format.
Released at The Party 95.
review: Very cool, smooth opening to this polished little demo from
C-Lous, highlighted by some excellent graphical work. The code is nothing
really special, just the twister bars early in the demo were special.
This was most probably released outside the competition. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Mixed Emotions 1996, 05.04, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Prospect, gfx: Frame, music: Soul/Movement.
3rd in The Gathering 96 40k intro competition.
review: This intro can thank OK design for achieving the place it did.
The coding is not too fabulous, but as mentioned the design and music are
the saving grace here. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Kolor 1996, 26.05, Demo.
code: Scout, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 5th in the Icing 96 demo competition.
Kolor Remix 1996, 16.06, Demo.
2nd in the Remedy 96 demo competition.
Rektum Analis 1996, 18.08, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Origo, Scout, gfx: Pozz, music: Some1 Morrow.
5th in the Assembly 96 64k intro competition.
review: This is very good! From the moment the C-Lous logo smashes onto
the screen to the first beats of the bassdrum, you know this is a
competent production. The techno music kicks quite a bit, and does not
suffer from the chip syndrome squaeeeaaakk... at all. Definitely cool!
There are four effects here, all sharing the rather purple palette.
Were treated to some shading, a tunnel, a voxelspace and some multiple
toruses. Its all over rather quickly, but its a sweet ride.
Works on standard A1200, but a 030 and fastmem is recommended. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
A1200/040-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
No Sense 2 1996, .09, Multifile Diskmag.
code: Origo, Scout additional, S.Duvan/Citron. additional, gfx: Gfx-
Twins/Essence and Scoopex title, Tobias Jansson/Citron. welcome, Frame
main, music: Dosk Forever by Some1 Morrow featurning Lizardking,
Hazel by Elusive and Radix both 4ch MOD format, editor: Frame.
review: This mag opens great, with a fabulous title picture by the Gfx-
Twins to the first beat of the equally great music...then the picture
fades down and theres a really cool little welcome-animal to greet you!
So we start to explore the mag...and it feels just great! Smoooooth
scrolling, a goodlooking panel, and an overall air of professionalism
oozes out of its every pore!
Well, have spent over an hour reading already...and I can just say that
the feeling continues! The code is perfect, the mags pleasantly written,
and theres oodles of interesting and thoughtful material! Just great!
It would be a CRIME not to download this mag, ok? Oh, and it multitasks -
naturally! If you want the tunes, just depack them theyre in the music
directory, and theyre ready to go! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
No Sense 3 1996, autumn, Diskmag.
code: Origo, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editor: Frame.
Showbase Shape 1997, .04, AGA Demo.
Released at Icing 97 Beta, placing uncertain, but probably won!
CNCD 1993-, http://www.cncd.fi
FIN Case code, 12/95-12/97, Dean Mikko Lipiainen, gfx music, doublememb
Damones, 93-95, Destop Jani Isoranta, founder gfx trade, re-Anarchy,
02/93-12/97, Dizzy Juha Kujanpaa, music, 12/93-08/95, Fraction
Juha Huuskonen, code music, doublememb Damones, 12/93, Golem 93,
Groo Sami Jarvinen, music, doublememb Virtual Dreams, 08/93-12/95,
Heatbeat Antti A. Mikkonen, founder music, 02/93-08/94, Juliet
code, 12/95, Konnu code, 02/93, Major Tom founder music, 12/93,
Prime Premium Ville Hyvonen, music, 93-95, Stelios Stelios
Stagakis, code, ex Scoopex, Uncle Sam 93, WDO founder code, re-
Anarchy, 08/93, Yolk and Legend music, 12/97.
SWE Louie gfx, doublememb The Black Lotus details, new ROM9, 12/97.
HOL Mark Mark Dankers. trade music, ex Banal Projects, new 08/93.
??? Hmd code, 12/97, Sly code, 12/97.
CNCD resulted as a merger of the two groups Carillon and Cyberiad.
Some of the above, like Juliet and Destop, are active cross-platform.
Probably their most famous member must be the now-inactive Heatbeat, one of
the greatest musicians to ever grace the Amiga platform.
Finnish musicians Groo, Dean, Heatbeat and Dizzy have released a CD
called simply CNCD through scenerelated record company TRSI Recordz.
News in RAW 6 that Dean and Fraction joined Damones are untrue, they just
joined as doublemembers.
1994 - Groo contributed music to Stellars 40k intro Peverly Hills
12/94 at The Party in december.
1997 - And just when we thought wed heard the last from CNCD they strike
back with a Killer 12/97 of a demo at The Party!
Finnish graphician Kube 05-12/95 left to join Stellar ROM4. How can
this possibly be right, when ROM4 was released 05/95, and the Closer
demo was released 12/95!?
The dutch Astro, who was a CNCD and Movement doublememb, left them both for
Virtual Dreams.
Comedy Iceland 1993, .02, ECS Intro.
code: Konnu, fx: Destop, music: Heatbeat.
review: This ones a small, simple, but nice BBS intro for 2000 A.D.s
Finnish board Comedy Iceland. Its a one-screen intro, but still quite
OK. The bouncy, cool tune by Heatbeat lifts it a lot. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Cubes at top didnt fill properly, otherwise 100.
Musical Rabbit 1993, .07, Musicdisk.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Sedat Soitta-1 by Dean The Player 5.0A
format. info: Described as a mini-music-disk.
Aquarium 1993, 05.08, ECS Trackmo.
code: Fraction, gfx/music: Dean. 6th in the ECC93 demo competition.
review: Not a very good one, Im afraid... Its a short trackmo without
too much to shout about. Its too AVERAGE for the most part, with neither
the gfx, music or code ever really coming alive. The only sign of
innovation was the broken glass vector cube, I havent seen that before.
Still, its just a vector cube variation. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: At first it crashed. Then I tried kicking down, and
it worked. Then, just for fun, I tried it without kicking
down, and it worked again! Why? Havent a clue...
Plastic Messiah 1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro.
code: WDO, gfx: Destop, music: Groo Mark.
Split 3rd in the Assembly 93 intro competition.
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Morbid Visions 3 1994, early, ECS File Slideshow.
code: Fraction, gfx: Dean title, Reward scan and retouch, music:
Dizzy The Player 5.0A format. Cooperation with Complex.
review: Quite good slideshow detailing various Finns adventures at The
Party 3. Entertaining and good. Without KillAGA, keyboard control does
not work. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0, -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Sorry, No Elmers In My World 1994, File.
code: Fraction, gfx: n/a, music: Groo.
Uulima 1995, File.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Andy/Banal Projects The Player 6.1A format.
review: Ok? I dont get this one... Its just a few lines of text and a
weird face spinning a couple of times. Its all over in 30 seconds, and
sort of leaves you wondering is that it? 121k for a spinning face or
two, a tune and some Italian hardly seems right. The only credits say
CNCD with Andy... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Deep 1995, 14.04, Demo.
Cooperation with Parallax, see there.
Closer 1995, 28.12, AGA Multifile, 3 disks.
code: Juliet, Case, gfx: Destop, Kube, music: Groo.
Winner of The Party 5 demo competition!
review: Whoaaa... This signals a new age in the way demos are made.
Instead of the old effect-effect-effect demos, this is more a journey
through chunky! landscapes and colors. The biggest drawback, I feel, is
the music. Its not really a TUNE as such, its more just music made to
suit the demo, without an identity of its own. Wasnt that flower picture
by Kube used in RAW 8, albeit in lower resolution?
At The Gathering 1996, CNCD released a PC demo called Inside 04/96
from much the same team as this one. Given the name, I suppose its a
sequel of sorts... Anyway, if you like me have a Pentium gathering dust
in your bedroom any room will do, though , its well worth a look!
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Killer 1997, 28.12, AGA 8MB Multifile.
code: Case, Sly, Hmd, gfx: Destop, Louie, music: Yolk and Legend.
2nd in The Party 7 demo competition.
review: Killer opens with a totally red screen to the first bars of the
music... and keeps it there for long enough to let everyone think
something is seriously wrong with their graphics displays! And, it would
appear, they are perhaps right... I do not know what it is, but I cannot
get this demo to do anything but display that red screen and play the
music on my system. Ive tried clean boots and everything, but nothing
seems to help... Anyone? glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Coast
GER Exodus sysop TRASHZONE.
Coast was a German group.
1991 - Sean, their old leader, left for TRSI in september.
Swat joined Bronx.
Douglas joined Exort.
Cocoon Dezign
Once a subgroup of Motion, but they were kicked or left.
Deathlord will leave.
Cola Sector
Norby joined Investation.
Collision
??? Coroner ex Compact.
Color
GER Rebel MC sysop COLOR, 09/91.
Coma 1990-1992
GER Don, DSP, Led, Mano, Mulloch, Panther, Pulsar, Stranger swap, 01/91,
Vipek, Warrior.
FIN Apoplexy, Soy.
USA Mad Max music, 08/91.
??? Aljechin ger? code, 90-08/91, Blockbrain gfx, 05/91, Braindamage
ex Intuition, Darxon gfx, 05/91, Dave Tough gfx, 03/91, Elwood
code, 05/91, Tool music, 02/91, Topaz music, 03-05/91, Wave
music, 02/91, Zorba gfx, 03/91.
Boards MATERIAL WORLD new mid 91.
Coma was a german demo group, first formed at the Action Conference 90 in
october, and became a fully operation group at the the Amiga Expo the
following month. It was a fusion of the three groups Antares, Exage and
Exess.
1991 - Coma was very active in their first months of existence, releasing
several intros and demos at both the Action Conference in february and the
CeBit 91 in march. More intros and demos followed, until the group was
completely reformed around the middle of the year, and a lot of dead meat
was forced to leave. This probably means Mr.L, Cato, Tomcat music,
Slugger, Lawbreaker, Tracer, Booker, Chatman, Alva, Hellraiser, Rockstar ex
Agile, new mid91, Ariel, Calypso, Sub Zero, Ze Worst and Hygraicc. This
event was announced in their intro Kick Out. Finnish member Curse joined
Arise in september. The releases kept coming, with several new demos like
Burger Hill and Hot Dots and the first two issues of their successful
diskmag, McDisk the future looked great. Swiss swapper Antifast joined
Zenith late91.
1992 - Unfortunately, the start of the year would prove disastrous for
Coma. After releasing the third issue of McDisk in january, their three
best german coders Microforce, Cosmos and Zap joined Sanity their best
musician Virgill joined TRSI and the rest of the group - Control, Mad
Butcher, Head old handle Amok, Jackie D., Mission, Tom Copper, Mop ex
Dartagnan/Axis old, new mid91, Nick OTeen and Aahz - decided to join
Alcatraz rather than keep it going as a separate group. Their diskmag came
with them to the new group. Cytax I.C.E 8 mid92 reported that the
group Interactive was born by former members of Equinox, Coma and others, so
some former members probably also found their way there. Germans Renegade
gfx, 01/92 and Orbit 08/91 joined Design, probably early 92.
German Tripex 02/91 joined Equinox.
Englishman Jongle joined Damage Inc.
German swapper Brutus joined Armageddon.
English coder Hotspur old handle Jedi joined Addonic.
Comic-Intro 1990, late, ECS Intro.
code: Aljechin, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
info: The intro that announced Comas birth.
Floodland 1991, .02, ECS File.
code: Mad Butcher, gfx: Amok, Mad Butcher, Tripex vectorobjects, music:
Future Complete by Wave Tool ProTracker MOD format.
Comic-Intro 2 1991, .02, ECS Intro.
code: Aljechin, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Works 1991, 27.02, ECS File.
code: Mission, gfx: Amok/Coma logo, Metallion/Kefrens font, music:
Dream It3 by Tomcat StarTrekker 4ch MOD format.
Floodland II 1991, 02.03, ECS File.
code: Mad Butcher, gfx: Tom Copper, Mad Butcher font, music: Dream.
Again.Final by Tomcat ProTracker MOD format.
3rd in the Treacl and Panic party demo competition.
Party Intro 1991, 02.03, ECS Intro.
code Aljechin, gfx: Zorba logo, Metallion/Kefrens font, music: n/a
Future Composer 1.4 format, 16672 bytes.
Released at the Treacl and Panic party.
Exotic Pack 2 1991, 02.03, ECS Packmenu.
code: Aljechin, gfx: Zorba, music: Leffty/Tristar Future Composer 1.3
format, 66074 bytes. Released at the Treacl and Panic party.
Boring Bobs 1991, 16.03, ECS File.
code: Aljechin, gfx: Tom Copper, music: Jambala Converted by Jochen
Hippel/Thalion Future Composer 1.4 format, 81670 bytes.
Released at CeBit 91. info: This was Aljechins first demo.
Cebit 91 1991, 16.03, ECS Intro.
code: Aljechin, gfx: Dave Tough pic, Tom Copper font, music:
Piknukiple 1 by Topaz ProTracker MOD format. Released at CeBit 91.
The Gallery Intro 1991, 30.03, ECS File.
code: Aljechin, gfx: Tom Copper font, music: Futility2 by Topaz
ProTracker MOD format.
BBS Intro 1991, .04, ECS Intro.
code: Mission, gfx: Tom Copper, music: Collusion by Topaz ProTracker
MOD format. info: On A1200 systems, turn cache off, chipset original.
Kick Out 1991, Intro.
code: Orbit, gfx: Control Amok, music: Headcrash-Intro3 by Virgill
ProTracker MOD format. info: This intro announced the complete
reformation of Coma, and a lot of old members were kicked out...
Sunset 1991, 08.05, ECS File.
code: Elwood, gfx: Blockbrain logo, endpartpix, Darxon font, music:
Polyprint by Topaz ProTracker MOD format.
Delicious Fruits 4 1991, 17.06, ECS Packmenu.
code: Aljechin, gfx: Dave Touch logo, Tom Copper fonts, t.k.g.
Credits by Ray Norrish/independent.
info: The music was ripped from the game The Killing Gameshow.
One Night 1991, ECS Demo.
code: Laserdance, Falke/TSB, Mad Butcher, gfx: Ivan/TSB, Amigaze,
Tom/Coma, music: Micro-Tyxe.gts by GTS/TSB ProTracker MOD format.
Cooperation with TSB.
Burger Hill 1991, ECS Trackmo.
code: Aljechin burger anim, vectorlogos, Orbit plasma, adresspart,
gfx: Spider, Zorba font, music: Tbb-Plasmacrap by Virgill ProTracker
MOD format.
Spiders Slide 1991, 06.08, ECS Slideshow.
code: Aljechin, gfx: Spider/D-Tect, music: Vision Fear - hm by Twisted/
D-Tect ProTracker MOD format.
Cooperation with D-Tect.
McDisk 1 1991, .08, ECS Diskmag.
INT - code: Orbit, gfx: n/a, music: Sonata a la Zamfir by Mad Max
ProTracker MOD format.
MAG - code: Mission, Mad Butcher, gfx: Tom Copper design, Spider/D-Tect
anims, music: Mc.Disk Final... by Tomcat ProTracker MOD
format, editor: Mad Butcher main, Amok.
Mc Disk 2 1991, .10, ECS Diskmag.
INT - code: Mission, gfx: Tom Copper, Zoom/TSL logo, music: Virgill.
Hot Dots 1991, 07.12, ECS File.
code: Jackie D., gfx: Nick OTeen, Tom Copper, music: High Density by
Virgill ProTracker MOD format. 2nd in the Prime 91 demo competition.
McDisk Issue 3 1992, 25.01, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
INT - code: Zap, gfx: Renegade, Tom Copper logo, Facet/Anarchy
loading pic, music: McDisk3Intro by Microforce ProTracker MOD
format.
MAG - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
GLE tested A500 /000/mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
Comakids CKS
SWE Cre8or sysop A BASE, 01/95, Dexter sysop TOTAL DISASTER,
doublememb Alpha Flight, 01/95.
Comax
SWE Zcandaler sysop TOTAL ECLIPSE, doublememb Duplo, 01/95.
Combat-18
DEN Zoonie sysop HOUSE OF GAMES, 04/95.
Mordred joined Defekt.
Comedy
Comedy was formed by the best members of Mad Sorcerers Eksec, Zorro... and
G-Force. I believe most of the members I know about - Smack code, 02/92,
Eksec code, 02/92, Zorro gfx, 02/92 - later joined Infect.
Terror Pack Mag 1 Menu 1992, 07.02, ECS File.
code: Eksec, Smack, gfx: Zorro, music: Merlin/Sonic.
info: Works fine on my A500/1mb/2.04.
Compact -1992
FIN Agony, Clr, Crom sysop GENESIS III, Dica, Dope, Eldar, Gambler,
Godfather, Lorimar, Netrunner, Optic, Secret-X, SJ, Soldier, Synthoid,
The Bull, X-Tasy.
Compact was declared dead late 1992. Please note that Compact, based in
Finland, and Compact Inc, based in Norway, are NOT the same group!
Sentinel and Thor joined Grace.
Coroner ex Xentrix joined Collision.
Genesis III BBS Intro ECS Intro.
Compact Inc.
NOR Acen ex Phase, Crimson code, ex Sciff/Alive, 12/92, Enzian, Fizban
code, old handle Whiplash, ex Phase, 12/93, Flash Fox gfx, 12/92,
Jelace music, ex Connection, Matt code, ex Hiron no entry, Omaha
Thunder sysop PRO PARIA earlier DIGITAL PLEASURE, ex Destiny,
07/94, Online sysop TOONTOWN, Peloquin, Psimon music, ex Razor
1911, new late92-12/93, Scientist code, Scud music, 12/93, Shocker
gfx, ex Razor 1911, new late92-12/93, Unix, Zenit swap sysop WALL
STREET opened 09/92.
BEL Ikon ex Decnite, new mid93.
??? Alex, Da Vinci old handle Gemini, Howard new late94, Minion gfx,
12/92, Scorpio gfx, 12/92, Spadowski, Turrican new late94, Van
Diemen new late94.
Compact Inc. also had a PC subgroup, called Rave Nation. Scorpio returned
to the scene after a little break in 94.
Please note that Compact, based in Finland, and Compact Inc, based in
Norway, are NOT the same group!
Sunburst and Agamemnon got kicked.
Norwegian Jack ex Desire, new late92 was kicked 09/92.
Norwegian Phil ex Desire, old handle Switchblade left the scene.
Norwegians Powerpack and Tobias left the scene late 94.
Space Intro 1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Sciff, gfx: Minion, Flash Fox, Scorpio, music: Dr.Fruid/Frogs.
17th in The Party 92 40k intro competition.
Hiplash 1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Fizban, gfx: Shocker, music: Scud.
8th in The Party 93 40k intro competition.
Hiplash 2 1994, 03.04, 40k Intro.
6th in The Gathering 94 40k intro competition.
Company, The 1990-
FRA Corsair code, Shadow Lord supply.
GER Phil sysop MAIDEN HOOD, 10-12/91.
SWE Porta sysop EAGLES NEST.
USA Nosferatu sysop DANSE MACABRE, 12/91.
??? Gator, Link supply, Triton, Ultimate Warrior new mid 91, White
Snake supply, 12/91, Yeti train, 91.
Boards PIRATE CHIP usa, 91, GURU HEAVEN usa, 12/91, PHANTOM ZONE ita,
12/91, SECOND WORLD ger, 93.
The Company was formed in 1990 by ex members of Paranoimia and Quartex.
They were one of the better cracker group while they were operating.
They released at least two cracks in cooperation with Vision Factory.
1992 - Germans Cannon, Darkstar and Fade One all left for Complex around
january.
The WORLD OF MIRAGE BBS WHQ, 91 joined TRSI.
Black Ghost left for Vogue after 2 weeks mid 91.
French sysop Ashton ACID RAIN left the scene to study mid 91.
French Mr.Video stopped all acitivities, and Foxy got busted late 91.
Germans Selim trade sysop THE JAM, 01/91, Rudi and Oliver joined Skid
Row mid 91.
Complex CLX, http://www.komplex.org/
FIN Artifex Henri Loikkanen, gfx, ex Stellar, 12/92-08/96, Banzai code,
ex Advance, Blade 06/92, Breeze ex Amaze, new ca 01-06/92, Cable
code, 06/92, Cockatrice gfx, 06/92-95, Delorean Sakari Hannula,
music, 06/92-95, Der HM Mika, music sysop THE WATCHTOWER,
previously in Gate, 07/91-95, Dweezil code, Fuzzy trade, ex Dual
Crew, 02/93-03/94, Gremlin gfx, 06-07/92, Hotshot Jarkko Sopanen,
gfx, ex Stellar, 08/93-95, Hyde Harri Hytoenen, trade, 06/92-12/94,
JHL code sysop ZENLANDIA, ex TRSI, Jugi Jukka Kaartinen, gfx
music, 06/92-04/94, Mic Dair Aki Sihvonen, mainorg music trade sysop
NAUSEA, 06/92-95, Outlaw Janne Kontkanen, code, 10/94, Reward
Sami Vanhatalo, gfx, ex Scoopex, new 92-08/96, Tai-Pan Antti
Toiviainen, code, 06/92-95, Tom code, ex Advance, Zeque code, ex
Reflect, new mid93-95, Zoltar music, ex Advance.
GER Cannon ex The Company, new ca 01/92, Darkstar ex The Company, new ca
01/92, Fade One gfx, ex The Company, later Essence, new ca 01/92,
MCM code, ex Spaceballs, RTD code, ex Mexx, 12/94, Virgill Jochen
Feldktter, music.
SWE Damien sysop PURPLE PLEXUS, ex Aurora, Pace Roger Andersson, swap,
ex Insane, new late 94.
N-L Camelot sysop ETERNAL CHAOS.
??? Blue ex Offworld, 06/92, Camelot 04/94, Contra ex Niagara no
entry, new late93, Dalton code, King Cobra sysop, new 06/95,
Mr.Spiv fin? code, 04/94-95, Nukeman ex Anthrox, Olwi code,
04/95, PHS ex Offworld, 06/92, Proton code, 95, Shade ex
Offworld, TNM 04/94.
Boards CELTIC PATH ger, TOTAL CHAOS ger.
Complex is a legendary demo crew, based in Finland, where their leader Mic
Dair lives. For a great many years they worked on the Amiga, though they
now seem to have abandoned our platform completely in favour of the PC.
Their PC section still has most of the original members, like Jugi.
Mr.Spiv is the author of the packer program StoneCracker.
German musician Virgill joined Complex according to PRP4, but Virgill made
music for the TRSI demo Twin Peaks 12/96... I believe the truth is
closer to a double membership.
They have released an unknown number of issues of their diskmag Maggy.
Artifex came 2nd at at ASM95 with Mystery. When King Cobra rejoined
06/95, the news read ...is back with a new board.
1990 - Hyde left the group to join up with rising star Image around the
middle of the year, but left after a not too short time, and eventually
found his way back to Complex.
1991 - The Finnish board COMPLEX SOFTBANK pc section was busted late
91, and this was the first real Finnish bust. Mr.Nice Guy moved to France,
and joined Delight under the handle Mr.NGY late in the year.
1992 - The group was strengthened when Finnish coder Epidemic joined from
Addonic around january. Finnish Breeze/Amaze also joined around january.
A German section was formed around january by Mike D./Anarchy, Tomcat/
Awesome, Fade One, Cannon and Darkstar from Company. Celat joined Supplex,
while finnish graphician Morpheus left for Chrome in september. The three
Germans Crash code, Argon code and Mincer trade joined from Adept
around october.
1993 - Coder Epidemic ex Addonic, 06/92-93 joined Banal Projects some
time during 1993 He did NOT join VD, as claimed in Spaceballs R.A.W 6
12/93. During his time in Complex he worked on some intros 92 and 93 as
well as the musicdisk Book of Songs 93.
1994 - After releasing their last demo for Complex, Real 04/94,
musician Clawz and coder Gengis both ex Digital, new ca 11-12/93 decided
to leave to form their own group called Bomb! in August 1994. They left
behind a few great demos for Complex, most notably Origin 12/93, which
won The Party 93 demo competition!
1995 - Swedish sysop Ozone FAR OUT, 04/94 joined Classic new 06/95.
Ozone was the modem organizer. German board SKARA BRAE was busted 06/95.
French graphician Eloy ex Digital, 12/93-04/94 left for Scoopex late 95.
German graphician Noogman 08/93-04/94 joined Artwork.
Coder Stelios mid 94 was kicked out, but joined Scoopex only to move on
to CNCD in a matter of days!.
Peace has been kicked out.
Finnish coder Fraction got kicked.
Python ex Byterapers and Zoltar were kicked.
Swedes Lando and Xstaz sysop THE ICE PALACE, ex Legend both joined
Global Overdose.
German trader Mincer ex Adept, 03/93 left the scene.
Fabulous german musician Bit Arts ex Sanity left Complex, and later also
the scene. One of the greatest losses the scene has ever suffered, IMHO...
German ex-Anarchy graphician E.Toball was kicked.
French graphician Titan Sebire Laurent, ex Digital, 04/94 left. He was
later in Bomb! Titan drew a great fullscreen picture for the demo Real
04/94.
German Speed ex Mexx, new RAW6 was kicked out mid 93. He changed his
handle to Rakiem and joined Dreamdealers.
Finnish coder Saviour 06/92-95 left to join Damones. R.A.W 6 also
mentions Drifter, but look below for more on THAT confusion... Saviour
worked on his commercial game Elfmania for about a year, before it was
released in the summer of 1994.
Finns Guru and Stratos both ex Decept, 07/92 left to form their own
group Sahara Surfers. This happened sometime between 07/92 and mid 93...
They also seem to have joined Parallax at the same time!
German swapper Mike D. ex Anarchy, 06/92 left the scene.
American Freddy Krueger, sysop BOILER ROOM ex Scoopex left to join
Global Overdose.
French coder Schmoovy Schmoov left to form Universal Soldiers with his
friend Monty/Paradox.
Finns Zany, Open Eyes both ex Offworld and Papa Smurf joined Virtual
Dreams. Due to the fact that they left, some credits in Book of Songs
were omitted by Complex! See the review for more.
Four german coders Crazy Crack ex Mexx, Crash Argon both ex Adept,
12/92-04/94 and Raw Style code, ex Jetset, 08/94 all left to join Polka
Brothers 12/94. Crazy Crack made the intro A500 HOMAGE as a sort of
farewell to Complex before he left. Upstream 10 carried the news, but
misspellt Crazy Crack as Crazy Jack!
Finnish musician Stargazer 07/92 decided to rejoin Sonic after just a
brief period in Complex.
Finnish graphician Drifter ex Cyberiad, 12/92-93 left the scene. However,
R.A.W 6 says he rejoined Accession, and in another place that he joined
Damones with Saviour!! Confusion status: Total.
German graphician Tomcat ex Awesome, new ca 01/92-04/94, who drew the
great logo in GOSPEL KARAOKE, joined Shining 8.
Skid Row Cracktro ECS Intro.
code: Dalton, gfx: n/a, music: Jugi.
review: A quite basic intro, with vector renditions of the two words
Skid and Row twisting around on the right side of the screen, and the
rest of it being occupied with a text plotter. Not much more to say,
except that Jugis tune sounds like a raped version of Codex/
Cryptoburners classic Memorydust. And that font seems awful familiar...
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Stateline ECS Demo.
code: Zany, gfx: Open Eyes, music: Stargazer.
information: By the subgroup Inner Universe.
The Ultimate Sinus 1989.
PU-240 1990?, ECS File.
code: Tai-Pan, gfx: Frank/Anonyms, music: Walkman/It.
Maggy 9 1991, ECS Multifile Diskmag
INT - code: Tom, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
MAG - code: Python, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editor: Hyde.
review: The intro part works fine, though has a few slight graphical
errors that make the sinescroller a little hard to read... This issue of
the mag was released a full year after the last issue was released, and
for the first time with a new code the last one was iff-only, like the
old Crack Journals and in English. All previous issues were in Finnish
only. First impressions are good, with a pleasant design and english that
appears to be readable not a given in those times! But...then you try
to read the next page, and something STRANGE happens... You cant. The mag
forever keeps loading articles, and you never get to read a single byte
anymore... Thankfully the text is unpacked on the disk, so I could at
least read SOME of the it! Too bad :
Release date is uncertain, but certainly after april contained party
report from late march. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: See review!
Vector Preview 1992, 09.06, ECS File.
code: Tai-Pan, gfx/music: Jugi.
Winner of the Society Summer Conference 92 demo competition!
review: Tai-Pan became a celebrity nearly solely on the back of this
single, short production. The reason for all the enthusiasm was the
incredible for its time filled vector routines presented here.
Complemented by Jugis above average graphics and music, this became a
great little production! The endscroller can be paused with the right
mouse button. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Universal Intensity 1992, 09.06, ECS Disk.
3rd in the Society Summer Conference 92 demo competition.
Gospel Karaoke 1992, late .06, ECS File.
code: Saviour, gfx: Tomcat logo, Cockatrice cross, Jugi fonts,
music: Der HM.
review: Apparently coded in a day during a party at Jugis house, this is
certainly one of the best 1-day productions to ever grace the scene!
Not only is it good, its original too! The main feature of the demo is a
gospel song yes, with vocals!, and you can press the right mouse button
to turn off the singing, and sing along yourself hence...gospel karaoke.
Graphics are absolutely great, as is the music. Top-notch!
The scroller mentions several secret parts Tetris! is mentioned...
No release date of any kind appears in the demo, so the date reported
here is my assumption, based on information in the scrolltext. ADL had it
as 1992?, and that combined with them mentioning they were waiting for
demos from the Hurricunt Hurricane party, arranged at at end of .06
that year. Lets hope Im right : The demo requires 1mb total memory.
glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Notes: Needs KillAGA.
Delirium 1992, 26.07, ECS Trackmo.
code: Saviour, gfx: Jugi, Stratos chesslogo, Gremlin frog logo,
music: DeLorean, Jugi. 2nd in the Assembly 92 demo competition.
review: It is always hard to review a demo youve never seen, and this
one is no exception. It often crashes on 2.0+ and accelerated machines,
and must surely be one of the most incompatible demos ever... Bummer :
This is actually the third demo to use the name Delirium Fraxion and
Zero Defects beat them to it : glenn
Compo Intro 1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Epidemic, gfx: Drifter, music: Stargazer.
12th in The Party 92 40k intro competition.
Puuro 1992, 27.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Crash, gfx: Open Eyes, Artifex, music: chip-2 by Stargazer.
20th in The Party 92 40k intro competition.
An Old...Intro! 1993, .01, ECS Intro.
code: Epidemic, gfx: Drifter, music: chip-2 by Stargazer.
review: Simple but sweet, this intro has a big raytraced animation of two
tannhjul spinning, over which some text materializes. Nice design.
This MAY be the same as COMPO INTRO, I guess, but I do not know
100 for sure, so... The release date is based on the fact that there
was a text BBS ad embedded in my copy of the file, dated 30.01-93. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Book of Songs 1993, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks.
code: Epidemic, gfx: Jugi, Artifex, Drifter, Hotshot, music: Jugi,
DeLorean.
info: Since Zany and Open Eyes left, the rest of Complex decided to leave
out the credit for their work on this! In fact, Open Eyes did all the
fonts and one small picture, and Zany coded the hardware loader! The disk
got its name since each song is represented as a page in a book.
EuroChart 30 says Saviour was the coder... glenn
Equipoise 1993, 10.04, Demo.
Released at The Gathering 93.
Paradigma 1993, 02.08, ECS File.
code: Crash, Argon, gfx: Hotshot, Artifex, Noogman uncredited, music:
NagualDance2 by Jugi and Delorean.
Winner of the 680xx Convention 1993 demo competition!
review: DemoManiac coders Crash and Argon prove their class in this
great, polished demo. Graphics are generally excellent, as is the music.
There are some very good effects here, like a large TV box remember
Enigma?, a vector world remember Enigma again? and pencil vectors
remember Boggledop?. Very very cool.
The demo is referred to as a Mainzelmaennchen Production throughout.
It requires 1mb total RAM, and all external drives disconnected on 1mb
only systems. Since it failed to run on my A500/1mb/2.04, I guess youll
need to run a 1.2 or 1.3 system if you want to run it with only 1MB.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Unstable, perhaps KillAGA helps.
Origin 1993, 28.12, AGA Trackmo, 2 disks.
code: Gengis, gfx: Titan, Hof, Mack, Alex raytrace, music: Fx4 and
Supreme In Black by Clawz ProRunner 1.0 format.
Winner of The Party 93 demo competition!
review: Origin was Gengis triumph of demomaking, with its smooth
transitions and powerful routines - coupled with Clawzs thundering techno
soundtrack and the combined graphical expertise of some of the foremost
arists in the scene - ultimately bringing us a demo that was second only
to Kefrens outstanding Desert Dream 04/93 this year. It all opens
with a loading picture, a beautiful rendition of a female in a space
helmet done by Mack. Then the demo itself begins, with an atmospheric
powerhouse intro sequence in which a raytraced ship touches down on the
surface of an alien planet. Then we are suddenly inside the helm of a
vector-robot, and go around exploring the inner workings of an entire
solid vector city! After a while of this, we suddenly go underground
through a hatch, and are transported through a vector-created tunnel.
The demos first real effect follows, a transparent gouraud vector cube,
overlaid on a stylish patterned background. Next comes a POWER ON logo,
before a picture is mapped onto a bouncing, elastic ball. The very same
picture by Axel is then used for the zoomrotator routine that follows.
Then we move onto a Wolfenstein-like routine which is far from fast, but
was probably dead impressive at the time Then a picture by the great
Titan of a metal man throwing a discus is composited from two parts... and
here the demo just stops dead in its tracks. I reviewed this demo through
a hard disk install, and it is entirely possible that this is the way it
really ends... it just seemed a little abrupt to me Perhaps theres
more, perhaps there isnt
Gengis next - and final - demo for Complex was Real 04/94, before
he and Clawz left the group to form Bomb. A sequel to this demo, Motion:
Origin 2 12/94 was released a year later, but unfortunately without the
success of the original.
The demo does not work perfectly on 060 machines, but a WHD-Load patch
by John Selck Graham/Oxyron available through aminet or the whdload page
can fix this problem. However, when I tried this patch v1.1 it
unceremoniously crashed my machine... Another harddisk installer is
available, by Zer0-X/Moses, and this worked perfectly for me. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Real 1994, 24.04, AGA File.
code: Gengis, gfx: Titan, Eloy additional, Hof additional, music:
Cyberotica and Help Tha Fool by Clawz ProRunner 1.0 format.
Winner of the Saturne Party 2 demo competition!
review: A good early AGA demo with its high points and its lows. There
are highlights, ofcourse, like the swirling things that fly at you during
the opening sequence and the way the parts are linked together in the
beginning. There are also two full screen AGA pictures by Titan and Eloy,
that are almost worth the disk space in their own right : Titans picture
is called Synchronocity and Eloys is called Artemis. They were both
released for the graphics competition at the same party as the demo.
Clawz music is not his best work, but its functional. A truly polished
production. Recommended. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Resolution 1994, mid, ECS File.
code: Stelios, gfx: Reward, music: Jugi.
Seduction 1994, .07, Musicdisk.
code: Gengis, gfx: Hof load pic, Alex, music: Clawz, Delorean Tracker
Packer 3 format.
info: Modules from Clawz are Mixed Up, Refreshing, Sunk In Ink, Post
Modern. Gengis and Clawz last production for Complex, before leaving to
form Bomb! in August. I want this one!!
Dive 1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro.
production: Crash, Sire. 10th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition.
review: Ahem. Theres only two real effects here, none of which kills.
The first is what appears to be a standard graphics zoomer which soon
appears to be more of a meteor storm. Original, but hardly goodlooking -
its WAY too blocky. The second is a voxel routine with some rather...
ehrm...interesting palette choices. The music irritates me.
I always thought this was an AGA intro? Still, on my machine it
requires KillAGA to work properly... To confuse us, Complex released a
demo at Assembly 95 with the exact same name! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
Pee Wee 1994, 06.08, Intro?.
code: RawStyle, gfx: Noogman, music: Audiomonster.
info: Released at Assembly 94, but not in the competitions. In fact I have
no idea what this is! :
A500 Homage 1994, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Crazy Crack, gfx: Artifex, music: Einstein/Mexx.
11th in The Party 4 40k intro competition.
review: Crazy Crack made this little intro as a farewell to Complex
before he and the rest of the German coders took off for Polkaland.
It is also a homage to the A500, and appropriately so since it was
released in the first compo to have almost exclusively AGA contributions.
There are some cool effects here, though the best is probably the
concluding fullscreen 4 bitplane 4x4 rotzoomer, or the 4096 morphing
dots. I like it. Right mousebutton pauses the end scroller. glenn
GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Wormhole 1995, 14.04, ECS 020+ 64k Intro.
code: Olwi, gfx: Artifex, Reward, music: SuperNao/Virtual Dreams.
3rd in The Gathering 95 64k intro competition.
review: Technically very impressive is this intro which won the Gathering
95 competition. It mainyl comprises of three vetor objects with light
sourcing and MANY faces, shown animated over a huge scrolling picture -
probably generated during the lengthy introduction text. Technically
great, as I mentioned, but its not very exciting is it? Boring, in fact.
Probably the last ECS intro to win a major competition, though it
requires at least an 020 processor. I think this requires quite a bit of
memory... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Tequila Chart 11 1995, 01.07, Chartmag.
code: Rioter/Equinox, gfx: Artifex, music: FluffyFassion by Loxley/
Equinox Tracker Packer 3 format, editors: Excalibur, Blizzard/TDS.
Cooperation with The DoodlesShock TDS.
review: Tequila is released the first of every month, and is a chart and
mag for the swedish modem scene. This means that the editorial content is
not very interesting to outsiders, unfortunately. Im sure its essential
reading for those it concerns, however :
The coder is Rioter/Equinox, the swede previously responsible for the
European Top 20 chart from his own group, Equinox. I really must say
that I like this one a lot more than his first effort. Much of the praise
for the smooth look and feel, though, must go to the person responsible
for the graphics, Artifex. Hes come up with the perfect combination of
raytraced, animated icons and handdrawn stuff...just marvellous. Now Ive
mentioned the code and graphics, so I guess the next item on the list is
Loxley/Equinoxs great piece of music. I dont know exactly what makes it
as good as it is, but theres a cerain sense of dynamics and vitality to
it that puts it up. Presentation, therefore, is very very nice. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Dive 1995, 13.08, Demo.
6th in the Assembly 95 demo competition.
info: Same name as their previous 40k intro...
Concept
ENG Shadowman sysop BONG.
Concept was a french demogroup, which never produced much of note.
1991 The active part of the group, Performer code, NHP music, BKH
music, Rookie and Ronan code joined together with fellow frenchmen Motif
code, Zoom gfx and Walt gfx to form the french section of The Silents.
Confusion
POL Bax music, 08/95, Ellyn gfx, 08/95, Exceed code, 08/95, Slaughter
music, 08/95.
Confusion are a purely Polish group, and at the Intel Outside 2 party they
consisted only of the above 4 members.
64kb Intro 1995, 30.08, ECS 64k Intro.
code: Exceed, gfx: Ellyn, music: Slaughter.
2nd in the Intel Outside 2 64k intro competition.
review: This intro opens with FAST filled vector cubes, filled with
static and spacecut with the background. The music is pounding techno
without much variation or melody, but it works ok to get the adrenalin
pumping a little. Next theres some vector lines, which fly together to
make shapes and tunnels. They hold onto this effect a little too long for
my liking, before showing portraits of the three coders. Incidentally,
Slaughter looks like hes 13 or thereabouts : No offence, ok Slaughter?
Then, the intro really takes off with its next screen. At the top theres
a good Confusion logo in hues of green, and below that theres a flame
effect. This one seems a little original, though, since it seems to take
sidewind into consideration, making the flames swing to the side when the
virtual winds blow :.
Text output is timed to the beat of the techno music throughout, and
that coupled with an OK font and nice design give this a good feel.
I definitely want to see more from these guys! The name given above is
not the intros real name the real name is in Polish and in addition
quite unreadable to the untrained eye : glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0
Connection, The
DEN Hagar ex The Supply Team.
Amigo got busted on new years eve 1987/88.
Connection
NOR Garth swap, Psycho Kristian Owren, swap.
Norwegian musician Jelace joined Compact Inc.
Conqerers
JOR Bassam, Dunhill, Futuros, Louis, Nible, Overdrive, Ramek, Sam,
Snake.
SWE Blaze.
NOR Water.
DEN Cyclone, Vanilla Ice.
FRA Dream Warrior, Fxa.
Conqerers was formed on the remains of St.Pauls Crew, and in case youre
wondering, it IS spellt like that :-
Swede Ztork left.
Fashion Design left.
Austrian Karen left.
Swedes Fire and R2D2 joined Bronx.
Conquest
If all their productions are AMOS, like the awful Chippo 1, then Im
afraid Ill have to reevaluate their validity...
Black Thunder joined, but left for Score right away late 93.
Chippo 1 1994, 27.02, ECS Musicfile.
code: Acces, gfx: Predator, music: Le Chips Revenge, Confettis,
Smiths, YumYum, Super Chips and Bolognese by Rotox/Score.
review: Sorry, we do not review AMOS demos here. Lame in every respect.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Contra C!
GER Mogue ascii sysop HOMELESS.
??? H2o! ascii, Mess, Rapid, Stratos, Stylez, Treach.
Boards RAVELAND WHQ, DEEP SPACE NINE EHQ, PUNISHMENT INC. distsite, THE
PUB distsite.
Contra is an ascii group. Mogue is one of two sysops on HOMELESS, but the
only one of the two thats in Contra.
Ascii artist 2Fast left late 96.
Contrast
GER Bootbuster gfx music swap, 03/92, Flexible ex Unlimited, 03/92,
Try code, 03/92.
??? Anvil ger? ex Unlimited, Dioxxin 03/92, Dr.Dread 03/92.
Norwegian Tallyman joined Unlimited.
German swapper TNM ex Hysteric, 03/92 joined Subzero 08/92.
Hypnautic Beats vol.1 1992, 14.03, ECS Trackloaded musicdisk.
code: Try, gfx: Bootbuster, Try, music: Dr.Dread, Bootbuster.
review: Im sorry, Contrast, but this just doesnt cut it. In a music
disk, the music should be the center of attention, but when the musics
as bland and uninteresting as it is here, it leaves the entire production
for dead. NOT recommended. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Contraz CTZ, 1995-
NOR Accede code, ex Donut Fetish, new late97, Brekke code, 04/95-97,
Chauple code, doublememb Instinct, 04/97, Corrupt raytrace, 11/96,
Detriment sysop, Dran code gfx, 04/95-04/01, EFB code, 04/95,
Enex code, 04/95-11/96, Figaro gfx, 11/96, Fleinstein org swap,
04/95, Found music, Freak of Nature sysop DARK NATURE, 05/97,
Fro-D music, 04-11/96, Isaac music, 97, Micro raytrace, Mr.Figaro
gfx, MZ code, 04/95, Nirvana Torgrim Nrstad, gfx, ex Grotesticle,
11/96, O.G. Devil gfx, 04/95, Overgrown music, 04/95, Phalton
raytrace, Pinocchio raytrace music, 04/95, Reflexion Martin
Brieley, org, Skjeggspir Rune Stensland, code gfx music, 04/95-97,
Whisper Bendik Simonsen, swap webmaster, 04/95, Zelow code,
04/95-04/01.
Contraz is a Norwegian demo group, born as a cooperation between Damage Inc.
Overgrown etc. and The Tanga Team in early 1995.
2000 - Dran plans a 64k intro for The Party in december, but ultimately
decides to wait, and release it later.
2001 - Dran and Zelow release the 64k intro 1 Week with music by
Frequent/Ephidrena at Mekka Symposium 2001 in april.
Prikkmannen 1995, 14.04, 4k Intro.
code: Brekke, Zelow, gfx: none, music: n/a.
3rd in The Gathering 95 4k intro competition.
review: To the sound of a techno soundtrack and Im being VERY kind
here now! a white, smiling dot-man is spinning and zooming in and out on
a blue background. And thats it. Not exactly impressive, but Ive
certainly seen worse too. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Contras 1995, 14.04, ECS 64k Intro.
code/gfx: Skjeggspir, music: Overgrown.
6th in The Gathering 95 64k intro competition.
review: This has a definite amateur feeling to it, most of the effects are
copper- or linevector-based, and neither the graphics nor music is up to
scratch. An early, immature release from a group that should have waited a
little more before releasing anything.
Inspection of the binary file reveals this was made using AMOS. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Mystiq 1996, 05.04, Demo.
4th in The Gathering 96 demo competition.
Skjeggspir 1996, 05.04, 4k Intro.
code: Skjeggspir, gfx: none, music: Fro-D.
4th at The Gathering 96 4k intro competition.
review: A little limited this one, just an OK tune and a logo that spins
onto the screen. Average.
Domination 1996, 16.11, AGA 4MB File.
code: Skjeggspir, Zelow, Brekke, Enex, gfx: Figaro, Nirvana, Dran,
Corrupt objects, music: Fro-D.
Winner of the Kindergarden 6 demo competition!
review: This seems to rely more on its scanned Arnold Schwarzenegger
imagery than on its effects. There are a few reasonably advanced effects,
but at this speed Id rather be without them. The best thing about this
demo is Nirvanas great picture WOW, which came second in the graphics
competition at The Gathering 95. It would have deserved to win IMHO...
Coolest thing in the demo: Arnold pointing a BIG gun at the screen,
with the text: Anyone mention PC? Funny, then, that they list two PC
coders on their memberlist... The compoversion had a few bugs, so a
bugfixed and improved version was later released. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Had to manually decrunch it with xfd before running
in order to have enough mem!
Born Fat 1997, AGA 4k Intro.
code: Chauple, Skjeggspir additional, Brekke additional, gfx: none,
music: none. 2nd in the Scenus 97 4k intro competition.
review: Theyve managed to squeeze in quite a bit into this 4ker not
only is there sound calling it music is stretching it a little : but
theres also a LOT of effects here, from bumpmapping variations to a
tunnel you travel through. Not bad at all! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
1 Week 2001, .04, AGA 16MB 64k Intro.
code: Dran, Zelow additional, gfx: none, music: Frequent/Ephidrena.
review: Well, this isnt really a review, since I cant see this intro on
my machine, because it lacks an fpu What was I thinking when I thought
Id never need one? Anyway, apart from the FPU, this intro requires an AGA
amiga 020+ obviously, and 16MB fast. Its not really comfortable on
anything below an 060-50, according to the the accompanying readme file.
Be sure to use setpatch before running. glenn
Control
DEN Antex swap, ex Orient, Sidewinder code, Scorpion music swap, ex
Orient.
??? Dune gfx, Evade code, Joy-Boy code gfx, Kris code, Monk
swap, Pixl gfx, Sniper gfx, Wobin swap.
Control is a danish demo group. This group has nothing to do with the
Control below.
1994 - Danish swapper Decoy joined Passion in november.
Creep joined D-Mob.
Control CTRL
POL Failo Wojciech Zdebski, org 3d, 08/96, Kado gfx, 08/96, Nobl 3d,
08/96, NoM code, 08/96.
Control is a polish demo group, under the leadership of Failo. Their first
production was the 64k intro Error 08/96 at the Intel Outside 3 party.
This group has nothing to do with the Control above.
Error - The Intro 1996, 30.08, 64k Intro.
code: NoM, gfx: Failo, music: Mr.Vain/Motion PC.
Released for the Intel Outside 3 64k intro competition.
review: Well, the guru meditation joke has been done before, and better,
so this intro doesnt really get off to a too great start... and never
really picks up, eaither Text inside the intro leads me to believe this
is their first ever release, and to be quite frank it shows. They should
perhaps have fine-tuned their skills a little more before attempting to
release anything. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Converse
Dan joined Acrid.
Convex CVX
POL Stasi swap.
??? Bart gfx, Betoniara code raytrace edit swap, Bionic music,
Comanche gfx, Domel code gfx.
Insert left 06/96.
Gigant and Opal was kicked 06/96.
Fuckir left to be independent 06/96.
Heva sold his Amiga and bought a PC 06/96. Traitor! :
Pila, Informer and Flapjack left to be Erotic Design members only 06/96.
Coral
FIN Legislator sysop XENOPHOBIA, 11/91.
Coral was a Finnish demo group, which didnt release much on the amiga.
There was also a pc division later.
Fix, Hot and Perfect all ex Cave left to join Arise.
Pele-Kempex Naks 1991, ECS Intro.
Silence Please 1991, 27.07, ECS Intro.
Released at The Gathering 91 in Finland.
Core Productions CP, http://www.acc.umu.se/cp/
SWE Houbba Lennart Marklund, code, 07/97, Icon Andreas Lindquist, code,
07/97.
Megadeth joined Alcatraz.
H5 1997, 25.07, AGA 2MB File.
code: Icon, Houbba, gfx: n/a, music: Farmor/NRP.
Winner of the ACG Hack V demo competition.
review: The names of the coders come spinning slowly at us in the
beginning of this dentro, with afterburning on the letters. Next is a very
good tunnell routine, which though it doesnt move so amazingly fast looks
like its among the most fluent ones Ive seen. Next were inside a torus,
with lots of white and some color bleeding through. Next is another good
routine, that I absolutely DO NOT know how to describe. Then a graphics
screen show us the credits, which then dissolve into a Core Productions
logo. Then the music ends and we are done... The music inside is not bad,
but not terribly inspirational either. It can best be described as very
standard trance. Overall, a very nice little demo, certainly much better
than I anticipated! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Coroner
Coroner was formed by Turkish swapper Vigo after he left Bronx.
Corpse fra 1991-1995
FRA Nec founder gfx, SoLO founder code, Vehrex founder code
Shiny gfx, Bulls gfx music, Ken code, Pye music, Terrific
code
There were two groups called Corpse, the second one coming into existence
while this incarnation was still around...
Corpse swe 1994-
SWE Payday founder swap.
??? Coolorado founder, Klorathy founder code, TBM founder gfx.
Corpse was formed by four ex members of X-Trade Payday, Klorathy, TBM and
Coolorado. It is very possible that TBM was later in The Black Lotus.
There were two groups called Corpse existing simultaneously, though the
French ones were the first to use the name by far...
Corrosion http://www.crsn.com/
Ehm, more info forthcoming...
Corrosive
Acid and Agent Orange joined Kaos.
Cosa Nostra
NOR Kanniball Ken Roger Espeland, swap, 11/88-late90.
Mosher joined Cinefex.
Cosmic Pirates
??? Bladerunner doublememb Scum 06/96.
Cosmic Woodheads CW
POL Draw ascii swap, new early97-early98, Guma swap, early98.
DEN Drac doublememb Ambrosia details, new early97, Raze Thomas
Petersen, music, early98.
CW seems to have been a jokey group, with mostly doublemembers from other
groups.
1997 - Artworks Generation 24 04/97 reported that Drac joined from
Ambrosia as a doublemember, and that Draw swap also joined.
Countach CNT, 1990-
GER Iron Lord code, 10/90, Joker trade sysop, 10/90, Melodic Drama gfx
music, ex Spirit, 10/90, MOD tester, 10/90, Norman Bates gfx swap,
ex Spirit, 10/90, Nr.5 trade, ex Spirit, Rick Dangerous swap,
10/90.
??? Multi Software Department 10/90.
Countach is the name of the cooperation between Aeon and Spirit. The name
was assumed on 01/10-90, and the group at that time had 22 members. The
group was later disbanded when all members helped form the new group Vogue.
C.P.U.
??? Franky mainorg1, Mixer music trade, Sal One sysop, Scram,
Snuffy, The Relic, Topflight, Woober crack, Yellow Water mainorg2,
Zeus trade, Zinko schq.
Boards BOONDOCKS EHQ, HUSTLERS HELL rhq, LAST LEGEND whq, THE LAST INN
shq, THE NORTHERN PALACE den
Cracker Journal Team
CJT is the team dedicated to the release of the legendary Crack Journal
diskmag. After issue 27, internal unrest in the group Alpha Flight
prompted main editor Doctor Mabuse/AFL to take the mag and leave, so that
it would not be dependent on any one group. The first independent issue,
28, was released in may of 1992.
Cracker Journal 28 1992, .05, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
code: n/a, gfx: Quasar main, Design coop title, Renegade
endpic, comic, music: LooneStar, editors: Doctor Mabuse/Alpha
Flight, FDT/Venture and Design.
review: The mag opens with a small intro, just containing the text
CRACKER JOURNAL, over which 28 comes crashing down. Then the mag
proper appears, with a good robot picture by D-Sign appearing as the
first thing you see. One thing you instantly notice about CJ is the
way the mag occupies almost the entire screen no big, impressive
panels here!
CJ originated in the illegal part of the scene, and is still heavily
linked to this part of the scene. This means that your interest in
reading CJ will always be in direct proportion with your interest in
that part of the scene. Editorially, this is not a very strong mag
either. There is a lot of articles that are just text files from the
boards, the English is downright dreadful in places, and one of the
articles is nothing but a perverse porno story! This was the middle of
1992, mind you, and people instantly looked to magazines like R.A.W that
were intelligible rather than the badly designed articles of CJ. Issue 28
was the first issue to be released indendent, after the mag was
liberated from its original home in Alpha Flight. Compatibility is another
sore point, with the mag responding very badly to keypresses on my A1200 -
even after kicking down to 1.3. It can work fine for a while, then
suddenly decide to die. No points for guessing this made reviewing a minor
nightmare. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Crack Force Five CFF
SWE The Big A code.
??? BTB, Megaman.
Formed by The Big A and unknownname Andreas Tadic. CFF joined forces
with the cooperation group Triangle, and participated in the making of a
few of their demos. CFF later became what is now Phenomena.
Crack Inc. 1992-1992
GER Eurosoft crack, ex Skid Row, Mike ex Skid Row, Rudi founder supply
sysop THE JAM, ex Skid Row, 92, Selim founder supply sysop THE
JAM, ex Skid Row, 92, Subzero founder music supply, ex Skid Row,
92.
??? French Connection ex Nemesis, new RAW4, Linebacker sysop, Skywalker
ex Accession.
Crack Inc was formed in early 1992 by the old european members of Skid Row
SSR, and was soon reinforced with some other ex-Skid Rowers from other
groups. When they died at the end of the year, most members formed Ministry
with former members of Nemesis and TKK. News that Selim and Subzero left
the scene seem to be strongly exaggerated, since they were both later
members of Ministry.
There were rumours and even news that SSR Subzero Selim Rudi joined
from Bitstoppers, but its most likely that this is untrue, and that they
were the original founders, coming directly from Skid Row. Their demo
subgroup Kaos Design died see separate entry.
American sysop Micro REIGN IN BLOOD, 09/92 left sometime before 12/92.
German Munchie ex Skid Row, new RAW3 joined Ministry.
Sysop Lost Religion NiRVANA joined Accession.
Swedish trader Magic ex Vision, new 09/92 was kicked 09/92.
ZigZag, the ex-Crystal sysop of MAY DAY, joined Scoopex.
Cracker Saito ex Vision Factory joined Prestige.
Cranks
POL Kosok Ignacy Wiacek, gfx, 08/96, Maq Maciej Matyka, code, 08/96.
Cranks is a polish demo group.
1996 - The uninspiring intro Cyber Space 08/96 was released at the
Intel Outside 3 party.
Cyber Space 1996, 30.08, 64k Intro.
code: Maq, gfx: Kosok, music: Key G/?
Released for the Intel Outside 3 64k intro competition.
review: This unimaginatively titled intro gives us gouraud vectors, an
effect wed honestly thought wed seen the last of by 1996. It moves along
at a leisurely pace, to stretch what little there is to look at as far as
possible, and never gets me excited. Subpar. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Crap!
Tarl left the Amiga scene, but he bought PC equipment and is still active
as a swapper in the PC scene 05/95.
Craptors
Craptors Crap 1994, 28.12, 40k Intro.
14th in The Party 94 40k intro competition.
Crash
Turkish coder Astron joined Bronx.
Crashead -1992
They kicked all their lazy members, then changed the name of the group to
Analogy in the middle of 1992.
Crass
AUS Archimedes gfx, 04-08/92, Gothique aka Gothic, code gfx, 04-12/92,
Itec gfx, 04-08/92, Mixer music, 04/92, Phlexor 08/92, Shem
08/92, Stainless Steel Rat 04-12/92.
Anarchy Incorporated 1992, .04, ECS Disk.
code: Gothic, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Winner of the Easter Party 92 australia demo competition!
Psychosis 1992, .04, ECS File.
code: Steel Rat, gfx: Itec, Archimedes, Steel Rat, music: Mixer.
2nd in the Easter Party 92 australia demo competition.
Parahelion 1992, .12, Disk.
code: Gothic, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Digital Complexity 1992, .12, Disk.
code: Steel Rat, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Craze CRZ, http://www.craze.nu/
SWE Lussarn Linus Larsson, code, ex Rebels new, new late96, Nike sysop
INSTANT PLEASURE, 01/95, Omen code, ex Depth, new late97/early98,
Pigeon code, ex Depth, new late97/early98, Rick sysop CYBER FORCE,
01/95.
??? Antichrist music, 96, Marwic swe? modem, 08/95, Mr.Real music,
12/94, Odie gfx, 96, Zik gfx, 96.
Boards EVERYWARE nor, 02/96.
Goatleg ECS 64k Intro.
code: n/a, gfx: Odie, music: Mr.Real.
Twisted Colours 1996, autumn, HD Slideshow.
code: Zik, gfx: Odie, music: Antichrist.
review: And this time a slideshow without monsters, naked girls or
spaceships in erotic positions . Craze surprised us with a short
collection of ten abstract pictures by Odie.
You can see persons in some strange bearings, chinese men, ghosts,
wierd looking ladies and laughing trees. All in all a very colorful and
not boring thing with a listenable music and another good new font,
although one-colored. Between the pictures you can read funny comments to
the picture that follows, but its sad that there is not a single real
picture!! Only big clips and fullscreen bodies! Also you have no selector
to enjoy some Odicassos again. And there are a few which were worth to
be watched twice like my favorites: The second one what eyes! and
the one before the last one the laughing tree. At last it is a tiny
piece of art and 900kb are not much space on 8-Gig HD for this art...
This slideshow was not a party release. zito
ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast.
Crazy CRZ
GER Cyborg music, Doc Holiday gfx, Marc Marcus Kalusche, music,
triplememb Sector 7 and Syndrome, 01/97, Phase swap, Technoking
trade, THCM code.
??? Midnight code.
Neoplasia mentioned in their intro at The Party 5 that most NPL members had
joined Crazy. This means at least these people joined: THCM, Cyborg, Phase,
Technoking, Doc Holiday and JCS doublememb Sector 7.
1996 - Graphician Nefaria was kicked late 96. German swapper Phase left
the scene for a while, late 96.
Creative Minds
Velocity 2001, 15.04, Demo.
Split 6th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition.
Creator CRT
HUN Abstract, Codex old handle 7th Son, Cyberdance, Delta MC, Griff,
Lord ex Hyperacidity no entry, Robin code, 10/93-02/94.
The entire group joined Surprise! Productions as a subgroup.
Strange Features 1992.
Creed 1992-
GER Deathbone founder, ex Endless Piracy, Razor, Wild Child.
??? Jason sysop TOON TOWN.
Creed was a german illegal group formed around january of 1992 by
Annabel/Possessed and Deathbone/ Endless Piracy. According to sources in an
article in ROM4, they were both female, making this a truly landmark group.
Annabel left the scene in september of the same year.
Chrome left.
Spanish Rose ECS File.
Crest
??? Alpha One code supply, Cocaine gfx supply, Infinity supply,
Siriax code crack supply, doublememb Lightforce, 01/97.
Boards ACID SLAM WHQ ger, 09/96.
Crest is an illegal cracking group. They share their WHQ ACID SLAM with
Hellfire and Teklords.
Crime Devils
FIN Adder Antti, swap, Brandy, PainMaster swap.
NOR Leo ex Grace, new 07/92.
??? Infinity ex 2000 AD.
Boards LIGHT FANTASTIC eng.
Crime Devils are dead the best members formed Ahead.
1992 - Leo joined the group from Grace, whose Norwegian section had just
died.
Meddler left.
Crimson Jihad cJ
HUN Lord sysop NUMBER OF THE BEAST, triplememb Absolute! and
Impulse.
Crimson Jihad is a Hungarian group working to promote the Amiga!
Crionics -1992
DEN Blazer music, 06/90, Gizwiz code, ex Kefrens, new 06/90, Grumble
code, 06/90, Madonna Freak gfx, 06/90, Merlin gfx music, ex
Trilogy, new 06/90, Murphy code, ex Kefrens, new 06/90, Saxs code,
06/90, Zycho code, 06/90.
??? Tronic music.
After having won the demo competition at The Party 1991 with Hardwired in
cooperation with The Silents, Crionics died in early to mid 1992. The three
coders The Spy, Murphy ex Kefrens, new 06/90 and Deftronic all 06/90
left to join The Silents on a full time basis. Deftronic released some
version of his assembler TrashM One under the Crionics label in 1990-91.
Video swapper Marcel was caught by the Police just before they died in 92.
Danish musician T.U.S.C. joined Vixen early 92.
Neverwhere 1989?, ECS Disk.
code: Saxs, The Spy, Murphy, gfx: Zycho, Madonna Freak, usic: Tronic,
S.L.L.
Megademo 1990, 19.02, ECS Megademo.
Released at the Kefrens and Dexion Party.
info: NOT THE SAME AS THE ONE BELOW! It seems highly, actually, that
Crionics released two demos with the same name! :
Megademo 1990, 29.06, ECS Megademo.
LOA - code: Murphy, Gfx: Zycho logo, Deftronic font, music: Raven
by Blazer.
NOI - code: Deftronic, The Spy, gfx: Merlin, music: S.L.L.
PIG - code: Grumble, Saxs, gfx: Madonna Freak, music: S.L.L.
MAD - code: Saxs, gfx: Madonna Freak, music: S.L.L.
2nd in Amiga Conference 90 demo competition.
review: After booting this disk youre faced with a selector for three
different demo parts. The selector is pretty basic, with a logo at the
top and a text writer in the middle of the screen. In the background you
can see some vector objects, which btw are pretty fast on my 030-50 :
For the credits above, please refer to these codes:
LOA means loader, in other words the selector itself. This and only
this part works fine even with caches on.
NOI means Noia demo. This is probably the best and biggest part, with
lots of advanced for its time vector effects and a good sense of
pace and entertainment. Please note that the fill routine bugs in
some parts.
PIG means Pigs in Space. This part consists of just a drawn space
background over which we get to see a filled vector scroller.
The same fill bug appears here also, albeit to a lesser extent.
MAD means The Madonna Endpart. This part excels with its superbly drawn
cartoon renditions of Madonna walking through the city. Rather cool!
Overall, its a good production, this, though it seems like it was put
together in quite a rush! Its like they got these three demoparts, and
just stuck a loader at the beginning, and hey presto weve got a demo!
Not bad at all, really. The music by S.L.L lifts it a lot. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
-- note: Caches off, original chipset.
Total Destruction 1990, 28.12, ECS Disk.
code: The Spy, Deftronic, gfx: Zycho, music: T.U.S.C.
3rd in the Dexion Party 90 demo competition.
Hardwired 1991, 27.12, ECS Trackmo.
Cooperation with The Silents, see there.
Critters new 1990-1990
DEN Amiga Freak founder, ex Trilogy.
??? Shadow founder, ex Black Monks, Spirit founder, ex Black Monks.
Critters was reborn around mid 90, with Amiga Freak/Trilogy, Shadow and
Spirit/Black Monks as the intiative takers. They simultaneously announced
they would be opening a board in Sweden shortly. However, soon after this
the Swedish section left the group, and are now a group in their own right,
Scanex no entry. The rest of Critters didnt survive long after this, and
were dead by august.
Crossbones
Zorlac and Bacteria joined Bronx.
Crude CRD
SWE Bubba sysop DREAMPHASE, 11/97.
Cruelty
Turbo and Gamekiller joined Infect.
Crusaders CRS, http://www.crusaders.no
NOR Bravestarr swap, 03/90, Bustman Trond Omdal, gfx, ex Errors, new
06/90-01/91, Copper code, 03/90, Dr.Claw code, 03/90-91,
Dr.Outtasight ex-sysop HOME SWEET HOME, 11/89-93, Dr.Shitface
code, 03/90-01/91, El Cubo Arndt Kubosch, code music, old handle Dr.
MD Cub, 11/89-07/91, Eno code, new 12/90, Excalibur code, 03/90,
Floyd Andres Lund, 97, Freaky Angel ex Deadline, Intec gfx, ex
Gate, new 12/90-93, Jason music, ex The Silents, later Melon, new
late92-12/92, Lazerbrain swap, 03/90-07/91, Madman code, new
12/90, Mike Trond Michelsen, ex Deadline, 93-04/97, Nesebuse gfx,
91, P.Man gfx, Raven sysop THE GOLDEN GATE, ex Artch, new
late90, Rusc gfx, 03-05/90, Shady Vegard Skjefstad, Swapperboy
swap, 03/90-01/91, Switchblade code, 89-93, Zeb hardware, 03/90,
Zuggly code, 03/90.
FIN Fleshbrain Seppo Hurme, music, new 02/90-96, Scumbag trade, 07/91-
03/93.
ENG Nightshade music, ex Ecstasy, 93.
??? Ohio gfx, 93.
Boards THE GOLDEN GATE nor, 11/90-01/91
Crusaders is a legendary group, one of the oldest on the Amiga scene!
They became legends for several reasons, really. Their first innovation
must have been the creation of the music disk. Yes, thats right: CRS
released the very first music disk ever. Second, their Eurochart sparked
new life in the scene, spawned about a dozen clones, and gave demo makers
another incentive to create great demos. The next thing that happened was
when Bjrn A. Dr.Awesome Lynne became the first professional composer to
come out of the Amiga scene. Then, of course, theres the big one The
GATHERING! TG was originally arranged by The Crusaders, and the main
organizer has to this day always been a Crusader. Theyre still around,
though mostly on the PC these days, and not producing much. Their legacy
however, is huge.
Norwegian sysop Freaky Angels board THE PYRAMID earlier ANGEL CITY
was busted in the big Norwegian boardbust in 1992.
Norwegian coder Black Panther ex Paragon joined Talent.
Norwegian graphician Yster 03/90-91 left.
Guardian ex United Forces, new mid 91 left.
Norwegian swapper Zapotek ex Gate, new 12/90 left.
American graphician and swapper Savatage 03/90 left.
American sysop Silencer THIS END UP, 03/91 left the scene.
Norwegian graphician Funky Guru ex Gate, new 12/90 left the scene.
German sysop Bomber PEARL HARBOUR, ex Anarchy, new mid 91 left to join
Scoopex around december 91 or january 92. He opened his board while in
Crusaders, though.
Norwegian sysop Lazerbrains board PURPLE HAZE was busted in the big
Norwegian boarbust in 1992. He was the only one busted who was released
immediately, since he had time to run a diskcrypting program before the
police seized his equipment, and consequently they didnt find shit on
his board. He probably continued to be a member.
Norwegian sysop One old handle Scratcher, ex Fairlights board TOTAL
PANIC was busted in the big Norwegian boardbust in 1992. He joined Angels
and reopened the board, though under a new name?
Norwegian graphician Joachim ex Marvel/Static Bytes, 93 joined Andromeda
RAW6. ...and perhaps Jason did too?
Norwegian swapper ECS 03/90 left and is now independent.
Bacteria ECS Musicdisk.
code: El Cubo, gfx: Rusc, music: Bridge to the Universe Part II, Make
Your Move, 12th Warrior, No-One Home by Dr. Awesome, Who Knows,
Kilimanjaro, Grave-Yard by Fleshbrain.
info: Caches off with accelerators still some gfx glitches.
Bass-O-Matic ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks.
info: The module loader always had a tendency to bug a little, so it was
always a toss up if the module loaded, or the thing just froze on the
loading logo. The Calvin Hobbes stuff was great, tho.
BBS Intro for Instant Delivery ECS Intro.
Coop with Wizzcat, see there for details.
Crusaders Does Genesis ECS Musicdisk.
Audio-X 1989, ECS Musicdisk.
code: Switchblade, gfx/music: Dr. Awsome.
Information: This is the one with the alphabet cookies and the flapping
toilets... 8 tunes.
Project Beat 1989, 24.03, ECS Musicdisk.
Released at the IT, Rawhead, The Band, IMP-666 Megaparty.
Freekd Out 1989, 14.08, ECS Musicdisk.
Eurochart Top Ten 1 1989, 01.11, ECS File Chart.
code: Dr. MD Cub, gfx: Dr.Awesome, music: Loader by Dr.Awesome.
review: Oh my god, THE FIRST EUROCHART!! This is history. Slagging this
off would be sacrilege, surely! Ok, Ill try to be objective about it.
The presentations not much, to be honest. Theres a selector screen,
where you manouver a large crusifix around with your mouse, to select the
section you want. It was a long way from this to what we have today.
Trivia note: Ipec Elite were actually the first to do a chart, as the
scroller in this production informs us. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Finally got it to work by booting it off a floppy
with caches off and chip to old.
Mi-Cro Con-Cept 1990, ECS Musicdisk.
Eurochart Top Ten 2 1990, 01.01, ECS File Chart.
code: El Cubo, gfx: Tilt, music: Hightop by Dr.Awesome 4ch MOD format.
review: Well, nothing much has changed. Presentation-wise its pretty
much the same as the first issue, though perhaps a little better here and
there. The tune is adequate. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Caches off, chipset orig.
Eurochart Top Ten 3 1990, 01.03, ECS File Chart.
code: El Cubo, gfx: Tilt/independent, Dr.Awesome, P.Man/independent,
music: Polarchase by Fleshbrain 4ch MOD format.
review: With the third issue of the Eurochart, things took a turn for the
serious. With a new interface, it looked a lot more professional. Graphics
are quite adequate for the most part, and Fleshbrains music his first
for this group, this was his introduction as a new member is among his
best work ever! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Caches off, chipset original.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Filled Vectors 1990, .04, ECS Demo.
Switchblades Balls 1990, .05, ECS Demo.
Eurochart Top Ten 4 1990, 01.05, ECS File Chart.
code: El Cubo, gfx: Rusc, P-Man, music: Beatn The Art by Dr.Awesome 4ch
MOD format.
review: Again, nothing much has changed from the previous issue in what
we actually see on the screen. One big improvement, though, is the use of
percentile to show how many votes each entry got. Theres also new
icons and up/down arrows to signify if this placing is better or worse
than the previous one. The tune fails to set me alight, as does the gfx.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Caches off, chipset original.
Eurochart Top Ten 5 1990, 01.07, ECS Chart.
code: El Cubo, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Released at the Amiga Conference 90.
Hotwired 1990, .08, ECS Minimusicdisk :.
Eurochart Top Ten 6 1990, 01.09, ECS Multifile Chart.
code: El Cubo, gfx: Bustman, music: Tuna Fish by Dr.Awesome 4ch MOD
format.
review: This issue looks a lot more like what we got used to later in
the life of the EC. The interface stayed pretty much like this in the
next issues. A plus also for the graphics, which AFAIK were the first
Bustman did for The Crusaders. A nice issue! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Caches off, chipset original.
A90 1990, 02.09, ECS File.
code: El Cubo, gfx: P.Man, Bustman, music: Dr.Awesome.
info: aka Tabasco demo. Similar to Rebels Coma demo and Budbrains
Kaos part from their first Megademo.
Tobias Richter Slideshow 1990, 06.10, ECS Trackloaded Slideshow, 2 disk.
EuroChart Top Ten 7 1990, 01.11, ECS Multifile Chart.
code: El Cubo, gfx: Bustman, music: Mindstorm by Fleshbrain 4ch MOD
format.
review: The name is a little inaccurate from this issue on, as some of
the sections now actually represent the TOP TWENTY most popular things.
Other than that, theres not a lot to complain about, really. Another
good issue, which feels nice and smooth - just like it should be :
The tune is not one of Fleshies best, though.
Works fine even without KillAGA, though the music sounds a little
strange sometimes... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Space Deliria 1990, 08.11, ECS File.
code: Excalbiur, gfx: Dr.Awesome, P.Man/indep., Dr.C/Red Sector, music:
Dr.Awesome.
Tuff Enuff 1991, ECS Trackmo.
code: Dr.Claw, El Cubo, gfx: Yster animation, Intec background,
Nesebuse glowing logo, Bustman earth font, music: Intromusic 2 and
Flyte ++ by Dr.Awesome 4ch MOD format.
review: Another oldie that doesnt work anymore. As far as I can
remember, this one was rather good. The main event, sort of, is an
animation of Calvin from the comic strip Calvin Hobbes, thats rather
fun and humourous. I got the credits by ripping a few parts off the disk,
but this did not result in ripping EVERYTHING. There are several parts,
and I cant remember them all now... Anyway, worth a look if youve got
an A500 lying around...or a good, new degrader! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: It *ALMOST* worked ONCE :
Eurochart 8 1991, 01.01, ECS Multifile Chartmag.
code/editor: El Cubo, Dr. Shitface, gfx: Bustman, music: Now What??? by
Dr. Awesome 4ch ProTracker format.
review: The revolution! With issue 8, the Eurochart sported some major
overhauls to the code, as well as two full new sections in addition to
the charts! The Gallery and EuroNews were born... Graphics by Bustman are
some of his best yet, and oh, did I mention the absolutely fabulous tune
by Dr. Awesome? I didnt? Its just lovely. It incorporates themes from
many of his earlier songs into a sort of medley-type-thing. The feel of
the mag also seems improved, it now feels almost perfect. A milestone for
the Amiga scene, and a great production any which way you look at it!
By the way, the news item about the new Amiga sound chip Mary sounded
more like wishful thinking to us
Starting this one was the cause of a few hiccups, since it tries to
allocate memory at some specific addresses, and newer Amigas do not
always have their memory where the old ones did The only real solution
I found was to boot without caches, chipset original, and without
startup-sequence. Then the mag ran perfectly from my harddisk : glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
-- Note: See review for details.
Eurochart 9 1991, ECS Multifile Chartmag.
Eurochart 10 1991, ECS Multifile Chartmag.
Eurochart 11 1991, 01.07, ECS Multifile Chartmag.
code/editor: El Cubo, gfx: Intec, music: Neodrink by Fleshbrain 4ch
ProTracker format.
review: Legendary doesnt quite cover it when it comes to the EC.
It was a milestone of the scene, and gave coders, painters and composers
everywhere a new incentive to get better. This issue is certainly not the
worst, with acceptable graphics from Intec and OK music by Fleshbrain.
One thing that I found cool about the EC was that they had new graphics
for every issue. They had the basically same code, but there were
always a new design on the control board. This is not the best one,
neither is it the worst. This issue marks the arrival of a new editor,
since Dr.Awesome decided he want to leave the scene.
During testing the mag has proven somewhat unstable on my accelerated
system. I have found it works best when run from disk. When installing to
harddisk, or running from RAM:, it seems it has problems with the loading
taking too little time, and often crashes. KillAGA has no positive effect
when run from hard or RAM, and isnt necessary for disk running. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Eurochart 12 1991, ECS Multifile Chartmag.
Eurochart 13 1991, ECS Multifile Chartmag.
Eurochart 14 ECS Chartmag.
info: This was the last issue released by Crusaders before they officially
closed down the project. Lots of groups got in touch to continue doing the
work, and ultimately the danes in Static Bytes were chosen to continue the
legacy. Therefore, issue 15 was an STB product. glenn
The Gathering 92 Invitation 1992, early .01, ECS Intro.
Cooperation with Deadline.
The Gathering 92 Reminder 1992, early, ECS File.
code: Switchblade, gfx: various, music: Prophet 2001 by Bjrn A. Dr.
Awesome Lynne 4ch MOD format..
review: A simple little intro-demo this, to remind people to go to The
Gathering in 1992. Enough people must have been reminded, cause its
still being arranged every easter : Ill have to base this review
largely on memory, cause the introduction, where some good pictures
are shown, just FLASHES by on my machine : Oh well, I guess thats the
price you pay for accelerating :D It opens with some cool strings, the
opening bars of Bjrn Lynnes fabulous soundtrack. Then, as the tune
takes a turn for the heavier with a guitar riff, were shown some
pictures of earlier productions and some humourous text Youve seen the
flapping toilets... now come to the party!. Then youre shown some
pages of text, and... Nothing more happens. Its not going to set the
world alight with its awesome code, but its still GOOD in its own way..
Worth getting for the tune. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: While it works perfectly, the intro sequence is too
fast to see whats going on!
The Gathering 93 Invitation 1993, early, ECS 1MB File.
code: Switchblade, gfx: Intec blow-up logo, Joachim, music: Minimum
Penetration by Jason 4ch MOD format.
review: This year the Crusaders presented a very good invitation intro
for The Gathering, with some new ideas. The show opens with some guy
pumping a Crusaders logo full of air, and then goofily alking across the
screen. The invititation part itself is very easy to control, with a set
of icons with text on them in the middle of the screen to click on.
Most of them will take you to a page of text - you can also just flip
through all the text with your cursor keys - while some also have some
extra functions. One really nice thing is the aforementioned tour of the
hall part, where you control a little...err...animal-thing : around a
blueprint of the hall, and the various areas are explained as you get to
them. A really nice, new idea! A top-notch invitation intro with a good
sense of humour!
The intro requires almost all of chipmem on a 512k chip machine, and
300k of some other ram. It therefore needs at least 1mb total mem.
though it worked fine on my 030 machine, it did run WAY too fast. For
example, the tour of the hall part was almost uncontrollable, and
some of the intermission screens flashed by before I was able to read
what was on them. A dose of KillAGA fixes everything, though. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Crush
NOR Genious, Howling, Sciff.
??? Amhac, Beathoven, Black Devil, Cherokee, Draco, Firestone, Flash Fox
66, Gissy, Milk, Miraculix, Smokey, Tigra, Tronny Rotten, Wizzy.
Several of these names look awful familiar...Sciff was later in Alive,
before he changed his handle to Crimson and joined Compact. Tronny Rotten
was also in Alive, and Flash Fox painted for Razor 1911 for a while...
The Wall 1989, .02, ECS File.
Crux CRX, http://www.space.ch/scene/crux/
GER Evrimsson music, ex Illusion, new early97, Grace code, ex Illusion,
new early97, Zulu and Grey Oliver Vogel and Tobias Schaechtelin,
code, ex Essence.
FRA Clary gfx, doublememb Drifters, Tof gfx, doublememb Drifters.
NOR Kingpin sysop CHECKPOINT, memb of Spaceballs details, LSD and
Motion!, new mid95.
DEN Enzo sysop SKY TOWER EHQ, 10/95.
??? Acid-Jesus music, AMusic music, Beast, Biztro, Cess, Chromag
music, Cockroach code, Crisp code, Crocodile, Cueball
raytrace, Decybel music, new 12/97, Dexter music, Excess
raytrace, Exeron, Felon, Fury, gdm, Golden Hell raytrace,
Interphase, Juan, Madboy, Madmax, Makno gfx, new 12/97, Maniac
music, Muse music, Nike nor? Triplememb TRSI and Delight, 02/96,
Odin gfx, Orion, Orlando, Patrician, Pows of TCB, Psychotron code,
Santa Claus gfx, new 12/97, Screem, Shane Sid orgs sid: code,
95-01/96, Snake, The Frog Buds coders gfxers musicians, Tyrell,
Ufok, U-Man nor? doublememb Whale, 02/96, Van Helsing code, Zinko.
Boards ACENTRAL internet, DIAL HARD WHQ swi, 95, CIVIL WAR EHQ swi,
95, FLYING CIRCUS demohq, CYBERGARDEN bel, FORGOTTEN WORLD hol,
HARD DISK CAFE fin, INSEKTZ IN SPACE pcwhq, PARADISE LOST ger,
PLASTIC DREAMS ger, PURPLE DREAM distsite, REALM OF CHAOS swe,
THE CASTLE distsite, BLACK HOLE serb, 95, CYCLONE hol, 95, DEEP
THOUGHT fin, 95, WEYLAND YUTANI swi distsite, 95.
Crux was formed by its main organizer Shane not with the intention of being
a cracking group only, but also with a demo section. The demo section was
dubbed Crux Design, and was officially started around 1997.
They recruited great demo reinforcements in the old Rebels coders Zulu
Grey, after they had been inactive on the scene for some months, which in
their time were responsible for such classics as Switchback 10/94 and
Whammer Slammer 12/94 for Rebels.
Unusually enough, they have TWO subgroups The Frog Buds TFB and Dylem.
They were at one time in illegal cooperation with Bad Karma, using the
acronym CBK Crux Bad Karma. There were rumours that the illegal Crux DIED,
leaving only the demo section, Crux Design active. Can anyone confirm or
deny this?
1996 - Swedish Excel doublememb left to be in Balance only 06/96.
1997 - Artworks Generation 24 reported that germans Grace code and
Evrimsson music joined from Illusion, that Halikone, Sear and Pit left the
group, that swedish Newt gfx left to be an Abyss member only this
actually happened 10/96,
Batteries 1997 - Party NOT Included 1997, 28.12, 40k Intro.
6th in The Party 97 40k intro competition.
review: I think its a sure bet that this would never even approach the
placement it got if it hadnt been for its theme - The Party 7 power
failures. It treats the theme with a certain sense of humour that Im
sure made many an attendee laugh when it was shown on the big screen.
And at the end it tacks on an advertisement for Mekka Symposium 1998
The only real effect is the bumpmap on the opening part. I guess you had
to be there. No credits appear. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Cryonics
Another PC group moves to the Amiga! They have nothing to do with the old
legendary group Crionics.
CryoZone CZE, 1995-
SWE Ash gfx, 03-04/95, Conan gfx, 03-04/95, Dr.M code, 03-04/95,
Goof sysop, 03/95, Mongoloid code, 03/95, Quorion gfx, 03-04/95,
Rooster trade, 03/95, Scavenger sysop, 03/95, Toxagon music, 03-
04/95, Ztroobey sysop, 03/95.
Boards DEFENSE STATION swe, METROPOL swe, EVEREST swe, NUCLEAR PEPSI
swe.
CryoZone is based in Sweden, and Germicide was their first production.
Germicide 1995, 01.04, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Dr.M, gfx: Qourion logo, Ash font, Conan logo, music:
Toxagon. Winner of the Virtual Conspiracy 95 40k intro competition!
review: What? This won? How this could possibly beat C-Lous Time
Square I will never know. Appalling. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Crypt
NOR Byte Prisoner Kjell Inge Alsvik, swap, 12/90, Rainbow Painter gfx,
12/90, Scape gfx, new 12/90, Sex Angel 12/90, The Ancient Mariner
music, 12/90, The Little Giant 12/90, The Plastic Priest code,
12/90.
DEN Cypher Kid sysop PANDEMONIUM, 04/95.
Crypt were a Norwegian demo group.
B.F.D. 1990, 28.12, ECS File.
code: The Plastic Priest, gfx: Rainbow Painter, Scape, music: The Ancient
Mariner. 3rd in the Theatre and Network party demo competition.
review: Compatibility wise, this demo doesnt do so well. It will work
for a short while with KillAGA, but crashes on the second vertical raster
part. Therefore its hard to judge the demo as a whole, since I havent
seen it all :- The name means Berre Fuck Deg, which is pseudo-
Norwegian for Go Fuck Yourself. Charming. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. -- Note: See review.
Cryptoburners CRB, 1988-
NOR Aggressor Espen Hagen, 91, Bimbex swap, 88-01/90, Blackstar music
editor, 88-01/91, Bugbear gfx, 03/90-01/91, Darkstar Hans Arild
Runde, music, ex IT, old handle Gladiator, new 05-10/90, IT sysop
HOME ALONE WHQ, doublememb Banana Dezign, Jackmix 08/90-01/91, Keo
music, 06/90, Krest Bjarte Andreassen, music, Kylerion 90, Nikki
sysop MIDGARD, Olorin code, 04/93, Oscon code, 06/90-01/91,
Pitcher sysop HOTTER THAN HELL, ex Fraxion, Rank gfx, 04/93,
Rhesus Minus Trond Hasse Lie, music, 06-01/91, Skywalker Karl Bryhn,
gfx, ex Rebels, Tec Steinar Midtskogen, code, ex IT, new 05-12/90
Time Traveller Geir Rune Ladehaug, music, 88-03/90, Trixal Jostein
Dahl Gjelsvik, gfx music, 88-04/94, Vectorman code, 01/90, Vortex
Oddgeir Hvidsten, music, 04/93-04/94, Windwalker founder, 88-90.
FRA Doh Nicholas Desessart, music, 09/93-04/94, Miss Blind faxop, ex
Dark Demons, Q.Horse code, ex Dark Demons, Synchrose code, ex Dark
Demons, Witness Olivier Nottegheim, code, ex Dark Demons,
09/93-04/94.
GER Deicide Stefan Wilholm, ex Masque, 93.
HOL Cloud Maarten Mosselman, swap, ex Desire, Solid Jeroen Dreschler,
gfx, ex Desire, 12/93-04/94.
FIN Crown Jean-Baptiste Garnier, gfx music swap, ex Dark Demons, 93-00,
Split sysop SPLIT SECOND.
ENG U4IA Jim Young, music.
??? Antony fra? gfx, 04/94, Blaze ex Amonia, Tom ex Amonia, dff180
ex Amonia.
Cryptoburners was formed in 1988 by by two earlier C64 groups, going under
the names Scandomatic Crackers and TWCA. The original founders were
Windwalker and Heatseeker, but they immediately recruited Trixal, Time
Traveller, Blackstar and Bimbex. For a while, they released the diskmag
Fourth Dimension.
It is worth mentioning that several leading members of Cryptoburners were
involved in starting the gamemaking firm FunCom in Oslo, Norway. People
like Tec, Vishnu and Olorin were and are heavily involved in the leader-
ship of the company. Unlike stated in RAW 2, Vectorman was NOT kicked due
to inactivity.
1989 - In August the entire group Ghostriders joined.
1992 - After a spell of relative inactivity, PMC and New Waves diskmag
R.A.W 2 02/92 caught up with TEC to check on the group. He explained in
an article that the recent lull in activities was mostly due to members
doing their military duty a.o. Heatseeker was facing 15 months in the
navy. He could also disclose that a clean-up operation that was in
progress, where lazy members would be disposed of - and that Vectorman was
one of these people. Tec said there would be an internal meeting at easter,
and that no releases would be made before that time. Norwegian sysop
Chameleon CREEPSHOW was busted sometime this year.
1994 - This year the entire group Dark Demons were recruited as a French
section, and they released a few productions for them. Their originally
French member Crown moved to Finland, but remains a member.
Norwegian founder, coder and graphician Heatseeker 88-04/94 is now in
Melon Dezign.
Norwegian graphicians BCR and Dali joined Stone Arts.
German coder duo Zulu ex Devils and Grey ex Dark Star joined DCS.
Ceel ex Devils was kicked, and is now in Surprise! Productions.
Crescendo is no longer a member pre 01/91.
Legendary norwegian musician Walkman Tor Bernhard Gausen, ex It, new 05/90
left the scene.
Megademo ECS Megademo.
Time Travellers Music 1 ECS Musicdisk.
Crimetime 1988, 09.10, ECS Demo.
2nd in the Razor 1911, The Cartel, Abnormal party demo competition.
Great Muzax 5 1989, ECS Musicdisk.
info: Music compilation featuring music by Bit Arts, Gladiator, Codex,
Frederic Hahn, IQ, Hattrick and some others.
Wild Bunch 1989, 24.06, ECS Demo.
Winner of the demo competition at the It and Razor 1911 Party.
Musicparty 1990 1990, 05.01, ECS Musicdisk.
Released at the Phenomena and Censor Party 90.
Drammen Party Invitation 1990, .03, ECS File.
code: Tec/It, gfx: Bugbear, music: Timetraveller and Blackstar.
info: Invitation for the Cryptoburners, IT and Visual Bytes party.
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
Note: Crashes on exit.
A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
Note: Does NOT work, crashes. KillAGA has no effect.
Megademo II 1990, 08.06, ECS Mega.
code: Heatseeker, Tec, Oscon, gfx: Heatseeker, music: Gladiator, Keo,
Rhesus Minus, Trixal, Walkman, Blackstar.
Materialized 1990, .10, ECS Demo.
The Hunt For 7th October 1990, .10, ECS File.
code: Tec, gfx: n/a, music: Klisje p Klisje by Walkman.
Winner of demo competition at No Limits and Imp-666 Party 90.
info: Noteworthy as one of the most incompatible demos ever my friend
Slummy/Spaceballs once remarked that it seemed to make a difference
whether his refrigerator door was open or not . Should work pretty much
correctly on a vanilla A500 with 1.3, but then again... glenn
Fourth Dimension 4 Intro 1990, 10.10, ECS Intro.
code/gfx: Tec, music: Gladiator.
Third Dimension 1990, 28.12, ECS File.
code: Tec, gfx: Heatseeker, Bugbear, Tec, music: Rhesus Minus.
2nd in the Theatre and Network Party demo competition.
GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04.
A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
note: Does NOT work. Crashes on running.
Fourth Dimension 5 1991, 30.01, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
INT - code: Sector9/Razor 1911, gfx: Sector9/Razor 1911, music:
Mantronix/Razor 1911.
MAG - code: Vectorman, gfx: Heatseeker, music: Spiritual Freedom by
Blackstar and Trixal. Cooperation with Razor 1911.
review: For the first time, this issue of Fourth Dimension was a
cooperation release, incorporating Razor 1911 into the team. Their
contributions to the mag itself seems scarce, though, probably the best
aspect of their contribution is the nice intro and a couple of articles
by Sector9 and Ziphoid. Whats more, the next issue promises to add
another member to the team: Rebels.
So, what do I think of the mag itself? At half the amount of articles,
this would be a good mag. As it is now, however, there are simply WAY too
many humoristic articles and cartoons, of no interest to anyone but the
producers themselves. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Bergen Music Intro 1991?, Intro.
Revelations 1993, 07.04, ECS Slideshow.
code: Olorin, gfx: Rank, music: Vortex, Trixal.
Released at The Gathering 93.
F.L.A.N. 1993, 03.09, ECS 64k Intro.
code: Witness, gfx: Feyd/Delight, music: Doh/Dreamdealers.
2nd in the Saturne Party 93 64k intro competition.
Cooperation with Dreamdealers.
Brain-State-In-A-Box 1994, 03.04, AGA File.
code: Heatseeker, gfx: Trixal, music: Vortex.
2nd in The Gathering 94 demo competition.
info: Requires fast, 030-25mhz recommended.
Crash Test 1994, 03.04, ECS Trackmo.
code: Witness, gfx: Solid, Antony, music: Doh.
5th in The Gathering 94 demo competition.
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
Toothbrush - The Trilogy Part III 1994, 27.12, AGA Multifile.
Cooperation with Dreamdealers, see there.
Crystal CSL, 1991-
ENG 2Tuff supply, aka Ghetto Boy/Tutoff, was once Spidey/Agile, Flux
org, Indio org trade, Megadrive sysop LIVING HELL, Scott sysop
DULCET TONES EHQ, ex Angels old, 05/92, Scrote sysop THE
KRYPT/THE OASIS, 05/92, Ysl trade.
DEN Harmonica crack, I.B.M crack, ex Angels old, 92, Shock org trade.
SWE Alis sysop ANOTHER WORLD, ex D-Mob, Frosty ex D-Mob, Rascal
swap, 07/90, Uzi-U ex D-Mob.
GER Irie, Malzam sysop REIGN IN BLOOD, 01/91, Secret sysop
TECHNOPOLIS opened 03/92, 03-05/92, Tron and Cenobites sysops
SPEEDBIT, ex Aspect.
FRA Traitor ex Alliance Design.
SCO Mr.E Rob, crack, ex Angels old.
ITA Gulliver sysop HEAVENS DOOR, Zaracon sysop ANCIENT DREAMS,
05/92.
HOL Outlander.
NOR Phonebilly sysop ELEGANT MACHINERY, ex Fairlight, new 09/92.
USA Paradise King sysop BEYOND PARADISE, 05/92, Professor sysop ICE
STATION ZEBRA, 92, Q sysop REALM OF CHAOS, Reet-Mon sysop
CENTRUM, Swayzar trade sysop PRIMITIVE FUTURE WHQ usa, 09/91-
05/92, Tin Man sysop DARK DOMAIN, 04/95, Toxicman sysop
APOCALYPSE.
??? Buster, Creon sysop DIGITAL DREAM, ex Possessed, new 09/92,
Diabolik, Firefox ger? trade, 01/91, Ice Cube, Kamenski ex Scoopex,
Misfit early92, Mr.Hell ex Skid Row, new 09/92, Mr.Scarface,
Overlord, P.O.W, Protektor ger? cosysop WORLD DOWN FALL, ex Abyss,
new 09/92-93, Saint, Scorch, Sledge ex Adept, The Staff, Timdog
console, doublememb Alpha Flight, Tripwire supply, ex Vision,
Winger ex Scoopex, Zippy crack.
Boards PIRATES HAVEN usa, later Fusion, 08/93, AMIGA EAST usa,
DIGITAL EXPRESSION usa, WRECK HOUSE usa, ESCAPE ZONE usa,
PLEASURE POINT usa, MOTHERBOARD usa, SPACE PALACE ger, 05/92, THE
SOFTWARE HOUSE den.
Crystal was formed in 1991, likely by Scott scotland and I.B.M. denmark.
The group became known from day one as one of the best cracking groups in
the business, and I.B.M originally from Poland, real name Roman was their
main cracker for years and years. Another dane, Harmonica, also did a fair
few cracks for the group. The groups main supplier was Englishman 2tuff
also known under several other handles, a.o. Tutoff and Ghetto Boy.
The group itself never produced any demos, but their subgroup for a while,
Melon Dezign see separate entry certainly made some memorable demo
releases. Melon was also responsible for many, many of the best crackintros
ever, almost all for Crystal. There are reviews of some of these under
Melons entry.
There is some confusion around the OASIS boards in addition to the
information above, I also have a bbs ad and other supporting information
that reads sysop: Dan/Crystal...
Crystal is dead!
Tango/Defekt joined, but left to join Balance.
Cardinal ger? ex Abyss, cosysop WORLD DOWN FALL, new 09/92 left for
Interpol. It is unclear where this left WDF, where he was cosys with
Protektor.
BLACK TOWER was closed forever, reported Eternal 2. This may be a
misprint, so that they actually meant Rash DARK TOWER...
EDGE OF INSANITY was busted 93, and will go offline forever!
German Fulcrum new late 92 joined, but left due to differences with
Cardinal and Protektor.
German swapper Ghost ex Submission joined Dytec.
English board GRACELAND 05/92 joined from Ghost briefly, and then left
the scene.
Swedish sysop Princip INTERCHANGE, ex Shining 8, new 09/92 soon joined
Kefrens.
sysop ZigZag MAY DAY, ex Symbiosis, new 09/92 joined Crack Inc, but soon
went on to join Scoopex.
DD7 sysop 100 PERCENT joined 2000 AD and opened VALHALLA BBS with
Ozzy.
Scottish supplier Action Man had a falling out with I.B.M. over Zelnik, and
subsequently he, Infiltrator, N.O.M.A.D ex Angels old or Scoopex and
Zelnik left for Quartex 91.
Bit Bug left.
Morph rejoined Dual Crew.
Navigator joined Tarkus Team.
Sysop Rash DARK TOWER joined from Zenith mid to late 93, but left the
scene after a brief period.
German cracker Bob Duncan is now in Bismarck.
Cult -1992
DEN Caveman gfx, ex Light, Chrome sysop INSOMNIA, Steel code, ex
Light, Tarzan Peter Nielsen, swap sysop PLASTIC PASSION, ex Light,
later 2000 AD, 92.
GER Chromag Timm Albers, music, later Essence, 12/92, Cronos sysop
DAMAGE INC., 10/91, Groucho, Razor old handle Genestealer, Tex.
FIN Dick, Questron, Sagan, Witch, Zodiak.
??? Chase code, 12/92, Cooper ger?, 92, Death Hawk, DJ Head ex
Vogue, Dr.Legal ex RAF, new mid91, Droid den? music, 92, Jacx
music, 12/92, Magic Duke ger? music, later G.T.O/Digital, 92, Max
ex The Dark Demon, old handle Cruncher, new SLH11, MCM ger? 92,
Predator gfx, 12/92, Ray code, 12/92, Red Lance, Trance.
Boards SANCTUARY den, 91.
Action Force changed its name to Cult, and thats how this group was born.
Theyre mainly remembered for their demos now.
1990 - The Norwegian section fell apart in late 1990 probably december
Beast, Skeletor, Mad, SwEinstein and Yoghurt old handle Acidman all joined
Network Timewalker music joined Pure Metal Coders Space Ace swap,
late90 changed his handle to Mr.Ice and formed a norwegian section of
Euphoria, and finally Electrix and three others will form a new group.
1992 - Around the middle of the year, danish sysop Energy NONSTOP UPN
DOWN left the group for 2000 A.D. Danish Gizmo left to join Bastards ca
06/92. Danes Dino gfx, Slide music, Mount gfx, Easley gfx swap,
Shayera and Gargoyle code all left to form Parasite 06/92. News in both
EuroChart 15 07/92 and 16 09/92 seem to confirm Cults death. It is
claimed this is in agreement with both the German and Danish sections of the
group. What confuses me somewhat is how they could release Kefmania
09/92 if they were dead at the time?
German sysop Hotstar THE NEW STATION, ex RAF joined Rebels.
Dutch editor Cybersonik joined Anarchy. Cybersonik left behind a few issues
as editor of Royal Info. It is probable that no more issues were
released after Cybersonik left.
Danish coder and musician Kollaps ex Light, 92 left to help form the new
group Focus Design.
Megademo 1990, .03, 1MB Disk.
BBS Intro 1992, early, ECS Intro.
code: Kollaps, gfx: Mr.Mount, Tarzan, music: Droid.
So Simple 1992, 15.04, Demo.
6th in The Gathering 92 demo competition.
Kefmania 1992, 28.12, ECS Disk, 2 disks.
code: Ray, Chase, gfx: Predator, music: Jacx, Chromag.
7th in The Party 92 demo competition.
info: To run on A1200, you need to turn the cache off, and set the
original chipset - and it will still crash before disk 2.
Culture
FIN Dalos Pasi Rainio, swap, 09/92, SS Soldier swap.
Curacy
DEN Ajax Martin Jacobsen, swap, ex Vendetta Prod. ad X-Tra, Foxtrot
swap, 09/92, Trigon Lars Kim Lund, code, 05/92.
Trigon wrote the utility Flashminator, which removes the flashing from
several executable depackers.
Antex joined Orient.
Rookies Delight ECS Demo.
Cyanide 1993-1993
HOL Baby Joe and Dr.Love music, Daddy 2 Foot gfx music, Elessar
swap, Poison swap, Quazar org code, 03/93.
??? Ace, Haywire music, ex Intense, new mid93, Nico code, 03/93, TDD,
TLC.
Boards CONSPIRACY WHQ n-l.
Cyanide was a Dutch demo group.
1993 - German musician Dynamite joined Analog 03/93. Murdock joined Jetset
mid 93. Cyanide died late 1993, and all Dutch members joined Applause. This
means at least Radium gfx music, 03/93 and Sascha.
TLE left the scene.
Tommie, sysop SESAMESTRAAT joined Desire.
Englishmen Psi and St.M, as well as the american Caffeine joined Eclipse.
Dutch swappers Magic ex Xentrix and Amethist both 08/93 joined Applause.
45 Degrees 1993, .03, ECS Intro.
code: Quazar, gfx: Quazar raytrace, Radium logo, music: Radium.
review: Their first intro, having gained its name by the angle of the
text plotter : glenn
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
Booztro 1993, 08.03, ECS File.
code: Nico, Kernal/TKOB, gfx: Kernal/TKOB, Chaos/TKOB, music: Dynamite.
Cooperation with TKOB.
Cyberactive
Slick joined Anarchy.
Dark, Iceberg and Cujo joined Desire.
Sysop Jack DETONATION BOULEVARD joined LSD.
CyberDreams
ENG Kei mainorg code gfx swap pack.
??? Aztec code music modem, Chazzy B gfx swap, Curse gfx swap, DJ
swap, Eon swap, Hijaak swap, Hobbit swap, Kbx128 music, Kooky
code swap, Merrdyn sysop CYBERDREAM, Mythos music swap, Rac
swap modem, Slate gfx swap, Wraith code gfx modem.
CyberDreams took over the UK group Calypso and all remaining members joined
in late 1993.
Cyberdyne
??? Cuz trade, ex X-Trade, new 94.
CyberForce
GER 2Fast Jens, ascii, doublememb Cream console, 08/95.
Cyberiad
FIN Cocatrice gfx, 04/92, Cody, Zei-El gfx, 04/92.
Cyberiad ceased to exist when the group merged with Carillon into Carillon
Cyberiad CNCD, which means most of the members above can later be found in
that group. Accurate information on exactly WHO made it across would be
greatly appreciated : Some confirmed ones, however, are Fraction code,
04/92, Dean music, 04/92 and Prime Premium gfx music, 04/92.
Drifter joined Complex.
Great Bytes in Fire 1992, 15.04, ECS Trackmo.
code: Fraction, gfx: Dean, Zei-El, Cockatrice, Prime Premium, music: Dean
NoisePacker 3 format. 5th in The Gathering 92 demo competition.
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04.
Note: Works fine once it gets going, but doesnt always
boot past the loading picture.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Works until the text Crusaders Deadline Gathering 92
appears, then crashes. Perhaps its a little unstable at
this point, it could be the same problem ADL had below.
Cyborgs
NOR Dark Pirate, Highlight Tommy Foss, org swap, later Decnite.
??? Darkman swap, ex Beast/Bronx.
Despite strong rumours, Cyborgs did NOT die in late 92 or early 93.
There was also an Atari division.
Absent joined Atomic early 93.
Mr.Magic and Jim joined Awe early 93.
Xandu, Jinx and Micro left the scene early 93.
Norwegian graphician Tranze joined Legacy.
Cyborx 1992-
GER Aliex ex Exort, new 09/92, Dytec 09/92, Gonso ex Atinox, new
mid91, Nightmare ex Atinox, new mid91, Time Thrust, TSA.
??? Stingray.
Cyborx are a German demo group, born late 1992.
Smash and Agent Orange joined Arise.
Doomsday Demo.
Cyclone
French group who arranged a party in 1991.
Cycron
DEN Tama music, 12/90.
NOR Camelot Espen O. Pedersen, ex Theatre, new 12/90.
Norwegian Punisher joined Energy.
Cydonia CDN, http://www.ar.com.au/storm/
AUS Accolyte code, 09/95-03/96, Bonza sysop SYNDICATE, 09/95, Coolcat
gfx, 09/95, Cro code swap, 09/95-96, Eminence music, 09/95,
Infinity gfx music, 09/95-03/96, Krion code sysop LUCID DREAMS,
09/95-96, Muse music sysop, Prowler swap sysop TWISTED DREAMS
WHQ, 09/95-12/97, Serkul music, 09/95, Snykers gfx, 09/95, Souri
gfx, 09/95, Storm David Carson, code html, 09/95.
Capricorn One ECS Trackmo.
Defy Issue 1 ECS Diskmag.
Defy Issue 2 ECS Diskmag.
Defy Issue 3 ECS Diskmag.
Explora ECS only.
Homy ECS.
Models Inc. AGA.
Phobos ECS
Red Planet ECS.
Syndicate ECS.
ReRun! 1995, 24.09, Intro.
code: Cro, Extremist/ex-CDN, Drift/ex-CDN, gfx: Souri, Infinity, Cro,
music: Deadlock/Slam! The only demo released at Project 95.
review: The show opens with a flame effect in REAL bad resolution. It
looks like one of those textmode demos on the PC! Next were shown three
pics - or patterns - that are calculated as we watch. Hardly exciting
stuff, people! Next theres a zoomed and texturemapped cube...Chaos/Sanity
did this in 1992! Not very interesting, Im afraid. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Dreams 1996, .03, Slideshow.
code: Acolyte, gfx/music: Infinity.
Defy issue 6 1996, Autumn, Diskmag.
editor: Cro, Code: Krion.
Cyrus
ENG Abyss ex Intuition, new 06/91, Brick ex Intuition, new 06/91, Codex
ex Intuition, new 06/91, Lils ex Intuition, new 06/91, Mig ex
Epic, new ca 05-06/91, Saint 06/91, Soul ex Intuition, new 06/91,
Tas 06/91, Vawred Computator ex Epic, new ca 05-06/91.
Cyrus was an English demo group under the leadership of Tas and Saint.
1991 - Englishmen Vawred Computator and Mig joined from Epic around may.
Mig moved on though, and quickly joined Crack under the name Tracker. Phobia
was kicked from the group, while Poltergeist left in june. The group was
then reinforced with the joining of Abyss, Lils, Brick, Soul and Codex from
Intuition, after that group died in june.
Cytax CTX, -1992
GER Amphetamine, Black Ghost and Stargrove sysops LUCKY STRIKE WHQ,
10/91, Dr.True new mid91, EC-Rider music, Etron ex Alpha
Flight, Leo 01/90, Terminator X swap, ex System 5, new late90, The
Mage code.
SWE Jinsey sysop CYBERSPACE, Kaka sysop, Sooga, Tesh, Wizzo ex
Reflectors, new ca 01/92.
NOR Drum Tex ex Exit, new mid91, Tex new mid91.
FIN Coroner sysop.
ENG 4-Koff.
USA M.Bison sysop MAXXED OUT, 05/92.
??? Cro Magx, Dr.Zook, Horizon new early92, Ian ex Dytec, new early92,
Joker ex Anthrox, new early92, Ken gfx, 92, Shockwave, Starman
music, Techno Priest ex Pirates, new ca 01/92, Tom Poison, Warlock
ex Antiriad.
Boards FLOODLAND swe, MIDNIGHT SUN swe.
Cytax was a german based demo group, which died late 1992. They will be most
fondly remembered for their excellent diskmag International Computer
Entertainment I.C.E.. The last issue or two of the mag was detached from
Cytax, and released as an independent production.
1992 - Techno Priest/Pirates, Swedes Wizzo/Reflectors, Rainbow music and
Wiquie swap all joined around january. Swedes Gadget ex Airwalk and
Princip sysop INTERCHANGE left for New Wave due to internal problems
around january, though some sources claim they were in Palace for two days
first. Zed joined Slipstream, while Germans Bros and Master both new mid91
left to join The Silents in september. Swedish musician and swapper Noice
ex Antiriad, old handle Lucky Strike, 06/92 and female swapper Wiquie left
for Polaris in september.
Torwak was kicked.
Maltese writer Cyber Pirate joined Pure Metal Coders, to be one of the
writers for their legendary diskmag R.A.W.
Parsec had board, but closed, Flogger, Thunor and Rainbow swe music all
joined Voice.
4T Thieves joined Alcatraz.
Norwegian swapper Moxy new mid 91 joined Offence.
Monochrome Megalomania ECS File.
I.C.E issue 3 Intro ECS Intro.
info: Needs cache OFF, OCS Chipset ON.
I.C.E issue 4 ECS Diskmag.
I.C.E issue 5 1991, mid?, Diskmag.
I.C.E issue 6 ECS Diskmag.
I.C.E issue 7 ECS Diskmag.
I.C.E issue 8 1992, ca.05, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
code: The Mage/independent, gfx: Ken title, Decre icons, headline
fonts, clips, Mithrandir/Acme clips, Nana cartoons, music: Rhesus
Minus/Cryptoburners, editors: Leo, Blackghost, Amphetamine, The
Mage/independent.
review: The first things this mag shows you is a single screen of a
copyright notice, then a really great fantasy HAM title picture by Ken.
First impressions of the mag itself isnt bad either, with a small but
great ICE clipart logo and big and small fonts... The control panel is
hardly stunning, but more than functional. ICE is based in Germany, but
with some international cooperatives. They do claim its no longer a pure
Cytax production the editorial even criticizes the groups lack of
activity, but the production roster still contains so many Cytax members
I think its most correct to list even this issue under Cytax.
The release date is a little uncertain, but it is around may or june of
1992. The news section carried the news that Horizon, Ian/Dytec and
Joker/Anthrox had joined. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- note: See review!