Radiance -------- USA> Illuvatar (sysop 'SPATULA CITY'). ???> Mad Max (cnetcoder). Radio ----- Memories of Fog (1997, 09.08, 64k Intro). code: n/a, gfx: Visualize, music: Process. 6th in the Assembly 97 64k intro competition. review: Definitely an original intro, MOF focuses more on creating a little atmosphere than doing mindblowing effects. In fact, it is little more than a small slideshow for some atmospheric graphics the team has created. No coder is credited. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Rage (http://www.rage.nu/) -------------------------- SWE> Dale (swap), Dave (swap), Maze (swap, 92), T.C.M. (trade, early92), Wildcat (swap, new 08/92), Wizitor (sysop 'TOTAL SATISFACTION', 92), Xerxes (sysop 'GLOBAL EFFECT' EHQ, 08/95), X3M (swap), Zwinx (exsysop 'DAGCENTRAL 90210', 01/95). ???> Bigbeard (codeAM), Cap'n babar (anim), Cuddley (swe? code, 12/95- 06/96), Derek (codeAM), Goose (codeAM), Haggolf (codeAM), Ozzie (org gfx), Regulator (codeAM^PC), Rubber (swe? code, 12/95-06/96), Spirou (swe? code music, 12/95-06/96), Stompiasen (codePC), Zeque (codeAM). The middle of 1993 was obviously a good year for Rage, winning two major Swedish competitions in a row! Rage moved more and more of its operation over to the PC during 1996, until it now finally seems like it's all moved over. They released a PC demo at The Gatherig 97. The members who are now active on the PC have been removed from THIS memberlist, and have had their entries moved to the PC part of Scenery. They are: Digimatic (code, 08/93- 12/95), Fajser (music, 08/93-12/95) and Foxx (gfx, 08/93-06/96). Musician Cascade joined Silver Productions. Swedes Abandon and Fauser (both ex Amaze) were members a few weeks before moving on to Fairlight. Stix joined Noxious and changed his handle to Raven. Alchemy (1993, 29.05, ECS Disk, 2 disks). Winner of the The Computer Crossroads 93 demo competition! Neural Assault (1993, 05.08, ECS Trackmo). code: Digimatic, gfx: Foxx, music: Fajser. Winner of the European Computer Conference 93 demo competition! Maximum Overdrive 2 (1995, .08, AGA Trackmo, 3 disks). code: Goose, Derek, gfx: Ozzie, music: Fajser. Graedde? (1995, 17.06, 64k Intro). code: Rubber, Cuddley, gfx: Foxx, music: Spirou. 2nd in the Icing 95 64k intro competition. review: Not-bad little intro is perhaps the first impression, but when you look at it more closely, it becomes painfully apparent that this one adds absolutely nothing new. The effects are all based on old - and in some cases antique - effects without making ANY improvements, and the only half-way innovation you'll find is a semi-cool caleidoscope at the very end. Other effects you'll find here are zoomrotators, sphere mapping, fire particles and actually a wireframe vector line routine! A few OK transitions is all that saves this from the dustbin. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Rabies (1995, 28.12, AGA HD Multifile). code: Digimatic (main), Spirou, Cuddly, Rubber, gfx: Foxx, music: "244-dl-77" by Fajser (main) and "Bloody Resonance" by Spirou (end). 14th in The Party 95 demo competition. review: "Rabies" is a very good demo; perhaps the best demo the Amiga section of Rage ever made! It opens with a small animation sequence, which sets the perfect atmosphere for the rest of the demo. The demo itself contains fast, but small renditions of effects that were not all that common at the time; like phong shading. The design is good, with a red cyberpunk-y look and feel, spiced with some quotes along the same lines. The entire production looks pretty polished, and leaves you with a good feeling. Very nice. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Sagbab (1996, 16.06, AGA 40k Intro). 3rd in the Remedy 96 40k intro competition. review: This is not a bad little intro! It starts with some dots forming a Rage logo, from the bottom of the screen...almost like the routine in the ancient The Silents & Crionics classic "Hardwired" [12/91], though that routine was heaps better. Next we're given a plasma zoom tunnel thingie that's pretty cool, before we're shown a fractal zoom in 2x2 resolution. Next there's a rather cool fire object routine in 2x2, where five or six small objects on fire fly around the screen...and that's it. An end screen with some email adresses and the homepage address, and we're outta there. No actual credits appear in the demo, just the e-mail addresses of four of the participants, and they're not very revealing. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Ram Jam (RJ, 1989-1997, http://www.ramjam.org) ---------------------------------------------- ITA> Dr.G (Fabio Vitale, axcode trade sysop 'THE HOUSE' WHQ, 02/96), Kreex (gfx raytrace, new 02-04/96), N-Joy (music, 02/96), Randy (Fabio Ciucci, code gfx edit, 95-04/96), The Trendy Dealer (Eugenio Gori, swap html, 94-02/96). GER> Fashion (Andreas Keirat, swap, new 02/96-01/97), Shamrock (music, ex Frantic). NOR> Mystra (music swap, new 02-04/96). SWE> Twilek (gfx music). ???> Achernar (gfx), Fxart (trade, ex Outlaws), Ilian (gfx), Mr.Buck (code). PREVIOUS MEMBERS> ITA> Case (Guglielmo Bottin, music), Filippetto (Filippo Rizzi, code music), Levin (sysop 'ELECTRIC CHAIR', old handles Godfather and Grizzly). HUN> Messerschmitt (ex Surprise! Productions, new end94). FRA> Squale (trade, new mid93). USA> Planet Master (sysop 'THE EDGE'). ???> Digi, Duke (ex Damian), Lancelot (old handle Asso). Boards; CODERS DREAM. Ram Jam was a mainly italian demo group, formed in 1989. They were known for their chartmag "The Charts", which was eventually closed down. Their next project in the same vein, years later, was the magchart "Showtime" which saw a handful of issues released before KaosMaster took the mag to Darkage. Thanks to Vega and Twilek for information! 1995 - French swapper Hysteric (Jean-Francis Lopez, early95) and Pseudonym were both kicked late in the year. Flender, M.A.S.E, Maxime, Posdnuos (ex Backstage, but not alone) and Rocketeer (ita swap) left late in the year. They did NOT leave the scene, as stated in some mags, but formed a new crew to develop games, called The Spooky Fellows (TSF). All this was in a newsfile I once found on aminet :) Swedish swapper and organizer Cybergod left late this year, to be a Delight only member again. He later returned to the group (pc/java) as a graphician. New swedish organizers were Klorathy and Payday. 1996 - Swedish musician Atheist, who was a Balance doublememb for a while, left to be in Balance only again, early96. Around the middle of the year, swedish sysop Nightshade ('WASTELANDS', new 02/96) decided to leave the scene. 1997 - The beginning of the year brought some turmoil for the swedish members. A big fight ensued between Payday and italian organizer Vega, after Vega had let a swedish trader (General Lee) join without notifying the swedish members, and the discussion concluded with Payday (swap sysop), Loop (gfx, ex Vision, new 02/96-), Krustur (code, ex Insane) and Klorathy (code music) all leaving the group for Rebels. Klorathy stayed in the Ram Jam java-section though, and Loop later rejoined under the handle Oyiseer, on a sidenote. Then key members like founder ACBS (code) and main organizer Vega (Giuseppe Galluzzo, swap) left the scene later the same year, and the amiga section died. Surfing (also in Fairlight and Damones) took over organizing, and much of the group moved on to other platforms. Ram Jam has since released productions for both the java and the pc scene. Italian coder Modem (ex X-Zone) apparently left the group after RJ used his routines without crediting him in their demo "Massive Killing Capacity". He formed a new group called Darkage. Twilek/RJ tells me this is bull, and that Modem was kicked. American sysop Slinger ('GRAND ILLUSION') got kicked. Italian coder Darkman (ex Zero Defects, 02/96) joined Elven 11. Italian raytracer and editor KaosMaster (ex Technology, new early96- 04/96) joined Darkage with the mag "Showtime". Jesus and BAR left the Amiga for the PC scene (ROM7). Moone (old handle Raiser) left to form Fresh 04/96. Rip is no longer a member. Italian coder Maverick left, after having produced NOTHING for RJ! 02/96. He is the coder of the two 'Virtual Karts' games. Tex (music), Pedro and Van Halien was kicked due to inactivity late95. French swapper Mogul left the scene late95. Frenchmen Guille (code) and Okeanos (gfx music) left with Jibe (gfx swap) for Syndrome. Swedish coder Prospect joined C-Lous. Italian swapper Gurgle (early93-late93) joined Mad Elks. Mr.Fear left the scene. Can't Be Done (Demo). Hot Music #4 (1990?, ECS Musicdisk). Information: 8 tunes by BAR with a CD player design. The Charts #1 (1993, early, Chartmag). INT - Code: M.A.S.E., Gfx: n/a, Music: Tex. MAG - Code: n/a, Gfx: Deus (title), Jones (logo), Tex (music). The Charts #2 (1993, early, Chartmag). The Charts #3 (1993, Chartmag). The Charts #4 (1993, Chartmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Hollywood/Jetset. The Charts #5 (1993, 20.07, Chartmag). INT - code: Executor, gfx: n/a, music: Bar. MAG - code: ACBS, M.A.S.E., gfx: Shadow/Stellar (title), Pedro, Flender, Reflex/2D (fonts), Deus (fonts), music: Psimon/Compact, editors: Posdnuos (main), M.A.S.E. (main), Rocketeer, Flender, The Ripper/TNF. The Charts #11 (Chartmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Puzzled" by Clawz. The Charts #12 (Chartmag). The Charts #13 (1994, late, Chartmag). Taste The Difference (1994 or pre, AGA, 2 disks). The Charts #14 (1995, .02, Chartmag). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: ??? and Clawz/Bomb! (ProRunner 2.0 format). The Charts #16 (Chartmag). The last issue released. Massive Killing Capacity (1996?, AGA Demo, 2 disks). info: MKC was RJ's first major demo in two years. They used routines by their member Modem without crediting or even telling him! (source: Seenpoint #9). Naturally, he was pissed off and left the group. Spaceman (1996, Musicdisk). code: Acbs, Ranay, gfx: Ilian, music: En-Joy. review: Ram Jam gives you the good advice to link your Amiga to a powerful stereo hi-fi and I would do it if I were you... Everythings starts with a nice chiptune as introduction and a dark-colored voxel routine. Well, of course not everything but this small-design musicdisk does it. After you were allowed to watch some brilliant logos pixeled by Ilian you make a little trip through this voxel-landscape until the music fades out and the menu shows up. Also here you will have twice a look at the very modern and cyber-like design. Only the scroller graphics look too old for the rest of this production. They give the overall very smart design - which does not mean that it is not good - a worse smack! But let us talk about the music which is in any case the more important thing while rating a musicdisk. En-joy, a musician I haven`t heard about before (Sorry!), composed five modules with the good old protracker for us. While sweet melodies - more familar with funky styles, a bit hip-hop influenced and inspired by slow pop than techno - are played you can also hear some good sampled speeches. Especially the voice of the woman in "Music Is My Light" which is by the way my favorite tune. Queel guitare sounds in "The Spaceman" and smooth pianos in "Endless Mornings" round the whole thing off. The only other thing that sucks besides the scroller is the yellow standard font which is used to show you the information and titles. [zito] ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast.  Showtime issue #2 (1996, .04, AGA Filemag). code: Randy, gfx: The Loop, Kreex (title), music: Mystra, editor: ACBS. Showtime issue #5 (1996, mid, AGA Filemag). code: Randy, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Showtime issue #4 (1996, .11, AGA Filemag). code: Randy, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editors: Magic, ACBS. Rampage (RP) ------------ RUS> Scram (sysop/ftpop 'HUSTLERS HELL' WHQ, 11/97-02/99). ???> Alco (ftop 'ALCOHOLIUM', 11/97-02/99), B0s (crack ftpop1 'L.0.S.W. FORTRESS', 02/99), Cbug (ftop 'BUGGY's PLACE', 11/97-02/99), Dr.F0lken (ftpop 'MECH MATH', 02/99), Funny (ftpop 'AGONY', 02/99), Hram (ftpop soon 'HRAMOMETR', 11/97-02/99), Kan0 (crack, 11/97-11/99), Kisa (ftpop 'DIE HARD', 11/97-02/99), Mactep (ftpop 'MASTER', 02/99), Stream (supply ftpop 'FIREBALL INC.', 04/98-02/99), Wa3ke3 (ftpop2 'L.0.S.W. FORTRESS', 02/99), WildCat (ftpop 'ALBA', 02/99). Rampage is an illegal group, probably based in Russia. Lots of FTP sites. Ramses ------ FRA> DDG (Damien Giffar, code, 08/96-07/98), Kelson (Yann Dano, gfx swap, 07/98), Krabob (Victorien Ferry, code gfx, 07/98), Lens (3d, 08/96- 07/98), Seven (code, 08/96-07/98), Traven (music, 07/98), Yode (3d, 08/96-07/98), Zaac (Laurent Samani, gfx, 07/98). ???> Helix (3d, 08/96-07/98), KanaX (music, 08/96-07/98), Lord (gfx, 08/96-07/98), Next (music, 07/98), Tex (code music, 07/98). Ramses is a (presumably) pure French group. Experiment (1996, 31.08, AGA HD ?MB Multifile). code: DDG, Seven, gfx: Lens, Yode, Lord, music: Kana. 2nd in the Sea, Soft, Sun (3S) Party 2 demo competition. info: Requires some fastmem, how much exactly is not known. Jesus Was a Demomaker (1997, 25.07, AGA 030 8MB Demo). code: Krabob, DDG, gfx: Zaac, Lord, Kelson (additional), Krabob (3d), music: Traven (main), Next (end). Winner of the Euskal party 98 demo competition! review: Well, this is a first for me - a demo with a seemingly religious theme. Well, that's what it looks like the first time you look at it, but the title does seem to reveal a slightly humourours approach =) However, the theme is exploited to the full here, complete with imagery of Jesus himself. It all opens with a Ramses logo distorted onto the screen to weird music, then going the same way out. Next the real music kicks in, as well as a 3d scene engine taking us around what is seemingly the inside of a church, with those multi-colored imagery windows you find only there, and this is also where the intital credits appear. Next it zooms in and out of a picture of Jesus a few times, with the title of the demo gradually overlaid. Next is a more traditional 3d scene of pillars with a goblet inside and a moving lightsource. Next is a fullscreen picture by Zaac, of a black woman holding a heart spewing flames in her hands. Zaac won the graphics competition at this party too, but it is uncertain whether this is the same picture. Next is a 3d scene with crosses, four moving lighsources and cubes with greetings on their sides. Then what looks like a painting from a church appears, waving, with a bumpmapped Ramses logo in the bottom left corner. Now for something original, a seemingly 'rubbered' 3d scene, the one from before with the crosses. It ends with yet another 3d scene, this time seemingly inside an enclosed room with some objects suspended in dead air. An upscroller (ugly font!) is the last thing you see, overlaid over the very first Ramses logo tbat appeared in the demo. Much of this demo relies on its 3d engine, which unfortunately is not among the very very best. It's good, but ultimately not fast and smooth enough at its present point to really impress in the jungle of amiga 3d. A good demo then, but not an outstanding one. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Random ------ Boards; MARTYRIUM (usa, 09/90). Rasse.Prod ---------- Mick and Nick joined Depth. They're dead. Rave ---- FIN> Beast (mainorg). Rave was a demo group, based in finland under the leadership of Beast and Venom. The group eventually died following a conflict between the two leaders, so Venom took danish musicians Chronic and Cytron (12/92) with him and formed a new group called Extacy. This PROBABLY happened sometime around early 1993. It's entirely possible that the group Rave where german coder Twice (later in Absolute!, then Lego) released his music editor SynTracker, is a different group altogether - at least ex-organizer Venom says this guy was never a member... Rave Network Overscan (RNO, http://www.thehavok.co.uk/scene/rno/) ----------------------------------------------------------------- GER> Angeldust (gfx swap), Cie (music), Craid (code, later Haujobb, 97), El Fatal (swap), Iro (Bastian Effertz, swap, doublememb Depth), The Enemy (music). FIN> Deeq (04/01), Jpv (code, 04/01), Kure (gfx music, old handle Kure4Kancer, 97-04/01), Roz (music, 97). HOL> Convict (music), Fiction (gfx swap), Jan (gfx), S.D.S. (music gfx ascii swap), Scandal (codeAMOS gfx), T.B.C. (org music swap). SWE> Damien (gfx raytrace swap). NOR> Mr.X (codeAMOS swap), Tft (swap, late96), Zany (Ole Skåra, music swap). ENG> Nemesis (gfx ascii swap), Slavey (swap). SUBgroup of Phuture 303 06/96. Nefroni - The Remiks (1997, Intro). code: Craid, gfx: Kure4Kancer, music: Roz. Released for the Scenario 97 intro competition. review: Nice c64 flavour to the opening, soon mutates into a generic techno-design driven little intro of no big interest we're afraid. Dot- cubes, Craid? Seriously... But I do dig "Boozgotchi"! =) The intro is 51k long, so I guess Scenario was a 64k compo. According to the enclosed text file, this intro has problems with 060 processors, and they advise running without setpatch on such machines. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Goes Lahti - The RNO+DCS Meeting Slideshow (2001, 15.04, Slideshow). code: JPV, gfx: Kure (design, photos), Deeq (photos), music: Kure. 14th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition. review: Nicely designed and with an ambient soundtrack, this slideshow really had absolutely nada to do in a demo competition =] But it's full of charm, mostly thanks to the happy faces of the drunk RNO+DCS members who obviously had a good time while making this fun-prod. It opens with a few roughly demo-style visuals, nicely designed (as mentioned) first presenting the production, then with credits. One question: How on earth do you make a screen consisting of a wireframe vector object, and simple graphics scrolled in from the left and right move anything LESS than smoothly on a 50mhz 030 JPV? God heavens knows it can be done, I've seen it done on A500's! Hell, I've seen it done on C64's! =] Hrmpf. Well, anyway, the main part of this is a slideshow with no additional design, just pictures fading in and out. The charm comes mostly from the fact that these people appear to be having great amounts of fun. The slideshow is very system friendly, and you can flip screens with the normal Amiga-M method. It requires AGA or a graphics card, and at least an 020 processor. There is no mention of the memory requirements. The 'meeting' of the title occured in Lahti, Finland between the 23rd and 25th of february, at the same time as the World Championships in cross-country skiing was held there. Just in case you were wondering... =] This is the fourth in RNO's partyslideshow series, following Goes Aars (The Party 8), Go Stockholm&Helsinki (Remedy'2000&Alternative2) and Goes Aldi (The Party 10). [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Ravers Revolution ----------------- 1996 - Dj Viper, Dj X-Base and Smasher joined Secretly in april. R.A.W Team (1995-) ------------------ RAW Team is the team who were committed to the making of the diskmagazine R.A.W, after it went from a Spaceballs production in issue #7 to the first independent release, issue #8. R.A.W #8 (1995, 23.05, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Perplex/Offence, gfx: Facet/Virtual Dreams (panel), Destop/CNCD (load pic), Kube/CNCD (welcome pic), Perplex/Offence (fonts), music: "Metrossimo" by Andy/Banal Projects, "Cover Up" by Spaceman, editors: Astro/Virtual Dreams (main), Terrox, Rokdazone/Infect, Macno/Abnormalia, Lord Helmet/Spaceballs, Hollywood/Axis, Facet/Virtual Dreams. review: A hallmark in the jagged history of R.A.W was the release of this issue, which meant several big changes. It was the first ever issue to be released without Lord Helmet as main editor, and it was also the first ever issue not to feature any graphics from Fairfax. Fresh blood brought fresh ideas, though, and Astro's articles are written like he'd have been doing this all his life. History would later show that the choice of Astro for a new editor would not be the best decision, but the things he does for this issue is very good. Even though this issue is released just three months after the last one (another small revolution! :-), the contents seem polished and well thought-out. It's especially nice to see Facet doing graphics reviews again, just as he did in the old days for Stolen Data. This is also the first issue where the home page is announced - what would later become a much larger part of RAW. There is apparently also an intro by Virtual Dreams for this issue, but it was not included in my distribution, and I have consequently not seen it. Some clipart in the 'group review' section is misplaced, occasionally ending up on top of text. To sum up: Very good, but then it always is. :) [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast /2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. R.A.W #9 (1995, autumn, ECS Multifile Diskmag). code: Perplex/Offence, gfx: Facet/Lemon. (title, panel, welcome), Destop/ CNCD (title), Perplex/Offence (fonts), music: "Ned's Atomic Dustbin" by Soul/Movement, "Paaryna's Allrite" by Dizzy/CNCD, editors: Astro/Movement^ CNCD^Lemon.^Virtual Dreams (main), Terrox (chief), Mount/Polka Brothers (chief), Lord Helmet/Spaceballs, Rokdazone/Infect, Macno/Abnormalia, Hollywood/Axis, Wolfman/Balance, Cybersonik/Alcatraz, Nimrod, Decca/Lego, Magic/Nah Kolor, Facet/Lemon., Supernao/Lemon. review: Looking back on RAW now (this review was done in january 2003), it's quite amazing how accomplished an effort it is. It stands proudly alongside current and past diskmags, as one of the best diskmags ever. It does not NEED to live on its reputation, it has so much support from so many important sceners, and so much quality reading, that it stands TALL on its own merits. Just looking at the roster of writers, should give you an indication... And the code is exceptional. Fast, compatible, smooth, intuitive. Editorially, the mag is again excellent, with a broad range of scene-related articles, from general pondering to in-depth interviews and an extensive party section. This is one of a few classic mags that everyone should read. Running RAW really couldn't possibly be a smoother experience. No fuss, just two files, and a superbly hardware compatible code makes running this from floppy, harddisk or ram - a doodle. The release date is a little uncertain; likely sometime around september is our best guess. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Razkels ------- Doc.X and Mellow-D left the group to form the finnish section of Deadline in the spring of 1992. Razor 1911 [old] (RZR, 1987-1992, http://www.laric.com/razor) ------------------------------------------------------------- NOR> Codex (Jo Gunnershaug, gfx music, 89-12/91), Dr.No (Runar Jordahl, org code, 11/90), Fort Knox (Bjorn Sovik, sysop, 11/90), Lord Strangelove (Jon Atle Kroknes, code crack), Red Baron (Dag Nilsen, sysop 'DIGITAL EXPRESS', new 07-11/90), Rex (Rune Vangen, org swap, 89-11/90), Sector 9 (Kjetil Pettersson (code org gfx, 11/90). SWE> Sir Henry (Henry Greijer, code, 11/90), Ziphoid (John Carehag, music, 11/90-12/91). GER> 16 Beat (music, 12/91), Angel of Death (Guido Janthor, sysop 'HELLFIRE', 09/90-91), Drake (Michael, gfx, 11-12/91), Joker (sysop 'SADO CITY', ex Classic, later Interpol, 12/91), Murdock (gfx, 11/90-12/91), Onyx (Bernd Knochenheuer, code crack, ex Accumulators, new late89-11/90), Sim (Guerkan Demirci, code, 11/90-12/91), TCM (sysop 'MAGICAL ZONE', ex Classic, later Interpol, 12/91). DEN> Cat (Allan, spread, ex Warfalcons, 11/90), Darksilver (phreak, 11/90), Dave (David, crack train, ex Warfalcons, 11/90-12/91). USA> Rom Kernal (Jeff, sysop 'THE PITCH', 11/90), Rotor (sysop 'GATES OF ASGARD', ex Elevation), Zodact (Brian C., org supply sysop 'THE CASTLE', 11/90). ???> Brain Dead (12/91), Fashion Light (12/91), King Cobra (12/91), Problem Child (12/91), Tripwire (12/91). Boards; PURGATORY WHQ (usa, 12/91), HANGAR 18 (usa, 12/91), CITY WAREZ (nor, 06/94). PREVIOUS MEMBERS - NOR> Assassin (sysop 'EXTENSION', ex Network), Bountyhunter, Hypocrite (founder), Maniac (Jogeir Liljedahl, music, later Spaceballs), The Hustler (music, ex Amaze, new pre 07/92). GER> Wonderboy (ex Dual Crew). BEL> Spike (sysop 'MONKEY ISLAND'). ???> Alien X (trade, ex Agnostic Front), Flash Fox (ex Utopia), Lawbreaker (ex Vanish). Razor 1911 was born on the amiga at the Danish Gold party in july 1987 by four norwegians from the c64 scene; Sector 9 and Dr.No from Active Cracking Crew (ACC, both original members of Razor 1911 on the c64) and Lord Strangelove (aka Lord S) and Hypocrite from Raw Deal Inc. The group was originally based around the city of Trondheim, Norway (Sector 9, Dr.No), with a section in Aalesund, Norway established a small while later (Red Baron, Nosferatu, Bug). Thanks to Sector 9, Zeb and DiMarz for some information. The boards WILD SIDE (sys: Analog Kid) and THE GAMESHOP (sys: Alan Cook) were affiliated with Razor, but their sysops remained independent. Likewise with the board THE P.I.T.S. (sys: Pie Man/The Humble Guys). In addition to the webpage listed at the top of this entry (the Razor 1911 Founder's site), the current (pc platform) Razor demo division can be found at http://www.razordemo.com. 1988 - Swedish coder and cracker DiMarz joined from Phenomena. The group's first real demo is released. 1989 - The group's big break in the cracking scene came after The Accumulators split up in late 1989, and they managed to persuade Onyx (euro crack) and Zodact (usa supply sysop) to join them. Suddenly they had both originals and crackers! This lead to a steady stream of releases until april of 1991. 1990 - Norwegian musician Hattrick left for No Limits in march. A shortlived cooperation with Classic was entered into in the spring of 1990. Uncle Tom contributed music to the Paradox demo "Freddy's Back", released in early june. Swedish cracker and coder DiMarz (Dennis Edlund from Eskilstuna) left the scene this year. Most of the intros to games he cracked for Razor were also coded by himself. The Norwegian members held an internal meeting in the city of Aalesund between the 16th and the 18th of november. Red Baron, Bug, Nosferatu, Iceman, Rex, Fort Knox, Doctor No and Sector9 were all in attendance. Legendary swedish musician Uncle Tom left the scene in december, and did NOT rejoin Scoopex despite them sometimes claiming he did. His music was used in Scoopex productions beyond this date, but these were old modules Uncle Tom gave to them before leaving the scene. Their board DIGITAL EXPRESS (opened this year) was probably Norway's first elite board, and as such remains legendary on the Norwegian scene. They were also the first Norwegian team to have an american elite board (THE CASTLE). 1991 - When the release flood ended in april of 1991, the leaders of the group were getting tired of the Amiga scene. Luckily the solution was near: a great PC cracker called Darwin lived close by the core members, and it was decided to close the Amiga section in favour of a new life on the PC. Only a few members remained, keeping the group alive through this year. Swedish musician Mantronix (ex Fairlight, 11/90-) left for phenomena around the middle of the year. However, he later returned to do music for the great "Voyage" [12/91] demo. Faith changed his handle to Faddy and joined Delight late this year. The demo "Erazorhead" [10/91] was released early october, immediately followed by the departure of its authors Jawbreaker (code, 11/90-) and Pal (gfx) for Scoopex. English musician Musician Gamma joined Anarchy in october. Swedish sysop Twister (FLASHBACK) joined from Agile in december. The group's final demo "Voyage" [12/91] was a worthy swansong for a truly great group in the field of both cracking and demomaking. American sysop Jabbah (INNER SANCTUM) left sometime between october and december; the board was mentioned in "Erazorhead", but not in "Voyage". 1992 - Twister (FLASHBACK) left again in january, moving this time to Vision. Around january, swedish sysop Wico (INNER CIRCLE, ex Classic) joined, then left for Scoopex, only to leave them shortly after for Rebels! Norwegian coder Nosferatu (10/90-12/91) joined The Silents shortly after The Gathering in april. Finnish trader Zephyr joined from Amaze, but didn't stay long; he left for The Silents soon after. Psimon and Shocker joined Compact Inc. late 92. Norwegian sysop Skykiller (THE MAZE, ex Fraxion) left for Adept around october. The group was officially closed down in the early days of 1992. The members that went along to the PC section were Sector9, Dr. No, Red Baron, Onyx (ex Accumulators, new late89) and Zodact (Brian C., usa sysop 'THE CASTLE', ex Accumulators, new late89). 1994 or 1995 - Previous member Bug (Stein Erik Giske, ex Subway, re Network, 11/90-) tragically died this year, after spending some time at a mental institution. Mr.T (sysop, 12/91-early92) left. Rascal (ex Alpha Flight) got kicked. English coder Paradroid joined Digital. German sysop Guru Josh (Guido, 'TECH', ex Storm) decided to leave the amiga scene after severe disagreements with Zodact. He eventually went back to where he came from; the c64 scene! Norwegian graphician Shine left the scene. Swedish coder Colorbird (ex Shike/Supplex) was kicked, and therefore left to join Noxious. Frequenz (sysop, ex Amaze), together with Badcat and Edison, got arrested by the Police when they were at Fornebu, Oslo in order to collect a package with carded warez. Frequenz told them everything about CC and Visa, and 2 weeks later all the Norwegian elite-boards got busted.... Fade joined from Arise, but quickly left the scene. Norwegian sysop IT ('CONTACT ZERO'/earlier 'HOME ALONE', ex Frogs) joined Alcatraz. Hawat, Newmarh and Thufir joined The Special Brothers. Kick-Reset (1989, ECS Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Memorydust" by Codex. info: This was more of a practical joke than an intro, supposedly allowing users to choose which version of ks to boot with... It was nothing but a joke, of course, and its makers were reportedly highly amused by people claiming it worked :) Oh, and Codex' soundtrack is a classic... Party Informer Intro (1988, .09, ECS Intro). info: Invitation intro for the Razor 1911, The Cartel, Abnormal party in Trondheim, Norway october 1988. Amusing IV (1988, .12, ECS Demo). Hang Over (1989, .02, ECS Demo). Liquid Bobs (1989, .03, ECS Demo). Boom Boom (1989, .04, ECS Demo). Hang over II (1989, .06, ECS Demo). Aces High (1990, .03, ECS Demo). The Delicate Sound of Razor 1911 (1990, .03, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Poseidon" by Uncle Tom. info: This is music/demodisk containing a total of 10 tunes from Ziphoid, Uncle Tom, Codex and Hattrick, whereof 8 were never used anywhere else. Psychedelia (1990, .07, ECS Demo). info: This may be the Razor demo released at the 'Bergen Party', 29.6-1.7. Vertical Insanity (1990, .08, ECS File). code: Doctor No, gfx: Sector 9, music: "Spell Amelioration" by Uncle Tom. info: This _is_ a legendary demo, that spawned many imitations and caused quite a stir for its innovative effects. We will review this demo as soon as we can find the shelf space to hook up an old a500, since this is NOT the world's most compatible beast ;) Habitual Novelty or Look, No Bitplanes! (1990, 07.10, ECS File). code: Nosferatu, gfx: Sector 9, music: Bug/Maniacs of Noise (Maniac of Noise format). 3rd at the No Limits and IMP-666 Amiga Conference 90. info: Seeing as I can't actually watch this demo, it's gonna be slightly hard to review it... The great music was made especially for the demo by Bug, who was a full member of MON at the time. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Does not work. Won't work at all with KillAGA, but goes past the intro part with a clean OCS/nocache boot; then it gurus. The Best of 88-90 (1990, .10, ECS Collection). info: Contains all their best stuff from 88-90.  Fourth Dimension #5 (1991, 30.01, ECS Multifile Diskmag). Cooperation with Cryptoburners, see there. Erazorhead (1991, 05.10, ECS Multifile Demo). code: Jawbreaker, gfx: n/a, music: "The Anvil Chorus" by Mantronix (ProTracker MOD format). info: Jawbreaker's last RZR production before joining Scoopex. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Gurus, even with KillAGA. Voyage (1991, 27.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Sim, gfx: Drake, Murdock, music: "Undersea" by Codex, "Overload" by Tip & Mantronix/Phenomena. 3rd in The Party 91 demo competition. review: Voyage is one of the greatest demos of all time, bar none. There are so many little touches and design things here that makes it a thing of beauty. Not to mention the revolutionary code! Mind you, this was the end of 1991, and Sim was doing some quite outrageous things here, with the texture mapping and stuff. He was truly a coder before his time. The music is also worth its weight in gold. These two tunes are half the demo for me, I must confess. I personally believe that the middle, calmer section of Overload (heard during the bubble part) is some of the best music Mantronix and Tip ever made. So totally recommended it hurts. This demo *DOES NOT WORK* on AGA machines. Fortunately, we in the Amiga community are blessed with some skilled coders who have taken it upon themselves to fix some older demos so that we can see them on our machines and run them from our harddrives :) Galahad is one such person. Thank you! AGA_VOY.LHA on AmiNet. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Razor 1911 [new] (RZR, 1993-1996) --------------------------------- SWE> Deelite (music, ex Infinity, triplememb Balance [details] and Sunshine Productions, later Subspace, new 12/93-04/94), Diesel8 (Mats Johansson, mainorg gfx, ex Infinity, new 12/93-10/95), Hammer (code, 03/94-10/95), Limbo (swap, ex Noxious, 03-06/94), Lionheart (swap, 06/94), Lizardking (Gustaf Grefberg, founder music, ex The Silents, doublememb Triton [pc], later Subspace, new 12/93-10/95), Oden (swap), Odeon (founder code, ex Phenomena, 03-04/94), Prime (music, 12/93), Psionic (code, 08/94-10/95), Saturn (swap, 94), Some1 (music, later C-Lous, 12/93- 12/94). DEN> Pearl (swap, 94), The Pride (Palle, swap, ex Movement, -notmembanymore-). NOR> Raxor (ex Kefrens new). GER> Schwabenpower (sysop 'SNAKEBITE' EHQ, later Hoodlum, 04/93). ???> D-Design (gfx music, 08/94-10/95), Factor (code, 08/94), Phantom (gfx, 08/94), Subra (ex Equinox). The new Razor 1911 was the source of some controversy when it was formed by Colorbird/Illusion, Lizardking and Tony/The Silents and Odoen/Phenomena in late 1993. Their only claim to the name of the old heroes was that Colorbird was once a member... The real Razor had moved to the PC, and wanted the Amiga side to die with their passing. Still, the debate toned down after a while. Famous musician Lizardking is also a member of Triton Technologies on PC, and has released several CD's. Swedish graphician PGL was never a member, this was a misunderstanding. 1994 - Swedish supposed coder Boki joined in february, and was kicked in april because he was found to be a liar. He claimed he was working on a great demo, but in reality hadn't made anything at all. Norwegian duo Jason (music) and Joachim (gfx) (both ex Lemon.) were kicked because of too little contact with the rest of the group after a relatively short while, in the early parts of the year. Swedish coder Exidor (ex Infect or Medicine...) joined in april, but unfortunately left the scene soon after. Swedish coder Calypso (03/94) was kicked in may, since he promised to start coding "Memorial Songs 2", but never did. It was eventually coded by Psionic instead. Swedish sysop Fazer ('FLATLINE', 03/94) left due to a harddisk crash. An official newsfile on the Propaganda disk said he joined Delight with his board, while inside the mag itself, it said he joined Millennium. Since the news in the text file seemed a little more up to date than the stuff in the mag, I choose to believe the file. Danes Chorus (music), Sid (music) and Condor (swap, all ex Majic 12, 12/93) joined Jewels in the middle of the year. Chorus and Sid made the great soundtrack to the "We Shave Ass" [03/94] demo! Danish swapper Roscoe (ex Equinox) left mid 94, and joined Bomb! later in the year. The danish ex-Lemon.'ers Futuremind (code), Papillion (code) and Dr.Gyble (trace) were also kicked around mid 94. Slash was allowed to join as a swapper after most of the danish division left, taking two swappers with them (Roscoe and Condor). However, three weeks later The Pride was recruited, and they no longer needed Slash, so he was subsequently kicked also =( Finnish swapper and trader John Peel (ex Angels new) joined Desire. 1995 - Propaganda #5 was supposed to be released at the Virtual Conspiracy party at the end of february, with new code by Hammer. Due to several circumstances, including a hard disk crash that took parts of the code to hell, the issue was never released and issue #4 became the final one ever released. Some of the articles to be released in the mag were donated by Diesel8 to other mags, like RAW, ROM and Upstream. Young swedish graphician Tony (ex The Silents, new 12/93), one of the founders of the new Razor 1911, made his last scene graphics in "Memorial Songs 2" (01/95). He was subsequently appointed to a fulltime position making graphics for Team 17 in the UK. Swedish coder and editor of 'Propaganda', Colorbird (Johan Andersson) was kicked out between april and may. The rest of the group felt he was becoming increasingly intolerable and arrogant after he moved to Oslo to start working for FunCom in april. He was one of the founders of the new Razor 1911. Diesel8 became the new main organizer. 1996 - Since releasing their final demo "Dalahorse" [10/95] late last year, activities pretty much ceased in Razor 1911, and we can safely declare them a dead group sometime in 1996. We Shave Ass (1994, 05.03, ECS 1MB File). code: Colorbird, Hammer, Odeon, gfx: Diesel, Tony (picture), music: "Killing Floor2.1" by Chorus & Sid (main), "Dawning" by Deelite (end). review: Tempo is the keyword for this demo. The uptempo rock'n'roll tune fits perfectly with the mood of the demo, which consistently throws some new effect at you. The audio-visuals are great here, with Diesel's graphics a highlight. Tony's graphical contribution is just one picture of a big, smiling face. The code is another matter though. It doesn't totally suck, it just fails to really come alive. There aren't any real 'wow' effects here, so to speak. Still, the coders are the ones that have put the graphics and music together into such an enjoyable package, I guess I can forgive that. Not bad at all. To access the hidden part, hold down the 'l'eft mouse button before the 'l' starts rotating in the beginning. The demo requires 1MB total memory. The text file mentions it may not work on 2.0 machines with only 1mb, but it worked fine on my A500 setup, provided I ran the add21k program prior to the demo. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Quite Unusual (1994, 03.04, AGA File). code: Colorbird, gfx: Danny/Spaceballs (title), Diesel (font), music: "L.K's Doskpop" by Lizardking (ProTracker MOD format). 6th in The Gathering 94 demo competition. review: Though not much of a 'demo', I guess this animation is perhaps worth getting for the music. You see, all that this small production encompasses is a big, B&W raytraced animation of a cityscape and a boat in the water outside of the city. So we travel around and around these skyscrapers, endlessly... and that's it. I think they could have done without this kind of 'demo' really. Still, the music's not bad. Will run on an unexpanded A1200. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Chaosmaze (1994, 03.04, ECS 40k Intro). code: Odeon, Hammer, gfx: Diesel, music: "No Limitations" by Deelite (ProTracker MOD format). 7th in The Gathering 94 40k intro competition. review: Short but sweet, Chaosmaze takes a new approach to the Doom routine with some shading instead of real pixeled textures. The shading looks VERY similar to what Skull/Virtual Dreams did for his trackmo "242" [08/93]...and this intro contains (in the file) the text 'Tanks for the enlightining Dr Skull' (yep, that _IS_ misspelt like that!). I guess this was certainly impressive back in 1994. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Propaganda #4 (1994, 05.06, ECS Multifile diskmag). code: Colorbird, Hammer, gfx: Danny/Spaceballs (loadpicture), Diesel (panel), music: Deelite, editors: Colorbird, Diesel. review: No intro this time, so it's straight into the mag. The loader picture by Danny is a green, topless nymph seen from the side, with letters forming the word PROPAGANDA down the left side. The mag has been totally recoded since issue #3, and the new code sports a UNIQUE feature - a sort of limited hypertext clone, where you click your way to the article you want! Unfortunately, not enough is made of this feature, which could have been a killer. Design is the point where Propaganda fails most miserably. There's not really any one thing to put your finger on, it's more the inadquate FEELING it leaves you with. Also, most performances here are below par, from the dreadful panel graphics to Deelite's music. Sorry. This was to be the last ever issue of Propaganda. It multitasks, though in an unstandard sort of way. Mind you, I'm writing this with the mag in the background! =) [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Falu Red Color (1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Psionic, gfx: D-Design, music: Lizardking. 2nd in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. Sourcemetery (1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro). code: Factor, gfx: Diesel, Phantom (logo), music: "Brilliance.chip" by Some1 (Tracker Packer 3 format). 6th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition. review: A very good, polished 40k intro is this. The music is a funky little thing that sounds everything but chippy. There are also a few very nice routines here, with some texturemapping and a very nice effect with LOTS of dotballs bouncing around. Very very nice. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 4mb fast/1.3^2.04. Falu Red Color II. beta (1994, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro) code: Psionic, gfx: D-Design, music: "Shivan Dragon" by Lizardking (Tracker Packer 3 format). 16th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: Early attempts at shading here, with a not-too-good-looking 4x4 routine with spacecutting. It's used twice, once for spacecutting three objects and once for showing a revolving face that unfortunately ends up looking quite comical. There's also two (blocky!) pictures by D- Design...and that's it. It's small, not particularly sweet, and very forgettable. AGA? We're not sure. Please note that there are two versions in circulation, crunched with different crunchers (StoneCracker and PowerPacker, I believe). This had me mightily confused, since the filesizes were different. However, de- packed they're exactly the same. [glenn]  GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04. Note: Appears to run, but no graphics are ever displayed. It probably uses AGA-specific graphics registers. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. I Shot Kurt Cobain (1994, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). code: Colorbird, gfx: Pgl/Gods, Diesel (font), music: "Naeh!" by Some1 (ProTracker MOD format). Split 19th in The Party 4 40k intro competition. review: A 'one-routine-intro', this small prod showcases Colorbird's blocky 4x4 doom routine without ceilings or floors. It's an early attempt at doom, but I can't see this impressing anyone, even back then. The Doom part can be paused with the RMB, but the upscroller that ends it can't... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Memorial Songs II (1995, .01, AGA Multifile Musicdisk, 2 disks). code: Psionic, gfx: Tony, Diesel(8) (additional), music: Lizardking. review: This musicdisk is a gift for the eyes, with LOTS of great graphics by Tony and Diesel. There's pictures everywhere! Lizardking's music can't be faulted, and the coding does its job reasonably well. Another good thing about this disk is the fact that it's fully multitasking, so you can flip screens with Amiga-M just like with any other program. I love being able to write a review while having the thing in the background! This is wholly recommended. The tunes on this musicdisk are: Memorial Theme, Longstabben, Weird Personalities (also in R.O.M #1), Orhtanc (also in Oepir Risti #2), Sunshine Dance, Physiology Theme, My Little Oliphant, Thematic Hymn, Magic Nights (3rd at TP93), Compulsion To Obey (winner Assembly 94!), and Water Below (also in Upstream #8). There are also two additional hidden tunes accessed by clicking certain parts of the panel. One button is at the top right of the panel, and the other is below the addresses button, at the very bottom. The disk can be run straight off the harddisk with no assigns, or from floppy if so is desired. The original MEMORIAL SONGS was released in 1993, when Lizardking was a member of Alcatraz. I'm guessing at the release date; it's based on them calling it a delayed christmas present in one of the scrollers. This was probably Tony's final scene appearance, since he was employed at Team 17, making graphics for games. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Dalahorse (1995, 08.10, AGA 2MB Multifile, 4 disks). code: Hammer, Psionic, gfx: D-Design, Diesel8, music: Lizardking & D-Design, Lizardking & Mantronix. Winner of the Party Remedy 1995 demo competition! review: There's one very good thing and one very bad thing about Dalahorse. The good thing is undoutedly the music. Lizardking and D-Design deliver a stonking techno tune as the main soundtrack, one of those pieces of music that can lift a demo all on it own...almost. The bad thing is its speed. Even on my 030-50 it snails along, never quite managing to keep the update rate up. Despite some innovation, this is what brings this demo down. You can't help thinking they should have spent some more time on these routines. Also known as 'Falukorv'. I belive, from the way the files are set up, that this would run quite happily from disk. Anyone? [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Reaktor ------- N-Z> Pseudosoft (swap, late90). 1990 - Lots of English people left the group in october; Mystik (gfx), Dan (code gfx) and Kris (code) joined Anarchy, Executioner joined Prophecy. Real Destruction (1993-) ------------------------ RD is a Polish group. Be Quite (1993, ECS Musicdisk). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: RDST, Joker, Union, Suspect. info: Their first production. Controlled via a CDPlayer design. Reality [old] ------------- N-Z> Bad Grafix (swap, 92), Bad Party (swap, 92), Myth (swap, 92), Poison (swap, 92). AUS> Falcon (Swap, 92). 1992 - In a news item in Pure Metal Coders and New Wave's diskmag "R.A.W #2" [02/92], it was revealed by previous members of the group that Shayde was a code ripper, and that his demo "Kiwi Crap" contained code from a.o. The Silents' "Global Trash" [04/91] and Alliance Design/Quartex' "Substance" [04/91]. Reality [new] (RLY) ------------------- N-L> Dope (Joost Brugman, code, ex Spaceballs, new 01/96), Tycoon (code, 04/96). ???> Elliott (gfx, 04/96), Mad (gfx, 98), Rovrot (code, 98), SuperFML (music, 98), The Fox II (music, 12/94-04/96). Boards; THE SOUTHERN TRIBE (hol, 04/96). One Finger (1996, 07.04, AGA HD Multifile). code: Tycoon, gfx: Elliott, music: The Fox II. 5th in the Symposium 96 demo competition. review: There are *NO* pixeled graphics in this demo, just digitized video of people dancing and model trains running around a track. Obviously a piss-take on Spaceballs' "Nine Fingers", this would have been a lot better if it were shorter. As it is, the novelty soon wears off. Still, fun. Works on standard A1200. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Infinity! (1998, 64k Intro). code: Rovrot, gfx: Mad, music: SuperFML. review: Jeez, what is this shit? Words can not adequately describe how bad this intro is... You people need to get a serious trip to palette school...and you also need to learn that this is 1998, and goraud just doesn't cut it anymore! Avoid avoid avoid. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. Reason (RSN) ------------ CZE> Lahve (Radek Hrdlicka, swap pack 'Sabotage', 04/01). Reason is a Czech group under the leadership of Lahve. The group is most known for Lahve's swappack "Sabotage". Sabotage #1 (2000, 23.04, Mag). Rebels [old] (RBS, 1989-1993) ----------------------------- DEN> Alien (03-06/89), Assassinater (gfx, 06/89), Benefit (new 06/90), BJ (founder, 02/89), Codex (founder, 02/89), Jake (Jacob Schultz, founder mainorg trade pack, 02/89-12/92), Jason (founder, 02-03/89), Joz (founder, 02/89), Malcolm X (Martin Bresson, sysop 'REBEL'S HIDEOUT', new 91-12/92), Newton (Morten Rasmussen, code gfx, old handle McFreak Newton, early 90-12/92), Obx (founder, 02/89), Ozone (Michael Hoffenzets, code, 07/90-12/92), Pacman (code trade, later Rebels new, 12/91-12/92), Paleface (code), Phalcon (new RAW4), Sundance (code, 07/90), Taus (code, 08/89), Thrasher (founder, 02/89), Uzi (ex Seen/Kefrens, new 90), Vandal (Kaspar Roth, founder code, 02/89-12/92), Whispers (trade), Xod (founder gfx, later Rebels new, 02/89-12/92), Yoyo (founder music, later Rebels new, 02/89-12/92), Zonix (code, new 04-06/89). SWE> Acro (Tobias Lövgren, code, 12/91-12/92), Bratz (Robert Melander, gfx, ex Noxious, 12/92), Laric (sysop 'VIOLENT PLAYGROUND' EHQ previously 'THE REBELLION', old handle Mike, 12/91-02/92), Mogwie (Johan Köhler, code, re from The Silents, 02/90-12/92), Oliver (Henrik Ingeshög, code gfx, 03/92), Rizzo (gfx, 02/90), Vic (Viktor Edholm, gfx, 02/90-12/92), Zaxxan (Robert Hed, modemorg trade, ex Mute 101, 12/91-12/92). FIN> Block (Kari Huttunen, gfx, 12/92), Hansie (Hannu Namu Saunalouma, gfx, 12/92), The Kid (gfx), Zunga (code). GER> Bruno (Carsten, sysop 'SWAPPERS DELIGHT', 91-12/92), Elvin (org sysop 'MASTER AND SERVANT', later Rebels new, 10/91-12/92), Hotstar (trade sysop 'THE NEW STATION', ex Cult). BEL> Brainkiller (code, ex Angels, 12/92), Vinny (Claude Verstraeten, code, ex Angels, 12/92). FRA> Abbas (code), Anex (gfx), Frank (trade sysop 'ARTIFICIAL DREAMS' BUSTED! RAW3 but boardlist claimed sysop was Rhod), Ideal (trade, 12/92), Matrix (music), Scud (Thomas Venon, org code trade, 12/92- early93), Sword (Oscar Garcia, trade, 12/92), Tdc (code, ex Delight, new late91). - Info: Rebels FRA was rebuilt by Reflex and Abbas, and consists of Abbas, Anex, Ideal, Reflex and Sword. Therefore, the other guys must have been kicked/left. The French section released the demo "Outland". Reflex later left, and joined Movement. ENG> Adec (swap, 12/90), John (John Lomax, gfx, 12/92), Lynx (gfx), Rage (trade), Spellcaster (swap, ex System 5, new late90). ITA> Batblster (sysop 'MUSICAL PHARMACY'), Seven M (trade). USA> Analog Kid (Rick, sysop 'WILDSIDE' WHQ, 12/92), Missile Man (sysop 'DEFCON 5', 12/92), Saint (trade), Vortex (sysop 'EUROPEAN IMPORT SOFTWARE' WHQ aka EIS, old?/later? handle Brandon, 02/92). ???> Elite (06/89), Ghostrider (06/89), Maze (den? code, 03/89), Temet (new 06/89), The Invisible (ex LSD). Boards; PANTEON WHQ (usa), LIGHTSPEED (usa). 1989 - Rebels was formed 10th of February 1989 when the two groups Chaos Cooperation and Roadrunners decided to join forces. Their first production, announcing this, was released two days later at the Bamiga Sector One and The Warfalcons party in Denmark. The original members were (I believe) all Danish. They were; BJ, Codex, Cruncher, Droopy, Jake Up, Jason, Joz, Obx, Raz, Static, Thrasher, Vandal, XOD and Yoyo. Cruncher (den, Rasmus Hartmann) suddenly sold his Amiga and left the scene 08/89, only six months after he helped found Rebels. Danish coder Proxt left for Panzerfaust (now Cave). 1990 - Jake released issues of his pack "Candyland", and Nick & Zaxxan released issues of their pack "Sweetest Perfection". Australian members The Teacher and The Corporal left for Scoopex. Swedes Alta (code), Fuzzac (code, 02/90), Marillion (music, 02/90) and Mogwie (code) all joined The Silents, but Mogwie later rejoined. 1991 - The Austrian division got kicked around easter 1991. Krest (ex Cryolite/Flash UK) joined the group around june, and the intro "Rebel Without A Cause" introduced him to the group. Nick & Zaxxan released issues of their pack "Sweetest Perfection". Labyrinth was kicked out, so he joined TRSI late 91. 1992 - French coder Dca (ex Delight, new late91) joined Anarchy around january. Early in the year they were reinforced with the Germans Chaos, Diddle, Zaphod, 16 Beat, Jester, Cthulu, Hawk, Cruiser, Vindicator and Panther from Sanity, but their stay was a brief one and they soon returned to try and rebuild their old group. They left behind only one production; the intro "Sanity Is Dead". English sysop Clairvoyant ('FORGOTTEN REALMS', 02/92) joined Dual Crew in march. 1993 - The year started disastrously for Rebels, when january brought on a mass migration to a new group formed almost exclusively of ex-Rebels members; Movement. The group was founded by dutch musician 911 (ex The Silents) and Finnish organizer Meegosh, and soon many key members had moved on to the new group. A.o. Swedish trader Logic (ex Noxious), dutch Astro (ex The Silents), finnish musician Nugget (ex NKOTB), finnish coder Jef (old handle MCD), finnish coder Ruben (old handle Willow), finnish sysop Storm ('WASTED TIME', 07/91-), danish Toastmaster (ex Bacteria, new late92), and Turkish 'Eternal' editors Orion and Kris (ex Accuracy, new mid92). Since Meegosh was the previous world leader (since mid 92), a new one had to be chosen, and Jake took over the reins of the group. In the weeks and months to follow, also Swedish coder Asterix (old handle Alta, 02/90-), Swedish musician Omega (12/91-) and French musician Reflex (ex Delight, new late91-10/91) joined Movement. I don't know what happened in the meantime, but 12/93 Bozo is suddenly the new main organizer! Frenchmen Meta (ex Bass) and Patrick (both early93) both left to reform Bass mid to late 93. Several of the original Danish and Swedish members returned to be members of Rebels again after the group was reborn in 1994. Danes who returned were a.o. Bozo (mainorg trade pack, 12/92-10/93), Conan (code, 03/89-12/91) and Static (music, 03/90). Danish coder, and one of the original founders, Droopy (02-08/89) was mentioned 12/92 as a member of Rebels PC, so he probably went over to that division at one time or the other. -- Raz (founder code gfx music swap, 02-06/89). Q (code). Danish Xience joined Rednex. Danish sysop Stripe ('HIGH TENSION') joined The Silents. Norwegian sysop Raven ('WONDERLAND', 91) got kicked. Danish musician Unison (12/92) was later in Impact DK. Finnish musician Maza (ex Accession, 12/92) joined Sonic. Finnish trader Zakka (ex Spaceballs, 03/93) changed his handle to Black Sheep and joined Alpha Flight. Danish coder Xarium (ex Bacteria, 12/92) and trader Bizarre joined Angels new. German swapper Speedhawk (12/92) changed his handle to Elric and joined Essence. Rogue left for the PC scene. Norwegian graphician Skywalker (12/92) joined Cryptoburners. Danish organizer, swapper and trader Janitor (new 10/90-02/92) joined Kaos Design, the Crack Inc subgroup. Finnish Hoover (ex Brainstorm) left to work commercially. The Swedish division has many internal problems, because mainorg M:ET (trade), Nick (swe mainorg trade, later RBS PC? 12/91), Portwer (Johan Ramsay, trade sysop 'EQUIPOISE', ex Noxious, 12/92), Dragon (sysop 'DRAGON'S LAIR', ex Dual Crew, later RBS PC? 02/92) and Wico (sysop 'INNER CIRCLE', ex Scoopex, 02/92) all left the Amiga scene to start a new PC group called THE EDGE. Frenchmen Skynet and Suny (gfx) joined Anarchy. Danish musician, graphician and one of the founders, Static (02-08/89) joined Paradox, then rejoined 12/90. He then joined The Silents. He later returned once again to take part in the new Rebels when they were reborn in 1994. The entire Swedish division (except M:ET who joined Cascade) joined The Silents. However, many of them has since returned - like M:ET, Alta, Vic. Finnish Heatbeat (music) and Dweezil (code) got kicked. Instead of joining some other crew, the two decided to form Carillon. Hitchcock joined Extreme. Danish Trix (ex Dexion) joined Anarchy in mid 91. However, in RAW3 (quite a lot later!) it was claimed he was simply kicked. Swedish coder Jas joined Phenomena. Dutch trader and musician Mark (ex The Silents, 12/92) joined Banal Projects. Frenchmen Albatros and Hof (gfx, 92) joined Alliance Design. French trader (and sysop 'ARTIFICIAL DREAMS'?) Rhod joined Anarchy. When Kefrens died, R.W.O and S.L.L both joined, but left after 14 days to form Hydronic. In addition, ICronite and Milkshake joined, but immediately moved on to Anarchy. Mini-BBS-Intro (ECS Intro). code: Jef, gfx: Hansie (logo), music: "Intromuz-1" by Heatbeat. review: Another nicely designed Rebels intro, this one's even a cut above the rest of the RBS stuff. Nice, clean design and graphics coupled with a bouncy Heatbeat tune make for some very cool entertainment! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Outland (pre 1992, .07, ECS File). info: Released by the French section. Pirazy (1989 or pre, ECS Demo). code: Proxt, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Small BBS Intro (ECS Intro). code: Newton, gfx: Newton, music: n/a review: Another nicely designed onescreen BBS intro from Rebels. This one has a beautiful plasma effect in the background, over which is overlaid some text detailing a few bbs numbers. A scrolltext at the bottom is also featured. Nice. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Sound & Vision (ECS Musicdisk). Wild Side BBS Intro (ECS Intro). code: Oliver, Ruben, gfx: Color/Phenomena (title), music: Omega. review: Nothing spectacular here, and far from their strongest BBS intro. The show opens with a fullscreen picture, which is the best part, and from then on just plots text onto uninteresting background stuff. This intro announced Mogwie's joining, Analog Kid's joining, and the fact that the French section is NOT dead, despite rumours in some diskmags - among others Stolen Data. A reset is recommended after running this intro, since it made at least my system highly unstable after being run. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA. Vesc (1989?, ECS File). code: Fuzzac, Alta, gfx: Static, music: Marillion. On Wheels of Steel (1989, 12.02, ECS File). Released at the Bamiga Sector 1 and Warfalcons copy party. review: The very first Rebels intro ever, announcing its formation, must surely be one for the history books. No credits appear anywhere in the intro, curiously enough. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Toked Away (1989, 11.04, ECS File). code: Droopy, gfx: n/a, music: Yoyo. Released at the Spectre & Northstar Halloween Part 89. Tragic Magic (1989, 01.05, ECS File). code: Vandal, gfx: Static, Proxt (intro), Vandal (intro), Xod (title), music: "Psychostatic" by Static. review: This intro refuses to work on my system, therefore no review! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: see review. Swimming (1989, 16.06, ECS Intro). code: Zonix, gfx: Assassinater, music: Static. review: Equalizers, coppers and a scroller. Not much to jump around for. Requires the file TEXT in df0: to work, but otherwise no problems. Finished on an internal meeting. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Megademo (1989, 07.08, ECS Megademo). Released at the Digitech - IBB Summer Conference 89...probably :) Sin O`Delic (1989, 07.08, ECS File). code: Droopy, gfx^music: Static. Released at the Digitech - IBB Summer Conference 89. review: This one's a quite simple demo, with the obligatory logo at the top and the obligatory scroller at the bottom :) The scroller's jumping up and down in time to the music, making it hard to read. I'm sorry, but this is uninnovative, boring, and incompetent. Get the picture? The scrolltext of this demo makes me almost believe this was hacked out of Rebels' Megademo...? The release date is assuming it was actually released at the summer conference. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. The Incredible Hulkdemo (1989, 04.09, ECS File). code: Taus, gfx: Xod, music: Static. review: Errr...right. A theme demo of that lovable green cartoon character The Incredible Hulk! Well, it's original if nothing else :) The demo has an animated Rebels logo at the top, a digitized Hulk with some spotlights flying around him, and a scroller on the bottom. OK, not exactly revolutaionary, is it? One thing that amused me quite a bit was the text before the scroller - 'Mess with the best, Die like the rest'. Seems familiar to anyone? Interpol? Taus' first real demo. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. A New Decade (1989/90?, ECS File). Intro (1990?, ECS Intro). code: Droopy, Maze, gfx: Static, music: n/a. Wonderland BBS Intro (1990?, ECS Intro). code^gfx: Newton, music: SLL. Vectory 1990 (1990, ECS File). code: Droopy, gfx^music: Static. Candyland #30 packmenu (1990, OCS Intro). code: Newton, gfx: Newton (logo), music: n/a. review: The menu for Jake's "Candyland" pack is frightfully ordinary, not offering much different from the thousands of other packmenues out there. Just a blue logo, selection in the middle of the screen by mouse, and two scrollers at the very bottom of the screen. Very very ordinary. The module is not in standard MOD format, may be a packer - no poss to check yet. [glenn] GLE tested FEL /000-7 /2mb chip, 1mb fast/... Waterproof (1990, ECS File). code: Conan, Jake, Newton, gfx: Mike, Jake, music: Keo/Fraxion. review: "Waterproof" is a multi-demo demo, if that makes any sense :) What I mean is you load the thing, and you're presented with a small demo part from which you can select three other parts. I only got this to work once on my machine, though I tried numerous times. Therefore credits are only an approximation based on the information I could retrieve. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review. Vectors 1990 (1990, early, ECS Demo). Megademo II (1990, 17.02, ECS Megademo). code: Asterix, Mogwie, Fuzzac, gfx: Rizzo, Vic, Asterix, music: Marillion. Released at the Kefrens and Dexion Party. Coma (1990, .03, ECS File). code: Vandal, gfx: Vandal, Static, music: Static. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Megablast (1990, 08.03, ECS Musicdisk). code: Conan, Droopy, Maze, gfx: Static, music: Yoyo, Static. Multidemo (1990, .07, ECS Demo). Last Dimension (1990, 05.07, ECS File). code: Sundance, gfx: Xod, music: Yoyo. review: Nice multipart friendship demo. The graphics are functional, and some are even good. Also the tune shows a little potential, but never manages to quite take off. The demo was supposed to be released for the TSL and Red Sector party (which was held 29.06 1990), it says, so it was probably released later then :) Though the demo runs with KillAGA, it is far from perfect. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Total Triple Trouble (1990, 26.12, ECS File). code: Droopy, gfx: n/a, music: Static. Winner of the Dexion Christmas Party 1990 demo competition! info: The soundtrack to this is what made Static legendary... Crystal Symphonies (1991, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk). Cooperation with Phenomena and Scoopex, review under Phenomena.  Import Intro (1991, ECS Intro). code/gfx: Newton, music: "Fireworks" by Mantronix/M.O.N. info: Originally an import intro on Decay's "Simpsons" demo disk. GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. The Hideout Thing (1991, ECS Intro). code: Newton, gfx: Newton, Krest (ice font), music: Tip/Phenomena. review: This cool little intro was made to announce their new BBS 'REBELS' HIDEOUT'. As far as BBS intros go, this is not half bad, with some plasma-like effect and some cool vectors. Though the demo works perfectly fine on the 030, it's _WAY_ too fast. Also the music replayer seems to choke on the extra horsepower, so KillAGA is hereby recommended even though it's not essential. Why this small 50k intro doesn't have an exit is beyond me. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb cip, 4mb fast/3.0. Snap! (1991, ECS File). code: Willow, gfx: The Kid, music: "Day By Day" by Heatbeat. Review: The then-new Finnish division's first production is a fun little demo, rather good for its time...and Heatbeat is Heatbeat. Day By Day was the first Heatbeat tune I ever remember hearing, and placed him firmly in my mind as a talent for the future...and he did not let anyone of us down! [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Just Add Water (1991, ECS Intro). code: Jef, gfx: Namu, Hansie, music: "Bubblegum" by Heatbeat. review: Just a one-screen intro from the Finnish division. It contains no release date, but must be somewhere between Snap! (that division's first production) and Heatbeat getting kicked. Anyway, nothing special - just a vector variation and a scroller. Nicely put together, though. Also known as "Instant Intro". [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/3.0. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA or OCS. Det Kniber (1991, 28.04, ECS File). code: Icronite, gfx: Milkshake, music: Static. Released at the Amiga Convention Summit. Our Definition of a BoomBastic Style (1991, 30.03, ECS Demo). 5th in the Anarchy Easter Party 91 demo competition. Introduction to Seduction (1991, 11.05, ECS File). code: Dweezil, gfx: Corwin, music: Heatbeat. Winner of the Turtle Party 91 demo competition! Rebel Without A Cause (1991, .06?, ECS Intro). code: Paleface, gfx: Seen/Alliance Design, Krest (title, ice font), music: "Test1" by Yoyo. review: With an unusually high amount of effects for a BBS intro, this one kicks off with a respectable picture by new member Krest, based on the title picture of an old game called 'Baal'. Then there are effects, a text plotter and even a sinus scroll! Though the intro works best with KillAGA, a few effects still have (non-fatal) graphical errors. The intro destabilized my system after exiting, so a reboot is definitely recommended after seeing this intro. Paleface and Seen were later the two people behind the runaway success group Melon Dezign. This intro seems to introduce new member Krest, as well as calling PANTEON 'our new world headquarter'. No release date appears anywhere in the demo, but based on news in LSD's "Grapevine #1" [06/91] that Krest had now joined Rebels, the above date is a rough guess. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA. ECES Slideshow (1991, 15.06, ECS Slideshow). Released at (after?) the ECES Party '91. Blue House 2 (1991, 28.12, ECS File). code: Asterix, gfx: Havok, Pucko, Hansie, music: Tip, Mantronix. Released at The Party 91. Aars Intro (1991, 28.12, ECS Intro). code: Newton, gfx: Newton, music: n/a review: Another onescreener this, with a scroller on top, an acceptable logo down the right side and a filled vector object in the middle. Trust me, it's not as bad as it sounds. Design is pretty much as good as it gets for this kind of thing. Music is a chiptune, though quite a dynamic, good little number. This is likely the same intro aka "Glenz". [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Claude's Runner (1991/2?, ECS File). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Music" by Heatbeat. Review: This one's a bit curious... It's just a cartoon picture and a tune. In the picture you can see the following text: 'Claude's Runner. Call Belgium at +32-91334268' and 'A Rebels Product'. Probably a BBS intro of some kind, but it's still a bit weird... Anyway, get it for the tune, which is classic vintage Heatbeat...beautiful melancholy! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. 99 Boxes (1992, ECS Intro). code: Ruben, gfx: Nugget, music: "Masturbation-92" by Nugget. review: A small intro, but with tons of style, this one is mainly based on its animated background, with a lot of small filled vectorboxes and some other moving stuff. Fonts and design are perfectly fine, making this a competent little package. Just the way I like my BBS intros: Short, sweet and to the point! [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Swedish Top 30 #5 (1992, ECS Filechart). code: Mogwie, gfx: Hof, Bratz, music: "Love the 7th Wave" by Omega. review: This one opens in style, with a fullscreen picture by Hof, showing a semi-naked woman and a cool Rebels logo! The chart system itself is perhaps not the best ever seen, but still nice visuals and audials certainly help the production along. The charts concern the modem scene only, and are of stuff like 'best uploaders'. There's no indication of when it was released other than the tune, which says it's from 1992. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA. Sanity Is Dead (1992, early, ECS Demo). code: Chaos, gfx: n/a, music: "Stagebox" by Jester. review: The only production the ex-Sanity members ever made for Rebels... A remix of the tune "Stagebox" can be found on Jester's musicdisk "Jesterday" for Sanity. Swedish Top 30 #? (1992, 01.03, ECS Filechart) code: Oliver, gfx: Pucko/?, Krest/Anarchy (font), music: Omega, editors: Mike, Burkman. review: This won't run on my machine, so obviously it's hard for me to make a proper review :) Too bad they didn't mention what issue this is in any of the text...perhaps it's in a graphic display? [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review! 3 Day Hell (1991-late92, ECS Intro). code: Ruben, gfx: Block (logo), Nugget (font), music: "Highspeed" by Nugget. review: I can't really judge this fairly, as I have never actually watched it. The intro WORKS, as such, but the graphics are all scrambled up - even with KillAGA. There is a nice opening logo we get to see, tho'. No release date appears anywhere in the intro, so the VERY general release date is based on some known facts; the Finnish division's first production was "Snap" (91). Ruben and Nugget were in their new group Movement early 93, so it had to be made somewhere between those two dates. The name of the intro refers to the three days spent making it. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review. Assembly '92 Partyinfo-Intro (1992, after 25.04, ECS Intro). code: Jef, gfx: Hansie, music: "Turritune.Tixtune5" by Reflex. review: Another one-screen intro, this... It's got a vector cube with a moving lightsource and a realtime-rendering fractal on it as the main effect. On top of this there's a one-plane font with various information about the Assembly'92 party. The module was dated 25.04, so obviously this intro was released on or after that date. [glenn]  GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Intro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Jef, Asterix, gfx: John, music: Maza. 6th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. Rebels [new] (RBS, 1994-, http://www.uib.no/people/oodkr/Rebels/index.htm). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEN> AC (Rene Olsen, code, new mid/96-02/97), Bakerman (Kasper Hartwich, sysop 'TRADE CENTRAL', 02/97), Conan & Newton (Niclas Clarke & Morten Rasmussen, coders, both doublemembs Kingdom, 03/94-02/97), Fresh Prince (Daniel Povlsen, code, new 12/94-02/97), Kefner (Thomas, code, new mid96-02/97), Pac-Man (Rasmus Hartman, trade, 03-11/94), Silicon (Mads Abildgaard, gfx, ex Passion, new ROM9-02/97), Wire (Jacob Sylvest, raytrace, new mid96-02/97), Yobbo (Per Fredberg, sysop 'THE LARCH' WHQ, ex Angels new, new 02/94-03/96). SWE> Eracore (Erland Körner, gfx, doublememb Suburban Base, 10/94- 05/97), Klorathy (code music, ex Ram Jam, new early97), Krustur (code, ex Ram Jam, new early-05/97), Logic (Hakan Jonsson, org trade pack, 10/95-01/96), Loop (gfx, ex Ram Jam, new early97), Morris (Kristian, gfx, 01/96-02/97), Morrow (Carl-Johan (Calle) Naes, gfx music, ex C- Lous, new 05-10/94, re 08/97), Pace (Roger Andersson, swap, new 05/94), Payday (swap sysop, ex Ram Jam, new early97), Princip (Peter, sysop 'INTERCHANGE', ex Delirium, 10/94-01/95), Some1 (music, ex C-Lous, new 08/97), Swoop (Erik Sundberg, org music swap trade, ex Byte Busters, old handle Zaddo, 03/94-02/97). NOR> Ambient (Stefan Svellingen, code, old handle CyberState, new 03/96- 02/97), Archangel (music sysop 'WHITE ROOM STUDIOS', triplememb Puzzle and TRSI [details], 01-09/96), Jerry (Stig Rune Frydenlund, www music editor sysop 'ARTCORE' earlier 'SOUND OF NOISE', new 03/96-08/97), Jerry Dee (Jarle Berntsen, gfx, 01/96), Lord Mindless (code, 01/96), Nirvana (Torgrim Nærstad, gfx, mid96-02/97), Speed Devil (ascii swap, ex Looker House, new late97/early98), Timmy (Anders Ormehaug, music, new mid96-02/97). TUR> Bloody (swap editor swap, 09-11/94), Kris (Alpaslan Deveci, code gfx editor, 09/94-05/97). ENG> Darkus (Darkus (Lee Harwood, ex Digital, doublememb Network, new 98). GER> Chromag (Timm Albers, music, later Essence, 04-12/94, re 09/96), Elvin (Andreas Jaeger, org sysop 'MASTER AND SERVANT', later Quartex, 09/94-95), Melvin (Klaus-Wilhelm Horstmann, org swap trade, 04-11/94), Slash (Nico Rittner, code, 04-11/94), Teevan aka T'Vaan (Robert Salzmer, gfx, 10-12/94). ???> Demon (gfx, 10/94), Lionheart (swap), Pitch (modem), SRL (gfx, 10/94). Rebels was once a major force on the demo scene, but activity has decreased somewhat in later years. They now seem to be on their way back, though, with some activity evident from coder Krustur and musician Jerry. ROM4 reported rumours that german graphician TeeVaan had left the scene in order to produce game graphics. 1994 - Shortly after being reformed, the German section released their first demo, "Prurient" [94]. It was quickly followed by the winner of the Doomsday party, "Switchback" [10/94], and the Rebels seemed to be back on track! The finished the year at the party with "Whammer Slammer" [12/94], the third demo in a row by german duo Zulu and Grey. Sometime between 04 and 05/94, swedish sysop Dracula ('TRANSYLVANIA', 03/94-) left the group. Bozo became mainorg. Sometime between 05 and 10/94, germans Siriax (Dennis Lewerenz, trade sysop 'CRAP TOWER', new 04/94-), Toxic (Sven Dedek, gfx, later Abyss, new 05/94-) and Dynamite (Sirko Zidlewitz, music, 04/94-), as well as danes Angel (trade, 03/94-), D-Siya (modemorg trade, 03/94-), Ice Lord (Mikael, gfx, 03/94-), Janitor (trade, 03/94-), Static (Anders Bukh, music, 03/94-), Strike (Jesper Knudsen, trade, 03/94-), Xod (Morton Plass, gfx, still in the pc section? 03/94-) and Yoyo (Karsten Kiems, music, 03/94-) left the group. Sometime between 09 and 10/94, German sysop MDB (Carsten Lewandowsky, 'LOVE LIKE BLOOD') left the group. 1995 - After three strong demo releases in 1994, the new year presented us with total silence! It was also this year that German organizers Exciter (Ingo Kamps) and Weezer decided to leave the scene. Things were further complicated when his replacement, the dane Nighthawk (Steffen Karstoft, gfx, ex Majic 12, 03/94-) also decided to leave the scene in August, after moving over to England to study! His replacement - in turn - would be the swede Swoop, hopefully a more permanent solution. Swedish graphician Slime (Ola Wiklander, 09/94-12/95) left the scene towards the end of the year, after his computer died. Danish cofounder and earlier main organizer Bozo (Flemming Ljungdahl, 02/94-) also sadly decided to leave the scene towards the end of the year. 1996 - The year started tragically, as a lightning bolt took out Twister's board 'FLASHBACK' in january. After some consideration, Twister (Anders Lindquist) and fellow swede graphician Disc (Mats Erikson, ex Tetragon or Equinox, 95-) were asked to leave the group. Around the same time Norwegian sysop Jedi (Hans Petter Andersen, ex Puzzle) decided to leave the Amiga scene for his career in a pc cracking group. March saw the recruitment of CyberState and Jerry in Norway. We wouldn't see a new Rebels production until after the middle of the year, when their new danish recruitment Fresh Prince secured them a winning 64k intro at the South Sealand Party. The only other release this year was the norwegian section's "Chip Nostalgia". In august, danish musician Vocal (Andre Greve, 03/94-) was kicked, after he bought a pc, and no contact had been made in months. Swoop continued to lead the group throughout the year. 1997 - Early this year, swedes Klorathy (code music), Krustur (code), Loop (gfx) and Payday (swap sys) all joined from Ram Jam, following an internal fight in that group. Danish graphician, musician and also eventually sysop Bird (new 01/96-) joined Scoopex in april to work with his friend Boogeyman. For a while in 96, Bird also ran the board 'ELEKTRIK CAFE'. Swedish coder Lussar'n (ex Medicine, new early94-) left Rebels after about a year of scene inactivity and joined Craze late 96. Red Cheese joined Passion late 95. Germans Zulu and Grey (code, ex DCS, new 94-95), Excess (raytrace, 04/94- 95) and Cueball (code raytrace, 04/94-95) all left for Essence (ROM5). Zulu & Grey came 3rd in the music competition at The Party 1994 with "A Kind of Love", but actually, they didn't compose the tune at all, it was just delivered by them for their friend Chromag, who couldn't attend :) German swapper Ghandy (09-10/94) joined Bonzai Brothers (ROM4). Danish coder Ozone (03-10/94) is now only in the PC division (ROM3). German musician Mel'o'Dee (Heiko Klueh, 09-10/94) was asked to leave along with the others in the cleanup specified below. After that, he chose to leave the scene. He is now composing music professionally, trying to earn some money that way. A major clean-up was performed, reducing the amount of members from 40 to 25. Among the people that had to leave were Mr.Magoo (Nicki K. Jensen, den code, old handle Xariun, 03-10/94), Mr.Orion (Kennet Bendixen, den modemorg, new 09-10/94), Weird Dream (Lars Schmidt, den swap trade, ex Angels new, new early94, 02-10/94), Voyager (usa sysop 'FASTRAX', new 09- 10/94), Snow Queen (usa sysop 'FASTRAX', new 09-10/94), Raist (Jakob Termansen, den ascii swap trade, new 09-10/94), Ring Ring (Roland Waterweg, hol modem, new 10/94), Smoke (Bruno Nielsen, den gfx, 03/94-), Raven and Morrow (ROM3^UPS10). Musician Morrow was later in C-Lous, before rejoining with Some1 in 1997.  Prurient (1994, ECS File). code: Zulu, Grey (additional), gfx: Smoke, music: Chromag. Try out the mouse and joystick during the cubeworld! GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Switchback (1994, 09.10, AGA Multifile, 2 disks). code: Zulu & Grey, gfx: Kris, Teevan, Slime, Excess (raytrace), Demon (additional), Eracore (additional), Grey (additional), SRL (additional), music: Chromag, Vocal. Winner of the Doomsday Party '94! info: The version released at the party required a 030 processor. A new version, v1.2, was later released that was fully 020 compatible. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Whammer Slammer (1994, 28.12, AGA Multifile, 3 disks). code: Zulu & Grey, Newton (additional), gfx: Cueball, Eracore, Slime, Teevan, Excess (raytrace), music: Chromag, Vocal. 5th at The Party 94 demo compo. info: Works on standard A1200, no fast needed. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Chip Nostalgia (1996, Chipmusicpack). info: Produced by the Norwegian section, with music by Archangel and Jerry. 64k (1996, 06.07, 020+ 4MB Intro). code: Fresh Prince, gfx: Eracore, music: Slide. Winner of the South Sealand Party 96 intro competition! review: There's a lot of shading and mapping here, but not much else. There's phong, bump, texture, env... How about something new, people? At least it's competently put together. The accompanying text file mentions it needs 020+ and 4MB of fastmem, but makes no mention of AGA or ECS... But if it needed AGA there would be no point in demanding 020+ now would there? [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Marlboromatic (1997, 22.05, AGA Musicfile). code: Krustur, gfx: Kris, Eracore (additional), music: Jerry. info: Chippack with Jerry-tunes from the past year. Paranoid (1997, .06, AGA demo). Winner of the Remedy '97 demo competition! Recline ------- GER> Phantomas (sysop 'DREAM WARRIOR'). SWE> Paralysis (sysop 'PARANOIA', ex Vertigo). USA> Dr.Feelgood (sysop 'OVERDOSE', ex Alpha Flight), Robin Hood (sysop 'SHERWOOD FOREST'), Toxicman (sysop 'APOCALYPSE'). Recline is dead. 1991 - Ceel changed his name to Big Mac and joined Strangers around the middle of the year. Ace Alien left. Irion left the scene. Nop, Rob and Floyd was kicked. Red Chrome (RCR, 1991-1993, http://www.avaruusmies.com/red-chrome) ------------------------------------------------------------------ FIN> Maverick (code), Great J (Jani, code), Dizzy (music), Excelsior (music), Deadlock (code swap). Red Chrome was a Finnish demo group. They created some demos primarily for their own amusement, and never participated in a single competition. Thanks a lot to Great J, who wrote this for us :) 1993 - Dizzy contributed music to EMT Design's demo "Heliopolis" [09/93] in september. Unanswered Questions (1992, .01, ECS Musicdisk) code: Maverick and Great J, gfx: Great J, music: Excelsior Released under the name Madmixers. Hidden Virtue (1992, 30.07, ECS Intro) code: Maverick and Great J, gfx: Great J, music: Dr. Awesome/Crusaders It's Simple Logic, Mr. Spock! (1993, 23.04, ECS Intro) code: Maverick and Great J, gfx: Dizzy, music: Dizzy Vertex (1993, 14.08, ECS Demo) code: Maverick and Great J, gfx: none, music: Dizzy Released at Assembly 93. Redline (RDL) ------------- FRA> Jura (Julien Ruzzene, swap). Red Rose -------- SWE> The Black Mage (swap), Warlock (swap). Red Sector Inc. (RSI, 1985-1990) -------------------------------- GER> Dark (gfx, 02/90), Delta (Florian Schroecker, code gfx, 09/89- 03/90), Dr.Beat (code, 09/89), Dr.C (Holger Kruse, code gfx, 09/89- 03/90), Evil (swap, 09/89), Mr.Zeropage (code crack), Romeo Knight (music, 09/89-02/90), SCS (music, 09/89), TCC (Darius Moharreg- Khiabani, code gfx, 09/89-02/90). DEN> Caucasian (ex Technobob), Metal Force (ex Technobob), Pendec (ex Technobob). FRA> Doctor Soft (11/88-02/90). ENG> Hawk (spread, 10/89-02/90). USA> The Phantom (sysop 'THE PHANTOM GUILDE', 02/90). ???> Chainsaw Hacker (imports fixes, 02/90), Commie Hunter (02/90), Dag (new 87-02/90), Dennis (02/90), Exec (ger? code crack, 06/88-09/89), General Zoff (02/90), John Player (02/90), Marc (02/90), Mr.Cursor (02/90), Negative Polarity (02/90), Onyx (ger? code, ex Vision Factory, new 02/90), PBA (new 87-02/90), Skull (02/90), Target (new ca 07/90), Traxx (02/90), Zenith (02/90). Boards; XEROMAX BBS (usa, 02/90), WESTPOINT (ger, 09/90). Red Sector was born in the spring of 1985, when Bill Best, Kangol Kid and Greg decide to join forces under this label. At this time, the group's members were spread over America and Canada. Towards the end of 1985 Irata and Mr.Zeropage formed the European section. Irata became the group's main trader. Red Sector ran the first ever Canadian bulletin board. All this was on the C64, but when the Amiga 1000 appeared in 1986, PBA, MZP, Bill Best, Irata and ECA all bought one. The first Red Sector intro on the Amiga was released in early 1987, and was coded by HQC. Twilight coded the second RSI intro, with music by the father of SoundTracker, Karsten Obarski. In 1987, RSI entered into their first cooperation, with Def Jam. It was not only their first cooperation, but the first ever cooperation on the Amiga! However, it didn't last too long. The C64 section was officially disbanded in 1988, and everyone moved over to the Amiga. Years later, it was restarted by Mr.President, Irata and Mr.Cursor, but that's another story. 1988 was also the year of the first big busts. Irata was, for example, visited by the police in the morning of the 24th of october, but they found only five disks. RSI had hard times, and started to look at other venues for their activities. They recruited TCC as their demo division, and 9 months later their baby was born: the Red Sector "Megademo" [09/89]! This demo took them to the undisputable top of the demoscene, and made legends of its makers. 1988 - Danish musician S.L.L (87) joined Bamiga Sector One. 1990 - As a demo group, you can perhaps talk of RSI pre- and post- "Megademo". 1990 started well, with the successful releases of the mag "Criminal" [02/90] and the demo "CeBit '90" [03/90]. Onyx left Vision Factory since he was frustrated with the internal organizing of the group, and joined in february. Swedish sysop Istvan ('MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE', ex Empire, 09/90) joined Fairlight. Later in the year they would enter into a cooperation with Tristar, the result of which we all know. TRSI was born. Big thanks to an article about TRSI in ROM #4 for massive amounts of source material for this precise history! Please excuse us if this seems like a straight rewrite of your article, Mop. If it's too close to the original text, consider it a tribute rather than a ripoff :) I really couldn't word it better than you. If Dr.C's real name, Holger Kruse, seems familiar it's probably because he's the author of one of the most-used utilities for Amiga InterNet users these days, the TCP/IP stack utility "Miami". German musician Bit Arts (02/90) joined Sanity. He did some of the best tunes for RSI's "Megademo" [09/89], and is probably best remembered for that. German Beatmaster joined End of Century 1999. Something (ECS Intro). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Mournful" by Chris K. review: A rather simple into, but nice nevertheless. It's just a flipping logo at the top, and a sinescroller below. The real aim of this intro is to announce the new Danish members Pendec, Caucasian and Metal Force. It doesn't mention a release date anywhere. The intro will start on my machine, with the help of KillAGA, but has to this day never exited without taking my machine down. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: See review. News On Tour (1989, .08, ECS Filemag). review: Now THIS is what an early, primitive diskmag looked like :) Despite the English title it's all in German, so I didn't have too much reading pleasure here, unfortunately. [glenn] Megademo (1989, 09.09, ECS Megademo, 2 disks). Winner of the Tristar party demo competition! intro - code: n/a, gfx: Dark/Black Monks, Dr.c, Delta, music: Dr.C (sampling). loader - code: Dr.Beat, Delta (additional), gfx: Rat Sign (eddie), Delta, music: Mark II/Quadlite. part 1, heads - code: Dr.Beat, Delta, gfx: Dr.C (heads), Delta (chars), music: "RSI Rise Up" by Romeo Knight. part 2, vector - code: Delta, Dr.Beat (additional), gfx: Delta (chars), music: "RSI-Hard" by Romeo Knight. part 3, worm - code: Delta, gfx: Dr.C (worm), music: Dr.C (sample). part 4, firewo - code: Delta, Dr.Beat (additional), gfx: Scum (chars), music: "ba1" by Bit Arts. change disk - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: none. part 5, circle - code: Delta, gfx: Delta, music: "Disco-Groove" by SCS. part 6, vecbal - code: Delta, gfx: Delta, music: "Wasteland" by Bit Arts. part 7, credit - mcode: Dr.Beat, Delta, gfx: Dark/Black Monks (chars), Music: "Japanese Rock" by SCS. part 8, endprt - code: Dr.Beat, Delta, Gfx: Delta (logo), Music: Bit Arts. review: Words cannot describe what the RSI Megademo meant for the scene at its time of release. It was a breath of fresh air, a show of force so powerful that noone dared deny the fact that it was a modern classic from the moment it was released. The design and - not least - the music gave it a very special atmosphere that I can safely say is still there when viewing it today. I have never been more spellbound by a demo, or watched a demo more times than this. An amazing achievement. SHD/Mystic made a one file version fixed for HD/AGA. It still had its flaws (graphics/music bugs, endpart crash), but at least it made the demo available to the new generation Amigas! This review refers to that fix, and not the original trackloaded demo. Therefore there is no compatibility reference. [glenn] Follow Me (1990, early, ECS Demo). code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Romeo Knight. Criminal No.1 (1990, .02, ECS Filemag). INT - code: Onyx, music: "Telephone" by n/a (SoundTracker format). MAG - code: Zeronine/Quadlite, gfx: Dennis, music: Psygnosis (ripped), editors: Irata (main, aka The Editor), John Player, Xymox, Dr.Soft. review: The intro preceding Criminal is a classic, and one they've used many times before. There's a flipping scroller across the middle of the screen, and some different copper-color stuff rolling across the background. It's actually nicely done, but probably turned a few more heads when it was first shown in 1988, than it did today. Remarkably, it ran perfectly on my system, without even the need for KillAGA. And then there's that truly classic piece of music, "Telephone"... The intro announces Onyx as a new member, and the intro was coded by him back in 1988 - used here as a kind of nostalgic nod to the past. Then we enter the mag itself, which has a quite unique design. It's built with a small display at the top of the screen, and the rest of the screen displaying the text. It's controlled with the mouse, and clicks of the mouse takes you around the pages. Like a lot of the first mags, there are just numbered pages, and no chapters or anything like that. The display is white text on a grey background, and has an overall nice design. Contentwise this issue doesn't really contain a lot, and the joke pages in German was totally unnecessary, but... The best thing about Criminal though, is the FEELING - the kind of friendship that only existed in the oldschool scene, a feeling that these guys actually KNEW each other, and were good friends. It's something that unfortunately will most likely never reappear. The mag was published simultaneously on disk and paper (sortof like Jeff Smart's legendary "Illegal" for the c64 scene), and was supposed to come out with a new issue every second month from the start. Unfortunately, that never happened - this issue was the only one to ever be released. When you press the EXIT button, the mag resets, but unfortunately does something strange to the memory too... I softkick 3.1 in my startup, using an application called BlizKick, and after running Criminal I was suddenly told that the jumpers on my card were not set correctly for me to softkick. I tried a couple of times, but ultimately had to turn off and on the machine to make it work... [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review! Cebit '90: Revenge of Babbnaasen (1990, .03, ECS File). code: Delta, gfx: Dr.C (logo, little font), Dark (titlepic, logo, scrollfont), music: "Cream of the Earth" by Romeo Knight. Released at the CeBIT '90 exposition. review: This old Red Sector classic is a formula demo if ever I saw one. You've got your logo on top, your scroller on the bottom, and in the middle you've got yer basic vector effects. Ok, as far as these go, CeBit isn't the worst you can get. Though hardly worthy the 'classic' title it has claimed, it's still worth a honourable mention for reasonable vector rutines (for the time) and OK design. The music, though, is fabulous. On my machine there were a few minor errors on the vectors, probably due to the speed of my machine. Ripping the tune is easy, just depack the executable with xfd or Unpack, and rip it. It's a standard MOD. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Rednex [old] (RNX, -1992) ------------------------- Rednex was a Danish demo group, who died in early 1992. However, most of the original members were later reunited in the new Rednex, after being members of Melon Dezign and Anarchy for a while. 1992 - Bored joined the newly formed Parasite around may. Danish swapper Jones joined Static Bytes. Danish coder, graphician and musician Airwalk (07/91) joined Kefrens. Danish swapper Executioner joined Surprise! Productions. Danish musician Hithansen joined Melon Dezign. Danes Slammer (code) and Xience (ex Rebels old) joined Anarchy. Printer Trouble (1991, .02, ECS Demo). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Innuendo (1991, 27.04, ECS Demo). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Released at the Amiga Convention Summit. Ska' Vi Split' En Baldur? (1991, summer, ECS Demo). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Quackbusted (1991, early.10, ECS Demo). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. info: Originally made for the demo competition at the Static Bytes and Light - Lowlife - Party late september, but it was not finished in time. It was released a few days after the party was completed, likely in the first days of october. Apparently the original did not work on AGA machines, but a oneparted AGA-fixed version can be downloaded from the coder's homepage, http://fuel.adsl.dk/ Ting Man ALDRI' Må Gøre (1991, .11?, ECS Demo). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. info: The Danish title translates to "Things You Must NEVER Do". Digital Aggrevation (1991, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Released for The Party 91 demo competition, but unplaced. Rednex [new] (1993-) -------------------- DEN> Jones (Jesper Hansen, code, ex Static Bytes, 12/93), Solnova (gfx, ex Melon Dezign, later Movement, 12/93), SurfSmurf (Carsten Sørensen, code, ex Melon Dezign, old handle Slammer, later Movement, 12/93- 03/00), Xience (ex Melon Dezign). Danish musician Hithansen (ex Melon Dezign and veteran of the old Rednex) left the scene after The Party IV, but he certainly quit while he was ahead. His module "Electric Church" won the music competition! Norwegians Corny (gfx music) and Codeman (code), together with Swede Soul (music, all ex DCS, new 12/93) joined Movement. Rednex Revival Intro (1993, 05.07, AGA 020 File). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Released at Galemand's Gilde 93. info: This intro works on 020 _ONLY_, 030 won't do... Emptyhead (1993, 28.12, AGA Trackmo). code: Slammer, Jones, gfx: Solnova, Alex/Movement (endfont), music: Hithansen. 6th in The Party 93 demo competition. Review: Hum hum hum... These guys certainly have a sense of humour or three! What is most striking about this nice productioon, though, is the impeccable design throughout. Not a thing is left to chance, it seems, and It's all done with a smile. It might come as no surprise by now that I quite like this! There are some good dot, line and vector effects here also, as well as a plasma-zoom-rotator-thing. Totally recommended. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Quackbusted 2 (1994, 25.06, AGA Trackmo). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Released for the South Sealand 94 demo competition, unplaced. DMA Design (1996, 05.04, 4k Intro). code: SurfSmurf, Vention, gfx: none, music: SuperNao. 3rd in The Gathering 96 4k intro competition. Dansktop 7 Intro (1996, 05.04). code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Winner of The Gathering 96 A500 Nostalgia demo competition! Reflect ------- FIN> Devil (trade, 03/93), Magnum (93), Nighthawk (gfx, 07/92), Overlander (code, 07/92-93), Red Baron (gfx, 07/92), Vibrillion (93). NOR> Jellybean (Vegard Myksvoll, music, 07/92). Zeque, the finnish coder that made most of their breakthrough demo "Sound Vision" [07/92] left to join Complex mid 93. After this, they lost their main asset and weren't (to my knowledge) ever heard from again. Sound Vision (1992, 26.07, ECS Trackmo). code: Overlander, Zeque, gfx: Nighthawk, Red Baron, music: Jellybean. Winner of the Assembly 92 demo competition! info: Reflect came from nowhere and kicked everyone's butt at ASM92! They delivered what was perhaps the best demo of the year. Reflectors (RFL, -1992) ----------------------- DEN> Criox and Depete, Frostie (trade, stopswap), Spike, Windstrike (sysop 'SKY NET' WHQ), Zingo (swap, early92). NOR> Epa (swap). Boards; BLUEWING (fin), HELLHOUSE aka 'REFLECTION' (swe), STARWAY (nor). Reflectors were a danish-based demo group, that died early 1992. 1992 - Swedish Wizzo left for Cytax around january. Danish sysop Phazier ('FANTASIA' WHQ, old handle Zyron, ex Trash) joined Amaze. Reflex (RLX) ------------ SWE> Crypth, Mosquito (sysop 'ASSEMBLY HALL', doublememb Defiance, 01/95), Terrorizer (sysop 'SUBWAY' WHQ), Xerxes (sysop 'GLOBAL EFFECT', doublememb Fairlight, later Rage, 01/95), XTC (sysop 'VIRTUAL INTELLIGENCE' opened 01/95). USA> Blind Guardian (sysop 'DARK CHURCH', 04/95), Broken Arrow (sysop 'DARK MOON', 04/95). ???> Ache (music, 12/92), Godhead (93), Nrg (music, 12/92), Valkyrian (gfx, 12/92), Zod (code, 12/92). Bad Boy joined Trilogy. Wormtro (1992, 27.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Zod, gfx: Valkyrian, music: Ache, Nrg. 14th in The Party 92 40k intro competition. XS (1993, 05.08). 4th in the European Computer Conference (ECC) 93 demo competition. Regency ------- SWE> Eeezee (sysop 'THE PRODIGY', 01/95). FIN> Blaze (93), Blitman (93), Dna (Antti Liljo, swap music), Necrarch (93). ???> Drownie (ex Addicts). Boards; THRONE CHAMBER (fin). Finnish swapper DNA has placed two ads in the same mag, one as DNA/Regency and one as DNA/Brutal... Humane was formed in 1993 by ex-Regency members (fin) together with some Danish group. Rektum ------ GER> Celic (swap sysop), Dr.Synth (code), IQ Zar (gfx), Mr.P (Florian Pfister, swap), Spike (trade ascii). POL> Exolon (sysop), Robson (Robert Baran, swap). LUX> Hotstepper (sysop). DEN> Malcom (Morten Andersen, gfx music swap sysop), Mr.Funny (Troels Therkildsen, music swap sysop), Santa Claus (music swap). 1996 - Abaddon joined Old Bulls, while polish Norman joined Anadune in june. Relax ----- SWE> Bullseye (code, 10/90), Champ (10/90), Goblin (music, 10/90). 1991 - Tweeter and Insane joined Equinox in the middle of the year. Intro (1990, 14.10, ECS Intro). code: Bullseye, gfx: Unknown Artist (font), music: "Play" by Goblin. review: One of those multi-scroll demos, with ten or more scrolls one over the other... For some obscure reason they were quite popular in demos once many years ago! Which is weird, since it's deadly boring... I think Spreadpoint took it as far as it could go with "XLarge"! Anyway, this intro SUCKS! If it didn't crash all the time, I'd exit it myself :) There's NO graphics to speak of, the code is first-try-at-asm quality, and the music's just plain annoying. Avoid. [glenn] GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04. Note: Gurus! A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Note: Guru's, even with KillAGA. Hardly surprising... Anarchy Party Demo (1991, .04, ECS). Released at Anarchy Easter Party '91. Relay ----- Ghost was formed when the English division of Eclipse fusioned with Relay. 1991 - Merlin changed his handle to Rem around june. Religion (RLG) -------------- SWE> Hijacker (sysop 'ALTERED STATE', doublememb Orient, 01/95), Lionheart (Mikael Eriksson, swap), Waldo (sysop 'MADHOUSE', 01/95). Remedy (RMD) ------------ GER> Creeps, Desert. ???> Dream Design (gfx, 08/93), H2o (ger? ascii, doublememb Fire and Ice, 01/94), M.C.MP (music, 12/92-12/94). Boards; ICE CREAM WHQ (ger, triple in Delirium and Dezign). Jumptro (ECS Intro). We Love Snails (ECS Intro). Renegade -------- NOR> Babar (gfx, ex Spaceballs), Beeper (ex Mirror), Bumble, Quick, Seek. Resolution ---------- Entropy (1996, 13.04, 40k Intro). 2nd in the Scenest 96 40k intro competition. Resolution 101 -------------- Norwegian coder T-Bone joined Dexion. Retire (RTR) ------------ GER> Peacemaker (sysop 'MOONLIGHT CITY', doublememb Obsession). NOR> Erectus (Knut, swap). ???> Diesel (music, 12/93), DJ (music, 12/93), Dr.Led (gfx, 12/93), Hijack (gfx, 12/93), Killtech, TIK (code, 12/93), Todi (code, 12/93). 40KB Kraft-Tro (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Tik, gfx: Dr. Led, Hijack, Tik, music: Diesel. 11th in The Party 93 intro competition. Contactro (1993, 27.12, ECS 40k Intro). code: Todi, gfx: Dr. Led, Todi, music: DJ. 17th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. Revolt ------ 1991 - Ghother and FXR joined Next mid 91. 1996 - Hangman joined Depth in june. Revolution ---------- Exorcist (code), Incognito (music), Orion (gfx) and Cyborg (sysop) all left to join Nexus. Riot ---- GER> Exon (org gfx trade cosysop 'LOS ENDOS', late95-06/96). ???> Darkman (music), Frontier (trade), Rally (code), Reset (gfx). Riot was a german demo group. 1995 - German swapper Iro joined Depth late this year. 1996 - Sonic (old handle Sonic Flash) left the scene in april. Stone (doublememb of Matrix, new 06/96) left to join Illusion. Risk Inc. --------- GER> Max (sysop 'DOWN TO EARTH'/'RISK', 10/91). Boards; BOARD ROYAL (ger, 09/90). Nick joined Laserdance. Some guys left for Interactive. Rite ---- SWE> Dixy (sysop 'PREMIUM', 10-11/97). RNSC INC (Rave Nation^Sycres Inc) --------------------------------- Rave Nation and Sycres merged together. The name of the new group is RNSC INC (RAVE NATION^SYCRES INC). Roadriders (1991-1991) ---------------------- Roadriders is a new Turkish group, but they soon became Pirates' TUR division instead. Roadrunners (-1989) ------------------- Raz was the original founder of Roadrunners. The entire group decided to join forces with Chaos Cooperation in a new group called Rebels. They released their first joint production in february 1989. Rookies (1992-) --------------- GER> 16 Beat (Joachim Soppe, org music), Joker (Peter Rauschert, swap), MC 68000 (org code), Tronix (swap). ???> Avenue (code), Kale (gfx), Nytec (gfx music), Ply 2 (code). When Tech died, some of the former members started Rookies. These founding members were 16 Beat, MC 68000, Ply 2, Avenue, Nytec, Thunder and Lightning, Kale, Tronix and Joker. Rookies have a German subgroup called Thunder and Lightning (TAL) Art, which consists of two graphicians; Thunder and Lightning. Royal (RYL) ----------- HOL> Apollo (mainorg code sysop, late96-12/98), Bullock (gfx, ex Jetset, new late96), Bytejammer (code, 07/96-12/98), Clotug (trade, late96), Delvin (trade, late96), Eros (gfx, ex Jetset, new late96), Floppy Robby (code sysop, late96), Hifi (music, new late96), Hitech (trade sysop, new late96), Hoppa (trade, new late96), Ice (trade sysop, late96), IKilledHer (code, rescene late96), Infant (code, new late96), Jayce (music, ex Jetset, new late96), Kleinduimpje (doorcode, new late96), Muad'dib (doorcode, late96), Quazar (doorcode, old handle Prophet, late96), Radavi (orgdemo sysop 'WILD PALMS', doublememb Effect, late96), Red Dwarf (code crack, ex Jetset, new late96), Soultaker (doorcode, late96), Tib (code, late96), Timeless (music, ex Jetset new late96), Tyrell (trade, late96), Whirlwind (mainorg code ascii sysop, late96). SWE> 3! (gfx, late96), Citruz (orgscandinavia sysop, late96), Crilla (code gfx, 08/96-ate96), Hamlet (orgscandinavia sysop, late96), Mortimer Twang (music, 07/96-late96), Orion (trade, new late96), Psychotron (code, late96), Slice (music, late96), Spite (code, late96), Zanok (trade sysop, late96). POL> Fjurer (trade, late96), Jacobs (trade, late96), Keram (trade, late96), Kostek (crack, late96), Mehow (trade, new late96), Pat (trade, late96), Prefix (trade, late96), QLA (trade, late96), Ziutek (trade, doublememb Appendix 07/97). NOR> Arcane (Øystein Sættem, sysop 'MOST WANTED', doublememb Mystic, new late96-12/98), Kingpin (sysop 'CHECKPOINT', late96), Wiper (trade, late96). ENG> Zoltrix (trade sysop 'SPACED OUT', new late96-12/98). GER> Slime (sysop 'HOMELESS', late96), Voyage (trade sysop, late96). DEN> Cryo (code, late96), Zinko (sysop 'NORTHERN PALACE', late96-12/98). HUN> ADT (code trade sysop 'LOCAL GRAVEYARD', doublememb Absolute!, new early96). AUS> 243 (trade sysop, re late96). CZE> Trauma (Marek Zavodnik, swap sysop, late96-01/97). SWI> Fury (sysop, late96), Wild (trade, late96). ITA> Pows (trade, new late96). USA> Circuit Breaker (sysop, late96). ???> Aln! (12/98) Boards; SOUTH CENTRAL (swe, 12/98), FIRST DIVISION (swe, 12/98), AQUARIUM (swe, 12/98), DIAL HARD (swi, 12/98), CANADIAN MIST (can, 12/98), THE UNDISCOVERED (hol, 12/98), MOST WANTED (nor, 12/98), ONE EIGHT SEVEN, RIOT HOUSE, NEMEZIS, PHOENIX II, SE7EN, PITSTOP. Ftpsites; ENTERPRISE UNLIMITED (12/98). 1996 - Diablo left the scene; Dazz, Freecaller and Steel went inactive; Newt joined Subspace, then went on to Abyss and finally Arth, XMan and Relief were kicked due to inactivity late this year. 1997 - Polish sysop Fenix (96) joined Amnesty late 97. Sauna! (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 11th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. So What? (1996, 18.08, AGA 64k Intro). code/gfx: Crilla, music: Mortimer Twang. 2nd in the Assembly 96 intro competition. review: Phong and shading, as usual, and with some truly annoying music. There's also a little bumping in here, on an object. A small plus for a few of the objects, which were unorthodox, but overall this is far from a great intro. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. Royal Amiga Force (RAF, -1991) ------------------------------ N-L> DJ, Limit (music), Mr.Amiga (90), Remote Control (code), Wolfman. SWE> Flavor Flav. FIN> Alfred. ENG> Anvil, Grasshopper (sysop 'Q.E.D'), Hen, Ian, Infictor (sysop 'PEGASUS'), Jonathan, Maniac, Mr.B. ???> Pac (ex No Carrier [no entry]). RAF was a demo group, probably based in the Netherlands. RAF died around the middle of 1991, but subsections (Immortal, TDC) will continue under the RAF label. 1991 - Dr. Legal joined Cult while the board 'JOSHUA TREE' changed its name to 'IRON GATE', and then joined Euphoria around the middle of the year. Swedish swapper Ice released several issues of the "Royal Amiga Demo Pack" before leaving the group in favour of Amaze. Junkfood joined Scoopex. Peace Prod. joined Artemis. German sysop Hotstar ('THE NEW STATION') joined Cult. Megademo (ECS Megademo). RRR --- Cinderhatch (1995, 12.08, 40k Intro). 8th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition. RSTD ---- Perplexed (1994, 13.11, Demo). 7th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition. Walk Over (1994, 13.11, Demo). 9th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition. Rubbers ------- Norwegian musician Mystra joined Paragon.