Wanted, The ----------- ???> Dream (code, 04/94), Indy (gfx, 04/94), Vizz (music, 04/94). Carved on Chrome (1994, 16.04, ECS File). code: Dream, gfx: Indy, usic: Vizz. Wanted Team (WT, http://amiga.emucamp.com/wt/wt.html) ----------------------------------------------------- Ward ---- SWE> Flubba (Fredrik Olsson, code, 08/97), Lycaon (09/96), Orchis (sysop 'WARE HOUSE', 09/96). ???> Guru (08/97), Tesla (08/97), Ash (08/97), Axe (08/97), xTs (08/97), Classe (08/97), CaB (08/97), Racoon (08/97). Ward is a demo group based in Sweden. Flubba is the author of the superior NES emulator CoolNESs, check it out! Once Upon A Time (1996, 05.04, Demo). 6th in The Gathering 96 demo competition. Black Hair Tongue Disease (Demo). Warfalcons, The (TWF) --------------------- DEN> Diskrunner (Chr. Andersen, swap, ex Quicksilver, new mid90-late90), Einstein (Poul P. Hestbek, music). ITA> Xad (sysop, late90). ???> Damage (ex Supreme, new 90). Boards; THE DUNGEON (swe, 09/90). Swedish Nick (ex Mute 101, new late 90) joined Cascade. Cat, Dave (swe? ex Supreme, new 90) and Swedish musician Mantronix joined Razor 1911 old. However, some intelligence tells me that Mantronix probably stopped by Fairlight on his way to Razor, and that this happened late 1990. This left the Swedish section of TWF nearly dead. Purple (pre 1990, .11, ECS Demo). Warp Inc. (-1992) ----------------- FIN> Gamma, Witchdog. ???> Prestige. Warp Inc. is dead, and most members left the scene (late 92). Sledge Hammer left. Wartec ------ FIN> Brandy (93), Focus (93), Loom (93), Painmaster (93), Royal '69 (Marko Hämäläinen, org swap, 93), Tim (93). Legendary C64 group reborn by Royal'69/Chrome. Have released a few intros. Weird ----- Swedish coder Legionairy joined Depth early 97. Weird Design ------------ SWE> Deadly Angel (sysop 'SPEEDHUNTERS' WHQ), Zanok (sysop '7TH HEAVEN'). Whale (WL!, 1995-) ------------------ NOR> Shade (sysop 'EVERYWARE', memb of Insane, TRSI and Craze, 02/96). GER> Lord Chaos (ascii, doublememb Shoot, 08-09/95) AUS> Acid Kid (Andrew, ascii signature adk!, doublememb Shoot, 08-09/95). ???> Countzero (ascii signature c0!, 08/95), Dartagnan (aus? Ross, ascii signature dtn, 08/95), Manta (ascii signature mNt, 08/95), Skize (ascii, 08/95), Tango (ascii, 08/95), U-Man (nor? ascii signature uMn, doublememb Crux, 08/95-02/96). Whale is an ascii group, formed by Countzero and U-Man in 1995. 1995 - Australian sysop and ascii'er Acid Kid joined around early august as a doublemember from Shoot, and released his first colly for Whale, "Once In A Life Time" on the 2nd of september (it was originally supposed to come out o the 26th of august - incidentally also his birthday =). His second collection for Whale, "Red Beans And Rice" [09/95] was released on the 23rd of september, and inside he announced he had in the meantime closed his board 'SCREAMING METAL' for good =( He did vow to stay in the ascii scene, and was not leaving either Whale nor Shoot. White Label ----------- Dutch coder Dope joined Lemon. Wilders, The ------------ Not much is known of The Wilders, except for their triumph in the very first WiLD demo competition, at The Party 94. Wild Demo (1994, 28.12, Wild demo). Winner of The Party 94 wild demo competition! info: Presented on an A4000. Wildfire -------- Rackler (ex Dromex), Twilight and Doc. Holiday joined Absolute. M.I.C. and Snuggles will leave the Amiga scene in favour of the PC. Their new group there will be Crionics-Crew (early93). Crusader-X/Backdraft joined, but was kicked with a few weeks. He then joined Dynamix (early93). Seven Awards (ECS File). Easter Demo (1992, 28.04, ECS Demo). 3rd in the TRSI Eastern Party demo competition. Willow (-1992/early 93). ------------------------ FIN> Yoda (ex Submission). Willow seems to have been a demo group based in France. 1992 - French swapper Mental joined from Anarchy around october, but later returned to the group. Willow is dead. Bross (92) joined TSB. Xann and Name joined The Silents. Bigm and STC (fra) joined Hemoroids. Latyl and Gebe left to form a new group called Puma. Later, RAW #5 claimed that 'Brass' joined Dual Crew. Could this perhaps refer to Bross? Mr.Vain joined Iris. Shed joined The Dark Demon. Hexa (1991, 28.12, ECS Trackmo). Released at the Iris New Year Conference. Wipe vs Zif Experience (WZE) ---------------------------- The Law (1997, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro). Production: Wipe, Zif, Virgill. 15th in The Party 97 40k intro competition. review: "The Law" came as a positive surprise, given how long down the list it finished at TP. I wasn't expecting much of anything, but got an above average, technically interesting little intro. It even contained an effect I haven't seen before; a phongshaded voxel! Other cool effects included a shaded plane flying around. If these guys get a genuine graphician aboard (to create some actual palettes for them!) they could very well be headed for bigger things. Not bad at all. The intro opens with a quote from Aleister Crowley, and continues with a shaded pentagram. These guys obviously do not go to sunday mass a lot. Clearly intended for a faster processor than mine. [glenn] GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. Wizzcat (http://www.wizzcat.de/) -------------------------------- FIN> Amigaman (code train), Beathawk (music, 12/93), Catman (trade, ex Mr.Big/Doom, new 07/91), Crux (06/90), Darkie (93), Dreamer (code, 90), DTW (01/90), Florist (music, mid91), Hazy Mind (code, mid91-93), Sniker (swap sysop '2 THE COMA', 93-04/95). GER> Jedi (sysop 'THE PALACE'), Lowkick (Patrick Feiten, swap, ex Amnesia), The Prophet (Jens Georg, code, re Digital, old handle Chip-Ram, new late94, 03-05/93), Rahiem (ex Amnesia), Rease (code, ex Amnesia, 03/93), Scottie (ex Amnesia), Tim (ex Amnesia). NOR> Skywalker (gfx, 90), Wizzkid (sysop 'INSTANT DELIVERY'). SWE> Blaze (swap, ex Vox Dei), Musse, Payday (ex Dazzle, new mid 91), TJR (stopswap, 07/90-late91). ENG> Nexus (org, ex Genestealers, new 06/91), Radix, Ultimate Warrior (Mark). ???> Alex, Cocatrice (gfx), Courage (ex Desire), Death Warrior (sysop 'THE FUTURE'), Eddie, Exorcist, Iffy, Jaffo (gfx, 04/91), Leebold (old handle Violator), Mr.Lightfoot (swap, new UPS8), Mr.Zerotrack (gfx), NoiseReduction (nor? music, 90), Problem (gfx, 08/93), Rainbow (gfx, mid91), Rebounder, Rockford, Xenon (nor? code, 90). Boards; CAT'S EYE (swe), THE BLACK HOLE (ex Axe). Chip-Ram left to join Digital, but later rejoined. He changed his handle to The Prophet and decided to help rebuild Wizzcat to its former glory! 1991 - The entire english group Genestealers joined late june, and formed a new english section, run by Red Devil and Nexus! Norwegians Mr.Nobody and Floppy (code, 04/91) joined Cinefex Design at the Razor 1911 and Imp-666 Amiga Conference in september. Zneiper and Eddiksen joined Motion. White Hot and Savage joined Network. Finnish trader Guido joined Shining 8. Raze, sysop 'LIGHTLINE' joined Skid Row. English graphician and organizer Red Devil (92) joined Dual Crew. Finnish coder Felix was killed in an accident. Norwegian graphician Mindblaster (90) joined Vision. Norwegian musician Vegard (ex Amnesia, old handle Symph O'Nee, 03-05/93) left to join Scoopex. Finnish graphician Pixie (mid91-03/93) joined Celtic. Perverse Slides II (1990, ECS Trackloaded Slideshow). code: Dreamer, Xenon (intro), gfx: Skywalker, Mindblaster, music: NoiseReduction. review: A perfectly accurate title for this slideshow of cartoon-like pictures. They range from hilarious to the absolutely tasteless. I guess your enjoyment of this disk will depend entirely on your sense of humour. There's also an intro, accessed by pressing the left mouse button during boot, which didn't work on my machine. Fun, but limited fun. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review! Trashcan (1990/91?, ECS Disk). code: Amigaman, Dreamer, Felix, gfx: Mr. Zerotrack, Problem, Cocatrice, music: n/a. Instant Delivery BBS Intro (1991, .04, ECS Intro). code: Floppy, gfx: Jaffo, music: Dr. Awesome/Crusaders. Released at the Anarchy Eastern Party 1991. Cooperation with Crusaders. Demo (1991, 08.06, ECS File). code: Hazy Mind, gfx: Pixie, Rainbow, music: Florist. Released at Society Summer Party 91. New Members (1992, ECS Intro). code: Hazy Mind, gfx: Pixie, usic: Dr. Awesome/Crusaders. Intro (1992, 25.07, ECS Intro). 2nd in the Assembly 92 intro competition. Kerygma (1993, 27.03, ECS File). code: Chip-Ram, Rease, gfx: Pixie, Red Devil/Dual Crew, music: Symph O'Nee. Released at CeBIT 93. Grill-Tro (1993, 08.05, ECS Intro). code: Chip-Ram, gfx: Red Devil/Dual Crew, music: Symph O' Nee. World Fantasies --------------- Mysterious (1996, 23.06). Released at the Polish Summer Party 96. World Federation of Mad Hackers (WFMH) -------------------------------------- Silicon Gfx 2 (1995, 30.08, Demo). 4th in the Intel Outside 95 demo competition. World Industries ---------------- FIN> Blowman (sysop 'LIGHTHOUSE'), DJ Zak (swap), Jam (org). ???> Cloudy (ex Talent). Boards; KLONDYKE (fin), FATAL BEAUTY (fin). The sysop information for 'LIGHT HOUSE' came from a BBS ad without specific group support. I just searched the entire Scenery, and found the BBS here, so I assumed the sysop hadn't changed :) The ad file was dated 26-sep-93. The Finnish group Decnite was formed by ex members of this group. World of Twist (WOT) -------------------- BEL> Sintax (code keyfilemakers sysop 'SIN CITY', 04/95). World of Wonders (WOW) ---------------------- GER> Aha, Backfire, Deathmaster, Crazy Willy, Derek, FGTH, Godfather, Guardian, Mr.Unique, Paroxysme. ???> Balthazar, BFBS, Mafia Joe, Matrix 3, Mixoplex, Oli (12/88), Terramax. WOW were another early illegal group. When they died, the legendary Paranoimia was built on the ashes. Among the ones who went along to Paranoimia were Kontrasoft, Metallica, Hellion and Corsair. The numbers for the WOW HQ BBS (718-234-3659/259-9661) are identical to the numbers for the FBI BBS in Paranoimia. 1988 - Oli was caught for phreaking in december. Representatives for MCI called his parents. Wraith ------ Mandrake joined Argon mid 91. Wrath Designs (WD, 1994-, http://www.wrathdesigns.net) ------------------------------------------------------ SWE> Blackdroid (Khaled Daham, gfx, 12/94-), Crilla (code, 12/96), Dep (code, earlier dFX, 08/96), Elixir (music, dFX, 08/96), Kama (gfx, ex X-Trade), Neuro (gfx, 08/96), Odie (music, ex X-Trade, 06/96), Wolf (gfx, ex X-Trade, 08/96), Zealot (12/94-). Wrath Designs was a swedish demo group, formed late 1994 by Blackdroid and Zealot from the c64 section of the group. Their first release on the amiga were two pictures for the graphics competition at The Party in december 94. WD has never been dead, and still a 'sleeping' group on the amiga platform. Thanks to Blackdroid for information! 1995 - Swedes Odie (music), Wolf (gfx) and Kama (gfx) all joined for X- Trade, probably as early as january this year. 1996 - Elixir (music), Dep (code) and Neuro (gfx) from dFX were all recruited this year, ending the existance of that group. After the release of the excellent demo "Gyrate" [08/96] at Assembly 96, Elixir and Dep moved on to join Stellar. Swedish coder Crilla joined just after Assembly. Gyrate (1996, 18.08, AGA 4MB File). code: Dep, gfx: Wolf, Neuron, music: Elixir (The Player 6.1A format). 11th in The Assembly 96 demo competition. review: Now, this ain't half bad! It's a little different in the sense of the way things are designed, which I suppose is what made it end up as low as it did in the competition. This is clearly a better production than its ranking would suggest! All routines are good and fast, and they all look good. As mentioned earlier, the design is unorthodox, and this gives the demo a very special 'feel'. It's hard to describe, but it's a good one :) Graphics by Neuron and Wolf contribute a lot to the feel of the demo, and it's clear that they both contributed to the look and feel of the finished product. However, the picture of the girl in the white top by Wolf carries the text 'Wolf 96', which is totally wrong. Ok, so the picture's been given a new frame, but he still competed with it at The Party 94, where it was called "Light"... There's not enough memory to run this demo on my system with just 4mb of fast, but this is probably because I use 512k of the mem to map ROM to fastmem for a speed increase. Vanilla 4mb systems should work. [glenn]  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: See review. A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. TraceTro.4k (1996, 28.12, 4k Intro). code: Crilla, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 4th in The Party 96 4k intro competition. Wunderbaum ---------- Kanda Bong Man (1996, 17.08, 64k Intro). 4th in the Assembly 96 64k intro competition.