Sagazity SGZ, 1992-1994
SWE Axy gfx sysop ARACHNOPHOBIA, 92-07/93, Blade music, 92-12/93,
Butch code, old handle Bitch, 12/92-07/93, Calladin gfx, later
Sardonyx, Maxiphly code, old handle Rade, 04-07/93, Nosferatu
music, 04-07/93, Redferne mainorg code, 92-07/93, Stoned sysop,
new 03/93, Trade gfx, 04-07/93, Vacuum music.
Sagazity was a swedish demo group formed by Axy in 1992, and Redferne was
appointed main organizer. Thanks to Blade for information on this group!
1992 - Blade joined soon after the group was formed, in the summer of that
year. The groups first release came in december, with Christmas Intro
92 12/92.
1993 - Bitch changed his handle to Butch. Stoned joined with his board
around march, before the demo Abdemonizer 04/93 was released at MCS
Easter Conference. This was then followed by an intro by Rade. In july
another release saw the light of day the demo Insane 07/93 won the
competition at Marks Computer Society party, beating The Silents for the
first price! The groups final demo was released at The Party in december,
and End of the Misery ended up in a disappointing 12th position.
1994 - Towards the end, the group took in far too many useless members,
and founder Axy finally decided to call the group dead in 1994. He took the
cream of the Sagazity members and left to form Deadline Design. These were
at least Blade, Rade and Butch.
Christmas Intro 92 1992, .12, ECS Intro.
code: Bitch, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
info: The tune is ripped, and there is no graphics.
Abdomenizer 1993, 11.04, ECS 1MB Trackmo.
code: Redferne, Butch, Rade, gfx: Axy, Trade, music: Dreaming and The
Masquerade by Nosferatu 4ch ProTracker format.
review: This demo won a party, but unfortunately we do not know WHAT party
yet... The Silents were runners-up, but it was not the MCS party in july.
This was only the groups second demo, and their first trackmo.
The demo at first, with caches off and chipset set to original, appears
to work, but gurus after some time. I found some information through
hex.reading the diskimage... Dont ever say we dont go the extra mile
for you! D This demo announced Stoneds joining, which we then
approximate happened around march. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review.
Intro 1993, ECS Intro.
code: Rade, gfx: Axy, music: Blade.
Contrast 1993, 30.05, Demo.
Released at The Computer Crossroads 93.
Insane 1993, 24.07, ECS Demo.
code: Butch, Rade, gfx: Axy, Trade, music: Blade.
Winner of the Marks Computer Society MCS party 1993 demo competition!
End of the Misery 1993, 28.12, ECS Trackmo, 2 disks.
code: Rade, Butch, gfx: Axy, music: Blade, Vacuum.
12th in The Party 93 demo competition.
review: Just like with their previous demo Abdomenizer 04/93, the demo
works for a small while with caches off/original chipset, but soon
crashes. I do not feel Ive seen enough of the demo to make a fair review.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review.
Sahara Surfers S2
FIN Guru Jarno Paananen, founder code, Stratos founder.
Sahara Surfers were formed by Guru and Stratos from Complex. The name may
not seem immediately recognizable, but if I say that Guru/S2 is the author
of 1 module optimizer/replayer The Player and the very first amiga S3M
replayer, PS3M, then perhaps you know a little more.
After a while S2 went more and more over to the PC, and now seems to
concentrate entirely on that platform, especially with their highly popular
MIDAS soundcard interface system. S2 now appears to be entirely dead on the
Amiga platform, though its hard to pinpoint an exact time of death...
Saints STS
TUR Adam swap, Danko code, Dr.Dweep gfx swap, late96, Drop raytrace
trade, Exe swap trade sysop, late96, Klenye code, Nop! Serkan
Akkaya, code swap trade sysop, The Nock swap trade.
FIN Danny Kane swap, Enzyme music, Substance music.
NOR Deathangel gfx, Decoder swap, Instant sysop FIREHALL, 08/94,
Isaac music, PurpleHaze swap trade, late96, The Confuser gfx,
Tranze swap, Wiz sysop, Woober Gran Myrland, music swap, later
Cannabis, 12/94, Yoummy sysop LAST ACTION.
DEN Domain write swap, Droopy code, SilverFlame music.
SWE Phuture swap, Plugster edit.
GER Voyage! sysop.
ENG Yak gfx.
??? Datura, Fate, Zack ex Avalon.
Boards DEATH FIELD WHQ, NEEDFUL THINGS tur, ABSOLUTE DISCO nor,
PIRANHA nor, UNDER WORLD nor, THE NUKE nor, WILD PALMS EHQ,
WATHER WORLD EHQ, HIGHLANDER den, MYSTERYLAND den.
From ROM4, danish member Domain was appointed a regular spot as a ROM
journalist.
1994 - The Norwegian division was first built up in january by Woober,
Deathangel and Yoummy. 242, Agency and Lime are subgroups!
1996 - Dutchmen Hifi music sysop and Radavi sysop, plus Turk
Plastikman music trade left them, while Ital joined Iris in june.
Mikromission joined Dual4Mat.
Turkish swapper Victory joined Bronx.
Sharp, D-70 and Nobleman left the scene.
Stranger ex Bronx, new late 94 joined Analog.
ortnI-SBB 1994, early, Intro.
code: Nop, gfx: Dr.Dweep, music: Ya!!! by Woober.
review: A rather standard, boring intro a logo on top, a scroller at the
bottom and a text writer in the middle. Nothing interesting. One thing
that strikes me, though. is the tune. In the samplename-message, Woober
admits that he stole the samples from a mod by Jester. However, if youve
heard the original mod, you cant help thinking that the samples were
not all he stole... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Sam Roy
Hit The Fan 1996, 18.08, 64k Intro.
11th in the Assembly 96 intro competition.
review: Its very black and white. As a matter of fact it flashes between
the two quite frequently. And theres a road sign. Avoid. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Sanctuary
Dutch swapper Kr33 joined Axis old.
Sanity old SNT, 1990-
GER Brainwave trade sysop SPACE RATS, Dieter B code, Erik sysop,
Gash music, Ice swap, 11/90, Jeff sysop, Shadow ex The
Undertakers, new winter90, Sonic 1 gfx.
??? Killroy gfx, 91, Rys gfx, 91.
Sanity was an all-german demo group, born in march of 1990 by Panther code
and Hawk code, who quickly took in Vindicator music and Cruiser gfx as
well. Their first production presumably was the musicdisk Best Game Music
Monthly 1 03/90, which announced the birth of the group.
1990 - German musician Jester joined the group in november, after a short
stay in Red Sector Inc. The demo Dee Groove 12/90 by Panther was
released at the Dexion Convention in december.
1991 - Probably early in the year, the group released Jesters musicdisk
Fools Gold 91, followed by the groups breakthrough demo, Elysium
04/91 which came 3rd in the Amiga Convention Summit demo competition!
The Fog 11/90 joined Bit Arts in the middle of the year.
When the group eventually died, its members were scattered. The biggest
group of members, including Chaos code, ex The Undertakers, Diddle swap,
ex Treacl, Zaphod swap, ex Amaze, 16 Beat music, Jester music, ex
Proton, new 10/90, Cthulu gfx, Hawk founder code, Cruiser gfx,
Vindicator codemusic and Panther founder code left to form a new
section of Rebels. They released the demo Sanity Is Dead under the Rebels
label to announce this. Their stay in Rebels would be a short one, however,
and soon most of these guys had formed the NEW Sanity, which also included
several ex-members of the original Sanity, like musician Bit Arts ex Red
Sector Inc. and coders Flosoft and Mr.Pet.
Mike D. swap pack joined Anarchy.
Germans Benni B. music and Slaxx got kicked.
Zodiac and Hi-Lite old handle Bubbler joined Vision Factory.
Best Game Music Monthly 1 1990, 24.03, ECS Musicdisk.
code: Panther, gfx: Cruiser, music: The Fly by Vindicator ProTracker
MOD format, various. info: This production, featuring various ripped game
music, announced Sanitys birth by Panther and Hawk.
Blah Blah I 1990, after 03.11, ECS Musicdisk.
code: Hawk, gfx: Cruiser, Hawk blahlogo, music: All Points Bulletin,
Beyond the Ice Palace, Bubble Bobble, Clouds Kingdom, Cosmic
Pirates, Days of Thunder, Empire Strikes Back, Eye of Horus,
Ghostbusters, Kid Gloves, Kikstart II, Leatherneck, Leviathan,
Pandora, Platoon, Quadralien, Return to Genesis, Sentinel,
Snoopy, Spitting Image Speedball, Thundercats, Whirligig and
Xenon by David Whittaker Whittaker format.
Released at the AmiExpo.
Oh Crinkey What A Shit ECS Intro.
code: Chaos, gfx: Cruiser logo, The Pride font, music: Bit Arts.
review: Theres only disadvantages to running this on fast machines
scrolls that scroll too fast.... This is only interesting as an early
Chaos production, not much else... glenn
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0 -- Note: Caches off, orig chipset.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
-- Note: Caches off, orig chipset.
Dee Groove 1990, 28.12, ECS File.
code: Panther, gfx: Cruiser, music: Oblivion by The Avatar/Zylon of AFL
ProTracker MOD format.
Released at the Dexion Convention 1990.
review: This one was, I guess quite advanced for its time. Theres filled
vectors, stencil-vectors, vector-bobs...and combinations of the above.
Theres attempts at design, but nothing great. And that tune irritates
the hell outta me! Ok, its not all bad - its an OK little demo for its
age, but nothing special. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Sanity Kickstart Intro 1991, 22.01, ECS Intro.
code: Hawk, gfx: Cruiser, music: Ben Daglish/independent ripped.
Fools Gold 1991, ECS Musicdisk.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Breakout, Children of Science, Cubes of
Silver, Epilepsy, Fast Food by Jester.
info: This is a real gem, Jesters first music disk! He would make one
more, Jesterday, later in his career.
Elysium - Search for Anarchy 1991, 28.04, ECS File.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Elysium by Jester ProTracker MOD format.
3rd in the Amiga Convention Summit demo competition.
Flash for Fantasy 1991, ECS File.
code: Mr.Pet, Flosoft, gfx: Rys, Killroy, Mr.Pet, Music: 16-Beat.
Released at Ami-Berlin-91.
review: Well, these guys have certainly seen Scoopex groundbreaking
trackmo Mental Hangover 04/90! A few of the effects here bear more
than a passing resemblance to that old classic... The rest of the effects
are much in the vein of their own Dee Groove though that had a
different coder, with various vectors, stencil-vectors and vector-bobs.
Nothing special. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Some vector routines had graphical errors.
Rosebud Party Slideshow 1991, .12, ECS Slideshow.
info: Made at the Rosebud Meeting 11/91, released at Prime 91.
Turmoil 1991, 28.12, ECS Musicdisk.
code: Mr.Pet, Flosoft, gfx: Cougar, music: Bit Arts.
Released at The Party 91.
review: This is completely written from memory, and from ripping the
tunes :, so please excuse any inaccuracies. As far as I remember, I
think theres a great music-analyzing color-thing :D that I liked a
lot. Thats the part that sort of stuck in my mind. And the music?
Well, Bitarts was always one of my favorite musicians, ever since I first
heard his tunes in the Red Sector Megademo. These are a little more
jazzy, but very moody and absolutely great. Recommended for the music
alone. Dont remember much of the graphics, but its by Cougar, so how
bad can it possibly be. If youve a machine thats specced low enough
this is about as good as you can do. Now, Im off to hear Emotional
Thing one more time. glenn
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: On both configurations you get the loading logo, it
boots for a while, and then it crashes.
Nothing seems to help, not even kicking down to 1.3.
Sanity new SNT, 1992-1996.
GER Cruiser founder gfx, Cthulhu Jan Jessen, founder gfx, Hawk
Stefan, founder code, Panther founder code, Trasher Oliver Plink,
swap pack Trashpack, ex Panic, triplememb Bomb and Artwork,
Vindicator founder code music, 16 Beat Joachim Soppe, founder
music.
FRA Ronan Clochard, code, ex Anarchy.
ENG Havok Steve, gfx.
Sanity was rebuilt in 1992 by several of the original members, most of whom
were in Rebels in the meantime.
The French members, musician Moby Frederic Motte, 12/93 and graphician
Ra Oliver, both ex Dreamdealers, 08-12/93 ventured into professional
careers. Moby secured a job at Mindscape in America, and Ra opened a comic
shop in his home town in France. They both remained active on the PC scene
for a while, in the group Nooon. Youd be well advised to check out these
demos! thanks to Essences ROM 4 for some info.
1992 - Jester contributed music to the Anarchy demo Flower Power
01/92, Winner of the Digital Symposium 1992 demo competition!
1993 - Danish swapper The Pride ex Brainstorm, new ca 01/92 and dutch
swapper Kr33 ex Axis, swap pack Femur Bundle from Axis, new 09/92 both
joined Lemon. in january.
1994 - German coder Tron ex Anarchy, 03/93- left the group in early
december to be independent. He later reconsidered his independence, and
joined Artwork in the early days of 95. The end of december came and Chaos
released Roots 12/94 for The Party demo competition with some parts by
Tron to a disappointing 8th position.
1995 - German musician Jester sent shockwaves through the scene when he
left for the primarily finnish group Pygmy Projects, whom hed contributed
the tune Cyberride for their Assembly 94-winning demo Extension 08/94!
After releasing their final demo in 1995, the group fell apart. Many of the
best members left for other groups, and the few remaining ones grew
inactive. It is uncertain whether the group technically died in 1995 or
1996, my conclusion is a guess.
1996 - An interesting production surfaced in the pc demo competition at
The Party 96, where Free Electronic Band FEB won with their demo Alto
Knallo. The demo was coded by former Sanity members Chaos Dierk Ohlerich
and Mr.Pet Peter Cukierski.
German graphician Cougar 08/93-96 first joined Artwork as a doublemember,
but when Sanity died he became a fulltime member. He was responsible for
many of the greatest graphics in Sanity demos, and won the graphics
competition at The Party 93 with his fabulous Dragonsun picture.
German coder Zap ex Coma, new RAW2 left to join Masque.
German musician Virgill ex Surprise! Productions joined TRSI.
German coder and musician Microforce Joerg Simon, ex Coma left the scene.
German supercoder McDeal Karsten Weiss, ex D-Tect only participated in
one demo for Sanity Arte before deciding to leave the scene
altogether in late 94.
German megaswapper Exumer Thomas Kopfmueller, ex Nuance left the scene in
late 94.
Editors Disney Martin, austria, ex Alcatraz and TFG Niels, denmark, ex
Majic 12 both joined to work on Sanitys planned diskmag, but when those
plans fell through they were both unceremoniously kicked UPS10.
The French section is now Ozone, according to EuroChart 15.
German musician Bit Arts ex Sanity old joined Complex SLH11.
Alex, sysop of BASE LINE joined Zenith RAW4.
German coder Flosoft Florian Stuemann left the scene together with
graphician Cthulhu RAW4. Cthulu later returned, a.o. contributing
pictures to the two Roots demos.
German coder Cosmos joined TRSI.
German swapper and one of the founders, Zaphod Niels, was kicked.
German swapper and one of the founders, Diddle Marc Vasters left the
scene.
Fastest Demo 1992?, ECS File.
code: Mr.Pet, gfx: A.Christoulakis, music: Mr.Root.
Jesterday 1992, 17.04, ECS Musicdisk.
code: Chaos, gfx: Cougar, HaVoK titlepic, music: Jester.
Winner of Shining 8s Eastern Party 1992 demo competition!
review: Everyone who hasnt seen this is a jerk. Really! This is propably
the most known musicdisk ever made on Amiga. It was already a legendary
production when it has been released... With beats and melodies composed
by Jester - who is still one of the best musicians counting on Eurochart
38! several years after he left scene - Sanitys musicdisk is, with a
big gap to other productions of this kind, the most known and praised one
in the entire scene history. Its maybe because of the five fantastic
tunes as for example Wizardry and Breath of Life - my favorites - but
maybe also because of the great opening with really fantastic graphics by
Cougar, a qualitative good title picture by Havok and great code by our
master - Chaos as for example the zooming dog, the cool tunnel which
was also used in Sanitys World Of Commodore aka Amiga rules and the
blue vectorlines which transform into lines for notes. When the menu
shows up you can read a vertical scroller with information about the
tunes settled in a smooth design that is a bit too grey in my opinion. I
always feel sad when I run this production. But this is only a matter of
taste and at the end is Jesterday a paramount scene release in different
ways. Decide by yourself why you like it... zito
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ZIT tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, 1mb fast.
A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast.
Optimum Fuckup - Part I of the Confusion Trilogy 1992, 29.06, ECS File.
code: Chaos, gfx: Havok, music: Optimum Fuckup by Jester ProTracker MOD
format. 9th in the Hurricane Party 92 demo competition.
review: This is essentially a 1-effect demo, demonstrating the use of
the Optimum Fuckup effect hence the name :D. An invention of Chaos, it
was first seen in the selector for the Jesterday music disk. It has later
also been used for the credits part of the World of Commodore 92 trackmo.
However, the strength of the effect is also what brings this demo down
Chaos seems so pleased with it that he shows us TOO MUCH of it. The result
is that, once the innovation wears off, it soon gets boring. Great tune by
Jester, though. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
World of Commodore 92 1992, .11, ECS Trackmo.
code: Chaos, Mr. Pet, gfx: Cruiser, music: Stardust Memories by Jester,
Reachtech-No Limit by Bit Arts.
2nd in the World of Commodore WOC 92 compo.
Review: This ones another classic, and one of the first demos to utilise
timing of the routines to the music to great effect. Another innovation
this brought was TOTALLY NEW effect the socalled Amiga Rules effect.
An even better-looking one was released a few months later, in Lemon.s
Announce 1993, but this was the first.
I wont beat around the bush any longer: This is one of my all-time
favorite demos. Two GREAT modules from two of my fave composers, Chaos
and Mr.Pet coding...how could it NOT be great? Nothing more to say:
Get it! It was actually put together in five weeks when the Sanity coders
found out about the prizes at the WOC glenn
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb chip/3.0.
Interference 1993, 05.01, ECS File.
code: Microforce, Cosmos, gfx: Cougar, Havok, music: Virgill/Masque 2
tunes in ProRunner 2.0 format.
review: WARNING! This review caters only for the relatively small part of
Intereference that worked on my machine It opens with the well-known
picture Sanasmatron by Cougar great, a Sanity logo ok and an
Interference logo mediocre. The tune is NOT good it sounds like Virgill
trying to do Jester. Bad move! Then, the credits part appears, which is
nothing special. And then...it just freezes. The music goes into a
peeeeeeeping sound, and the screen is just black. The acompanying text
file says Interference has been tested on A500, A500+, A600, A1000, A1200,
A2000, A3000. Perhaps they should have tested it on my configuration
too? glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review!
Terminal Fuckup 1993, 27.03, ECS File.
code: Tron, gfx: Havok, music: Jester Promizer 1.0c format.
3rd in the CeBIT 93 demo competition.
review: Yeah! The demo with ATTITUDE! This is sort-of a punkrock techno
approach to demo making, with an increasingly in-your-face techno tune
by Jester, that sort of reminds me of his later work in a.o. Roots.
And that sudden ending - PISS OFF - just completes the circle.
Nothing revolutionary here, but boy is it fun. Outstanding. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
Boggledop 1993, late, ECS File - 338 lha.
code: Tron, gfx: Havok, Sire/Lego raytrace, Christine/Independent pic,
music: Crack The Eggshell by Jester ProTracker MOD format.
review: Oooh, this is cute... I really like this little intro-demo!
The effects are nothing special, just variations on cubes and such like,
but the overall effect of the graphic and the music make it a FUN little
production. Especially the music warrants mention, its quite an unusual
tune from Jester. There are no real advantages to be gained from running
it on a faster machine the routines are already smooth on A500s.
Approved! Pressing the RMB during the scrolltext at the bottom reveals
another, alternative scrolltext. This scrolltext mentions trying to find
some of the other hidden stuff... glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Arte 1993, 28.12, ECS Trackmo.
code: Mr. Pet main, Chaos, McDeal, gfx: Ra, music: Livin Insanity,
Elekfunk! and Mobyle by Moby ProTracker MOD format.
3rd in The Party 93 demo competition.
review: Arte is a classic, what more is there to say? Theres an unusal
amount of effects, and most were quite good for their time. Theres not
much to be gained from running it on a faster machine except for the
endpart vectorworld, as it was designed with 68000 machines in mind, and
the routines are already quite fast enough for that. The demo is, to a
degree, timed to the music. There are no timing problems on faster
machines. The endpart scroller mentions it should work on A500 to A4000,
and I have no reason to doubt that Ive yet to come across a
configuration it doesnt work on. And look out for the Einstein picture
by Ra, its AWESOME!
Mobys module Elektrik Funk or Elekfunk! for short also competed
in the 4ch music competition, where it won first prize! glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04.
A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Hospital Since Friday! 1993, 28.12, ECS Intro.
code: Tron, gfx: Cougar, music: Spice It Up by Jester ProTracker MOD
format. 16th in The Party 93 demo ! competition.
review: This intro opens with another Motorhead cover drawn by Cougar,
who broke through with his rendition of the Orgasmatron cover,
Sanasmatron. Then, after a brief credits sequence we go to a relatively
fast Doom routine, and thats it. The tune is frantic, yet with a certain
groove and suits the demo rather well. Not a bad intro at all, but a
little too short and small for a 60kb intro, let alone for a demo!
If I remember the story right Sanity couldnt finish this in time for
the intro competition, so they stuck a few extra bits in and released it
in the demo competition instead! glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Roots 1994, 27.12, AGA Trackmo.
code: Chaos main, Mr.Pet, Sire/Lego, Tron/Indep., gfx: Cougar, Cthulhu,
Oliver R. Wilke/Indep. anim, music: Harm Me With Harmony by Jester
ProTracker MOD format. 8th in The Party 94 demo competition.
review: I remember my original reaction to seeing this at The Party 4 was
lots of pretty colors, but so what?. I had expected MUCH more from a
quality crew like Sanity! This production IS half-baked, with time and
missing Pets having to take much of the blame... Get Roots 2.0
instead, its a MUCH improved version! All effects run a lot smoother on
my 030 than they ever did on the standard A1200... glenn
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Roots 2.0 Final Version 1995, 23.04, ECS/AGA 020+ Trackmo.
code: Chaos, Mr.Pet, gfx: Cougar, Cthulhlu, music: Harm Me With Harmony
and Relentless Rage by Jester ProTracker MOD format.
2nd in the Black Box Symposium 95 demo competition.
review: This successor to the original Roots now has all the bits and
pieces in place, and is an altogether much more polished package...
Much has been added, and some effects have been improved since we last
saw them. The demo is split in two parts on AGA machines both will be
shown, but on ECS machines only the second part appears. However, the
demo REQUIRES an 68020 for both parts. Of course, like with the original,
it benefits from a fast machine.
One of Cthulhus pictures, Face, competed in the graphics competition
at the same party, and came 5th. glenn
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Sapphire
Absolut Chips 1 Chippack.
code: The Boa Constrictor, gfx: Cool T.J., music: Maniac/Crux, Dvize/
Limited Edition, Jester, Mel ODee, Cozmic/Prospect.
info: I only know all this since some friendly soul ripped all of
these tunes and uploaded them in a pack to aminet :
Sardonyx SDX, 1993-
SWE Calladin gfx, later Subspace, Candyman Timo Kotta, swap, later
Session, 94, Duffe Jesper Skoog, gfx, 08/94-96, Flame sysop
DEVILS TOY, 08/94-01/95, Tobias Jansson gfx, doublememb Citron
details, 05/96, Zalo sysop DIGITAL HIGHWAY, 02-03/95.
GER Chucky Marc Loeffler, swap, 12/95-11/96, Maxwell sysop ANTARCTIC
STATION, 12/95, Tolpan sysop SILENT MOON, 12/95.
FRA Alhazred Aymeric Hiltenbrand, writer, old handle The Suicidal Klown
TSK, ex Spasm, new 12/95.
??? B.B.King sysop CITY OF JOY, 12/95, Crip music, Fichu
toastmaster, Luke sysop, old handle Crying Freeman, Mundgor music,
08/94, Newt swe? gfx sysop, Ultra-Sonic doublememb Obsession,
Ventrue sysop.
Boards CRIME ZONE swe, 08/94.
Sardonyx was born in 1993, as a demo group originally based in Sweden. A
small birthtro was their first production, followed by the intro Frowzy
Frog 12/93 at The Party 93.
1994 - More releases, including a chippack.
1995 - At the very last day of the year, controversial diskmag Seenpoint
2 12/95 was released. Group news for this issue was that French writer
TSK had joined, that Chris had to leave, that Hype renamed to Elusive, that
Maxwell joined with his board ANTARCTIC STATION, that Tolpan joined with
his board SILENT MOON, that Nadir and Dehydrator left the group, that the
Swiss section had died and that the Norwegian section was dismissed, that
Bandido renamed to Cenobite, that B.B.King joined with CITY OF JOY, that
Crying Freeman renamed to Luke, and finally that Sardonyx and C-Lous will be
organizing the Icing 96 party! Phew!
1996 - The Swedish party Icing 96 was held at the 24th to 26th of May,
coorganized by Sardonyx. Tolpan, Maxwell, Woody code, 08/94, Drowsy, Toby,
Egg, Leon and Soda all had to leave the group due to inactivity, while
Elusive old handle Hype, 12/95 left for New Age and swedish swapper
Cenobite Sven Tormodsson, old handle Bandido, 12/95- left the scene in
june. Swedish coder and organizer Devotion Christian Holmquist left the
scene around august, after failing to finish an intro for SeenPoint 3.
Dutch writer Sane joined from Mellow in september, first as a doublemember,
but ultimately cut his ties to Mellow permanently in november. He was
coeditor of Seenpoint from issue 4 11/96 on.
1997 - Norwegian graphician Zack joined Spaceballs at The Gathering 97 in
march. German SeenPoint editor Fishwave 09/95-04/97 took his mag and
left for Scoopex sometime this year. Presumably also swedish coder Syntax
12/93-05/97 and dutch writer Sane new 10/96 came along.
Frowzy Frog 1993, 28.12, ECS Intro.
code: Syntax, gfx: Metroid, Ice, music: Marillion/independent.
14th in The Party 93 40k intro competition. Requires 68000 processor!
2 Feet 1994, 01.06, ECS File.
code: Syntax, gfx: Duffe, music: Toby.
Ei Saa Peitt 1994, 06.08, 40k Intro.
code: Syntax, Woody, gfx: Calladin, Duffy, music: Mundgor.
17th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition.
review: This intro shows some competent design-to-be, though I cant help
but feel this would have been better as three separate crack intros than
a single 40ker. Theres nice design, you see, but not always THE SAME
design. One part looks like this, another like this. Each on its own is
not bad, but they were never meant for each other, see?
The best part is without a doubt the DPaint plasma! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
SeenPoint 1 1995, end.09, Diskmag.
code: Syntax, gfx: n/a title, Fiver/Artwork main, Sol/lego fonts,
music: SMT/Artwork.
SeenPoint 2 1995, 31.12, AGA Multifile Diskmag.
code: Syntax, gfx: Made/Bomb title, Fiver/Artwork and TRSI main,
Sol/Lego fonts, music: Enjoying My Coffee by Laxical/Scoopex, Icy
Melodies by The Loop/Artwork both The Player 6.1A format, editor:
Fishwave main, TSK.
review: Before you start reading, take a few moments out to listen to The
Loops Icy Melodies. Hmmmmmm...... just beautiful.... Where was I? Oh
yeah, this was supposed to be a diskmag review : Done a few of these in
my time, and I cant help but feel that this mag has everything going for
it - audiovisual talent from the very top of the charts, and good code.
Ive never really been a fan of its aggressive editorial style, however,
but history tells the clearest of all stories, and its doubtless that RAW
became the number one mag of its time through the same kind of tactics.
Provocation - but I still feel that in Lord Helmets case it was always
with a wink of an eye, and tongue firmly in cheek. Fishwave seems more
cynical - like he means every word. But then again, perhaps its just me,
what do I know, Im just a poor reviewer...
This was TSKs first issue as a staff writer. Over half of the mag
consists of philosphical rambling from Fishwave, which is less than
interesting to me. I care about the truth, not how Fishwave feels about
the truth. And frankly, his why should I respect the people who created
the scene opinions provoke me. What I most miss in this mag is the DEMO
related material, the stuff that made ROM so great - the story behind top
demos, f.ex. This issue presents four interviews, with SMT/Artwork
clearing up the misunderstandings that led to a negative article in the
first issue, Enzo/Hellfire sysop of SKY TOWER, Data/Oxygene and TSK
himself. No information is provided on the system requirements of
SeenPoint, but I assume that it wont be a problem on any bog standard
A1200. The mag does not multitask. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
SeenPoint 3 1996, .08, Multifile Diskmag.
code: Syntax, gfx: n/a title, Fiver/Artwork main, Sol/lego fonts,
music: n/a, editor: Fishwave.
info: Originally to have been released in june, but massively delayed
because of Syntax army service, as later explained in SeenPoint 4. The
mag had a bug, and before it could be fixed by Syntax and a proper version
could be released, someone who wasnt supposed to got their hands on it
and spread it to aminet without the authorization of its authors : If
your machine has fastmem, it manifests itself by screwing up the lower
panel.
SeenPoint 4 1996, 18.11, AGA Multifile Diskmag.
code: Syntax, gfx: JCS/AbyssScoopexSyndrome title, Fiver/Artwork
main, Sol/Lego fonts, music: Mind Structure by Michael/Anathema,
Wah Experience by Revisq/Anadune, SeenPoint Theme by Laxical/Scoopex,
editor: Fishwave main, Alhazred, Sane.
review: The same main code and graphics from the previous issues were
again used for this one - though the mag multitasks now! Music is still
ok, but not exceptional. Pretty standard, calm magtunes. Then onto the
problems: Fishwave. OK, this guy is getting on my nerves. His editorial
style the made-up story of how the Three Little Elks travel with a time
machine to Mekka Symposium 99 to steal Azures routines from the future is
a particular negative highpoint is just rambling, spiked with his own
down-putting comments spat out right, left and center. The mag itself -
the code, the graphics, the music - is very good, but GOD why couldnt we
have gotten a different editor? Sorry Fishwave, but you brought it onto
yourself. This issue looks good, sounds good, but is ultimately most of
all just pathetic.
This was Sanes first issue as a contributor to SeenPoint. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
SeenPoint 5 1997, .04, HD 020+ Diskmag.
info: This issue features a completely new design, lots of new graphics,
five tunes to choose from and of course a great pile of articles. Full
multitasking. The archive also contains a SeenPoint 5 introduction, done
by Antibyte/Scoopex.
Saturne STN
FRA FFP raytrace sysop BOUNCING BALLS, Heinz Mele Patrick, swap,
Vodka Vincent Oneto, code swap pack, ex Hazard, new late93.
N-L React Joeri Tan, ascii swap, late95-08/96.
ENG Loony ascii swap, ex Hazard, new late93-94.
??? City music, late93, Death gfx, late93, Ether code, 04/94, Genst
code, late93, Heinz gfx swap pack, late93, Ibis gfx, late93,
Octo gfx, late93, Snipper code, late93, Voxel gfx, 04/94, Wave
code, late93.
Saturne is best known as the arrangers of the French scene party that bears
their name the Saturne Party.
1993 - All members of Hazard joined late93.
Saturne Party II Invitation 1994, early, ECS File.
code: Ether, Genst, gfx: Ibis, Voxel, music: City.
Low Density Intro 1994, .04, Intro.
production: Ether, Voxel. Released at the Low Density 94 party.
Sauce
AUS Hunz music, ex Pearl, 02/94.
??? Scharfrichter aus? code gfx, 02/94.
Chiptunes 1 1994, ECS Musicfile.
code/gfx: Scharfrichter, music: Hunz.
review: Another chipselector, this one features 10 tunes by Hunz, some
bouncing sprites and below average gfx...and still manages to attract my
positive attention in some weird way : You see, Chiptunes 1 succeeds
in the one single field where it is most important for any music related
software to succeed: with the music. Hunz delivers tunes here that are
well above the levels of mediocracy displayed by some of his
contemporaries in the field. In short, these are good chippies!
The tunes presented are Just Right, Count To Zero, Flower Pot,
Fry An Egg, Grind, Happy Laugh, Monarchy Riot II, Nothing To
Gain and Summer Fade. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Savage
ITA Bitjoker Claudio Noventa, code, new 10/90, Mucky Up gfx, 04-06/90,
Sterling 04-09/90.
GER Crusher code, ex Onyx, new late90, Frantic ex Onyx, new late90,
Shamrock Kurt Bruckner, music, 93-94.
FIN Zany swap, late90, Zedy swap, 11/90.
??? cr8y ger? code gfx, ex Phantasm, new 94-04/96, Cyclone 90, Cyborg
code, 90, Daryl code, 90, Dehydrator music, ex Sardonyx doublememb
left 04/96, Einstein code, new 01/90, Excalibur gfx, 01-09/90,
Iluvatar gfx, 90, JSR 90, Magic gfx, 93, MG music, ex
Avantgarde, new 04/96, Micon 90, Mk edit, ex Guru Meditation, new
04/96, Passion new 90, PVC gfx, 94, Saigon 01-11/90, Sensei ex
Impact, Sodom code, ex Animators, 90, Tom 90, Vampire music,
01/90, Victim code, ex Animators, 94, Walker ex Desert, X-Ray
90, Yop gfx, 93.
Crusher and Frantic joined up from Onyx, Onyx reformed into Defcon One
1990 - Matthew joined Brain Wave around july. Italian coder and musician
Filippetto 04/90 left for Amaze in november. Naturally, he took his
diskmag Freedom Crack with him, and issue 4 was released under the Amaze
label. Filippetto coded a whole lot of intros and demos for Savage during
1990. Matscho joined Xentrix late90.
1994 - MDB sysop LOVE LIKE BLOOD and Cocoon code gfx left Dahaul
and Solid code were kicked. Dahaul, Solid, Mayday and MDB all joined
Bonzai in march, but it is uncertain what happened to Cocoon...
Achnaton joined Damian.
Cruncher ex Damian left for The Dark Demon.
A New Year 1990, .01, ECS Intro.
code: Einstein, gfx: Excalibur logo, music: Ivory Girl by Vampire.
info: This intro announed Einstein joined the group.
Black N Decker 1990, ECS Intro.
code: Filippetto, gfx: Mucky Up, music: ???/Superserions Future Composer
1.0-1.3 format, 4322 bytes.
Cola Intro 1990, ECS Intro.
code: Cyborg, gfx: Excalibur animation, Mucky Up logo, music: Clear
Night II by Delta X/Flash Team.
Crusher 1990, ECS File.
code: Crusher, Filippetto equalizer, gfx: Crusher, music: In For The
Count by ???/Justice. info: This demo announced Crusher and Frantic
joined from Onyx.
Cyborgs Beast Gfx 1990, ECS File.
code: Cyborg, gfx: from the game Shadow of the Beast, Excalibur logo,
music: Ch29 by ??? 15ch SoundTracker format.
info: This demo announced Passion had joined.
Cyborgs Copy Party 1990, ECS File.
code: Cyborg, gfx: Mucky Up logo, music: Savage Remix by Kevin
Collier/Probe Software 15ch SoundTracker format, ripped from the game
Savage.
Fast Pack 1990, ECS Intro.
code: Sodom, gfx: Excalibur, music: The Last V8 by 4-Mat/Anarchy.
Master Mix 1990, ECS File.
code: Daryl, gfx: Iluvatar, music: Innerspace3 by ???/Energy.
Melt Effect 1990, ECS Demo.
code: Filippetto, Paranoid/Phaze101 equalizer, gfx: Wiz/ICS font,
Excalibur logo, music: Friendship by Filippetto. Cooperation with ICS.
Rorkes Drift/Oracle To One/Scoopex packintro 1990, ECS Intro.
code: Filippetto, gfx: n/a, music: n/a Future Compoers 1.0-1.3 format,
26412 bytes.
Fillippetos Melting 1990, .04, ECS File.
code: Filippetto, gfx: Mucky Up, music: The-Edge by Filippetto.
Freedom Crack issue 1 1990, .05, ECS Diskmag.
codegfxeditor: Filippetto, music: The-Edge by Filippetto.
Strange Multipart 1990, .06, ECS File.
code: Filippetto part 1,2,3, Flash Gordon/Zicco Zacco fractals, gfx:
Passion, ???/TGM Crew font, music: n/a Future Composer 1.0-1.3 format,
4322 bytes, NCL by Filippetto.
Freedom Crack issue 2 1990, 20.07, ECS Diskmag.
INT - code: Filippetto, gfx: Excalibur, music: Countdown by
Grubi/Brainstorm.
MAG - Filippetto, gfx: n/a, music: Meridian Fetz by Meridian/Vision,
editor: Filippetto.
Funzine 3 Loader 1990, 21.07, ECS Intro.
code: Filippetto, gfx: n/a, music: Funzine by Filippetto.
Freedom Crack issue 3 1990, 20.09, ECS Diskmag.
INT - code: Filippetto, gfx: Excalibur pictures, font, music:
Ramboloader by Mat Furniss/Ocean ripped?.
MAG - code: Filippetto, gfx: n/a, music: NCL by Filippetto, editor:
Filippetto.
Released at the Amiga World exposition in Vienna, Austria 27-30.09/1990.
info: This was the last issue released for Savage, the next issue was
released under the Amaze label.
Balls Motorboats 1990, .10, ECS File.
code: Bitjoker, gfx: n/a, music: Amigavision by ??? 15ch SoundTracker
format. info: This intro announced Bitjoker as a new member.
Cyborgs Fly Away 1990, .11, ECS File.
code: Cyborg, gfx: Excalibur titlelogo, music: JD Rulez by
???/Radical. info: This demo announced Filippetto had left for Amaze.
The New Intro 1990, late, ECS Intro.
code: Filippetto, gfx: Crusher logo, music: Arcane Future Composer
1.0-1.3 format.
review: Theres a lot going on here! This is quite cool, actually.
Its a normal one-screen intro, with an ok melting logo coded, a
text writer and a scroller. Design is a little chaotic, but OK.
A hint above average. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Hot Gog BBS 1993, ECS Intro.
code: Solid, gfx: Magic, Yop logo, music: -- razors gate -- by
Shamrock.
Small BBS Tro 1994, ECS Demo.
code: Victim, gfx: Cr8y, music: hamrock Melodies by Shamrock.
We Need Beer 1994, ECS Demo.
code: Cocoon, gfx: Cr8y title, PVC logo, Cocoon font, music:
Wasted by Shamrock.
Truth 1994, 13.03, ECS Intro.
code: PVC, gfx: Sandman, music: +++ Chip Soul +++ by Shamrock.
info: This intro announced MDB and Cocoon Left, and that Dahaul and Solid
were kicked out out the group. Released at The Easter Party 94.
Save Our Souls SOS
HOL Funki ascii, signature f@nK!, 96.
??? Xclusiwe org ascii, signature xCz, 95-96.
Save Our Souls is an ascii group.
S.C.A.L.A.
SCALA was a group formed at the spur of the moment when some Northern
German sceners got together. They released only one trackmo, Not AGAin!
SCALA means Sanity Complex Avena Lego und Andere.
Not AGAin! 1992?, AGA Trackmo.
code: Chaos/Sanity, Crash Argon/Complex, Crazy Crack/Complex, gfx:
Sire/Lego, DSN/Lego, Agent T/Cream, Fashion/Static Bytes, music: Tommy/
Avena.
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
Scalaris
POL Ari raytrace, Cerber code, Devoth code, Dr.Szach raytrace,
Elmek music, Ender swap, FML music, Klaf Krzysztof Lewandowski,
swap, doublememb Appendix, now left to join Old Bulls 06/96, ex Depth,
new 06/96, Nazgul code, Weed gfx.
LUX Hotstepper code gfx swap.
??? Drac gfx, doublememb Ambrosia, new 06/96, Qla trade, new 06/96.
Cook, Igor pol code, Omen and Kalreg were kicked 06/96.
Neuromancer and Timer left for Appendix 06/96.
Robson joined Anadune 06/96.
Scandal old 1992-
??? Nero swe? modem.
Scandal was built late 92 by half the members of the former Grace Italy.
D.P.L. joined Platin.
Scandal new 1994-
GER Melvin swap, 94.
??? Cujo crackorg, Defjam crackorg, Gandalf demoorg, Paragon
demoorg, Scandal founder mainorg.
Scandal is an illegal group, formed early 94 probably when the two groups
Faith ami and console and Progress ami joined forces under this label.
They were joined by Dynasty on the pc, to serve as their pc section.
Scarab http://www.scarab-amiga.com/
Scarab is a german demo group. The homepage for their diskmag Jurassic Park
is at http://www.jurassicpack.de.vu, and in addition the demoscene portal
Diskmag.de http://www.diskmag.de can also be seen as a Scarab production.
Jurassic Pack 9 2002, 24.02, AGA Multifile Diskmag.
INT - code: AcidRain/Team Power Amiga, gfx: Reload/J.L.R., music: Tripper/
ReasonMoodsVoid.
GAL - code: Stingray, gfx: Cheetah/Ephidrena panels, 3DAddict/? title,
music: Dreams by Maze/Apathy.
MAG - code: Mr.Tickle/Darkage, gfx: Conan by Bridgeclaw/DarkageGods
title 1, Candle 1 by Asarhad/ReasonCorrosion title 2,
Budgie/100 ProphetsLayout panels, Malmis/Nature clipart, Zito
backdrops, Adam/DCS fonts, music:
Jurassic Pack 10 2002, 07.06, AGA Multifile Diskmag.
Scarlet
1991 - Bazifus joined Vogue mid 91.
Sceptic 1991-
GER Can ex Iris, Flite gfx music, 92-93, Mike sysop GLOBAL CHAOS,
previously STOLEN SLIME II, ex Byte Busters, Viper swap.
AUT Imagic sysop FIRE AND ICE, ex 2000 AD, 04/95.
CAN Artic Cat sysop FORBIDDEN ENTRY.
USA Angel Eyes sysop PALE RIDER, ex Submission, new early93, Iluvatar
sysop SPATULA CITY.
??? Celtic sysop1 FIRE AND ICE, new early93, Einstein ger? code, 93,
Laurance ex Vanish, sysop2 FIRE AND ICE, new early93, Slime ger?
01/94, Wigwam ger? code, 92.
Boards HIGH DENSITY ger, previously PUMP ACTION, BAD RELIGION usa,
HIGHLANDER aut, DREAMLAND 10/96.
Sceptic often spelled with a dollar sign, ceptic was born in the middle
of 1991 after the group Madhouse Ware changed their name to this.
Famous German musician Pink/Abyss was a double member for a short while
back in 1994. Sceptics most known demo related productions are without a
doubt the classic Chipmanias! Freedom Crack 11 carried the news that
Celtic and Laurance joined with FIRE AND ICE, but a later source
clearly explain that the sysop of said board is Imagic! They did a great
looking trainer intro for Supplex, with fab graphics by Flite!
1993 - Chipmania 9 07/93 was released on the 1st of july, with a new
outfit.
German Loomex joined Byte Busters.
French musician Hydra ex Devils left to be independent.
Crunchy and Fuszy coders amiga+pc sysops THE FACTORY joined TEK.
Diamonds and Rust Cracktro ECS Intro.
code: Wigwam, Hydra fix, gfx: Flite font, logo, music: Hulk Hulk by
DVS by Bright Brick/Devils ProTracker MOD format.
review: The top of the screen has a very pink DR logo, then the rest is
occupied with a space with wobbly wireframe vectors in the background,
over which is laid a pretty standard textplotter. The music is an annoying
chiptune. The bottom right contains a tiny Sceptic signature, to tell
the world who made the intro.
The version reviewed seems to be a presentation of the intro, with
nonsense board adds and saying cracked by xxx, supplied by yyy etc., so it
was almost certainly not used on a crack. Destabilizes my system. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA!
Chipmania 8 1993, .03?, ECS Musicfilemag :
code: Einstein, gfx: Flite, music: Mel O Dee/Shining, Flite/Sceptic,
Grim/Digital, Syn-T-Size/Alpha Flight, Jellybean, Travolta/Spaceballs,
Beathawk, Clawz/Digital, Organic/Shining, ADT/Absolute, Hi-Lite/Scoopex.
Optical Illusions 1993, 30.05, Demo.
Released at The Computer Crossroads 93.
Chipmania 9 1993, 01.07, ECS Musicfile.
editors: Flite, Einstein.
review: This is apparently the first issue of Chipmania with its new
layout, and I must say its pretty nice! Excellent graphics/ascii
design all over, and the content feels solid. For those not familiar with
the series, Chipmania is a sort of combined mini-mag and chipmusic pack.
glenn
Science 451 S451
SWE CDC gfx music, 09/89, Glerc swap, 09/89, Rygar swap trade, 09/89-
92, Seventh gfx, 02/90.
Additional members were mentioned in the Megademo, but these were C64-
only. Swedish coder and cracker Syncro 09/89-02/90, also the coder behind
the utility Syncro-Packer, left for Phenomena around mid 90.
Megademo 1989, .09, ECS Megademo.
code: Syncro, gfx: Syncro, CDC, music: Danko/Fairlight loader, parts 3,
4 and 6, Vicious/MP parts 1, 2 and Megaforce part 5.
review: These guys came from the C64, and it shows. Most of the 6 parts
in this megademo have a very typical C64-look. This fortunately results
in very competent design for the period, since these guys obviously
were among the better on the 64. I suppose the megademo form was a
natural choice for C64 people that migrated to the Amiga, since its
very similar to the 64 demos of the time. They were used to the press
space bar for next part demos.
The music is mostly very good, with four excellent tunes by Danko/FLT.
Theres also two by Vicious/Mp, which are less great :, and a fabulous
tune from Megaforce. This ones ripped, and some of you may remember it
from another golden oldie, Dexions Megademo. Especially noteworthy is
the fact that this old production works on my 030-50 without even the
slightest hint of trouble! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Demo 1990, .02, ECS File.
code: Syncro, gfx: Seventh, music: Onslaught by Maniacs of Noise
Maniacs of Noise format.
review: I dont know what it is about this one, its not particularly
innovative or has stunning artwork or anything, its just the general
FEELING of the thing... Perhaps its the absolutely stunning music? :
Anyway, this feels good...and thats all the reason I need to recommend
it, really! Oh yeah, and its based around vectorbobs and a chessboard,
but who cares? : Feels good! Excellent music!
The music is ripped from the game Onslaught, which they openly admit.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Scoopex SCX, 1989-, http://www.scoopex.org
AUT TMB Severin-Stephan Kittl, 05/90-09/01.
GER Acryl gfx, ex-doublememb Session, new 04/97-06/01, Arancia gfx,
06/01, Fishwave Adrian Jaglarz, editor, ex Sardonyx, 04/98-06/01,
Laxical Joachim Sobczak, ex Vision, old handle Placid, 06/95-06/01,
Nomad raytrace, 12/97-06/01, Noogman gfx, 06/01, Stingray code,
Virgill music, 06/01.
FIN Deck Juuso Salmijarvi, music, 06/01, Ganja Markus Castren, music, ex
Nerve Axis, 06/01, Karpow Seppo Seppala, swap, new early95-06/01.
DEN Decoy Danni Hansen, swap, 10/97-06/01.
FRA Ninja Jean-Pierre Savari, code, ex Paradox, 10/95-06/01.
ITA Metal Designer Antonello Mincone, codepc, 12/98-06/01.
NOR Mermaid Vanja Utne, gfx, new 99-06/01.
??? Alive 06/01, Darklon 06/01, Dylan codepc, 06/01,
Lostcluster codepc, 06/01, Mazor 06/01, Peci codepc, 06/01.
PREVIOUS MEMBERS -
AUT Anty music, ex Energy, new 04-08/89, Atron code, 06/90, Challenger
code crack, 08/89, Corwin Siegfried Stegmller, gfx, 05/90-93, G-
Tronic train, ex Energy, 92, J.O.E gfx, 07/89-93, Osterman music,
ex Energy, new 04-07/89, Picasso ex Energy, new 04/89, Prince code,
05/90, Shark the Master code gfx, 04/89-90, Tech code, 12/92-
03/93, Vectrex code gfx, old handle Brain Matrix, 04/89-90.
FIN Akiro Risto Kivisilta and Dr.Poop sysops NAUSEA, ex Black Jack,
06/95, Bloodstone trade, ex Carillon, later Bloodsuckers, new 11/91,
Braindead swap, Daddy Freddy Samuli Karkiluoma, music swap, 06-
12/95, Deetsay code music, 12/98, Reward gfx, 10/89-11/90, San
Miguel sysop FAR NORTH, 04/95, Talbot sysop TEBOIL, 04/95.
SWE Butch Hugo, org gfx trade, ex The Silents, later DoodlesShock,
04/93, Conan new 12/90, Eddie gfx, new 89, Invid ex Phenomena,
new 12/90, Jesus music, new 89-11/89, Judas ex Phenomena, new
12/90, Merriman code, new 89, Panther code, new 89, Paragon swap,
ex Lando/Spirit, new 08/92, Photon code, ex Phemoena, new 12/90,
Redskin new 12/90, Rille sysop IMAGINE, early93-07/94, Uncle Tom
Thomas Dahlgren, music, 10/89-06/90, Uno gfx, ex Phenomena, new
12/90-93, Zwullo code, new 89.
FRA BKH Georges Mairet, music, ex Anarchy, 03/94, Chuck code, 92,
Conquest Xavier, swap, ex Anarchy, Dr.Feelgood code, 02/94-early95,
Eloy gfx, ex Complex, new late95, Ender raytrace, 10/95, Fred
Frederic Flavion, music, 93, Hysteric swap, new 09/96, Kid gfx,
10/97, NHP Nicolas Vuillier, music, ex Anarchy, 03/94-02/97, Titan
gfx, ex Digital, Zoom gfx, ex Anarchy, 03/94.
AUS The Corporal ex Rebels, new mid 90, The Teacher ex Rebels, new mid
90.
NOR Absurd gfx, ex Stone Arts, 06/95-10/97, Darren Tommy Foss, swap pack
Nam-Nam, ex Highlight/Decnite, 94-10/95, Elmore code gfx, ex
Surprise! Productions, 94, Face The Facts code, ex Dual Crew, old
handle Octoplex, later Vision, Mozell ex Surprise! Productions,
old handle Jim, Mr.Z code sysop, ex Banana Dezign, Stratos
doublememb Grotesticle, 09/95, Viper ex No Limits.
DEN Blackhawk code crack, ex Skid Row, Metalforce ex Skid Row, Tactica
gfx, 12/96-08/97.
GER Case78 Rene Rummel, ascii swap, old handle Gangsta, ex Avantgarde,
triplememb C-Lous and Head!, 06/95-02/97, Crayor sysop SECOM CITY
EHQ, late93-07/94, Gfx-Twins Artur Skotnik and Calvin Golkowski, gfx,
06/96-06/97, Hi-Lite music, ex Surprise! Productions, new 92-02/94,
Mr.King Joerg Gedden, swap pack Nevermind, ex Vision, early94,
Pigeon sysop UNIVERSE, early93.
HUN Renegade swap.
USA Freddy Krueger sysop BOILERS ROOM, 09/90, One Eyed Pirate sysop
THE ADDICTION WHQ, 07/94-04/95, Spazm sysop PROGRAMMERS HEAVEN,
08/92.
??? Birdy ex Disaster Area, new mid 91, Chris fra? 07/95, Cocoon code,
ex DCS, Comet gfx, 03/93, CPC gfx, Darkman, Depeche 92,
Dr.Easton new 01/92, Falcon 92, Harlequin ex LSD, Heiko 92,
Jayce 92, Jojo, Junkfood ex RAF, Kidlove gfx, ex Haujobb, new
early98, Mac Clane code, new early 94, Mack gfx, 93, Merlin
music, 12/94, Nasty new early94, Psycho Demon ex Alpha Flight,
Rat supply, Raxxion code, ex Alpha Flight, 02/93, Saint 92,
Salvatore ex Alpha Flight, Sear gfx, 10/97, Shade gfx, ex
Alcatraz, 02/98, Shithead 92, Skywalker code, ex Nemesis, Smartin
music, 06-07/90, Softmaster 92, Trifox, Tron code, 06-07/90,
Twilight new 01/92, Youri music, new early-11/94, Zyr code train,
04/92.
Boards FLYING DUTCHMAN usa, 09/90, TERRA STATION ger, 09/90, ABSOLUTE
BBS eng, 09/90, KRYPT eng, 09/90, NIGHT LIGHT por, 09/90.
Scoopex is a legendary demo and cracking group, born in Austria early 1989
by members of Megaforce after that group died. Originally under the
leadership of Ranger, the group exists up until today, still under the
slogan Rangerism Isnt Dead! Some of the information below is based on
information from the groups homepage, particularly the news items. Also a
special thanks to TMB for some additional corrections and information.
Corwin was previously known as Shadow/Commandofrontiers on the c64.
1989 - The group was born in the early months of the year, and Crazy
Typers First was likely their first ever release, followed by Crazy Typer
and J.O.Es 2nd. The intro Vectrex 04/89 was released in april,
announcing the joining of austrian ex-Energy members Picasso, Osterman and
Anty. Its coder Brain Matrix liked this name so well, that he changed his
handle to exactly that Vectrex. The Austrian division travelled to the
Piranhas Copy Party in Switzerland at the end of april, but it is believed
that no releases were made perhaps Vectrex?. They did however release
the Mini-Sine Intro 05/89 shortly after returning home, and also the the
Mac Fonts 1 05/89 intro around this time. The group travelled to sweden
for the Digitech - IBB Summer Confence in july or august, and released the
demo Glory Stars 07/89 to a disappointing 16th position. The slideshow
J.O.Es Slideshow 2 07/89 was also released here. The demo Xenomorphs
08/89 was then released in august. This year also spawned two foreign
sections for the group sweden and finland. The swedish division, consisting
of Panther code, Jesus music, Merriman code, Zwullo code and Eddie
gfx, released their first production for the group in the shape of the
one-screen demo Big 89. The members all faded away in time, and a new
swedish division was later born in late 1990. It is possible that at least
Jesus, Eddie and Panther were later together in Surprise! Productions. The
finnish section was born late in the year, and released the groups biggest
demo success so far, Seven Sins 10/89 in october. Austrian coder Crazy
Typer ex Megaforce, 08/89 left the scene late in the year, after releasing
his final production with J.O.Es Slideshow 2 back in july.
The group Share and Enjoy SAE joined sometime during the year
certainly before may as a subgroup, but was kicked after a couple of
months, allegedly due to lameness. Their releases for the group includes
at least the Megademo 89 and Mini-Sine Intro 05/89.
Crazy Typers First 1989, ECS Demo.
Crazy Typer and J.O.Es 2nd 1989, ECS Demo.
130 Bobs 1989, ECS Demo.
136 Bobs 1989, ECS Demo.
165 Bobs 1989, ECS Demo.
190 Bobs 1989, ECS Demo.
205 Bobs 1989, ECS Demo.
209 Bobs 1989, ECS Demo.
Amiga BTX Prerelease 1989, ECS Intro.
code: Crazy Typer, gfx: Joe, music: Sweet Dreams by Maestro 15ch
SoundTracker format.
info: Released AFTER the Energy party in Graz, austria. Unfortunately we
have not yet been able to secure much solid information on this party.
Big 1989, ECS File.
code: Panther, Merriman, gfx: Eddie, music: Xeqtion-Scoopex Swe by Jesus
and Titan/Northstar 15inst SoundTracker format.
review: Big was the first release from the Swedish Division that had
just joined. It features a large grey SCOOPEX logo scrolling around the
middle part of the screen, with a BIG linevector logo spinning over it.
The bottom of the screen features a plain, blue-tinted scroller and four
lines at the top of the screen echo the music. Its typical of its time,
and there are millions of one-screen demos like this. The right
mousebutton switches the lo-pass audio filter and the powerled on or
off, and the joystick button can be used to freeze the scroller. Titan/
Northstar later became Uncle Tom/Scoopex. glenn
The demo will work provided you run it with KillAGA, but it does
destabilize your system after execution.
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- see review!
Blitter Infection 1989, ECS File.
info: Produced by the austrian section.
Bobs in Space 1989, ECS File.
code: Challenger, gfx: n/a, music: Beatmaster by ??? 15inst
SoundTracker format. This intro announces the joining of Challenger, and
the text was written by Shark The Master.
Boys In Blue 1989, ECS Demo.
Megademo 1989, Megademo.
code: Del/SAE, Comrade/SAE, Gremlin/SAE, gfx: J.O.E/Scoopex logo,
Diablo/SAE font, T.I.W bobs, Pete font part 4, Ozone/SAE part 5 and
6, music: Move In Time, Trash, Are You and Whouse by Zing/SAE,
Forcefield and Fairlight by Comrade J, Just Falled In Love by ???
and Spell by Uncle Tom. info: Text by Del and Spex.
Made in cooperation with Share Enjoy, who were a subgroup.
Vectrex 1989, .04, ECS Intro.
code: Shark the Master, Brain Matrix, gfx: Brain Matrix, Shark the Master,
music: Noname by Anty 15inst SoundTracker format.
info: This intro announced the joining of some Energy members Picasso,
Osterman and Anty. The intro can be found on TRIAD Intro Collection disk
15 in 1989.
Laserlight 1989, ECS Demo.
code/gfx: Vectrex, Shark the Master, music: Run The Gauntlet by Uncle
Tom NoiseTracker MOD format. info: Certainly made after april, when
Brain Matrix changed his handle to Vectrex. Lots of line vectors and a
classic tune by Uncle Tom. Does NOT work on AGA machines!
Mini-Sine Intro 1989, .05, ECS Intro.
code: Comrade J, gfx: TIW, music: n/a Sid-Mon format.
Produced by subgroup SAE.
review: This small 20k intro is mildly amusing, with its frantic polka-
style soundtrack and typical sine-scroller-over-multicolor-raster layout.
Underneath the sinescroller is a sideways scrolling starfield, and at the
bottom rests a really basic Scoopex logo. Its somewhat comforting to see
how basic some of the really great ones started out It is likely also
known as English Lessons. The scroller itself contains no credits, just
graphics on the logo give any indication to its true authors... glenn
This intro was found on Horizons Rack-Pack 16 pack, released on the
16th of june 1989, together with Mac Fonts I. It was reportedly released
just after Scoopex returned from a trip to the Piranhas party in
Switzerland, which was held 29-30th of april this year. The release date
is therefore sometime between may and mid june. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA!
Mac Fonts I 1989, .05, ECS Intro.
code/gfx: Shark the Master, Vectrex, music: The Sign by Anty
15inst SoundTracker format.
review: Not a terribly interesting intro unfortunately, this features a
sort of parallax scroll, in that the same scrollfont is put one-over-the
other, three of them, creating a semi-3d look... or at least thats the
idea. In reality it just makes the scroller damn hard to read glenn
This intro was found on Horizons Rack-Pack 16 pack, released on the
16th of june 1989, together with Mini-Sine Intro. It was likely not
released at any party no text inside indicates this. It was tested from
the bootmenu, after a caches off, original chipset boot. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review!
Glory Stars 1989, 08.07, ECS File.
code: Vectrex, gfx: Vectrex, J.O.E logo, music: Scoopex Theme by
Osterman ProTracker MOD format.
16th in the Digitech - IBB Summer Conference 89 demo competition.
info: There is some confusion as to the date the party was held at, see
the history files for additional information.
J.O.Es Slideshow II 1989, 08.07, ECS Slideshow.
code: Crazy Typer, gfx: J.O.E, music: The Story Is True by Osterman
NoiseTracker MOD format.
Released at the Digitech - IBB Sunner Conference 89.
info: J.O.Es pictures here are called Pan2, Pilot, Thalamus, Girl,
Spaceship, CastleMix, Helicopter, Island, Logo, Menace, Scoopex Logo,
Baal, Space 2 and Castle.
Xenomorphs 1989, .08, ECS File.
code: Challenger, gfx: J.O.E. font, music: The Emboldment by Anty,
Choose Jesus by Walkman/IT both NoiseTracker MOD format.
info: A sort of different bob demo - instead of trying to put as many 4
color 16x16 bobs onscreen as possible, J.O.E. made a lot of different 32
color larger bobs.
Seven Sins 1989, .10, ECS File.
code: Slayer, gfx: Reward logos, font, music: Occ-San-Geen by Uncle
Tom NoiseTracker MOD format.
review: I must admit I was very impressed with this demo coded by SLAYER.
The presentation is almost faultless, this is one of those progressive
demos which introduces new effects as time moves on. However here we have
a basis of a simple starfield a couple of copper bars bordering the
action, and a truly excellent soundtrack composed by UNCLE TOM, on top
of which just a single effect runs, a new one fading in as the previous
one disappears. It starts out like a movie with the credits and titles
here we get to see the graphical talents of REWARD. Amongst the visuals
thrown at us are a proportional sine-scroller, some vector balls another
sine-scroller but with a large font which also moves in the horizontal
direction, and some very smooth large solid 3D convex objects. The solid
3D is technically very impressive, each of the objects is in 3 bitplanes
8 colours and all but very large objects run in just one frame. This is
achieved by using what are called Convex objects. This eliminates the need
to calculate plane priorities, and you can fill the object all in one
operation. In all I would say this rates as one of the best demos I have
seen in a long while, and I congratulate SLAYER for this, his first demo
for SCOOPEX FINLAND. anonymous
Just Filled 1989, .11, ECS File.
code: Vectrex, gfx: Vectrex, Shark the Master, music: Martin Short by
Jesus NoiseTracker MOD format. info: This was released some weeks before
Amiga in Kologne, held in november.
Glory Stars II Paramounts Revenge 1989, late, ECS File.
code: Shark The Master, Vectrex, gfx: Reward, music: Savannah by Uncle
Tom ProTracker MOD format, Trashcan Theme by Daryl/? SidMon format,
16154 bytes.
review: This whole demo is really a gigantic piss-off message to the
cracking group Storm After a a small introductory section that appears
to be there mainly to imitate a non-working crack from Storm, we get just
a small multi-colored starfield with overlaid text. After some pages of
this, a counter appears counting down to 0 and we are taken to the
mainpart of the demo. This is actually very good with a mountain in the
background and vector stars flying around. A great scoopex logo is at the
top of the screen, and an equally great-looking scroller at the bottom.
The chiptune in the intro is better than the soundtracker tune in the main
part.
Some confusion exists over this demos release date the scoopex
homepage says 1989, while Zegs encyclopedia says it was released in 1990.
You can choose at the very beginning of the demo to see it in english or
german. glenn
1990 - At the Swedish Elite Easter Conference in april, the finnish
section released Mental Hangover 04/90, one of - if not THE - most
important demos in history. It won the competition, but more importantly it
defined a new genre in demos - Trackmos. Suddenly, Scoopex was a leading
group in the demo scene! The Austrian section followed this with demos like
Beast Sonix 05/90, Green Surprise 06/90 and Elefant 06/90 in the
following months. Around the middle of the year perhaps may? two
Australian members, Bigot20 and Syntech, were kicked. The Australian section
was then reinforced with The Corporal and The Teacher from Rebels. Then all
English members left to form Genesis with former members of Oracle. Their
German board HIGH SOCIETY was closed toweards the end of the year. Lowtec
left to join Angels late in the year. The last demo release of the year was
Slayers Chromium 11/90 at the Halloween party in november, a demo that
was said to be disappointing to many when it first arrived, but today is
mentioned favourably as one of the first demos to successfully synchronize
its effect to the music. Sadly, it was to be Slayers final release for the
group, as he left the scene after being drafted to the finnish army. After
Uno/Phenomenas contribution to Chromium, he gfx, Photon code, Judas
and Invid all joined Scoopex a month later, in december. Also swedish
Redskin joined this month. Musician Uncle Tom Tomas Dahlgren also rejoined
from Razor 1911 in december, but unfortunately he slowly faded away from the
scene, and never contributed to another production though a few of his old
tunes were used in productions upto 1992. Perhaps his greatest legacy to
the scene - and a piece of music that will forever echo in the minds of
amiga demo lovers everywhere - is his fantastic Madness Took Me from
Mental Hangover 04/90.
Hangover - Bobs 1990, ECS Disk.
code: Slayer, gfx: Reward, Uno, music: Uncle Tom, Jochen Hippel/
independent, SLL/Bamiga Sector One?
info: It is highly doubtful if Uno was a real member at this point, he was
likely still in Phenomena, and didnt join until december.
Megademo II 1990, ECS Megademo, 3 disks.
info: Produced by the german section.
Mental Hangover 1990, 15.04, ECS Trackmo.
code: Slayer, gfx: Reward, music: Madness Took Me by Uncle Tom
ProTracker MOD format.
Winner of the Swedish Elite Easter Conference demo competition!
info: Amazing demo that changed the way we look at the demoscene forever.
Professional in every respect, it made instant superstars of its makers -
especially coder Slayer. This was the first ever trackmo, and set
standards that echoed throughout all subsequent demos. Perhaps the most
important demo ever, and an obvious Demo of the Year here in Scenery.
The demo originally did not work on AGA machines, but a fixfile was
eventually released to AmiNet by Galahad/Fairlight.
Intro 1990, .04, ECS Intro.
Beast Sonix 1990, 06.05, ECS Musicdisk.
code: Prince, gfx: Corwin, music: David Whittaker ripped.
info: This is a presentation of music by David Whittaker, ripped from the
game Shadow of the Beast. All the files can easily be ripped with
Exoticripper from this : Apparently the first production from the Vienna
department of Scoopex. They announce their next production will be Green
Surprise 06/90.
Green Surprise 1990, .06, ECS File.
code: Atron, gfx: Corwin, music: Labyrinth.sfx.2 by Uncle Tom
ProTracker MOD format.
Elefant 1990, 30.06, ECS File.
code: Atron, gfx: Reward, music: Scoopexsong by Smartin ProTracker MOD
format. Released for the Amiga Conference 90 demo competition.
Chromium 1990, 03.11, ECS Demo.
code: Slayer, gfx: Reward, Uno/Phenomena, music: Chromium by Maso/
Accession ProTracker MOD format.
Released for the Amiga Halloween Conference 90 demo competition.
info: Slayers first demo after the wildly successful Mental Hangover
04/90, and also his last demo ever. Uno only did the decrunching
picture. Another pioneer demo, in that it was among the first to
successfully synchronize the music to the effects.
1991 - This year signified a big change, when original organizer Ranger
Peter, also sysop WORLD OF WODKA stepped down, and a new man was put in
charge: Austrian sysop Trade NO RESPECT. Following the joining of some
members in december of last year, a full swedish section was built. The
English division of the group died around May and its leader Turmoil Nick
left the scene no information on what happened to their cracker Electra ex
Slipstream, 07/90, but at least he is no longer with the group. This year
also featured several memorable releases, perhaps most notably the groups
collaboration with Phenomena and Rebels on the legendary musicdisk Crystal
Symphonies 91. The demo Vector Fart 2 07/91 is the only one, to our
knowledge, that was released for a competition this year. It was released
for the demo competition at the Byterapers - Scoopex - Bloodsuckers
Gathering 91, but was unplaced in the demo competition. Other releases this
year was the Stunner Dentro 91 and Import Intro 10/91. German sysop
Andy DINKELATORS PALACE, 10/91 joined Spreadpoint late this year.
Norwegians Jawbreaker code, Pal gfx, both ex Razor 1911 old and Perplex
code joined to form the norwegian section in october, but all quickly left
again, likely in november, to form Offence. This led to the death of the
initial Norwegian division, but a new one was later formed.
Crystal Symphonies 1991, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk.
Cooperation with Phenomena and Rebels, see Phenomenas entry for review.
Stunner Dentro 1991, ECS File.
code: Photon, gfx: Uno, music: Just Spank It by Firefox/Phenomena
NoisePacker 2 format.
review: An preview for a demo that was never released, and also an
announcement for the formation of the new swedish section. Features a
glenz vector and a good old text-scroller. Will run on unexpanded A500.
Vector Fart 2 1991, 27.07, ECS File.
Released for the Byterapers - Scoopex - Bloodsuckers Gathering 91 demo
competition, but was unplaced.
Import Intro 1991, 19.10, ECS Intro.
code: Jawbreaker, gfx: Uno green logo, J.O.E font, music:
Electricity by Ron Klaren/Critical custom format.
info: J.O.Es font is the same as the one used in the Xenomorphs 08/89
demo. Used as an import intro for at least the game Ishido. The release
date above reflects this release. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
1992 - This was a poor year for demo production in Scoopex The musicdemo
Smooth Chimes 92, the demo Seen Before 11/92, the intro Too Late
92 and the intro The Party 2 40k Intro 12/92, as well as four issues
of the chartmag World Charts, were the only releases. In addition, their
subgroup Surprise! Productions also made a few productions. This group,
previously holding a similar position in TRSI, was kicked after half a year.
The sole exception was coder Spycatcher, who was offered a position with
Scoopex. January some of this possibly happened as early as december last
year was an eventful month Angeldawn, Autopsy, Tiger and a few other
members from Model joined Scoopex, taking the chartmag World Charts with
them Octoplex changed his handle to Face The Facts Bulldog left geman
sysop Bomber joined from Crusaders with PEARL HARBOUR, but left again
after only a short while Dr.Easton and Twilight joined. Swedish coder
Protec ex Photon/Phenomena, new 12/90 left the scene to code games early
in the year. His sole contribution to the group was the announcement intro
Stunner Dentro 91, as far as we can find. American sysop Planet Master
THE EDGE, 08/92 left for The Silents to be their new WHQ sometime
between august and october. Finnish sysop Zebra THE ZOO, 07/91- left for
Damones sometime after august this year. The Party 2 40k Intro 12/92 was
released at The Party this year, the debut productions by new coders Tech
and Antibyte, who would later play a significant part in the further history
of Scoopex.
Smooth Chimes 1992, ECS Musicintro.
code: n/a, gfx: Angel Dawn, music Smooth Chimes by Hi-Lite.
review: Smooth Chimes is actually not a demo at all, just a presentation
of a tune by Hi-Lite, and the scrolltext has only one line: contribution
for the music-competition by hi-lite of scoopex. The entire rest of the
screen is occupied with a *LOT* of small colorful blenk-vector cubes, and
a very cool Scoopex logo by Angel Dawn not credited, but it bears his
initials runs down the left hand side of the screen. The text Smooth
Chimes - composed by - Hi-Lite of Scoopex is plotted in approximately the
middle of the screen, and the aforementioned scroller runs along the
bottom of the screen. This gives a nice impression, but is hardly a real
production... We have no information on the party where this was released,
supposedly the Possessed Party in 1992. glenn
Too Late 1992, ECS Intro.
info: By the german section.
World Charts 5 1992, early, ECS Chartmag.
code: n/a, gfx: Angeldawn, music: Hardcore by Static/Rebels PRoTracker
MOD format, editor: Autopsy.
review: Angeldawns graphics are the first thing that grabs me about WC5.
Ive always been a fan, his stuff has that little extra edge... The second
thing youll notice is the fact that its controlled not by the mouse, but
with the keyboard! Cursor keys and return guide you around the different
menus, and tell you what crackers and releases were the best and worst in
the early days of 1992 : WC5 is adequate, but not terribly outstanding.
They promise a new outfir for the next issue, which they also delivered. I
do miss some more precise credits and some more text! glenn
Despite using KillAGA there are some graphical strangeness around...but
the charts are fully usable, as well as readable.
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- see review!
World Charts 6 1992, 19.04, ECS Trackloaded Charts.
code: Thomas Kessler Tom/Spreadpoint, gfx: Angel Dawn, music: Toi-Tei
by Uncle Tom ProTracker MOD format, editor: Autopsy.
Released at the Eastern Conference 92.
review: This rather old chart features stunning graphics for its time
and one of Uncle Toms all-time greatest tunes. Its really a shame he
left the scene if he was making stuff like this in 92, god knows what
he could have come up with today! Anyway, this features mostly crack-
and modem-related charts, so interest for legal-minded people might be
low. Worth getting just for the tune. On the 030 AGA machine, the music
routine doesnt play correctly. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Music bugs.
World Charts 7 1992, 19.06, ECS Chartmag.
code: Tom/Spreadpoint, gfx: Angel Dawn, music: Hi-Lite/S!P, editor:
Autopsy.
World Charts 8 1992, ECS Chartmag.
code: Tom/Spreadpoint, gfx: n/a, music: Worldcharts by Arpegiator
ProTraker MOD format. info: There is a secret part in this mag, type
SIRBYH to access it. It features music from the game Hybris.
The Gamble Hall BBS Intro 1992, late, ECS Intro.
Cooperation with Disaster Area, see their entry for details.
Seen Before 1992, .11, ECS 1MB File.
code: Spycatcher, gfx: Angel Dawn logo, Spycatcher, Mongole font,
music: Pyromania and Purple-Shades by Hi-Lite/S!P ProTracker MOD
format. info: The release date is given as some weeks before The Party
92. There is a secret part in the demo. Wont work on AGA or 3.0+
machines.
The Party 2 40K 1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Tech, Antibyte, gfx: Godflesh, music: Purple-Shades by Hi-Lite
ProTracker MOD format. 4th in The Party 92 40k intro competition.
1993 - Lots of releases were made early this year, most from Antibyte with
the help of Tech - among them were two invitation intros for the Cebit 93
Invitation - a party they also hosted in march - and the Official
invitation Eastern Conference 93 intro for the SEMI Party in austria in
april. American sysops Voyager and Snow Queen FASTTRAX WHQ left early
this year. At The Gathering, two releases were made, none of which were for
the competitions. Norwegians Jaz and Decker released the music disk Scoopex
Plays 2 Unlimited 04/93, which proved mildly successful for the group,
while new member Colorbirds intro Cageball 04/93 was a relatively
uninteresting affair. At the SEMI Party itself, that same weekend, Antibyte
and Tech released the SCX-NRG-MTU Party 40k Intro 04/93. Just a few
weeks after the easter holidays, both Jaz code and Decker gfx ended
their memberships, leaving for Andromeda. Other releases this year was the
intro Ectobyte and the demo Maxima from Flasher Jack and the french
section. Frenchmen Acid gfx and Flasher Jack code left late this year or
early next, and were at least in Paradox in april of 94.
Ectoplazm BBS moves to Hallowed Point 1993, ECS Intro.
code: Antibyte, gfx: Butch logo, Uno font, music: Necronomicon by
Hi-Lite/Surprise! Productions ProTracker MOD format.
Pha Q - Lameness Took Me 1993, ECS Multifile.
code: Antibyte, Tech, gfx: Mack, J.O.E., Uno, Made, Nightlight wooden
logo, Corwin made in austria logo, music: Mind-Distortion by Hi-Lite,
Beastsong and Ambiance by Fred ProTracker MOD format.
review: The only reason why you might want this is a couple of logos the
bootlogo and Mades end logo, and not much else. I never found it very
interesting, since its so AVERAGE. Music and coding fails to excite me.
Though its multifile, it still requires the custom bootblock to boot.
It has a hidden part, which you can access if you look on the disks
directory. One the files is the one to execute. If you wonder about the
name, then try to say it very slowly - it should sound like FUCK YOU.
glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Maxima 1993, early, ECS File.
code: Flasher Jack, gfx: Acid, Uno logo, CPT, music: Occasions of Sin
by Hi-Lite FC-M format.
review: The demo opens with a good Scoopex logo by Acid. The next cool
thing on display after some vector letters fly from right to left is a
large SCX logo made out of vectors...which updates terribly jerky on my
030-50 : Hmmm... Is this realtime? I think not. The cheats of yesterday
to make things seem like they run faster than they do are the downfalls
of today, when they run at a fraction of the speed they could!
Another nice part has a sphere increasing and decreasing in size, until
it sort of spacecuts a great pixeled Scoopex logo by Uno! Also the
good, fast shade bobs of the end part are worth a mention. Unfortunately,
the demo cannot be exited, and you have to reboot every time youve
watched it.
Overall, Maxima leaves me with a very good feeling. This is a
nice little demo with some really excellent artwork and music. Theres
some reasonably good pixels here, and the comeback Scoopex logo by Uno
is rather cool. The credits part still had some graphical errors on my
setup, even with KillAGA running. Uno and CPT are mentioned as guest
artists. The demo requires mb chip and mb fast to work. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: KillAGA.
Official invitation Eastern Conference 93 1993, early, ECS Intro.
code: Antibyte, gfx: Uno scx logo, Cruzifix nrg logo, music:
Silent Attack by WOTW/Gothic ProTracker MOD format.
Invitation to the SEMI Easter Party 93.
review: As far as invitation intros go, this is hardly the most advanced
one seen. After an introductory sequence with a little text and some
logos, a morphing text plotter appears. Its ok, and does what its
supposed to, but theres nothing extraordinary.
Depacking the file and hex-reading it reveals a text message from coder
Antibyte. Cheer up, man! The party was held at easter time, so this intro
was presumably released in the first part of 1993. No credit given for the
Manitou logo. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: KillAGA!
CeBIT 93 Invitation 1 1993, .02, ECS File.
code: Raxxion, gfx: Decker, music: C64Medley by n/a sa format.
Invitation to CeBIT 93.
CeBIT 93 Invitation 2 1993, .03, ECS File.
code: Antibyte, Tech, gfx: Comet intropic, Uno logo, music: Madness
by Hi-Lite ProTracker MOD format. Invitation to CeBIT 93.
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04 -- Note: Works fine.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Does not work.
Cageball 1993, 08.04, ECS Intro.
code: Colorbird, gfx: Butch, music: Pip6.1 by Some1 Prime ProTracker
MOD format. Released at The Gathering 93.
review: Just an intro logo at top, textwriter over cageball effect.
Nothing exceptional here, and a really pointless production. Only
significant for the fact that it announces the joining of new swedes
Colorbird, Some1 and Prime. There are graphical errors on my 030
configuration, even with KillAGA, but the intro itself works fine despite
this. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review!
Scoopex Plays 2 Unlimited 1993, 09.04, ECS 1MB Musicdisk, 2 disks.
code: Jaz, gfx: Decker, music: Uncle Tom loadertune, Jaz cover
versions.
Released at The Gathering 93.
info: This cover version musicdisk includes the tunes Workaholic, Get
Ready and Twilight Zone from 2 Unlimited. Caches off for 020+ machines.
This was Jaz and Deckers last release for Scoopex, since they both left
for Andromeda later this month.
SCX-NRG-MTU Party 40k Intro 1993, 10.04, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Antibyte, Tech, gfx: Butch 1st logo, Angel Dawn 2nd logo,
music: Purple Shades by Hi-Lite. Released at the SEMI Easter Party 93.
review: Mostly dot-effects are presented here, with dots morphing to form
letters, dot-cubes, a circlescroller in dots and lots and lots of dot-
balls. The only break from the dots, it seems, is the starwars scroller
presented towards the end of the intro. This has some graphical errors on
the 030 machine, probably because of the faster processor ran with
KillAGA, so the graphics shouldnt be a problem. Nothing outstanding.
glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review!
1994 - In 1994 Trade stepped down as leader of the group, and turned the
leadership over to another Austrian coder Antibyte. He has not yet been
replaced. Norwegian graphician Absurd ex Suspiria, 04/94 joined Stone Arts
and was there in december of this year, but rejoined early next year. The
intro Laziness Took Me 02/94 was released in february, closely followed
by the 3-disk musicdisk Scoopex Melodies 03/94 in march. The 64k intro
Halloween 04/94 was released for the Saturne Party 2 intro competition,
where it finished in fourth place. German swapper and graphician Plasma Lee
Wijant, ex Vision got kicked due to inactivity late in the year. The AGA
intros No Human Vibes 11/94 and And Love For All 12/94 rounded off
the year.
Apart from this, also some issues of Mr.Kings packmag Nevermind was
released this year. A pc section was formed, and released a small dentro
called Forbidden Areas 07/94, featuring the graphical talents of Made.
Chillin Arabians 1994, Intro.
SAC 1994, Intro.
info: By the Norwegian section.
Laziness Took Me 1994, .02, ECS Intro.
code: Dr.Feelgood, gfx: Made, music: Trance4mate by Hi-Lite/S!P
protected ProTracker MOD format.
review: Short and slightly dull, this intro features nothing new. Theres
a logo by Made down the left side of the screen, which is not really his
best work by far. The music by Hi-Lite is also a disappointing,
monotonous affair. The code here consists only of a text plotter and a
filled vector spinning star in the background. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Scoopex Melodies 1994, .03, Musicdisk, 3 disks.
code: Spycatcher, gfx: Made, Zoom, music: NHP and BKH.
info: The tunes featured are WM-Intronhp by NHP, Ode, Oz,
Epsonic, Zoocolors, Aces High, Fairyland, The Fly, Hadrians
Wall and Kinky Single by NHP and BKH.
Halloween 1994, 23.04, 64k Intro.
code: Mac Clane, gfx: Made textures, music: Youri.
4th in the Saturne Party 2 64k intro competition.
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Nam-Nam 1 Pack Menu 1994, late, ECS Intro.
code: Elmore, gfx: Absurd, Elmore, music: Vegard.
review: Pack menu for Darrens then-new pack Nam-Nam. All the warez are
from the Assembly 94, so it was obviously released at the party, or soon
after. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
No Human Vibes 1994, .11, AGA Intro.
code: McLane, gfx: Made, music: NHV by Youri ProTracker MOD format.
And Love For All 1994, .12, AGA Intro.
code: Dr.Feelgood, gfx: Made, music: Oxbow.
info: Will work on unexpanded A1200s.
1995 - This year signified a second birth for the group. New organizer
Antibyte undertook a major cleanup in the group, reducing the amount of
members from over 100 to a more normal 20 people. This included old legends
like Slayer Tommi Junttila and Uncle Tom, that never officially left the
group, but were now finally removed from the memberlist. The results of this
cleanup was a more focused, more quality-oriented group that gave the scene
some quite memorable releases this year. Norwegian graphician Absurd
rejoined from Stone Arts in the early months. Norwegian graphician and
swapper Snuffy ex Cadaver left to be independent in may. The demo Alien
06/95 was released at Abduction 95, and came 2nd in the competition.
Mades slideshow Artcore 07/95 followed in july. After this, the
chippack Noname 95 came out. At Assembly in august Ninjas demo Iso
came 3rd. December came with The Party, and the group released two intros
this year Ninjas FreeYourMind 12/95 and Antibytes Zero Gravity
12/95 - placing 3rd and 11th respectively. The intro 666 Dont Forget
The Sign 95 was also released this year, though the exact release date
is a little more uncertain. Not content with his impeccable slideshow
Artcore, French graphician Made early 94-07/95 left for Bomb! sometime
between the months of july and october.
666 Intro: Dontt Forget The Sign 1995, autumn, ECS File.
code: Dr. Feelgood, gfx: Made, music: 666.the number by Oxbow.
review: Rather fun, this, though it gets a bit monotonous after a while.
It opens with a typical Melon design, only to suddenly transform into a
heavy-metal hell with screeching guitars and suitable design. Theres
text that appears on screen in time to the music, but - at least on my
machine - it sometimes moves so fast its impossible to read. Then were
on to some more Melon-y design for the end part with a vertical scroller
that can be stopped with the right mousebutton. Fun, but forgettable.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Alien 1995, 11.06, AGA File.
code: Antibyte, gfx: Made, Absurd, music: Laxical The Player 6.1A
format. 2nd in the Abduction 95 demo competition.
review: Graphics and sound are the best things about ALIEN - a demo that
has no logical links to its name. The show opens with an excellent
Scoopex logo by Made, with some text zooming in and out over it. Then the
Alien logo appears, which is of a much lesser quality. Next were given
some effects, like a cube which has zoomrotators of an eye texturemapped
onto them - moving independently of each other! This is a nice effect, as
is the morphing skull. The gouraud stuff here seems a little premature
and blocky - like the early gouraud in Razor 1911s Falu Red Color
intro. The standard filled vectors here are much better. Overall, Id say
youd want to get this for the graphics and music - not for the code.
The picture Braindamage by Absurd, which appears halfway through the
demo, seems distorted. I also had a crashing experience with the 4mb fast
setup, though what caused it is uncertain. Alien will work on an
unexpanded A1200, but an accelerator is recommended. Alien 2 12/98 was
released in 1998, and won The Party 98 demo competition. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Artcore 1995, 14.07, AGA Multifile Slideshow.
code: Psy, gfx: Made, Chris design, music: Oxbow The Player 6.1A
format.
review: Ok, this blew me away. From a very acceptable introduction
sequence, with an ok logo and a beating heart soundtrack, youre shown
the excellent title picture. Then, you get to the selector. And *WHAT* a
selector! Its actually a Doom clone, and you travel around the dungeons
searching for pictures! Ofcourse, theres an autoslide button to be
pushed in the room you begin in... This selector method is both good and
bad. Obviously, it looks great! The drawback, however, is that with all
the wall textures pretty much identical, you get lost all too easily.
An overlayed map function would have helped tredemendously, but then
again - this is a slideshow and not a commercial game! Ok, over to the
main focal point of any slideshow - graphics. Mades pictures here can
only be described in one word - outstanding! When you travel around, and
find a picture, you see its name in a small status box, and the
resolution and numbers of colors used on the right. I was actually
astonished to find that most of these pictures were in 64 or, in some
cases, as little as 32 colors! I was only able to find one 256 color
picture here... One major drawback with many of Mades pictures is the
fact that theyre copies of pictures thats even been done before...and
in many cases better. Hes asking for trouble when hes trying to top
Fade Ones awesome rendition of the girl and the antilope ? in the
water, that he did in his slideshow for Lego Never Liked Uno 04/94.
Anyway, this has to be my longest review ever! Conclusion: Totally
fucking outstanding. Download. Oh, and the musics excellent!
There is a hidden part to be found through the maze at the end of
gallery hall one - the hidden zone. Here youll find an animated levert
and a lot of text describring the slides, announcing greets, addresses and
the like. Pressing both mouse buttons simultaneously exits the slideshow.
Will work on unexpanded A1200s. glenn+zito
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Noname 1995, AGA Musicfile.
code: Antibyte, gfx: Absurd, Vegard, music: Oxbow, Vegard, Laxical, Daddy
Freddy. info: This little production was released sometime after Artcore
07/95. The tunes are: Abundance of Aunts, Arabian Beat, Bye Bye
Marmaris, Ellef Chip III, Ellef Chip IV, Ellef Chip V, Ellefs
Fight, Juicy Cut, Nothing But Dust, Short But Sad and Synthetik
Chip Town by Oxbow Amberworld, Aquatic, Billy Is Dead, Kids
Garden and Purple Turtle by Vegard World in Short, Braindamaged,
Braindamaged II, Braindamaged III, Downfall Nearby, Holy Slayer
III, Lets Chip It Again, Lets Go El Paso, Naja, Synthetic Style,
Trainer For One and Trainer For Two by Laxical Teadrop In A Pot,
Strawberry Theme, Veli Nopea, Pitchfork Jack, Pekkas Journey,
Keeping The Faith, Der Steppenwolf, Counterblow, Black Ice, B Y O
B, Are You Excited? and She Contorted Herself by Daddy Freddy.
Iso 1995, 08.10, AGA Trackmo, 2 disks.
code: Ninja, gfx: Made/Bomb, Ender intro raytrace, music: Oxbow.
3rd in the Party Remedy 95 demo competition.
review: A BIG demo from the French guys, who were unfortunately beaten by
two Swedish groups at a Swedish party. Thats a long way to travel for
the bitter taste of defeat... Anyway, this demo is above average in
every respect. When you boot the first disk, youre shown some
information about your system, like processor and memory available.
When the loading is complete, the demo itself starts with a raytraced
animation, with the names of the creators flashing up at regular
intervals. The demo itself consists of LOTS of good, advanced effects.
The music by Oxbow is the usual techno, except for the endtune which is a
funk tune, much in the style of what Moby did for Sanitys Arte 1993.
The endpart is quite interesting in itself, really, with its amazingly
smooth plain vectors flying around in the background. The upscroller can
be paused with the right mousebutton, though the demo does not mention it.
Theres also several great pictures by Made here, but then youd pretty
much expect him to make great pictures, wouldnt you? The demo recognizes
a second disk drive and a third, for all I know :, so theres no
annoying diskswap pauses. Booting the second disk brings up a small
graphical display informing us its the second disk. This was Ninjas
first release for Scoopex. Will work on unexpanded A1200s.
With harddrives now the standard, this was perhaps the LAST great
trackmo, and the end of an era? At the Assembly summer party the
following year, a sequel was presented, called Cyberia - Iso Opus II.
It was a harddisk demo, and nowhere near as good as this one. glenn
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
FREEyourMIND 1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Ninja, gfx: Made/Bomb, music: Daddy Freddy Promizer 2 format.
3rd in The Party 95 40k intro competition.
review: An impressive intro this, no doubt about that. I love that face
pressing out from object thing. Theres plenty envmapping, good graphics
and fabulous music. Still, why does it stop so abruptly? Will work on
unexpanded A1200s. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Zero Gravity 1995, 28.12, 40k Intro.
code: Antibyte, gfx: Uno, music: Caacaophoniahappo by Deck The Player
6.1A format. 11th in The Party 95 40k intro competition.
review: Pretty much a standard 2-effect intro this, the only possible
innovation being the phong-shading. Its not - by far - the best routine
of its type, but not the worst either. The intro opens with a reasonably
cool picture by Uno, of a mean-looking eye and a Scoopex logo. Then the
phong routine is introduced, and were given a donut with a star inside,
plus a duck. Then were given a zoomrotated, stretching version of the
eye from the intro. Then theres a rather pointless effect, a tunnel of
pink and light blue circles, before were given one last look at the pic.
The music is monotonous and not very exciting. Still, its far better
than the irritating piece he did for the sequel, Zero-G 2! I found an
error message for reporting not enough memory, but none for AGA.
Therefore, Im refraining from categorizing this as either an ECS or
AGA intro. Runs on unexpanded A1200s. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
1996 - Turkish graphician Kris left for Clique in june. Lots of member
movement in october talented danish coder Boogeyman joined from Passion
Motion and TNT left Alias sold his Amiga and finally Gangsta renamed to
Case78. Come november, musician Deck sold his amiga and bought a pc he and
Oxbow were moved over to the pc section. Other news in november was that
danish Scope coder of a.o. MagBox for Balance joined from Passion and
Balance, that JCS was out of the group, and the release of the 64k intro
Quantum 11/96 Ninja/Made/Deck at the Saturne Party to a disappointing
9th position. The official Scoopex homepage was launched in december, done
by Tactica. At The Party at the the end of the month, the 40k intro Zero
Gravity 2 12/96 Antibyte/Made/Deck came 2nd in the competition.
Boogeymans debut production, the dentro Satyanarayan 12/96
Boogeyman/Made/Tactica/Deck was also released at The Party, but outside
the competition.
Abduction 96 Invitation 1996, 18.05, AGA File.
code: Ninja, gfx: Made/Bomb, music: Oxbow The Player 6.1A format.
info: Invitation intro, with the credits page showing the producers as
caricatures!
Cyberia - ISO Opus 2 1996, 18.08, AGA 4MB HD Multifile.
code: Ninja, gfx: Made/Bomb, music: Doft.
6th in the Assembly 96 demo competition. Cooperation with Bomb.
review: Disappointment. Thats the word Id use to describe the follow-up
to the excellent Iso 10/95 trackmo! It seems theyve lost the touch
that Iso had, and have instead come up with a an advanced, but bland and
boring demo. The effects may be harder to code, but that doesnt
automatically make them cooler to look at! This is a horror example of a
demo with no identity of its own, just effects linked one after the
other... This is not what I expect from a 2.8mb archived HD demo from
Ninja and Made!
There are two full-screen pictures by Made in this demo, the second one
being Babylona, which won the graphics competition at this very party.
The musician, Doft, delivers a bland and uninteresting tune. Its like
hes trying to sound like Deck who sounds awful in his own right - and
fails... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Quantum 1996, .11, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Ninja, gfx: Made, music: Deck The Player 6.1A format.
9th in the Saturne Party 4 64k intro competition. Cooperation with Bomb!
review: 2 days and 64k, it says in the intro. I dont disbelieve that for
a second. I do, however, think that I would think more highly of Ninja
and Made had they NOT made this emberassing intro. The only one who gets
out of this one with some credibility is Finnish musician Deck, whose
involvement can surely have been no more than their just using his tune.
This looks just awful and jerks like hell even on my 030. Requires a
little fast mem, I guess - I had to reset to make it work. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Zero Gravity 2 1996, 28.12, AGA 4MB 40k Intro.
code: Antibyte, gfx: Made, music: Deck The Player 6.1A format.
2nd in The Party 96 40k intro competition.
review: This intro is good in parts, and less so in others. The stars of
the show are some more shaded objects, this time with the innovation
that theres some animated precalced? object in the background also.
The music gets on your nerves after a while, and Mades graphics limit
themselves to a mediocre font. The competition must have been abysmal.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Satyranarayanan 1996, 28.12, AGA Dentro.
code: Boogeyman, gfx: Made, Tactica background, music: Deck The Player
6.1A format. Released at The Party 96.
1997 - January sees danish musician Prophet ex-Subject/BalancePassion
joining, and Splatterhead rejoining. Another dane followed in february, with
the joining of graphician Prowler/ex-Passion. At the very end of march came
the high-point of the year for most Germans with the Mekka Symposium party
only a sixth position in the demo competition was achieved this year, with
Antibytes The Sign 03/97. April saw the joining of danish swapper
Decoy Puzzle doublemember, german graphician Acryl/ex Session and another
dane Bird/Rebels. A fix for The Sign on 060 processors was also released
this month. Calvin, one half of the Gfx-Twins, left the scene in May. An
intro for Sardonyx diskmag, Seenpoint 5 Intro 05/97 was done by
Antibyte. June came with the Abduction 97 party in Finland, and the 64k
intro Phorce 06/97 came 2nd in the competition by a single point! Scope
left Jesper Girtz Behrens the scene this month, but they were reinforced
with Nomad, Fishwave and not least polish graphician Lazur from Anadune! At
the Wired 97 party in july, the intro Performance 07/97 won the
competition! Assembly came in august, and the intro Zero-G III came 2nd in
the competition. Deck came 7th in the music competition. Calvin of Gfx-Twins
returned to the scene! September came with more happy news, as Stelios/Axis
decided to rejoin Scoopex. The Chip-music collection Gosh 10/97 was
released in october, and the big news this month was that also Syntax code
and Sane editor, both ex Sardonyx had now joined their main editor
Fishwave in Scoopex, and that future issues of their diskmag Seenpoint
would be released under this label! Also, Decoy left Puzzle to be in Scoopex
only. November saw restless Stelios leave the group once again, this time
for Sonik. Other news this month was that french swapper Chris Christophe
Kumor, 94- left to be in Bomb! only, which he had been a doublemember of,
Acryl leaving the scene, and scoopex management deciding to downsize the
group. As a result of this, Oxbow and Thorin are no longer members. Finally
december came, and with it The Party. The demo My Kingdom in cooperation
with Haujobb WON the demo competition, Antibytes intro Superautodrome
WON the intro competition, and both Seenpoint 7 12/97 and Lazurs
slideshow 5977 12/97 was released. The demo was not released at the
party, but was taken home for some final fixing first. Kidlove/Haujobb, 2nd
in the graphics competition at TP, joined a few days later. Ninja decided to
take a break from the scene.
EC30 Intro 1997, Intro.
The Sign 1997, 30.03, AGA Demo.
6th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition.
Phorce 1997, 06.06, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Antibyte, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
2nd in the Abduction 97 64k intro competition.
info: The intro is subtitled: Zero Gravity 2 Remix.
Performance 1997, 19.07, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Krishna, gfx: Tenshu/Syndrome 2d + 3d, music: Scoop by
Traven/Syndrome ProTracker MOD format.
Winner of the Wired 97 intro competition!
review: Despite being a party winner, there is really little to this one-
effect intro. Everything is based around Krishnas envmap routine, from
the opening SCOOPEX logo to the names of the three authors to the title of
the intro. Then follows two mediocre objects, and finally a bird object
with quite a lot of polygons...and then nothing. Probably extremely well
coded, but oh so dull... The music quickly gets very tedious and
monotonous. The info file mentions the intro will NOT work on 040 or 060
cards! Why? glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Zero-G III 1997, 09.08, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Antibyte, Boogeyman, gfx: Tactica, music: Deck The Player 6.1A
format. 2nd in the Assembly 97 64k intro competition.
review: Some more amazing morphing, large envmapped objects and scenes
from the coding facory Antibyte with some help from Boogeyman here. The
most impressive thing about his intros seem to be that its so damn FAST -
everything just runs sooo smoothly! The 3d scene with the castle is
nothing less than amazing on an 030. And it ends with bumpmapped credits
and a really cool effect where a scoopex logo is backlit...youve seen it
many times in the movies etc... Even Decks music is tolerable here! :
You can use the commandline parameter 0 for 1x2 resolution, which
further boosts the speed of the intro. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
GOSH - Noname 2 1997, 21.10, AGA 4MB Musicfile.
code: Antibyte, Boogeyman endroutine, gfx: Absurd main, Sear menu,
Made/Bomb menufont, Kid scxlogo, credfont, music: Prophet opening,
Laxical, Oxbow, Deck.
review: Gosh features 30 chiptunes from three musicians, and a full-
blown techno tune from a fourth. Couple this with LOTS of pictures by
Absurd, and youve got yourself a slideshow/demo/musicdisk/chippack
hybrid! Theres nothing much wrong with any of the audiovisuals here, with
lots of good quality Absurd pictures, as mentioned, lots of tunes to
choose from and a fast envmapping routine to spin the name of the current
composer on top of each picture...
News dated 11/96 stated that Oxbow and Deck had moved over to the PC
section of Scoopex, but it seems they got homesick : The final picture
by Absurd was used in the packmenu Nam Nam as early as 1994...
The release date is based on the upload date to AmiNet :
You can use the commandline parameter 0 to make all the env-mapped
objects run in 1x1 mode, which it tells you AFTER youve run it once.
A sneaky way to make you run it twice Though the demo will run on a
standard 020 with 4mb fast, it recommends a 030 or better. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast /3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Seenpoint 7 1997, 27.12, Diskmag.
My Kingdom 1997, 28.12, AGA Multifile.
Winner of The Party 97 demo competition!
Cooperation with Haujobb, see their entry for details.
Superautodrome 1997, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Antibyte, gfx: Nomad 3d, music: Muffler.
Winner of The Party 97 40k intro competition!
review: 3D worlds, with texture, phong and envmapping abound in Scoopex
TP97 winner this year. Technically, I guess this is one of the best
40kers ever, but visually its less than great in my eyes. All the 3d
trickery is well and nice, but its not very exciting anymore, is it?
Theres virtually no interesting design, the music sux, and theres no
real graphics here either. If you love objects and camera angles, then
go get this - otherwise, youd probably be better off looking elsewhere.
The intro is a little slow on the 030, unless you use the commandline
switch 0 to swtich on 1x2 resolution, which helps a lot. The version
reviewed here was released to aminet a few days after the competition,
and had three bugs fixed. However, theres still some bugs left in the
opening phong in a globe part... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast /3.0.
5977 1997, 28.12, AGA Slideshow.
code: Antibyte, gfx: Lazur, music: Jogeir Liljedahl.
Released at The Party 7.
review: Lazurs first release for Scoopex is his third ! slideshow - a
remarkable release in many respects. All of the pictures here except
whats tailormade for this production seem to be from 1996, which means
two things. One hes a damned workaholic, and two theres a whole year
of pictures still unreleased! The mind boggles at the possibilities...
The pictures here vary somewhat in quality, from the awesome Elmore
to some more bland, uninspired works Tears.... Most, if not all, of
these pictures have been used in other productions, but thats almost
always the case with all slideshow these days, so its no real deterrent.
One thing that seem to constantly annoy me about Lazurs work is that
hes still having problems with proportions of bodies, though. The other
very remarkable thing about this slide show is THE RETURN OF JOGEIR! Its
been a few years since this living legend did any music for the Amiga
scene, and his return is warmly welcomed! His tune here is pretty good,
but not excellent - perhaps hes a bit rusty on 4ch work, hehe...
The slideshow opens and closes with an animation of a man walking,
before finding a book, and opening it. You choose what picture to view
by pointing the index finger of his hand at the picture, and at the end
he drops the book to the ground. The slideshow will actually work on an
unexpanded A1200, but without 4MB of fastmem, there wont be any intro
and end animations. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
1998 - In january, danish coder Vention formerly of Kefrens and Polka
Brothers joined the group, and the final version of My Kingdom was
released. February came, and with it two more intro releases: Torque
02/98 came 2nd at Flag 98, while Haupex 02/98 in cooperation with
Haujobb won at Scene Meeting 98. In addition, the fixed version of
Superautodrome came out, and it was decided that there would no longer be
pc and amiga sections. March came with the news that Acryl rejoined the
scene, and that graphician Bay Tremore joined from Haujobb. April came
around, and with it the Mekka Symposium party. This year, Superautodrome 2
04/98 won the 40k competition, and Seenpoint 8 04/98 was released.
Vention Martin Gram left the amiga scene in june, and decided to join CNCD
on the pc instead. Darklon code joined in july. August came with the major
Assembly party, and this time the intros System Crime 08/98 and
Effusion 08/98 were presented to 2nd and 6th positions, respectively.
Kidlove came 2nd in the graphics competition, and Deck finished 11th in
music. Infestation 86 08/98 was also released in august. French coder
Psy Stephane Pouyet, new late94 left the amiga scene in september, but a
new coder was recruited in the shape of Metal Designer from Nah Kolor. In
october, Bay Tremore left in favour of his music career. November came, with
some major changes in the memberlist: Optima code joined from Depth,
Prophet Kristoffer Schultzleft the scene, Arthur/GFX Twins left the scene,
and finally dane Prowler Klaus Bonjaminsson and frenchman Patriot
Sebastien Seu, trade sysop FLOODLAND were both kicked due to a lack of
contact. Then came december, always the highpoint of the year. Calvin/GFX
Twins left the scene before The Party, but at the years most anticipated
event Scoopex once again triumphed majorly in the competitions. Alien 2
12/98 won the demo competition, 1000 12/98 won the intro competition,
while Moving 12/98 in cooperation with Darkage, came 6th in the intro
competition. It was the crowning of another highly successful year for the
group.
Torque 1998, 08.02, AGA 4MB 40k Intro.
code: Antibyte, gfx: Shade, music: Deck.
2nd in the Flag 98 40k intro competition.
review: Now Antibytes getting his shit together! Torque is everything
Superautodrome 12/97 isnt, with good design and music I can live with
: Shades opening logo is very cool, and the textures throughout the
intro are also among the better ones produced! This is excellent, what
more can I say? My nominee for Intro of the Year so far! There are two
command line options, specifying the optional use of a lesser resolution
1x2 and a fast mapper for 020/030 machines. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast /3.0.
Haupex 1998, 21.02, AGA 40k Intro.
Winner of the Scene Meeting 98 40k intro competition!
Cooperation with Haujobb details.
Superautodrome 2 1998, 10.04, AGA 4MB 40k Intro.
code: Antibyte main, Rubberduck/TBL additional, gfx: Acryl font,
col, Nomad spider, Boogeyman spaceship, music: Muffler.
Winner of the Mekka Symposium 98 40k intro competition!
review: And just when we thought the limit had been reached for 40kers,
Antibyte had to be the one to crush our illusions. This is not good. This
is not even great. This is just plain fucking AWESOME! Bringing some
extra people on board was apparently just what the doctor ordered, and
after a disappointing introduction with some more of those pentagrams
that Antibyte has been so fond of lately, this just takes off. From the
beautifully rendered scenes to the excellent bumpmapping to the original
fractal distortion, this is a beauty. Rubberduck contributes a
chaosrotating routine. Just like with Torque 02/98, this also has
two commandline parameters, doing exactly what they did in that one.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Seenpoint 8 1998, 12.04, AGA HD Multifile Diskmag.
code: Syntax, gfx: Bay Tremore title, Eracore/Rebels main, Sol/lego
fonts, music: The Coming by Substance/Mono, Discomania by
Prodigy/Oops!, My Fluffy Angel by Ganja/Nerve Axis, Hit and Run by
Raze/Nah-Kolor, editor: Fishwave. Released at Mekka Symposium 98.
review: The mag opens with a nice, surreal title picture, before going
directly to the reading matter. Eracore is a good graphician, but he has
certainly done a lot better work than the panel for this mag. The four
tunes offer more than enough distracting sound. The main problem with SP,
as I see it, lies more in the content of the articles than anything else.
It just doesnt have the quality articlewriters that ROM had, not that
little something special that made those mags so interesting and readable.
And besides, Fishwave seems to have a general negative attitude, that
makes the reading experience more of an irritant than an inspiration.
Bay Tremores title picture is Sweet Vibraphone with a Seenpoint logo
added, which he competed with at the Assembly 97, but which was unplaced.
the mag announces Krishna as Ninjas replacement in France, something that
happened LOOONG ago.
Seenpoint should work on unexpanded A1200s, but some fastmem is
recommended. Naturally the mag multitasks. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Abduction 1998 Invitation 1998, 30.04, AGA File.
code: Psy, gfx: Made/Bomb!, music: Deck. Cooperation with Bomb!
review: We havent heard anything from Psy in a while, but here hes back
with a snappy, little invitation intro for the Abduction Party. This intro
rests most heavily on the graphics, though, and Made doesnt disappoint.
The pictures here are actually rather unusual for him, because theyre a
lot more artistic than what he usually does, but by all means were not
disappointed here Decks music will quickly exhaust your ears its a
weird mixture of funk and standard Decky squals and squeeks! The release
date is no way certain it is based upon the datestamps on the files
themselves. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
System Crime 1998, 08.08, AGA 4MB 64k Intro.
code: Antibyte, gfx: Bird 2d, Acryl 2d 3d, Nomad 3d, music: Muffler.
The Player 6.1A format. 2nd in the Assembly 98 64k intro competition.
review: Perhaps a more deserving winner than Haujobbs Edit 0.5 08/98
at Assembly, but the public voted, and theirs is the final word. As you
might understand, then, System Crime is another great 3d epic from the
coding factories of Austria... After intial execution, it does take some
time to calculate its textures, but from there on in... wow! There is
absolutely no doubt that at this particular point in time, Antibyte OWNED
the 3d intro market on the amiga, and this intro is just another testament
to that fact. Amazing. glenn
The intro requires 4mb of fastmemory, as well as an AGA amiga. It will
theoretically run fine on a vanilla A1200 with 4mb fast...but not well!
Effusion 1998, 08.08, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Krishna, gfx: Muadib/freelancer, music: Deck The Player 6.1A
format. 6th in the Assembly 98 64k intro competition.
review: Another intro that opens with the by-now wellknown Scoopex
pentagram... Oh well. As usual with Krishnas intros, the entire thing is
based around his envmap routine, which we have to admit is more than fast
enough for the job! In fact, its probably among the fastest ones on the
scene right now. The music sucks, though, which is the main drawback of
this intro. Good, but far from great. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Alien 2 1998, 28.12, Demo.
code: Antibyte, gfx: n/a, music: Intro, Main Tune 1 and Main Tune 22
by Muffler. Winner of The Party 98 demo competition!
Alien 2 1998, 28.12, AGA Multifile.
code: Boogeyman, Metal Designer, Antibyte, gfx: Acryl, Nomad, music:
Muffler, Virgill. Winner of The Party 98 demo competition!
review: A demo that tries in its story-line to evoke the feeling that the
original Alien movies created. It does this in a 3d environment, looking
much like a standard storytelling demo. It features characters from the
movies, battling aliens aboard a spaceship... There is occasional effects
between the story parts every now and then, and these all have a high
degree of quality, especially the flashing tunnel towards the end of the
second file, which reminded me a lot of the one in The Black Lotus
classic Captured Dreams 03/97 though that was clearly superior. The
3d routine used seems good, though not with a lot of bells and whistles,
but it moves a little slow on my machine. The demo will work on any 020
AGA amiga with at least 16mb fast, but the producers strongly recommend
an 060 processor. I agree.
The only returning production member from the original Alien 06/95
is Antibyte, but the demo does seem to benefit from the new crew, as it is
much better than the original. The entire demo is presented in an area
smaller than the actual screen, a little wider than it is high. The demo
is comprised of 7 files the script that starts the other files, four
main parts, fadein and fadout. The decrunch and waiting time between the
parts is too long. This is certainly one of the largest in size amiga
demos ever, the LHA file is 6.8 MB big... Lots of textures, we expect!
The version reviewed was downloaded from the Scoopex homepage, and is
reportedly the same as the compo version plus the endpart - which wasnt
shown at The Party due to the limitation of 6MB harddisk usage. They say
to look for the final version, coming soon, but since this demo is from
1998 and it was downloaded by me in mid 2000, I expect there wont ever be
one... Virgill is not credited in the demo, presumably because his tune
appears in the endpart sounds a lot more like him than the others, and
that wasnt shown in the competition. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- see review!
1000 1998, 28.12, AGA 4MB 40k Intro.
code: Antibyte, Optima, Deetsay musicsystem, gfx: Acryl, music: Deetsay.
Winner of The Party 98 40k intro competition!
review: Antibyte this time with the help of Optima crowns the title for
the best 40k intro of the year, 1000 is amazing! I cant begin to
explain the excellence on display here - the technical prowess of this
intro is just amazing. There is both 3d scenes and 2d effects, all looking
excellent, and thanks to Deetsays music system which precalculates its
samples - and his composing abilities - there is three fabulous tunes
within this intro! There has never been a more excellent 40k intro, or one
featuring as much effects and music as this! The praise just doesnt
end... : Oh and for an excellent bonus, the final tune is a cover version
of Tip and Mantronix classic Musiklinjen from Phenomenas Enigma
03/91 demo!
The version reviewed is the REAL compo version, and not the early one
uploaded to ftp.amigascne.org by accident - which had a bug in its memory
allocation routine. The intro works on any 020 AGA amiga with 4MB fast,
but the producers recommend at least 030-50 for speed, and preferably
060-50. It supports the usual command line parameter 0 for 1x2
resolution, recommended for speed on 030 machines. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Moving 1998, 28.12, 40k Intro.
6th in The Party 98 40k intro competition. Cooperation with Darkage.
1999 - January was another month with big member movement german musician
Virgill joined, polish graphician Lazur was kicked, finnish Muffler music
joined and finally Alias left the scene. In march, also danish graphician
and musician Bird Kaare Hansen, ex Rebels left the scene, while Jazz and
french coder Krishna Spagnolo Sebastien, 07/97- were kicked. Seenpoint
9 03/99 was released towards the end of the month. Many new members
joined in april Wade gfx editor joined, Soda editor joined, Lostcluster
and Peci pc coders joined, while danish coder Boogeyman Brian Wildt,
doublememb Mango pc left the scene. Mekka Symposium was arranged this
month, and the two intros Hyper 04/99 and Das EFX 04/99 came first
and second in the 4k competition. The pc version of Alien 2 came 3rd in
the pc demo competition. Norwegian Mermaid gfx joined in may. Come august,
two more releases were made. Pulsar 08/99 finished 4th in the Assembly
99 64k intro comp, while Eclipse 08/99 won the oldskool demo competition
at LTP 3 in france. In addition, Acryl and Nomad triumphed at Evoke 99, in
the pixel and raytracing competitions respectively. Come september lots was
happening on the member front again Ninja officially rejoined Scoopex
Noogman gfx joined, while Wade, Sane both would later return in Haujobb,
Optima and Splatterhead Vesa Kivisilta, swap, ex Eltech all left scoopex
and the scene.
SeenPoint 9 1999, 26.03, AGA HD Multifile Diskmag.
code: Syntax, gfx: Zaac/Ramses title, Eracore/Rebels main, Sol/lego
fonts, music: Feels Like A Breeze by X-Ceed/Endzeit, Loudtalk by
Racoon/C-Lous and Darkage, Gettin Jiggy by Prodigy/Oops!, Fried Funk
by Virgill/Scoopex and Funk 22 by Marc/Haujobb and Sector 7, editor:
Fishwave.
review: Graphically the same as the last issue, SP9 opens with an ok title
picture by Zaac. Its been 11 months since the last issue, but you cant
really say the break was worth it, unfortunately... Ive never been to
keen on SPs editorial style, and this issue is unfortunately no
different. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Hyper 1999, 04.04, 4k Intro.
Winner of the Mekka Symposium 99 4k intro competition!
Cooperation with Focus Design.
Das EFX 1999, 04.04, 4k Intro.
2nd in the Mekka Symposium 99 4k intro competition.
Pulsar 1999, 07.08, 64k Intro.
4th in the Assembly 99 64k intro competition.
Eclipse 1999, 28.08, ECS Demo.
code: Ninja, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
2000 - In January, swedish coder Syntax David Malcus and french swapper
and packer Thunder Jean-Francis Lopez, 08/96- both leave the scene. This
probably meant the end of Thunders long-running pack Infestation.
Seenpoint 10 02/00 is released in february, as the final issue on the
amiga, and the final release of any of Syntax code. Ninjas demo
Millennium 08/00 won the oldskool demo competition at the Lucky Tigrou
Party in august! Though the official story is that coder Optima 12/98-
left for a more active group after not receiving much help with his demo
project, Mermaid offered graphics for the demo several times without
receiving a reply. He joined Haujobb about two weeks before The Party in
december and released his demo Megademo 2000 for that group - which
subsequently WON the competition, and was easily the best demo released this
year.
SeenPoint 10 2000, .02, AGA HD Multifile Diskmag.
code: Syntax, gfx: Titan/Bomb! title, Eracore/Rebels main, music:
Racoon/C-Lous The Player 6.1A format, editor: Fishwave.
review: After nearly a year, the final issue of SeenPoint was finally
released. But its not really an issue, even, just using the mag code to
say goodbye. The title picture by scene veteran Titan is stunning, and the
music is also passable. The rest of the visuals are the same old ones,
that youve all seen before. There is no real editorial content here, just
an article explaining why they are stopping releasing the mag. They do
hold the possibility for a comeback on the PC open, but time will tell.
Check to see whats happening at http://www.seenpoint.de... glenn
Millenium 2000, 26.08, Demo.
code: Ninja, gfx: KaneWood, music: Virgill The Player 6.1A format.
Winner of the Lucky Tigrou Party 4 oldschool demo competition!
review: While presented in pure style as far as its graphics and design
goes, this demo leaves us wondering why it has such abysmal coding? Filled
vectors? Dots, for heavens sake? GLENZ??? Perhaps the name of the demo is
a clue, that its summing up demo effects from the last few years... But
the raytracer at the end is WICKED though, and is reason enough alone to
aquire this demo. It does have its charms, but could have been a lot
better. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
2001 - Following Optimas departure late last year, Antibyte performed a
major internal clean-up job. Some members were asked to leave, others like
finnish musician Muffler 12/97- left on their own accord. A few fresh
faces were brought in, including old austrian scene legend TMB, one of the
earliest original Scoopex members. The amiga section was steadily declining,
and more and more of the groups activities centered around the pc scene. A
status report was published in Haujobbs Devotion 2 06/01, voicing
concerns over whether the group was ever going to release on the amiga
again. It seems at present that the group does not have a single active
amiga coder - Metal Designer, Peci, Lostcluster and Dylan all prefer to work
on the pc platform now, and Antibyte is simply inactive. The mag could
reveal plans, however, to do dual releases in the future - productions
that would be released both on the amiga and the pc. The new Scoopex
homepage was revealed to the public in june. Sometime between june and
september, long-standing main organizer and coder extraordinaire Antibyte
Roman Rath finally decides to leave the scene... One of the greatest
losses the amiga scene has ever suffered! The group decides not to elect a
new leader, and instead go for a democratic approach to group organizing.
Scope 1990-
NOR Basil Fawlty Geir Hongroe, music, 12/90, Emi 12/90, Epic gfx,
12/90, Fancy Petter Schau, code, 12/90, Mitzi gfx, 12/90.
POL Iron swap, 95, Trash Head swap, ex TRSI.
Scope was a norwegian demo group, formed around the middle of 1990 as a
merger between the two groups Humanoids and Arcadia.
J.I.M.B.O. 1990, 28.12, ECS File.
code: Fancy, gfx: Mitzi, Epic logo, music: Megnetic Fields 2 by
Basil Fawlty. Released at the Theatre Network Party 90.
review: Actually one of the better demos released for this competition,
this ones all about bob objects - objects made out of bobs. It doesnt
exactly reek of professionality, but shows some competence. The design is
quite standard logo at the top, scroller at the bottom, and action in
the middle. The name of the demo is an abbreviation for a Journey Into
Mathematical Bob Objects. Logical really, once you think about it :
Has potential. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Score
N-L Hammerfist Erwin Roosjen, swap, Rotox R. van deer Steen, music
swap, 02/94.
??? Black Thunder ex Conquest, new late93.
Score appears to have been a dutch group. Wasnt Rotox previously in Desire?
Scorpio 1992-1993
HOL Sane Pieter van der Horst, mainorg editor swap.
Scorpio was a dutch-only group, formed by Sane with the best members of
Lunatics NL in june or july of 1992. Radium released issues of his
packseries Container for Scorpio.
1993 - In may of 1993 founder and organizer Sane temporarily left the
scene due to final highschool exams. When he reentered the scene in
september, he found Joe Wouter, gfx, Array Patrick Blok, swap pack and
The Cube Rogier, swap had left the scene, and his group was dead. D
Icelord code, ex Catastrophy, Radium gfx music and Quasar code had
joined Centura. Weirdo Olav Hinke formed the music duo Jam Spoon
together with his brother Jan Hinke, and stayed independent. Please note
that this is NOT identical to either the reallife music group NOR the
icelandic duo that was later members of Nerve Axis.
Thanks to Sane for all information!
Container packmenu ECS Intro.
code: Quasar, gfx: Radium, music: Radium Weirdo, packer: Array.
Artistic Modulation 1 ECS Musicdisk.
code: Quasar, gfx: Radium, music: Weirdo.
SCUP
FIN Bruno Jussi Peitila, music, ex Anarchy.
SCUP is best known simply as the group that Bruno joined after he left
Anarchy. It was a minimalist choice leaving the biggest group on the scene
for one no-one had ever heard of before! The group is believed to be
entirely from Finland.
Low-Budget Intro 1991, ECS Intro.
code: KarlSBerg, gfx: Zbequ, music: SLL.
Party Intro 1991, ECS Intro.
code: Karl, gfx: n/a, music: Karl, Belarus.
Sinus Intro 1991, mid, ECS Intro.
code: Superninja, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Intro 1991, late?, ECS Intro.
code: Karl, gfx: Zbequ, music: Belarus.
Scum
POL Skizo Krzysiek Kunc, org edit swap, late95, The Founder ascii swap.
??? Dziulas gfx swap, Enter code, ex Erotic Design, new early97, Hiv
edit swap, No Name music, Slive code, 96, Soul music, Stargie
code, Sweetvoice edit swap, Tgp code swap, Yoga gfx, ex Nah-
Kolor, new 97.
Scum is a Polish demo group.
1996 - Lazarus left for Vacuum in april.
1997 - Enter code joined from Erotic Design around february.
Utmost Vacancy 1996, 23.06, Demo.
Winner of the Polish Summer Party 96 demo competition!
Eternal 1996, autumn, Slideshow.
Code: Slive, Gfx: Pickpoke, Music: Revisq.
Seance
SWE Mundgor org music, Michael Knight swap, new mid93.
1993 - Case changed his handle to his real name, Ola Thorn, and left for
Infect around the middle of the year.
Secretly SCL, http://www.secretly.de
??? Atlan sysop, Barbarian gfx, Bladerunner doublememb Cosmic
Pirates, new 06/96, DanDee gfx, 04/00-04/01, Dc.Clark code music,
04/00-04/01, Dj X-Base music, ex Ravers Revolution, new 04/96,
Dolphin code gfx, FX raytrace, Influence gfx, 04/01, Miran
code, Mr. Vain Thorsten Will, mainorg gfx music ascii, 04/01,
Nation org code, Smasher music, ex Ravers Revolution, new 04/96,
Zthee gfx, 04/00.
Secretly is a german demo group.
1996 - Musician DJ Viper ex Ravers Revolution, new 04/96 was kicked
06/96.
2001 - After a very busy weekend at Mekka Symposium, where the group
released the demo Artifictional 8th and the 4k intro Boom 1st,
germans Stingray code, Scicco code and Medi decided to leave the group
due to the unprofessional nature of one of the other members. Stingray
joined Darkage. This was naturally a disaster for Secretly, who were robbed
of their two most talented coders!
Outa Space 2000, 24.04, AGA 030 4MB File.
code: Scicco, DC.Clark, gfx: DanDee, Zthee, music: DC.Clark.
9th in the Mekka Symposium 2000 demo competition.
Ill 2000, 28.10, AGA 030 4k Intro.
code: Scicco, Stingray, gfx: Scicco objects, music: DC.Clark.
Winner of the Comparade 8 4k intro competition.
review: Ill actually has some music : It opens with a goraud shaded
object which says 4k, then onto some green-white balls spinning around.
Next is the first routine again, this time saying CP8, then the two
routines are compined and the object now says SCL!...and thats it. This
4ker certainly contains more than most. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Artifictional 2001, 16.04, AGA HD File.
code: Scicco, Stingray, gfx: Influence, Dandy, DC.Clark, Mr.Vain, music:
DC.Clark, Mr.Vain. 8th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition.
review: Id just like to start this by uttering a small wow. This demo
opens on a great note - and even though it moves like through syrup on my
machine, the opening Tomb Raider-like dungeon still impresses. As
mentioned, were in a dungeon and a man with a torch walks towards the
cave walls, where the letters SCL are inscribed. Until now all weve
heard is the mans footfalls, but now the first bars of the music starts
as some envmapped shapes appear in the dungeon. Then were shown the
utterly cool Artifictional logo by Influence! Next were back in a new
dungeon of sorts, now with water flowing through it. Credits for the demo
appears in waterfalls, though the one for coding is kinda hard to see...
Anyway, we move around in the dungeon some more before we finally arrive
at a wooden boat. The camera zooms in on its mast, which forms a crucific.
The 3d part is over, and we are on to a sort of greetings part. This one
is also very nicely done, with two bands forming two a circles, and with
the names of groups written across the bands as they spin. Inside the two
circles an object forming the word RESPECT spins. The demo goes on for a
little while longer, with more shapes, 3d scenes and objects, but nothing
really outstanding appears after this. Overall this is a pretty good demo,
with some technical niceties. I guess the rest of the MS demos were really
outstanding, since this came as low as 8th...
When I first tried this, it crashed on me just after the respect part,
but rebooting with no startup-sequence and running the demo as the first
thing worked much better, and the second try went without a glitch!
System requirements are really modest, just AGA 020+ and 16MB of RAM, but
given how this moves on my 030-50 I guess the real system demands for
smooth execution is somewhere closer to 040. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review.
Section 8 S8
GER Digital sysop PAINT BOX, 10/91, Steve sysop DIGITAL WORLD,
quadmemb Real!, TEK and Quasar, 10/98.
Sector 4
S4 never made any remarkable impact on the demo scene, except being one of
the early groups to house what became perhaps the best amiga musician ever
Heatbeat.
1990 - Finnish musician Heatbeat joined Byterapers Inc. in december.
Sector 5
??? Danthalian pol? music, 11/96, GarlOn pol? code, 11/96.
Sector 5 is most probably a Polish group.
Ascii Terror 1996, 23.06.
Released at the Polish Summer Party 96.
Para-Noya 1996, 10.11, 4k Intro.
code: GarlOn, gfx: none, music: Danthalian.
Split 7th in the Gravity 96 4k intro competition.
review: This is an uninspired affair, with the only effect being a lame
fire attempt. Its more like children playing with matches compared to
some of the better fire routines out there, though : To top it all off,
the bloody thing crashed my machine on exit. Nothing here to indicate
this requires AGA. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Sector 7 S7
GER Anneke funmember, new 08/98, CDK Jochen Oppermann, gfx raytrace
music swap, 03/97-08/98, JCS Jan C. Sievers, gfx, doublememb Haujobb,
12/94-08/98, Kane sysop, Marc Marcus Kalusche, music, doublememb
Haujobb, 12/96-08/98, NoName code, doublememb Haujobb, 03/97-08/98,
Souchak sysop, 03/97-08/98.
NOR Aztec code swap, 08/98.
??? Mega H org gfx music swap, MSC code, Tom music.
Sector 7 is a demo group based in Germany. CDK and NoName are brothers.
1997 - In late march, they won they were the only entrant the demo
competition at SILIConvention 97 with their demo Synergy 03/97. A final
version of the demo was released in early april, and the accompanying text
file also announced swedish sysop Kane as a new member. Towards the end of
the year, German members Marc music, JCS gfx and No Name code left for
double memberships in Haujobb.
1998 - August, and the group ruled the Belgian Scene Event. They won the
demo competition with Reflexity 08/98 and JCS won the graphics
competition with his picture Spacegirls. The text file following the demo
announced that Skylord ger music, 03/97- and Kane swe Mattias Andersson,
swap sysop, new 03/97- had been kicked due to inactivity, that Anneke had
joined as a funmember, and that Aztec code swap had joined in Norway.
Xybernection 1994, 06.11, Demo.
Released for the WOC94 demo competition.
Synergy 1997, 30.03, AGA 6MB Demo.
code: NoName, gfx: JCS, music: Marc Tracker Packer format.
Winner of the SILIConvention 97 demo competition!
review: Synergy opens splendidly, wih a very cool raytraced animation
set to some pretty groovy music! The music is timed to the onscreen
action, but not slavishly, more like it changes mood as the effects
change. The palette is very well put together, making all effects look
their best, from tunnels to bumpmaps. Another impressive instance is where
a picture is brought out of focus. Other memorable bits include an
animation of a shark in the sky...
The version reviewed is version 1.1, released 9.4-97. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Reflexity 1998, 08.08, AGA ?MB File Demo.
code: NoName, gfx: JCS, Anneke cow, music: CDK.
Winner of the Belgian Scene Event 98 demo competition!
review: Fast and smooth action are on offer in S7s impressive but short
Reflexity. It lasts for no longer than a minute and a half, but in that
time delivers some striking images, especially perhaps the raytraced anim
of a tree with sun reflecting off and through its leaves as it spins! On
the other hand, we speculate that this is what is eating most of the
diskspace Though we can appreciate the humor, we do feel some of the
professional mood is destroyed by new funmember Anneke a girlfriend of
one of the makers, we assume?s BSE cow. Dont ask. JCS fabulous
fullscreen picture is Spacegirls, which he won the graphics competition
at the same party with.
The version reviewed was tagged *FINAL*, do not know what differences
there are to the party version... The accompanying text files mention the
demo has been tested on 030-50, 040-25 and 060-50, so it should be
compatible with all accelerators. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Sector T
Sector T was a Norwegian AMOS group.
Runaway Brain 1994, 03.04.
10th in The Gathering 94 demo competition.
Securitate -1990
Securitates death was announced in the news corner of D-Tects Hack-Mag
2 11/90.
Semtex 1990-
Semtex was born in 1990 by members of Rebels yugoslavia, Apology/AFL and
High Voltage.
Just An Intro 1992, early, ECS Intro.
code: Rasputin,. gfx: Mode, music: Wolfchild.
Senses -1989
Senses was a swiss group, that ceased to exist when they merged with Atrix
into Setrox at or immediately after the Escape Copy Party in january 1989.
The Sense demo Small Circles, released at this party, likely became their
last ever release.
Sensible
??? Angel music, 08/96, Thain raytrace, 08/96.
My only knowledge of this group is that Thain contributed a picture to
Artificial Peoples Clics 08/96 demo.
Sensics
GER Ragman sysop CURSE, 91.
Septic
1995 - Swedish coder Vicious left for Monk around the middle of the year.
Swedes Excel, The Joker and Atheist all joined Limited Edition UPS8.
Sepultura -1994
Sepultura is dead. Mr.X joined Exxon, The Fly joined Hellwalkers. Agnus
Young and Dehydrator left. Barman, Darklord, JMC, Megamiga and Ravana
joined Necropolis.
1991 - The entire group Infinity merged into Sepultura around june, and
the new leaders of the group were Tango and Mr.Cool.
Sequence 1992-
NOR Blaze O. Kristoffersen, swap, later Balance, Jackson stopswap,
late92, Zippo old handle Trix, late92.
Sequence was formed by the former Norwegian section of Grace in late 92.
Serenity
CompoIntro 1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
Code: Graft, Chrome, Gfx: Rookie, Music: Spacebrain.
Split 19th in The Party 93 40k intro competition.
Serious
DEN Chain gfx, ex Light, Cyborg ex Light, Dezz code, ex Light, Hodge
code, Lunatic music, ex Light, Nut music, Raze gfx, Towie code
gfx music, ex Light, Zogu code.
Serious was formed by ex-members of Light and Deadlock.
Danish organizer and swapper Tuborg Janus Lodahl, ex Light left the scene.
Serious Soft
SS was formed by Toxic/Kefrens when Kefrens died.
Session SSN, 1994-
NOR Ace Bjrn Kaarstein, swap, late96, Cesium Frode Eriksson, founder
mainorg swap edit Off Piste, ex Balance, 94-, Crude Stein Jonsson,
sysop MORDOR WHQ, previous handle Puke, previous groups Morbid
Angels, Iris, Lisence, 03/96-05/97, Gothmog code, late96, Justin
Case org code raytrace sysop MILLIWAYS, late96, Ramses Nils,
codePC, Wowbagger Thore Bjerklund Karlsen, code, ex Coca/Balance,
doublememb Alpha Flight, late96.
SWE Candyman Timo Kotta, swap, ex Giants, new 06/96, Crusader Janne
Kotta, ascii swap, ex Giants, was double in Epsilon when in Giants, new
06/96, Zalo gfx sysop DIGITAL HIGHWAY, doublememb Noice,02/95-
07/96.
GER Acryl gfx, triplememb Illusion and Acme pc 12/96, doublememb Scoopex
ROM9, new late96.
??? Boosta music, late96, Loop gfx, 05/96, Scar gfx, ex TRSI, new late
96, Tactica gfx, 05/96, Tomas music, late 96.
Session was formed by Cesium after he left Balance in search of more
friendship. He brought his board OMAHA THUNDER with him to the new group,
but when he had to leave for the army the board was finally closed.
Swedes Crusader and Candyman are not only brothers, theyre actually twins!
1996 - Norwegian main organizer Terrox Kent-Rune Saetrum, gfx music swap
sysop TOTAL REFILL left the scene in december. The organizer job was
handed back to Cesium, who was still in the army so the job organizing the
group went to E-Moon for the time being.
1998 - A major setback was suffered when swedes E-Moon org code, 05/96-,
Blaze code, ex Insane, new 04/96- and Psycho music, 05/96- all left for
Endzeit in june.
Dutch coder and sysop Infant THE HIDEOUT, ex Essence, new 12/95-07/96
was headhunted to New Age, but soon left for Nah Kolor, where he only
lasted a few weeks ROM7. Infant was the coder behind the demo Plumb
for Session. After staying just one week in Nah Kolor, he rejoined
Session, and released an intro for them just before The Party 6.
He has now left again, and these days hes a member of Subspace, Kinky
and K.
Hoodlum crackintro May...
code: Wowbagger, gfx: n/a, music: Dreamfish/TRSI The Player 6.1A format.
review: Average, OK crack intro with the basics. There is no gfx credit
for the small Hoodlum logo. OK. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Plumb 1996, 05.04, Demo.
code: Infant, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. 7th in The Gathering 96 demo
competition, split 7th in the Symposium 96 demo competition.
info: This demo was released at BOTH these events, and as such it should
be disqualified!
Decay 1996, 26.05, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Blaze, E-Moon, gfx: Loop, Tactica, Tudor objects, music: Psycho.
2nd in the Icing 96 64k intro competition.
review: It opens with two good logos, the last of which has a bump-map
effect on it. Next we travel through a tunnel. After that, were on to
a blue torus with a blue background with a variable diffusion. After that
its more of the same with a shaded torus and two shaded rock-like
objects travelling around. Its an OK intro but nothing that will set the
world on fire. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Wipe 1996, 16.06, AGA 40k Intro.
code: E-Moon, Blaze, gfx: none, music: Psycho.
2nd in the Remedy 96 40k intro competition. Needs fastmem!
review: Wipe? Perhaps Bump would be a better name, since two out of
three effects in this intro are of that variety. Theres no drawn
graphics, and the music is of the usual variety for this kind of thing.
Technically competent, but doesnt excite. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: After the Thats it screen, it gurus.
Sway 1996, 13.07, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Infant, E-Moon, gfx: Zalo, music: Psycho.
3rd in The Summer Party 1996 40k intro competition.
review: This small 3-hour production has all its chunky routines
presented in that annoying ghosted look. Apparently a few of the
countless c2p converters out there generate these... Anyway, I dont like
it - solid effects look better any day of the week. Ok, what we have here
are a couple of shaded objects, a little bump-mapping and thats it.
Neither the graphics nor the music impresses. The objects can be paused
with the right mouse button. Requires 2mb 1mb enough? fast. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Setrox 1989-1990
??? Dave, Zork.
Boards 4th DIMENSION usa, BAD BOY CLUB usa, LIVING DEAD usa,
INNERSPACE swi, THE LINE TO HEAVEN swi.
Setrox was formed at or immediately after the Escape Copy Party in january
of 1989 as a merger between two smaller Swiss groups, Senses and Atrox. They
were a mainly illegal group, concentrating on trainers. During the summer of
1989, they were in discussions with Brainstorm about cooperation on the
diskmag that was to become Zine, but eventually decided against taking
part in the project because they doubted Brainstorms talents. Their coder
The Accused, who DID believe in the project, left for Brainstorm to continue
working with the mag.
1989 - Condor, P001, Sigma and Divine left to form a new Swiss group due
to some internal, personal problems in the group, probably around 11/89.
1990 - Two new members joined around march, from the death of Headwave.
However, the group died around 05/90. Swiss members Moses trade, 11/89 and
Cortez code, old handle Laser, 11/89 left for Alcatraz Zyr code, 11/89
has started working on a game, and will likely end his scene involvement.
Swiss Pioneer swap trade, 11/89 will join a new French group, built by
members of Paranoimia and others can anyone identify this group?
German sysop Empire BORDERLINE joined Awesome.
Der Brockhaus 1989, 21.11, ECS File.
code: Zyr, Cortez additional, gfx: Straesse, Ebu sprites, music:
Agony by Megatron.
review: This nicely done little demo features a line-vector scroller as
its main effect, though it does for that effect what Angels Copper
Master did to copper demos - kills it dead by doing everything anyone has
ever done with it, plus a few tricks of its own. The scrollers can
sometimes be a little hard to read. Nice minimalist design. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Shade
NOR Dark Angel gfx, 12/90, High Voltage gfx music, 12/90.
??? Bandit nor? modem, 02/96.
Norwegian graphician Sator joined Spaceballs.
Norwegians Stripe the Gremlin code, 12/90 and Jukebox music joined
Talent.
Multidemo 1990, 28.12, ECS File.
code: Stripe The Gremlin, gfx: High Voltage, Stripe The Gremlin, Dark
Angel, music: Romenty by High Voltage.
Released at the Theatre Network Party 90.
review: Err, this looks like someones first demo. 16 sprites and
ordinary line vectors. Need I say more? glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Shades
??? Wildstyle gfx, 08/93.
Shadows, The
The Shadows are dead. The best members in both Germany and Denmark joined
Next in the middle of 1991. There is probably no relation to the Norwegian
C64 group of the same name.
1991 - Dr.Ghoul joined Defcon 1 mid 91.
Shamrock 1993-
NOR Ace founder swap, ex Devils, Darkdude ex Majic 12, Icarus ex
Gollum, Niggerjack Stian Myhre, code, ex Gollum, later Donut
Fetish, Peavey founder, ex Devils, Shade Anders Haakens, founder
swap, ex Devils.
Shamrock was a Norwegian group, formed by Ace, Peavy, Redferne, Shade and
Optic when they all left Devils.
Norwegian cofounder and musician Referne ex Devils joined Stone Arts.
Norwegian cofounder Optic ex Devils joined Banana Dezign.
Share and Enjoy SAE, 1987-1992
SAE was formed in 1987 by Comrade J, and within 3 years had about 30 members
and had joined Megaforce which shortly became Scoopex as a subgroup. Their
life as a Scoopex subgroup was short - because of conflicting interests SAE
wanted to do demos, SCX wanted originals and cracks, they left the group
and continued on their own though Scoopex claim they were kicked. The
group died around 1991 - 92 after their last major demo, Impossible
Playfields 10/90, since all the groups coders found work that took up
all their time. Several members also joined Anarchy.
There were three SAE copy/demo parties in the summers of 1988, 1989 and
1990, but information on these are scarce at this time. We are wowking on
securing more information on these events.
Comrade J Jolyon Ralph now runs the web company Mysterious Ways in
Croydon, UK, where also TiW is an employee. Del now works as a programmer
for Codemasters. The Judge Jolyon Myers made some tunes for amiga games
Shadow Dancer etc. under the name JVM Design, and now works at Eidos. Jon
works at Psygnosis, as does Rogue Male - as a musician. Anarchy found work
outside the scene. Strangly, the group still seems to have a web presence,
if you look at http://www.shareandenjoy.org, though the original members do
not know who claims to be in the group today.
PS. There were SAE copy/demo parties held in Summer 1988, 1989 and finally
1990. They were all held in Croydon, UK.
Amazing Tunes II Musicdisk.
review: According to a discussion on alt.sys.amiga.demos in 10/94, the
original version has dodgy coding that makes it unstable on almost
anything but a standard A500. However, the version Comrade J made for one
of Almatheras CDs should work better.
Wild Tremlo File.
Boys In Blue 1989, .11/.12, ECS File.
code: Jrok, gfx: Wonko the Sane, music: Fermie.
Impossible Playfields 1990, 28.10, ECS File.
code: Comrade J, gfx: Tiw, music: The Judge.
Shelter SLT.
GER Artisti raytrace, late96, Bazeman trade, late96, Cosmic famecode
sysop, late96, Craye code crack, late96, Fli7e famecode gfx
sysop, late96, Javis ascii music sysop, late96, Lynxx code crack,
late96, M-Plant trade, late96, Marodeur trade sysop CRAZY
DEMOLITION SQUAD, 12/96, Mavis raytrace music, Mel gfx raytrace,
Rewdboi trade, late96, Slapshot founder mainorg supply, late96,
Speedfreak trade, late96, Starkiller trade, late96, The Bird
crack supply www, Voyage org code sysop, X-Poole music, late96.
DEN Nicko ascii trade, late96, Sticky trade sysop ORGANISED CONFUSION,
late96.
NOR Baffle sysop BUMBLE BEE LAND, late96, Bandit trade, late96.
HOL Triangle trade sysop, late96, Wild trade, late96.
POL Billy trade sysop FUCK SHIT, late96.
SWE Marwic sysop NUCLEAR WASTE, late96.
??? Sunbeam code keyfilemakers, later Digital Corruption, ex Apex, new
11/96-01/98.
Boards THE JUNCTION WHQ 10/96, BERMUDA HOLLAND, ELM STREET distsite,
FREEK WORLD console, POINT BREAK legalhq, THE PUB distsite.
Shelter seems to be led from Germany. Some of the board placements are
little more than guesses based on a member and boardlist.
Shining 1990-1993
SWE Chuck C code gfx music, 90-04/92, Dexter David, music, ex Anarchy,
new pre 03/92, Maniac code train, Mike Mikael Koack, org coed
editor Playbyte, 90-04/92, Misty music, 04-12/92, Mr.Urk Bjrn
Arkenfall, code, ex Palace, new ca 01-04/92, Soul music, 12/92.
NOR Codeman, Corny.
FRA Skyman code, ex Alcatraz.
??? Artic, Doz and Ivan music, 12/92, Mosh code, ex Anarchy, new pre
07/92, The Zombie code, 04/92, Tycoon code gfx, 04/92, Zeus swe?
code, 91-12/92.
Boards PAINT BOX WHQ ex Skid Row.
Shining was formed in the autumn of 1990 by swedes Mike org, Chuck C
code and Iridon gfx. Tbey were joined by members from groups like Public
Enemies, Adept and Elite.
1992 - Swedish coder Mr.Urk joined from Palace around january. Finnish
trader Zephyr joined from The Silents late in the year.
1993 - In april of 1993 Shining merged with Dual Crew into the new group
Dual Crew Shining DCS. Among the people who went along to DCS was original
founder Iridon gfx, 90-08/92, Sly gfx, 04-12/92, Boba Fett fin, Zephyr
fin, Mel ODee ger music, 12/92, Killroy code, 12/92, Tizzy swe code,
12/92 and Daeron swe music, 04-12/92.
Musician Organic 04-12/92 joined Fairlight.
Daryl ex Spreadpoint and Shaggy ex Majic 12, old handle Guran were both
kicked. Daryl joined the new Paradox.
Trainer Intro ECS Intro.
code: Maniac, gfx: Iridon logo, music: Mental Madness by Mel ODee
ProTracker MOD format.
review: A nice, standard trainer intro - an OK logo on top of the screen,
and the rest occupied by text. The text trainer options mostly is filled
with raster colors for a nicer effect, and after a small while a LARGE
sine-scroller nearly fullscreen! comes across the screen, on top of
everything else. Not the worst trainer intro in the world, quite nice.
The music is typical Mel ODee happy-happy chip.
Reviewed from the version of the intro released with the Cyber Cop/
Crystal +20 gigatrainer. No date of release or for the making of the
intro could be found anywhere glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
True Stress ECS File.
code: Zeus, Chuck C, gfx: Corny, music: Chuck C.
Vector Exterminator 1991, 30.03, ECS File.
code: Zeus, Chuck C, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
2nd in the Anarchy Easter Party 91 demo competition.
Anarchy Party Demo 1991, .04, ECS.
Released at Anarchy Easter Party 91.
PlayByte Issue 0 1992, 30.04, ECS Diskmag.
code: Chuck C, The Zombie, Tycoon, gfx: Iridon, Sly, Chuck C, Tycoon,
music: Organic, editor: Mike.
info: Only this first issue was ever released.
Smells Like Team Spirit 1992, 27.12, ECS Musicfile.
code: Killroy, gfx: Sly, music: Mel ODee. Released at The Party 92.
info: 9 short chiptunes, highlights are Scales of Joy and Mel ODee I.
40k Intro 1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Tizzy, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
2nd in The Party 92 40k intro competition.
Another Revolution 1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Zeus, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
7th in The Party 92 40k intro competition.
Playbyte Demo 1992, 28.12, ECS File.
5th in The Party 92 demo competition.
Shining 8 old S8, 1988-1993, http://www.shining8.de
GER 49er trade, new 08/91, mid92, Audion gfx, mid92, Cibi org sysop,
was Trade 08/91, new 08/91, mid92, Digital sysop PAINT BOX, ex
Skid Row, 91, Ecr Network code, 08/91-mid92, Exorcist mainorg gfx
trade, 08/91-mid92, Fletch music, 08/91, Jason Dark trade, mid92,
Napalm code, 08/91, Red Alert sysop ADDICTION, ex Alpha Flight,
mid92, Ronnie mid92, Sledge code, 08/91, Steff gfx swap, 08/91,
Steve gfx, mid92, Tomcat Manfred Mayer, gfx swap, ex Complex, new
RAW4, Trashcan music, 08/91-mid92.
SWE Cenzor modem, 11/92, Godhead modem, later Quartex, 11/92, Lacoste
sysop AUSGEBOMBT EHQ, mid92, Mr.Magoo trade, ex Antagon, mid92,
T.Phraud?/T.Phroud? code, ex Defjam, mid92.
FIN Agony trade, ex Razkels, mid92, Bloodstone trade, Fiddler trade,
ex Wizzcat, old handle Guido, mid92-02/93, Jack-All music, ex
Razkels, mid92-93, Jagannath code, ex Deadline, mid92, Sorrow gfx,
ex Razkels, mid92, Yakuza gfx, mid92, Zealot sysop, 93.
USA Anarchy sysop, mid92, Strange Illusion trade, ex Subzero, mid92.
CAN Hound Dog sysop THE COVEN.
??? Devan ex Noxious, new 08/92, Microchip ex Devils.
Boards MAGIC FORCE ger, mid92, CRACK HOUSE usa, mid92, DARK FORCES
usa, mid92.
Shining 8 was originally a German C64 group, and the amiga section was
formed by its mainorganizer and leader Steff in 1988. Other information
suggest that means the c64 section, and that they didnt start activities on
the amiga until 1991... They seemed to die around 1993, but were later
reborn as an illegal group.
1992 - German sysop Schwabenpower SNAKEBITE, mid92 left late92.
Swedish sysop Princip INTERCHANGE, ex New Wave, new RAW3, mid92 joined
Crystal in september.
1993 - German graphician Newline mid92 joined Interactive early 93.
Finnish trader Punisher ex Subzero, mid92-02/93 changed his handle to
Fiddler and joined Movement. German coders Ghostrider 08/91-mid92 and
Warhawk 08/91-mid92 joined Logic late 93.
Swede Deshay ex Noxious left.
American sysop Darkfall DARK FORCES? mid92 left.
Orion ex Damage, Psycopath sysop RAISING HELL, ex Triad, mid92 and
Funkyfella joined the new Angels.
Newline joined Interactive.
Finnish sysop Dope CENTRAL STATION, mid92 left.
Orgasmatron changed his board name to ANGEL CITY and joined X-Trade.
Finnish trader and sysop Stormbringer DREAMLAND, ex New Wave, 03/94 got
married, so he sold all his equipment and left the scene.
Technomania 91 1991, .08, Trackloaded musicdisk.
code: Ecr Network, gfx: Exorcist, music: Trashcan.
review: Trashcans musicdisk is dubbed here The First Ever Techno Music-
Disk. I dont know if that is true, but who cares. These guys came over
from the glory lands of the C64, and it shows. The design is so
unmistakably C64, it almost hurts your eyes. Am I saying its not good?
If I am, I would be lying. I like the design, really, it sort of gives
you a feeling of the good old days. ahhh... Well, this is a musicdisk, so
on to the important stuff: Any good, is it? Well, I hate techno
personally, so I guess I shouldnt really be judging this... But as far
as this sort of music goes, I guess Ive heard lots worse. Approved.
There is mention in the scrolltext that the loader will not work
on turbo Amigas, but it would seem ECR is wrong : I had absolutely no
problems, it loaded and ran without a glitch. For those who want to rip
the modules for themselves, thats not too much of a problem here. They
are all in unpacked form on the disk, so all you have to do is load and
search. Couldnt be easier. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Twilight Zone 1992, summer, ECS Tracmo.
code: Warhawk, Ecr Netw trackloader, gfx: Steff, Newline, Audion,
Tomcat/Complex loader, music: Trashcan, Jack-All.
review: Ohh, its a scrolltext-effect-scrolltext demo! That was a trend
that we had a lot during the early trackmo days, before the megademo
enthusiasts had warmed to the concept of the trackmo. A lot of the early
trackmos were megademos with continuous music, really. Anyway, on to this
one! The C64 influences are still showing, but to a lesser extent. They
have abandoned most of it for the mediocre Amiga group style. Naturally
the coder boasts that his routines are over a year old, blah blah blah.
We really dont care how old they are, as long as theyre good. Anyway,
this trackmo is competent, with some routines that are bad and some that
are OK.
It crashed on my machine during the endparts bonus part : It also
announces Technomania 3 soon, which means there must have been a 2!
Graphician Tomcat/Complex later joined Shining 8 himself. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Shining 8 new S8, -1995
Shining 8 were reborn as a cracking group, and released quite a few CD rips
and other stuff. At the end of 1995, after an argument between the two
leaders, with the leader Satan, lots of members joined Scoopex. With this,
Shining 8 finally died for good on the amiga.
Shitwave
A Pile of Shit 1995, AGA 40k Intro.
6th in the Somewhere in Holland 95 intro competition.
review: This one opens with a very cool tilting zoomrotator thing on a
very colorful pattern. This is really good. It continues with a
voxelspace routine followed by a true tunnel routine. It the concludes
with a dose of LemmingDoom and a LemmingMapped cube.
This intro clearly shows us that here we have a good coder, but without
the graphics and music support he deserves. This guy whoever he may be
needs to get himself a musician and a painter to work with. Therefore my
conclusion would be - code cool, gfx mus sux : No credits appear
anywhere in the intro. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Shoot
GER Lord Chaos ascii, doublememb Whale, 08/95, Krypton sysop
BRAINCRASH WHQ, doublememb Prodigy, 08/95.
AUS Acid Kid Andrew, ascii signature adk!, doublememb Whale details,
08-09/95.
??? Rascal code crack, 95, Secrefice sysop HALLUCINATIVE COMA, 95.
Shoot was a demo group. Rascal codes keymakers and was also in lots of other
groups in 1995.
1995 - With the release of Shocked? 05/95, the germans Spin code,
Aerosoul gfx and Dreamer music left Shoot. Australian sysop and ascii
maker Acid Kid joined from Honey around late july, and soon after became a
doublemember in Whale. During september he closed his board SCREAMING
METAL, but did not leave the scene. Spin and Dreamer dRm joined Abyss
towards the end of the year.
Dooms Day 94 Slideshow 1994, 08.10, Slideshow.
info: The release date assumes it was released ON the party.
Shocked? 1995, 21.05, 40k Intro.
code: Spin, gfx: Glue picture, Aerosoul font, music: Dreamer.
Contribution for the Nexuus 95 40k intro competition.
review: I dont know, there are things here that are just fine, and some
things that aint so hot, but... It just doesnt come together to make me
feel good. The only exception is at the very end, when the music reaches
its crescendo, then quiets down almost completely and the text Shoot!
Somewhere on a higher mental plane is shown, thats cool. Other than
that, there are a couple of nice effects based on the basic interference
idea that are OK.
With this intro, Spin, Aerosoul and Dreamer left Shoot. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Shrimps Design SHD
Dehydrator joined Obsession.
Revelation 1994, 09.10, Demo.
Contribution for the Dooms Day 94 party demo competition.
60k of Zwidula 1995, 22.04, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Sart, PVC, gfx: Ben.E, music: Shamrock.
3rd in the Black Box Symposium 95 64k intro competition.
review: Why on earth these people have given an intro thats less than
40k in size a name like that is not something I comprehend. This is still
a nicely put together intro, with the opening logo and end rabbit by
Ben.E the saving graces. People were pretty bored with dot-tunnels and
vector cubes even back in 1995, guys. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Sigma
FIN Coltrain swap, ex Profex, Dragzter swap, JL.
Silents, The TSL, 1987-, http://www.silents.dk
SWE Alta code, ex Rebels, 12/90, Animal Frederik Liliegren, mainorg,
12/90-02/91, Beyonder code, 10/87, Blaizer Olof Gustafsson, music,
02/89-02/91, Chevron Markus Nystrom, gfx, 02/91-07/93, Cuddley Jean
Rostrm, code, ex Aurora, 05-07/93, Dawn ex Mythos, new mid91, D-
Zire David Elfstrom, music, ex Carnage, new 04/92-05/93, Fuzzac
Magnus Danielsson, code, ex Rebels, 02/91, Gizmo ex Dual Crew, new
late90, Goofy Andreas Axelsson, code, 89-02/91, IceArmando
BlizzardFuze sysops SOMEWHERE IN TIME, 10/92-04/93, Marillion
Erik Tilleby, music, ex Rebels, later Freezers, 07/90-07/93, Mogwie
Johan Khler, code, ex Rebels, 02/91, Ozone trade, early92, Rayban
code, 10/92, Rizzo sysop CYBERDYNE, SinCos Ulf Mandorff, code,
89, Spirit gfx, 10/87, Spirou code, ex Aurora, 05-07/93,
Terminator code gfx, ex Phenomena, 10/92.
DEN Bionic code, ex Aero, -notmembanymore-, new early92, Crush code,
12/94-08/95, Crux Ruvan Fernando, -notmembanymore-, code, Cyborg
swap, ex Aero, -notmembanymore-, new 92, Deftronic code, ex
Crionics, -notmembanymore-, new ca 05/92, Deviator and Toxic sysops
HOUSE OF LUST, Dize gfx, 93-08/95, Dux sysop MAINLINE,
Guzzler code, -notmembanymore-, 07/92, John Doe gfx, 08/95, L.Dredd
swap, 01/90, Master Rene Vindum, code gfx music, ex Aero, -
notmembanymore-, new 92-12/93, Mr.Perfect code, -notmembanymore-
11/89-01/90, Murphy code, ex Crionics, -notmembanymore-, new ca
06/92, Ricky code, 12/94-08/95, Scortia music, 12/94-08/95,
Static music, ex Rebels, gfx music, -notmembanymore-, Stripe sysop
HIGH TENSION, ex Rebels, 91, The Master Rene, code.
NOR Corny ex Vision, new late91, Hawk 90?, Rob trade swap, ex Dexion
or ex Offence, Timewalker music, ex Offence, Tracer 90?, ystein
Eide music, also in Maniacs of Noise music, new 04/92-10/92.
GER Angeldawn gfx, ex Scoopex, 04/93, Blackstar sysop DARK CENTURY,
ex Energy, new mid91-10/91, Bros ex Cytax, new 09/92, Headhunter ex
Alpha Flight, new early92, Master ex Cytax, new 09/92, Nino Brown
ex Bloodsuckers, old handle Flaxx, Piranha code, ex Panic, Plasma
ex DCS, Visionary trade.
FRA DCA code, ex Anarchy, Name code, ex Willow, Traitor new mid90.
ENG Abyss, Aero gfx, ex Astra, 10/92, Engineer and Slash sysops
GHOST, LILS, Mfd 10/92, Opus gfx, ex Equinox, Saint gfx, ex
Astra, 10/92, T.A.S. ex Astra, Vored Computator.
HOL Chameleon, Multi code, Name.
BEL Sintax sysop SIN CITY, 10/92.
FIN Python trade sysop TYPHOON, ex Byterapers, 10/92, Radish trade,
02/93.
SWI Stef code, ex Zenith, new early93.
USA Planet Master sysop THE EDGE WHQ, ex Scoopex, 10/92-04/95,
Venmeister sysop HARMONIC CONVERGENCE, 91.
??? Dezed code, 02/89, Editor ex Tribe, Lazer music, 02/89, Skippy
bel? ex The Band, new 11/89, Skywalker Michael, new mid91, Sionic
den? gfx, new early91-04/91, Tanic code, 02/89, Woody bel? ex The
Band, new 11/89, Yeti train, 90.
Boards MAINLINE ger, consolehq, 04/93, NEXT GENERATION usa, 04/91,
ULTIMATE DREAM eng, 04/91-10/92, UNKNOWN TERRITORY ger, 10/92.
The Silents is one of the oldest groups in the scene, and one whose members
have since had the most success as game developers. The games all started in
1992, when a selection from the Swedish division released the game Pinball
Dreams through 21st Century Entertainment. They called themselves Digital
Illusions, and consisted of Animal coordinator, Goofy SinCos coders,
Chevron gfx, and Blaizer music. It is unclear whether theyre still
involved with the scene in any way, but I guess at least Animal is still
organizing TSL...? DI followed the success with several games, including
Pinball Fantasies, Benefactor and Pinball Illusions.
Another story is that of the danes The Spy code, ex Crionics, new RAW3,
Mikael Balle gfx, 11/89-04/91 and Jesper Kyd music, 11/89-04/91. These
guys also worked on several game projects after retiring from the scene,
most of them for consoles. Details on exactly WHAT games they worked on are
a little sketchy, but Ill see what I can find out I have recently
revealed theyre now based in America. Rizzo was the first scener to openly
admit in R.A.W 2 that he had been infected with the HIV virus.
1987 - The Silents were Born on the amiga. Their first production was
released in october, called Welcome On Amiga.
1989 - Disky left the scene in november.
1991 - The active part of the french group Concept, Performer code, NHP
music, BKH music, Rookie and Ronan code joined together with fellow
frenchmen Motif code, Zoom gfx and Walt gfx to form a french section.
Their first production was BBS Intro 91, quickly followed by the trackmo
Ice 06/91 in june and the small Intro? Dentro? Mentro? Demo? 08/91
in august. Following that release, Walt and Motif left for Alliance Design,
and the rest of TSL france Audiomonster, Conquest ex Next, NHP and BKH,
Performer, Ronan, Rookie, Surfer ex next and Zoom ex Next joined
Anarchy this was perhaps LATE this year. Audiomonster returned after a few
days, but later left for Melon Dezign. The Norwegian section was formed in
november. TMB gfx joined after just one month in Kefrens, due to the bad
internal organizing and being accused of digitizing his graphics! Towards
the end of the year, germans Bass gfx music and Barock code joined from
Splash to create the subgroup No Soul Produkktions.
1992 - The newly-formed Norwegian division lost most of its members in
january, when Rob and Timewalker left for Offence, and sysop Phonebilly
ELEGANT MACHINERY left for Fairlight. A new UK division was formed in
january, consisting of T.A.S, Saint, Aero all ex Astra, Engineer, Slash,
LILS, MFD, Fobia, Abyss and Vored Computator. Slash and Engineer immediately
opened the board GHOST. Swedish sysop Regent CRIME ZONE, 09/90-91 left
to be independent in january, but the the joining of Rizzo with his board
CYBERDYNE helped things. Also in january, Jake left. Joker closed his
board and left the scene early92. German subgroup No-Soul Produkktions NSP
- Foxx, Lynxx both ex Panic, Bass and Barock both ex Splash - all left
late 92 to be a group in their own right. This seems a little strange, as
the German bbs FOXXS DEN is mentioned as a TSL BBS in World Charts 9
04/93, but perhaps they all left a small while later. Finnish trader
Zephyr joined from Razor 1911, and was partly responsible for the finnish
divisions demo Maximum Velocity 08/92 being released at all. But he
didnt stay long in this group, and was soon on his way again to join
Shining this time. Danish sysop Circulator who opened his board VIRTUAL
REALITY shortly before left for 2000 AD around october. Germans Crime,
Pioneer and Survivor all left for Adept in october. German Dynac joined
Analog under the handle Shade in october. Norwegian graphician TMB Designs
ex Kefrens, new 11/91- left for Spaceballs at The Party 92 in december.
Norwegian coder Nosferatu Geir Are Skjeret, ex Razor 1911, who joined
right after The Gathering in april, left to do his military service.
1993 - Swedish coders Spirou and Cuddley joined from Aurora sometime
between january and may. Talented swedes Lizardking music and Tony gfx,
both ex Alcatraz left to help form the new Razor 1911 in december.
1995 - Swedish coder Delery joined Freezers late 95.
German World Charts editor Autopsy ex Scoopex, 04/93 took WC with him
and joined Hoodlum. It seems strange if Angeldawn didnt come with him...
German trader Secret was later in Crystal.
Swedish coder Ted ex Top Swap joined Defjam.
Dutch sysop Camelot CHAOS, 91 joined Submission.
French organizer and trade Rave Stephane, ex TRSI left the Amiga for the
pc scene.
German coder Tedric ex Paradise, new 05/92 joined DCS.
Italians Case music and Filippetto code music both later wound up in
Ram Jam.
Danish graphician Devilstar 12/93 joined the new Kefrens, then moved on to
Virtual Dreams.
Germans WOTW music, 04/93 and D-Sign gfx, both ex Dual Crew left to join
Essence.
Finns Coconut and Flame both ex Fantasy Force joined Damones.
The two were partly responsible for the Maximum Velocity 08/92
trackmo, and members of relatively shortlived Finnish section.
French swapper Wizz ex Delight, new early92 was kicked, and therefore
joined Digital.
Sacha rejoined Desire.
Englishman Fobia was kicked due to inactivity.
Swedish graphician Butch ex Palace, 05/93 joined Scoopex.
Englishman Polo changed his handle to Mark and joined LSD.
Dutchmen 911 03/92, Astro both new RAW3 and Mark joined Rebels.
The Silents kicked all Norwegian, Finnish, English and several other
members.
Norwegian musician Jason ex Kefrens, new 04/92 joined Crusaders.
Frenchmen Alex gfx, ex Alcatraz and Nam code joined Dreamdealers and
formed their own subgroup, Oops! Production.
Frenchmen Hof gfx, ex Atlantys, 04/92 and Xann ex Willow joined Movement
in the beginning of 1993 because Hof felt his work was not being used in
TSL. A little later, it was announced in Eternal 2 that Xann had never
been a member of Movement...
The American board PRIME TIME 10/92, will join Alcatraz. It was once
the groups WHQ.
Shade and Sigma joined Alcatraz. Are any of these - or both - the sysop of
PRIME TIME? Miracles Eternal 2 claimed Shade had joined DCS, but I
can not confirm this.
Danish coder T-Bone ex Dexion, new late91 sold his Amiga and left the
scene.
Kevin Key sysop INSIDE TREATMENT, ex Noxious left for Vision.
Belgian trader and sysop Dr.Doolittle MOLDAVIA, ex Spreadpoint, new
06/90-04/91 and Lyzanxia code were kicked early 92! Lyzanxia co-coded
the bbs intro Moldavia.
Frenchmen Daryl and Rave both ex TRSI joined, but Daryl was later kicked
because Audiomonster didnt like his ways. Daryl then joined Spreadpoint.
American sysop Sycon TERMINAL DISASTER, 91 left. This board was their
WHQ in Global Trash 04/91, and was also mentioned in BBS Intro 91.
Danish coder Sunjohn 04/91 joined Anarchy. Sunjohn coded one of the best
ever TSL demos, Global Trash 04/91!
Frenchman Rasputin left the scene late 91, or joined Zenith late 91, as
claimed in Freedom Crack 8. Other sources indicate he joined Anarchy.
Swedish swappers Myfo and Lando ex Mythos, both new 04/91 got kicked.
Lando joined Skid Row mid 91.
Welcome On Amiga 1987, .10, ECS File.
code: Beyonder, gfx: Spirit, music: sample-mama.
Released at the NTC Defiers Hacker Party.
Info: By the swedish section. Beyonder was ex Unicorn.
Quasmalite 1988, .08, ECS File.
code: Utopia, gfx: n/a, music Happy4 by Pussy.
Released at The Silents Summer Meeting August/88
Round 1988, 04.11, ECS File.
code: Ted, gfx: Ted, music: The End by Lazer 4ch MOD format.
info: Also known as Rising.
Released at the Mahoney Kaktus - Northstar - Fairlight Helloween Party.
Stardust 3 1988, end, ECS File.
code: Dezed, gfx: Capone, music: Going Strong by Blaizer.
Snurkelscroll 1989, ECS File.
code: Sincos, Goofy additional, gfx: Icebrigade logo, Animal font,
music: Raggtime by Blaizer.
Winner of the Spectre Northstar Helloween Party 89 demo competition!
review: Not very advanced, with just a logo in the wellknown Psygnosis
style, and a wireframe vector scroller that twists and turns in every
direction. Not very inspiring, most interesting for the people who worked
on it - most of what would later be Digital Illusions D
A preview of this demo won the demo competition at the the Halloween
Party in TrollhKttan, Sweden 1989. Also known as Magic Dimension
Scroll. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA!
Snurkelscroll 2 1989, ECS File.
Legal 1989, 12.02, ECS File.
code: Tanic, gfx: Tanic, music: Shortpush and Number 1 by Blaizer.
Released at the Bamiga Sector 1 and The Warfalcons party.
Viva The Silents 1989, 12.02, ECS File.
code: Dezed, gfx: Capone, music: Visit Koto by Lazer.
Released at the Bamiga Sector 1 and The Warfalcons party.
Danish Quality 1989, 18.11, ECS File.
code: Mr.Perfect, gfx: Mikael Balle, music: Storm... by Jesper Kyd.
Released at the Bamiga Sector 1 copyparty.
review: This is a very well presented little demo well, more of an intro
really... This is mainly due to some excellent visuals by Mikael Balle,
which were incidentally also used in their Megademo! The demo itself
focuses on a dotscroll a new idea by Mr.Perfect they claim...was this the
very first dotscroller? with the usual twists and turns. The obligatory
logo at the top of the screen changes between 5 images SILENTS - MR
PERFECT - MIKAEL BALLE - JESPER KYD and a Batman logo : Nice. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Megademo 1990, 18.02, ECS Megademo.
code: The Crux, Williams, Mr. Perfect, Guzzler, gfx: Mikael Balle, Boze,
music: Jesper Kyd.
Released for the Kefrens and Dexion Party demo competition.
review: This ancient megademo is a true treasure! Everything is top-notch
about this one from the graphics to the FABULOUS music to the code...
For its time, I guess this must have been pretty much state-of-the-art!
If nothing else, get this for Kyds music in the Dromacore part... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Cache off.
End of Maloy 1990, ECS File.
code: Mr. Perfect, gfx: Mikael Balle, music: Caroline by Jesper Kyd.
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
Blue House 1990, 01.07, ECS File.
code: Alta, gfx: Rizzo, Alta, music: Marillion main, Middlealta by
Blaizer end. 3rd in the demo competition at the Amiga Conference 90.
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip,mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
Tropical Sunset 1990, ECS File.
code: Fuzzac, gfx: Coma/SOS, Chevron, music: Marillion Fuzzac packer
format. Released at the England CES 1990.
Sound of Silents 1990, 31.08, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk.
code: The Crux, gfx: Mikael Balle, music: Jesper Kyd.
Released at the Bounty Party.
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Caches off.
Wrath of the Demon 1990, 26.12, ECS Musicdisk.
Released at the Dexion Party 90.
Check Mate 1990/91?, ECS File.
code: Mr. Perfect, gfx: Mikael Balle, music: Jesper Kyd.
Moldavia BBS 1990? 1991?, ECS Intro.
code: Cool-G, Lyzanxia, gfx: Chevron, Walt, music: Hiscore by Jesper Kyd
ProTracker MOD format.
BBS Intro 1991, ECS Intro.
code: Performer, gfx: Walt, music: Rain Theme nhp-bkh by NHP BKH
ProTracker MOD format.
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip,mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
Blues House 1991, 12.02, Musicdisk, 2 disks.
code: Mogwie, Fuzzac additional, gfx: Chevron, music: Marillion,
Blaizer, Arcane.
info: Made at the Dexion party in december of 1990, but not released until
early 1991. Arcane was no longer a member of the group when the music disk
was released, so the inclusion of his tune is really a bit of a mystery
The tunes are 4 Fun, Animale Cave, Blow Out, Fattamorgana, Gasp,
Music In My Dream and Up And Down by Marillion, Glad Pack,
Gobbprew, Happy Day Finale, Jamming, Letsdance and Rappstan by
Blaizer and finally The Spectra by Arcane.
Global Trash 1991, 27.04, ECS Trackmo.
code: Sunjohn, gfx: Mikael Balle, Sionic titlepic, music: Intro
Hunting intro, main NoisePacker 1 format and A.Highscore end
by Jesper Kyd.
Winner of the Amiga Convention Summit demo competition!
review: This demo is legendary, and rightly so. Sunjohns first and as
far as I know, only TSL demo creates a mood not unlike Kyd and Balles
masterpiece Hardwired, released at the end of the year. Jesper Kyds
music plays a big part in that, and the idea to have music playing almost
instantly after you insert the disk is a very good one. Being used to
things loading for a while, youre actually startled when you insert
this and it starts right away!
So, whats the star feature of GT? The code? The graphics? The music?
The answer is a combination. First things first the code here consists
mostly of nicely executed vector routines and animation replayers ,
most of which are pretty good. The vectors here are perhaps not
revolutionary, but at least Sunjohn brought in some new elements, like
the flashing sections which hadnt been seen before. The graphics are
also good, with nice design, great raytraced animations and a fabulous
fullscreen logo by Sionic. And I believe I mentioned the music above?
Sionic remains something of a mystery. He came out of nowhere a new
member, as mentioned in the demo with the fabulous fullscreen logo in
this demo, only to never be heard from again as far as I know. Weird.
The intro and end music is in normal ProTracker format, while the main
tune is packed with NoisePacker... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
-- Note: Caches off, chipset original.
Geometrical Dreams 1991, 15.06, ECS File.
code: Delery, gfx: Chevron, Atlas, music: Geometrical Dreams by Blaizer
and Marillion NoisePacker 2 format. Released at the ECES Party 91.
Ice 1991, 29.06, ECS Trackmo.
code: Ronan, Performer, gfx: Walt, music: Nubulus by Audiomonster.
3rd in the Amega Party demo competition.
Intro? Dentro? Mentro? Demo? 1991, 05.08, ECS File.
code: Performer main, Motif dots, gfx: Walt, music: Enigma Year NHP-
BKH by NHP and BKH EUREKA Packer format.
review: This demo is actually a first class example of the old text
screen - effect - text screen formula, but retains qualities that set it
apart from most others in this genre. Being a demo from 1991, its hardly
surprising that the effects are of the filled vector object variety.
Having said that, these are among the best filled/glenz objects on the
Amiga as far as pure smoothness goes.
What takes this from an average example of an extinct demo type to a
great one, is the quality of the material. Walts logos and fonts are
quite outstanding, and are way ahead of their time. Both of these logos
deserve places in the demoscene logo hall of fame, if such a thing is
ever invented : The music is a nice, smooth affair but ultimately quite
forgettable. Get this for the outstanding graphics and design.
This was probably the French sections last demo before Goodbye, which
followed in december. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: KillAGA!.
Goodbye 1991, 28.12, ECS File.
code: Performer, gfx: Zoom, Facet/Anarchy font, music: Epsonic
nhpbkh by NHP and BKH.
Released at The Party 1991.
info: Performers last amiga demo. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Freezes as the spinning vector logo comes up to the
forefront. Nothing can remedy this, it seems Ive tried
KillAGA, caches off, orig chipset and combinations.
Perhaps itll work if I kickdown, but I havent got the
time to check now :
Hardwired 1991, 28.12, ECS Trackmo, 2 disks.
code: The Spy, Deftronic, Murphy, Saxs, Guzzler, gfx: Mikael Balle,
Sionic, Zycho, music: Jesper Kyd. 2nd in The Party 91 demo competition.
Cooperation with Crionics.
Cat Computer Club 1992, ECS Trackmo.
code: The Spy/Crionics, gfx: Mikael Balle, music: Jesper Kyd.
Intro 1992, .02, ECS Intro.
code: Saint, gfx: Rayban, Aero, music: Bass. Cooperation with Skid Row.
Addicted To Silence 1992, 12.05, ECS File.
Xpose 1992, 26.06, ECS Trackmo, 2 disks.
code: The Master, Bionic, gfx: The Master, John Doe, music: Ministry
v3.1 by Jesper Kyd. 3rd in the Hurricane Party 92 demo competition.
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Maximum Velocity 1992, 08.08, ECS Trackmo.
code: Coconut, Flame, Silver Eagle, gfx: Cenobit, music: JOL005X.
Winner of the Abstract - Oxygen summerparty 1992 demo competition!
info: These people all later ended up in Pygmy Projects. This was the
first and only demo ever released by the Finnish section. It was supposed
to be released at The Assembly, but due to a problem with the trackloader
it crashed after the opening animation. It was released a few weeks later,
at a small swedish party, and won the democompetition there!
The demo was downloaded by modem to Zephyr, who was the only TSL member
in attendance, just minutes before the competition! Thanks to Coconut and
Zephyr for information. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
-- Note: Does not work. Everythings been tried, but it
just keeps crashing after the first picture appears.
Static Chaos 1992, late, ECS Trackmo.
Made by No-Soul produkktions, then a subgroup. See there.
Enjoy The Silents 1992, 24.10, ECS Trackmo.
code: Rayban, gfx: Saint, Aero, Terminator, music: isten Eide main,
D-Zire sfx. 2nd place in the Digital Symposium 1992 demo competition.
review: Not much to shout about, everything about Enjoy is definitely
middle-of-the road. Theres simply nothing to GET EXCITED about here, and
therefore the demo leaves you WITHOUT wanting more : Not good.
Remarkably, it works without a glitch except for some music hiccups
on the 030, indicating a clean programming style on Raybans part. Its a
pity thats the only thing to recommend the demo : This was definitely
released AFTER Static Chaos, since the demo is mentioned within. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Intro 1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Xann, gfx: Hof, music: 911/Rebels.
3rd in The Party 92 40k intro competition.
Demon Download 1993, .02, ECS Disk, 2 disks.
code: Bionic, The Master, gfx: Devilstar, John Doe, music: Nanopower-End-
II by The Master.
review: The hidden game part, Poo-Poo Dreams, is a snake clone with
GREAT music by Terrax/Palace. Its not that secret, though, since they
mention how to access it both in the bootblock AND in the endpart
scroller. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
-- Note: Some minor gfx errors, and the endpart music bugs.
World Charts 9 1993, 11.04, ECS Trackloaded chart.
code: Thomas/Spreadpoint, gfx: Angeldawn, music: WOTW, editor: Autopsy.
review: This was the first release of WC for The Silents, and the
second issue I ever saw. This edition does not differ much at all from
issue 6, released for Scoopex. The code does not seem significantly
changed, and most of the graphics are the same, save for a new Silents
logo by Angeldawn. There are now a staggering 7 chiptunes to choose from,
of which the default one seems to be the best. It does borrow some chords
and melodies from Jarre, though...
Not much more to say, really. A nice, professional release aimed at the
crack/train/trade section of the scene. Works shamelessly well, and
without a single hiccup on my machine. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
CC93 Invitation 1993, .05, ECS File.
code: Spirou, Cuddley, gfx: Chevron, music: Party Invitation by D-Zire
4ch MOD format. Invitation to The Computer Crossroads 93.
Sozzled Somersault 1993, 29.05, ECS File.
code: Fuzzac, gfx: Chevron, music: -In Traffic- by Marillion
ProTracker MOD format.
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
-- Note: Not enough mem to run, even after booting from
floppy with Add21k. Designed for 1.3 1mb machines,
I guess, and 2.0 means theres not enough available.
A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Something About The Silents Makes Me Sick! 1993, 24.07, ECS File.
code: Spirou, Cuddley, Delery, gfx: Chevron, music: - s.a.s.m.m.s -
by Marillion. 2nd in the Marks Computer Society party.
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
Note: Had to run from floppy, and run add21k first.
A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Scroller has graphical errors.
The Party 93 Invitation 1993, late, ECS File.
code: The Master, gfx: Dize, Devilstar, The Master, music: Jesper Kyd.
Invitation to The Party 93.
Soulkitchen 1994, 28.12, AGA Trackmo, 2 disks.
code: Crush, Ricky, gfx: Dize, music: Scortia.
4th at The Party 94 demo competition.
review: Works ONLY on standard A1200s, but mentions a fixed version will
be released later. Dont know if it ever was... The picture by Dize was
also entered into the gfx competition under the name Selfportrait.
They mention that Fruitkitchen will be next in the Kitchen series. glenn
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
Fruitkitchen 1995, 12.08, AGA HD Multifile.
code: Crush, Ricky, gfx: Dize, John Doe, music: Fruitkitchen..sco by
Scortia. 4th in the Assembly 95 demo competition.
review: Fruitkitchen is certainly one of the best demos TSL have
delivered in recent years! Its absolutely brimming with goodlooking
effects and nice graphics. And dont even get me started on Scortias
excellent soundtrack! It opens with some pretty impressive green tinted
voxels, where there are some objects added to the landscape here and
there. Overlaid on this were given the credits. The next effect is
almost the most impressive one in the entire demo - its a vector cube
with a difference! Imagine the cube as the disco ball from Andromedas
Nexus 7 with lights shooting out of every side, and all the sides have
animated, spinning eye textures mapped onto them! Add this to the fact
that the cube is spinning and in and out of the screen, and youve got
yourself a showstopper! Just amazing. The next effects not much worse,
with us flying through streets a night, and with really realistic looking
street lights shining at us. Then, when youre in heaven and think things
cant get any better, a fast doom routine appears! This ones got
everything expcept height, and looks really good for 1995!
Next up are some vector objects, each one disintegrating to reaveal
another inside, before were shown three gouraud shaded objects mirrored
onto a solid graphic sphere. We end up with a standard vector routine,
with many objects moving around independently.
Together with great graphics and music, this is a truly great demo if
ever I saw one. Its great to see The Silents back in shape! The demo is
subtitled A Journey Into The Banana Incident. They mention that Blood
Kitchen will be next in the Kitchen series, but as far as I know that
never materialized. The last ever TSL demo? glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Silicon SLC
FRA Maf music, doublememb Syndrome details, 12/96, TOS Fabre Pascal,
swap pack Pikaboo, 94.
1996 - Graphician Leon joined Syndrome late this year.
Silicon League SL
??? Buckaroo Banzai crack, 08/88, The Ram Hunter mainorg, aka TRH,
Tuca.
German coder Mnemotron code joined Black Division. SL was the first ever
group for this coder who would later become famous as a.o. the coder who
took over SoundTracker in D.O.C... He released an antivirus utility called
IRQ-Antibiotica for SL.
Silicon Ltd.
N-L Astray code gfx, early93-12/93, Bass early93, Chucky early93,
Earthshaker org swap, early93, EP early93, Gypsy early93, Ma
early93, Sandwich early93, Spike ex Noice, new early93, Stranger
early93, Suave early93, Treble early93.
SWE Ash early93, Charger early93, Haze early93.
DEN Dr.Poison Jan Jorgensen, swap.
??? B000 Productions music, 12/93, Mitch gfx, 12/93, Trax gfx,
12/93.
1992 - Stranger joined Effect late 92.
1993 - Hawkeye was removed from the memberlist due to being inactive early
93. at least Dutchmen Pervert gfx, 12/93 and Thunder code joined
Motive.
Musictro Intro.
code: Thunder, gfx/music: n/a.
Party Invitation 1 Intro.
code: Thunder, gfx/music: n/a.
Party Invitation 2 Intro.
code: Thunder, gfx/music: n/a.
Party Invitation 3 Intro.
code: Thunder, gfx/music: n/a.
Merry X-Mas 1993, 28.12, ECS 1MBCHIP File.
code: Astray, gfx: Trax, Pervert, Mitch, Astray, music: B000 Productions.
Split 19th in The Party 93 demo competition.
Silver Productions
Silver Productions were a Classic new subgroup.
Disk ex Equinox and musician Cascade ex Rage both left.
Sim/Drake/Codex
Sim, Drake Codex were all members of the original Razor 1911 demo
divison, and when Razor declared their Amiga section dead in favour of PC
activities, they continued independently.
Speed 1993, 07.04, ECS/AGA Trackmo, 4 disks.
code: Sim, gfx: Drake, music: Codex.
2nd in The Gathering 93 demo competition.
Simplex
SWE Newt Christian Mezofi, swap.
FIN Paperboy Jarkko Tarnanen, swap, late95.
Sinners
GER GSC 11/88, Mike 11/88.
1988 - Mike got called up by ATT towards the end of the year, and as a
result decided to close his phone line.
Sixaeon
Drunken Coder Intro 1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Yegger, gfx: Illusion, music: Snakee.
16th in The Party 93 40k intro competition.
Skahn-X
Virtual 1997, 30.03, Demo.
14th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition.
Skandal
??? Billy The Kid code gfx, 06-12/92, Demko code music, 06/92-early93,
Kichkaha code, 06-12/92, Lord Kada early93, Sly gfx, 06/92,
Willow early93.
Intro 1992, 17.06, ECS Intro.
code: Kichkaha, Billy the Kid, gfx: Sly, music: Demko.
Tangentopoli 1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Demko, Kichkaha, gfx: Billy the Kid, music: Demko, Cosmos/Sanity.
5th in The Party 92 40k intro competition.
Skarla old -1996
FRA Scarface code, 12/94.
The entire crew Horus, Jamie, Marvin and Norm joined Essence in the late
months of 1996. However, after spending some time in Essence, making two
great demos in the process, the entire gang decided to reform their old
group Skarla!!
The Party IV Intro 1994, 28.12, 40k Intro.
code: Jamie, Scarface, gfx: Norm, Horus objects, music: Marvin.
17th in The Party 4 40k intro competition.
review: Ahh, this is nice. Some fair second generation vectors here.
The show opens with a large blenk torus. Next theres a zoomed flower,
before some credits, another vector objects, and for the finale... some
vectors. This last part is quite nice, with three individual objects
travelling in a circle. Nice choice of palette. Very very nice.
These guys went on to make the exceptional Makaveli for Essence. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Atome 1996, 27.04, Demo.
Winner of the Saturne 96 demo competition!
Skarla new http://www.skarla.com
FRA Horus founder 3D, ex Mystic, Jamie founder code, ex Mystic,
Marvin founder music, ex Mystic, Norm founder gfx, ex Mystic.
??? Luke code, ex Anadune, new early00.
Skarla was reformed late 97 or early 98, after the four original members of
Skarla left Mystic and decided to reform their old team. Jamie has now
found work coding games for a pc company, and the group warns us not to
expect any demos from them in the near future... There is a second Skarla
site, http://theskarla.free.fr/, maintained by Norm...
2000 - Luke code joined from Anadune early in the year.
When We Ride On Our Enemies 1999, 04.04, AGA 040 File.
2nd in The Mekka Symposium 99 demo competition.
info: Really needs a 060, though works with 040 - too slow on 030+fpu...
Skid Row old SKR, 1990-, http://skidrow.dk
GER Bob Duncan crack sysop, Corsair usa? ex Paranoimia, Depode sysop
SPACE CENTER, ex Endless Piracy, 12/91-04/92, Galaxy trade, ex
Alpha Flight, 12/90-09/91 and Mystical sysops LIGHTHOUSE, 09-
10/91, Hellion crack, ex Paranoimia, Kristall sysop DARK
DUNGEON, 09/91, Magic Drummer code music sysop CRACK HOUSE, ex
Software Tech, new RAW2, 04/92, Oliver ex The Company, new mid91,
Swift swap, late90, Time Bandit trade, new late90-01/91.
DEN Bandit seller, 09/91-06/92, Janitor seller, Marshal sysop STATIC
CHAOS, Midnight Maniac 09/91, Tarzan sysop PLASTIC PASSION, ex
2000 AD, The Lizard 09/91.
ENG Alchemist sysop REALMS OF ALCHEMY, Darkman 09/91, Scooter ex
Punishers, Wise Man ex Valhalla, new late90-09/91.
SWE Inferno ex Palace, Madness sysop METROPOLIS, ex Quartex, old
handle Scout, Rastan new late90.
NOR Jack Daniels sysop MIDDLE EAST.
HOL Papillon sysop NETWORK, 08/90-04/92.
SPA Black Ninja sysop PARADISE, ex Quartex, new late91.
ITA Black Moon sysop ARACHNOS, Shaolin sysop VIDEODROME, 04/92,
Suspiria sysop DIABOLIKA, 12/91-04/92, Tiger9 sysop ICC BBS,
08-11/90.
FIN Raze sysop LIGHTLINE, 07-11/91.
NOR Mace 91.
FRA Corsair code, ex Classic old, Foxy ex Classic old, Mr.Video gfx,
ex Classic old, Stone 09/91.
CAN Pharaoh and Devious Doze sysops BEYOND AKIRA, Stingray sysop
TERRORDOME.
USA Afterlife, Beatbox sysop ALCATRAZ, new 08/90-12/91, WHQ 91,
Christian Fletcher sysop H.M.S. BOUNTY, 08/90-91, Don Dog sysop
BOGUS EXCEPTION, East Coast sysop AMIGA EAST, 12/91-04/92, H.O.S
of Sorrow sysop CREEPING DEATH, new mid 91, Hustler sysop
HUSTLERS HAVEN, Jabbawocky sysop CYBORG COMMAND, 04/95, Jake
sysop TERMINAL DISASTER, 04/92, Major Theft sysop UNLAWFUL ENTRY
WHQ, 12/91-04/92, Ollie North sysop INQUISITION, new 08/90-91,
Paradise King sysop BEYOND PARADISE, 12/91, Q sysop CRYSTAL
MONOLITH, ex Pirates, Speed Master sysop SANCTUARY, ex LSD, Touch
Tone sysop MOTHERBOARD EAST I, 91, Toyman sysop ELUSIVE DREAMS,
12/91- 04/95, Xavier Madison sysop INFINITE ILLUSION, 12/91.
??? Annihilator, Anon, Arnie ex Valhalla, new late90, Batblaster, Beach
Bum, Big Balls ger? trade, new late90-91, Bomber Man Willy
suppliers, Cannibal, Controller new 08/90, Copyrighthunter ex
Valhalla, new late90, Creeping Death ex Valhalla, new late90,
Despiser, Destroyer ex Alpha Flight, new late90, D-Man, Doctor
Revenge, Eagles Talon, Hawk ex Valhalla, new late90, Iceberg ex
Alliance, Iron Men new 91, Jack, Jane supply, 92, Kenzo ger?
trade, 01/91, Master Crime supply, 91, Maximilian, Messiah,
Mictlantecuhtli supply, new 08/90, Mr.Xerox, Munchie supply,
Nightspawn, Nike ex Alpha Flight, new late90, Paragon, Phil Douglas,
Phonestud, Poison Angel sysop SPELLBOUND, Rick, Shock ex 2000 AD
-?- Shock ex Accession, Slash, Slayer, Slugger, TFT, The The
supply, 91, The Z, Tornado, Vertigo ex Oracle, new late90, Wacky,
Wildcard, Wildthing, Wolverine, Yeti ger? new 12/90, Zool, Zoom.
Boards CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM usa, THE DEAD ZONE usa, 08-11/90, BALKAN
usa, NIRVANA usa, MOTHERBOARD II usa, new mid91, THUNDERDOME
usa, 11/90, HADES usa, CELTIC CIRCLE usa, PURPLE DRAGON II usa,
04/92, LIGHTHOUSE EXPRESS usa distsite, INFERNAL REGIONS usa,
09/90.
MUSICAL PHARMACY ita, JUSTICE LEAGUE ita, 91, REALMS O.A. eng,
12/91, BLACK CLOUDS joined after being indep. for 1 month late 92.
Skid Row were once one of the greatest cracker groups, and were dominant on
that scene for a long time. Then, some of their best members left them for
other groups or for the PC scene, and the slowly died away. They had a
subgroup for a while, Jetset, that made some cracktros for them.
Skid Row was born in 1990, by main founder Metallica. The European section
of Skid Row died early 92, and the members built up the new crew Crack Inc.
1990 - Italian sysop Mr.M RED BLACK, opened late 90 joined Classic
old late 90.
1991 - Frenchman Garp was busted late 91. French coder Skywalker ex
Quartex, new mid 91 left to form his own cracking group, Model late 91.
X-Ample joined Frantic in september.
1992 - German sysop Shut Berlin WORLD TRADE CENTER, new early92-04/92
joined Infinite Perfection. He was also in Nemesis for one week in august.
Mr.Hell joined Crystal in september.
1993 - Sysops Quasar EXTASY WORLD and Soultaker BEYOND DEATH, usa
both joined Zenith early in the year. Coders and crackers Leander and Abyss
joined Interactive towards the middle of the year.
2001 - The official Skid Row memorial site was opened in march of 2001,
and is handled by Mysery aka Bandit.
Kannibal joined Byterapers Inc.
German sysop Digital PAINT BOX joined Shining 8.
Lando ex The Silents, new mid 91 joined Spirit.
Metal Gear sysop SPHERICAL DREAMS joined Centura.
Stylemaster DJ left for Prestige.
Dutch musician Baby Face joined Infect.
German supercracker and sysop FFC CAESARS PALACE, ex Vision Factory
old, 08/90-92 joined Ministry.
English sysop Kitaro sysop MILLENNIA, ex 2000AD, 10/92 joined Ministry.
Nosferatu, sysop DANSE MACABRE 04/92 joined Ministry.
German founder, trader and sysop Metallica NUCLEAR ASSAULT, ex
Paranoimia, 112/90-10/91 left the scene.
Danish member Fast Eddie was busted. However, a news item in Euro-Chart 15
claimed he just left the scene because he was afraid to get busted in the
first place.
Germans Eurosoft crack, 09/91-92, Mike and Munchie all joined Crack Inc.
Mike was cosysop of PARADISE ger.
Swedish Mightymuz ex Spirit joined Fusion.
Danish crackers and sysops Blackhawk 09/91 and Metalforce joined Scoopex.
German super-supply trio Subzero music, ex Paranoimia, 91-92, Selim and
Rudi THE JAM, both ex The Company, new mid 91-04/92 - collectively
known as SSR - left to form the new group Crack Inc in early 1992.
This is the true story: other rumours include that Rudi joined
Bitstoppers, and that Selim left the scene.
Aerobas is NOT in Skid Row, hes in Vanish.
Cracktro 1991, Intro.
Code: Magic Drummer Design, Gfx: none, Music: Visor.Synth BP Sound-Mon
2.0 format by n/a.
info: Used for ABC Wide World Sports Boxing 12/91.
Skid Row new SR, http://www.skidrow.dk
ENG Data-Stream sysop CRYOGENICS, 09/95.
SWE Cruger trade, 07/95, Marwic sysop NUCLEAR WASTE, later Bad Karma,
01/95, Trapdoor and Original sysops HIGH VOLTAGE, 01-02/95, Viper
sysop SPELL BOUND, 01/94.
DEN Marc sysop THE CHANNEL, doublememb Superiors, 04-09/95, Wozzy
modem sysop METAL CONNEXTION, 04-09/95.
BEL Little Boy sysop PEACE CHAPEL, 04/95.
POL Sachy code, doublememb Dinx Project details, 11/96.
USA East Coast sysop AMIGA EAST, 04/95.
??? Blackeye den? trade, 09/95, D-Code eng? modem, 09/95, Silent ger?
01/94, Zandor eng? modem, 09/95.
Skillion
GER Warlord sysop ANIMALIZE, 91.
BEL Lucifer sysop 7 GATES OF HELL.
Skulls
POL Cerber code, doublememb Depth, Jacool Jacek Olejnik, swap sysop,
Nazgul code, doublememb Depth, Pila Marcin Pilecki, write ascii
swap.
??? Czarny swap, Egon swap, Elezar raytrace, Larry write, Luck
music, Masher raytrace, Mr.Big swap sysop, Neuromancer gfx
sysop, Novi write, P242 raytrace swap, Seba code.
Skytech
DEN Smooth Kim M. Smooth, music, 12/94.
Sledgehammers -1991
Sledgehammers are dead mid 91. Sali-Adalat joined Exort.
Slimebyte -1990
This Swiss group died after TMA decided to leave for Piranhas 05/90.
Slim Productions
The Killing of an Egg 1994, 28.12, 40k Intro.
5th in The Party 4 40k intro competition.
Slipstream -1992
ENG LF swap, 08-12/90.
SWE Zed ex Cytax, new 09/92.
??? Andi code music 09/89-04/91, Adrian gfx, 11/91, Amadeus music,
11/91, Atlantis code, 11/91, Axe 04/91, Bren new 91, Damaxx new
91-04/91, Darkho new 91, Darkstar music, 09/89-12/90, Digits new
91-04/91, Fangs code, new 91-04/91, Firefox new 04/91, Gamma
music, 12/90-04/91, Grayzor swap, 12/90-06/91, Hulmerist 04/91,
Hunter 12/90, Kappa new 91-04/91, Kid Video 12/90-04/91, Mace
code, 89-12/90, Mally new 91, Matrix crack, new 04/91, Mike gfx,
11/91, Pod new 91-04/91, Stryx 04/91.
The people below this line are no longer members, and the line was drawn at
a memberlist published in Curved Vector Scroll 12/90.
??? 4-Mat music, 90, Atlantis code, 90, Dan code gfx, 09/89-90,
Duckman 89, Gorbash gfx, 89-90, Juz music, 90, Marc code, 90,
Maxx code, 07/90, Mystik gfx, 07/90-01/91, Skol code, 90, Spanner
gfx, 89, Stryx gfx, 90, The Edge gfx, 09/89, Zarchy gfx, 90.
Slipstream died early 92, and Data, Skol and others joined Anthrox.
1990 - There were news in Stolen Data 4 08/90 that Slipstream had died
already back then. It reported that key members in the cracking and training
section had joined Scoopex Electra, N.O.M.A.D, and that the rest of the
members merged with Mayhem to create Reaktor.
1991 - New members Matrix crack and Firefox were announced in a crack
intro released in the middle of april.
The swapper Pulsar?/Pulstar? ex Amaze, new 09/92 joined Agnostic Front.
Nova joined Digital.
Scottish supplier Action Man joined Oracle old.
Musicdisk 1989, ECS Musicdisk.
The Duck Demo 1989, ECS File.
code: Andi, gfx: Dan, Spanner, music: Roll-Out by Gorbash ProTracker
MOD format.
The Garfield Demo 1989, 30.09, ECS File.
code: Andi, gfx: Dan, The Edge, music: cat-rap-mix2 by Darkstar
ProTracker MOD format,
Termination 1989, ECS Intro.
code: Mace, Andi, gfx: Dan logo, Marcus Lynn terminator pic, music:
House.2.House by 4-Mat ProTracker MOD format.
Hardcore Demo 1990, ECS File.
code: Andi, gfx: Dan, music: True Faith by 4-Mat ProTracker MOD
format.
Equalogo 1989, ECS File.
code: Andi, gfx: Dan, music: Loony2 by Darkstar ProTracker MOD format.
info: This intro announces that Chaos and Slipstream are no longer in
coop.
Sine Intro One 1989, ECS Intro.
code: Andi, gfx: Dan, music: Lonely by Darkstar ProTracker MOD format.
Sine Intro 3 1989, 18.12, ECS Intro.
code: Andi, gfx: n/a, music: That-Kat-Killer by Andi ProTracker MOD
format.
Street Tuff 1990, ECS File.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Street-tuff-2-finis by n/a ProTracker MOD
format.
Another Musicdemo 1990, ECS File.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Applejuice-4mat by 4-Mat ProTracker MOD
format.
Bournemouth Party Slide 1990, ECS File.
code: Andi, gfx: Mace pics, digitize, Dan logo, music: Myamigaisdead
by Sky/Enemies ProTracker MOD format.
Demo Pack 1990, ECS Intro.
code: Electra, gfx: Zarchy, music: Jochen Hippel/Thalion Future Composer
1.3 format, 6756 bytes.
info: This was released just before the 16-Bit show in London.
Sine Intro 4 1990, ECS Intro.
code: Andi, gfx: Dan, music: Space-Journey by Bit Arts/RSI ProTracker
MOD format. Released at the 16 Bit Show in London.
Another Game Compact Disk 1990, ECS Intro.
code/gfx: Marc, music: n/a.
Docs for SD-Boot 1 1991, ECS Intro.
code: Skol Atlantis, gfx: Stryx, music: Juz Future Composer 1.4 format,
13388 bytes.
Vectalizer 1990, ECS Intro.
code: Dan, gfx: Zarchy/THR logo, music: Fragments II... by Gonzo/Flash
Production ProTracker MOD format.
Partytime 1990, early, ECS Demo.
code: Andi, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Sprinky Turtle 1990, 28.07, ECS File.
code: Mace, Maxx, gfx: Mystik, music: Hip-for-da-hop by Firefox/
Phenomena ProTracker MOD format.
Party Slide 2 1990, ECS Demo.
code: Andi, Maxx, gfx: n/a, music: Red Sector-Theme by 4-Mat ProTracker
MOD format. info: This demo announces Slipstream is now Reaktor.
Curved Vector Scroll -Slipstream Reformed- 1990, 28.12, ECS Intro.
code: Andi, Mace, gfx: Mystik logo, music: Pc90 by Gamma ProTracker
MOD format. Released at the Dexion X-Mas Conference 90.
Vengance Double Demo 1991, .01, ECS File.
code: Andi, gfx: Mystik, music: Members Part by Walkman/It, Lost To The
World by Gamma both ProTracker MOD format.
Medium res Vector 1991, ECS Dentro.
code: Andi, gfx: Stryx anim, logo, music: Illumination by Gamma
ProTracker MOD format.
Slipstream BBS Intro -Absolute Zero- 1991, ECS Intro.
code: Pod, Fangs, music: Loader by Dr.Awesome/Crusaders ProTracker MOD
format.
Back In 1991 1991, ECS Intro.
code: Maxx, Andi, gfx: Stryx logo, music: Breeze by Diablo/Budbrain
ProTracker MOD format.
Tilt intro 1991, 13.04, ECS Intro.
code: Matrix, gfx: n/a, music: Zapped-Out by 4-Mat/Anarchy ProTracker
MOD format. info: Crack intro, used for their release of the game Tilt.
Announced new members Matrix and Firefox.
The Pegasus Mintro 1991, 09.11, ECS Intro.
code: Atlantis, gfx: Adrian, Mike, music: Amadeus np2 format.
Their 2nd Rebirth 1992, 02.03, ECS Intro.
code: Alien/Slipstream, gfx: Killerbyte, music: Seconds to Comply by
Prophet ProTracker MOD format.
Greetings 1992, ECS Intro.
code: Alien, gfx: Killerbyte logo, Orcslayer/Deicide font, music:
New Edition II by Zzzax/Timecircle Sound-Mon 2 format, 6850 bytes.
Music Disk One 1992, .07, ECS Musicdisk.
code: n/a, gfx: Manico, music: Yummy, Are You Alive?, Power-Supply,
Tasteless Candy, Suicide Mission, A Day In The Life and Sausage by
The Candy Man all ProTracker MOD format.
Introette 1993, ECS Intro.
code: Venom/Slipstream, gfx: Manico, music: Reborn by The Candy Man
TCM ProTracker MOD format.
Slope SLP
GER Tiger Sascha Iwanov, swap pack, 02/97
FRA Suicyco Reblaub Matthieu, swap, 02/97.
??? Dr. Best code, 02/97, Gludul gfx, 02/97, Hysteric swa pack,
02/97, Mic org, 02/97, Penguin code, 02/97, Suicidal swap,
02/97.
Ressurrection 1 1997, 15.02, Intro.
code: Penguin, gfx: Fashion/Ram Jam pic, Monk logo, Broom font,
music: Ace.
review: Nothing really spectacular about Ressurrection its a humorous
picture, a scroller across the bottom and a tune. It was meant more as a
sign of life than a real production anyway, so I guess they just wanted
to release something. Some text suggest more issues of Ressurrection are
on their way! Does it require AGA? I dont know... It caused a software
failure and a guru after exiting on my system, but the intro itself ran
fine. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Smart
I Dina Drmmar 1996, 26.05, 64k Intro.
6th in the Icing 96 64k intro competition.
info: The Swedish title means In Your Dreams.
Smellon Design
HOL Joint swap.
Mellons 2 Intro.
Help 1995, 28.12, 4k Intro.
review: Aw, fun... This ones sort-of a pisstake on the whole MELON logo
thing, with the black/white blocky chars... First, a Smellon logo in the
aforementioned style bounces across the screen, followed by a PLETHORA
of other logos for groups that have used this style of logo! Fun! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Elyts Deppir 1996, 27.04, Demo.
10th in the Saturne 96 demo competition.
info: Read the name backwards...
Smoke
??? Devotion code, 12/97, Fender music, 12/97, Thor gfx, 12/97.
427 1996, 28.12, 40k Intro.
3rd in The Party 6 40k intro competition.
info: Smoke were unknown before finishing 3rd at The Party.
Electroboy 1997, 28.12, AGA 8MB 030 Multifile.
code: Devotion, gfx: Thor, Fender design, music: Fender.
3rd in The Party 7 demo competition.
Smokey SMK
SWE Leatherface sysop TRADERS PARADISE, triplememb Digital Corruption
and Ghost Riders.
Smurfers
Megademo 1994, 09.10, Demo.
Released at the Dooms Day 94 party.
Soc. Brigade -1992.
HUN Alex, Roy Batty.
??? Hamlet new early92, Krapulax re-scene early92, Popeye new
early92.
This group will probably be best remembered for housing some of the people
who would later build the wellknown Absolute! The SOC in Soc.Brigade means
Snap Off Commies, just for the record. They are also probably one of if
not the first! Amiga group to have a PC section which won the demo
competition at the first official Hungarian demo party in 1991 Twin
Sectors Inc. party with Torso.
When the group died, the best members ADT, Ben... formed Absolute!
Comiga joined Cerberos.
Petroff sold his Amiga, but will continue making music on his PC early 92.
Sodan
Sodan is legendary Danish coder Sren Grnbechs one-man crew. Sodan was
BIG on the C64, where he among other things invented the socalled tech-
tech method of waving pictures more than 8 pixels to either side. When
he started coding on the Amiga, one of the first things he did was re-
invent the routine that made him immortal. He also made the legendary
beat em up game Sword of Sodan.
Tech Tech 1988, ECS Multifile.
Requires Kickstart 1.2, but theres a fixed version that will run on
newer Amigas.
Softkiller Crew, The TSK Crew
??? Copyrighthunter later Valhalla.
Austrians Ray Jackson gfx and Guru Josh joined Front 242 late 91.
J.O.E ex The Professionals, new 88 joined Scoopex in the summer of 89.
The Skyline Intro 1988, ECS File.
code: Copyrighthunter, gfx: Slayer, Ray Jackson, Creeping, Music: Mark2/
Quadlite. Cooperation with Alcatraz.
Soft-One
Italian coder, graphician and sysop Rio DISASTER AREA joined Megahead
late 95.
Software of Sweden SOS, -1991
SWE Bandit music, 02/89-04/90, Blitz music, 04/90, Coma gfx, 04/90,
Darkwolf Magnus Mickelsson, code gfx music, new 07/89-91, Firewalker
code gfx, 06/89, Groo the Wanderer Pal Ragnarsson, swap, 89,
Hellcat code gfx, ex Macron, new 89, Joe 88, Max code, Mindbender
Andreas Persson, swap, 89, Nuke gfx, Ron founder mainorg code gfx
music, 12/88-90, Spite code, 91, Starfighter code stickers, 89,
Tripod gfx, 89, WhiteKnight code, 04/90, Wibbe code gfx, 89-90,
Zozz new 91.
SOS was an exclusively Swedish duh! demo group.
1989 - Darkwolf joined from Triangle at the IBB - Digitech Summer Party.
Hellcat code gfx joined from Macron, and his first release for the group
was the musicdisk Sound De Light 89.
1991 - Spites Intro announced Zozz had joined the group. SOS died, and
5 of the members formed Empire. Raduis joined Byterapers.
Bionic Bytes ECS Demo.
code: Max, gfx: Nuke, Coma, music: Bionic Bits by Darkwolf MOD format.
Released at a party in Borlange, Sweden.
Samanta Fox 1988, ECS Slideshow.
code: Ron, gfx: n/a, music: Ron sample data.
Sound Select 1988, ECS Demo.
X-Mas 1988, .12, ECS Demo.
code/gfx: Ron, music: Too Good2 by Ron 15 inst SoundTracker format.
info: Original music made by Yankee/Asia.
Amiga Night 1989, ECS Demo.
code/gfx: Ron, music: My Tune by Ron 15inst SoundTracker module.
info: Rons first real amiga demo.
Ball Demo 1989, ECS Demo.
code/gfx: Ron, music: Back To Standard by Bandit 15inst SoundTracker
format.
Megademo 1989, ECS Trackmo.
code: Ron, gfx: Ron, Wibbe, music: Ron sample data, Rockbox by Bandit
MOD format, one tune of unknown origin.
Muzic Mix Dizc II 1989, ECS Musicdisk.
code: Dr.Diskdoctor, gfx: n/a, music: Steve B and Angie S by
Banana/TEK, Too Good2 by Ron, cf5ii by ???/Swedish Imperial,
Greenberet by ???, Rsi- SLL by SLL/RSI, Jompa by Jolic/IT, Ninja
by ???, Out Run by Fred/Ackerlight, Sll3.3 by SLL/BS1-Quoram,
Saoteus by ???/Triangle, Telephone by Romeo Knight/RSI, The Link by
???/Beastie Boys all 15 inst SoundTracker format.
Sound De Light 1989, ECS Musicdisk.
code/gfx: Hellcat, music: pr1, Music Maestro, She Drives Me Crazy
Straight Up, All She Wants Is, Jeff Minters Ballad, Charlie
Chaplin, The Lucky One - all composers unknown.
info: This musicdisk announced Hellcat joining from Macron.
New Intro 1989, 28.02, ECS Intro.
code/gfx: Ron, music: Senap by Bandit 15 inst MOD format.
info: This intro announced Tripod left for Ipec Elite, Coma joined up.
Musicselector II 1989, .04, ECS Demo.
code: Ron, gfx: Ron, Coma font, music: Arkanoid 2 trigon by Trigon,
Technopop by Bandit, both MOD format.
Firewalkers First 1989, 08.06, ECS Demo.
code/gfx: Firewalker, music: Hymn To Jazz by SLL/BS1 15 inst
SoundTracker format.
Firewalkers 2nd 1989, ECS Demo.
code/gfx: Firewalker, music: Enough by Firewalker 15 inst SoundTracker
format.
Plotty 1989, .07, ECS Intro.
code: Starfighter, gfx: Bandit font, Ron logo, music: Defi-Lame by
Trgion MOD format. Released at the IBB - Digitech Summer Party 89.
info: This intro announced Darkwolf joined from Triangle.
Bit For Bit -preview- 1990, ECS Demo.
code/gfx: Ron, music: So Beautiful by Darkwolf 4ch MOD format.
Clicopperdemo 1990, ECS Intro.
code/gfx: Ron, music: Jochen Hippel Future Composer 1.3 format, 7090
bytes.
New Sinescroller Demo 1990, ECS Demo.
code: Wibbe, gfx: n/a, music: Slam by Bandit MOD format.
Tampong 1990, ECS Intro.
code: Dr.Diskdoctor, gfx: n/a, music: Kawai-K2 by Starbuck/Spreadpoint
MOD format.
ZuttZutt 1990, ECS Demo.
code: Ron, gfx: Coma, music: Rhythm Master by Darkwolf MOD format.
Small Lame Pack Intro 1990, 21.03, ECS Intro.
code/gfx: Darkwolf, music: n/a.
180 Demo 1990, 14.04, ECS Demo.
code: Ron, WhiteKnight, gfx: Coma, music: Skystorm by Blitz, Audion by
Bandit. Released at the Swedish Elite Easter Conference.
Cool Pack Intro 1990, 25.05, ECS Intro.
code: Armageddon/Tyrants-SOS, gfx: Darkwolf, music: Darkwolf Future
Composer 1.3 format, 7670 bytes.
Spites Intro 1991, ECS Intro.
code: Spite, gfx: Darkwolf, music: Angel Touch by Darkwolf MOD format.
info: The intro announced Zozz had joined up.
Software Tech
German coder and sysop Magic Drummer joined Skid Row.
Solaris
Solaris almost died 3 members left late 92 after many members left for
the new group Mentasm. Most did this in protest at Digital Master, who was
reportedly ripping his graphics!
Silk and Napoleon joined Dreamdealers.
DGM aka Digital Master, ex Iris, Gandbox, Harry, Locked, Memorys and
Religion 242 all joined Ivory. Sylver left the scene, but is now back and
looking for a crew. French coder Gengis 05/92 left for Liquid. He would
later become a true scene celebrity for his fabulous demos in 1993 and
1994...
Heart Light 1996, 27.04, Demo.
Cooperation with Syndrome. 8th in the Saturne 96 demo competition.
Soldiers and Flowers
??? Ae code, Billy trade sysop, Dan code gfx, Grohu gfx, Franckey
code edit, Krzysio gfx, Mr.Lizard gfx ascii, Ogotay code, Oster
code, Piles code, Priest music, R.G. code swap, Sagrael swap
trade, Sir James gfx, Sixtus music, Stigmatiser gfx, Timi
mainorg swap, Tinner raytrace.
Solitude
SWE Pad gfx, ex Limited Edition, later Sunshine Productions, new 02/94.
Swedish sysop Qen ODIUS left to join C-Lous.
Solution SLT
N-L Source swap.
??? Fletch sysop NEON CITY, ex Freestyle.
Odeon 1992, 27.12, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Micron. Released at The Party 92.
info: 7 tunes.
Sonic
FIN Bundy Pyry Lamminpaa, swap, ex Offworld, early93, Deflector 93,
Dole 93, Funky Fella 93, Grim ex Damones, 93, KissaRobotti, Maza
Matti Tuomela, music, ex Rebels old, 93, Model Toni, swap, ex Tony/
Pirates, early92-93, Murk 93, Oxide 93, Stargazer Antti Oksanen,
music, ex Stellar, re-Complex, 01/93, Ukulele, Zakka Jukka Harjunen,
trade, ex Accession or Alpha Flight!.
SWE Bit ex Amaze, new 09/92.
??? Chromer fin? ex Palace.
Sonic is originally a Finnish demo group, their Swedish divison was formed
by Bit/ex Palace 09/92. They also grew a pc section, Sonic PC, which
released their first demo in 1992, and came 3rd in The Party 92 pc demo
competition with their second effort, Delusion music by Stargazer.
1992 - Finns Turtle ex Byterapers, new 09/92 and Shocker joined
Accession around october.
Finnish musician Yolk joined Parallax.
Graphician and musician Gamma got kicked, but later joined Jetset new.
Dutchman Sonik is trying to start his own group, Damage Inc.
Danish Omar was kicked coz of stealing.
Slimer, Frostie, Def and Dux got kicked. Frostie joined Palace.
Gastric Ulcer 1992 late/1993 early, ECS Musicdisk.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Merlin.
Information: Mainly hardcore technobased.
Evidence 1994, late, Musicdisk.
Cooperation with Virtual Dreams.
Sonik Clique 1990-
FIN Model Toni Nykanen, swap, late95, Murk mainorg gfx, 08/98, Oxide
Olli Kuopila, music, 08/95-97.
??? Devotion fin? code, 08/98, Erique fin? code, 08/98, FNDR fin? gfx,
08/98, Lust Ninja fin? music, 08/98, Negro fin? gfx, 08/98.
SC are sometimes referred to as just Sonik.
1995 - Famous English swapper and packmaker Majic Mushroom joined from
Lemon., but did not stay in the group too long...as of march, he left the
amiga scene. He sold his machine and bought a pc, which he apparently needs
for his job :
1996 - They WON the 64k intro competition with Pure 08/96 at the
Assembly in august!
1998 - The group released the intro Red Eye 08/98 at Assembly,
managing a third place despite any real content.
Dole changed his handle to Divine and joined Accession. According to The
Jungle 7, he just doublejoined... Help!?
Fad 1995, 12.08, 40k Intro.
Winner of the Assembly 95 40k intro competition!
Blur 1995, 12.08, 40k Intro.
3rd in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition.
Pure 1996, 18.08, AGA 64k Intro.
producers: Deflektor, Murk, Andy, Dizzy.
Winner of the Assembly 96 intro competition!
review: Almost more of a caleidoscope than an intro, it puzzles me a
little how this could win. Its clearly one of the better contributions,
granted, but a 2nd or third position seems more reasonable. Hmm... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Red Eye 1998, 08.08, 64k Intro.
code: Erique, Devotion, gfx: Murk design, Negro, fndr, music: The Lust
Ninja The Player 6.1A format.
Third in the Assembly 98 64k intro competition.
review: Thanks to some superior design work by Murk, this intro managed to
reach third place at Assembly without any single great routine behind it!
But it looks nice, and we guess thats what counts in the long run,
rite? The most advanced routine here is a slow but goodlooking envmapper.
The intros full title is Were Red-Eye Like Jedi.
The intro requires AGA and some fastmem, though how much is unknown - we
highly doubt its much. The intro uses Spite and Origos demosystem OS2
v3.0 04.08.98. See, amazing what you can find when you snoop around the
executables with a great depacker? glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Southern Guild
Australian musician Jukebox left 93, then changed his handle to Hunz and
joined Pearl.
Prelude 1992, early/mid, ECS File.
code/gfx: Arttec, Protocol, music: Druid, Shadaxian.
Jungle File.
Spaceballs SPB, http://spaceballs.planet-d.net
To be replaced with the same new history file were working on for the
homepage... stay tuned.
Space Marines SMS
NOR Boa Constrictor code sysop THE AZYLUM, 09/94-05/97, Hunter sysop
HELLOWEEN, 05/97, Mr.Man sysop VALHALL, 05/97.
Space Marines are a PC group which grew an Amiga section. Spaceballs coder
Slummy was a member at one time.
Spasm
??? Boomer code, 09-12/93, Draghan music, 09-12/93, Zac gfx, 09-
12/93.
All the Spasm demos seem to be from the Boomer Zac Draghan trio...
1995 - Sear and Bacalao left to form Dylem late 95. French swapper
Alhazred changed his handle to The Suicidal Klown TSK for short and left
for Sardonyx to work on their diskmag Seenpoint. His first work for the
group can be seen in Seenpoint 2 12/95.
Culture 1993, 25.10, ECS File.
code: Boomer, gfx: Zac, music: Draghan.
Sun Is Back 1993, 04.09, ECS File.
code: Boomer, gfx: Zac, music: Draghan.
Happy New Year 1993, 30.12, ECS File.
code: Boomer, gfx: Zac, music: Draghan.
Special Brothers, The TSB, 1990-, http://www.the-special-brothers.org
GER Alex sysop BLACK LINE, Count Floyd Markus Klingel, code, old
handle TCA, 90-11/91, Dr.Dre Alexander Kluth, ex Dr.Oetker/Vanish,
new mid-09/91, Fluid Neon Florian Vorberger, code, new 12/91, H.V.H.
sysop BIRD OF PREY, 91-04/95, Icecube Jan Willutzki, swap, ex
Vanish, new mid91-04/92, Ivan gfx swap pack, 03/90-02/92, Scampy
Markus Diedrichs, swap, ex Mexx, Schorse code sysop SILVER MOON,
91, Speedhawk Carsten Henkelmann, swap, ex Eremation, Woddy sysop
FIRE POWER WHQ, late90.
FRA Bross swap, ex Willow, did NOT join Dual Crew, Burst, Fishbone code,
ex Extreme, new late91, Hawat ex Rebels, Hygraicc gfx music swap,
Mumbly, Newmarh ex Rebels, Swoly gfx, Thufir ex Rebels, Ze Worst
gfx swap.
FIN Stargazer Antti Oksanen, music, 11/91, Tomy Tom Pakarinen, code,
07/91.
LUX Joe J. Schroeder, 05-12/91, MNI Tom Wagener, code, 05-12/91.
NOR Kyle, MC Blaster Magnus Willum, swap, 09/92.
??? Adictor swap, Alloc code, 03/90-12/91, Blade music, 03/91,
Cruzifix stopswapwap, Electrica 08/90, Fabian trade, new late92,
GTS music, 03/90-01/92, Laserdance code gfx, 09/91-02/92, Master
Freez ex Equinox, new late91, Newmark code, 92, Phobos music,
09/91-02/92, SGR gfx, 05/91, Sniper ex Digital, Splitter music,
12/91, Timerider code, 09/91, Zyklon gfx, 05-06/91.
Boards ANESTESIA +352.
TSB were a demo group based in Germany, formed by TCA The Commodore Ace,
code, Electrica and MLP Artworx music in 1988. Later more members joined,
and lots of products were released. Around 1991 TSB consisted of about 40
members from Germany, England, Sweden, Finland, France, Luxembourg and
Switzerland. TCA later changed his handle to Count Floyd. Flake was the
author of some antivirus programs, like PCL PointerCLearer and The Special
Brothers Viruskiller. He later wound up in TRSI, where he continues to
release new versions of his utility Virus Workshop. Fluid Neon Florian
Vorberger is now main programmer of the DeliPlayer http://
www.deliplayer.com for Windows.
1990 - Pilka ex Success, new ca 07/90 left to build a new group, and
their german board FIRE POWER was opened ca 10/90. MLP Artworx music and
TCA code, both 08/90 left late 90 -- this must be wrong, TCA just changed
his handle to Count Floyd.
1991 - Germans Dr.Dre and IceCube joined from Vanish in the middle of the
year. The Official Board Dentro 09/91 was released in september,
announcing their finnish musician Stargazer 06/91- had left the group for
Equinox. He returned to TSB within two months was member again 11/91.
Another intro was released towards the end of the month, called New
Members 09/91. Laserdance, Error, Phobos and Timerider all made their
stuff for TSB 09/91, suggesting they may have joined the group together. At
The Party in december, the intro Contact Us 12/91 was
released, announcing new members Fluid Neon, MC Man and DJ Magic.
1992 - The Livetro was released in the first few months of the year, to
announce the upcoming release of the new messagebox LIVE. German coder
Flake 02/91- joined D-Tect in august. German swapper Saron new 09/91
joined Infect late 92. Finnish swapper Commie is now Whiplash/Frantic
late92. German sysop Mike STATE OF MIND left, and formed a new group
with some other guys late92.
1993 - Graphician and trader Error 09/91- joined Zenith early 93. All
Norwegian members were kicked except for Kyle early 93. French swapper
Vodka joined Hazard late in the year.
2001 - The official website was launched, its webmaster is Ivan.
Frenchmen Clawz music, 92, Dancer, Spiral and Vodka joined Digital.
Vodka later rejoined, however.
The French editors of L.I.V.E, Freddox and Fletch both ex Extreme, new
late-09/91 joined Dreamdealers, and took the mag with them.
German swapper Rebel MC pack edit, ex Byte Busters joined Desire.
Codey was kicked.
New Swiss board THE LEGEND opened, but then the entire Swiss division
left.
Silvermoon BBS ECS Intro.
code/gfx: MNI, music: GTS Future Composer 1.3 format, 15602 bytes.
info: Probably released sometime after 05/91...
Sekret Of Monkey Island 1990, ECS Music Demo.
code: Count Floyd, gfx: Ivan, Tami Borowick, James Dollar, Bill Eaken,
Avril Harrison, Iain McCaig, Jim McLeod, Michael Stemmle, Sean Turner and
Brad Taylor/Lucasfilm Games, music: Chris Hlsbeck Rudolf Stember TFMX
format.
The Vision of a Great Group 1990, ECS File.
code: Alloc, gfx: Ivan, music: Dudel mlp by MLP Artworx ProTracker
MOD format.
3D Demo 1990, 24.03, ECS File.
code: Alloc, TCA, gfx: Ivan, music: Tellus-Vasta!.gts by GTS ProTracker
MOD format. 2nd in the CeBit 90 afterparty demo competition.
GCS Revival 1990, 18.08, ECS File.
code: TCA, gfx: Ivan, music: Party-Mix 90 mlp by MLP Artworx
ProTracker MOD format. Released at the Animators and Pegasus Party.
Master Utilities Intro 1990, late, ECS Intro.
review: An OK intro this, supposedly for a compact disk they did called
Master Utilities. I found this intro on another compact : The music, by
the way, is in Future Composer 1.0-1.3 format. The design is quite OK,
and theres not really anything to put your finger on. An ok intro.
No credits appear anywhere in the intro, except that the pack was done
by Ivan/TSB Germany. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Works with KillAGA, but fucks up on exit.
Groovy Dots 1991, ECS File.
code: MNI, gfx: Ivan, music: A Hit by Eltronic ProTracker MOD format.
info: This intro announces the BIRDS OF PREY BBS is now online.
Maximum Overdrive 1991, ECS Trackmo.
Suburb Sunblust 1991, ECS File.
code: Laserdance, Schorse, gfx: Ivan, music: Magic Choir.gts by GTS
ProTracker MOD format.
Vectordesigner Intro 1991, 26.03, ECS Intro.
code: Count Floyd, gfx: Ivan, music: Moontrip Part II by Blade
ProTracker MOD format. Released at Cebit 91.
Lethal 1991, 19.05, ECS File.
code: MNI, gfx: Zyklon fonts, Ivan, SGR, music: Madmusic by Eltronic
NoisePacker 2 format.
Winner of the Maximum Pleasure Party demo competition!
Bendy Vectors 1991, .06, ECS Intro.
code: MNI, gfx: Zyklon logo, Stargazer font, music: GTS Future
Composer 1.4 format, 6896 bytes.
Inconvenient Intro 1991, 27.07, ECS Intro.
code: Tomy, gfx: Stargazer pink logo, font, muisc: Peep Peep by
Stargazer protected ProTracker MOD format.
Released at the Byterapers - Scoopex - Bloodsuckers Gathering 91.
Space Sperm BBS Demo 2 1991, .09, ECS File.
code: Laserdance, gfx: Error, Laserdance, Ivan, Fletch, music: Pop
Industrielle by Phobos ProTracker MOD format.
The Official Board Dentro 1991, .09, ECS File.
code: Alloc, gfx: n/a, music: Maximum Breainboost by Stargazer
ProTracker MOD format.
info: This intro announced Stargazer left the group for Equinox.
The BBS Vector-Ference 1991, 01.09, ECS File.
code: Laserdance, Timerider, gfx: Ivan, music: Vox Mystica.gts by GTS
ProTracker MOD format.
Meeting Intro 1991, 08.09, ECS Intro.
code: MNI, gfx: Ivan font, music: ???/Rebels Future Composer 1.3
format, 4704 bytes. Released at the Luxembourg Party.
New Members 1991, 30.09, ECS Intro.
code: Laserdance, gfx: Ivan logo, music: fa.Worse Face.gts by GTS 4ch
StarTrekker format.
Thief v3.0 Intro 1991, 16.11, ECS Intro.
code: Count Floyd, Alloc, gfx: Ivan, music: Modul.backup by Stargazer
ProTracker MOD format. Released at the Treacl Celebration Party.
TBS Mandelbrot 1991, 07.12, ECS File.
code: Alloc, gfx: Ivan, music: Maniac Beat.gts by GTS ProTracker MOD
format. Released at Prime 91.
Contact Us 1991, 28.12, ECS Intro.
code: Laserdance, gfx: Ivan, music: Boom2.gts by GTS ProTracker MOD
format. Released at The Party 91.
info: This intro announced new members Fluid Neon, MC Man and DJ Magic.
New Year Dentro 1991, 28.12, ECS File.
code: MNI, gfx: Ivan, music: Caps Lockupsample by Splitter ProTracker
MOD format. Released at the Iris New Year Conference.
Dreams 1992, ECS Musicdisk.
code: Newmark, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Swapping Logos 1992, 11.01, ECS File.
code: S.E.S./Genesis Projects c64, gfx: n/a, music: Firzt.gts by GTS
ProTracker MOD format.
Readers Digest Announcement Demo 1992, 16.02, ECS File.
code: Laserdance, gfx: Ivan, Error, music: Globe Moog by Phobos
ProTracker MOD format.
The Livetro 1992, early, ECS File.
code: Lokh, gfx: Fletch, music: Heart of Crystal by Clawz/Interface
ProTracker MOD format.
review: This is a small oldskool intro, announcing the upcoming release of
the first issue of the groups messagebox Live, to be released early
july this year. No release date appears in the intro, so the release date
is very approximate. The intro first displays a TSB logo, before the main
parts appear. This consists of a textplotter with a TSB logo down the left
hand side of the screen alternating with a dotroutine with globes bouncing
around. Everything has a nice, oldskool feel to it, the kind of stuff that
just cant be recreated by TRYING
The intro needs KillAGA to display graphics correctly, but still has
some minor graphical errors, which transplant onto the desktop after
exiting the intro. It does not appear to disrupt the systems stability in
any way, probably just writes directly to screen memory... Otherwise, no
problems. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review!
Spectral 1992-
FIN Zon swap, ex Zenith, new 08/92.
Spectral was formed late 1992.
Spectre 1989-
SWE Mightymuz Mathias Olsson, swap, 11/90-01/91.
??? Daredevil 10/89.
Spectre was born in march 1989 as a Swedish group doing demos and cracks.
Speedy
DEN The Flash K.Andersen, code swap.
??? Backfire swap, Breakbeat music, Energizer gfx, Germic gfx,
Jummer swap, Le Renard code, Magz gfx swap, M.G.P. code, Mosher
swap, Pixie gfx, Scoop code, The Collector code, The Hunter
gfx, Wea ex Analog, new late94, Yabbo music.
Speedy was formed by Steffen, who later left to form a reborn Parasite.
However, the original Parasite founders reacted very negatively and refused
him the rights to the name. He therefore rejoined one of his older groups
Jewels.
Spetsnar
Saltsild 1993, 07.04, ECS Intro.
8th place in TG93 intro competition.
Spetsnaz
Spetsnaz were the arrangers of the Happening parties in Norway.
Happening 94 Invitation 1994, ECS File.
code: Creator, gfx: Hacksaw, Man, music: Macro.
review: Most of you will not understand shit of the text in this intro,
since its entirely in Norwegian. Having said that, this IS after all an
invitation to a small Norwegian party, so it sort of makes sense.
Theres nothing revolutionary here, as you might guess.
The full LHA package comes with a map, some icons and the invitation
text also. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Spirit old
Countach is the name of the cooperation between Aeon and Spirit, and was
likely an all-german group. The name was assumed on 01/10-90. Among the
names that went along to Countach were germans Norman Bates, Melodic Drama
both ex Navigators and Nr.5. CCCP moved on to D-Tect.
Spirit new
SWE Regent trade, early92, Shadow Turtle founder, ex Vogue.
??? Joker ex Dictators, Sparks sysop, ex Delight.
Spirit was formed by Mightymuz and Shadow Turtle from Vogue. The new and old
Spirit are in no way related to each other. In late 1992, all Swedish
members left for other groups.
1991 - Empty joined from Anthrox, and stayed for 1-2 months. Then he
changed his handle to Ford and moved on to LSD late 91.
1992 - Swedish swapper Lando ex Skid Row changed his handle to Paragon
and joined Scoopex in august.
Finnish swapper and musician Daddy Freddy ex Decept joined Anthrox.
Flame and Nuke joined TRSI. Also, the entire Danish and French divisions
joined!
Swedish original founder Mightymuz ex Vogue joined Skid Row RAW 3 or
Fusion, then 2000 AD Eurochart 16.
Swedes Cone ex Desire and Sudden ex Amaze, new early92 joined Noxious.
Also, Inferno joined, but its highly uncertain when it happened.
Swedish sysop Xstaz ICE PALACE, ex Amaze, new early92 joined Alpha
Flight.
Another Crack Intro ECS Intro.
code: SZH, gfx: Fairfax/PMC logo, music: n/a.
review: Not the best cracktro in the world, this is hampered especially by
its annoying soundtrack, and a general beginner feel. It features a
largely purple logo by Fairfax, probably some early work from him cause
its far from good. The middle of screen is a textplotter with a vertical
starfield in the background, and then a scroller at the bottom. There are
two twisting rasterbars separating the different parts of the screen.
Sound familiar at all? Seen a million of these, dont really wanna see any
more unless theres good graphics and sound... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Splash 1988-1992
Splash was a completely german demo group, formed around 1988 by the two
germans Treble code and Bass gfx music. Those two were responsible for
the first intro alone. Late in 1988, two more members joined Hijack code
gfx swap and Cleric gfx music. These four then created the groups second
production, the Uffse-Intro. These four remained the entire group until
1990.
1990 - Three more members joined this year, but their handles are a little
uncertain. They were Danny code, Barock code and n/a music Another
intro was released at the Action Autumn Conference in october.
1991 - The group was further reinforced in the early months, when Alpha
code joined. Hijack coarranged the Rosebud Extravaganza party in the early
months, where the group released their first proper demo, the Splash-
Trackmo. Towards the end of the year, Bass and Barock decided to leave
Splash to create the subgroup No Soul Produkktions under The Silents.
After this, Treble became inactive and left the scene.
1992 - Cleric and Hijack tried to keep the group alive, but most of the
other members were non-motivated and lazy, so they eventually decided to
kill the group. Cleric and Hijack Kristof Berger formed the new group
Kack, and renamed themselves into Suck and Fuck, respectively. This group
released just one small intro before dying in early 92, so they havent
gotten their own entry...
Filling Sound Intro ECS Intro.
code: Treble, gfx/music: Bass.
info: This was the groups first intro.
Uffse Intro ECS Intro.
code: Treble, gfx: Cleric, Treble, music: Bass.
info: Made over a weekend of boozing at Bass place in Bad-Neuheim,
Germany. The module is entirely made up of human voice sounds, remember
those beat-box guys from the early days of hip-hop?
Another Intro 1990, 21.10, ECS Intro.
Released at the Action Autumn Conference.
Splash-Trackmo 1991, early, ECS Trackmo.
code: Alpha, gfx: Cleric, music: Bass.
Released at the Rosebud Extravaganza.
Spooky Fellows, The TSF, 1996-, http://www.sgol.it/amiga/tsf.html
ITA Flender founder, ex Ram Jam, M.A.S.E founder swap, ex Ram Jam,
Maxime founderInternet, ex Ram Jam, Posdnuos Micoli Cristiano,
founder swap, ex Ram Jam, Rocketeer founder swap, ex Ram Jam.
Formed by five ex-Ram Jam members early 1996 to make games. However, in a
newsfile I found on AmiNet, it said they had not left the scene when they
formed TSF.
Spoon SPN
DEN Christine de la Queen Christine Hansen, leader gfx, Shayera John
Hinge, code, 12/94-12/95.
??? B-Toven music, 12/94, Duffy code, ex Insane.
3D graphician Subsonic left to join Puzzle.
Growl was kicked.
The two ex-Parasite members Dino gfx and Gotcha code left Spoon and the
Amiga scene to start up Parasite again on the PC.
Spni-001 1994, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Shayera, gfx: various, music: Slide/Polka Brothers.
25th in The Party 4 40k intro competition.
review: A nice little intro with three main effects. It opens with a 24
bit 4x4 display of a womans face scrolling in all directions. Then
theres an afterburned vector thingy before the concluding fireworks.
This last effect is reminiscent of what Red Sector Inc. had in their
classic MEGADEMO. Not at all bad...but too short, I guess. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Sound 3 - Trance Music.
Sound 4 Music.
Sound 5 Music.
info: Issue 5 was the last issue of Sound ever released.
Hovsa 1995, 28.12, AGA 4k Intro.
code: Shayera, gfx/music: none.
Released for the Party 5 4k intro competition.
review: Short and quite sweet, this 4ker consists of two good-looking
effects. The first is a classic Keftales effect. Weve seen it a thousand
times, but its still nice. The second is a sort of plasma-bitplane-
scroll thing. Youll know it when you see it. Anyway, nice. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Spreadpoint http://www.spreadpoint.com
SWI Amicom code webmaster, new 09/89-96, Buddha code, new late90-
late91, Nightshade.
GER Andy swap sysop DINKELATORS PALACE, ex Scoopex, new 91, Asgard
code, Blackstar sysop DARK CENTURY, 91, Fiona code, Starbuck
music, Thomas aka Tom Thomas Kessler, code, ex Black Monks, old
handle Mnemotron, 04/92-04/93, Tiger sysop THE ARMOURY, left scene
94 after board got busted, new 91-94, Tip code, Yukon sysop
HEAVENS GATE.
AUT Munster mainorg swap, 07/90.
BEL Beamrider sysop FLYING SAUCER, 09/90.
DEN BacklashFlipflopScion sysops ANOXIA.
??? Ernie, Mark, Marvin, Optima ex Jetset, Psy code gfx, Vindex ex
Anthrox, Wilfo.
Spreadpoint is a demo group most fondly remembered for its coders. Buddha
brought us the first texturemapped vectors and MasterSEKA, while Mnemotron
brought us many improvements in the then-popular SoundTracker series. Thomas
is the coder of the World Charts, where Autopsy/Hoodlum is editor...
German coder TIP is identical to TIP/TNM, who coded the original
MasterCruncher and later the first 8 channel music program, Oktalyzer.
1990 - Austrian coder Depeche code train gfx, new 89 left in 1990. He
later turned up briefly in Defjam, before leaving the scene for good. Their
german bbs sysop Merlin was shut down ca 07/90. Austrians Mike code,
Tilt code and Matthew joined from Subway ca 10/90. Austrian founder Mike
code left in 1990, leaving the group without a leader. He has later worked
for Microsoft, and is today coding software for cellular phones. Munster
took over organizing after Mike left.
German graphician Ucom left.
Lunatic rejoined Interactive.
Frenchman Daryl ex The Silents joined Shining.
Slash swi trade, Matthew aut, ex Subway, Tilt aut code crack, ex
Subway, GeorgeII aut code crack and Flash joined Defjam.
Belgian trader Dr.Doolittle new 05/90 quickly joined The Silents 06/90.
Belgian sysops Cocaine and Dr.Avalanche FLYING SAUCER, ex Adept quickly
went on to Alpha Flight RAW5SLH11. Another source said Cocaine joined
Addonic, yet another said Uli was sysop of FLYING SAUCER and that HE
joined Alpha Flight. The information on Uli as sysop of F S seem to be
correct, making my confusion total. Can anyone clarify?
Green Ground ECS File.
X-Large pre 1989, .03, ECS File.
Small-Demo 1989, .09, ECS File.
Wooow 1989, 06.10, ECS File.
code: Depeche, gfx/music: n/a.
Corporate Identity 1991?, ECS File.
Cube-O-Matic 1991, ECS File.
code: Buddha, gfx: Ucom, Grampa, music: Mat/MDA.
Cooperation with Amiga Industries.
review: This demo is probably the first ever Amiga demo to feature real
texture mapped vectors. Unfortunately the demo itself is of the read a
lot of scrolltext and the demo appears eventually variety which I hate
but its still worth a look if only for noveltys sake. The demo uses
Buddhas own Overload system, so its impossible to manually decrunch :
XMas 91 1991, .12, ECS File.
Cooperation with Amiga Industries.
Sprint
FRA Corsair, Mr.Video.
HOL Optimize sysop BAGHDAD CAFE.
Sprint was an illegal cracking group.
Gaston ex Horizon joined Hyperion.
Squadron
USA Anarchy-X sysop EVIL ASYLUM.
Squash
SWE MRK gfx, later Jewels, 12/94, Speedy sysop ATROCITY EXHIBITION,
01/95, Stain sysop FINAL IMPACT, doublememb AC, 01/95.
??? House-A-Holic music, 08/94, Laz music, 12/94, Qen sysop ODIUS,
ex C-Lous, new ROM4.
Boards ALIVE nor, 01/94, MADHOUSE ENTERPRISE nor, MIDDLE EAST nor.
Squeezers
POL Timer doublememb Define details.
Star Frontiers 1986-1988
GER Ming Thomas Klinger, code, 12/86-10/87, Quark Martin Brenner, crack,
87.
Star Fronntiers was an early cracker group from Ulm, Germany, with 10
members. The group died in 1988. Quark works today for Egosoft formed in
1990, and has a.o. written the game Imperium Romanum 1999 with music by
Manfred Pink/Abyss Linzner!
SF-Uridium Intro V1.0 1986, .12, ECS Demo.
code: Ming, gfx: Ming, music: sampled data.
Tetris Crackintro 1987, ECS Intro.
code: Ming, gfx: ripped from game, music: Sleepwalk by Karsten Obarski
soundtracker format. info: As the name indicates, this was a crackintro
used for their release of the game Tetris :
Moebius 1987, .10, ECS Intro.
code: Ming, gfx: ripped from game, music: Sleepwalk by Karsten Obarski
soundtracker format. info: Another crackintro.
Starlight
Kyle joined Desire.
Starline
FIN Amix code, 90, Freddy gfx, 90, Shade gfx, 90, SS-Data 90,
Ventor swap, 90.
Starline were a Finnish demo group with some nice early demos.
Per Favore 1990, late, ECS Intro.
code: Amix, gfx: Shade, Freddy, music: -ripped-
review: Starline calls this, their first production, a demo - but we have
decided to brand it otherwise. Its a singlescreen affair, with a typical
1990 flavour, but not the worst of its kind. Its got a certain air of
competence about it. The screen is essentially split in two The top half
has a waving yellow Starline logo not bad overlaid on a 3d starfield.
The bottom has a checkerboard moving towards the viewer, and around the
middle is a sinusscroller - again overlaid on equalizers three different
kinds are chooseable with the right mousebutton. Strangely enough, this
is not as cluttered as it may sound. Typical of its time, but a good
example of said style nevertheless.
Caches off, original chipset was the only way to get this to work on my
configuration. The music was ripped from a game as they openly admit,
but we regrettably were not able to discover exactly which one. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review!
Static Bytes STB, 1990-
DEN Armalyte Sren Nielsen, code gfx, 05/90, Buck Jacob Buck, org code
gfx, 05/90-12/92, Daae ex Dali/Majic 12, DJ Discoleif music, 07/90-
11/91, Estrup Christian Estrup, code editor, ex The One/Euphoria,
09/91-01/94, Free swap, 11/91, Howard sysop ELYSIUM, earlier
SUPER TROUPER, opened 09-11/91, Ice code, 11/91, JC-Zoon music,
05/90-11/91, John Doe code, 11/91, JTF gfx, new 11/91, Playboy
Mads Pedersen, swap, ex Prologic, new 09/91-01/94, Quackbuster
Rasmus Hougaard, gfx swap pack, 08/90-01/94, Sonny gfx, 09/91,
Stranger gfx, 05/90-11/91, Timer code, 07/90-11/91.
GER Fashion Design Andreas Keirat, swap, ex Prime Design, Friendly gfx,
ex Damian, later X-Trade, 12/94.
??? Exit code, 07/90, Jack gfx, 07/92, MonBoot gfx, 12/92, The R
den? gfx, 05/91.
Static Bytes was a danish demogroup, likely formed around 1990. They are
probably most known for being the group chosen to take over the job of
publishing the Eurocharts when Crusaders quit. They were given the go-ahead
in July 1992, and released the first issue of the NEW Eurocharts shortly
after. Christian Estrup, the editor, later worked as a professional
journalist for a big Danish computer magazine. He is also the author of the
ProTracker module packer/optimizer ProPacker.
1991 - In November Gawk and Trace were kicked due to inactivity, and The
R and Elin helped form a new group called Focus Design. The group was
further weakened when Hawkeye ex Prologic, new 09/91 left for the new
Kefrens, but some of the damage was perhaps repaired with the joining of
graphician JTF. While all of this was going on, they still managed to
release lots of product, making the final months of the year some of their
busiest ever. Norwegian graphician TMB Designs also joined The Silents
around this time.
1992 -
1995 - Danish musician Cutcreator 09/91-, responsible for most of the
soundtracks on the Eurocharts, left for Passion late 95.
Danish swapper Jones ex Rednex, new early92-07/92 joined the new Rednex.
Graphician Sauron ex Equinox, 07/92 moved back to Norway and joined Scoop.
He won the graphics competition at The Gathering 92 with The Beauty and
the Beast. In addition, he started working at the game making company
DiMaga Studios.
Norwegian graphician Marvel 02-12/92 changed his handle to Joachim and
joined The Crusaders. This is highly ironic, since he made the graphics
for several issues of the old Crusaders production EuroChart when it
became a Static Bytes production :-
DJ Discoleif Musicdisk ECS Musicdisk.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Dj Discoleif.
Megademo 1 1990, 10.05, ECS Trackmo.
code: Armalyte, Buck, gfx: Armalyte, Stranger, Buck, music: Octav,
13.Skovtur by Metal/Humanoids, Naniga.jc-zoom, Music For You.jc by
Jc-Zoom ProTracker MOD format.
DJ Discoleif Greatest Hits II 1990, 01.07, ECS Musicdisk.
code: Timer, Buck, Exit, gfx: Stranger, music: Loader vol.2, Bee,
Leif Is Scratching by DJ Discoleif. Released at the Amiga Conference.
DJ Discoleif Intro 1990, 31.08, ECS Intro.
code: Buck, gfx: Quackbuster logo, Stranger bigfont, Defeat/Direct
minifont, music: Piano-Plasma by DJ Discoleif.
Released at the Bounty Party.
DJ Discoleif Greatest Hits III 1991, 31.08, ECS Musicdisk.
code: Buck, gfx: Quackbuster logo, Stranger bigfont, Defeat/Direct
minifont, music: DJ Discoleif.
Released at the Bounty Party.
Broadcasting 4 1991, 21.05, ECS Intro.
code: Buck, gfx: The R fonts, Stranger logo, music: JC-Zoom Future
Composer 1.4 format, 15328 bytes. info: Packmenu for Broadcasting.
Lowlife Party Invitation 1991, ECS Demo.
code: Dezz/Light, gfx: The R logo, Caveman/Light logo, Chain/Light
font, music: Black Cat by Cutcreator ProTracker MOD format.
Cooperation with Light.
Summit 91 Party Slideshow 1991, ECS Fileslide.
code: The One/Prologic, gfx: The R, TMB/Prologic font, Playboy/Prologic
photos, music: Cutcreator NoisePacker 2 format, 105524 bytes.
Delirium -Too-Many-Sines-Intro- 1991, 28.09, ECS Intro.
code: Estrup, gfx: TMB/The Silents main, Sonny logo, music: Mask of
Joy.cut by Cutcreator ProTracker MOD format.
Released at the Static Bytes and Light - Lowlife - Party.
Lowlifeslide 1991, late, ECS Slideshow.
info: Released within six weeks before Glenspiration.
Glenspiration 1991, 26.11, ECS Intro.
code: Estrup, gfx: TMB Designs/The Silents, music: Cutcreator
NoisePacker 2 format, 100808 bytes.
review: This is certainly a neat little intro, with some good design
helped immensly by TMBs excellent graphics. The overall effect is
convincing, and the intro manages to feel fresh even though it isnt
particularly : As the title suggests, glenzvectors in all shapes and
sizes are the order of the day, and the intro presents some nice
variations on the theme, like rubberglenz. There is no conventional exit
routine, but each part can be exited with the left mousebutton, which
eventually gets you to the end of the show. Nice, compact and competent.
Cutcreator can do a lot better, tho!
I had some difficulty with this intro, the graphics wouldnt display
properly even with KillAGA. I finally had to boot from the disk no
caches etc to make it work - although the music still bugs. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review!
Cutcreations 1992, .02, ECS Musicdisk.
code: Estrup, gfx: Marvel, music: Afrodite, Sstronomical Clock, Bombs
Away, Cutting Through, Outburst of Feeling, Plundering, The
Stalactites, Tunetime, Underground by Cutcreator ProPacker 2.1
format.
All Time Greatest Hits 9 1992, 10.02, ECS Musicdisk.
INT - code: Estrup, gfx: Quackbuster logo, Djengis Khan/Talent
scrollfont, music: Nuke/Anarchy ProPacker 2.1 format, 12064
bytes.
MUS - code: none, gfx: none, music: 3d Demo Tunemf by Mad
Freak/Anarchy, Global Trash 3 v2 by Jesper Kyd/The Silents, Hazey
Waves by Nuke/Anarchy, Overload by Tip and Mantronix/Razor 1911,
The Return of Yeti by Axel/Brainstorm.
info: A collection of the best, ripped tunes lately.
All Time Greatest Hits 10 1992, 08.04, ECS Musicdisk.
INT - code: Estrup, gfx: Quackbuster logo, TMB/The Silents other,
music: Djengis Khan/Talent ProPacker 2.1 format, 12040 bytes.
MUS - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Released at The Gathering 92.
New Eurocharts Informer 1992, 18.04, ECS Intro.
code: Estrup, gfx: Marvel main, Blizzard/Kefrens kefrens logo, music:
Dream On by Cutcreator. Released at The Gathering 92.
info: This intro was mentioned in the first issue of the new Eurocharts,
and was apparently some kind of promotional intro. In this intro, it was
announced that Kefrens were going to coproduce it with Static Bytes, but
in the end this never happened.
Roede Hunde 1992, ECS Demo.
code: Buck, gfx: MonBoot, music: Cutcreator.
Eurocharts 15 1992, 01.07, ECS Multifile Chartmag.
code: Estrup, gfx: Marvel main, Jack clip, Sauron clip,
Thanatos/Pure Metal Coders clip, music: Cutcreator ProPacker 2.1
format, 135178 bytes, editor: Estrup.
Probably released on or right after the Hurricane Party.
review: This was Static Bytes first issue, released 6 months after the
final Crusaders issue. Not much has changed from the Crusaders days,
though, the interface remains the same old one. This is quite remarkable,
actually, since the mag was totaly recoded - it still looks 100 exactly
the same : The graphics are about on par with what Crusaders produced,
and so is the editorial content. Not much more to say about this first
issue its the logical next step.
An intro was released to announce this at The Gathering 92. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Eurocharts 16 1992, .09, ECS Multifile Chartkmag.
code: Estrup, gfx: Marvel main, music: Cutcreator ProPacker 2.1 format,
177420 bytes, editor: Estrup.
review: Marvels graphics arent really a stunner this time, but its not
too bad either. A high amount of cliparts from TMB Designs/TSL help raise
the level a lot, though. Cutcreators tune is a small disappointment too.
Lets hope he does better in the next issue :
Editorially, theres not much out of the ordinary this time either.
Theres the new jokes section, of course, but that cant really be
counted as an editorial advancement... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Eurochart 17 1992, .11, ECS Multifile Chartkmag.
code: Estrup, gfx: Sauron main, music: Cutcreator ProPacker 2.1 format,
152784 bytes, editor: Estrup main, Quackbuster news.
review: Another issue, this time with graphics by Sauron. This issue
marked the innovation that for the first time, a few of the gallery shots
were in color. Given the quality they achieved for these first few, they
should perhaps have passed on the opportunity for this time... They
promise improved quality for the next issue, so lets see... Last issue
contained a best bootblock competition, and the results of the competition
were... First place to Tron/ex Anarchy with his Glenz-boot! The new
competition for the next issue is a challenge to musicians: Make the best
tune possible with ONLY ONE SAMPLE! No dont ever go around saying STB
cant make whacked-out compos /
Eurochart always had a lot of great cliparts, and this issue is no
different. There are clipart contributions this time from Airwalk/Kefrens,
Ed-209/Exotic Men, Fashion Design/Pleasure, Mega Madness/Warpigs, Mount/
Parasite, Mr.Pixel/Fi-Re Crew, Spurnik/Defiance, Tin/Brainstorm, TMB
Designs/The Silents and finally Viper/Talent.
In the news section, Nico/Accessions handle is misspellt Niko. The news
that Mr.Root/Acme joined Sanity was later denied in the news section of
Pure Metal Coders R.A.W 4. News that Disney/Alcatraz left the scene
were false he did infact carry on for a while more.
The mag seems impressively compatible, working perfectly first-try
without having to disable anything, and boots perfectly fine from df1:
which is a really GOOD THING since my df0: is currently DEAD!. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fasst/3.1.
Jones for President 1992, .12, ECS Demo.
code: Buck, gfx: Marvel title, Monboot digitized, music: Cutcreator
ProPacker 2.1 format, 197594 bytes.
Eurocharts 18 1993, 03.01, ECS Multifile Chartmag.
code: Estrup, gfx: Marvel, Playboy, music: Cutcreator ProPacker 2.1
format, 141874 bytes, editor: Estrup.
Kuglep0len 1993, .01, ECS Musicdisk.
code/gfx: Joachim Estrup, music: Cutcreator.
Eurocharts 19 1993, .05, ECS Multifile Chartmag.
code: Estrup, gfx: Sauron, Mount/Parasite, music: Cutcreator ProPacker
2.1 format, 154828 bytes, editor: Estrup.
Eurocharts 20 1993, .05, ECS Multifile Chartmag.
code: Estrup, gfx: Mount/Parasite, D-Sign/The Silents, music: Cutcreator
ProPacker 2.1 format, 153786 bytes, editor: Estrup.
Eurocharts 21 1993, .09, ECS Multifile Chartmag.
code: Estrup, gfx: D-Mage/Virtual Dreams title, Mount/Parasite, music:
Cutcreator ProPacker 2.1 format, 153848 bytes, editor: Estrup.
The Official Eurocharts issue 22 1993, .11, ECS Multifile Chartmag.
code: Estrup, gfx: Tin/BRS Productions title, Mega Madness/Warpigs
main, music: Cutcreator ProPacker 2.1 format, 174252 bytes, editor:
Estrup.
review: After the nice titlepic, the main graphics were a bit of a
disappointment. Luckily, there were some nice cliparts in the Euronews
section to look at : Archmage/Andromeda and CAT/Essence deliver the
goods, while the rest of the clips are never above average. Cutcreators
music is great, as usual. Very typical for his style, with the tune
having several, quite different parts. Nicely done.
Editorially, theres an interview with Facet/Lemon., but not much else.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Euro Charts issue 23 1994, .01, ECS Multifile Chartmag.
code: Estrup, gfx: Mount/Parasite main, Blizzart/Kefrens, music:
Cutcreator ProPacker 2.1 format, 174178 bytes, editor: Estrup main,
Quackbuster.
review: You pretty much know what youre getting with the EC, so... This
was perhaps NOT the best ever design for the chart, but its functional.
Some changes were made to the charts themselves too, Best Swapper is a new
chart which replaces Best Packdiskmaker.
This issue was originally to have been released at The Party 93, but
this was unfortunately impossible. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Euro Charts issue 24 1994, .03, ECS Multifile Chartmag.
code: Estrup, gfx: Facet/Spaceballs, music: Cutcreator ProPacker 2.1
format, 179348 bytes, editor: Estrup main, Quackbuster.
Eurocharts 25 1994, .05, ECS Mutifile Chartmag, 2 disks.
INT - code: Slammer, gfx: n/a, music: Stardance by Dr.Awesome.
MAG - code: Estrup, gfx: n/a, music: Dr.Awesome, editor: Estrup.
Euro Charts issue 26 1994, .11, ECS Multifile Chartmag, 2 disks.
code: Estrup, gfx: n/a, music: Cutcreator ProPaker 2.1 format, 166130
bytes, editor: Estrup.
Steel
GER Axel F sysop RED RAIN.
AUS Ace sysop RED ALERT.
Stellar 1992-
FIN Anis code, late93-95, Chameleon code, 07/92-93, Daeron code,
06-08/95, Dalmak Tony Hagerlund, mainorg trade swap, old handle
Orion, 07/92-08/95, Dune gfx music, doublememb Orange pc,
08/95-01/96, Dweezil Mark Saarinen, code, ex Carillon, 08/93-95,
Erkki gfx, 95, Frankie Sami Piskonen, gfx, ex Agnostic Front,
08/93-04/96, Groo Sami Jarvinen, music, 08/95-04/96, Hooks Panu
Liukkonen, code, 95-04/96, Index ari Ijas, swap trade, ex Addonic,
02/93, Inquisitor gfx, 07/92-08/93, Kefeus code, 07/92-95, Kube
Matti Nykanen, gfx, ex Virtual Dreams, 95, Lemming org, 04/96, Mac
Mikko Koivisto, code swap, ex Addonic, 07/92-late93, Mango code
music, 12/92-late93, Moonshine code, ex Calibra, 08/93, Neuresten
gfx, 10/95, Nose Jyrki Saarinen, code, 08/94-04/96, Procyon code
music, 07/92-08/93, Razer Jani Norminen, code, ex Alcatraz, new
10/93-01/94, Strobo Miko Nyman, gfx music, 06/92-01/96, Zuikki
code, 08/94-08/95.
SWE Dep code, ex Wrath Designs, new 08/96, Elixir code, ex Wrath
Designs, new 08/96.
??? Lobo ex Origin.
Stellar is a finnish demogroup, formed by the previous Finnish section of
Equinox in 1992. They were wellknown for their technical, innovative demos,
and they were among the leading amiga groups in finland for a while. Names
seem to indicate that Dweezil and Nose are brothers? Not sure I understand
the joining/eaving situation with Kube between Stellar and Virtual Dreams
...unless he joined and left both groups several times :
1992 - The same mag that brought the news of their forming Static Bytes
EuroCharts 15 07/92 also brough the news of their death - they had
supposedly formed Vision SF. Their first release was likely the intro Hard
To Be God 07/92 at Assembly, together with contributions for the graphics
and music competitions by Gator and Strobo. It was followed by more intros,
like Perversia 07/92, We Are Clever 08/92 and Peach Boys late92.
Finnish graphician Morpheus joined Chrome in september. Finnish graphician
Gator ex Addonic, new 06/92-08/92 changed his handle to Dwel and joined
Alcatraz around october. Their next party release wouldnt come until the
Analogy Hitech Party in december, where the filedemo The First AIDS Kit
12/92 was released, but unplaced in the competition.
1993 - Dweezil joined from Carillon when the group ceased to exist, likely
around january or february. Many smaller productions got released during the
first half of 1993, like Immaculate Conception 93, Lintu-Intro 93,
Contemplation 93, Lipstick 93 and State of the Fast 07/93.
Burefalos board SLAUGHTER HOUSE went down in july, since the sysop was
moving to the usa. At the European Computer Conference in sweden in early
august, the intro Hands of Pleasure 08/93 reached the 5th position in
the competition. Their first victory was achieved just a few days later,
when Dweezils intro Bananamen 08/93 won the 40k intro competition at
the big finnish party Assembly! Additionally, Kefeus Wild Things 08/93
reached 7th in the same competition. Finnish graphicians Artifex and Hotshot
both 12/92- both joined Complex in august, likely at the Assembly. A small
production called After Assembly 93 late93 was released a small while
later. Two more releases were made in the later months of 1993 the intro
Jamaica late93 and the file-mag Stellar Times 3 late93. At the
scenes main event of the year, The Party 93, Razers intro Hallucination
12/93 reached the 4th place in the competition.
1994 - The first release this year was the design-fixed version of
Hallucination 12/93, called The Second Hallucination 01/94. The next
months were filled with minor releases such as Doop early94, Chipsie
King early94, Stellar Times 5 early94 and Eurochart 25 Trailer
Intro early94. But they were saving the thunder for Assembly, and come
august they took the step up into Finlands upmost elite. Nose and Zuikkis
demo Mindflow 08/94 won the demo competition, and Dweezils underrated
intro Darkroom 08/94 took a third position in the 40k intro competition.
This was followed by four months of silence before The Party in december,
when Zuikki and Nose released the innovative intro Peverly Hills 12/94
to a disappointing 7th position despite one of the amigas best voxel
routines ever.
1995 - Almost half a year of silence opened the year, before Nose, Daeron
and Zuikkis Human Excrement 06/95 was released for the demo competition
at Abduction 95 in finland, which it won. The demo was not released at the
party, but instead a fixed and renamed version, Toilet 07/95, was
released a short while later. The same coder-trio returned with another demo
for the Assembly competition, Miracles 08/95, which finished third in
competition. Octobers Scenario party in finland brought another demo,
Aurora 10/95, by new members Juliet Case who had previously made
demos on their under. The demo was another success for the group, who won
the competition. Juliet Case didnt stay in the group long, and by
december they were members of CNCD. Aurora became their only release for
Stellar. The year was rounded off, as usual, with the The Party in
denmark. Here, Nose released the demo Galerie 12/95 on his own, to a
very disappointing 9th position.
1996 - The demo Galerie Remix 01/96 was released to the winning
position of the Juhla 96 party in january, restoring some of their lost
dignity from The Party competition three weeks earlier. For once, the group
attended The Gathering in norway during the easter holidays, and took home
the winner trophy in the intro competition with Nose and Hooks Lights
04/96! As far as we can record, this became Stellars last ever release.
The two swedes Dep code and Elixir music were recruited from Wrath
Designs at Assembly, though that too proved a dead end and neither ever
released anything for Stellar.
Uncut left.
Danish superswapper The Pride left the scene after 9 years. During that
time, The Pride was one of the pioneers of packmaking.
French graphician and swapper Shadow Philippe La Visse, 07/93 is no longer
a member.
Finnish musician Stargazer joined Sonic for a brief while, then moved on to
Complex.
Hard To Be God 1992, 25.07, ECS File.
code: Procyon, gfx: Gator, music: Strobo.
Released for the Assembly 1992 amiga intro competition, unplaced.
Perversia 1992, .07, ECS Intro.
code: Procyon, gfx: Procyon anim, font, Gator pic, Inquisitor logo,
music: Strobo The Player 4.xx format.
review: This intro opens with a picture by Gator of an eagle. Its in
blue and black, and not terribly good. The intro itself is just a bunch
of spinning vectorcubes on the background with a 1-bitplane text writer
on top. On the left-hand side of the screen theres an OK Stellar logo.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
We Are Clever 1992, .08, ECS File.
code: Procyon, gfx: Gator, Inquisitor, music: Strobo.
Peach Boys 1992, late?, ECS Intro.
code: Kefeus, gfx: Hotshot intropic, Artifex logo, font, music:
Strobo.
review: Nothing too exciting here, just an intropic and some vectors to
write contact adresses and messages on top of. The left-hand logo is
nice, though. glenn
GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Intropic has graphical errors, but works fine.
The First AIDS Kit 1992, 12.12, ECS File.
code: Chameleon, gfx: Artifex, music: Strobo.
Released for the Analogy Hitek Party intro competition, unplaced.
Immaculate Conception 1993, early/mid, ECS File.
code: Kefeus, Chameleon, gfx: Inquisitor, music: Procyon.
Lintu-Intro 1993, mid?, ECS File.
code: Moonshine, gfx/music: Strobo.
Contemplation 1993, mid?, ECS File.
code: Dweezil, gfx: Inquisitor, music: Strobo.
Lipstick 1993, mid?, ECS File.
code: Moonshine, gfx: Frankie, music: Strobo.
State of the Fart 1993, 05.07, ECS File.
code: Procyon, gfx/music: Strobo.
Hands of Pleasure 1993, 05.08, ECS Intro.
code: Procyon, gfx: Strobo, music: n/a.
5th in the European Computer Conference ECC 93 intro competition.
Bananamen 1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Dweezil, gfx: n/a, music: Strobo.
Winner of the Assembly 93 40k intro competition!
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
Wild Things 1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Kefeus, gfx: Inquisitor, Strobo, Artifex, music: Strobo.
7th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition.
After Assembly 93 1993, late, ECS File.
code: Moonshine, gfx: Frankie, music: Strobo.
Jamaica 1993, late, ECS Intro.
code: Anis, gfx/music: Strobo.
review: Release was at least before The Party 93, since text in the intro
says Sources for sale! Support Anis to TP93 - or words to that effect
glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Stellar Times 3 1993, late, ECS Filemag.
code: Mac, Mango, gfx/music: Strobo.
review: Calling this a mag is a bit on the fresh side, its just a big
picture formed like the front page of a newspaper you can scroll around
on with your mouse. Not scene-related either, but quite funny. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
Hallucination 1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Razer, gfx/music: Strobo.
info: A fixed version of the intro was later released, under the name The
Second Hallucination.
4th in The Party 93 40k intro competition.
The Second Hallucination, The 1994, .01, ECS Intro.
code: Razer, gfx/music: Strobo.
review: 2nd Hallucination is a design-fixed version of Hallucination.
The release-date is pure speculation glenn
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
A1200/030-502mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
Doop 1994, early, File.
Chipsie King 1994, early, Musicfile.
Stellar Times 5 1994, early, Filemag.
Eurochart 25 Trailer Intro 1994, early, AGA File.
code: Hook/Genocide, gfx: Frankie/Stellar, Harri R animation, music:
Strobo/Stellar. Cooperation with Genocide.
review: The opening of this small demo/dentro is quite impressive - its
an animation, where we travel around a mountain top, and some terrain.
Its very impressive, and Im still not sure if its actual footage or if
it was rendered... Theres only one other real routine in the demo, a
good zoomrotator with stretching and smoothing ? Anyway, it looks real
nice, and the picture doesnt appear blocky at all. Hmm...
Made to announce the upcoming Eurochart 25 by Static Bytes
eventually release 05/94. Why on earth such an intro was made by Stellar
and Genocide, I dont have the faintest idea :
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Mindflow 1994, 06.08, AGA File.
code: Nose, Zuikki, gfx: Frankie, Strobo, music: Strobo.
Winner of the Assembly 94 demo competition!
review: This one opens with a Stellar logo of acceptable quality by
Frankie. Then it gets off to a flying start with a great flight over a
voxel landscape to the opening part of Strobos tune - which is
incidentally the best part. Then a Mindflow logo appears which could
have been MUCH better. From there it goes through good renditions of
some of the more popular effects of the time - fullscreen rot-zoomer with
stretching, texturemapped cube, Doom routine, realtime 2x2 I think
zooming fractal and so on. A quite good demo, and an essential addition
to anyones demo collection. I seem to remember it demands some fastmem.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Darkroom 1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Dweezil, gfx: n/a, music: Strobo.
3rd place in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition.
review: I always liked this for its originality. There had never been
anything quite like it before, it was something brand new at the time...
What makes Darkroom special is the mood of the thing that dark, mystic
feeling that it evokes...and Strobos industrial soundtrack is a very
important part of that. Not to be missed. It is worth noting, though,
that on a machine as fast as mine, it looses some of its value because
the effects move TOO quickly. Therefore, best viewed on an A500 glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Peverly Hills 1994, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Zuikki, Nose, gfx: Frankie font, Strobo design, music: Groo/CNCD
The Player 6.0A format. 7th in The Party 4 40k intro competition.
review: Stellar presents the worlds first HAM8 3D-Terrain or to use the
correct term: voxelspace, in a nicely designed intro that finished too
low in the competition, in my opinion. It looks dead great too, though the
resolution could perhaps be a little better. Its perhaps best viewed a
few feet from the screen. On the other hand, this is an intro that runs on
a vanilla, no-fastmem A1200, so resources are limited. Though essentially
a one-effect intro, this 33k masterpiece still manages to impress me when
I first saw it. The terrain movements are calculated randomly, and thus
the intro is different each time it is run. Pressing right mouse button
even enables the user to control the movements, proving this is a true
real-time experience. Any help in locating the elusive hidden part
mentioned withing would be most greatly appreciated...
They say in the text inside the intro, Thanks to Jarno Paananen for The
Player 6.1A, but the module included was made with the previous version
The Player 6.0A. The music is dead cool, btw glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Human Excrement 1995, 11.06, AGA File.
code: Nose, Daeron, Zuikki, gfx/music: Dune/Orange.
Winner of the Abduction 95 demo competition!
review: A fixed version was released later, under the name Toilet
07/95. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Toilet 1995, 12.07, AGA File.
code: Nose, Daeron, Zuikki, gfx/music: Dune/Orange The Player 6.0A
format.
review: Toilet is a pretty dead demo, that almost completely fails to
create any sense of pace or excitement, despite competent coding. It seems
most of their objects use some kind of dithering method to make the blocky
renders appear smoother than they are. Its mildly successful, and does
make f.ex. the opening logo appear more smooth. It kinda looks like
gouraud with smoothing Other objects appear to be phong-shaded, which
was certainly advanced for its time. The demo uses specifically optimized
versions of its code for 020/030 and 040 machines. Dune/Orange is normally
active on the pc demo scene.
The demo opens with a zoom into a 3d Stellar logo, before it whisks away
to one side just before we are supposed to hit it. Next is a none-too-
great raytraced Toilet logo. Then a supposedly phongshaded object,
roughly the shape of a star symbol, in shades of grey and silver. Several
spring-like objects appear on the screen next, coming in from one side
and bouncing around the screen for a small while before disappearing
again. Next is what looks *almost* like an envmap object, but I cant be
sure on this one. This is followed by the credits and a few more lines of
text before the show is ended with a really strange object, though perhaps
the most advanced one in the entire demo.
Please note that this review refers to the final fixed version.
Toilet is actually a final-version of their previous demo Human
Excrement 06/95, winner of the Abduction 95 competition. The original
used a module made with The Player 6.1A, but since that version bugs on
040, it seems they reverted to The Player 6.0A for this one. glenn
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Miracles 1995, 12.08, AGA HD Multifile.
code: Nose, Zuikki render system, Daeron utilities, gfx: Frankie,
Dune objects, textures, music: Groo.
3rd in The Assembly 95 demo competition.
review: Its the usual rendering stuff from Stellar, perhaps a little
more entertaining than usual. The one thing that was a positive
surprise was the music. Its a quite dynamic tune from Groo, perhaps a
little Lizardking-y at times, but really good! The text file says it
was never meant to be run on machines below 030-25 with fast. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Aurora 1995, 12.10, AGA File.
code: Juliet Case, gfx: Neuresten, music: Groo.
Winner of the Scenario 95 demo competition!
review: Ok, but clearly a 2-day production as it says at the end.
Its the usual Stellar stuff, with texture-mapped/rendered shapes flying
around, and not much else. Technically competent, but not too exciting.
Groos music is its usual weird self, but still one of his better tunes.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb cip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Galerie 1995, 28.12, AGA 4MB Multifile.
code: Nose, gfx: Frankie, music: Dune/Orange 6ch ScreamTracker I
format. 9th in The Party 5 demo competition.
review: Opens with an orange Galerie logo, then onto a fast but blocky
voxel landscape with lens flares - probably a jazzed-up version of their
routine for the 40k intro Peverly Hills 12/94. Next up are three
shaded rings, and a large greyscale bumpmapped object. Then a tunnel
appears with sparks of light lighting the walls as they fly around. This
is the fastest effect or so their system-tester tells me, 48fps :, and
the one which looks best, to boot. Next up is a texturemapped and phong-
shaded stone object, then a bump-tunnel. After that, a spinning cityscape
appears, complete with more lens flares. Another tunnel effect follows,
though one of the better ones in the demo, kind of caleidoscope-like.
Next up we have a yellowish bumpmapped landscape, which morphs its
mountains up and down into the sky! A texturemapped and gouraud-shaded
landscape ends the show, which reminded me a little of standing close to a
mountain looking up, in the dark. If this last effect was developed a
little further, it could have been great, but as it is now, it feels
slightly unachived. However, a pretty good release that would probably
have come higher in the competition if it had been longer. Even though no
mention is made of it, Dune was likely NOT a member, and still just in
Orange on the pc.
One large drawback to this demo is the fact that its presented entirely
in the ghosted c2p mode, where every other pixel is blacked out.
Supposedly, this improves rendering speeds, but visually it is no match
for solid effects. The demo uses Jarno Paananens PS3M for audio playback
of the S3M file, and Luddes c2p routine. Requires 4MB fastmem. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Galerie Remix 1996, 13.01, AGA Multifile, 2 disks.
code: Nose, gfx: Frankie, music: Strobo, Dune.
Winner of the Juhla 96 demo competition!
review: Well, its Galerie with a couple of new pics, new music, a few
new and unusual! textures, and without the originals last couple of
effects. Lacks design, and doesnt have either a dynamic design or any
real sense of identity. Just effects set to music. Oh, I nearly forgot -
it now runs in a smaller window drawback, but needs less processor
power, and without the ghosted effect improvement!.
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Lights 1996, 05.04, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Nose, Hook wave routine, gfx: Frankie, music: Groo, Production
Manager: Lemming. Winner of The Gathering 96 40k intro competition!
review: Having just watched Lights for the first time, Im left in a
state of awe. It hasnt got INCREDIBLY revolutionary code, but what there
is looks so good its totally forgiveable. It opens after precalculating
for a while with an impressive tunnel effect while some words flash in
the top left of the screen before stopping at the word Stellar. Then
were quickly on to a sort of wave/ripple routine, which isnt the best
part of the intro. But Stellar saves the best for last, and finally
presents us with a showstopping effect: Mapped and shaded coins fall down
from the top of the screen, with little sparkles added when the light
falls on them. At the top of the screen, the text I Had A Dream...
scrolls slowly from the right to the left. Then were treated to the end
logo the text LIGHTS with a spotlight effect on it. All through this
were listening to one of Groos coolest tunes in a long while. What makes
Lights a winner is that little something undefinable... Its sort of the
same quality that they achieved with Darkroom 08/94 all those years
ago. Highly recommended. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Steps of Change SOC
ENG Dooba founder org music swap, late96, Psionic www gfx swap,
late96-01/97, RD music, new late96, Wilsh org music, rejoined,
doublememb Grasshoppers Design, late96.
??? Dj Rudd gfx graffiti, Mc Wilsh founder org code music swap.
Steps of Change was formed by Mc Wilsh and Dooba, with former members of
Nerve Axis and Carnage 04/96. The earlier york.ac.uk website is no longer
valid. The X-Files 12 late 96 brought the news that they were reborn
as a music only group.
1996 - Bliss joined from Nerve Axis, then left for Grashoppers Development
in february. Sykotik raytrace, ex Carnage, new 04/96 and Unity were kicked
due to inactivity, and graphician Synapze left the scene late96.
Steroid
Gato joined Impulse 11/96.
Unexpected 1994, late, AGA HD.
code: Codex, Sipi, Robin, gfx: Neon, Meltdown, Abstract, DeltaMc, Teevan,
Rendall, music: Griff.
Stone Arts STA, 1993-1995
NOR BCR code gfx, ex Cryptoburners, 04/93-04/94, Coke Gard Eric Rodahl,
code gfx, ex Amonia, 04/93-04/94, Dali ex Cryptoburners, Dolphin
Marius Jorgenrud, founder swap editor Headline, 04/93, Hugo
founder code, 04/93, Ice Asbjrn Galaasen, founder code, 04/93,
Mutant music, Mystra Kjell Pedersen, music, ex Symbiosis, 12/93-
12/94, Redferne Jrund Teigen, music, ex Shamrock, 04/94, Rozzoe
founder music, 04/93, Shape Morten Floetberget, founder swap,
04/93, Storm founder code, 04/93, Syntex Kjetil Treider, founder
music, new 03/93-04/95, Twist Marius.
Stone Arts was an all-Norwegian demo group, like Andromeda, formed by the
best 8 members of Atomic in march 1993. Ive made an educated guess that
those 8 were Ice, Dolphin, Hugo, Kekken, Shape, Storm, Rozzoe and Syntex.
Shortly after, at The Gathering, they released their first two demos.
ROM4 announced their death through spokesperson Dolphin. Most members were
employed by Funcom.
1994 - Norwegian graphician and cofounder Kekken left to join Talent in
february. Ranx/Balance was a very shorttime member, and rejoined Balance
only days after joining.
1995 - Norwegian graphician Absurd joined from Scoopex in late 94, only to
rejoin in early 1995.
Norwegians Braintumor and Heywood music, 12/93 and Niggerjack code all
joined Gollum.
Norwegian founder and editor Dolphin formed the new Atomic with Colorbird/
ex Razor 1911.
Gathering 93 Demo 1993, 07.04, ECS File.
code: Coke, BCR, gfx: Coke, BCR opening pic, music: Rozzoe.
Released at The Gathering 93.
review: This is the weaker of the two demos STA released at TG 93.
Though competent here and there, with nice smooth design, theyre like an
Andromeda without the focus like a Lemon. without the Lem :
The music and graphics are just bland, and the only cool and unusual code
I guess were the three ellipses with shadows - though the routine could
certainly have been exposed better if for example the objects were
larger. Promises but does not deliver.
Ive seen this mentioned with the name Announce, but that name doesnt
appear anywhere in the demo. The demo will require absolutely ALL memory
if run on an A500 with mb fake fast - and probably wont work at all on
2.0+ machines based on my own experiences. glenn
GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: KillAGA.
Atmosphere 1993, 07.04, ECS Trackmo.
code: Ice, gfx: BCR, Coke, Joachim/Crusaders, Kekken, music: Syntex.
Released at The Gathering 93.
review: Quite an acceptable trackmo this, though it does not specifically
excell in any area. Theres certainly a lot of logos here! Unfortunately
none are truly excellent. glenn
GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Headline issue 1 1993, .08, ECS Dismag.
code: Coke, gfx: BCR, music: Jason/Lemon., Mutant, editor: Dolphin.
Headline issue 2 ECS Diskmag.
info: The second issue was the last one ever published.
Bjarne 1994, 03.04, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Niggerjack, gfx: Coke, music: Braintumor Heywood.
Winner of The Gathering 94 40k intro competition!
review: Niggerjack, Braintumor Heywoods first production for Stone
Arts would prove to be their most successful yet! It opens with a few
dot routines, and ends with a HAM rotzoomer that is truly a thing of
beauty, just as Niggerjack himself claims. Not much bang for your buck,
except for the rotzoomer, but still a good enough production. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Rush 1994, 03.04, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Coke, Ranx last effect, gfx: BCR uncredited, music: Redferne.
3rd in The Gathering 94 40k intro competition.
review: STAs 3rd-placer at the party where they won with Bjarne is
just as good. Theres a few OK effects here, of which I especially dug
the double STA twister. However, that pseudo-plasma thing looks like the
blocky stuff they do on the C64 to achieve the same effect. On a 1mhz
machine, thats impressive - on an A1200 thats pathetic. The picture
used in the rotzoomer is a small portion of BCRs title picture for
Headline 1 08/93. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Vidar! 1994, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Niggerjack, gfx: Absurd, music: Braintumor Heywood.
Released for The Party 4 40k intro competition, but was disqualified.
review: It opens with the letters S T O N E A R T S flying at you in
rapid succession timed to the music, before the intro gets going with the
three letters STA on fire! Then were shown some text before a rather
awesome 3x3 rotzoomer appears, thats controllable in almost every and
any way! Unfortunately, I dont get to see that on my machine, which you
shows me some garbled graphics. Slummy/Spaceballs theory about why this
happens was the it was probably selfmodifying in some way and any
accelerated Amiga was just too fast to cope with it. Therefore the dots
did not appear where they should : The picture thats rotzoomed is
Smokin by Absurd, which also participated in the graphics competition
at the same party and came in at a split 20th.
The intro was originally supposed to compete in the 40k intro
competition at The Party, but the disk it was delivered on was corrupt,
and it was disqualified. It was therefore just released at the party.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review!
Heat 1996, 05.04, 40k Intro.
4th in the 40k intro competition at The Gathering 96.
Storm
boards WORLD CHAOS usa, 09/90, DATACRIME WHQ soon 06/90, MIDNIGHT
EXPRESS EHQ ger, 06-09/90, PORTAL ger, 09/90, ELECTRIC DREAMS usa,
09/90.
Stealth joined TRSI.
German sysop Guru Josh TECH, ex Classic joined Razor 1911.
Crack Intro 1990, ECS Intro.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a Delta Music 2.0 format, 34864 bytes.
review: Another cracktro, but not much different from the millions of
others out there... A storm log at the top, some bobs expanding towards us
from the middle of the screen, a textplotter and a scroller. Nice oldskool
fc-style chiptune, tho.
Reviewed the version released with their crack of Gotcha 26.06-1990.
Fucks up my screen after exit. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA!
Intro 1991, early, ECS Intro.
code: Biff, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
St.Pauls Crew
JOR Eagle ex Byte Busters.
St.Pauls Crew was formed by previous members of Kaos Jordanian division.
When the group died, a new group called Conqerers were formed on their
remains.
Strange old -1992
SWE Zender swap edit Nordic Report.
??? Cyborg, Rufus.
Strange is a swedish demo group perhaps best known for releasing three
issues of the diskmag Nordic Report, and for being one of Lizardkings
first groups. There is no connection between the old and the new Strange as
far as I can understand...
1992 - The group started falling apart around the middle of the year.
Their biggest asset, musician Lizardking, left the group for Alcatraz and
only 2 or 3 members remained.
Swedish musician Lizardking joined Alcatraz.
Swedish musician Deelite ex Enigma was only a member for a brief period,
before he rejoined Enigma.
Swedes Core ex Eagles, old handle Arrow and Tony gfx left to form
Hijack with Crayone ex Defjam.
Nordic Report 1 ECS Diskmag.
Nordic Report 2 1992, 15.04, ECS Diskmag
Released at The Gathering 92.
Strange new
NOR Mr.X doublememb Apathy, see there.
??? Coma music, doublememb Three Little Elks 06/97
There is no connection between the old and new Strange.
Strangers
FIN Rocketeer.
??? Big Mac ex Recline, new mid91.
Halloween Demo 1990, 03.11, ECS Demo.
Released for the Amiga Halloween Conference 90.
Strobe
ENG Carp Steven, org swap, triplememb Phuture303 and Instinct, 08/97,
C-Rad music swap, 08/97, Def Base sysop HAVOK, 08/07, Furrball
swap, 08/07, Ice swap, 08/97, Ike org gfx ascii, 08/97, Madman
swap, 08/97, Mammoth swap, 08/97, Ninj swap, 08/97.
GER Juhi swap, 08/97, Tiger swap, 08/97.
??? Fingle code, 08/97, Mr.P gfx, 08/97, Profile swap pack, 08/97.
Dreams Packmenu 1997, Intro.
code: Fingle, gfx: Ike, Mr.P, music: C-Rad, editor: Profile.
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Style
NOR Speed Devil Morten R. Martinussen, ascii swap, late96.
GER Animal sysop TRICK OR TREAT.
??? Folar ascii, Stezothetic ascii, Webster ascii, Zeus ascii.
German coder Wusel joined Nuance late 96.
Style Blacky 1993-
SWI Blacky Cyril Bays, gfx music, Style Stefan Lendi, code.
These two Swiss guys joined together when Black was refused to join Styles
crew, Alcatraz. As a result, Style left ATZ instead, and they formed this
little crew. Eyes was their first independent release.
Eyes 1993, .03, ECS File.
code: Style, gfx/music: Blacky.
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
-- Note: Works, but has severe gfx/music errors.
nonworking A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 4mb fast/1.32.04.
Styline
Sphinx joined Circle.
Tonic joined Krafted.
Subacid
DEN Black Death 07/95, Brunis 07/95, Deckard gfx, 07/95, Gayhawk
code, 07/95, Gifair code, 07/95, Hexagon code, 07/95, Lava
music, 12/93-07/95, Liquid music, 07/95, Mr.Nobarin 07/95, Pink
Fluid 07/95, Syl raytrace, 07/95, Talon 07/95.
Boards SUBMANIA den, 07/95.
Subacid was a Danish demo group.
1995 - Early in the year, Disaster merged with Subacid, and Disaster
ceased to exist. Among the people who joined from Disaster were Deckard,
Gayhawk, Hexagon and Liquid.
Manual Override 1995, 14.04, Demo.
Released at The Gathering 95.
Pyt 1995, 09.07, AGA 4MB Multifile.
code: Hexagon, Gayhawk, Gifair, gfx: Deckard, Syl raytrace, music: Lava
and Liquid. Winner of the South Seland Party 95 demo competition!
review: Pyt opens with two GRRRREAT rendered logos by Syl. These two
logos are so fab youd be hard pressed to tell they were rendered and not
hand drawn by some fabulously talented graphics artist. WOW! Whats more,
it goes from strength to strength by following this with an amazing
animation of lights flying through an underwater landscape. Words cannot
describe how beautiful this is!
Though the demo claims to run with 4MB fast, it needs all of it. I had
my kickstart remapped to fastram on my old 4mb fast setup, and never got
this one to work. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Subject 1994-
SWE Adder Stefan Hansson, swap, 12/94, B-Nice code, 12/94, Bluejay
music, 12/94, Chrome gfx, 12/94, Daizl music, 12/94, Germic
Mattias Eriksson, mainorg gfx, 12/94, Kermit code, 12/94, Mat U20
music, 12/94, Randy Robert Ekberg, swap, 12/94, Wire gfx, 12/94,
Wizard Jorgen Pettersson, 12/94, Yabbo! music, 12/94.
Subject was a demo group based in the north of sweden, started by Germic
late 1994. They released their first production, the intro Out of Bounds
12/94 at The Party in december that same year.
Out of Bounds 1994, 28.12, ECS Intro.
code: B-Nice, Kermit additional, gfx: Chrome/Equinox, Germic, music: Mat
U20. Released at The Party 94.
review: After an introductory sequence, we are presented with a pretty
bogstandard textplotter intro, with a wireframe S spinning in the
background. Its not all bad, some of Chromes graphics are allright, but
it all just seems a little uninspired... The music is monotonous discopop,
and is forgotten the moment youve pressed the left mouse button. Without
any originality, this group will go nowhere. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Submission SBS
GER Plauze swap.
HOL Camelot sysop CHAOS, ex The Silents, Empire sysop LAST OUTPOST,
08/92-early93, Hardbyte new late92, Incoq code, new late92, Swave
08/92.
SWE Striker ex Elevation, new early93.
IRE Green Beret sysop CRACKHOUSE ex Frogs, new 08/92.
USA Nucleus sysop ABOVE THE LAW, Tin Man sysop DARK DOMAIN, new
early93.
??? Chuck ex Acume or Chaos, Executor trade, new early93, Risk swap,
early93, Uncle Acid ex Defiance.
Boards FLAMING DEATH usa, offline early93.
1992 - American board IRON MAIDEN left in august. German musician WOTW
joined Gothic in september. Also in september, sysop Black Devil FALCON
HOOD left the scene and took his board with him.
1993 - Hungarian division, and Dr.Ill, got kicked early in the year. Boozo
sysop INTROSPECTIVE, ex Noxious got kicked early 93. Reaktors joined
with THE DESOLATE ONE, but closed the board after just three days because
of time problems!! early 93. American sysop Angel Eyes PALE RIDER joined
Sceptic early 93. German swapper El Cativo joined Abyss early 93.
German swapper Ghost ex Interactive, new 08/92 joined Crystal.
German graphician Dux changed his handle to TVaan and joined Dreamdealers.
Crusader, Rockeronic, Abettor, Doe, Highlander, Lightforce, Madukan,
She-ra, Project Alpha, Tubaculose, and Zyborg left to form Desert.
Ziptronix sysop SPEED WHEEL, old handle MC Tune and Synchronizer joined
Elevation.
Mike joined Devils.
Swedish sysop V-Cut ZOOMED REALITY, ex Addonic joined 2000 AD early 93.
Extacy joined Aurora.
Yoda ex Dragons old joined Willow.
Scene Talk 3 Chartmag.
Scene Talk 4 Chartmag.
code: n/a, gfx: Red Devil/DCS title, music: n/a.
info: German-based.
Subspace SBS, 1996-
SWE Blade Per-Olof Rommell, code music, doublememb Up Rough!, new
03/96-01, Calladin gfx, 08/96, Colorbird code, 08/96, Desoto gfx,
05/96-01, Frame triplememb C-Lous details and Essence, Fudge
music, 08/96-01, Lizardking Gustaf Grefberg, music, 08/96, Origo
code, triplememb C-Lous details and Essence, MRK gfx, triplememb
Sunshine Productions details and Limited Edition, 08/96-01, Origo
code, doublememb C-Lous details, 08/96-01, Rioter raytrace,
08/96, Spite code, 08/96-01, Visitor founder org, 03-09/96, Zalo
org sysop, 08/96.
NOR Mr.C music, Pix later Endzeit, 12/96-04/97.
Subspace is a Swedish based demo group, started march 5th 1996 by Visitor/
Inhumans. Among the first recruits were Blade/ex Inhumans. Special thanks to
him for his information on this group!
1996 - Android, sysop THE NOSTROMO joined Three Little Elks in june,
then Swedish coder Confidence left the group to be in Balance only around
july. Graphician Newt joined Abyss in october. Due to fights and
disagreements with Visitor, swedish musician Deelite 08/96 left.
1997 - Dutch coder Infant triplememb Kinky and K left for Balance late
in the year.
1998 - Swedish coder Prospect left for Endzeit in june.
2001 - Blade assures me the group is not dead, just slightly sleepy...
Current members are Blade, Origo, MRK, Fudge, Desoto and Spite. Blade is now
working as a game programmer.
Funkybility 1996, 26.05, Demo.
4th in the Icing 96 demo competition.
bergirl 1996, 18.08, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Spite, gfx: Desoto, music: Tudor/TBL.
9th in the Assembly 96 intro competition.
review: The results from the ASM96 intro competition continues to puzzle
me. This is clearly among the better ones, though perhaps a little short.
What matters, though, is the quality. This ones got a phong object
moving over a cool tunnel effect, with an afterburner effect ala
Artworks Dawn 12/95 and such. The point is, this looks, sounds and
feels great! Coolness has been achieved.
The intro uses Origos demo os. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Suburban Base 1994-
SWE Burton Rickard Linden, mainorg, 12/94, Eracore gfx, ex TRSI,
doublememb Rebels, 12/94, Slash sysop CRAZY WORLD, 12/94-01/95,
Sniffet gfx sysop1 EXTREME OVERLOAD, 12/94-01/95, Tripman sysop2
EXTREME OVERLOAD, 01/95.
??? Bareface trade, Blitz code, Heinz code, 12/94, Mercury trade,
12/94, Pure Magic trade, 12/94, Shapechanger ascii, ex Vision, new
UPS10, 12/94, Split code, 12/94.
Suburban Base was formed by Swedish ex-members of Majic 12 and Vision.
Coder-musician Randall ex Majic 12, old handle Zyx, 12/94 left to join
Sunshine Productions.
Lurking Shadows 1994, 05.12, ECS 2MB Multifile, 2 disks.
code: Randall, P.E.N., gfx: Eracore, Sniffet, music: Randall.
review: Cool! This was not bad for an ECS demo! The real standout here
is the graphics more than the music or the code, though...but why do you
have to make all your fonts so hard to read? Can easily be run from disk
or from your harddisk. Cool effects too, btw... Sorry for this sucking
review : Ill write a better one some other time, when I feel up to it.
The info text says it requires 2MB of memory, but does not mention
how much of it has to be chip... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Dance Diverse 2 1994, mid.12, Musicdisk.
code/music: Randall, gfx: Sniffet.
Subway 1988-
??? George code gfx music, Grizzly gfx swap, Killersoft swap, M.A.S.H
music, Makr org swap, Maxev trade, Softsmash code crack swap,
White Duke music.
Boards DARK CENTURY cooperation with Energy.
Subway was formed on the 23rd of october 1988 by the previous members of
Quest in Norway and Austria.
1990 - Norwegian musician Bug left for Razor 1911 around july. Austrians
Mike, Tilt and Matthew left for Spreadpoint ca 10/90.
1991 - Biscrok joined Supplex mid 91.
Subzero
GER Crane Robert Pozarek, gfx, 92, The Smurf sysop BLUE OBZESSION WHQ,
01/93-04/95.
N-L B.O.B sysop 7TH HEAVEN EHQ, doublememb Untouchables, 01/93.
??? Art, Hardcore music, 92, Pepe music, ex Hardline, Triton code,
92, Zycro ex Hypnotic, new 08/92.
Subzero was born in Wiesbaden, Berlin, Germany as a mainly illegal group,
doing cracks and phreaking tools, but also with some interests in the
demoscene. There were even american members for a small while. Thanks to
Crane for some information.
1992 - Karo and 711 left in august.
Psycho Demon joined Nuance.
Finnish traders Punisher and Strange Illusion joined Shining 8.
Germans Bootbuster, TNM swap, ex Contrast, new 08/92 and Vain joined
Desire.
Boards AMIGAPHILE usa, 01/93, PRIME TIME usa, 01/93, BLUE MARLIN aus,
01/93, PURE SYNCHRONISATION eng, 01/93.
Intro 1992, early, ECS Intro.
code: Triton, gfx: Crane, music: Hardcore.
Success SCS
??? Cyclon fin? gfx, 92, Plague fin? gfx, 92.
Success was presumably an extension of the c64 group of the same name.
Brainstorms diskmag Zine 6 08/90 reported that Success had died, as
their last member Pilka had joined The Special Brothers.
Danish Ash joined Vixen.
Finnish coder Dr.Header joined Dictators.
Intro 1992, early, ECS Intro.
code: Dr.Header, gfx: Cyclon, Plague, music: Ash/Vixen.
Sun Connection
Sun Connection was an all-french group, that died in 1990 or 91 when the
group changed its name to Analog and started taking in foreign divisions.
Sunflex Inc SXI
USA Circuit Breaker sysop DIGITAL EXTASY, 01-07/95.
??? Apollo 01/95, Ferox code train, 01/95-01/97, Goldman 01-07/95.
Boards WORLD SYSTEM WHQ ger, 01-07/95, BOONDOCKS EHQ hol, 01-07/95,
THE HIDDEN EHQ ger, 01/95, TOTAL CHAOS ger, 01/95, ENDLESS PAIN
ger.
Sunflex is an illegal cracker and trainer group. Goldman and Ferox seem to
be in charge.
1996 - Ferox released a demo of an action replay-like utility called
Thrill Kill v1.04 to AmiNet in december.
TrainerIntro V1.0 1995, AGA Intro.
code: Ferox, gfx: Fade One, music: n/a The Player 6.1A format.
review: Fade Ones great Sunflex logo, which looks like it was written on
a crumpled piece of paper, is the star of the show. Its constantly and
smoooooothly changing color hues, and looks just...smashing! Overlaid on
this, several pages of text and a trainer selector appears as you press
your mouse buttons. The text is white with a black border. The music is
nice and bouncy. Its just 5k in unpacked form, but doesnt sound it.
The name of this intro was determined by examining the file, which
contains a VER: string to identify it.
This intro was used for Gloom AGA +20 21.07-95. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Sunriders
Sunriders Sweden felt they were the only productive section in Sunriders,
and decided to leave The Cad, Turbobrain and form their own crew, called
D-Mob. Then, Sunriders Germany joined Beastie Boys, so Sunriders is probably
dead...?
Sunshine Productions SSP
SWE Blast code sysop NAPALM BBS, 01/95, Bombas code, new 11/96,
Deelite Henrik Bertilsson, music, triplememb Balance and Razor 1911,
11/96, Hence code, new 11/96, Lightspeed code sysop DARK ROOM,
01/95, Mr.Coke Mikael Rickan, org code sysop BAD BLOW, 01/95-
11/96, MRK Mattias R.Kyln, gfx, triplememb Subspace and Limited
Edition, 11/96, Opium sysop, 11/96, Pad Torbjrn Allard, gfx,
11/96, Qen Ken M.Berglund, music, 11/96, Randall Kenneth Juneheim,
code music, ex Suburban Base, new FRC1, 11/96, Rooster Anders
Lindqvist, swap, 11/96, Whiplash code, 11/96.
NOR P.O.W Music, earlier Iris, 11/96, Speed Devil Morten Martiniussen,
Swap, new 11/96-03/97.
FRA Nitch Code, new 11/96.
??? Producer swe? org code homepage.
Before the Novemberlight demo, SSP just released some BBS tools, like an
LZX checker for /X and a TXTAdder. They also have an all-Swedish PC
section, consisting of Producer also Amiga, Headcase code, Kanser
music and Solomon code. Whiplash was the coder of the smash hit pinball
game Slam Tilt! Mr.Coke is their leader.
Musician Digit got kicked.
Musician Atheist triple member left them to be in Balance only 06/96.
Laz joined Three Little Elks 06/96.
Swedes Atheist music, Grid gfx, Vicious code, Pantera swap and
Excel gfx joined Balance late 95 august or pre.
Stressad och Trtt 1995, 01.04, Demo.
Winner of the Virtual Conspiracy 95 demo competition!
C187.lha
code: Mr.Coke, gfx/music: n/a.
info: short demo, depression-release by Mr.Coke.
Harz.lha
info: 6 hour sick production.
Novemberlight 1996, 03.11, AGA 4MB HD File.
code: Mr.Coke, gfx: Mrk, Pad, music: AccessTheMind by Randall.
Winner of the Halloween 96 demo competition!
review: The demo opens with the text Sunshine Productions, and an SSP
logo in the background. It then slowly fades the two together, before
were taken into the demo proper with the usual techno music. The music,
though well done, is a bit too monotonous to maintain my interest. As for
the effects, they are numerous and well-executed. Theres even a few I
dont know how are done! This was a welcome suprise.
Pads fabulous picture of a girl sniffing a flower won the graphics
competition at the party. Requires at least an 020-28, though they
recommend an 060 and more then 4mb RAM for maximum enjoyment. The demo
as shown at the party was somewhat improved, and a final version was
released a few days later, 08.11. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Superiors
DEN Darkwing sysop INFECTIOUS, doublememb Galaxy, Dizy sysop
ATLANTIS, Hellhound sysop SOMEWHERE ONLINE, doublememb Intens,
Joshua sysop CONSCIOUS DREAM, triplememb Zekt and Prodigy, Logic
sysop FATAL JUSTICE, Marc sysop THE CHANNEL, doublememb Skid
Row, Menace sysop IMPERIAL.
SWE Gajan sysop INCUBUS, Wingnut sysop HOLIDAY INN.
NOR Macho sysop BURNING HELL.
Supplex http://www.supplex.com
GER Bob Duncan trade, new late90-01/91, Decca swap, ex Adept, Free
Agent mainorg trade, 10/90-01/91, Heino Snyder sysop RED LABEL,
09/91, Mark trade, 11/90-92, Sire gfx music, ex Adept, later Lego,
WOTW music swap, later Haujobb, 10/90-11/91.
GER Mr.Mistral sysop BROOKLYN EMPIRE, 04/95.
SWE Biscrok gfx, ex Subway, new mid 91.
DEN Circulator sysop VIRTUAL REALITY, ex The Silents, 04/95.
ENG Frap swap.
USA Baby Bear sysop, 10/90, Dust Devil sysop DEVILS DEN WHQ, 04/95,
Orbity sysop, 10/90.
??? Armin swap, new 10/90-91, Ascot code train , 10/90-91, Celat ex
Complex, new 09/92, Dangermouse sysop, ex Image, Defcon 5 gfx swap,
10/90-91, Logo 7 code train swap, 10/90-92, Marvin 91, Mike code,
10/90-91, Xact code swap, ex Arise, new 06/90.
Boards DATA EXPRESS WHQ usa, 10/90, DARK TOWER usa, WORLD VIOLATION EHQ
ger, CAPITAL CITY ger, METAL DECADE ger, VIRTUAL REALITY den, ex
The Silents, THE TOWER eng, HIDDEN POWER ita site, OVERLOAD swe,
THE TERRORDOME ger site, DESOLATE ONE ger site.
Supplex was an illegal cracker and trainer group, probably based in Austria
or Germany, under the leadership of Free Agent. The memberlist of the German
section has one or two familiar names... Logo 7 did a series of trainers
called Capital Trainer short: CAPTRA. There were more than 100 in the
series...
1990 - News in Brainstorms Zine 5 06/90 diskmag that Supplex were
dead were incorrect, but Mr.Rox, Guru Luke, Alf, Bitcracker and Gordon left
for Supreme. Spreader Condorman left for Tarkus Team. Zine 5 08/90
continued by stating that the group had changed their name to Thyrone, which
was also incorrect Thyrone was formed by the Berlin section alone. Swapper
Armin joined around october.
presumably incorrect.
1993 - The two Swedes Budweiser gfx and Sleepwalker music both left to
join Equinox early 93.
Bjoern joined Faith.
Elmer and Nikko got kicked.
Schizo was kicked and joined Noxious.
German sysop Ali Baba left for Tarkus Team.
Shike got kicked. He changed his handle to Colorbird and joined Razor 1911.
Swedish sysops Cyber and Slash CRAZY WORLD joined Aurora.
Party Demo 1992, 19.04, ECS Demo.
Released at the Eastern Party 92.
100 Capital 1993, 02.08, Demo.
5th in the 680xx Convention 1993 demo competition.
Supply Team, The TST
Hagar new late 86 left to join The Connection.
TST must surely be one of the first groups on the scene, carrying on the
tradition from the C64!
Supreme old 1990-1990
??? Alf ex Supplex, new 05/90, Bitcracker ex Supplex, new 05/90, C.Dawn
ex Exult, new 05/90, Dam ex Black Monks, new 05/90, Guru Luke ex
Supplex, new 05/90, Jordon ex Supplex, new 05/90, Mr.Rox ex
Supplex, new 05/90.
Boards EXTREME ger, 09/90, BOARD ROYAL ger, later Risk, 05/90.
Supreme was a shortlived German illegal group formed by the German section
of Defjam. When they broke up, Dave and Damage joined Warfalcons, and Rob
joined Mute 101.
Supreme new
??? Rascal code crack, 95.
Boards CHAMELEON fin, 10/95, EVERYWARE nor, 03/95.
Surprise! Productions S!P, http://www.surprise-productions.org
AUT J.O.E gfx, ex TRSI, 12/91, Reebok Severin-Stephan Kittl, org,
12/91, Wild Rage Markus Jung, write swap, ex Grace, new early93.
DEN Executioner Martin Hojgaard, swap, ex Rednex, Mongole Ole, gfx, ex
Parasite, 08/92, Spycatcher ex Yeager/Parasite.
NOR Aqua trade, ex Vision, Ceel trade, ex Cryptoburners, C.H.A.R.D.
org gfx, later in Lemon., Decker gfx trade, later Scoopex then
Andromeda, Fluor music, ex Utopia, Happy Bjrn Vegard Christensen,
Inzane sysop SUDDEN IMPACT, Jeff code, Quincy code, Rhino
gfx, Tecon music, 01/95, Uninox gfx, Xtasy code.
FRA Moonchild gfx, ex Interactive, The Trixter swap, ex Interactive.
ITA Device Gianluca Foglia, swap, ex Impulse.
FIN JHL sysop ZENLANDIA, 12/91, Whiplash swap, ex Frantic, new
early93.
SWE General Lee Johan Blom, swap.
AUS The King swap, 08/92.
??? Adec 12/91, Bishop 12/91, Corwin 12/91, Dragos aut? code, ex
Grace, 02/93, Dr.Amigo 12/91, Dr.Grell aut? ex Grace, new
early93, Dr.Hex 12/91, Duz 12/91, Eddie 12/91, Eddi++ 12/91,
Jesus music, 12/91-02/93, Lou Van B music, ex Abyss, possibly
joined Jump instead..., Panther 12/91, Sabadon 12/91, Snoopy
12/91, Thor ex Defekt, Zike nor? 10/94.
Boards EVERYWARE WHQ nor, 10/94-03/95.
S!P started life as a subgroup of TRSI in 1991, serving as their demo
section until the following year, 1992. The split with mother group TRSI
resulted in germans Flynn, TSM, Warhead, Dreamer and Peachy leaving the
group for TRSI itself. The rest of the group thus became a subgroup of
Scoopex from 1992 til 93, when the group once and for all started to live
life as a completely independent entity.
EVERYWAREs sysop is not a S!P member, but Zike is a cosys on the board.
1992 - German musician Hi-Lite joined Scoopex.
1993 - Jean ex Cerberos Design, 12/91 joined Absolute early93.
Austrian coder Luke 12/91 rejoined Scoopex.
The English division left to form Divine.
- Messerschmitt joined Ram Jam at end of 94. !?
- Messerschmitt joined Mad Elks !?
Norwegian musician Rancor Kristian Loksa left.
German musician Virgill joined Sanity.
RCB joined Jump.
Lanterna Magica 1991, .08, ECS Slideshow.
code: Luke, Spike, Carnivore/Beermacht loader, gfx: J.O.E, music:
Tempest and Rotofoils Squeek by J.O.E both ProTracker MOD format.
Made while the group was still a subgroup of TRSI.
Prism-Vectors 1991, 07.12, ECS File.
code: Dreamer, gfx/music: Peachy music in NoisePacker 3 format.
3rd in the Prime 91 demo competition.
review: This is a welldesigned little intro/demo, much thanks to a couple
of clearcut, yet simply elegant logos from Peachy. His soundtrack for
this is not half bad either, if I may say so. Its very of its time -
and probably heavily influcenced by Cream of the Earth - but as such
its not the worst example of the genre. Not bad. Oh, and I guess we
havent seen those prism vectors before either, have we? Its a minor
variation on the standard glenz, really, but doesnt look too bad. This
is more of an intro than a demo.
This was the first german S!P production, made while they were a TRSI
subgroup. Also known as Bistro. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Its Tricky 1992, .08, ECS File.
code: Spycatcher, gfx: Mongole, Uno/Scoopex opening logo, music:
Toi-Tei by Uncle Tom/Scoopex ProTracker MOD format.
review: This S!P production features quite a lot of glenz vectors, though
the most interesting thing about it is the graphics - there is some good
work here. The demo was made while they were a Scoopex subdivision, and
features a lot of Scoopex logos and the like. The music was used in an
issue of World Charts too, and Unos logo also looks familiar...
Scoopex homepage incorrectly claims that someone called Alias is the
coder. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Wish Us Luck 1993, 01.02, ECS File.
code/gfx: Dragos, music: Jesus.
Suspect
FRA Slade Xavier Goaoc, 12/95.
??? Dr.Acid ascii, Javis! sysop, Monsun org gfx, Rebel org sysop,
Riddler code, Saxon sysop, Segoy sysop, Sunny editor swap,
Ugly Marc gfx music.
Trash Head and Jezo joined TRSI.
Suspiria
SWE Loon music, Probe music.
Suspiria were - as far as I know - based entirely in Norway. They no longer
exist. Coca/Balance now Wowbagger/Session was once a doublememb.
Norwegians Phoenix and Absurd gfx joined Scoopex.
Most Nowegian members at least Felix and Acid - sysop BASIC INSTINCT WHQ
joined Grotesticle.
Switch
Boards DATA CAFE usa, 09/90.
Maniacs of Noise Unreleased 1990, ECS Musicdisk.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Charles Deenen/MON.
Sygma
64k Intro 1993, 04.09, ECS 64k Intro.
code: Satan, Zilly One, gfx: Sticks, music: Satan.
Released in the Saturne Party 93 intro competition.
At The Party 3 1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Newton, Satan, Herby, gfx: Mystic, Grumo, music: Skiller/Skenge.
18th in The Party 93 40k intro competition.
Symbiosis
FRA Adrian, Blacky code, 09/91, Byteben code, 09/91, Eloy gfx, Styx.
NOR Apollo gfx, ex Addicts, new early93-04/93, Genious Marius Aabel,
code swap, ex Addicts, new early93-04/93, Rage gfx, ex Addicts,
new early93-04/93, R/Write Error Ruben Beer-Svendsen, aka RWE, org,
ex Frantic, 09/91, Uzi music, ex Frantic, 09/91-04/93.
SWE Squire Petter Johanson, org, 09/91.
GER Floyd swap, 09/92.
??? Baobab, Crunch nor? ex Addicts, new early93, Law Breaker nor? ex
Addicts, new early93, Maxx nor? 09/91, Nick nor? ex Addicts, new
early93, Noise nor? ex Addicts, new early93.
Symbiosis was originally a French demo group, and its whq remained in
France even though divisions from other countries were recruited. Their
strong norwegian section took over a lot of attention, among other things by
arranging the two Rendezvous parties in Kristiansand in the summers of
1992 and 1993.
1992 - German organizer ZigZag 09/91 joined Crystal in september, where
he was sysop of MAY DAY. Was the board open while he was still in this
group?
German Hijack joined Palace.
Dark Knight left for Syntex.
French graphician Elmer joined Dreamdealers.
Norwegian musician Mystra ex Addicts, new early93 left to join Stone Arts.
French musician Arios ex Defeat joined Delight.
D.M.M.D. ECS Musicdisk.
info: Depeche Mode conversions. The people who made it arent members
anymore.
Anarchy Party Demo 1991, .04, ECS.
Released at Anarchy Easter Party 91.
A New Demo 1991, 29.09, ECS File.
code: Blacky, gfx: n/a, music: Digital Serenade by Uzi ProTracker MOD
format.
4th in the Razor 1911 Imp-666 Amiga Conference demo competition.
review: This demo absolutely refuses to work on my machine, going into
what seems like an endless loop when decrunching. All credit information
comes from peeking in the executable : Also known as Arendal 91.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- See review!
Rendezvous 93 Invitation 1993, 07.04, ECS File.
code: Genious, gfx: Apollo, Rage, music: Double Exposure by Uzi
ProTracker MOD format. Released at The Gathering 93.
review: I like this invitation intro, with its nice, uncomplicated
graphics and its catchy synthpop soundtrack. It tells you what you need
to know, show you a couple of pictures, and entertain you for a while :
Nice and comfortable. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
Syndicate
GER Roi Danton sysop BASIS, 04/95.
??? Atomix sysop, ex Endless Piracy, HNK music, 12/93, Marauder code
gfx, 12/93, Nelle gfx, 12/93, Thomas gfx, 12/93.
Boards DEIT TIME ger, 09/90, ULTRA BOX ger, 09/90.
5 to 12 1993, 28.12, ECS Disk.
code: Marauder, gfx: Count Zero/Progress, Nelle, Thomas, Marauder,
music: HNK. Split 8th in The Party 93 demo competition.
Syndrome old SDM, -1997
FRA Eagle Mathieu Fondreton, music, 12/96, Jibe gfx swap, ex Ram Jam,
Maf Benot Charcosset, music, doublememb Silicon, 08-12/96, Nasty Boy
fra? code, 08-11/96, Okeanos Degand Olivier, gfx music, ex Ram Jam,
11/95-03/97, Plug David Maillard, swap, ex Intense, new 12/96,
Tenshu gfx, 08/95-12/96, Yogi Stephane Paravigna, gfx swap.
GER Angelwings S. Brodersen, music, 12/95-04/96, Kestrel Jan Christoph
Meyer, swap pack KickDown, 12/95-01/97.
??? Agony gfx, 12/93, Blue Silence fra? music, Condfidence code,
12/93, Disorder music, 12/93, Flan gfx, new late96, Leon gfx, ex
Silicon, new late96, Shen gfx.
Boards TRANCE ILLUSION fra.
Mostly French demogroup Syndrome was split up by its most known member
Tenshu at the Saturne Party 97. Some of the members formed an almost fully
PC group by the name of Elend this group consisted of Tenshu gfx, 08-
09/96, Nitryk gfx, doublememb, 08-09/96, Zaac gfx, Kobi 3d, Traven
music, Embroaz music, Fks code, Francisco code and Obyone code.
Frenchmen Codac Hakim Ramdane, code gfx, 12/95-12/96 and Bosco music,
11/96, plus some others, left the scene. Most of these people are now split
between the two groups Syndrome and Cocoon on the pc.
1997 - Germans JCS gfx and Marc music, both ex Scoopex, both
doublemembs Sector 7, 12/96- probably left the group sometime after april.
They retained their S7 memberships. Key Frenchmen Guille code, ex Ram Jam,
08/96- and Nytrik gfx, 12/96- left the amiga to form Cocoon on the pc.
Nowadays, also Maf and Tenshu are in this group.
German swapper Ghandy/Gods 03/97 has terminated his membership, and is now
in Darkage as his second group instead.
So What? 1993, 28.12, ECS File.
code: Confidence, gfx: Agony, music: Disorder.
split 8th in The Party 93 demo competition.
Gudule 1995, File.
Cooperation with Drifters, see there.
Tekken 1995, 28.12, 40k Intro.
code: Codac, gfx: Tenshu, music: Angelwings P60A format.
19th in The Party 5 40k intro competition.
review: Im sorry, Syndrome, but this sucks. Obviously based on the great
arcade/Playstation martial arts game Tekken, it limits its emulation to
1 plane afterburned undetailed vector representations of two people
fighting. Still, what irritates me the most about this is the music
Its my nominee for most annoying chiptune ever. I find no evidence that
this requires AGA, and can find no error codes in the file. Still, you
never know... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
No Love 1996, 07.04, 40k Intro.
code: Codac, gfx: Okeanos, Codac, music: Angelwings.
2nd in the Symposium 96 40k intro competition.
review: Syndrome presents us with a few envmapped objects and not much
else. The objects are a little unusual, but in this case unusual does not
equal good. The chippy is loud and irritating, and its not hard to see
how Artworks Dawn.remix beat this. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Born Dead 1996, 27.04, Demo.
3rd in the Saturne 96 demo competition.
2nd World 1996, 27.04, Demo.
code: Guille, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
4th in the Saturne 96 demo competition.
Heart Light 1996, 27.04, Demo.
8th in the Saturne 96 demo competition.
Cooperation with Syndrome, see there.
Fashion 1996, 31.08, AGA HD 4MB Multifile.
code: Guille, Nasty Boy, gfx: Tenshu, Nytrik, music: Maf.
Winner of the Sea, Soft, Sun 3S Party 2 demo competition!
Planete M 1996, 31.08, AGA Demo.
4th in the Sea, Soft, Sun 3S Party 2 demo competition.
Achlon Bux 1996, 31.08, AGA Demo.
code/gfx/music: Leon, Maf.
9th in the Sea, Soft, Sun 3S Party 2 demo competition.
Logik 1996, 02.11, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Nastyboy, gfx: Tenshu, music: Maf.
review: I am stunned. I am absolutely, totally stunned. This intro is
FUCKING AMAZING! How this could end up at 10th Ill never know. Jeez!
It opens with an object surfing on water over a good Syndrome logo, and
continues with a FAST scene with camera angles and everything! It looks
so good, I could actually cry.
The intro itself contains no specific credits apart from the names
Nastyboy, Tenshu, Maf. However, when you depack the intro and hex-read it
you can see text saying it was coded by Codac. Can anyone solve this
mystery? glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Hardcore 1996, 02.11, AGA Multifile.
code: Codac, gfx: Tenshu, music: Bosco.
Winner of the Saturne Party 4 demo competition!
review: The mood is what makes Hardcore. Im telling you: this is the most
frightening demo youre ever likely to see. Its not a horror demo per se,
its more the kind of horror youd find in a movie like Seven. The demo
opens with a digitized animation thats gonna go down in demo history as
one of the most WHAMmy openings ever! During the course of the demo were
shown some fair effects and quite a few Tenshu pictures, but as I
mentioned above, this demo is made by the atmosphere, not the single
effects. What can I say? Outstanding. Everythings Blue in this world...
Download and prepare to be FRIGHTENED! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Subzero 1996, 28.12, AGA 4/8MB HD Multifile.
code: Guille, Codac, gfx: JCS, Nytrik, Tenshu uncredited, music: Maf.
6th in The Party 6 demo competition!
review: A great demo! This almost reeks of quality. The fact that this
only finished in 6th is perhaps testament to the quality of the demos
released at The Party 6. The demo opens with some powerful chords, the
word SYNDROME at the bottom of the screen and a perfectly drawn eye in
the background. After this it loads the credits sequence, which is even
better with a great background picture and equally great coding and
design... I cant adequately describe everything I love about this demo,
but rest assured that its quite a lot! There are impressive routines
galore, a thumping great dance soundtrack and cool artwork. There are
only 5 or 6 demos of this kind of quality released in any one year.
From the twin faces phong object, to the huge flying ant object, to all
the swirly tunnels and graphics manipulation, this is a fabulous piece of
traditional demo art.
There are both 4mb and 8mb versions delivered. I tried both, the 8mb
one first, and I dont think theres anything really missing from the 4mb
one. Its just lesser reslution and less smooth transmissions between
parts that differ, as far as I can see. This demo is also WHOPPINGLY
huge - it occupies 9MB of diskspace, would you believe? I wouldnt be
much surprised if JCS picture is the same as Lava Girl, with which he
came 5th in the graphics competition : The picture in the final part, of
the man holding his hands to his head, is by Tenshu even though hes not
given any credit in the demo or the text files that come with it...
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Syndrome new SDM, 1998-
Syndrome is a French demo group, reborn in april of 1998 with many of the
original members, including Tenshu! This new group is active on both amiga
and pc see scenery pc for more on their pc productions featuring almost
all ex-amiga talent!
Synergy
AUS Durak sysop SYNERGY, 04/95.
Synergy Design
Many of the German members joined Scoopex. Can anyone shed some light on who
exactly many is?
Syntax
D.U.M 1996, 05.04, Demo.
10th in The Gathering 96 demo competition.
Syntax Error
??? Ben code music.
Circle Intro 1992?, ECS Intro.
code/music: Ben, gfx: n/a.
Syntex
FRA Dark Knight ex Symbiosis.
??? Dr.1Mips Gfx, 08/93.
n/a 1991, 28.12, ECS Demo.
3rd in the Iris New Year Conference 92.
Music Light 1993, ECS Musicdisk.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Bird, Gibs.
info: Weird design in Chrysalis-style.
System 5 1989-
GER Ghoul mainorg trade swap, 08/90.
NOR Dynamo code swap, ex Freedom Force, new ca 07-08/90.
??? Beyonder modem swap, 08/90, Jack swap, 08/90, Kevin swap, 08/90,
Killroy code, 08/90, LCP gfx swap, 08/90, Mucky Soft code crack,
08/90, Risc gfx swap, 08/90, Splatterpunk 08/90, Stargazer code,
08/90, Trashcan code, 08/90, Vindicator swap, 08/90, Wizard
music, 08/90.
System 5 was an originally german group formed by Ghoul in august of 1989.
1990 - Spellcaster swap joined in july to form an English section, but
left after a few months to join Rebels UK. German swapper Terminator X ex
Apex, new ca 07/90 joined Cytax late this year.