Eagles
??? Captain Blood, Haxoe, Hextex, Mad Max.
Eagles is dead.
Swede Arrow joined Strange.
Eaglesoft Inc ESI
??? Butcher crack, Christian, Depeche Mode, Fletcher, Mitch, Prowl The
Fugitive, The Head Librarian.
Boards PROWLS PLACE usa, 09/90, NEW YORK usa, 09/90.
Eaglesoft came over from the C64 scene in the very first days of the Amiga
scene, and started doing the same thing they did on the C64: crack games.
They dominated this scene around 1987.
Eclipse old
The old Eclipse is little-known, and all that the group ever amounted to
was releasing a few cracks from Rasta Catcha. There is no relation to the
new group using the name Eclipse.
Eclipse ECL new
FIN Axu sysop SWAPDATA, 10/91, Daxer swap, ex D-Mob, new ca 06/92,
Dodger trade, 07/91-09/93, Marvel gfx music, 09/93, Optic code,
09/93-08/94, Peeri code anim, 09/93, Soldier music, ex Compact,
09/93-08/94, Target trade, 07/91, Tom Jerry trade, 03/94,
Velocity swap pack trade, 09/93, Vixen org music trade, 12/92-
09/93, Werewolf trade sysop DRAIN PIPE 2, 10/91-04/95.
HOL Bassnote music, 09/93, Bazz gfx music trade, 09/93, CFI org code
trade, 09/93, Crash sysop CRASH CORNER EHQ, Enigma, Mad Max
sysop, 09/93, Mr.Zen gfx, 09/93, One gfx, 09/93, President
sysop THE WHITE HOUSE, 09/93, Seven, Spy gfx sysop, 09/93-08/94,
Teak swap sysop NASA HEADQUARTERS, 09/93.
ENG Amos sysop, 09/93, Aquafresh music swap, later Eltech old, 09/93,
Darkman ex Plague, Denzil, Grasshopper trade sysop, 09/93, Jarman
music, 09/93, Melon gfx swap, 09/93, Moz gfx, 09/93, Recoil ex
Plague, Saint M swap, ex Cyanide, St0m swap, 09/93, Turbo code
gfx, 09/93.
GER The Stranger music, 09/93.
IRE Arc, Axel, Brendan, Dionysis, Gazzer, Green Beret sysop FORBIDDEN
PLANET, Hokum, James, Jay, Polaris, Punisher.
USA Caffeine sysop PSYCHOSIS.
??? Bronx Warrior.
Finnish coder Relax was kicked due to inactivity late 93.
Dutch coder and sysop Overlord-X CODERS GRIB was kicked due to
inactivity late 93.
Americans Panther sysop OBITUARY and Metoner trade both joined TRSI.
This means the American section is officially dead late 93.
English swapper and packemaker 8-Ball ex Cyanide, old handle Psi joined
Infect.
English sysop Image IMAGEWORKS, ex Quoram, 09/93 joined Quartex.
Destinator ex Destiny, new mid93 changed his handle to Real, then left
to build an English division of Infect mid 93.
The English division fusioned with Relay into a new group called Ghost.
Headache File.
Landscape File.
Teknicolor Dreams Slideshow.
Guru Meditation II 1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Optic, gfx: Spy, music: Soldier.
Split 24th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition.
review: Ooooh boy, where to start? Well, the best thing about this little
intro is the faked Guru meditation towards the end. I guess the name of
the intro should have given me some kind of hint as to why it suddenly
crashed, but oh no. I was totally fooled and for that alone this one
deserves a star. Too bad the rest of thing sucks horses... isnt good.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Eclipx
Axe joined Nerve Axis late93.
Ecstasy
Ecstasy was an English demo group. Meltdown was one of the founders.
1990 - English graphician Havok left the group late 1990.
1991 - Englishman Taurus left the scene around june.
English musician Nightshade joined Crusaders.
Intro 1992?, ECS Intro.
code: Count Zero, gfx: Shreck, music: n/a.
Weird Pack Intro 1992?, ECS Intro.
code: Orlanski, gfx: n/a, music: Rogue Male.
Ecthelion
NOR Cybermage founder, Madwand founder, Quark founder.
Ecthelion was formed by three former members of Avalanche Quark, Madwand
and Cybermage.
Eden
Bluesilence and Clary joined from Nova france briefly, before they took
most of Edens french members with them to Next Generation Crew. They are:
Gandbox music, Slaine gfx, Sylver and Silk.
Effect 1992-
HOL Clone code, Dazzler code, Hi-Fi code music sysop, Kim mascot,
Radavi founder mainorg www sysop WILD PALMS, doublememb Royal 96,
09/93-96.
pc section:
HOL Hawk music, late95, Native founder code inactive, 09/93, Striker
gfx, 09/93.
PREVIOUS MEMBERS - Kiwi code swap pack, new early93-12/93, Scan hol sysop
DREAMSCAPE WHQ, 03/94, Sceptre Martijn Boekhorst, code, 09-10/93,
Stranger ex Silicon Ltd., late 92-09/93, Take, Target, Usura swap, new
mid93-09/93.
Boards THE PUNICA OASE hol, 07/95.
Effect is a dutch-only demo and board group, formed in the middle of 1992 by
Acute, Native, Radavi and Striker. The group has since grown a pc division,
but Radavi is still the leader of both sections. Their old homepage,
http://www.xs4all.nl/radavi/effect/effect.html, appears to have gone from
the web.
Dutch sysop Rubyx THE STALLION left.
Doz ex Divine, old handle Ike, new late92 got kicked.
Original founder Acute left the Amiga and joined Hypnosis on the PC
instead.
Cloak, MSW Edwin van Rijn, music, 09/93 and Probe were kicked because
they released an intro with some offending text at the Bizarre 1996
party.
Black Eagle, Sad, Striker and Maverick music, new late 92-09/93 were
kicked late 94. This is a little strange, since Striker is actually one
of the original founders!
I Want Your Sperm Demo.
Efreet
Deep Pan 1996, 06.07, Intro.
3rd in the South Sealand Party 96 intro competition.
Elanthia 1991-1994
CAN Neo-Dyne James Ojaste, moral support, 07/94, Nitrolyte Tim Park,
code mainorg, 07/94, Ogre aka Grey Mouser, music, 07/94, Tlotoxl
Alexis Glass, code music, 07/94, Tuxedo Dolphin Brandon Havey, gfx,
07/94.
Elanthia was a Canadian demo group of 5 members who, once upon a time,
decided to try making a demo to help disprove the notion that Europeans are
the only ones who make demos. The result was Debut. The group was born
around 1991 and died around 1994, as all the members eventually ended up at
different universities and got too busy with their real lives. Thanks to
Tlotoxl for information.
Some of Tlotoxls music can today be found at http://mutagene.net, and
Nitrolytes anime site can be found at http://www.fiction.org/www/ddp/
Debut 1993, 10.04, ECS File.
code: Nitrolyte, Tlotoxl, gfx: Tuxedo Dolphin, Tlotoxl, music: Grey Mouser
AKA Ogre. info: The demo is in NTSC. Slight bugs keystrokes fall
through to system, audio filter left on at end. Try pressing space bar
during the scroller for a surprise!
Electra
Tracker left late92.
Avenger joined Mad Elks.
Electron 1992-
FIN Crux swap, Duplex founder, 92, Prophet.
Electron is a finnish demo group, formed by Duplex/Divine in the early parts
of 1992. They are now dead. All the lamers were kicked, and the remaining
members formed a new group called Phase. This concerns AT LEAST P-CU
swap.
1992 - Blink left the group to form a finnish division of Zenith with some
friends in the early part of the year.
Electronic Artists EOA
Electronic Artists changed their name to Visual Arts.
Electronic Force, The
??? Asterix gfx, 88, Silicon code gfx, 88, Zeta code gfx, 88.
The Electronic Force Demo 1 ECS.
code: Silicon, Zeta, gfx: Asterix, Silicon, Zeta, music: n/a.
The Electronic Force Demo 2 1988, ECS.
code: Silicon, Zeta, gfx: Asterix, Silicon, Zeta, music: n/a.
Release at the Vortex 42 Party.
Electronic Knights, The TEK, 1991-
GER Banana founder gfx music, 91-04/98, Bifat Tim Mller, code gfx
music, aka Captain Bifat, 12/92-12/98, Crunchy code sysop1 THE
FACTORY, ex Sceptic, mid96, Fuszy codeAM+PC sysop2 THE FACTORY, ex
Sceptic, 05/94, Mac founder swap, 91-, Maxwell sysop ANTARCTIC
STATION EHQ, mid96, Placid Joachim Sobczak, music, ex Analog,
Plasma ex Analog, Red Knight swap, ex Awake, Steve sysop DIGITAL
WORLD WHQ, also in Section 8, Real! and Quasar, 10/98, Toxic ex
Design.
FIN Deep Madness swap, 93, Dexter music, 93, Informer swap.
??? Cybin gfx, 04/98, Iraner code, 05/94, Mendrik ex Acrid, Montana
Rice ex Awesome, Prince ger? gfx, 12/92-05/94, Red Knight, Deal
gfx, 05/94, Siriax ex Acrid, Zycro trade.
TEK was a German demo group, formed in 1991 by Mac and Banana.
1992 - Doktor, Not Weelan, Fred and Liquid all joined Parasite in june.
German swapper Agony ex Paradise joined Desire.
Nearer my God to Thee 1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Captain Bifat, gfx: Prince, Banana, Captain Bifat, music: Banana.
9th in The Party 92 40k intro competition.
Rampage 1994, 13.05, ECS 1MB Trackmo.
code: Captain Bifat, Fuszy, Iraner, gfx: Seal, Prince, Banana, Magican/
Trygon, music: Banana.
review: This demo begins with slowly moving toothed wheels - which look
so nice that I am still using them as background of my WB - and you are
asked to wait while loading... Open your ears, watchers of this demo,
because Rampage starts with such queel muzak by Banana that I would
give him a big bonus point therefor if I could, while the groups name
bumps up in wodden letters from the right side. Afterwards a Rampage of
steel is to be build up by little pixels collecting themselves together
followed by a simple spaceship taking its journey over a brown-colored
voxelroutine. Then circling vector balls, rotating 4x4 textures, morphing
dot-cubes, cool mirrored vectorobjects and vectorlines, some plasma and a
dot-flag with the groups logo are shown up. Somewhere between you are
forced to watch a really ugly girl Beware! This could make you go gay
- but that is the one only bad point of this stylish production I
still could watch ten times more. The trackmo ends with a really long
endscoller shown by a very colorful font even changing a bit the way the
scroller goes while the guys of TEK provide you a second musictune.
All in all a very good show with the right length to be watched twice
or three times in a row without losing its interest... zito
ZIT tested A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 1mb fast.
A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast.
Choose 1996, 05.04, Demo.
Released at The Gathering 96, but has no placing in the competition...
E- Electrons At Work 1998, 12.04, ECS/AGA 1MB Trackmo.
code: Bifat, gfx: Bifat, Cybin, music: Banana.
10th in the Mekka Symposium 98 demo competition.
review: This production starts with a cool idea: a great animation of the
demos title, made by Cybin. Besides is running again, as in all TEK
demos the cool but strange music composed by Banana featuring some very
nice atmospheric parts. Then you can see the presentation of the groups
name in an asia-styled logo followed by an ugly 2x2 or even 2x4 interlaced
zoom of an rotating cube. Afterwards a little tunnel which looks lame at
the start but is pretty nice at all, on what a smooth brown/lilac-colored
voxel-landscape is to be seen. At the end you are able to read, as always
in TEK demos, a cool long scroller with a nice one-colored font.
All in all some nice gfx and texts between the too few parts. Also too
short, especially for a whole trackmo! Why so senseless old-skool in
1998??? Not to be compared with Rampage. zito
ZIT tested A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 1mb fast.
A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast.
Elefant Klubben
UltraBra Demo 1993, 05.08, Demo.
9th place in European Computer Conference 93 demo competition.
Element EMT
NOR Arcane 01/96, Chriz swap trade, doublememb Apathy 06/96, early98,
Madsen sysop REALITY BYTES, triplememb Honey and FLD no entry,
01/96, Ten! swap, doublememb Encore details, late96.
??? Frenzy nor? doublememb Encore, 01/96.
Elevation -1993
ENG Reflex sysop A KIND OF MAGIC EHQ.
GER Charlie sysop APOCALYPSE NOW, 04/95, RCF sysop TRADERS HEAVEN,
ex D-Tect, Synchronizer ex Submission, Ziptronix sysop SPEED
WHEEL, ex Submission.
??? Creator ex Decade, rejoined, Dr.Dre ex Dytec, Gettler, Grind King,
Icecube ex Dytec.
Boards FLASHTRADE swe.
Elevation was an illegal crew that was I believe relatively shortlived.
After failing to release anything for a while, the whole group decided to
call it quits. They released an intro to announce the fact in late 93.
1993 - Swedish Striker joined Submission early 93.
The Swedish division of Legend joined.
American sysop Rotor GATES OF ASGARD WHQ joined Razor 1911 old.
Elevation Died! 1993, late, ECS Intro.
code: Pink/Arise, gfx: Falcon/Arise, music: Intro Number 91 by WOTW/
Essence.
review: This intro is nothing special, just an acceptable logo, a glenz
vector and a text plotter. It was not made to impress, just to tell the
world the news that Elevation died. The release date is based on the
module, which is dated 8/93. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Elexion
Elexion is now Hoaxers!
Elicma
GER DAW re-scene late92, Nightmare Manfred Fischer, music swap,
doublememb Anarchy pc, 11/91-12/94.
??? Warrior gfx, new late92.
Most old Elicma members left to form Trash mid 91. Nightmare did NOT leave
in mid 91, as stated in some mags.
Stone joined Acume.
Eltech old
NOR Cosher code, Hellrazor raytrace, Pink Panther sysop, Preacher
code gfx, Splash /Xcode sysop.
ENG Blind Man sysop, C-Rad music, D-Code gfx swap, new late95,
Dr.Octave music, Inferno music ascii, Loopy sysop, Loz code
gfx, Mic Flair org trade, Orion code, Quakers code sysop,
Realitor code swap, late95, Screech music, Sire sysop MAN EATS
DOG, new 04/96, Spangly code music, ex Neo, new 04/96, Violator
trade.
AUS Muse music sysop.
??? Aquafresh music, ex Mellow, new late95.
The originally British group Eltech died, and some Norwegians later
restarted the group. Among others Dr.Death 01/97, Maze and Skinner from
the original group are also in the reborn variety.
Outcast is now an Eltech production 04/96.
British coder 2Cool left.
British musician Assassin left.
Finnish swapper Splatterhead joined Scoopex.
English swapper Lithium pack Lunch Pak, 01/97 and graphician and
swapper Wade late95 joined Gods late 96.
English swapper Devistator ex Neo, new 04/96 joined Abyss.
Hurricane left the scene 04/96.
Kurgan, Mr.Anonym, Sheela and Tipper got kicked late 95.
Eltech new ELT, 1997-
NOR Dr.Death Yngve Dalland, music swap, early98, Maze Stian
Gudbrandsen, music swap, doublememb Massive, early98, MCS Kjell
Espen Johansen, swap, old handle Skinner, early98.
Boards CAFE CHATTERBOX whq, late97.
The old, originally British group Eltech, was reborn by Norwegians members
late 97 or early 98. They made a cracktro for Fairlight.
Elven 11 E11
ITA Darkman code, ex Ram Jam, 06/98, Manta code gfx, ex Vajrayna, old
handle Aga, 12/96-06/98, Mat gfx, ex Vajrayana, new mid 97-06/98,
Rio code gfx sysop DISASTER AREA, ex Vajrayna, 03/97-06/98.
??? Calca music, 06/98.
Elven 11 is an Italian demo group. As far as we can see, the group showed
its first signs of life with the 4k intro Another Rainy Day 12/96 by Dip
and Aga at The Party 96.
1997 - Sometime between the release of Another Rainy Day late last year
and Mekka Symposium this year, Aga changed his handle to Manta. So, at Mekka
Symposium the group released their first demo, Smart 03/97, and came in
at an ok 5th place. Italian musician Parsec ex Biosynthetic Design, 03/97
left E11, and possibly the scene. Coder and graphician Slat ex Vajrayna,
03/97 left the scene. Italian coder Dip ex Vajrayna, 12/96-03/97 left the
scene.
Kermit old handle Guru Trasher left.
Another Rainy Day 1996, 28.12, AGA 4k Intro.
code: Dip, Aga, gfx: none, music: none.
6th in The Party 96 4k intro competition.
review: ARD is a really good 4ker, actually! It opens with a bumpmapped
Elven logo, and continues with what looks like an inverted voxel - with
creaters rather than hills. This is followed by some blooming,
mathematically created shapes in beautiful colors, before another bump
example with a moveable lightsource. The show is rounded off with a real
showstopper a real good voxel routine. The entire 4k intro is set to a
soundtrack that sounds a lot like a heartbeat. E11 certainly managed to
cram a lot into this small space, and heres one reviewer whos certainly
looking forward to the next one! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Smart 1997, 30.03, AGA 4MB HD Multifile.
code: Manta, Slat, Dip additional, gfx: Mat/Vrn, Rio, Manta
additional, Slat additional, Vision-X/Degeneration additional,
music: Parsec. 5th in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition.
review: Smart is short but sweet, with good effects and excellent
design. It opens with an atmospheric intro sequence, with a motion
blurred starfield, over which the credits are overlayed. The combination
of this and the stringbased music at this point makes it remind me of
the intro sequence for Andromedas mindblasting Nexus 7 12/94!
It continues with a travel down a bumpmapped triangle tunnel, some very
colorful truecolor motionblurring crossfade and 1x1 18bit truecolor
bumpmapping! The strengths of Smart lies in two things its superior
design and its effort to push the limits of resolution and color.
Ofcourse, Parsecs commercial quality techno soundtrack is no drawback
either! However, its length is also a small drawback...a demo that
doesnt last more than a little while is not a party winner. If this is
anything to go by, then I expect E11 to produce a truly great piece of
demo entertainment sometime soon!
Multifile is a little misleading, as its just a small executable and
a large data file. Though it will work on all 020+ AGA machines, it
requires at least 030-25 to maintain effect synchronisation. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
cooperation intro 1998, 03.01, AGA Intro.
Released at Trip 98 in cooperation with Nah Kolor details.
Elysion 1993-
FIN Blacksmith trade, 03/93, Destiny swap, Dr.Gassu code trade, ex
Amaze, 03/93, Galaxy gfx music, 93, Zecco.
SWE Agressor new early93, Claustrophobia new early93, Dyson new
early93, Jedi Knight new early93, Pluto code, new early93, Spirit
new early93, Urban Hype new early93
??? Fenrir gfx, 93, Nine code, new early93, Rodder gfx, 93, Shrike
gfx, 93, Sure code, 93, Tim code gfx, 93, Zardax music, 93.
Boards ANGEL ICE swe, BOXEN ger.
Elysion was formed by German and Finnish ex-members of Dominators.
The Swedish division was formed by Urban Hype, Spirit, Pluto, Jedi Knight,
Dyson, Claustrophobia and Agressor. Some of those finnish members were
certainly earlier in Amaze...
Zorc was kicked out due to lazyness.
German swapper and trader Star left for Absolute 93.
Germans 3DK and Convey Robert Olejnik, swap, new SLH11 left the scene.
BBS-Tro 1993, .01/.02, ECS Disk.
code: Tim, Sure, gfx: Shrike, Fenrir, Rodder, Tim, Galaxy, music: Galaxy,
Zardax.
Embassy EMB
FIN Bass-Cadet gfx music, 08/97-98, Humanoid code, 12/95-98, Sly code,
12/95-98, Temen gfx, 08/97-98.
Boards THE GARDEN WHQ fin, 98.
Embassy is a finnish demo group. Their old homepage, located at
http://www.helsinki.fi/apjhamal/emb/, appears to have gone from the web.
Thrilled 1995, 12.08, Demo.
10th in the Assembly 95 demo competition.
Corona 1995, 28.12, Demo.
code: Humanoid, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
6th in The Party 95 demo competition.
Casting 1997, 10.08, Demo.
code: Sly, Humanoid, gfx: Bass-Cadet, Temen, music: Bass-Cadet.
3rd in the Assembly 97 demo competition.
Back In Town 1998, AGA 4MB 030 Multifile Demo.
code: Sly, gfx: Sly, Bass-Cadet, music: Bass-Cadet.
review: Annoyingly, this is one of those demos with an every-other-pixel
c2p routine... No matter what anyone says, it will never look as good as
solid objects. Having said that, this is not an ALL bad demo, though there
is little in the way of groundbreaking effects they do the standard
phong/bump-stuff, there is a certain level of competence evident. With
some better pacing, more handpixeled graphics, and a better slightly
better sense of what makes a demo work, these guys could go places. The
music is of very variable quality. Bass-Cadets graphics are mostly of the
raytraced variety. OK then, but a little way to go yet.
I was unsuccessful at trying to run this from RAM, but once I ran from
HD with no startup-sequence, it worked wonderfully. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Embora
Tomar 1997, 14.12, 64k Intro.
11th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition.
Fecha 1997, 14.12, AGA ?MB File.
6th in the Astrosyn 97 demo competition.
review: Sadly, Fecha is a demo thats more occupied with showing us
endless reruns of the same rendered spaceships/grabbed rollercoaster
ride than treating us to anything innovative or interesting. Im sorry,
Embora, but this didnt manage to hold my attention for very long.
The good news is: The only way is up! OK, this is not BADLY done, its
just that I feel it doesnt have much of interest for me as a casual
viewer. If it had shown all its animations just ONCE, and ran about 30
seconds, it would have gotten a much better rating!
This requires some fastmem, though the exact amount is uncertain.
Judging by the fact that I had to reboot to run it, should give you
some idea... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
E.M.I
Swedish graphician Rodney joined Absolute!
Empire 1990-
??? Batman swap, Cobra mainorg1 code sysop, Cross code, Dave code
crack, Hyperion mainorg2 code, Jas code, later Phenomena?, Led
gfx, Mantronix swe? music, Wergal phreak, Nibbler code,
Punisher swap, Pez gfx, Remo code, Rip phreak, Ripper swap
sysop, UFO sysop.
When Software of Sweden SOS died, five of its members formed Empire.
They were based in Sweden, and were mainly an illegal crew.
Parts of Empire joined Supreme.
Swedish sysop Istvan MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE joined Red Sector Inc in early
1990.
EMS Design
NOR Stan early98, Trump Rolf G. Lunder, org music, old handle Frenger,
doublememb Apathy 12/96.
??? Adolf music, late96, Conroy music, late96, Robotronik code swap,
late96, Stan org code gfx, old handle Joker, late96-97, Wiseguy
sysop OUTER SPACE, new early98.
EMS Design is a Norwegian demo group.
1997 - Artworks Generation 24 04/97 reported that Joker changed his
handle to Stan, that Vanilla joined, and that norwegian Hellrazor code,
late96 left for Instinct. Subgud code gfx swap, doublememb Halfmoon
Productions, new late96 left for Light late 97. Punisher left for Instinct.
1998 - 4Play was kicked due to inactivity early98.
Odorless Demo.
EMT Design
FIN Zuuni Jouni Matero, code, 09/93-08/94, KMC gfx, 09/93-08/94.
Heliopolis 1993, 01.09, ECS Trackmo.
code: Zuuni, gfx: KMC, music: Dizzy/Red Chrome.
info: This refuses to run on my current machine even if I turn off the
caches and set chipset to original...so youll have to be patient for
a review until someone decides to give me an A500 or an A2000... :D
Its double irritating since earlier notes tell me it ran on the A2000 I
once borrowed! Grrr... glenn
GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04.
Hard Day 1994, 07.08, AGA File.
code: Zuuni, gfx: KMC, music: Bicykl0pedia by Heatbeat/CNCD Tracker
Packer 3 format. 12th in the Assembly 94 demo competition.
review: How this managed to finish DEAD LAST at the Assembly is a total
mystery, since this is one great piece of demo art! Theres competence on
every level here, from the fabulous code to the excellent visuals to the
weird and wonderful tune by Heatbeat. And thats not all: Its ORIGINAL
too! Yes, theres a few effects here I havent seen anywhere else, like
Silicon Fractals the programmers invention. Coolness! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Encore old
Digital Surgery 1992, 15.04, ECS File.
code: Daniel Senn, gfx: Erlend Klouman, music: Brainbug/Alcatraz.
4th in The Gathering 92 demo competition.
Encore new ECR
NOR Ludde Ludvig Pedersen, code, 01/96, Ten! Tor E. Nygaard, swap,
doublememb Element, late96.
??? Frenzy nor? doublememb Element, 01/96.
Ludde has coded a c2p routine that is used by several other coders for
their demos...it can a.o. be seen in Capsules Assault 96 demo.
I find it highly unlikely that THIS Encore is the same as the one above.
Encore
POL Caro gfx 3d, 04/01, MDW code, 04/01.
Seeing as this is a Polish group, I find it highly unprobable that they have
anything to do with any of the two groups above.
Serial Interference 2001, 15.04, Demo.
code: MDW, gfx: Caro, music: Substance/MAWI Multichannel DSP.
11th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition.
info: Requirements according to the the info-file is: Amiga, PowerPC, 3D
acc with min 8mb of gfx mem, some ram, WarpOS, CyberGraphX, Warp3D,
StormMESA OpenGL, AHI.
Endless Piracy EP, 1990-.
GER Cyfreak ex Anarchy, new 09/91, Magic Drummer sysop CRACK HOUSE,
later Skid Row, 09/91, Merlin sysop WAVESPEED, 91, Shut Berlin
sysop WORLD TRADE CENTER, 91, Skyfox ex Desire.
SWE Xor.
USA Whiz sysop PSYCHO TERMINAL WHQ.
??? Anarchist ex Endless Piracy, Angeldawn gfx, Dual, Fix, Marc
crack, Radical ex Palace, Salvatore, Skillion, Skywalker.
Boards DIGITAL AMNESIA WHQ usa, BOARD ROYAL EHQ ger, ACID JUNGLE
ita.
Endless Piracy was born in 1990, and was based in Berlin, Germany.
They are now dead.
1991 - German sysop Sniffy SPIRITUAL HEALING joined Energy mid 91.
Atomix sysop joined Syndicate.
The board 007 BBS is now an Addonic board.
Germans Brainstorm and Warlord joined Alpha Flight.
German sysop Depode SPACE CENTER joined Skid Row.
Germans Mike sysop STATE OF MIND still? and Koto both ex Anarchy, new
09/91 joined The Special Brothers.
Cascay doublemember of Pulse joined Avantagarde.
Sectorcharger, sysop LOGIC SYSTEM, joined 2000 AD.
Deathbone joined Creed.
Intro ECS Intro.
code: Deathbone, gfx: Angeldawn aka AD, music: n/a Future Composer
1.4 format.
review: Another old intro, only set apart by the graphics by Angeldawn.
Truly a pixel master, AD, Ive been a fan of his work ever since I saw my
first World Charts. So its a sine-scroller over a text writer. Nothing
new. Ive heard the music before, so its probable that its just ripped
and used here because they didnt have a musician. No release date
appears anywhere in the intro. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
EP Are Dead 1991?, ECS Intro.
code: Deathbone, gfx: AD, music: n/a.
End of Century 1999 EOC1999
ENG Akira, Blade, Dav, Devistator swap, 06/91-92, Fleg, Hollywood
music, Leaburn, Leopard, Lez, Real, Rico, Speed, Stryx, Subculture.
GER Beatmaster ex Red Sector Inc, Lord.
NOR Bacon, Jackass, Rektum Rider.
SWE Avenger ex Mystic, old handle Captain Blood, Landreth Kim, Noname,
Valiant ex Mystix, old handle Cruizer.
FRA Cypher and Mery sysops HANG LOOSE.
??? Brutus, Chaos new 08/92, Moschops new 08/92, Muesli swap, new
mid91, Optik new 08/92, Powerfreak ex Zone 7 no entry, Toxic
re-scene SLH11.
Their swapper Muesli is supposedly female. Once-spread rumours about the
death of their English division were untrue.
1991 - Shadowman joined Argon mid 91. Messias and Jayce joined Hypnotic
mid 91. The german Agressor was kicked mid 91 and also joined Hypnotic.
1992 - Bob left late92.
Englishman Pazuzu new 08/92 was kicked.
Zycro ex Hypnotic was kicked.
German Damion ex Exort joined Addonic.
Snowy, Mr.T and Boris were never members.
Paranoiak and Mercure fra mainorg both joined Eremation.
Englishman Cyborg changed his handle to Ikari and joined LSD.
Mixolydian 1991, ECS Musicdisk.
info: 10 average tunes.
7th Sence 1991, 28.12, ECS Demo.
code: Stormbringer, gfx: Android, PetsBand, Ramdam, Quaid, music:
Mixolydian. Released at the Iris New Year Conference.
Endzeit EZT, 1998-
GER Damion Jens-Oliver Klokkers, founder writer, 06/98, Noogman Torsten
Asholt, gfx, 06/98, RokDaZone Henning Brau, founder org editor,
06/98, Virgill music, 06/98.
ITA The Ripper Ivan Curzolo, writer, new 06/98.
NOR Zack gfx, doublememb Spaceballs, 06/98.
SWE Blaze code, ex Session, new 06/98, E-Moon Daniel Collin, code, ex
Session, new 06/98, Prospect Mikael Nattfalk, code, ex Subspace, new
06/98, Psycho Daniel Eriksson, music, ex Session, new 06/98.
POL Blaze Patryk Kalinowski, swap, ex Nah Kolor and Floppy, new 06/98, X-
Ceed Wojciech Panufnik, music, doublememb Floppy, 06/98.
??? Maq code, 06/98, Pix gfx, 06/98, Zig code, 06/98.
Endzeit is a German-based demo group built on the ashes of what used to be
Germanys 1 group, Artwork. It was formed by Damion, RokDaZone and Noogman
shortly after the death of Artwork in april of 1998. Also italian writer The
Ripper joined up to continue his work for the diskmag Generation.
They soon also built a strong Swedish section, recruiting members from
Subspace and Session. They also did the masterpiece of recruiting TWO
members called Blaze, both the Polish swapper and the Swedish coder!
1998 - Swedes Blaze code, E-Moon code and Psycho music joined from
Session in june.
Generation 26 1998, mid, AGA HD Diskmag.
code: Detector/ex Artwork, Eksec/Infect additional, gfx: Zack title1,
Orome/Talent title2, Cougar main, music: Longing by X-Ceed/
EndzeitAppendix, ? by Laxical/Scoopex both Tracker Packer 3 format,
editors: RokDaZone, Damion.
review: Endzeits first issue of Generation does not differ significantly
from the last ones released under the Artwork label. Little has changed
the code is the same, the graphics are the same... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Generation 27 AGA HD Diskmag.
code: n/a, gfx: Pix title, music: n/a.
Generation 28 AGA HD Diskmag.
code: n/a, gfx: Pix title, music: n/a.
Enemy
Serbian coder Haralampie left to join Universal Soldiers ROM3.
Energy NRG
GER Buster and Fuzz sysops ATTACK OF THE KILLER BS, NCD sysop SIGN
OTIMES, 91, Sniffy sysop SPIRITUAL HEALING EHQ, ex Endless
Piracy, new mid91, Stagediver sysop WORLD IN A WORLD.
AUT Doom, Malcom, Stranger 06/90, Zinkfloid ex Grace, later TRSI.
BEL Anthrax, Genius, Minister, Rainman 92.
FIN Blast swap trade, 02/94-late95, Blogath music, 08/95, Branca swap,
93, Comrade org swap, old handle Docile Drawer, 93-02/94, Dr.Degree
sysop RED ALERT, MBD code gfx swap, 02/94, Mr.Bigdick swap,
Muffler music, later Nah Kolor.
SWE Black Wizard ex Them, Chip sysop NINTH HELL, ex Them, Fireball
ex Them, Highbyte ex Them, Maniac ex Them, Maz ex Them,
Noteman music, ex Them, Techno ex Them, Wave ex Them.
NOR Punisher ex Cycron.
??? Anc supply, Bhn crack train, Brainwasher supply, Catfish crack
train, Dr.Grell whq-illegal, re-TRSI, Dream Warrior ex Damian, Lee
crack train, Lord supply, MCM crack, Mike supply, Nomad
supply, Parallax supply, Stripe ex Unicorn, new mid91, Toccadero
or Troccadero crack train, Trazer ex Orient, Ufo ex Orient, Zippy
or Zippo crack train, Zyx trade, 24X trade, ex Noxious.
Boards HANGAR 18 WHQ usa, 02/94, DIGITAL CITY 02/94, GLOBAL CHAOS
ger, FUTURE WORLD ger, 09/90.
Energy was originally based in Austria. When the group Prime died, Storm
and most other members joined Energy EuroChart 11. When Growl joined from
Orient, his cheatdisks went along with him, and will from now on be released
under the Energy label... Then Growl suddenly left, and I dont know what
happened to the disks!
Internal problems split the group into two parts legal and illegal. All
graphicians stayed with the illegal part, and all the best members of the
legal section will probably join other groups or rebuild Quartex. When
Dr.Grell joined from TRSI mid 94 he rebuilt the illegal part of Energy,
and became the world modem organizer for the group.
Analtro 02/94 announced MBDs plans to open THE FUNNY FARM BBS,
but theres no information if there was ever any opening. Zoro trade has
never been a member, even though he has claimed to be. At one time, now
famous Austrian coder Antibyte was a member he is now the leader of
Scoopex.
1990 - Stranger coarranged the Energy Chaos Party in Austria in june with
members of Chaos c64.
1991 - Commander X got kicked mid 91. Austrian Perseus left to join a PD
group mid 91. Blackstar, sysop DARK CENTURY, joined The Silents mid 91.
Optimize, sysop of UNITY FIELDS left mid 91, and joined Legend. Belgian
sysops of METAL IMPACT, Mad Shitbrain aka Maddy, new mid 91 and TCB ex
Destiny, both left to join Agile. Junkfood changed his name to Candyman and
joined Scoopex mid 91. Another source claimed he joined Legend, but this
seems to be untrue - or at least something that happened later. Austrian
cracker Stranger left the scene for a while to work on a game, late in the
year.
1992 - Austrian trainer G-Tronic, who joined mid 91, left for Scoopex.
1995 - Polish swapper Action joined Mad Elks late 95.
Storm ex Prime, new late91 and Slider joined Awesome.
Shocker joined Pirates.
Homeboy joined Punishers.
Mr.Foley joined Bastards.
Austrian Coon-O joined Manitou.
Autrian Status Quo left to join Excite.
Major-Midi ex Jetset joined Paradise.
Tesla, sysop of ROAD HOUSE left to be independent.
Beltram, Badamon and Mithrandir all ex Enigma moved on to Agile.
The boards DARK MIRROR usa, mid91, PROJECT D, PANIC ZONE and NO
CARRIER were all kicked.
Wild Rage got kicked, and left the scene. Therefore there will never be any
more issues of the diskmag he was editor of, Scene Lyrics.
A lot members left for TRSI, OHM and Quartex. Some members from the illegal
section rebuilt Quartex in Austria.
Danish swapper Growl ex Orient joined Fanatic.
Musician Snoopy ex Union, 12/93-02/94 joined TRSI.
Greili code, Antitrack and austrian Jason aut sysop RAP CENTER later
HIGH ENERGY closed were all kicked.
Swedes The Joker, Excel, Atheist, MRK, Nivek and Pete all ex Limited
Edition joined Vision.
Sound Splash IV ECS Musicdisk.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Backlash 13 tunes!.
Analtro 1994, 21.02, ECS Intro.
code/gfx: MBD, music: Time Bomb by Snoopy/Union 08/93.
review: Its been a long time since Ive seen such an appropriate name
for a logontexplotter intro. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Enigma
SWE Scythe sysop NORTH CONNECTION, ex Dazzle.
NOR Bjarre, Karl, Keb.
GER Skyfox sysop SKYFOX, 91.
??? Chrome swe? ex Dazzle, Penthagon ex Legend, Wizard swe? ex
Dazzle.
Boards SPECTRUM WHQ ger.
Mike sysop left.
Hawk and MPS joined Utopia.
Beltram, Mithrandir and Badamon joined Energy.
Deelite ex Triad joined Strange after six months. He didnt last long
there, though, and rejoined Enigma before moving on to X-Trade.
Eon
NOR Amateur, B.I.T music, later Majic 12, Cobra gfx, 04/93, Fallos
Sven Deuschmann, swap, New Michelangelo, Pennywise Rune Johansen,
swap, Positron, Viper, Zacco, Zurbitz.
Eon were a Norwegian demo group that wasnt noticed much outside their
native country.
1993 - Cobra came 2nd in the graphics competition at The Gathering in
april with his picture Pencil Dragon!
Intro 1991, 30.05, ECS Intro.
Ephidrena EPH
NOR Cheetah Sondre Kippnes, gfx, 11/96-04/01, Cyberstarr John Kenneth
Grytten, code, 11/96, Frequent smund T. Johansen, music swap,
11/96-04/01, Loaderror Espen modt, code gfx, 11/96-04/91, Zixaq
04/01.
??? Wad gfx.
Ephidrena is a Norwegian demo group.
2001 - The group release their new demo Adam Malysz at Mekka Symposium
2001 in april, where also Frequent contributes a tune to Contraz 64k intro
1 Week.
Mnemonic 1996, 16.11, AGA 4MB Multifile.
code: Cyberstarr, Loaderror, gfx: Loaderror, Cheetah, music: Senseless
by Frequent The Player 6.1A format.
2nd in the Kindergarden 6 demo competition.
review: By no means exceptional, Mnemonic does show some promise for
the future of this young Norwegian group. Slow effects mean that the
coders need to do some work on their routines, but after all I guess
this is true for most coders :. Also the design of the demo leaves a
little to be desired, but it will come with time and experience. The best
effect here - for its originality alone - is a shadebob-like caleidoscope
effect which is truly psychedelic. Frequents music is nothing
exceptional. Its been two minutes since I exited the demo, and I cant
even remember the melody : Bad news for any composer.
The exit routine crashed in the competition since it was crunched
with StoneCracker. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Recycled 1996, 05.04, Demo.
8th in The Gathering 96 demo competition.
Kugalskap 1996, 05.04, Demo.
9th in The Gathering 96 demo competition.
Concrete 1999, 28.12, Demo.
code: Loaderror, gfx: Zixaq, music: Frequent.
Winner of The Party 99 demo competition!
J 2000, 28.12, AGA HD Multifile Demo.
code: Loaderror, gfx: Cheetah, music: Zixaq main, Frequent intro.
2nd in The Party 2000 demo competition.
review: J opens darkly and atmospherically, without really coming to
life anyway in the opening titles... The design seems good, and theres a
little mood coming over you, but then it closes down and starts to load
and decrunch again before you can really settle in, and it all takes a
little too long, so much of the initial mood is lost. Ephidrena could have
benefitted greatly from creating their own loader, and thereby loading
party-by-part, making the demo come together more fluently.
But we wait and then, SUDDENLY, sparks of light, a kicking techno tune
and a tunnel with light particles inside... wow! The demo continues with
just superior design, and the is actually quite good, especially during
that slow break during the dark skies over the desert part. Ephidrena
seem to use a lot of digitized or retouched graphics, but as long as its
done to good effect and for the sake of design - such as in this demo - I
do not have many complaints about this approach. The effect that looks
almost like smoke or fog being puffed around, which appears under their
credits, is just amazing. Then the demo shows one last spark of life with
a bird it seems animated by LOTS of vectorlines, before we seemingly
travel backwards outside the demo world, through the tunnel we entered and
finally with a glimpse of the structure from the intro in the distance...
There is no question that J is a good demo, but there are a few things
that make it less than a GREAT demo. For one, a question needs asking: Why
does this demo JERK on my machine, as if sometimes the processor cant
quite keep up, while at other times it can? On other demos, effects either
move fast or they move slow - never a little of this, a little of that...
Explanations, Ephidrena? Hmmm... But the biggest drawback of all is the
lack of FLOW created by the long pause between the two parts. This is
still a significant production in an otherwise stagnant amiga demo market,
but with just a little more polish like making a proper loader, this
could have been just a little better... A nice plus for the music, which
is above average for amiga demo-techno Personally, Im more of a
rocknroll guy, me, but I recognise good work when I hear it. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Adam Malysz 2000, .04, AGA HD Multifile Demo.
producers: Loaderror, Cheetah, Zixaq, Frequent.
4th in the Mekka Symposium 2000 demo competition.
review: Adam Malysz is a very bleak, dark and industrial demo. Its more
about its ambience and atmosphere than about its effects, we feel. At
times it seems a little split in perspective though, with one part being
the dark, dirty cyberpunky style and the next still dark and dirty, but
with more of an...eastern bloc feel to it, if anyone understands that.
From neo-tech to old and sad. A lot of effort has obviously gone into the
design of the backdrops in other graphics in this demo, much more than has
gone into the coding and music. It feels like the coders reusing the same
routines several times here, with minor variations. Most effects are in
shades of grey too, which doesnt help much. The music is not good either,
I can get a feel for what they were going for, but not quite get there. I
cant quite put my finger on it, but I feel this demo is not all it could
be. It just didnt get me excited. Well, at least it worked on my old
workhorse, which is more than I can say for Floppys demo at this party
The demo requires setpatch before it will run. No exact credits appear
anywhere in the demo or in the archive. Naturally this requires some fast,
but how much is anyones guess. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 32mb fast/3.1.
Epic
GER Dot old handle Wave, Judas Christian Alfs, music, ex Fate, old
handle Satan, Wotan Christian K, ex Exort, old handle Conan.
1991 - Englishmen Vawred Computator and Mig old handle AWOL left for
Cyrus around june.
Epidemic
NOR Pitcher sysop ASYLIUM, 03/92, Terje Hagen sysop TRASHCAN,
02/95-05/97.
Epsilon http://www.cs.pdx.edu/idr
??? Dancing Fool code, 92-08/93, Haze code, 08/93, Link gfx, 92,
Mad Max music, 92, Vision code gfx music, 08/93.
No Prayer for the Dying 1992, ECS File.
code: Dancing Fool, gfx: Link, music: Mad Max.
Some Assembly Required 1993, 10.08, ECS Intro.
code: Haze, The Dancing Fool, Vision, gfx/music: Vision.
11th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition.
Epsilon Design eD
NOR Terminal Silence doublememb Vision, new 04/96.
??? Cenobite ascii, Chrombacher ascii, Cybergod ascii, Desoto org,
old handle Splat, Fatal ascii sysop, Frame ascii, Gozz ascii,
Harpoon ascii, Java ascii, Juan mainorg sysop, Rasta ascii,
Sandman org sysop, Stash ascii, Tommy ascii.
Boards SANCTUARY WHQ, ASYLUM SHQ, ANOTHER STEP, DOMESTIC SUBWAY, MONASTERY
OF BLUR, RAVELAND, ZILLION HOURS.
Epsilon Design is foremost an ascii artist group, and all members AFAIK
are ascii artists.
1996 - Crusader doublememb Giants, new 04/96 left to join MoSoul 06/96.
Twister joined with FLASHBACK late 95, but news dated 04/96 claims its
offline forever. I have removed Twister from memblist too.
Equalizers
??? Sharp code gfx, 04/93.
40k Intro 1993, 07.04, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Sharp, gfx: Sharp, Sarek/NAX, music: Dr.Fruid/Frogs.
10th in The Gathering 93 40k intro competition.
Equinox EQX
SWE Budweiser gfx music, ex Supplex, new early93, 03/93, Case gfx, ex
Emotion no entry, 03/93, Chip code, 03/93, Cybertron sysop
AUSGEBOMBT, triplememb Alpha Flight and Orient, 11/94, Deetroy
Jocke Eliason, music, 03/93, D-Luxe Joakim Falk, gfx music,
03/93-01/95, Insane swap, ex Relax, new mid 91-03/93, Jonez gfx,
07/92-94, Loxley Johan Svensson, music, 94-07/95, Macroman trade
sysop TRADERS PARADISE, later Therapy and Infect, 03/93, Marwin
sysop DISORDER, 01/95, Mazon music, ex Addonic, 12/92-03/93, Puke
trade, 03/93, Rapid Angel sysop RAPID HOUSE, Rille sysop
IMAGINE, 01/95, Rioter whq code sysop MEDIA CENTRE earlier TOTAL
OVERDOSE, 07/92-07/95, Sleepwalker gfx music, ex Supplex, new
early93, 03/93, Snoopy sysop EAGLES NEST, 01/95, Steam Joakim
Ulfeldt, music, 03/93, Terminator sysop TECHNO CITY, new early93-
03/93, Thug music, 07/92-03/93, Xstaz sysop ICE PALACE, 03/93,
Zendor trade, ex Zeus, new mid91-03/93, Zool sysop ZOOMED REALITY
EHQ, new early93-03/93.
FIN Fuzzray org trade swap, 03/93, Simpson Jonne Hellgren, swap, ex
Dictators, new 08/92-03/93, Supra gfx, 03/93.
NOR Black Angel sysop WONDERLAND, 03/93, Chipdancer swap, 03/93,
Cyntex music, 03/93, Elfin 93, Fake swap, ex Demons Design, new
early93-03/93, Fizban code gfx, 03/93, Icebyte gfx, 05/93-94,
Mandrake music, 03/93, Mirandir, Mr.Nico gfx sysop ATLANTICA,
03/93, Nethead gfx, 93, Of Course gfx, 03/93, Ray org code,
03/93, Spector code music, 03/93, Tee Djay code, 03/93, Vip
Lasse, code, 03/93.
SWI Ipsos late91, Silence code, ex Chronos, new late91.
GER Tripex ex Coma.
FRA Monty, Pats.
CAN Diskomate sysop NO LIMITS, 03/93, Suicidal Angel trade, 03/93.
??? Cee Dee swe? music, 07/92, Chrome gfx, 94, Duke 12/91, Lord
Wimsey swe? gfx, 03/93, Stix ex Chaos, new late91, Tripwire gfx,
93, Tweeter ex Relax, new mid91.
Boards PSYCHOTIC ASYLUM swe, 03/93, A DIFFRENT WORLD swi.
Equinox was a swedish based demo group, under the leadership of coder and
later sysop Rioter. Rioter, the original coder and editor of the European
Top 20 also coded the Tequila Chart for Complex and The DoodlesShock
see Complex entry for reviews. Please note that I am not 100 certain that
the board Rioter sysops is TOTAL OVERDOSE, its just my conclusion based
on elimination.
1991 - Dragnet sold his Amiga and bought a synth in september. The French
section was kicked out late in the year. Coder Wilderness left the Amiga
scene late in the year. Master Freez joined The Special Brothers late 91.
French sysop Captain Kirq had a visit from the Police, and therefore found
it safest to close his board and leave the scene late 91. Enigma, Imperator,
Maverick, Skyhawk, Starwars, Stormbringer, The Ace, The Invisible and Zorlac
were all kicked late 91. Finnish musician Stargazer joined from The Special
Brothers in september, but was back in TSB within 2 months confirmed in
november. Finnish sysop Dope MOTOWN left between october and november.
1992 - The Finnish section left to form a new group called Stellar early
in the year. Saurons pictre Beauty and the Beast won the graphics
competition at The Gathering 92 in april!
1993 - European Top 20 4 01/93 was released in january. Swedish
Phrasher ex Dictators, new 08/92 left the scene, while 6pack and Lecter
traders joined Fairlight early in the year. Two important releases came in
march the musicdisk Sonical Fantasia 03/93 and European Top 20 5
03/93. Danish musician Reggae left mid 93.
1994 - Swedish musician D-Luxe released the CD Physiology together with
Lizardking/Razor 1911 in 1994.
Finnish musician Mog old handles Metronome and McGee, 03/93 joined
Delicious.
Disk joined Silver Productions.
Danes Roscoe and Subra joined Razor 1911.
Swedish sysop Silencer REPULSE, 03/93 joined TRSI.
Swedes Valiant code, Avenger music, Fatal, Magnum gfx, new early93
and Wizard joined Defiance.
Swedes Jackpot swap, Electro code swap, ex Dictators, new 08/92 and
Breeze music, ex Megaman/Dictators, new 08/92-03/93 all joined Desire.
Norwegian swapper Messiah ex Destiny joined Banana Dezign.
Finnish swapper and trader Darky 03/93 joined Parallax.
Graphician Disc joined Rebels new.
Swedish sysop V-Cut TRADERS ISLAND, then ZOOMED REALITY, ex Majic 12
joined Addonic. The board later returned from Addonic, with a new sysop
Zool!
Syndrome joined Sonic.
Norwegian graphician Sauron moved from Norway to Denmark, and joined Static
Bytes RAW4 in order to be member of a group closer to where he was.
English graphician Opus 03/93 joined The Silents.
French musician Zorglub 09/91 joined Analog, probably as early as 1991 or
1992.
So What 1991, ECS Demo.
Hydrocephalus pre 1992, .07, ECS File.
European Top 20 issue 1 1992, .07, ECS Filemag.
code/editor: Rioter, gfx: Jonez, music: Thug, Cee Dee.
European Top 20 issue 2 1992, .09, ECS Magchart.
code/editor: Rioter, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
European Top 20 issue 3 1992, .11, ECS Magchart.
code/editor: Rioter, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
European Top 20 Special Issue 1 1992, .12, ECS Magchart.
code/editor: Rioter, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Information: Special The Party 2 report issue!
European Top 20 issue 4 1993, .01, ECS Magchart.
code/editor: Rioter, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Sonical Fantasia 1993, .03, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk.
code: Rioter, gfx: Opus and Tripwire title, Opus font, Lord Wimsey
loading logo, Jonez additional, music: Breeze, D-Luxe, Thug, Steam.
review: SF opens with a fullscreen title picture while loading, before we
launch into the main menu to the first bars of the first tune presented
here. This is very nicely oldskool-style designed. An Equinox logo by
Jonez resides at the very top of the screen, in shades of blueish grey,
looking anything but exciting. At the bottom of the screen, a bar with
five clickable icons appear, and each icon can be clicked more than once
for additional information. All the space between these two are occupied
by a texplotter/music selector, presented in a one-plane blue color
overlaid on a 3d starfield. Its simplistic, but - damn - it works The
text that is choosable with the icons is not really very interesting, and
the main thing to attract anyone to this release is probably the music,
which in all honesty is pretty good. D-Luxe has three tunes in this
collection, and his tunes reminds us heavily of something Phenomena
members would make polished synth-pop with nice melodies but perhaps
lacking a little soul. Breeze also has three tunes here, and I like his a
little more. They roughly follow the synth-pop tradition also, but the
addition of a little more experimental bass and leads makes them more
interesting to me. Thug has just a single tune in this collection, but his
Forever Lost is to me the best tune of the bunch. Others might feel
differently, I dont know Steams tune is also synth-pop with a techno
edge, with an upbeat theme, and instruments that sounds like they were
stolen from Lizardking!
The tunes included in the collection are Infinite, Calm and
Universal Dreams II by D-Luxe, Forever Lost by Thug, Honey Nut Loop,
The Blue Dune and Walking Lonely by Breeze, and finally Losing The
Baluns by Steam.
A secret part can be accessed by pressing the right mouse button while
loading. This part - code Rioter, gfx Budweiser, music Breeze - is hardly
a showstopper, with its slightly sexist imagery and squeaky chiptune, but
at least contains a long scrolltext p In it, Rioter announces he has
landed a job coding games with graphcs by Jonez for Black Legend
Software, if anyone can tell us what game he worked on there wed
appreciate it... It also says march 93, which is the closest to real
release date we could find on this disk!
This review was made possibly with the use of Stingray/Darkages fixed
version, released on the 18th of august 2001. I was slightly disappointed
by the lack of documentation for this release, but it works just
wonderfully so why worry? Thank you again Stingray for another wonderful
fix! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
European Top 20 issue 5 1993, .03, ECS Magchart.
code/editor: Rioter, gfx: Supra, music: LuciaRock!! by Breeze.
review: Graphically appealing, the swedish answer to the Eurochart is at
first look a competent little mag. The first thing youll think, however,
is definitely that this looks a lot like the Eurochart... Theres the
obligatory charts, a gallery section and the mag part. The biggest
difference, parhaps, is that this one is a little more geared towards the
illegal part of the scene. The magpart is fair, and about par with the
later releases of the EC. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Needs KillAGA!
The Beast of Prey 1993, 30.05, Demo.
10th in the The Computer Crossroads 93 demo competition.
In A Dream 1994, early, ECS File.
code: Rioter, gfx: Icebyte, Chrome, Opus, Disc, Supra, D-Luxe, Jonez,
music: Loxley.
Closed Apart 1994, 03.04, Demo.
11th in The Gathering 94 demo competition.
Technical Input 1994, 28.12, Wild.
7th in The Party 4 wild demo competiton.
info: Presented on an A4000.
Hydrocephalus II 1995, 14.04, Demo.
4th in The Gathering 95 demo competition.
10 Years of Fun File.
code/gfx: VipnRay, music: Cyntex.
Released for the miniparty of the same name in Trondheim, Norway.
review: Not even fast on my machine! I dont know why the routines in
this production are so slow - Ive seen some of these running at
respectable speed on unexpaned A1200s! Theres the usual mapping,
shading, bumpmapping and the like, all set to a frantic underground
techno tune. I wont even go into that, hehe : The graphics, as such,
limit themselves to a raytraced introduction logo. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Eremation ERM, http://www.barbat.de/nb/
FRA Brainwasher Pascal Weitten, org code gfx, 06/92-09/97, Ferdinand
music, 09/97, Photo Nicolas Foltzenlogel, gfx, 08/92-09/97, Skull
Didier Sauger, swap trade, 09/97.
GER Dire Nico Barbat, swap trade edit, 06/96-09/97.
NOTMEMBSANYMORE:
FRA Axis music, 05/94, Fireblade code, 09/93-06/96, Lost music,
Mercure ex End of Century 1999, Sigma 909 sysop BOOMING SUPPORT.
GER Eldorado swap.
NOR Bright Brick music, 08/92, Bullet Proof, Shade.
FIN Albin, Optic, Zon org swap.
SWE Chimera swap, ex Quartz.
??? Agatron fra? gfx, 08/92, Iceman, Jeff code gfx, 06-08/92, Parallax
music, 08/93, Paranoiak fra?, ex End of Century 1999, Speedy code,
06/92.
Eremation is a French based demo group, without any real accomplishments to
show for themselves. They continually keep a pretty high standard for their
releases, but nothing ever seems to be extraordinary. AFAIK theyve never
won a single demo competition.
1991 - Invisible joined The Flashing Bytes mid 91.
1992 - Thor sysop, Roland sysop, Nutcase music and Visage gfx were
all members of the finnish division for a while in early 92, before the last
three left to join the newly formed finnish section of Deadline. Dont know
what happened to Thor. Norwegian Massive left 08/92.
German swapper Speedhawk joined TSB.
Arbitrium, Arcatronic, Creon, Sensei and Picaroon joined Vogue.
Intro 1992, early, ECS Intro.
code: NewLook, gfx: Shade, music: Bright Brick.
Beerfriend Meet 1992, .06, ECS Fileslideshow.
code: Speedy, gfx: Cash/Mentasm, Jeff, Brainwasher, music: n/a.
Testing It 1992, .08, ECS File.
code: Jeff, gfx: Cash/Mentasm, Brainwasher, Photos, Agatron, music:
Bright Brick.
Braintro 1993, .01, ECS Intro.
code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, Cash/Mentasm, music: Sound Aestesis/NGC.
Nuts 1993, .04, Intro.
code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, Gremlins/Hypnos, music: Xtd/Mystic.
14k Intro 1993, .06, Intro.
code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, music: Chip Modules.
Adtro 1993, .08, Intro.
code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, music: Parallax.
Outlaw issue 1 1993, 04.09, Diskmag.
code: Fireblade, gfx: Photos, Brainwasher, music: n/a.
Released at Saturne 93.
Trashcan Compatible 1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
15th in The Party 93 40k intro competition.
Kin BBS Intro 1994, .02, Intro.
666 1994, 22.04, Intro.
code: Brainwasher, gfx: Photos, music: n/a.
Released at the Saturne Party II 94.
Outlaw issue 2 1994, .05, Diskmag.
code: Fireblade, gfx: Photos, music: Axis, editors: Brainwasher,
Fireblade.
Rage! issue 1 1996, .06, ECS Filemag.
code/editor: Brainwasher, gfx: Geist/Gods main, Photos title,
music: Ferdinand.
review: Well, Eremation are certainly right when they announce that
this is the first diskmag thats BORN DEAD. They announce that this is
both the first and the last issue to be released! First impressions
are quite good, with design thats subtly different, nice clipart and
a colorful title picture.
Now for some serious criticism: What the fucks the point of making
your mag multitask if its gonna take ALL of your rastertime, probably
using some infinite loop that keeps eating those cycles!? This is the
height of idiocy. All the good things about a system friendly mag such
as this - useless. For the record, RAGE! means Review All Great
Events. Yeah, and use all the goddamn rastertime no matter what
processor were running on. RAGE!AUATGRNOMPWRO! glenn
Erotic Design ERC, -1997
POL Cook doublememb Define, late96.
FIN Mice Mikko Ahola, swap, late97.
??? Cadmus gfx, Elmek music swap, Ike code gfx, Pila ex Convex
doublememb, new 06/96.
1997 - Artworks Generation 24 04/97 reported that Enter code,
11/96 left for Scum, that FML joined Scum as a doublemember, that Yappi was
kicked and left the scene, that polish MTC/Illusion music joined and that
polish Timer triplememb Define and Squeezers was kicked.
Polish members Informer, Flapjack music swap, ex Convex
doublememb, new 06/96, Cooper code, doublememb INF, 11/96, FML music,
11/96, Carson and Rappid gfx, ex Depth, new late96 all left for Appendix
early in the year. The King Pawl Witek, swap, ex Old Bulls, new 04/96,
Misha code and MTC ex Illusion left the group and the scene. Amiflash
left for Nah Kolor. According to EuroChart 31, the group died late 1997.
Erotica 1996, 23.06, Demo.
3rd in the Polish Summer Party 96 demo competition.
The Black 1996, 10.11, 64k Intro.
code: Enter, gfx: Cooper, music: FML The Player 6.1A format.
7th in the Gravity 96 64k intro competition.
review: Erotic delivers an intro of acceptable quality, with some fine
graphics by Cooper, but mediocre coding from Enter. It seems time has run
off from Enter a little, seeing as the effects he presented here were most
hot three years or more ago... Get this for Coopers work, though - its
top notch!
The intro seems to leave the system back badly after exiting the intro
my machine gurued after a few seconds. The intro was the first thing I
ran, after booting up, so theres no doubt who the culprit was. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Errors, The
1990 - Norwegian graphician Bustman joined Crusaders in june.
Error Team
Sinds 1994, 13.11, Demo
13th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition.
E.S.A. 1988-
SWE Norton 10/89.
ESA was formed in the middle of june 1988. They are around 20 people in
Sweden, Norway and the UK.
Escape -1990
Escape is dead. First, the main coder in Germany sold his amiga. Then, the
German members joined Titanics at the CeBit 03/90 and some others joined
Success and Prime Evil. The Swiss members joined Piranhas. The Norwegian
members are reportedly doing something for their own...
ESG-242
??? Madokan code gfx, Power Rai music, Rockeronic music.
Antro ECS Intro.
code: Madokan, gfx: Madokan, Cube/Arise, music: Power Rai.
City at Night ECS File.
code/gfx: Madokan, music: Rockeronic.
Eskimoes ESK
GER Boomer sysop THE IGLOO earlier X-TEC, 03-11/93, Cyclon gfx,
03-11/93, Major Bandit 11/93, Rosine 11/93.
??? Crush code, 03/93, Demon code, 03/93, Taroz music, 03/93, Venom
ex Desert.
Fademan left the scene.
Greentro 1993, 12.03, ECS Intro.
code: Crush, gfx: Cyclon, music: Taroz.
Computer Crossroads 93 Slideshow 1993, mid, ECS Slideshow.
code: Crush, gfx: Cyclon, music: Taroz.
BBS-Tro The Iglu 1993, 22.03, ECS Intro.
code: Demon, gfx: Cyclon, Taroz, music: Taroz.
Essence ESC, 1992-, http://www.s-sense.de/
GER Chromag Timm Albers, music, ex Dual Crew, Dascon Bernd Hoffmann,
music, ex Iris, later TRSI, 12/97-01/98, Dodger Daniel Koschera, swap
pack, new 94-95, Excess Bjoern Barnekow, raytrace, ex Rebels, Howie
swap, ex Agnostic Front, 12/93, Poldi music, ex TRSI, old handle
Blackthorne, Rahiem Frank Meister, org swap, ex Universal Soldiers,
Slam Andreas Melchert, swap pack Broken Tankard, ex X-Trade, Slicer
Michael Schroeder, swap pack Brainfood, ex Delicious, old handle
Fancy, Touchstone Thomas Jansen, org code, ex Delicious, 04/99,
Virgill music, triplememb Artwork and TRSI, new 94-01/97, WOTW
music, ex The Silents, later Haujobb, 08-12/93.
MAL Mop Noel Baldacchino, edit, ex Alcatraz, new 02/94-97.
SWE Phase Torbjrn Malmer, gfx, ex Spaceballs.
SPA Lantium ex Goblins, doublememb Network, new late97, Phornee ex
Goblins, doublememb Network, new late97.
??? Momo gfx, 03/97, Storm ger? swap, ex DCS.
Essence was formed by several ex-Delicious members. Their two biggest
assets are probably their coder Touchstone, and their diskmag ROM and its
editor Mop. Mop joined from Alcatraz in february 1994 since he wasnt
content with the way the diskmag he was editor for there, Compass, was
heading. The first issue of ROM was released in August of 1994. Nowadays
Mop also volunteers time as a coeditor of the PC diskmag Imphobia, from
issue 12 onwards.
1995 - Around the middle of the year, they recruited german musician
Blackthorne from TRSI, who soon changed his handle to Poldi and contributed
music to ROM 5 - the very issue where his joining was announced.
1996 - After persuading two famous artists of times past musician Chromag
and graphicians Gfx-Twins to return to the scene under their wings during
1996 they strengthened their German section considerably. They further
boosted their abilities with the recruitment of the entire French Skarla
crew in the late months of the year. Their demo Makaveli 12/96 reached
the second place at The Party 1996, which was the highest placing of an
Essence demo ever. Having lost them some time later, we can still say they
played an important part in building Essences good name.
1997 - The end of 1997 saw Essence recruiting their first ever Spanish
members the two remaining active guys from the old Spanish group Goblins.
These two simultaneously joined Network, to still have roots in the Spanish
scene.
1999 - Touchstone contributed to Haujobbs winning demo Mnemonics
04/99 at the Mekka Symposium 2k-1.
Swedes Frame gfx and Origo code ended their double memberships, and
withdrew back to C-Lous late97/early98, since they felt they could not
contribute anything to the group.
After releasing their last demo for Essence, Thug Life 03/97 the four
frenchmen Horus 3D, Jamie code, Marvin music and Norm gfx decided
to join Mystic ROM9. The four had joined from Skarla, and also released
the memorable demo Makaveli 12/96 for Essence.
German swapper Elric Carsten Henkelmann, ex Speedhawk/Rebels left the
scene.
German coder-raytracer Cueball Dirk Jager joined from Rebels with Excess,
but soon after decided to leave the Amiga scene for the PC.
German coder team Zulu Grey ex Rebels left. After a few months of scene
inactivity they joined Crux Design.
Dutch coder Infant ex Facets Pussy/Desire and the Norwegians Christian
Meland music sysop DREAMSTATE/ENIGMA WHQ, doublememb Spaceballs and
Tim were asked to leave the group. This means that the only non-German
member is now Mop. This would later change, of course. Anyone know what
happened to the third Norwegian, coder Sunjammer? Infant joined Session
12/95.
German musician Andy Andreas Dubois, ex Nuance, 12/94-95 decided to leave
the Amiga scene to concentrate more on his career as a musician in
Anarchy PC. He was news editor of ROM upto issue 5. Years later, in late
1997, he returned to the Amiga as a member of his old group Nuance.
Main organizer P aka Powerswap S. Paschart, ex Delicious has decided to
leave the scene. Touchstone is the new organizer.
German graphicians D-Sign ex The Silents, 12/93-94 and the Gfx-Twins
Calvin Golowski and Arthur Skotnik, ex Universal Soldiers, 95-96 left
the scene in favour of game graphics. This is not strictly true anymore,
since the Gfx-Twins have now made a comeback in Scoopex!
Covert Action Team CAT Groo and Rufferto, 12/93 and musician Dascon,
all ex Delicious, decided to leave the scene. Ofcourse, Ruffertos work
lives on in the form of the ROM fonts... : Dascon regained scene
inspiration in late 97, and rejoined Essence after a short stay in Iris!
German celebrity graphician Fade One Martin Sauter, ex Lego, new 94 left
the scene.
German coder Roman Roman Kaczmarczyk, ex Agnostic Front, 12/93 left the
scene. Roman worked on Cardiac Arrest 92 and A.S.S. 93.
Cardiac Arrest 1992, ECS Intro.
code: Roman, gfx: Groo Rufferto, music: Folklore by WOTW 4ch MOD
format.
review: Just a nicely designed intro, nothing else... Theres only one
main routine, a dot-cube that stretches, which isnt that much. OK.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
Dreaming 1992, .12, ECS 1MB File.
code: Touchstone, gfx: Groo Rufferto, music: DcnDreamteam.Final by
Dascon 4ch MOD format.
review: Cool first dentro from Essence. Good effects, cool graphics.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
A.S.S 1993, ECS Trackmo.
code: Touchstone, Roman, gfx: Groo Rufferto, music: Dascon, WOTW.
info: An HD installer for this demo is available on AmiNet in
games/patch, of all places.
Meeting Intro 93 1993, ECS Intro.
code: Touchstone, gfx: Groo Rufferto, music: Dascon.
review: Not terribly exciting Im afraid. Its a scroll-selector, a
scrolltext, and a whole load of glenz-objects on the background.
Obviously made mostly for messages, its not the worst of its type.
Selecting Groo Ruffertos scroll displays their 3rd-ranked picture
from The Party 92. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
D 1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Touchstone, gfx: D-Sign, music: WOTW.
2nd in The Party 93 40k intro competition.
review: Once again Touchstone shows his flair for design. This one
doesnt contain anything revolutionary, but the way it is all put
together sets it out as a good intro. Nice and cute. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA helps.
Meeting Intro 94 1994, ECS Intro.
code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade One, D-Sign, music: Dascon.
review: Ahh, cute! I seem to remember hearing that tune before
somewhere... Text-writer with moving background. Cool opening logo by
Fade One. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ROM issue 1 1994, .08, ECS Trackloaded Diskmag.
INT - code: Roman, gfx: Covert Action Team, Nose/Jetset logo, music:
Covert Action Team.
MAG - code: Touchstone, gfx: Covert Action Team main, D-Sign welcome,
music: ROM Theme by Dascon, Weird Personalities by
Lizardking/Razor 1911, rditor: Mop.
review: ROM kicks off in style, with three fabulous full screen
pictures from the Covert Action Team CAT, and a suitably heavy tune
to accompany a kickin intro. The mag itself doesnt do much worse,
opening with a great lego man by D-Sign.
The first picture seen in the intro is called Ambush, already
released once before, for the graphics competition at The Party 3.
There, it was released under the fictious name of Artcore/Essence,
since CAT had already delivered one picture for the competition
S.E.X, which came 6th. Ambush came 40th. Lizardkings tune Weird
Personalities was later re-used in the Razor 1911 musicdisk Memorial
Songs II 01/95.
A kickdown to KS 1.3 was required to get the mag working on my
setup. After this, the mag worked beautifully - without it, it didnt
even get to the intro. The mag itself seems well coded, apart from a
few obvious glitches here and there. I strongly doubt I have 717 MBytes
of chip memory, Touchstone...and I DO have an MMU, no matter what
your mag says! The release date is an estimate, based on information
contained in the mag. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review!
ROM issue 2 1994, .12, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade One Uno titlepic, music: Depths by
Interphace/Andromeda, Cranky Phonecalls by Chromag/RebelsPolka, What
is a Cable? by Virgill/Essence, editor: Mop.
review: Theres certainly nothing wrong with the audio-visuals of ROM 2.
It opens with a stonking title picture by Fade One and legendary Uno,
showing a rather offensive shark. Very nice. The tunes are all okay too,
though Interphaces has the edge. VERY good, with a distinctive beat and
a certain groove factor.
Content-wise, ROM has always been one of the best mags, so theres not
really any reason not to download it and check it out... NOW! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip 4mb fast/3.0 -- note: Highly unstable.
Lost Carrier BBS Intro 1994, 28.12, ECS Intro.
code: Touchstone, gfx: Cooper/Anarchy PC logo, music: SMT/Haujobb.
Released at the Party 94, in cooperation with Lego.
review: It opens with a raytraced logo, and from then on its a standard
intro, complete with background and text writer. Still, like most Essence
prods, nice design. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ROM issue 3 1995, .03, ECS Multifile Diskmag, 2 disks.
code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade One panel, clip, Gfx-Twins welcome,
Rufferto fonts, music: Whales Forever by MeloDee, Join The
Microcosm by Virgill, Musical Empire by Christian/Spaceballs, editor:
Mop.
review: The third issue of ROM was the first with a multitasking code.
This meant an almost total recoding of the mag, and the first version
released had several severe bugs, forcing Touchstone to release a fix
soon after. Contentwise ace. Graphically ace. Musically: out of sp-ace
Though the package available on AmiNet does not contain it, the
original release contained an intro by Sonik Clique. MeloDees tune was
previously released at the Dooms Day Party 94 competition. That version
claimed a fixed version would be out later maybe this tune is it? glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ROM issue 4 Intro 1995, mid.05, AGA Intro.
code: Touchstone, gfx: CAT, D-Sign, music: Virgill and Blackthorne.
review: Another nice Essence release, this intro 550k is cute.
Theres funny graphics, funny code and a fun tune. What more to say?
Text synchronised to the did I mention it was fun? music indicate some
headlines, and thats it. OK for what it is. Not released with the mag
in the distribution on AmiNet, and therefore reviewed separately. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ROM issue 4 1995, mid.05, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade One panel, Dwel/Desire welcome, Rufferto
fonts, Eye/Gloom clip, music: Chromag Stairways, TJM Majestic and
BrainBug/Talent Sincerely Yours, editor: Mop.
review: This issue of ROM opens with a picture of a pigs face, no less!
This one came out so soon after the last one, its most probably a world
record in release speed! Not much has changed in the looks department
due to popular demand theyve even used the great, colorful control panel
by Fade One a second time! The opening tune by Chromag is nice, calm and
sounds very professional - especially the fill-ins sound cool. Its also
a very nice gesture of the ROM team to allow a virtually unknown musician
from the UK, TJM, contribute with a tune. Majestic is also a calm tune
that creates a warm and fuzzy atmosphere. BrainBug delivers one of his
trademark funky guitar tunes, which is also a winner! So overall, ROM
scores top marks yet again in the audio-visual department.
The contents of ROM4 are certainly up to the usual standard, and
contain all the usual making of, news and debate articles.
I particularly enjoyed the articles about TRSIs history, Artwork, and
the making of Greenday. As usual, ROM is VERY Rewarding. The release date
is approximate, based on things written in the mag. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
The Malta Intro 1995, 09.07, ECS? 40k Intro.
code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade 1, music: Chris Meland.
3rd in the Somewhere In Holland 95 intro competition.
review: A big disappointment, this, from a quality coder like Touchstone.
It looks like it was put together in a real hurry, with not enough time
to put the thing decently together. Its real short, with two digitized
bw pictures both of which are totally unnecessary, and two effects a
voxel landscape which I suspect is supposed to be Malta and a tunnel/
dungeon effect which could have been done MUCH better. I guess this was
put together in honour of Mop, but I think Touchstone could have done him
much better justice by not releasing it! glenn
ROM issue 5 1995, .08, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade 1 welcome, panel, Rufferto fonts, music:
Hard Sun by Poldi Virgill, Postludium by Brainbug/Talent, editor:
Mop.
review: This will sound like Im repeating myself, but theres not really
much to say about ROM except its excellent as always. The articles are
interesting, the musics cool especially Postludium! and the graphics
are totally stunning! Im constantly amazed by what Fade1 can do in so
few colors... Looking at this mag, you can clearly see how he became one
of the most respected painters out there!
This issue is their one year jubilee issue, by the way. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
CrazySexyCool 1995, 28.12, AGA File.
code: Touchstone, gfx: Louie/Insane, music: Virgill.
5th in The Party 5 demo competition.
review: I have only one thing to say about this: WOW! This is one of the
closest things yet to a perfect production! The code is top-notch, with
good, advanced, good-looking effects there are four great pictures
especially Sexy! by Louie now in TBL, and the music is simply groovy!
Do I need to draw you a picture? DOWNLOAD! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ROM issue 6 1996, early, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
code: Touchstone, gfx: TeeVan/Axis welcome, Phase/Spaceballs panel,
Sumaleth/independent clip, Rufferto fonts, music: Funky Elements by
Marc/Sector 7, Funky Dog by Jam Spoon/indep, editor: Mop.
review: The first things that strikes you with the sixth issue of ROM is
the nice title picture of mens faces carved in stone by TeeVaan, and the
incredible groooove of Jam Spoons cool tune! Its so groovy, in fact,
that it kept me from getting into the mag for the first couple of minutes
just because I was busy listening! I actually have one slight thing that
irritates me a little the panel graphics in this issue is actually the
worst theyve ever had! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Brainbow 1996, 05.04, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Touchstone, gfx: Fade 1, music: Virgill.
2nd in The Gathering 96 40k intro competition.
review: This is a good intro, and its not hard to see why it made it to
second place. Theres the usual shading/reflective mapping toruses, but
what sets it apart is the design, which has always been Touchstones
strongest point. A good one. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ROM issue 7 1996, mid to late, ECS Multifile Diskmag, 2 disks.
code: Touchstone, gfx: Sumaleth clipart, Gfx Twins welcome pic,
design, Rufferto fonts, music: Kulissit by Muffler/Nah Kolor, Milk
by Radix/Balance, Nose Hole by Virgill/EssenceArtwork, editor: Mop.
review: Ahh, Radix module is divine! Sorry, getting a bit sidetracked,
as usual. I just wanted to express how thrilled I am about the second
module on this diskmag. Hooray, scene musician rediscovers funk and
melody, puts intricate beat down in favour of a nice tune! Amazing!
This almost makes all those soulless techno beats worth it.
Ok, the mag itself. Its the same ROM, with the same quality articles.
Perhaps not as much of immediate interest as with the next issue, 8, but
still quite a lot to sink your teeth into. What can I do with an issue of
ROM but recommend it? glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ROM issue 8 1996, late, ECS Multifile Diskmag, 2 disks.
code: Touchstone, gfx: Cyclone/Abyss welcome, Sumaleth main clips,
Acryl clips, Fade 1 clips, Gfx-Twins design, music: Return of the
Kulissit by Muffler/Nah Kolor, Asettelumalli by Andy/Banal Projects
Azazel/TBL, and Love Will Come by Poldi, editor: Mop.
review: An issue of ROM is always a pleasure to read, and this is
certainly no exception. You can always find some interesting article
here, and theres lots of relevant information for the Scenery editor
to incorporate into his amazing little collection of text files... :
Seriously, the mag is very good. The code seems very system friendly,
happily multitasking with the rest of my system. As a matter of fact,
Im running it in the background right now! Now, from the good to the bad
of this system: The mag doesnt release the audio channels when you turn
off the music, which means you cant run another player HiP : in the
background, playing a tune of your choice. Unnecessary, Touchstone!
The graphics are nice and functional, though not outstanding. I still
remember the images that came with some of the early issues of R.A.W, and
I doubt if Ill remember any of the images in ROM 8 in three years.
Theres three tunes to choose from, neither of which really held my
interest. Theyre just my kind of music, but the excellent code doesnt
make that a problem, so why am I complaining? The mag is laid out in such
a way that it can just as easily be run from floppy as from your HD.
There are two data files in addition to the main executable, which means
that you place the second executable on a separate disk to run from
floppy. To conclude, its a very very good mag. Its strong points - the
best articles - are the behind the scenes stuff, like Azazel talking
about the music for Tint hes right - the first tune does suck : and
the very knowledgable Sumaleths graphics reviews. To my mind, he writes
a whole lot more interesting than Facet ever did for R.A.W! But what am I
keeping you for? Go download this from somewhere and leave me alone so I
can read the rest of it! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Virgill Dreams 1996, late, AGA 4MB Multifile Musicdisk, 3 disks.
code: Touchstone, gfx: Phase, music: Virgill.
review: If youre into some seriously weird heavy metal tunes, with a
depressing touch, then this is the music disk for you. Those poems arent
exactly cheerful are they, Virgill? This is AFAIK Phases first
production for his new team. I know Im certainly looking forward to his
next one : The best thing abou this musicdisk, though, is undoutedly
the intro. Its nothing amazingly wow, but you cant do anything but
bow your head to Touchstones amazing env- and bumpmapping routines.
Coolness doesnt half cover how great these look, but you get the idea :
After the intro is finished, the selector itself actually multitasks
quite happily. To be quite honest, Im running it in the background
right now, listening to the tunes while Im typing this. This is
certainly the way to do it! VD can be run from floppy if so is desired.
It is called a christmas present in the info text, suggesting perhaps a
december release - at The Party even? glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Makaveli 1996, 28.12, AGA File.
code: Jamie, gfx: Norm, Horus, music: Marvin The Player 6.1A format.
2nd in The Party 96 demo competition.
review: The impressive thing about Makaveli is its SPEED. Sure, weve
seen objects shaded, mapped, raped and abused before, but never this
fast! Geez, these objects FLY around the screen! Its rare to see such a
good, advanced demo from someone youve never even heard of before - like
these new Essence members. Another thing that strikes me is the palette
choices. These objects are COLORFUL, and the same KIND of colors seem to
go as a red thread throughout the entire demo. Not the same colors as
such, just similar, which gives it a specific atmosphere. An orange
atmosphere, but still... Just some of the things you get to see is a high
quality fullscreen zoomrotator with stretching, a colorful tunnel, about
6 simultaneous spacecut Z-Buffer shaded objects and a couple of really
cool objects that I havent seen before, like a rabbit thank god! If I
ever see another yellow duck... and a man-in-the-moon figure.
The music is strange, but then again it would have to be. All good
demos have music which is only classifiable by the guy who made it.
Its tradition among Amiga demos, and its been with us ever since the
very first trackmo, Scoopex Mental Hangover 04/90. Oh god, that was a
great tune... Ehrm, getting a little sidetracked here, aint I? Anyway,
Makaveli. Its good. Download it. Im off to find the M.H. agafix.
No information on whether this requires fastmem, perhaps 4mb? glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ROM issue 9 1997, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
INT - code: Prospect, Origo t-mapper, Scout c2p, gfx: Frame design,
Claw objects, music: Soul/Movement.
MAG - code: Touchstone, gfx: Louie/TBL welcome, Frame/C-Lous panel,
Sumaleth clip, Alex/Corrosion clip, Nope Dope/Pas Master clip,
Rufferto fonts, music: In Your Eyes by Marc/Syndrome, Vincents
Car by Revisq/Anadune, Elixir by Marvin/Mystic, Somewhat Rusty
by Deelite/Balance, editor: Mop.
review: Another issue of ROM is here, this time with an intro by C-Lous.
Its a quite remarkable little intro, actually, since it almost success-
fully combines the shaded object intro with the art intro! It cant
really be described easily in my limited space, but its got great, very
unusual design and a fast envmapped object : Know all you need to now?
Oh, and Soul/Movement does the music - its been QUITE SOME TIME since we
heard from that Swedish musician! Its nice to know hes not abandoned us
altogether...
Then theres the mag itself, of course. The opening article by Mop has
always got a wise word or two, and this ones no exception. His comments
about the amiga scene are spot on, and I noticed we share a lot of the
same thoughts about it. One thing that strikes me is how ROM now suddenly
has 4 modules instead of 3 or 2... In my view this is unnecessary, and
just eats disk space, especially when all 4 modules are as alike as they
are here. All four have a jazzy feel to them, with warm fuzzy instruments.
If I didnt know any better Id think they were all by the same musician!
Please note that Im not complaining about the quality here, just the
quantity : Two modules should always be enough.
Why doesnt a multitasking mag like ROM deallocate the audio channels
when its not playing anything? If youd like to listen to some other
music with HippoPlayer while reading the mag, you cant! From this issue
on, ROM has a www presence at http://ROM.home.ml.org. glenn
GLE teste A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Thug Life 1997, 30.03, AGA 030 Multifile.
code: Jamie, gfx: Norm, Horus, Momo, music: Marvin 2 tunes, The Player
6.1A format. 3rd in the Mekka Symposium 97 demo competition.
review: Jamie is back to prove that Makaveli 12/96 wasnt a one-off
thing - and succeeds in style. Thug Life is even better than his
previous demo, with large, fast 3d scenes and good music! There can be no
doubt that Jamies 3d routines are among the fastest on the scene. This
demo REQUIRES a 030 processor, but the processor-specific optimizations
also show. The 3d environments are further helped by some great textures,
which give most objects a dirty, brown cyberpunky feel. Thug Life is
professional in every respect, and should be in anyones collection.
Simply great. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
E.T.
Hartcore 1993, 08.11, ECS File.
code: E.T., gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Eternity Corp.
??? D-Man ex Armada.
Ethic ETC, http://www.ethic.de
GER Big-Rat Kai Hoepner, mainorg edit, doublememb Abyss early97, later
Nuance, 07/96-02/97, Bitbuster code, 11/96, Cozmo raytrace,
11/96, Frantic raytrace, 11/96, Hawk Hunter hardwaresupply,
11/96, Kit mascot, 11/96, Lucas modemorg sysop TEUTONIC PLACE,
doublememb Lightforce, 11/96-01/97, Madstop code, doublememb Abyss
early97, later Nuance, 07/96-02/97, Magic Max org, 11/96, Meta
music raytrace, 11-12/96, Mr.U code, 11/96, Nero gfx, later
Artwork, 11/96, Tumor raytrace, 11/96.
Ethic is a German-only team, most dedicated to the steady release of their
newsmag, The X-Files. Magic Maxs board was finally closed late 96, and
he is now active only as a funmember.
1996 - Castor music is no longer a member he released a module at
Symposium 96 in april which said Castor/ex Ethic. Stingray was kicked after
some internal problems around april. German musician Pollux left the scene
in june. German coder Cueball sold his Amiga and bought a pc again, so hes
now left the Amiga scene for good. He was then kicked around june. German
graphician Heron was kicked in december.
German musician Mr.Melody 12/94 is no longer a member.
X-Files 7 1996, 01.07, AGA Filemag.
code: Madstop, gfx: SMT/Artwork title, Nero/Artwork main, music: SMT/
Artwork, editor: Big-Rat.
review: Issue 7 was the first one with a coded interface, all previous
editions were just text files. I wont comment too much on the panel or
the handling, since its exactly the same as the one used in issue 13,
reviewed below. The intro picture for this issue is rendered. SMTs music
is also quite adequate. This mag had multitasking right from the very
first issue. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
X-Files 11 1996, .11, AGA Filemag.
code: Madstop, gfx: Odin/Illusion title, Nero/Artwork main, music:
Airon/Phase Distortion, editor: Big-Rat.
review: This issue opens with a moody title picture by Odin/Illusion.
I saw his slideshow Walhalla 11/96 for Illusion, and I didnt like it
that much, but this picture from the foogy morning in the woods is a lot
better. Not bad! I have split feelings about the music...one of the leads
reminds me strongly of 1988, and I cant seem to make up my mind if this
is a good or a bad thing... :0 Editorially, this issue is pretty much
like all the others. Its november and the scene is gearing up for The
Party, but thats about it. Another average issue. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
X-Files 12 1996, 28.12, AGA Filemag.
code: Madstop, gfx: Acryl/AcmeIllusionSession title, Nero/Artwork
main, music: Meta. Released at The Party 6.
review: Nothing exceptional about this release either, its basically the
same old thing. The guest audio-visuals this time is a cosy, christmassy
picture by Acryl, as well as a pretty good tune by Meta. I have nothing
much more to say about this, really... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
X-Files 13 1997, 03.02, AGA Filemag.
code: Madstop, gfx: Raven/Nuance title, Nero/Artwork main,
Madstop, Big-Rat, Chaos!/Desire mainmenufont, music: Hardfire/NGC and
Intense, editor: Big-Rat. Cooperation with Abyss.
review: From this issue on, X-F is a cooperation between Ethic and Abyss,
since coder Madstop and editor Big-Rat joined Abyss as doublemembers.
I started reading the mag, taking notes, but suddenly discovered - by
accident! - that it multitasks quite happily! Thats great Ethic, but Id
like to have been told before I filled half a page with notes Theres
nothing wrong with X-F presentationwise this time either. The only thing
youll need to grow accustomed to is the way you read articles here.
Rather than flip right for the next page and down for the next article,
you flip right for the next article! I was a little confused by this at
first, but soon understood how it worked and after that there were no
problems.
The tune is quite comfortable reading music, in that it does not
irritate and its not dominating enough to draw attention away from what
youre reading. And the title picture by Raven/Nuance is a treat for the
eyes. Overall, this is a good, polished issue. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Euphoria 1990-1991
SWE Wico sysop THE GANGZTER ZONE, 10/90.
NOR Mr.Ice swap, ex Cult, new 12/90.
FIN Larry swap, late90, Voyager code, 91.
??? Bootlegger, Fly, Prince ex Frantic, Shadey, Trashcan ex Prologic,
Zontor.
Boards SURSIK fin.
Euphoria was born late, probably 09 or 10/90, when the group Doom changed
their name. Mr.Ice formed the Norwegian section of Euphoria in december.
1991 - The group died in mid 1991. Some members of Anarchy, Tetragon,
Horizon and all of Euphoria including THE IRON GATE BBS, ex RAF, new mid
91 formed Extreme.
There are no more Swedish or German sections.
The One ex Prologic joined Static Bytes.
TMB Designs ex Prologic joined Kefrens.
Tama ex Prologic joined Anarchy.
Foxhound left.
European Software Agency ESA
SWE Mike The Pike Erik Flodgren.
Evacue
SWE Behemoth music, 08/94, Crilla code, 08/94, Kjsi sysop SEAGREEN,
08/94, Wolf gfx, later X-Trade?, 08/94, Ygram code, 08/94.
Nil: 1994, 07.08, 40k Intro.
code: Ygram, Crilla, gfx: Wolf, music: A Piece of Crap 1 by Behemoth.
23rd in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition.
review: Ehrm. The best part, I guess, is the font which isnt bad.
Im sorry, Evacue, after this were bound to believe att ni r kassa.
And the name of the tune... how true Improve! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Exact
1991 - Phobos joined Byte Busters in the middle of the year.
Exage 1990-
Exage was formed towards the end of 1990 by the groups Pegasus, Death and
Tomcats no entries.
Exceed
SWE Drakemule org gfx, 09/92-94, Motion Lotion gfx, aka Joe The Foe
JTF, 09/92-94, Mike.
??? G.G code, 94.
Exceed were a swedish demo group, likely not related to the later pc demo
group of the same name.
Mosaic - The Works 1991-94 1994, AGA/ECS Slideshow.
code: G.G., gfx: Motion Lotion JTF, Drakemule, music: Deelite/Razor
1911.
review: The bad thing of this little slide is that it starts only from
floppy without any reason of sense. Do not await bombastic pictures, but a
nice multimedia-like menu music and animation of the character e with
cool raytraced clips by Drakemule and some colorful pics by Motion Lotion
alias JTF.
The slide starts with two different pics - one appears only if you have
aga and one if you have disabled enhanced gfx or only have an ECS-Amiga!
At the menu you can choose the pics with LMB and infos about them with
RMB. And you are also able to watch half of them if you dont have AGA.
The music is a bit too dominating for a slideshow but although a good
track! My favorites by Motion Lotion are Mercenario the only real
picture and Carving Good. From Drakemules nice traced clips I like
Cyberspace dolphin jumps in water the most! zito
ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast.
Excellence XLNS
Poltergeist joined D-Mob.
Meltdown ECS File.
Cooperation with Absence, see there.
Excess EXS
SWI Denis swap, doublemember Apex, 12/94.
GER Warlock swap, late90.
Bubble changed his handle to Polygon Window and joined Depth.
Excide
??? Big B music, 08/93, Milkman code, 08/93, Ranx gfx, 08/93.
Intro 1993, 10.08, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Milkman, gfx: Ranx, music: Big B.
6th in the Assembly 93 40k intro competition.
Information: Does not work on A1200.
Excite
AUT Status Quo ex Energy, new late92.
Exhouse
FIN Judge Petri Suutarinen, code, 08/94.
Crap!! 1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro.
code/gfx: Judge, music: n/a.
26th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition.
review: This is a waste of time, just a small logo with some color
effect in it and a textwriter. It finished dead last. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Exile old 1991-
NOR Switch code, 09/91.
SWE Shike.
??? Rad, Systematique, The Bull.
The old Exile has nothing to do with the new ones the identical names
are probably just a result of the new ones not knowing about the existence
of the previous group.
1991 - Norwegian graphician The Edge sold his machine and left the scene
around the middle of the year.
Dragon Bait joined Lunatics.
Norwegian musician Don-Cato joined Talent.
. Partyintro 1991, 29.09, ECS Intro.
code: Switch, gfx: The Edge, music: Melis/Cave NoisePacker 3 format.
Released at the Arendal party.
review: This intro is clearly a case of too much, with lots of effects
thrown onto the screen. It was this groups first ever release, and
unfortunately, it shows. If they can learn the noble art of limiting
themselves, then perhaps they can produce something worthwile, but this
intro is just another lets release something prod. These words are the
ones that are accepted: FUCK, HELP, SWITCH, CODERCHAT, QUIT, CREDITS,
EXILE, SWAP, JOIN, THE EDGE, SHIT. The Edge had already left the scene
when this intro was released.
. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Partyintro 1992, early.
Invitation to The Gathering 1992.
Exile new
??? Fazi music, 08/95, I.F. Piotr Bizunowicz, swap write, 08/95,
Jamer xode 3dgfx, 08/95, Klatek gfx, 08/95, Nim0 Michal Buczko,
code swap, 08/95, Tuner music, 08/95.
The old Exile has nothing to do with the new ones the identical names
are probably just a result of the new ones not knowing about the existence
of the previous group. It is highly probable that most of these guys are
from Poland.
Opal Se Futec 1995, 30.08, 64k Intro.
code: Jamer, Nim0, gfx: Jamer, Klatek, music: Fazi The Player 6.0A
format. Released for the Intel Outside 95 64k intro competition.
review: OSF opens with some good graphics in the introduction, then
shows a fast fullscreen zoomrotator. Next is a texturemapped globe, and
then its pretty much over. The best thing about it, I guess, is the
AMOS error message that appears towards the end, which Im sure was a
fun joke when it was shown on the big screen. This would have benefited
greatly from some improved music. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Exit
USA Comic.
??? Chrome, Coke, Cube, Pacman.
Drumtex joined Cytax.
Norwegian swapper Deathbringer joined Flash Productions.
Quo Vadis? 1990, 28.12, ECS File.
Winner of the Theatre Network Party 90 demo competition!
info: Also known as 3D Demo.
Exodus 1989-1990
FIN The Skum 01/90, Trug crack, ex Animate.
IRL Axl.
Exodus was a finnish demo group, formed by Apol and Ripper in 1989 after
their previous group Deathstar died. It is highly probable that also Sulky
Fellow code and Unknown Artist music went along from Deathstar. Exodus,
in turn, died in june of 1990, after most members Apol, Ripper, Sulky
Fellow, Unknown Artist left to form Image with the entire group Unique and
members of Complex and Gate.
Little Vecs ECS Demo.
Exort
??? Darkman, Dealer, Mac Gil, Power Cult, Quark re from Fate.
Exort is dead.
1992 - Aliex joined Cyborx in september.
Conan joined Epic.
Smash joined Amaze.
German Damion joined End of Century 1999.
Trax and some other members joined Fate.
Jesus P., Kahn, Gonzo, Douglas ex Coast, Exciter and Sali-Adalat ex
Sledgehammers, new mid 91 all joined Awake.
Exotic
Magic joined Unit 4.
Exotic Men
FIN Coltrain, Death, Delsio, Dipsomania trade, 02/93-03/94, ED-209.
Devil was kicked out.
Experience
??? Den code, 01/93, Ender gfx, 01/93, Jazz music, 01/93, Jgl code,
01/93.
Prolog 1993, .01, ECS File.
code: Jgl, Den, gfx: Ender, music: Jazz.
Extacy XTC, 1993-
FIN Perlon code gfx music, 93, Spexx gfx mainorg, 93.
DEN Chronic music, 08/93, Cytron music.
NOR Lord Red gfx, 08/93.
ENG Scimitar code gfx, 08/93.
SWE Altern8 music.
Extacy was a finnish-based demo group, formed by Venom finland, Chronic
denmark and Cytron denmark after leaving Rave. Venom changed his handle
to Spexx around the same time - most probably early 93.
In addition to Lord Red, coder Nastro was a member of the Norwegian
section for a short while. He coded the groups only assembler-intro before
leaving for another group all other productions were in fact coded in AMOS.
English coder Scimitar coded Extacys only demo release ever, Transfusion
08/93. Perlon made a few intros, and released issues of the Subconscious
Terror pack. He also used the handle Blue Nun for a short while before
recerting to his original handle. Eventually the group died away due to
Spexx main organizer inactivity, and the members left the scene or joined
other groups. Cytron eventually joined Depth, while Spexx was later in
Distance, Millenium, Tulou, Outlaws, Nautika and eventually Nah Kolor under
the handle Alvin.
Thanks to Alvin/Nah Kolor and Mermaid/Scoopex/Creators for information.
Broken Sword Intro.
code: Lord Red, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Down the Stairs Intro.
code: Scimitar, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Snottro Intro.
code: Lord Red, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Transfusion 1993, 09.08, demo.
code: Scimitar, gfx: Lord Red, music: Chronic.
8th in the Assembly 93 demo competition.
Extend EXT
FIN Argon music, 08-11/96, Codex, Crom, Dr.Acid, Duke gfx, 08/96,
Duce gfx, 12/93-08/96, Electric gfx, 11/96, Orbis Heikki Pora,
code gfx www, 08-11/96, TBB music, 08/96, Zero code gfx, 08-11/96.
Extend is a finnish demo group, born as an offshoot from the very successful
c64 group. Several of these members are also active cross-platform, doing
both amiga and c64 work simultaneously. Finnish coder Orbis was a member of
Halo 08/94, dont know how he got from there to here Their old homepage,
http://www.hoikka.com/extend/index.html, appears to have gone from the web.
1996 - The group released the 64k intro IFA 08/96 to a disappointing
8th position at the Assembly 96 in august.
Sections 1995, 12.08, 40k Intro.
6th in the Assembly 95 40k intro competition.
Quu 1996, Demo.
Released at Demolition 96.
IFA 1996, 18.08, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Zero, Orbis, gfx: Duce, Loppu, Hoppu, music: Argon.
8th in the Assembly 96 intro competition.
review: Mostly HAM8 effects here, like colorful ripples and the like.
Im sure its hard to code, but its not all that interesting to look at,
Im afraid... And the music or graphics doesnt save it either. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Insane 1996, 18.08, AGA HD 4MB File.
code: Orbis, gfx: Orbis, Duke, music: TBB.
7th in The Assembly 96 demo competition.
review: A little large 4mb filedemo! for what it offers, this is still
a short but sweet production. There are certainly some goodlooking
effects here, like a trip down a wiggly road animation? and a cool
colorful tunnel trip complete with moving lights. The music on this
doesnt appeal to me at all, its just monotonous and irritating. That
bass has actually given me a headache now! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Kiitos? 1996, 23.11, AGA 8MB HD File.
code: Orbis, Zero, gfx: Electric, Orbis, Zero, music: Argon The Player
6.1A format. 5th in the Demolition 96 II demo competition.
review: Kiitos? is a nice production from Extend, with some goodlooking
and colorful effects. Unfortunately, the demo doesnt move too fast on my
machine. The text file mentions an 040/40mhz or better is recommended,
and I have no trouble believing that. Design is adequate though, and
neither graphics nor music gets too much on your nerves. Theres not a
lot of actual drawings here, but what there is is mostly functional.
Overall, Ill have to confess I quite like this, though its quite short
for the filesize 2mb, or 4mb unpacked!
The unpacked demo binary contains the text string VER: Kiitos v0.33
BY Extend 22.11.1996. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Extensors
GER Botex sysop TEKKNOZOID.
??? Zyx code music, 93, Trauma Projects gfx, 93.
Hypnautic Hammer 2 1993, early, ECS File.
code/music: Zyx, gfx: Trauma Projects.
Extreme 1991-
FIN Bootlegger Jan Lindfors, swap, Deshay swap, 92.
??? Hitchcock ex Rebels, Twist music, 08/91.
Boards IRON GATE WHQ usa, ex Euphoria, new mid91.
Some members of Anarchy, Tetragon, Horizon and all of Euphoria formed a
new group called Extreme in the middle of 1991.
1991 - The French division of Extreme is dead. Krom, Postcard, Atwill,
Shup, Clawz 08/91 and Bilbo all joined Delight late 91. Freddox, Fletch
and Fishbone joined The Special Brothers late 91.
Slaine joined Palace.
Barrax joined Brainstorm.
The Finnish division of Extreme is dead. Some members joined Brainstorm.
Exult
GER Daddy-O swap, early92.
??? Lyzanxia late90.
Exult was a mainly German group.
1990 - C. Dawn left for Supreme around may.
Most Exult members joined Endless Piracy mid91.
Jolly Roger Diskmag.
info: Mentioned in the january 1991 edition of Eurochart, so it was most
probably released sometime in 1990. Articles in both English and German.
Exxon
NOR Splash sysop FLAME STRIKE, 10/94, St. Eagle Vidar Lekanger, swap,
94.
??? Mr.X code, ex Sepultura.
Boards KEY STROKE nor.