M.A.D Mutual Assured Destruction -1990
??? Axiom 04/90, Ezekimak, Fisc crack, 03/90, Leaders in Crime crack,
aka LIC, 04/90, Pennywise, Skywalker, Sleeping Bag, Stinger,
Stormlord, The Surge crack.
Boards DEVILS ISLAND WHQ usa, INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS usa, AMIGA EAST
usa, INVOLUNTARY DEATH usa, SLEEPY HOLLOW usa, CRYSTAL PALACE
n-l, PRISM BBS/FORGOTTEN MIND 3 ita, IMAGEWORKS eng.
M.A.D was another one of the better cracking groups, mainly based in France,
who ruled that part of the scene for a while. Their road to death started
after their WHQ presumably DEVILS ISLAND? left for Paranoimia. When they
died in mid 1990 june or earlier!, its members formed a group called
Legend. However, they soon joined the forces of Paradox, another new group
formed by Trilogy together with ex-members of Kefrens and Rebels.
Mad Elks MDE, -1996
POL Alis Piotr Mucha, whqorg gfx swap, old handle Fly, 05-11/93, Dak
Dariusz urkowski, code swap, 05/93, Fli Pawee Flieger, gfx swap,
05/93, Iron org code music swap, ex Invaders, Kopara Krzysztof
Kopczynski, stopswap WHN1, 05/93, Redman Robert Zabiegala, swaphq, ex
Union, Sca Wojciech Szczsny, swap, 05/93, Valdi Waldemar Konik,
code, 05/93, Zielu sysop SILENCE OF THE ELKS.
HUN Messerschmitt swap, ex Surprise! Productions.
ITA Gurgle Mauro Moro, swap, ex Ram Jam.
SWE Zombie swap.
FIN Avenger swap, ex Electra, 93.
NOR Quaid swap, ex Grace.
DEN Vocal music.
FRA Baby org music gfx, Dr.Trans music, Fabrice code.
??? Razorblade ex Cadaver, R.U.R. music, Thieving Magpie code, Xenos
gfx, ex Blaze, Z gfx.
Mad Elks reputation was largely built by their party-winning demo
Technological Death 05/93, which turned a few heads when it appeared.
They also spent a brief period as a subgroup of Mystic. Kopara was the
original organizer, and when he decided to stop that hard worrk in the
early part of 1994, Alis took over organizing. After a long time of
silence, Iron took the reins in 1995 and tried to build the group up to its
previous glory. In doing so, MDE finally exceeded the borders of Poland,
making new members in both Sweden and Germany. However, after Irons
unsuccessful attempt to raise the group, most members left in favour of
other, more productive groups. Mad Elks is therefore dead, around mid 1996.
Polish swapper Action ex Energy, new late95 joined Damage late 95.
Danish swapper Growl did NOT join.
Polish swapper Qwerty ex Investation joined Freezers.
Polish graphician Gunman joined Mystic.
Colorboy joined Outlaws.
Danish guy Tai Pan was kicked.
Coder P.G. Piotr Rgzyboswki, 05/93 got kicked.
Polish swapper Jeremy Wojtek Godlewski, old handle The Cool, doublememb
Mystic, 05/93 left the scene.
Technological Death 1993, .05, ECS Trackmo.
code: Mr. Dak, Valdi, gfx: Fly, Fli, music: Technological, Ballada
and Economy5 by XTD/Union.
Winner of the Mountain Congress 93 demo competiton!
review: One of the first techno demoes, carried largely by its music.
Its got a groovy, thumping beat, and thats where most of the enjoyment
lies with this. Its OK, but the skills of the other participants are
sadly lacking, especially the graphicians. In the scroll they mention
this is their second trackmo. Which was the first? glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- note: Cache OFF, OCS ON.
Polish Autumn Party Invitation 1993, 02.08, ECS File.
code: Dak, gfx: FLI, Xenos, Alis, music: Macinery v.2 by XTD/Union.
Released at the 680xx Convention 1993.
review: An impeccable invitation demo! Theres not a lot to put your
finger on here, its all pretty good. Especially the tune has a great feel
to it, but the design also helps. They mention a secret part, but I
havent been able to find it yet. The demo itself features no release
date, but since the tune is dated .07 and the party is in October, all it
takes is a little math. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- note: Needs KillAGA.
Mad Monks -1989
Black Monks was formed when Black Division and Mad Monks joined forces
under a new name in the beginning of 1989.
Mad Sorcerers MDS
The best members formed Comedy with best members of G-Force.
Madhouse Ware 1991-1991
This new group almost immediately changed their name to Sceptic mid 91.
Mador
Brainiac joined Platin late93.
Mad Sorcerers MDS
Mad Sorcerers died when Comedy was formed by the best members of this group
Zorro, Eksec and G-Force. This was probably adround late 91 or late 92.
Magical Skulls
ITA C-Dj79 music, early96, Chunky Pronzato Roberto, code, early96,
R-Salvy 2 gfx, early96.
Magical Skulls are a small Itaian group, consisting of C-DJ79, Chunky and
R-Salvy 2.
Magic Circle -1989
Magic Circle was a Norwegian demo group, who made some really simple demos
around march and april of 1989. The group ceased to exist when they merged
with Insanity a little later that year to create a new group called Ivory.
Magnetic
??? Eidolon 12/92, Naut Music, 12/93.
Magnetic Fields MF, 1989-1991
ENG Anz gfx, 02/90, Bastard code, 02/90, Blaster org swap, 02/90,
Cosy trade swap, 02/90-06/91, Dextrous code music, old handle Yaz,
02/90, Engineer sysop WHQ, 06/91, Frap swap, 02/90-06/91, Frenzy
gfx, 02/90, Hassle code, 02/90, Hippy trade, 06/91, Hit code,
02/90, JCM swap, 06/91, No. 5 mainorg, 02/90, Opal trade swap,
02/90, Sister Arv gfx 3d, 02/90, Spike music, 02/90, Spook code
music, 02/90.
Magnetic Fields was born in England february 18th 1989, as a merger between
the two groups Sub-Zero and Nitro A.C. They remained an English based group
throughout their existence.
The group arranged an internal party in 1989, and then two proper
parties in 1990, the Select february and Revenge october parties.
1991 - They were reorganized, and all of the best German and English
members formed Digital in the middle of 91. Among the guys that went along
to the new group are No.5, Spook code, Kevin, Duncan and Dextrous. Cosy
joined Anarchy, while Scott ex Panic joined Awesome mid 91. Duncan, Kevin
and Grim joined Digital.
Mahoney Kaktus
Music Disk II - Sounds of Gnome 1989, 17.04, ECS Musicdisk.
code: Mahoney, gfx: n/a, music: Mahoney, Kaktus, Glue Master.
Nitro Pac 1989, mid?, ECS File.
Mainzelmnnchen Productions
Secret Members 1995, 21.05, Demo.
2nd in the Nexus 95 demo competition.
Majic 12 M12
HUN Avantage code, 02/91-04/93, Bit Bat MixMaster 91, Booy-T code
music, 04/93, Dr.Zothyo write, 04/93, Exemplar music, 02/91-04/93,
Jazzy D code swap, 04/93, Mr.Device org write, old handle General
Twining or Twinning, 02/91-04/93, Rising Fly gfx, 02/91, Sinclair
91-04/93, Ultravox code, 02/91, Version 91.
NOR Bez 91, B.I.T Ove Karlsen, music, ex Eon/Cinefex, but who?, Brick
91, Capman swap, 93, Conie music swap, 02/91, Develon code, 91-
04/93, Diver org trade, 91-04/93, Dr.M swap, 02/91, Heavy Mental,
Jehovah gfx story, 02/91, Knight Gran Berg, swap, 91, Mac 91,
Pentagon gfx swap, 02/91, Tactel trade ex? sysop JUNGLE FEVER, ex
Grace, new early92-04/93, TEN Tor E. Nygrd, swap, 93, White Dragon
swap, 04/93, Zent swap, 02/91.
AUS 243 sysop SOUTHERN COMFORT, new ROM3, Act777 CodeGfxMusic,
02/91, Bountyhunter trade, 02/91, Brett gfx, 02/91, Brutus 91,
Byte-Fighter swap, 02/91, Genocide code music, 04/93, Rad:Man 91,
TAL code swap, 02/91-04/93, TV code trade sysop NO-WARE/HAMBURGER
HEAVEN, 02/91-04/93, Xiphoid gfx, 04/93.
DEN Apollo old handle Quarterman, 91, Baby Alf 91, Christian 91,
Jewel swap, old handle Lucas, 04/93, Mosaic 91, Mr.Sax 91, Mud
swap edit Top Secret, 91-04/93, Quarterman 12/91, Thunderbyte
code, ex Deadlock, 04/93.
GER Migth 91, Skaos 91.
UK Cybarite 91, Toxic 91.
SWE Amp music, 04/93, Burton org, 05/92-04/93, Cindy trade, 04/93,
Cruiser Erik Engstrom, swap, aka Shorty, 05/92-04/93, Derelict
music, new 05/92-04/93, Griffin gfx, 05/92-04/93, Hannes code,
04/93, Melly trade, 04/93, Odeon code, later Phenomena, 04/93,
Stacy gfx, 04/93, Sy-Klone ascii sysop TWISTED SOBRIETY EHQ/
earlier MEGABLAST 05/92 and REVOLUTION, 05/92-04/93.
FIN Addict, Axl, Blitzer, Dmc, Gut, Jan, Pits, Ruler trade, stopswap,
Slaverider.
??? Beast gfx, doublememb Impulse 06/96.
Boards CAPTIVE HONOUR swe, CRAZY WORLD swe, EXTREME OVERLOAD swe.
Majic 12 will be remembered mainly for some half-decent demos, and for
their diskmag Top Secret. They also released several acclaimed PC demos,
with the aid of their PC coder Maxwood. These demos also include graphics
by Rack etc., so theyre well worth checking out!
TV has been involved with a LOT of BBSes or just changed the name
frequently, what do I know?. I have a listing for a DAMAGING EVIDENCE
board he cohosted with Revenger.
1992 - Norwegian coder Flesh joined from New Wave around mid 92. The
diskmag Top Secret was handed over to the Danish division, and new editor
is TFG. A Ray of Hope III demo was planned according to Balances Magbox
1 07/92, but never saw the light of day...
1993 - The French section - a.o. Baby Fabien Guerin, org music, 04/93 -
was kicked mid 93. This probably also concerns Hexogen code, Magellan
swap, 04/93, Mwaba gfx, 04/93, Polaris swap, Shean gfx swap,
Thanbatos gfx and Zuul music. Danish editor TFG 91-04/93 left after
finishing Top Secret 15 mid93. Hungarian Zozo will probably be the new
main editor.
Suburban Base was founded 1994 by Swedish ex-members of Majic 12 a.o.
coder-musician Randall old handle Zyx, 05/92-12/93 and Vision.
Hungarian organizer, swapper and sysop Zozo Kozak Zoltan, MYSTERIOUS
ISLAND reopened ROM3/REJTELMES SZIGET, 02/91-04/93 left the scene.
The Norwegian division was kicked, except for Dr.Bully, Heavy Mental and
Vector. Musician Dr.Bully 04/93, the guy responsible for a.o. the
soundtracks to the two Ray of Hope demos, left to join Cadaver PRP4.
Swapper Vector 04/93 was also later kicked, and I do not know what
happened to H.M...
Dali joined Static Bytes and changed his handle to Daae.
Norwegian swapper and trader Razorblade ex Interactive, new mid93 joined
Balance.
Danish swapper Nighthawk 91-04/93 joined Rebels sometime between 04/93 and
03/94. Rumours that he joined Iris are false.
Danish sysop Ramirez SUFFOCATION, ex Balance, 04/93 joined Fairlight.
Danes Chorus music, Sid music and Condor swap, all ex Quartz joined
the new Razor 1911.
Norwegian graphician Darkdude joined Shamrock.
Danish swapper Zinko ex Deadlock, 05/92-04/93 joined Kefrens.
Hungarian superstar graphician Rack 02/91-04/93 joined Absolute early 93.
Guran joined Shining.
Norwegian coder and graphician Flesh ex New Wave, new mid92-04/93 joined
Paradise.
V-Cut, sysop TRADERS ISLAND joined Equinox.
Swedish graphician Eracore new 91-04/93 left for TRSI. is this right?
Hitech and Norwegian The Laiter gfx swap, 02/91 got kicked.
French musician Killerman is nowadays more known as Oxbow/Scoopex...
Ray of Hope 1991, 23.02, ECS File.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Snowland by Dr.Bully ProTracker MOD
format. Released at the Majic-12 meeting in Kapuvar.
review: Unfortunately I wasnt able to run this M12 demo. I tried both
KillAGA and TUDEs degrade option, but it still kept guruing with a
0000000E error. Too bad. The partial information is extracted from text I
found in the depacked file. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Does not work.
Ray of Hope 2 1991, 07.09, ECS Trackmo.
code: Avantage, Version, Ultravox, gfx: Rack, music: Resonance II by
Dr. Bully. Winner of the C.C.C.P. Chromance Party 91!
Review: The first thing that strikes me about RAY 2 is that the
in-between font is very good. Its very Global Trash-y... Anyway, it
opens with some blue/black interference, like in the original, followed
by what it calls copper magic. I rather like this effect, its perhaps
the best implementation ever, and the only part of the demo where the
music coincides with the effects. If only the powerful part of the music
had lasted a little longer... Next were given what they call a boring
sinusplotter. Theyre right. Next is the real showstopper of the demo: a
new kind of RGB plasma! Actually I dont think Ive ever seen this effect
replicated? Anyway, M12 were first! A very good effect, and one that
makes this one notable. Next is another highlight a BIG gorgeous logo by
Rack. Its not hard to see why he became a living legend back in those
days. The rest of the demo is rather unexciting. The tune is another
thing worth noting here its a bizarre mixture indeed, ranging from
great to just plain nondescript. The pan pipes have POWER the pling-
plong shit has only the power to irritate. Noteworthy, but not great.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: WORKS! with TUDEs Degrade option. ADL suckerz!
Top Secret Issue 7 1991, mid, ECS Diskmag.
SSS-Intro 1992?, ECS Intro.
Code: Zyx, Gfx: Eracore, Music: Zyx.
Techno Intro 1992, .05, ECS Intro.
code: Zyx, gfx: Eracore, music: Derelict.
review: Techno-Intro is its name. I should perhaps mention that I hate
techno? OK, Ill admit that I like SOME of the stuff - like Clawz tunes.
However, even I can hear the difference between original and downright
lets do what they do tunes. This one falls into the latter category.
The rest of this intro, though, is pretty un-techno. Its not UGLY, but
wont set anyone on fire with enthusiasm either. Its a pretty standard
little intro thats way too big for what it offers. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Top Secret issue 12 1992, late, ECS Diskmag.
sorryforgotdabloodyname 1993, ECS Musicdisk.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Zyx. info: Design in graffitti style.
Woui Dentrau 1993, mid?, ECS File.
code/gfx: Baby, music: n/a.
Top Secret issue 14 1993, ECS Diskmag.
info: There was also a pc edition with EXACTLY the same articles coded
by Majic 12s pc coder Maxwood.
Top Secret issue 15 1993, ECS Diskmag.
INT - Produced by Andromeda.
MAG - code: Avantage, gfx: R.W.O/Kefrens title, Eracore menu, Dali
gallery, music: Secrecy by Mr.Man/Andromeda 4ch MOD format,
editor: Zozo.
info: TFG left the mag before this issue, and Zozo reclaimed his position
as main editor. There was also a pc edition with EXACTLY the same
articles coded by Majic 12s pc coder Maxwood.
Malicious Crew
MC merged together with Twilight, and ceased to exist themselves 04/96.
Mandel Bros MB, 2000-
FIN Nutcase Sami I Saarnio, code music, 00, Roland amigist, 00, Visage
gfx, 00.
Mandel Bros was formed in 2000 by Nutcase, Visage and Roland all three were
previously also together in Deadline, 92-93, and is based in Helsinki,
Finland. The three members are lifelong friends, so it doesnt seem likely
this group will fall apart anytime soon : Their first production was the
a500 demo Oldskool Fools, 9th at the Assembly 2000.
Oldskool Fools 2000, .08, ECS Demo.
code/music: Nutcase, gfx: Visage.
9th in the Assembly 2000 oldskool demo competition.
Mangoo
SWE Some1 Morrow music, new early00.
N-L Wavemaker doublememb Trinity detials, 12/00
??? Fusko gfx, new early00.
Maniacs
NOR Invoker Jan Nilsen.
FIN Dr.Zone, Lucas.
SWE Sinister Johan Asperyd, swap, late95.
??? Rebellion ex Dual 4Mat, new late95.
Finnish Simpson left.
Manitou MTU
AUT Coon-O ex Energy, Golmo.
GER Coming Art sysop IN UTERO, Gentleman John Walter, swap, 94,
Interceptor sysop THE MATRIX, Major Bandit swap, 94, Rave
Christian Dahl, swap, 94, Sir Jinx Ingo Winkler, swap, 94, Sonic
Flash swap.
NOR Andy, Viking swap, ex LSD.
Boards THE LOST CARRIER usa.
Austrian Mosquito swap is no longer a member.
He was one of the coarrangers of the SEMI Party 93.
Mankind MKD
FRA Krabob code.
Aerial 1995, 23.04, AGA File.
Released for GASP 95 demo competition.
review: A fast but blocky Doom routine opens this demo, followed by what
I supppose is an actual innovation - a man running around in the maze!
The music sucks throughout - theyre probably trying to be different, but
its a tad too weird for me. Good in some parts, not too good in others.
In a word: Average. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Slach Party Invitation File.
code: Krabob, gfx: Grenat, Krabob, music: Tex.
review: This invitation intro is actually really nice, with good
functional graphics and some good, innovative coding! You choose at the
beginning what language the text is to be presented in, and it all feels
like a professional production. Very very nice, more like this! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Marram -1993
Marram died late 1993. Smudge left for Perspex.
Masque 1992-1995
GER 16 Beat Joachim Soppe, music, Romeo Knight Eike Steffen, music, ex
TRSI, 12/93, Viola Bros gfx, Warhead org, ex TRSI, Wayne Mendoza
Martin Wawro, codeAMPC, ex TRSI, Zap code, ex Sanity.
POL Dreamer code music, later Nah Kolor, ex TRSI, 95.
??? X-Ray org code.
Masque was initially formed in 1992, as a demosection within TRSI. After a
year of this, they decided to try their luck on their own, and left TRSI -
taking all of TRSIs legal members with them! A pc section was formed in
1993, and you can see more of their accomplishments in Scenery pc : The
amiga section was officially closed in the early part of 1995.
Can anyone shed any light on what happened to VIS like Wayne Mendoza,
The Viola Bros, 16-Beat and Romeo Knight?
German supergraphician Peachy ex TRSI, 12/93 left for Haujobb after the
group was closed.
Coder Ply2 joined TRSI.
German coder Cueball joined DCS.
Graphician Tee Jay Thomas Jarnot, ex TRSI got kicked.
German coder MC68000 Frank Hlsmann, 04/93 left the scene. He was
responsible for coding the CeBIT 93 Slideshow 93 and releasing the
much-used module packer utility Promizer.
German graphician Fade One ex Black Monks new joined Lego.
Deicide left to join Cryptoburners.
Misery Dentro 2 1993, 27.12, ECS Trackmo.
code: Dreamer, Wayne Mendoza additional, gfx: Peachy, music: Virgill.
2nd in the CeBIT 93 demo competition.
CeBIT 93 Slideshow 1993, .04?, ECS Slideshow.
code: MC68000, gfx: Viola Bros, music: Virgill.
Massive old
NOR Elwood.
??? Cyde ex Grace, new late91, Mr.Frenzy ex Dazzle, new mid91.
Nevada joined Dazzle 09/92.
Massive new MSV
NOR Damien trade, new 09/96, Felix Karsten Fischer, org swap,
doublememb K!nky, Fisherking gfx swap sysop WINTERLAND, 09/96-
02/97, Madsen sysop REALITY BYTES, new 09/96, Maze music swap
Pack, doublememb Eltech, new 04/96-09/96, mJ swap, ex Iris, new
ROM9, Mosher Roar Fossen, gfx raytrace swap, 09/96, Redhead
mascot, new 09/96, Repoman gfx raytrace swap, new 09/96, Rolex
music, doublememb Apathy details, new 12/96, Ten! Tor E. Nygrd,
raytrace ascii sysop DISASTER AREA, new 09/96, Thrym Espen Fossen,
gfx raytrace swap, new 09/96-97, U-Nik swap, new 09/96.
SWE Anfobia ascii swap, double-memb Ambrosia 06/96, Java gfx ascii
sysop DELUSION, 09/96, Jummen org trade swap, 09/96, Snarn
code, new 09/96, Yabbo music swap, 09/96.
POL Jutu code, new 09/96, Scraby org swap, doublememb Old Bulls
details, new 09/96.
AUT Moon code swap, 09/96.
SWI Lousy music swap, new 09/96.
FIN Crazywild org swap trade, 09/96.
FRA Hysteric swap.
Fisherkings BBS Winterland was NOT up 09/96, but I found a listing of it
02/97 - which means it went up sometime inbetween those two dates.
Java, sysop of DELUSION is also in three other groups simultaneously!
1996 - French swapper Hysteric joined Scoopex 09/96.
1997 - Spanish swapper Nork new 09/96 decided to end his double
membership, and is now just in Network details and Darkage late in the
year.
Matrix MTX, -1996
GER Airon music, Ganic code, Grond codeAM, Nazgul gfx, Stingray
trade.
Matrix was a German demo group, which died in june 1996 after their leader
joined Riot, and Nero gfx, Sharon code and Skyphos code music joined
Artwork. This robbed the group of most if not all of its best talent, and
there was no use to go on after this. Nero, Sharon and Skyphos later
reformed the group on the pc, with some success.
Gom Jabbar 1996, 16.11, AGA Multifile.
code: Sharon, Skyphos, gfx: Nero, music: Skyphos.
Winner of Convention 96 demo competition!
review: Matrix first demo is technically advanced for sure, but how much
does that help when certain effects move forward with an almost amazingly
slow framerate? Dont get me wrong, this is not a bad demo at all - quite
the contrary, in fact - but they should perhaps have spent some more
time polishing and optimizing their effects. The graphics are great, tho.
The music is worth an extra mention, since it sounds so amazingly
clear and crisp - almost like it was coming out of my GUS I dont
personally care much for this kind of music, but the sound quality on
this mod is rather great... I may be wrong, but my guess is it has
something to do with 16 bit samples that are later converted...
The guys who made this - Matrix first demo - later joined Artwork and
are now more or less Artworks PC section. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Madwizards MAWI, http://www.madwizards.org
POL Aln code, doublememb Appendix details, 12/97-04/01, Azzaro Tomasz
Wisniewski, mainorg gfx, 06/96-02, Belos editor, 04/01, Enter
Radoslaw Rozkrut, code, 08/97, Evan Marcin Szmidtke, swap pack,
04/01, Fame Slawomir Mazurkiewicz, gfx, aka LilFame, 04/01, Kiero
Michal Wozniak, code, aka Kierownik, 04/01, Lahve swap, 04/01, MCR
Wojciech Nowak, org swap pack, 04/01, Noxis code, 04/01, Protas
music, 04/01, TZX Tomasz Zelek, music, 04/01, Ubik Przemyslaw
Kuca, modeller, 04/01, Zoltan modeller raytrace, 04/01.
GER Critikill Gordian Brede, gfx, doublememb Farbrausch pc, 04/01.
FIN Substance music, 04/01.
NOR Fusko gfx, 04/01.
??? Oopure gfx, 04/01, Spectra music, 04/01.
PREVIOUS MEMBERS -
POL Bay-Tek Marcin Zawadowics, code, 08/97, Starlight code, 08/97.
??? Jacko gfx, 04/98, Zoltan gfx, 04/98.
Madwizards or MAWI for short is a mainly Polish demo group, widely
successfull in recent years.
other releases
o1- visible preview ---------- slide show zoltan preview february97
o2- astrosyn97 invitation --- party invitation dentro --- december97
o3- visible world ------------ slide show zoltan ---------- april98
o4- astrosyn2 invitation ---- party invitation dentro --- february99
o5- one spiritual journey ---- slide show pickpoke ---------- may99
o6- sonikk ------------------- music disk timer ------------ july99
o7- photocell 1x1 ------------ slide show kazik -------- november99
Frey 1996, 23.06, ECS 64k Intro.
5th in the Polish Summer Party 96 intro competition.
review: Frey was Mawis first ever intro, and unfortunately one that I
just couldnt get to work properly on my machine. I first tried simply
running it, and got the music correctly by just scrambled graphics. I
rebooted and tried with KillAGA, but...I dont know, the music still
plays, but now no visuals at all appear on my screen! Strange...
Please note that the version reviewed is one that is a little fixed and
refreshed, but still does not support turbocards, in that theyve used
a blitter-c2p routine to support the older amigas. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review!
Morgoth 1996, 31.08, 64k Intro.
9th in the Intel Outside Party 3 intro competition.
Persil 1997, 13.07, 4k Intro.
7th in the Intel Outside 4 4k intro competition.
Kah835gb 1997, 31.08, Demo.
3rd in the Gravity 97 demo competition. Cooperation with Floppy.
Delight 2 1997, 31.08, 4k Intro.
6th in the Gravity 97 4k intro competition.
info: MAWI claimed they reached 2nd position in one of their nfos.
Confusion 1997, 31.08, AGA/ECS 4k Intro.
code: Enter, gfx: none, music: none
12th in the Gravity 97 4k intro competition.
review: Youre basically not missing anything with this... Its just some
slow Gouraud objects in garish colors. Unfortunately the intro can not the
exited until it is done. Both AGA and ECS versions are included. MAWI
claimed they reached 11th position in one of their nfos. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Fire And Ice 1997, 31.08, ECS 4k Intro.
code: Starlight, gfx: none, music: none.
8th in the Gravity 97 4k intro competition.
review: A nice idea, this is an intro based on an effect that is randomly
generated each time it is executed. It is essentially a buce background
effect with color-cycling under a few pages of nicely designed text
telling the title and the name of the group. Perhaps not so great, but
nice nevertheless... Two versions are included, one for 020+ fastmem
machines, and one for all processors. The intro has even been tested by
its makers on a bog standard a500 : glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Delight 2 1997, 31.08, 4k Intro.
code: Bay-Tek, gfx: none, music: none. Cooperation with Taski.
13th in the Gravity 97 4k intro competition.
review: Unfortunately, I could not get this intro to work. It just returns
the command prompt after a brief pause. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Petrol 1997, 31.08, 4k Intro.
7th in the Gravity 97 4k intro competition.
Excess 2 Promo 1997, 14.12, Dentro.
Released at Astrosyn 97.
Save Da Vinyl 9 1997, 14.12, Pack.
Released at Astrosyn 97.
Satelite 98 Preinvitation 1997, 14.12, Intro.
Cooperation with Pic Saint Loup.
Brick 1997, 14.12, 4k Intro.
4th in the Astrosyn 97 4k intro competition.
Sacrebleu 1997, 14.12, 64k Intro.
7th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition.
Point Zero 1998, 15.03, 64k Intro.
4th in the Spoletium 98 intro competition.
X-Perience 1998, 15.03, 4k Intro.
4th in the Spoletium 98 4k intro competition.
Thud 1998, 15.03, 4k Intro.
6th in the Spoletium 98 4k intro competition.
Visible World 100 1998, 26.04, AGA AHI ?MB HD Slideshow
code: Bjsebo/VA, Noe/VA, gfx: Zoltan, Jacko, Azzaro, music: Dave/Haujobb.
2nd in the Rush Hours 1998 demo competition.
Cooperation with Venus Arts VA.
review: Mawi surprised us with a breath-taking demo-like show consisting
of superb raytraced graphics by Zoltan who has already won many
competitions before as written in the readme-file settled in a cosy
atmosphere and good design. Await something different to traditional
slideshows if you will have a look at this one. Not only that it is no
pixeled art you can admire but nine raytraced fullscreens plus the main
logo its also more designed like a demo it has been placed second in a
demo competition showing after every picture a little part with poetic
words and various textured vectors and other 3D-effects. The traced gfx
have a high level of quality. A Viking ship, insects, alien topics and
plays with reality the 1st picture is more than art, its a vision! and
spaceships are to find in very detailed views. The best stuff I have seen
till now from 3D-Modellers. Guest musician Dave composed a smooth
ambient, I guess module that fits very good and makes the overall design
to an extraordinary event. A very nice opening tunnel and multitasking
without bugs shows the abilities of Bjsebo and Noe, but I still dont know
why this 3D-system shall be as revolutionary as written in the readme?!
Also a bad point is that you have no selector to choose single graphics,
you always have to run the whole thing again!
Conclusion: Who havent seen this missed an important piece of the
scenes history one will still talk about in a few years. Most of the
pictures are more than six points worth but a few have no good ideas and
lack of design like the 5th for example. zito
ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast.
Revolution 909 1998, 26.04, 64k Intro.
3rd in the Rush Hours 98 intro competition.
s38zb4 1998, 26.04, 4k Intro.
2nd in the Rush Hours 98 intro competition.
Thud Remix 1998, 26.04, 4k Intro.
3rd in the Rush Hours 98 intro competition.
Midge 1998, 26.04, 256byte Intro.
code: Aln. Made in cooperation with Appendix.
Winner of the Rush Hours 98 256 byte intro competition!
Radio In Your Eyes 1998, 09.06, Dentro.
4th in the Abduction 98 demo competition.
info: Promotional intro for Excess 3.
The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair 1998, 08.08, Demo.
4th in the Quast 98 demo competition.
Missed 1998, 08.08, 4k Intro.
3rd in the Quast 98 4k intro competition.
Automatikk For The People 1998, 29.08, Demo.
code: Psion, Def, Informer, Aln, gfx: Fame, Grass, Kazik, Azzaro, Klinton
design, music: Revisq, SuperFML.
Winner of the Gravity 98 demo competition!
Absolon 1998, 29.08, Demo.
3rd in the Gravity 98 demo competition.
Cooperation with Venus Art. info: Requires ppc card.
Diao 1998, 29.08, 4k Intro.
4th in the Gravity 98 4k intro competition.
info: It is perhaps a fair bet that their later intro Oaid is a remix of
this one
Drowned Offshore 1998, 08.11, Demo.
2nd in the Satellite 98 demo competition. Cooperation with Venus Art.
info: Requires PPC card.
e4 1998, 08.11, Demo.
6th in the Satellite 98 demo competition.
Audiofrequencymodulator 1998, 08.11, 64k Intro.
6th in the Satellite 98 intro competition.
Oaid 1998, 08.11, 4k Intro.
Winner of the Satellite 98 4k intro competition!
Pacou 1998, 08.11, 4k Intro.
2nd in the Satellite 98 4k intro competition.
Datablade Preview 1999, 30.05, Demo.
Winner of the Rush Hours 99 demo competition!
Cooperation with Floppy.
Cameo Innerloop 1999, 30.05, Demo.
2nd in the Rush Hours 99 demo competition.
info: Promotional intro for Excess 5.
DataBlade revision 2.0 1999, 11.07, Demo.
Winner of the Xenium 99 demo demo competition! Cooperation with Floppy.
Eclipse 1999, 11.07, 64k Intro.
code: Noxis, gfx: Budgie, Noxis 3d, music: Protas.
Winner of the Xenium 99 64k intro competition!
info: A fix was later released.
Utopia 1999, 05.09, Demo.
code: Starlight, gfx: Fame, Grass, Lovelace, Bonzaj 3d, MCR design,
Def additional, Noogman additional, music: Protas, SuperFML.
3rd in the Apocalypse 99 demo competition.
Mute 12 1999, 14.11, AGA 16MB Demo.
code: Noxis, gfx: Oopure, Azzaro, Fame, Grass, Traitor/TNG, Def/Floppy
3d, Bonzaj 3d, Azzaro design, music: Protas, Spectra.
Winner of the Stallite 2 demo competition!
review: Wow, wow, wow! Seems that polish demo makers at least started to
think seriously bout so called design in their production and Mute12 is
a example for it! Dear watcher, before launching this demo you should
first read btw. nice designed ascii ?.nfo file which contains some kind
of explanation about leading idea of this production. Sadly, but poles are
able to know more that their foreign scene mates... You boot your amee,
type demo drawer path and at last run mwi-mute.exe file. Now prepare to
assimilate a secret message hidden between routines as mad wizards
members say: teevee is only a form of modern slavery! Black screen lights
up and very good looking picture appears, but... Thats imho big minus
of this demo, we can see here lot of SHOCKING graphics, but theyre only
scans from special SPAWN comics series or image process effects like
all Oopures ones. Anyway i dont like this kind of pixelz. Nevermind.
At screen non filled vectors formed in likeatriangle symbol are
rotating and theyre blured too. Another pic - this one shows body of
naked woman, particles ring is flying around her, really nice. All the
time we hear full of feeling musis which perfectly fits in another effect.
This time we see a voxel landscape with 3D human object flying over them.
Sweet females voice starts to speak only polish bout flying under
blue, clear sky, and adds that it makes its her? free, be out of world.
At end of monologue voice ascertains that in flying is only one bad thing
- how come back, down, on ground? Scene disappears and big question mark
3d object fills screen. Music starts run faster and sign stretchs and
shortens. Mad Wizards fullscreen picture is showed music turns down,
first part has been ended. Really twisted object is rotating over a
strange black/white picture named metaphysical mutation. Suddenly
explodes music goa and we can see fast 2d tunnel. Screen splits in 2 and
later in 4 parts, in every part a nice tunnel/effect is calculated and
a moment later the entire screen starts to move! Very good routine, never
have seen it before on amiga but on peecee and c-64 yes! Another
photoshop art on your monitor, a photos mixed with texts. Blurred, non
filled vectors again, in background we can see dead media inscription.
After while Grass picture Hunter 3rd at Rush Hours99 appears. Now we
can see lot of stuff: another particle effects, dynamic showed credits,
really good animated sphere with tentacles object, second Oopures
picture, 2d tunnel with morphing object on first plan, Oopures art again,
looped animation rotating flower with number 12 over it + womans object
in right-down corner, tunnel with sumething blured, like a snowfall
particles and Fames Synchrom picture ends second part of Mute12.
Music changes for rather slower one and flowing background fills
all screen, slowly a girls photo appears. And its time for credits,
theyre typed on known to us spawns scans. One more time 2 tunnels
penetrabling themselves and a background placed fullscreen Mawi logo. Last
3d scene - a enviroment mapped stairs which leads to... nowhere! Oopures
pic and a well known water masque effect on it your mind is soften,
few seconds and finally one eye from Fames graphic looks on us. Its time
to shut it down, so you click mouse, screen is going darker and
likeatriangle symbol is showed. Tarram! Thats end!
All effects for first look seems to be joined in chaos, but after
another session with Mute 12 you recognize thats not truth. Less or
more but demo has got its message. Now you should ask yourself few
questions: where, who and why? Trust me - answer is simply. Just think,
but turn Your teeveeset off before, ok? 040 or better recommended. kempy
KEM tested A1200/040-40/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Photo Cell 1x1 2000, Slideshow.
code: Kiero, gfx: Kazik/Anadune, Azzaro additional, Def additional,
music: Sol. Released in cooperation with Anadune.
Metatag Lock K-231277 2000, .08, Demo.
code: Kiero, gfx: Critikill, Azzaro, Kiero 3d, Def 3d, music: Revisq
main, Spectra endpart. 13th in the Assembly 2000 demo competition.
info: Reviewed in Darkages Showtime 16 04/01, where the reviewer
meant it got an unfairly hard treatment. FOUR fullscreen pictures by
Critikill are shown during the demo.
Amsterdam Blessings 2001, 15.04, AGA AHI 040 Demo.
code: Kiero, gfx: Azzaro, Fame, Ubik 3d, music: TZX.
3rd in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition.
review: AB is a demo with a clear sense of design, some great incidental
graphics, and a good soundtrack. It is, in fact, a very cool demo : Some
hardcore code, and as mentioned a good sense of design, make this come
together as a pretty great package. It is only testament to the quality of
the competition at MS that this only made 3rd. It seldom gets tedious or
boring, even despite a total running time of over 8 minutes. It is hard
to accurately review a demo like this, who so much relies an the mood and
atmosphere it builds... I can only recommend viewing it and forming your
own opinions. I certainly liked it! : Personal highlight: The endpart,
with the upscroller and presumably polish singing... a small piece of
magic.
Viewing this demo was only possible through a video file on my part,
since my amiga hardware is not capable of running it natively. Please take
this into consideration when reading this review. The demo was designed
for 060 systems, and requires about 25mb fastmem and an fpu. It has
reportedly been tested at ok speeds down to 040-30. Theoretically, it
should run on any 020+ with fpu and enough ram. It should run on cgx
systems without promotion, provided 320x240 and 640x480 screenmodes are
defined. Requires AHI v4+ for the endpart music.
All credits in the demo and the accompanying text file is given using
the authors real names. They have been replaced here with their handles,
for compliance with the rest of scenery. Incidentally, this was the
groups last non-ppc demo. glenn
Heavy Traffic 2002, 01.04, Demo.
code: Kiero, gfx: Azzaro, Podo, Ubik 3d, Prevent 3d, music: Flapjack,
Dagon. 4th in the Mekka Symposium 2002 demo competition.
info: The demo requires a ppc card.
New Dawn Fades 2002, 01.04, Demo.
code: Kiero, gfx: Azzaro, Critikill, Ubik 3d, Prevent 3d, music: Dave.
Released for the Mekka Symposium 2002 demo competition, but was not shown.
info: The demo requires a ppc card.
Third Eye Conqueror 2002, .06, Demo.
code: Kiero, gfx: Azzaro, Podo, Spark 3d, Ubik 3d, Prevent 3d, Def
3d, music: Flapjack. Winner of the Symphony 2002 demo competition!
info: The demo requires a ppc card.
Another Dream Away 2002, .08, Demo.
code: Kiero, gfx: Azzaro, Budgie, Ubik 3d, Prevent 3d, music:
Substance. Winner of the Slach 4 demo competition!
info: The demo requires a ppc card.
Till I Feel You 2002, .10, Demo.
code: Kiero, gfx: Azzaro, Budgie, Spark 3d, Ubik 3d, Prevent 3d,
music: Alkama, Mo. Winner of the Abstract 2002 demo competition!
info: The demo requires a ppc card. It was released in an unfinished state
for the Abstract competition, but was not released at this party.
Mayhem
English coder Del 04/90 was later in Anarchy.
Electro Flight 2 1990, 08.04, ECS File.
code: Del, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Released for The Silents, Mayhem and Quartex party 90 demo competition.
Another Demo 1990, 08.04, ECS File.
code: Del, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Released for The Silents, Mayhem and Quartex party 90 demo competition.
Ham Scroll 1990, 08.04, ECS File
code: Del, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Released for The Silents, Mayhem and Quartex party 90 demo competition.
MDMA
HOL I-Go later TBL.
ENG U4IA music.
ICE Jam and Spoon music, later Nerve Axis.
??? Clarion, Outland, PUW/MAW, Vortex.
Mean Machine
??? Jellybean music, ex Addonic, 10/91.
Finnish sysop Palex FROM BEYOND left for Accession, where his board is
now called BAD TASTE, 10 or 11/91.
Medicine 1994-
SWE Pace Roger Andersson, swap, 94, TBB sysop TWISTED SOCIETY, 05/94.
??? Axe new PRP4, Cabbe new PRP4, Parsec new PRP4, Stuff new PRP4,
Thunor new PRP4.
Medicine was formed by the Swedish division of Infect after the left to
form their own group. The original founders were at least Morrow, Lussarn,
Jammie and Slime.
Swedes Mr.Mygg and Morrow founder got kicked PRP4. Both were
later in C-Lous.
Swedish coder Lussarn founder joined Rebels PRP4.
The two Swedes Frame founder, old handle Jammie and Slime founder left
PRP4. Frame then joined C-Lous late 94, and Slime was later in Rebels.
Swedish coder Exidor joined the new Razor 1911 PRP4.
Swedish coder Origo joined from C-Lous for a couple of months, but later
chose to rejoin C-Lous PRP4.
Megaforce MFC, 1986-1988
Megaforce was one of - if not THE - biggest early group. MFC meant quality!
They made demos, cracks earliest: Tetris in february 1986!! and utils.
In 1988 the French section, organized by Nasty Boy, got in trouble with the
Police over piracy. Therefore Ranger, the leader, decided to put MFC to
rest and start a new group. He formed Scoopex with several other ex-MFC
members, like Crazy Typer.
Raster Magic 1988, 23.05, ECS File.
code: Crazy Typer, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Megademo 1988, 01.10, ECS Demo.
Released at the Salzburg party.
Crazy Jammin 1988, 03.10, ECS Demo.
Released at the Double Density Crew, Level4, The Supervisors Copy Party.
Megahead MHD
ITA Axel gfx, 04/96, Calca music cosys DISASTER AREA, 04/96, Dixan
music, ex Degeneration, new late95, Exl Luciano Lucchesi, swap, new
95-04/96, Jack Jack code raytrace, 04/96, Pork trade, new 95-
04/96, Psyko Pasquale Mauriello, mainorg code edit, 04/96, Rio
Dario Corno, code gfx sysop DISASTER AREA WHQ, ex Soft-One, new
late95-04/96, T.A.D. Lorenzo Di Gaetano, code, 04/96, The Artist
gfx, 04/96, Vanamonde code trade, 04/96.
The Prince code is no longer a member INF1.
Infamia 0 1995, 23.09, ECS Filemag.
code: TAD, gfx: The Artists title, TAD, Randy/Ram Jam, music:
Rio/Soft-One, Editor: Psyko. Released at SMAU.
review: Infamia is a diskmag focusing on the scene of its native
country, Italy. Graphically, its unfortunately well below average.
The code is also below average. It supports backgrounds, which is a
good thing, but dont expect to see any clipart or anything like
that.
Navigation works pretty well by clicking on the directional
buttons with your mouse, but the lack of keyboard shortcuts are almost
unforgiveable. I cant comment on the editorial quality, since I do
not speak Italian : There doesnt seem to be enough articles, tho.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Infamia 1 1995, 02.12, ECS Filemag.
code: TAD, gfx: The Artist title, Rio main, music: Calca, Editor:
Psyko.
review: This second issue of Infamia opens with a much better title
picture than last time, albeit from the same artist. The music also
shows promise, and as I click my way into the mag itself, I can see
that the panel graphics have also been replaced. The new ones are a
lot better. Furthermore, theyve abandoned their own main font for
boring old Topaz 8, which is NOT such a good thing IMHO. A good font
can almost give a mag an identity onto itself - just look at R.A.W.
Theres still no keyboard navigation, though.
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Infamia 2 1996, .04, AGA Filemag.
INT - code: Dip/Lustrones, gfx: Mat/Lustrones font, music:
Gupho/Lustrones.
GAL - code: Hedgehog/BSD, gfx: Fra/BSD, music: Stun/BSD.
MAG - code: Aga/Lustrones, Dip/Lustrones, gfx: Mat/Lustrones, The Gas
title, music: F.B.Y/SoftOne, editor: Psyko.
Cooperation with Lustrones.
review: With Infamias third issue, it receives yet another welcome
facelift. The first and most imminent change is that the old intros
gone! Instead, we now find a new one, made for the Infamia guys by
Lustrones. Its pretty good, and does that job it needs to do. But
after the intro is over, do we go directly to the mag? NO! Instead,
theres a brand new section - the gallery! This one has a pretty OK
logo on top, a chip-happy tune of the oldschool variety, and lots of
BW pictures of Italian sceners. It was done by Biosynthetic Design.
Then the mag itself: It opens with the best intro logo theyve had
so far metallic cogwheels in the background and INFAMIA in the
foreground in very heavy metal characters. It looks raytraced.
And then the mag itself...WOW! Colorful, great looking panels on show
here, and a reggae-like tune thats great to mellow out to. For the
first time reading Infamia, I SERIOUSLY regret its in Italian :
Theres still not a lot of articles, but I expect whats there is
pretty good. I browse the mag, looking at some articles and
immediately notice the incredibly smooth transitions and the new font.
INFAMIA is a mag thats grown up, and is ready to leave its parents
and live in the world on its own. Never mind if you can read Italian,
check it out! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Megapoint
Andy, BlackWine, Losiu and Sharp joined Anadune 06/96.
Megastyle Inc. MSI, -1991
Megastyle was the Amiga section of the wellknown C64 demo group. One of the
members of MSI Amiga - Lizard - was also active on the C64 scene, making
music for some of their demos. This Norwegian musician has retained his old
handle to this day, but is now a member of The Black Lotus... The Amiga
section of Megastyle died late 1991.
Norwegian musician Lizard joined Offence old RAW2.
Norwegian Inzane joined Zenith late 91.
Megawatts
??? Bosco code, 12/91, Danc gfx, 12/93-94, Doolittle code, 12/91,
Idea code, 12/93-94, Leviathan code, 94, Lioth code, 12/91-92,
Logotechnia music, 12/91, Psyched music, 12/93, Sidewinder music,
94, U4IA music, 12/91-92.
Christmas 91 1991, .12, ECS Disk.
Code: Bosco, Lioth, Doolittle, Gfx: n/a, usic: U4ia, Logotechnia.
A Taste of U4ia 1992, .06?, ECS Musicdisk.
Code: Lioth, Gfx: n/a, Music: U4ia.
Planet E Issue 1 1993, .12/1994, .01, ECS Filemag.
Code: Idea, Gfx: Danc, Music: Psyched.
Mindfield 1994, early, ECS Musicdisk, 3 disks.
Code: Leviathan, Idea, Gfx: Danc, Music: Sidewinder.
Meka Design MKD
SWE Amadeus music, 12/93-12/94, Radix music, 12/93, Sneaker music,
12/94.
Meka Design was a swedish demo group, and also the first group of musician
Radix. It is believed he left sometime in early 1994.
Mellow MLW
N-L Argon, Bazzman music, late95, Celtic code swap, 07/95, Gluefoot,
Hammer sysop NIGHT SHIFT, Huib gfx music, 07/95, Krypton music,
07/95, Macrodex, Noodle swap, doublememb Desire details, Rayon
95, Sascha Sascha Duyzer, swap, ex Mirage, new early95-96.
NOR Voyage sysop SCUBA WHQ, 05/97, Sony, Stimpy, Zilox.
Mellow was a group based in Holland, probably best known for releasing the
Dutch Charts.
1995 - Musician Aquafresh joined Eltech late 95.
1996 - Sane editor joined from Monk in july of 1996, and assumed the
position of main editor on the Hokus Phokus Dutch Charts. Issue 4 was
released with him as editor. Sane joined Sardonyx to become coeditor on
their diskmag Seenpoint in september, and finally left Mellow altogether
in november to be in Sardonyx only.
Molested Musics unknown.
To Be In unknown.
PFFFFFFFfff 1995, 09.07, 40k Intro.
code: Celtic, gfx: Huib, music: Krypton.
9th in the Somewhere in Holland 95 40k intro competition.
review: Most of us grew out of farting jokes in our early teens. Mellow.
How old are you guys? Graphics show competence, but thats all. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Mellow Chips MC
FIN Aivo Petri Hkkinen, code 3d, 04/98, Freak 04/98, Jogi Jari
Jokivuori, code gfx, 08/95-11/96, Lich Tomas Bjrnfot, gfx 3d,
04/96-04/98, Ola Olli Hnninen-Pelz, gfx 3d, 04/96-04/98, Tequila
raytrace 3d, 04/98.
Mellow Chips was just another Finnish demo team, who released a few OK
demos, until they joined the legendary TRSI as a subgroup, and hit the big
time with Rise at The Gathering 98.
Finns DJ Wekro music, 04/96 and Icebeat Petri Ala-Louesniemi, music,
08/96 are no longer members.
Finnish coder Braindead, partly responsible for Jees! 04/96 and Dim
08/96 changed handle to Aivo and joined TRSI ROM9.
Jees! 1996, 28.04, AGA HD Multifile.
code: Braindead, Jogi, gfx: Lich, Ola, Jogi, music: DJ Wekro.
4th in the Demolition 96 II demo competition.
Review: The worst thing about this, to start, is the graphics. Im sorry,
people, but you need to get better painters! The graphics here are just
not up to scratch... Try to draw individual pixels next time, and go a
little easier on the smoothing tools :
The code is not the best either, its the usual C2P stuff. Weve seen
it a million times, and almost always better than this. The music suffers
from the same syndrome, actually. Been there, heard that a million times.
Originality and quality is what these guys need to look into. Its like
theyve tried to make the demos they love themselves, but havent got
the talent or the skill. Still, practice makes perfect. The bad news is
that these guys will need a lot of practice.
Will run on standard A1200, but benefits greatly from a 030+ glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Dim 1996, 18.08, AGA 2MB HD Multifile Demo.
code: Braindead, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
2nd in The Assembly 96 demo competition.
Information: As revealed in ROM9, parts of DIM were written in AMOS
Professional 2.0, while all time-intensive stuff was written in
assembler. The second disk MCDIM2.LHA on the Assembly96 CD is corrupt,
so I havent been able to see this yet.
Divine 1996, 23.11, AGA 030 8MB HD Multifile Demo.
Winner of the Demolition 96 II demo competition!
Dose 1997, 04.10, AGA 8MB HD Multifile Demo.
code: Aivo, gfx: Ola 2d, 3d, Aivo textures, 3d, Tequila 3d, Lich mc
logo, Lich mc glow logo, music: Kalsu/Artificial People OctaMED SS
format. 2nd in the Demolition III demo competition.
review: Wow, this is an awesome demo... Dose is certainly one of the top
three demos of 1997! From the very first beats of the strong, fiery
introduction sequence you know youre looking at something professional
here... There is some truly amazing, groundbreaking 3d in this demo,
routines that are worthy of demos on pcs with twice the horsepower of my
humble 030-50! Sure, not everything runs at 60fps, not everything is
1x1, but it just doesnt seem to matter much as you sit there with your
mouth open and stare at the awesome display on the screen. Let me just
mention the especially impressive transparency and lighting routines, and
the professional, catchy soundtrack before I leave you to go download this
great demo for yourself. If you dont youll have missed one of the best
ever demos for this machine! Go!
Dose was released for TRSI. You can decide the mixing frequency of the
OctaMED SoundStudio soundtrack yourself, and I watched it with the
recommended mixing frequency for 030 machines of 15000. Minimum processor
requirements are just 020, but they recommend at least 040-40. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Rise 1998, 11.04, AGA 8MB HD Multifile Demo.
code: Aivo, gfx: Ola, Asa/Cirion, Lich, Rewired/TRSI, 3d: Aivo, Ola,
Lich, Tequila, music: Kalsu/Artificial People.
Winner of The Gathering 98 demo competition!
review: Rise is a massive, 5.5MB demo that will blow your socks off! Not
as truly spectacular, perhaps, as last years winner Captured Dreams,
this does offer some unparallelled 3d scene rendering on the Amiga.
I have seen demos like this before, but only on heavily accelerated
Pentium PCs... We get to follow a woman clad in a VERY yellow bikini,
travelling Tomb Raider-style through several scenes. The best part is
where she dives through a waterfall to some beautiful scenery below, and
in a spectacular finale is lifted towards the sky in a beam of brightly
lit colors. All this and a very scary snake make this one the strongest
demos of 1998 so far. The music is great, the graphics are at times
excellent.
Rise has Risen, and Mellow Chips should change their name to Extreme
Chips! Though the demo will theoretically run on 020 machines, at least
030-50 is recommended. The demo seemed unstable on my machine, crashing
twice in the time I used to test it. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Melody
English musician Hollywood and German graphician TVaan joined Axis new.
Melon Dezign 1992-
DEN Bannasoft code, ex Falcons, new early 92-95, Paleface founder, ex
Quartex, 92-94, Seen Henrik Lund Mikkelsen, founder gfx, ex Quartex,
06/92-95.
FRA Audiomonster Raphael Gesqua, music, ex The Silents, 06/92-94,
Hof gfx, ex Movement, 92-94, Mack Hamidi Amar, gfx, ex Scoopex,
92-95, Motif code, ex Alliance Design, 92, Schmoovy-Schmoov
Sebastien Atoch, code music, ex Reverse/Digital, 11/93-04/94, Walt
Brance Christophe, gfx, ex Alliance Design, 04/92-95.
NOR Benjamin code, ex Scoopex, 05/95, Heatseeker Ivar Just Olsen, code,
95, Jason Kim M. Jensen, music, 95-04/96, Vegard! Vegard Wolf
Dyvik, music, ex Balance and Scoopex, 05/95.
Ooops! Alex A.Garnier, gfx and Nam P.De Belen, code, both ex Movement,
new late94-95.
Melon Dezign was formed by Paleface and Seen after they left Quartex, as a
demo and intro subgroup of the cracking crew Crystal. They eventually left
their mothergroup Crystal to exist on their own, but I believe the game
development company Lionheart consists of Melon Dezign members. Theyve
produced an amazing array of crackintros over the years, most of them for
Crystal, but also for a.o. Ministry.
1992 - Hitman was kicked due to lazyness early 92. In december, the french
members at least Performer and Walt went to The Party with a brand new
trackdisk demo... But after talking to Lone Starr/Spaceballs and seeing
State of the Art Performer decided not to release it...and the demo was
lost forever This story was related to me by Performer, so its
definitely true.
1994 - Late in the year, Performer and Walt released the short demo Booo
II with the aid of Joachim gfx and Travolta music from the Norwegian
section.
Danes Slammer code, new early 93, Xience gfx, new early 93 and Solnova
gfx, all ex Anarchy joined the new Rednex.
Danish musician Hithansen, who originally joined from Rednex, left them for
the NEW Rednex!
French coder Performer Renaud Lerouvreur, ex Anarchy, 04/92-94 left the
Amiga scene for the PC. Ive seen his cool intro Red for Razor 1911 on
the PC, which he made with Zebig and TDK other Amiga abandonees. He left
behind some great demos for Melon, most notably Humantarget 04/92.
English musician Mark Knight formerly known under the handle TDK The Dark
Knight, ex Anthrox left the scene after securing a job in the game
industry at Mindscape. He is working as in-house musician at Electronic
Arts. His work can be heard in games like Battletoads amiga, Sim City
2000 amiga, Marios Time Machine super nintendo, Wing Commander,
Liberation, Out to Lunch, Dragonlore pc, Dungeon Keeper 2 pc, Duke
Nukem ps1 and Shox ps2. He has a website at www.madfiddler.co.uk.
Sorry for including them all Mark...
Crack Intro 1990, ECS Intro.
code: Bannasoft/Falcons, gfx: Seen, music: Tronic.
Crystal Intro Incredible 1991, ECS Intro.
code: Paleface, gfx: Seen, music: TDK/Anthrox NoisePacker 3 format.
review: Another classic Melon cracktro, this is the one with the waving
green Crystal logo in the background. The rest is pure Melon magic, with
the bouncing dot in the start and end, and the classic font. This is
quite simply crack intro history.
Used for the crack of Space 1889 reviewed. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA!
The Party Invitation Intro 1991, ECS File.
code: Paleface, gfx: Seen, music: Banana/TEK NoisePacker 3 format.
review: Oozing style and fun from every pore, this is another great
little intro from Melon. This is perhaps their first real production, as
it at least mentions the forming of Melon by Paleface and Seen. It opens
with a nice logo, continues quickly with the three arrangers names being
smashed up, and finally concludes in a text selection menu done in the
usual offbeat Melon way this had some graphical errors on the
backgrounnd, but was still perfectly readable. There is also a small
bonuspart, with some text and a logo at the right hand side. The music
is very nice.
When I first tried to run this intro from DOpus it crashed my machine
for real 00000004. I then tried to run it from the disk caches off,
and then it did work. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review!
Ministry Cracktro 1 1992? ECS Intro.
code: Motif/Melon Dezign, gfx: none, music: Matkamies by
Heatbeat/Carillon ProTracker MOD format.
review: Classic Melonstration, this has a grey-blue background, over which
several spinning 2d vector stars appear in a half-circle from bottom left
biggest to top right smallest. Text comes in from the right bottom
side. Classic chiptune by Heatbeat. This review is duplicated in
Ministrys entry, with additional information only important to that
group. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Bomb 1992, ECS File.
code: Performer, gfx: Hof logo, Seen font, Walt design, music:
-Ripped- from the game Magic Pockets.
review: A nicely designed little intro, with a stonkingly cool opening
Bomb logo by Hof and a bouncing, small Ollesboll : in the main
part. The rest is just text. This intro was Gengis inspiration for the
name of the group Bomb, which would also at one time feature graphician
Hof as a member... glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Needs KillAGA, still crashes on exit.
Humantarget 1992, 18.04, ECS Trackmo.
code: Performer, gfx: Walt, music: Static/Rebels.
Released at the Eastern Conference 92.
review: What little I have seen of this is quite excellent. Seamless
design, nice graphics and excellent music...however, on my setup it just
freezes after the melon. logo bounces on the jelly vector. Too bad,
since what I saw was really great! Caches off doesnt help, naturally.
Ill get back to you when I get my hands on an inferior meachine :D
I have often seen this misspellt, where the title is split into two
words, Human Target. Fact is that everywhere it appears in the demo
at least the parts Ive seen : its in one word.
Performer told me that the demo does not work on A1200s, likely because
of an interrupt problem. It should work satisfactorially in emulators.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review!
Bodil 1992, mid?, ECS File.
code: Bannasoft, gfx: Seen, music: Audiomonster.
Info Freako 1992, mid?, ECS File.
code: Bannasoft, gfx: Seen, music: Audiomonster.
info: Invitation intro for The Party 92.
S.O.S. 1992, 29.06, ECS Disk.
code: Bannasoft, gfx: Seen, music: Audiomonster.
5th in the Hurricane Party 92 demo competition.
Review: Not much here, Im afraid, since it wont load past the intro on
my machine : Caches off has no effect. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Shows intro, loads next part, then crashes.
Anniversary 1992, .10, ECS Intro.
code: Performer, gfx: Walt, music: TDK/Anthrox.
Prism 1992, late, ECS Trackloaded Slideshow.
code: Performer, gfx: Mack, music: DeLorean.
review: Coooooooool! This slideshow details a portion of Macks work from
1990-92. There are 22 pictures here, selectable from a menu, ranging from
bad to excellent. The best pictures IMHO are Sarah-Yama, Spiritual
Melon, Medusa and Liquor Caza. Some of these pictures have been seen
before, ofcourse, a.o. in Alliance Designs demo Substance 04/91.
Mentioned in the Bomb intro as having a release date around September.
No apparent problems with running, apart from the fact that the intro
runs so fast the pink elephants dont quite have time to come onscreen
before the menu appears. Also, the music bugs a little. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
The Tetris Intro 1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Bannasoft, gfx: Seen, music: Mark TDK Knight.
Winner of The Party 92 40k intro competition!
review: Pure style. What sets this intro apart from the rest is simply
this. It did feature some interesting coding ideas also, but mainly, it
was the design, the music and the experience that made Tetris a great
intro. Just simply oldskool perfection. glenn
Booo 1993, early, ECS File.
code: Performer, gfx: Walt, music: Uncle Tom, Heatbeat.
info: This is HIGHLY sought after! Music by UNCLE TOM and HEATBEAT looks
like something out of a wet dream for a demoholic like myself. Will trade
nearly anything
How to Skin a Cat 1993, 29.05, ECS Trackmo.
code: Slammer, gfx: Solnova, Mack, music: Nuke/Lemon.
3rd in the TCC93 demo competition.
680xx Convention Intro 1993, 02.08, Intro.
Released at the 680xx Convention 1993.
The Romantic Demo 1993, 10.08, ECS Trackmo.
code/music: Bannasoft, gfx: Hof, Mack, Walt.
3rd in the Assembly 93 demo competition.
GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
Crayon Shinchan 1993, .11, ECS Trackmo.
code: Schmoovy-Schmoov, gfx: Walt, music: Audiomonster.
Mind Expanding 1993, 28.12, ECS File.
code: Schmoovy-Schmoov, gfxmusic: Walt.
23rd in The Party 93 demo competition.
info: In order to run it on the A500, I had to decrunch the executable
first in order to have enough memory.
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
Where Is My Conscience? 1994, 24.04, ECS 64k Intro.
code: Schmoovy-Schmoov, gfx: Walt, music: Ukulele.
2nd in the Saturne Party 94 64k intro competition.
review: Okayy... The BEST thing here is undoutedly Walts cool cartoon-
style opening picture of a man with an excessively large nose. It goes
on with traditional Ukulele weeeeeird music to a text writer, with some
messages like My conscience is clear. I never use it. The music picks
up speed as a 1-bitplane representation of a woman spins in the
background, until it finally reaches its cresencendo and - ITS
SUPERWOMAN! Enough said. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Acidtrip 1994, 24.04, ECS File.
10th in the Saturne Party 94 demo competition.
The Birthday Party Invitation 1994, mid, ECS File.
code: Bannasoft, gfx: Seen, Walt, music: Nintendo by Heatbeat.
Invitation to Melon Dezign - The Birthday Party.
review: Melon presents an excellently made intro here, with very nice
graphics. The childish style suits them to a tee, and gives an overall
feel of something a little different. Nice. This intro is also known as
Cannabis, probably because the executable file name is Cannabis.exe.
The intro never mentions a release date or even in what year this is
supposed to take place. However, the line AGA has been out for a year
now seems to indicate this is from 1994. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Booo II 1994, late, ECS File.
code: Performer, gfx: Walt, Joachim endpic, music: Booo 2, Rune Went
Mad and Joachim.Uff by Travolta Tracker Packer 3 format.
review: Booo II is a french-norwegian coproduction, unlike its
predecessor Booo 93 which was french-finnish. The basic team of
Performer code and Walt main graphics remain though. This reviewer
will refrain from guessing what drugs inspired Booo II, but only mention
that its a good little demo. If weirdness is your cup of tea, then this
little number will be sure to satisfy. Rather than have all the music in a
single mod, for some reason its here in three parts... The great end
picture by Joachim was reviewed in an old issue of ROM... All parts can be
paused with the right mouse button. The intro- and endpicture
introductions cute characters are all ripped from the game Pang!
I have seen mention in some places that this demo has problems with 040
processors, and I assume that the same is true for 060. The demo needs
KillAGA or equivalent to work on machines with AGA chipsets. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Imaginary Demo 1994, late.
Shes Never Been Loved 1994, late.
Jack 1994, late.
Ninja 1994, 28.12, ECS File.
code: Ivar Heatseeker, gfx: Joachim, music: Jason.
7th in The Party 94 demo competition.
info: A follow-up, Ninja II, was later released on the PC in cooperation
between Melon and Scoop.
Planet M 1995, .07, AGA Trackmo.
code/gfx: Nam Alex, music: Groo.
Winner of the Somewhere in Holland 95 demo competition!
review: Women will not appreciate this demo. There are a few things in
here that are in bad taste... and that goes for the design as well as the
sexist stuff! But really, the naked women were unnecessary. As for the
rest of the demo... The first part is best. The way the Melon logo
dissolves and the animated womens faces in consistence with the music is
a very good beginning. It created an atmosphere which was totally crushed
seconds later by a tasteless loading picture. Shame on you, Melon.
The music is a hard-hitting demo tune in the tradition of Jesper Kyd or
Static, and does its job well. Shame about the rest of the demo.
It actually won a demo competition, beating another Melon demo, BAYGON,
which came 2nd. The competition must have been abysmal. Does this really
require AGA? glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Baygon 1995, .07, Trackmo.
code: Bannasoft, gfx: Walt, music: -sampled-.
2nd in the Somewhere in Holland 1995 competition.
review: How anyone could prefer badly digitized ugly naked women to this
is beyond me. This is a much better demo than Planet M, who won the
competition! Where Planet M is tasteless, Baygon is brimming with style!
Its a celebration of times gone of sorts, with some Space Invaders
imagery etc. present. If the producers of Planet M and this had joined
together to create ONE demo, just think what a great Melonstration it
could have been!
The music is just a sample loop with some vocals, which gets repetitive
too quickly. A little variation would have been in order. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Melkedemo 1996.
Competed at Kindergarten 6 demo competition.
Melone
Intro 1993, 02.08, Intro.
4th in the 680xx Convention 1993 demo competition.
Melting Pot
Fade 1996, 27.04, Demo.
7th in the Saturne 96 demo competition.
Mentasm MTS, 1992-
FRA Cash Jean-Marc Fournier, gfx music, 06/92-04/96, Gary Copper code,
11/96, Gun David Gagnerot, swap, Kyle gfx, 09/93-11/96, Mindfuck
music, 12/93-11/96.
French Charts 1 Charts.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Ocean Memories end by Cash and Mindfuck.
Buggy Balls 1994, 28.12, Demo.
20th in The Party 4 demo competition.
Outburst 1996, 02.11, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Gary Copper, gfx: Kyle, music: Mindfuck.
13th in the Saturne 4 64k intro competition.
review: What is it with these Saturne voters? 13th!? This is an excellent
intro! Granted, it probably looks a lot better on the small screen, but
there are some quite great effects here, like the water stuff and the
good voxelspace routine. Great! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Metallians
SWE Zin sysop ABIGAIL.
USA Lord Arthur sysop FIRES OF HELL, 04/95.
Swedish trader Zany joined Noxious.
Mexx
GER Einstein music, 12/94, Murdog stopswap 08/92, Red Rebel, Scream.
USA Eddie The Head sysop THE CARNIVAL, 01/93, Flea sysop MINOR
THREAT, 01/93, Night Fly sysop FIRST OFFENSE, 01/93-04/95.
??? Proton ex Damian.
Ace got kicked.
German coder Detector joined Platin.
The Germans Speed ex Devil/The Dark Demon, Crazy Crack code, 11/91 and
RTD joined Complex. Crazy Crack is the coder of the utility Tracker
Packer, which therefore became a Complex production.
German musician TDMF ex The Dark Demon joined Dreamdealers.
German Airwolf was kicked.
Scampy joined TSB.
MGD
Dimension 1996, 27.04.
2nd in the Saturne 96 demo competition.
Midnight Sun MNS
FIN Apollo swap, old handle Leaper, late90, Delay 93, Diabolos swap,
08/90, Dunk code, Germ Riku Kosonen, code, Haunt swap, 93, MJJ
93, Oswald gfx, Phobos swap, late90.
Hijack joined Grace.
Finnish musician Swantti changed handle to Swan and joined Analog.
The group was reorganized, and Finnish members Farou code gfx, Fenrir
gfx, Mc Shy D gfx swap, Diabolos swap and Black Rider Sami Keiski,
swap were relieved of their membership.
Midway
SWE Sputnik Jonas Jonsson, swap, ex Defiance, new SLH11GEN6.
??? Gipsy King ex Amaze, new pre 07/92.
Mighty Confusion
Crysalis 2 Intro.
Code: Slaughter, Gfx: Ellynn, Music: Exceed.
Millenium
Millennium was a finnish demo group that eventually died when they merged in
Tulou with members such as Dr.Strangelove, Sauron and others.
Hata Livet 1996, 16.06, Demo.
3rd in the Remedy 96 demo competition.
Mindkillers
GER Guru swap, ex Highlander/Celtic, new 07/90, Koto swap, ex
Highlander/Celtic, new 07/90.
1990 - The group grew around july, when the two german swappers Koto and
Guru joined from the Celtic subgroup Highlanders.
Mindpop
SWE Angest sysop TRANCE LAND, 01/95.
Ministry 1992-1993
ENG Kitaro supply sysop MILLENNIA, ex Skid Row, Splatt sysop SPLATTER
HOUSE, ex Fairlight, Tex Axile sysop OFFSHORE, 92, Zelnik
Henrik, founder.
SWE Princip sysop INTERCHANGE, ex Kefrens, 92.
SWI Sabber ex Fusion.
USA FreejackMalachaiRadarProtocolAmok sysops DYER MAKER, 92,
Nosferatu sysop DANSE MACABRE, ex Skid Row, 92, PE! sysop ICE
STATION ZEBRA WHQ, ex TKK, 92, POW sysop APOCALYPSE, ex
Fairlight.
??? Adventurerer, Bathory, Driver, FFC crack sysop, ex Skid Row,
early93, GT One sysop ALTERED REALITY, Maelstrom ex Interpol,
new early93, Munchie supply, ex Crack Inc, 92, Onyx crack, 92,
Pegasus trade, ex Zenith, The Z, Venom ex Thrill Kill Kult.
Boards TERMINAL FROST usa, 92, FIRST ACTION bel, 92, HALLOWED POINT
swi, 92, LAST STOP B4 HELL swi, 92, THE MANSION eng, 92,
DIABOLIKA ita, 92, ANTE OMNIAN ita, 92, SCHIZOPHRENIA ger, 92,
UNFORGIVEN BBS ger, 92, PRESUMED INNOCENT ger, 92.
Ministry was the new big cracking group formed by previous members of
Crack Inc., Nemesis Action Man, N.O.M.A.D, Zelnik and TKK Obituary in
1992 when those groups fell apart. The group had members in Belgium, USA,
Germany and the UK. They were probably the strongest cracker group since
Crystal and the old Skid Row. For a while, Vanish was their demo division.
After Ministry died, Scottish supplier and one of the founders Action Man
left the scene.
1993 - This year the groups UK Section released what was probably the
first ever crack of an AGA game Zool A1200.
SSR Selim, Subzero, Rudi is a small German subgroup who emigrated from
Skid Row/Crack Inc. Selim Rudi crack and are sysops of THE JAM, while
Subzero is the supplier and musician.
Englishman Enforcer left.
Selz, Phoenix and Taxman were kicked.
Obituary ex Thrill Kill Kult left.
The American board WORLD CHAOS 92 left.
German sysop Sagor TOTAL KAOS, 92 joined Fairlight.
Ministry Cracktro 1 1992? ECS Intro.
code: Motif/Melon Dezign, gfx: none, music: Matkamies by Heatbeat/
Carillon ProTracker MOD format.
review: Classic Melonstration, this has a grey-blue background, over which
several spinning 2d vector stars appear in a half-circle from bottom left
biggest to top right smallest. Text comes in from the right bottom
side. Classic chiptune by Heatbeat. This review is duplicated in Melons
entry, without information specific to Ministry.
Used for Ministrys crack of Reach for the Skies supplied by Kitaro.
It is highly likely that this intro was only used by the German section.
No indication as to date of manufacturing, but probably sometime in 1992.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Miracle
TUR Bloody 11/93, Kris code gfx edit Eternal, ex Movement, later
Rebels, 11/93, Orion swap edit Eternal, ex Movement, later Rebels,
11/93, Rascal swap, ex Bronx, old handle Kickman.
SWE Porta sysop EAGLES NEST, 09-10/90, Sauron Johan Lindahl, code,
early90.
Boards INNER CIRCLE usa, 09/90, PLAQUE usa, 09/90, PLEASURE CITY swe,
09/90.
Miracle was a demo and crackingr group based primarily in Turkey and Sweden.
1993 - Saurons game Deep Core featuring music by Danko/Phenomena was
released this year.
Eternal 2 1993, .11, ECS Trackloaded Diskmag.
code/gfx: Kris, music: Trip To Heaven by WOTW/Essence.
review: With the second issue of Eternal, Kris Orion have certainly made
a solid product IMHO. Everything looks top-notch, from the feel of the
mag to the excellent graphics. There is perhaps not enough clipart, but
apart from that - no complaints. Contents look well organized, with about
a 50-50 mix of interesting and not so interesting articles. The music is
excellent, though a little on the short side for a diskmag tune. There are
also a few interesting attempts at development here, for example in the
animated backgrounds of the charts section, and the animated bullets used
in some of the articles. The thing that makes these work here is that
theyre only used sparingly, and never defracts from the reading
experience. There are a couple of mistakes in the news section Dot never
left Bronx, Skywalker joined Cryptoburners and not Crusaders, BARON
R5/Desire should be Ramon B5..., and a few instances of news that are
close to a year old, but then again what mag can claim not to have one or
two of those? It is a little irritating though, since it makes it hard to
trust these news... A very nice, if not groundbreaking mag. Approved.
glenn
GLE tested UAE /000-7 /2mb chip, 0mb fast/3.1.
Mirage UK
ENG Stu swap, 06/91, Turbo org, 01/90.
Mirage UK is a totally English group, and has nothing presumably to do
with the later group called Mirage.
Mirage
HOL Blo Benno, code gfx music, 12/92-04/95, Candyman and Optimize sysops
BAGHDAD CAFE, both ex Scoopex, later Legend?, new late91,
Crackerjack code, ex Axis, new 08-12/92, Jack internetorg code,
04-07/95, Jake sysop NO VEGETABLES, 04/95, Magic editor, ex
Applause, Protec Elrich, code, 12/92-07/95, Retep gfx editor sysop
MASS APPEAL, 12/92-07/95, Tomcat raytrace editor, 04/95.
SWE Norad sysop ACES HIGH, later Unicorn, 10/93, Renko cosys
ACES HIGH, Rohan cosys ACES HIGH, later Unicorn.
GER Head Timm, code, ex Alcatraz.
??? Fabian music, 92-07/95, Thug gfx, 04/95.
Mirage will probably be most remembered as the group behind the message mag
Chit Chat, and the group where Danny released his slideshow :
1995 - Dutch swapper Sascha left for Mellow sometime between january and
april. The years first issue of Chit-Chat was released on the first of
april, with a new coeditor - Magic from Applause, previous editor of
Applauses mag Thing. Magic did not stay in the group long, but in the
short period of time he was a member, he brought with him a LOT of
controversy. He left the group just before the Somewhere in Holland party in
early july, on highly unfriendly terms, and joined TRSI. Mirage later
released an anti-magic intro, and there was also an article is Essences
ROM 5 concerning the matter. No further issues of Chit-Chat were ever
produced.
Dutch graphician Danny joined Anarchy. He released a slideshow called
Forgotten 92 in Mirage before leaving.
Tilburg Copy Party Invitation 1990, 22.12, ECS Intro.
Cooperation with Vision details
Chit-Chat 1 1991, .06, ECS Mesagebox.
Forgotten 1992, ECS Slideshow.
code: Crackerjack, gfx: Danny, music: Fabian.
Released at the Prime 92 party.
Chit-Chat 3 1992, early, ECS Filemag.
INT - codegfxmusic: Blo.
MAG - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Enlightenment.pro by Jester/Sanity
ProTracker MOD format.
Chit-Chat 4 1992, ECS Filemag.
Chit-Chat 5 1992, ECS Filemag.
Chit-Chat issue 6 1992, 01.08, ECS Filemag.
Released at the Prime Party 91.
Chit-Chat issue 7 1992, .10, ECS Filemag.
Chit-Chat issue 8 1992, 27.12, ECS Filemag.
code: Protec, gfx: Hof/Silents title, Facet/Anarchy main, Turbo/bronx
cliparts, music: Juicy Fruit by Jester/Sanity 4ch MOD format,
editors: Tomcat, Retep. Released at The Party 92.
review: CC 8 opens with a STUNNING title picture by Hof, and continues
into a nice magpart. The font is not unlike the eurocharts font, and is
nicely readable in pastel colors. Jester is one of my favourite musicians,
but his tune for this mag is a little bland... This is really a
messagebox, but this time features some cool articles too... The pictures
at two sides of the panel is a real nice idea, and affords the mag some
identity of its own! Nicely done, with more to read this would be a GREAT
mag! Worth the download for the picture alone.
Some text in the mag suggests an intro by Crackerjack, but I have only
the mag executable... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: Needs KillAGA!
Chit-Chat 10 1993, Diskmag.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Basic Instinct by Jester/Sanity.
Chit-Chat 14 1994, 30.12, AGA Diskmag.
information: The release date is a rough guess, based on comments in CC
15 that it was prepared for The Party 5, but released a few days after
due to a few bugs.
Chit-Chat 15 1995, 01.04, AGA Multifile Diskmag.
code: Protec, gfx: Titan/Bomb title, Danny/Spaceballs main, music:
Junkie by Virgill/Essence The Player 6.0A format, editors: Magic,
Retep, Tomcat.
review: CC has become a nicely designed diskmag, with a good selection of
articles. The mags original messagebox functions are now more of an
afterthought than the real attraction. The size of the mag is a problem,
though, with the relatively low amount of articles and just one tune, this
mag should NOT take more than a single disk...instead it fills nearly two!
We suspect the gallery section has a lot of the blame for this. The mag
comes on two disks, but can be easily installed on a harddisk.
Unfortunately, this would prove to be the final issue. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Models Inc 1995, 09.07, AGA 40k Intro.
code/gfx: Protec, music: Fabian.
5th in the Somewhere In Holland 95 intro competition.
review: Again a little limited, though perhaps less so than the other
intro. This one features digitized pictures of actresses from the TV
series Models Inc. This is essentially another one-routine intro, with
some bitmap manipulation being performed on the actresses faces, as
well as a texturemapped cube with even more mugs. Quite unexciting,
actually... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
SIH95 Intro 1995, 09.07, AGA 40k Intro
code: Jack, gfx: Diesel8 logo, Retep, music: Hollywood.
8th in the Somewhere in Holland 95 intro competition.
review: Quite limited this, with only a morpher/ripple routine on a face
as its only real effect. Other than that, theres just a nice logo and
some music. Too limited to have any real impact. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Miranda
NOR Devastator Peter Salomonsen, code music, later Pure Metal Coders, 90.
FIN Mellow-D ex Starfader/Vision, new 12/90.
??? Metalmind gfx, Outrager gfx.
Miranda was a Norwegian demo group. When they died, Dr.Feelgood joined Pure
Metal Coders.
Beyond Imagination Demo.
codemusic: Devastator, gfx: Outrager, Metalmind, music: n/a.
Mirror
Beeper joined Renegade.
Model old 1991-1992
GER Bob Duncan sysop HILTON PALACE WHQ, late91.
??? Ghost, King Cobra, Lowter, Porta, Sauron, Stalk Design.
Model was a new cracking crew formed by Skywalker in 1991 after he left Skid
Row.
1991 - Founder and coder Skywalker left to be independent late in the
year, but later joined Nemesis. Late 1991 or very early 1992, the group
itself died. Germans Angeldawn gfx, Autopsy editor, both ex Jump and
Tiger swap, ex Possessed all joined Scoopex, taking with them the chartmag
World Charts.
World Charts 4 1991, late, ECS FileChart.
code: n/a, gfx: Angeldawn, music: Utopia Ingame 3 by n/a.
review: This is the first and only World Charts released under Model, by
members previously from Jump. If you want to know how it works and looks,
see the reviews of previous issues under that group! There are a *few*
changes though, like Angeldawn now getting credited for graphics! Still no
credits for any of the other participants, though. The category for group
of the year leads me to believe this was likely released very late in the
year, possibly even december. The next issue was released under Scoopex.
Model new
FRA Furio gfx, 12/93, Kriss moral support, 12/93.
??? Skywalker code.
First Demo 1993, 28.12, ECS Trackmo.
code: Skywalker, gfx: Furio, Deckard/Disaster demo pic, music:
Moby/Sanity game, Pearl Craftman/not Model : demo.
Split 27th in The Party 93 demo competition.
Review: This demo is split into two parts. First theres a demo of a game
theyre making, which runs for a little while before it boots the main
demo part. Nothing outstanding about the demo as such, its just an
average no-frills production.
Compatibility proved to be a problem. It works fine except for a few
graphical and musical errors in the game part for a good while into the
demo part. Then it suddenly just gurus without further warning.
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: See review.
Moment 22 M22
SWE Agamemnon code sysop INFINITE POWER, 12/94-06/95, Elf Sven-Erik
Ceedigh, music, 12/94, Firelite code, 12/94, Grid gfx, 12/94,
Ragman sysop 22 ACACIA AVENUE, 01/95, Skutt code gfx, later
Limited Edition, 12/94, Tracing Lords sysop THE BACK ROOM, 12/94,
Vacum Johan, music, 12/94, Wirefire sysop OUTPOST, 12/94.
??? Ufo code, 12/94, Zero! code, 12/94.
Some of these people later were in Limited Edition, and Grid was later in
the Swedish division of Balance. Vacum competed in The Party 4 music
competition, but was not in the memberlist published in their other
releases at The Party...
Salvation Mind 1994, 28.12, 40k Intro.
code: Firelite, Ufo additional, gfx: Skutt logo, Grid rotzoom pic,
music: Elf. Split 23rd in The Party 4 40k intro competition.
review: Hasty but OK, this intro consists of three main effects. First up
is rather noninteresting womans face wrapped on a sphere, followed by an
effect that CLOSELY resembles the 1plane fractal stuff in VDs
Chaosland, before we finish off with a nice rotzoomer. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Shamed Reality 1994, 28.12, AGA File Slideshow.
code: Zero!, Skutt additional, gfx: Grid, Skutt additional, music:
Elf. Released at The Party IV.
review: Ok, nice! I quite like this small slideshow-thing, with rather
nice graphics by Grid. Still, he should keep on working on the hair...
Theres a good tune to accompany the pictures and the design. This is not
bad at all! Download, dude. Its no bummer. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Monk 1995-1996
Monk was formed by dutchman Jay One in march of 1995, and shortly after Sane
also joined. Thanks a lot to Sane for the complete info on this group!
1995 - The groups next recruit was swedish coder Vicious from Septic,
who joined closer to the middle of the year, as did dutchman React ascii
swap. The group was originally going to release a diskmag called Trinity
this year, with graphics by Jay One and coding by Vicious. The magazine,
unfortunately, did not get finished, and this left a lot of unreleased
articles. With the coding help of Tim/TBL, a solution was found though in
the release of Trinity - The Article Release 1 in the summer of 1995. It
was around this time that Jay One changed his handle to Chiron. Following
this, Tim joined the group as a funmember under the handle Snapcap, and also
helpe code Trinity - The Article Release 2 under that handle late in the
year.
1996 - The group made their final release with Intro To Trinity, an
intro promoting the diskmag they were STILL hoping to release eventually.
But unfortunately, in june or july of 1996, the group died after their
founder Chiron Yorick Burgmeijer sold his A1200 to Sane! and their coder
Vicious Pontus Munck had left the scene. Coder Snapcap Tim/TBL also left
the scene, and moved to the UK to work for Core Design on the game Tomb
Raider. Sane moved on to the dutch group Mellow in july, and became
maineditor of the Hokus Pokus Dutch Charts there. React joined the ascii
group Head! in july.
Trinity - The Article Release 1 1995, summer, ECS minimag
code: Tim/TBL, gfx: Jay One, music: Dreamer/Nah Kolor, editors: Sane,
Magic/Nah Kolor.
Trinity - The Article Release 2 1995, late, ECS minimag
code: Snapcap, gfx: Chiron, music: Hollywood/Axis, Deelite/Razor 1911,
editor: Sane.
Intro To Trinity 1996, ECS/AGA Intro.
code/music: Vicious, gfx: Chiron, Sane design.
Moons
??? Black Dragon music, 04/98, Crasz 04/98, Dzordan gfx, 04/98,
Raider code, 04/98.
Child 1998, 26.04, 64k Intro
code: Raider, gfx: Dzordan, gfx: Black Dragon.
Contribution for the Rush Hours 98 64k intro competition.
review: A nicely colored Child bumpmap is the only thing to recommend in
this abysmal intro. Dont. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Moonshine
Distant 1994, 03.04.
9th in The Gathering 94 demo competition.
Morbid
??? Blackline trade sysop, Captain Trip music, Colonel ONeill
gfxers, Deone gfx, Jamsam music, Java org gfx sysop, Kaneda
music, Outcast trade, Recall sysop, Rooster org swap,
Sealapex sysop, Slowrider trade, Wizard code, Wraith trade
sysop.
Morbid Angels
NOR Splash yvind Husabo, swap, Stone Stein Jonsson, swap.
Morbid Visions 1994-
ITA Alex gfx, Andy Wet music, early96, Deathbringer Antonello Pardi,
mainorg code, late96, Guru Trasher code, early96, Lex c-code gfx
music, late96, M.A.S.E. code, doublememb Ram Jam, early96, Nexus 6
gfx, new early96, Nikdom code swap internet, early96, Ruggy gfx,
new early96, The Hobbit swap, early96, The Dark Coder Luca
Farlizzi, code, early96, The Trayzer gfx, early96.
Boards EXTREMA WHQ Zero Defects board, DOWN TOWN Digital Chaos board.
Morbid Visions was born in the autumn of 1994. Both boards they list are
actually run by other groups, but with MV specific areas.
Italian coder Metal Maniac left for Lustrones early96.
Epidemo Slide Demo.
Extrema Intro.
Information: BBS intro for their WHQ of the same name.
Morgue
FIN Dr.Darkness sysop CEMETARY, 93.
MoSoul MS
??? Crusader ascii, double-member of Giants, ex Epsilon Design, new
06/96-97, Desoto ascii, Mark Ryder ascii, Nup ascii.
Crusaders ascii signature is cDr.
Moss Team
Anarchy Party Demo 1991, .04, ECS.
Released at Anarchy Easter Party 91.
Motion old
NOR DJ Devil code sysop DIGITAL JUSTICE WHQ, 09/91, Nightflight
09/91, Raider 09/91, Zniper 09/91.
Boards THE BLITZ nor, THE BLACK HOLE.
Can joined Iris.
Edison got kicked.
Siriax joined Acrid.
Kaos joined Network old.
Gravedigger sysop joined Digi Wars.
Norwegians Mr.Hat, Mastermind, Lasse, Basse, Dr.Excel sysop OUTLAND,
Bud Outrage ex Artch, Ace, Helix and Eddiksen ex Wizzcat were all
kicked.
Zneiper ex Wizzcat joined Dual Crew RAW1.
Cocoon Design was kicked SLH11 or left GEN6.
Norwegians Blazer code, Duel gfx and Madlock music all joined
Andromeda RAW3. The three were responsible for the Confuzion 09/91
demo, which came 2nd at the Razor 1911 and Imp-666 Amiga Conference.
Mona Lisa Overdrive 1990, 06.10, ECS File.
code: Devil, Mastermind, gfx: n/a, music: Mr. Hat.
. Confuzion 1991, 29.09, ECS File.
code: Blazer, gfx: Duel, music: Madlock NoisePacker format.
2nd in the Razor 1911 Imp-666 Amiga Conference demo competition.
review: This demo does not have any exit routine, but resets the machine
at the conclusion of the show. Having a peek at the executable revealed
that there is likely a secret part, which the presence of an additional
chip module collaborates.
. GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Needs KillAGA.
Motion! M!
NOR Kingpin sysop CHECKPOINT, memb of Spaceballs details, Crux and
LSD, new mid95-08/95.
SWE Wraith sysop DISCUSTIN, 09/96.
??? Sisko and Bilbo Baggins nor? 08/95.
It is highly unlikely that the old and new Motion have anything to do with
each other.
Motive
HOL Jay One later Monk, Kayo code, late95, The Wizz.
Motive was a dutch group with a few future celebrities, such as Tim.
Dutchmen Thunder code and Pervert both left to join Facets Pussy/Desire.
Thunder changed his handle to Rotox, Pervert changed his to Noodle.
Dutch coder Tim joined Spaceballs ROM4.
Movement MVT, 1993-
DEN Powdered Toastman Ronnie Nielsen, code gfx, old handle Toastmaster,
ex Rebels, 12/93, Solnova Karsten, gfx, 95-08/96, Surf Smurf
Carsten Srensen, code, 95, Tivurr Klaus Nielsen, music, ex Polka,
95.
FIN Fiddler trade, ex Punisher/Shining 8, 03/94, Jef Kalle Halttunen,
code, ex Rebels, 93, Meegosh John Kavaleff, founder sysop WASTED
TIME, ex Rebels old, 12/93, Nugget Nicklas Renqvist, music, ex
Rebels, Ruben Robin Grotenfelt, code, ex Rebels, Storm Jan
Henriksson, sysop WASTED TIME, ex Rebels, 02/93-04/95.
FRA Reflex Frederic Cordier, music, ex Rebels old, 08/93-95, SkyNet
code, 09-12/93.
N-L 911 Martyn Deykers, founder mainorg music, ex Rebels old, 01/93-95.
NOR Corny gfx music, ex Rednex, 95 and Codeman code, ex Rednex, 95.
SWE Asterix Carl Henrik Skrstedt, code, ex Alta/Rebels old, Omega Per
Carlsson, music, ex Rebels old, Soul music, ex Rednex, 95-97.
ENG Hollywood music, ex Jetset new, later Axis, new RAW6.
??? Jumbo Burger code, 95, Robotnik code, 12/93-95, TVaan gfx,
12/93.
Movement was formed by 911 and Meegosh from Rebels in January of 1993.
They consist of most of the active part of the old Rebels, which in time
caused Rebels to die. Ofcourse, Rebels was reborn in 1994, and theyre
still around! Solnova works at Funcom, I presume, since thats where his
e-mail address is... Milkshake was never a member! ROM4 mentioned that
contra to popular belief, Meegosh is still active.
Corny works for Funcom, after finally leaving the army, but still seems
to be able to find some time for the scene every now and then.
French graphician Hof ex The Silents, new early93 joined Melon Dezign.
Dutch organizer and swapper Astro ex Rebels, new SLH11, 12/93 who was a
Movement and CNCD doublememb, left them both for Virtual Dreams
ROM4RAW8.
Portwer was kicked for inactivity 93.
Swedish swapper Logic Hkan Jonsson, ex Rebels left 93.
Maza and Frenchman Xann code, ex The Silents, new early93 were apparently
never members, making their future careers a little uncertain.
French graphician Suny ex Anarchy, 12/93 joined Bomb! late 1994.
French swapper Bross 12/93 was kicked out PRP4.
Dutchmen Anthony code, old handle Magician Lord, ex Jetset new, new RAW6
and Liberator sysop MELANCHOLIC THOUGHTS, ex Freestyle, both 12/93
both joined the new Axis PRP4.
The two frenchmen in Oops! Productions, graphician Alex 09-12/93,
doublememb Impact Studios pc and Nam 12/93 both ex Dreamdealers,
new RAW5 joined Melon Dezign UPS10.
Danish superswapper The Pride ex Lemon. was kicked WHN1, and
consequently joined the new Razor 1911 PRP4.
Turks Kris code gfx and Orion swap left with their mag Eternal. They
reported the news themselves in Eternal 2, where they were in Miracle,
but didnt mention THAT in the news :-. Thanks for the clarity, guys!
Ringing A Doorbell 1993?, ECS File.
code: Teds Farm, gfx: Toastmaster, Milkshake, music: Heatbeat.
Perkele 1993, ECS File.
code: Nam, gfx: Alex, Fletch, Toastmaster, music: Core.
review: Not vey interesting really, based totally on design and nothing
on anything else : Best thing: Alexs elephant picture.
The intro credits music as from Core, which may mean that its ripped
from a Core Design game... Theres certainly no indication of anyone
called Core in any memberlist Ive seen. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
The Fishing Trip 93 1993, early, ECS File.
code/gfx: Toastmaster, music: Heatbeat.
Assembly 93 Invitation 1993, mid?, ECS File.
code: JEF, gfx: Alex, Toastmaster, music: Reflex.
Invitation to Assembly 93.
Kid 1993, 01.07, AGA File.
code: n/a, gfx: Alex, music: n/a
Ting 1993, 10.08, ECS Intro.
code: Asterix, Robotnik, gfx: Suny, Toastmaster, music: Reflex.
Released for the Assembly 93 intro competition.
Cooky 1993, 04.09, ECS File.
code: SkyNet, gfx: Alex, music: HB-Autiohalka by Heatbeat.
Released for the Saturne 93 demo competition, unplaced.
review: Certainly an unusual demo, COOKY opens with a reasonably
cool picture by Alex of a guy wearing a very weird palette :
The rest of the demo is just some text screens with small drawings and
different fonts over a background. Its nicely designed, and fun, but
in the end nothing youll remember for a long time.
On my machine, the demo refused to play the soundtrack. I tried it
with both KillAGA from DOpus and booting with OCS and caches off, but
the problem remained. Otherwise, no problems were encountered.
The music, for the record, is great! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See Review.
Numb 1993, 28.12, ECS Trackmo.
code: Anthony, gfx: Alex, Lowlife/HTL additional, Hof/? endfont,
music: 911 Promizer 4.0 format. Released at The Party 93.
review: Numbs best features is its excellent design, with great graphics
and backgrounds by Alex. The code isnt really very advanced at all, but
its entertaining and polished. Music is also very acceptable. Some of
the routines on offer is a magnifying lens, a greatlooking parallel
horizontal graphics twister and a vector cube effect, where all the sides
are transparent and their color reflects on the bacground picture of an
angel. Still, as mentioned the real star of the show is the graphics.
Text in the demo mentions it was released for The Party 93 demo
competition, yet it appears on no result lists! Can anyone clear up this
mystery for me?
While the demo itself works perfectly on my setup, the hidden part
- accessed by pressing the left mousebutton while booting, the bootblock
text says - crashes the machine spectacularly. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: See review.
Bobby 1994, Intro.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Orbit by Reflex 4ch MOD format.
3 Seconds of Delight 1994, early, ECS File.
Code: FTB, Gfx: n/a, Music: n/a
Old School 1994, 03.04, ECS Intro.
10th in The Gathering 94 intro competition.
Moxxom
Raptor 1996, 06.07, Intro.
6th in the South Sealand Party 96 intro competition.
Mroovek Zuber
NonConforma 1996, 10.11, ECS 64k Intro.
code/music: Mroovek, gfx: Zuber, music: n/a.
5th in the Gravity 96 64k intro compo.
review: NonConforma? NonExciting. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Muffbusters
Sidmania 1993, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks.
information: Contains approximately 170 sidtunes.
Multum
Anarchy Party Demo 1991, .04, ECS Demo.
Released at Anarchy Easter Party 91.
Mute 101
??? Rob ex Supreme, new 90, Shogun, Sledge, Tron.
Nick joined Warfalcons late 90.
Oliver joined Fairlight late 90.
Swedish trader Zaxxan joined Rebels old.
Their board 4TH DIMENSION is now down forever mid 90.
Mysterious MSR
N-L Warpstah org ascii trade sysop WARPZONE, 03/98.
??? Alien code, 03/98, Amiking mainorg irc-op, 03/98, Balth trade,
03/98, Bowe trade, 03/98, Corrupt founder mainorg sysop
MYSTERIOUS WHQ, 03/98, Geronimo ftp-op trade, 03/98, GregE
03/98, Gurumaster 03/98, JadeFalco trade, 03/98, Lizard code
crack, 03/98, Lopolo gfx, 03/98, Penthe music, 03/98, Riker
03/98, Rogu 3dgfx music trade, 03/98, Shai Hulud ascii trade,
03/98, Snoopy supply trade, 03/98, Viper org code sysop OUTSIDE
WORLD EHQ, 03/98.
Mystic MST, -1999
FIN Quartz mainorg webmaster sysop BERMUDA TRIANGLE, 03/98-11/99.
demo.section:
FIN SHD Heikki Orsila, code, ex Fanatic, new 08/95-11/99.
SWE Czar gfx, ex Vector, 08/97-11/99, Geezer code music, ex Vector,
08/97-11/99, Jamsam gfx music, ex Vector, 03/98-11/99.
POL XTD Piotr Bendyk, music, also in Union, 04/94-11/99.
modem.section:
FIN Mamba os/code ascii, 12/96-11/99.
SWE Amon os/code, old handle Aron, 01/95-11/99, Bobo sysop THE EAST,
01/95-11/99, Zed os/code, 11/99.
NOR Arcane ystein Sttem, sysop, doublememb Royal details, 97-11/99.
HOL Muaddib bbscode sysop, 03/98-11/99.
POL Ufok trade, 08/95-11/99.
The persons listed below are no longer members their entries have been
separated from the rest for now for an increased overview. They WILL be
combined again when I can find sufficient information to place most of them.
The split has been done at a memberlist dated 11/99:
demosection
FIN Brainlock Mikko Vauhkonen, raytrace, ex Fanatic, new 08/95-08/99, Doc
Mika Porspakka, gfx, ex Fanatic, new 08/95-08/98, Mike Mikko Kaila,
org trade gfx, ex Defiance, new 01/95-08/99, Mistral gfx, ex
Parallax, new 96-03/98, Stezotehic ascii, 03/98, Zeus ascii,
12/96-03/98.
SWE Claw 3d, 03/98, Daizl Kenneth Jonsson, music, 03/98, Faust gfx,
03/98, Kermit code, 03/98, Merko code, 03/98.
DEN Hexagon code, doublememb Puzzle details, new ROM9-03/98, Phonetic
gfx raytrace, ex Puzzle, new 96-08/99.
POL Madd org gfx, new 03/98, Mustafa gfx, new 03/98, P242 3d, new
03/98, Sixtus music, 03/98.
HUN Rendall gfx, ex Impulse, 03/98.
modemsection
SWE Reactor trade, 03/98.
GER Andi sysop DIABOLOS, 04/95, Red Alert sysop ADDICTION, 04/95.
POL Fjurer trade, 03/98, Lolo trade, 03/98, Mehow trade, 03/98,
Prefix trade, 03/98, Trash Head swap trade sysop, ex TRSI, 95-
03/98, Walek trade, 08/95-03/98.
SLO Skate Bob trade, 03/98.
USA Don Dog code sysop BOGUS EXCEPTION, 04/95-03/98.
mixed
POL CBM80 Paul Hernik, code, ex Beta Team, 08/94, DPJ 08/95, Easy Rider
org sysop MAMBA, 93-02/96, Gunman Adam Bakalarz, gfx swap, ex Mad
Elks, 08/94-03/95, Jezo gfx, 03/95, Larsen Tomasz Oszczepalski,
code, ex Beta Team, 08/94, Mars Andrzej Marcjasz, swap, 05/94-03/95,
Melon Marcin Banasiak, doublememb Flying Cows Inc., late 96, MSS
Zenon Depta, code, 03/95, Reset gfx raytrace, ex TRSI, 03/95, Yasiu
code, 02/96.
FIN Speck Mika Aho, music, ex Fanatic, new 08/95-08/96, StN trade,
doublememb Alpha Flight, 03/94.
SWE Axy trade, Hotshot crack train trade.
NOR Superted gfx music, ex Grotesticle, new 96.
??? Axe founder, Bartesek music, ex Casyopea, new late95, Billy ex
Depth, new 06/96, Charon code, 05/94, Jackal gfx, Ninja swap,
Peja pol? 02/96, Sagrael swap, ex SAF, Tedy code, The Knight
swap, Zed doublememb Digital Corruption details, 11/96.
Mystic was formed in the early 1990s by Axe, and was a mainly illegal/modem
based crew until the establishment of their demo section in Poland,
organized by XTD. Since then the demo section has been reinforced with
talented members from Finland, Norway and Denmark. When Axe decided to
stop, the dutch Killraven took over, and today Mystic is organized by Finn
Quartz. Easy Rider, the original Polish organizer, has now started a Mystic
on the PC too, which has nothing to do with the rest of the group.
Their recruitment of the french division of Essence, producers of the two
excellent demos Makaveli and Thug Life, was a brief experience since
they decided to leave again, to reform their old group Skarla! Their
DayDream door division consisted of Peja, Easyrider and Yasiu.
1995 - Polish graphician CIA 03/95 joined Freezers early in the year.
Finnish musician Slice new between 05 and 08/95 joined Nerve Axis late in
the year, and has since risen to fame in that group under the name Ganja.
1996 - Seb McKein joined Asphyx in june.
1997 - Visual gfx left for Freezers.
1999 - With the release of their 3rd placed Megademo 08/99 at Assembly
99, they announced that this was their very last ever production on the
amiga. They are therefore declared dead as an amiga group. Their homepage,
http://amigascne.org/mystic, is now also gone from the web.
Sysops Steve ger, THE CRYING FIELDS, and Borre swe, OUT OF SPACE,
12/93 were both kicked.
Jeremy doublememb from Mad Elks left the scene.
Polish graphician Yoga joined Freezers.
English musician Hydlide joined Defekt.
Vital 1994, .05, Trackmo.
code: Charon, gfx: Cia, Charon fonts, music: Roberts/Beta Team, XTD.
Contribution for Primavera 94 demo competition.
review: Seeing Vital, I cant help but think Charon got a few ideas from
some of 1993s better demos and intros - like Kefrens Desert Dream and
Virtual Dreams Chaosland. Still, that doesnt necessarily make for a
bad demo - just a boring one. Technically, I suppose theres nothing
really wrong, its just a little identity-less. Its got no SOUL.
My conclusion would have to be: Competent coding, but unoriginal and a
little boring. Try again, though. : glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Starlight 1994, .08 or pre, Musicdisk.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: XTD.
Ilex 1994, 12.08, AGA Disk.
code: Charon, gfx: CIA, music: XTD.
Winner of the Intel Outside 94 demo competiton!
Dirt 1994, 12.08, ECS Trackmo.
code: MSS, gfx: CIA, Gunman, music: XTD.
Released for the Intel Outside 94 demo competition, unplaced.
review: This is an obscure little demo, which contain no release date
whatsoever! What it does contain is lots and lots of linebased vector,
a single filled vector cube and the best thing here a fullscreen rot-
zoomer, which should give us some indication of its age... XTD can do a
lot better music than this!
Please note that this review caters for a version prepared for
HD install, released to AmiNet by a third person. It is therefore not
give an impression of the compatibility of the original trackmo. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Atom 1994, 12.08, AGA 40k Intro.
code: CBM80, gfx: Gunman, music: XTD ProPacker 2.1 format.
4th in the Intel Outside 94 40k intro competition.
review: Early AGA intro shows coders exploring possibilities of the new
architecture. It opens with an opening logo by Gunman, before were
treated to a good raytraced animation...with a twist! In fact the
animation is blown up, while a 1x1 rendition bounces around all over it.
Next were shown a 256 color greyscale highres keftales effect plasma-
like. Then were given the credits, which is the last part. It consists
of just a text writer and some globes bouncing around. Overall not a bad
intro, though its a little short. XTDs music is kind of squeaky.
They say its the first production from ex-Beta Team members after they
joined Mystic. Since Gunman joined from Mad Elks, does this only refer to
CBM80 and XTD? Please note that this review refers to the fixed version,
not the party version. As far as I know, the only difference between the
two are in the music replay routine. If you have the fixed version, the
text-writer at the end says so. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Vision of Art 1994, 12.08, Slideshow.
Released at Intel Outside 94.
The Mask 1994, 13.11, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Dark Angel, gfx: Jackal, Jezo endlogo, music: XTD 2 x The Player
6.0A format. 5th in the Gelloween 94 64k intro competition.
review: An amazingly enerving assault of fuzzy guitars is the one thing
youll remember about The Mask - long after the memory of block
rotzoomers, bad wolfenstein routines walls only and actually rather
nice dots have faded. Quite fun that insert disk 2 joke, though.... It
all ends with an upscroller with an ok, blue mystic logo gracing the top
of the screen. The original metal tune is replaced with a similarly
irritating chiptune. For some reason there is NO exit for this intro.
Works on unexpanded A1200s. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Realtime Animation Concept 1994, 28.12, Wild.
4th in The Party 4 wild demo competiton.
information: Presented on an A4000.
Impossible Possibility 1995, 12.03, AGA Multifile Demo, 2 disks.
code: MSS, gfx: CIA, Gunman, Jezo, Reset raytraced tunnel, Yoga, music:
Survive and Ecstasy by XTD Tracker Packer 3 format.
Winner of the Primavera 95 demo competition!
review: IP is a demo that throws stuff at you constantly, keeping a high
pace throughout the demo. Having said that, this is an uneven production,
with lots of - but no real amazing - graphics. The raytraced, colorful
tunnel done by Reset looks cool, and there are lots of variations on the
rotzoom principle here - including a real impressive fullscreen one that
also waves sideways! Well, its hard to describe, download the demo and
see for yourselves Above average, but lacks a little freshness.
Originally intended for distribution on two disks, but easily
installable on harddisk with a few short assigns. Will work fine on
unexpanded A1200s. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Fear 1995, 30.08, AGA HD, 2 disks.
code: MSS, gfx: Gunman, Jezo, Yoga, music: XTD, Bartesek.
Released at Intel Outside 95.
The Demo 1995, 28.12, AGA Demo.
code: SHD, Eracore, gfx: Mistral, Doc, music: Speck.
11th in The Party 95 demo competition.
information: Runs on unexpanded A1200s, and according to Generation 23,
it contained a very powerful 1x1 envmap routine in 256 colors.
Determination 1996, 23.06.
Released at the Polish Summer Party 96.
Traffic 1996, 18.08, AGA ?MB HD Multifile.
code: SHD, gfx: Mistral/Parallax, Phonetic, Lazur/Anadune 2 pictures,
music: Archangel/TRSI, Speck both The Player 6.1A format.
4th in The Assembly 96 demo competition.
review: This was to be reviewed soon anyway, as I was working my way
through the Assembly 96 CD-ROM, when an article in ROM8 caught my eye.
In this article, lots of people were singing the praise of this demo,
complaining it didnt do better in the competition. My curiosity was
sparked, and thus I had to transfer it to my Amiga and take a peek...and
I can but join the chorus. This IS a great demo, and deserving of any
praise it gets! The star of the show here is undoubtedly SHD. This is
certainly a coder for the future, no doubt about that! There are some
amazing effects here, like the money bills dropping from the top of the
screen, to the water effects and those calculated whatchercallems full
screen thingies that look like something being poured into water and
slowly dissolving...
Some criticism was directed at the music in ROMs article, but I only
halfway agree. I think the first tune by Archangel? is a good,
functional demo tune combining the beat popularized by latter-day demos
with some of the groove of earlier demo tunes... The second tune,
however, never really came alive for me. Still, taste varies...
Heres some additional technical information, again from the ROM
article: All routines run in 256 color in 256x256 resolution, except the
texture tunnel and room, which is actually a scene from the raytracing
program Lightwave. The demo REQUIRES a 030-50, and was made with the 060
owner in mind. Also requires some fastmem. Lazurs two pictures can also
be seen in his Wild 1996 slideshow for Anadune. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
4k Intro 1996, 10.11, 4k Intro.
9th in the Gravity 96 4k intro competition.
review: A rather uninspired affair, this intro just features a spinning
sphere with the full mandelbrot fractal set texturemapped on each tile.
A small text says 4K Intro by Mystic in the top left corner, and thats
all there is. Disappointing. No credits appear in the intro or the file.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Fat 1997, 09.08, 64k Intro.
code: Geezer, gfx: Czar, music: Dune.
3rd in the Assembly 97 64k intro competition.
review: This intro opens with blue/white blurred linevectors spinning
around arranged into somekind of a shape, and after a little while a white
MYSTIC logo with blurred blue edges appear at the bottom of the screen.
Next comes a travel through a fastmoving, flashing tunnel - an effect the
intro holds onto for much too long long! Then a screen with the names of
the three makers appear, before we return to the tunnel which is now cube-
shaped. Then we see the word FAT with a flashing object moving behind it,
before the show ends with the opening effect recycled with a new palette.
To make a long story short, this is an intro that Im having problems
getting excited over the pace is too slow and the effects are not
impressive. One thing I do wonder about is the musician for this project
was legendary finnish musician Dune a member of Mystic at this time?
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Azuli 1997, 01.11, 64k Intro.
code: Geezer, gfx: Czar, music: El4 by Jamsam Tracker Packer 3 format.
2nd in the Dreamhack 97 64k intro competition.
review: This minimalistic, grey intro opens with some tvnoise in the
background and a Mystic logo. It moves on into a 3d scene/tunnel in grey
which is blocky but fast, then some credits over tvnoise. Next is
something thats probably supposed to be a scene in grey, but looks more
like a rotzoomer before we flash onto a - grey - tunnel scene with a
blinding light at both ends. Then it all ends with an Azuli logo over -
you guessed it - some grey tvnoise. Im depressed now. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
The Larch 1998, Demo.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Duskland by Daizl.
Winner of the ACG Hack VII demo competition!
Beetle 1998, 08.08, AGA 030 881 64k Intro.
code: Gluten, gfx: Mustafa, Madd, Kafel/independent additional textures,
music: Mobby. 2nd in the Quast 98 64k intro competition.
info: This requires an FPU and so cannot be executed.
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Megademo 1999, 07.08, AGA HD Multifile Demo.
code: SHD, gfx: Mistral/Parallax, Phonetic, Lazur, Brainlock, Mike, music:
Alien/Virtual Dreams The Player 6.1A format.
3rd in the Assembly 99 demo competition.
review: Mystics final ever amiga demos opens with Lazurs picture
Pegazus done in 1995, of a girl riding on a blindfolded unicorn. Then
the credits, and next is a picture of a cybered-up Bill Gates, with the
words resistance is futile overlaid on the soundtrack...then the demo
starts proper with another picture of Gates - derived from a german
wartime poster of Adolf Hitler leading his troops but with Gates face
superimposed and the windows logo standing in for the swastika - over
which texturemapped money drops realisticially from the top of the screen.
This demo uses more than a few effects recycled from their classic
Traffic 08/96, as you will soon understand :. Next is a nice but
blovcky envmap routine overlaid on a tunnel with 3d stars travelling
towards you - just slightly sad that they use the classic duck.3ds object,
which has only been used about a thousand times before...
Next up is an afterburned particle well, thats the best name I could
think of, OK? D routine, which is also if memory serves me right
recycled from Traffic. Onto a cool ripple effect as we fly around a
blown-up version of Lazurs Whirl picture of a boat on a stormy sea,
also from 1995 and finally the full picture. Next we get one more envmap
object, this time in 1x1 resolution without the tunnel and with
shinepoints, before the demo ends with an upscroll...a sad one. It
announces that this will be Mystics last ever amiga demo, and the
background picture signals the shape of platforms to come. SHD even
manages to deliver the final insult saying AMIGA IS DEAD. I like your
demo SHD but not your attitude : Was Lazur really a member here?
No information on the memory or machine limitations either in the demo
or the accompanying text files. Surely needs some fast. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Mystix
SWE Advance swap, Dork, Izi, Rubicon, Tornado swap.
AUS Agro ex Biotech, Armalite, Blitzer pack, Bullet gfx, Sky sysop
VENDETTA.
??? Illusion ex Prism no entry, Rastix, Shadow ex Prism np entry.
Boards TRANSITION aus.
The Clairvoyant joined Devils.
Stealth was later Spectral/LSD.
Australians Condor and Rob joined Kaos.
Iceman, Wazza and Dictator left the scene.
Metallic, Elite, Jim and Bytor joined Infinity.
Swedes Captain Blood and Cruizer joined End of Century 1999.
Myth MTH
DEN Enzo sysop SKY TOWER, 10/95.
N-L Crew-One, Eurosoft, THC sysop MYSTICAL PLACES WHQ, doublememb
Atomic, 03/95-03/96.
??? Crew-1 hol?, Eurosoft hol?, Kylix hol?, Pll hol?.
Boards WASTELANDS swe, 09/96.
Myth was probably an illegal group, but I do not have enough information
to confirm/deny any demoscene activity. THCs board has 6 ! nodes!
Rektum 1995, 30.08.
Released at Intel Outside 95.
Mythos
SWE Atlas gfx, later The Silents, Chevron gfx, later The Silents,
Delery code, later The Silents, Jampin, Kazar, Quartz, Seb.
Swedes Lando and Dawn joined The Silents mid 91.
Unoriginal Demo ECS File.