Nah-Kolor NAH, 1995-, http://www.nahkolor.cjb.net
POL Amiflash Bartosz Mediger, 3d raytrace, ex Inferno or Erotic Design,
08/97, Caro gfx, ex Dinx Project, new late97-09/01, Dreamer
Wojciech Cejrowski, founder music, 95-11/96, Elis founder code,
95-97, Fame gfx, 04/01, Guma swap, 97, Klod code, 07/97-04/01,
Lazur gfx, 04/01, Melon swap, late97, Protas music, 97, QBA
Jakub Pienkowski, founder swap pack Speed, triplememb PIL and
Anadune, 95-12/99, Scorpik music, 08/97.
N-L Danny gfx, ex Spaceballs, doublememb TBL details, new 12/95, Magic
Fulco Koop, founder ascii swap trade editor, ex TRSI, 06/96-00.
GER Virgill music, triplememb, new early00-04/01.
ITA Hedgehog code, 11/96-08/97, Metal Designer code, 12/96-01/98.
DEN Raze Thomas Petersen, music, 97-12/99.
ENG Alive gfx write, doublememb Digital details, 01/98.
FIN Alvin Mattias Ahlvin, webmaster, 00-05/01.
??? Acid gfx, 97, Antony gfx, 04/01, Case swap, 00-04/01, Dascon
music, 04/01, Degrysin 04/01, Dzordan 11/99, Fra gfx,
08/97-01/98, Fusko gfx, 04/01, Juen code, new early00, Mag666
gfx, 12/99, Pix gfx, 04/01, Ridler 11/99, Ripper code, 12/99,
Spark gfx, 04/01, Teo music, 11/99, Tolkien code, 04/01, Traitor
gfx 3d, 11/99-04/01, Ubik 04/01, Voicer ex Apathy, new
early01-04/01.
Nah Kolor was originally formed in the middle of 1995 by the Polish section
of TRSI to serve as their demosection - like Surprise! Productions and
Masque had in the past. However, the plans had not been correctly cleared
with the leaders of TRSI, and at The Party 5, Nah Kolor was given the
choice of being real TRSI members or leaving in favour of this new group.
The result was that Norby and Bald Horse decided to stay in TRSI, and that
the rest continued as Nah Kolor. Blaze doublejoined from Floppy to help
organize the team after QBAs recent lack of activity.
1996 - They lost a valuable asset when the Polish celebrity graphician
Lazur left them for Anadune in the middle of 1996. He did help out with some
productions after that though, like Episode 08/97. Dutch coder and sysop
Infant ex New Age left after one week late 96 because Magics attitude
was commanding everyone around. This led to him rejoining Session and
releasing an intro for them at The Party 6.
1997 - Finnish musician Muffler new 02/96 joined Haujobb 05/97. While he
was a member of Nah Kolor, he worked on the cooperation musicdisk Moments
11/96 with Dreamer.
1998 - Polish swapper Blaze doublememb Floppy joined Endzeit in june...
In November Klod won the 64k intro competition at Satellite 2 with Worms
From My Head 11/99. In the following month, at The Party they released
the 40k intro Dive 12/99, which finished sixth. Spanish musician Estrayk
doublememb from Capsule 01/98 is no longer a member.
2000 - The early year saw the release of one of the best new mags in a
LONG time, Devotion 1 00. Inside they announced that Virgill had joined
as a triplemember, that Nop code had been asked to leave and that Juen
code had joined.
Graphician Yoga joined Scum.
Polish swapper Action joined Anadune.
Polish graphician Fame 08/96-08/97 decided to end his double membership to
stay in Floppy.
Speed Packmenu 1995, AGA Menu.
code: Bald Horse, gfx: Lazur, Comanche/OBS font, music: various,
editor: QBA.
review: The single most outstanding thing about this menu is certainly
its graphics - Lazur is the Polish 1 for a REASON! The menu consists of
a single screen, where most of the space is taken up of a picture of a
screaming man seemingly having his face torn apart. On the left part of
the screen is a text display window, but the background sadly interferes
a lot with the text wouldnt it have been a better idea to at least have
two different palettes for these? At the bottom left, below the display,
are three gadgets FILES, MUSIC and INFO. The music menu consists of
three chiptunes max 50k pp for submissions, it says. Overall, this pack
gives me a good overall feel of solidity and niceness. Very good.
-- Used from issue 1, 3 07/95, 6. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Wild 1996, summer, AGA Slideshow.
Cooperation with Anadune, see there for details.
Moments Dawno Temu 1996, .11, AGA Multifile Musicdisk.
code: Hedgehog, gfx: Lazur, Danny, Fame, Tudor traced anim, Antony
menu layout, music: Dreamer, Muffler.
Spread and released simultaneously at Saturne and Gravity.
review: I have just experience the Moments musicdisks - a rather hefty
3.8 mb LHA file. So what do I think of it? I like some parts, others
less. With skilled graphicians like Lazur and Danny working on this,
there should certainly be no problems graphically! But why is the main
selector screen so bland and uninspiring when its wrapped in such
graphical greatness? The four icons at the bottom of the screen does
not tell us much, so were reduced to trying them out. I foolishly tried
the one on the right first, and was immediately told good bye. Just so
you wont follow in my footsteps, the icons do the following left to
right: Show credits, play a cooperation tune, show an AMAZINGLY GREAT
picture by Lazur - perhaps his best ever!! and exit the production.
But enough about the graphics, what about the music in this musicdisk?
Dreamers the old-timer here, and Mufflers sort-of his protege. This
means their music reminds me a little of each other... Still, Dreamer
does not feel so bound by rules - sort of reminds me of Bruno - and
Mufflers tunes always have that jazzy feel to them. These are two good
composers, and this is - overall - a good musicdisk. Hedgehogs code is
all it needs to be, but not much else. The bump mapping was nice, tho.
Will work on a standard unexpanded A1200. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Noiseless 1996, 28.12, 4k Intro.
code: Metal Designer, gfx: none, music: none.
Released for The Party 96 4k intro competition, unplaced.
review: Now, this is something cool! It opens with a cool green swirling
tunnel, which then after a short break starts to move and gets bumpmapped
in new colors - white/blue! Then some plasma-like effect in green and
purple and finally a red/white effect I cant really describe : Very very
nice. c2p and cruncher routines by Zero/Balance. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.1.
Speed Magpack 1997, AGA Magpack Menu.
code: n/a, gfx: Lazur/Scoopex main, Fade One/? hidden, music: Goa 03
by Bump/independent pack, Sonic Boom by Rebb/TM!C mag, Virgill
hidden, Supernao hidden, DSX Design hidden, editor: Blaze.
info: Used for 34 first ever issue with Speed Charts.
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Touching 1997, 13.07, Demo.
code: Klod, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
4th in the Intel Outside 4 demo competition.
The Prophecy 1997, 09.08, 64k Intro.
code: Metal Designer, Hedgehog, gfx: Fra, Fame, Tudor/The Black Lotus
face object, music: Muffler.
5th in the Assembly 97 64k intro competition.
review: A real nice little intro from Nah Kolor here, that scores lots on
its colorfulness and the smooth finish to much of its effects. Though most
of the 3d routines are in 2x2 resolution, it never really appears blocky,
perhaps apart from the very last envmap object. After a long pause for
precalculation, the intro opens with a pretty cool flashing twirling
effect :, and continues with a rotzooming bumpmap routine which looks
very cool and colorful! Next we travel into a morphing tunnel, with smooth
finishing, which magically morphs into an envmapped face object! Next is a
2x2 water ripple effect, an envmap object before the entire thing is
concluded with a NAH KOLOR logo done by Fame back in 96 as the signature
tells us. You have to press LMB to exit the intro, and when I did it
crashed my machine... oh well : This is actually quite nice... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Episode 1997, 31.08, AGA HD Multifile Demo.
code: Klod, gfx: Fame, Lazur, Amiflash 3d, music: Scorpik.
4th in the Gravity 97 demo competition.
review: This demo opens interestingly, with lots of bumpmap action and
considerable style, so its a bit of a disappointment when it crashes
after 30 seconds! I tried a couple of times too, but no luck. It even says
in the enclosed aminet text file that this is a fixed version too...go
figure. Oh well... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Ping-Phong 1997, 14.12, 64k Intro.
3rd in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition.
SideFx 1998, 03.01, Demo.
code: Metal Designer, gfx: Lowlife, Made, Alive, Unreal, Fra, music:
Dreamer. Winner of the Trip 98 demo competition!
Little Sister 1998, 03.01, AGA Intro.
code: Rio/Elven11, gfx: FRA/NAH, music: Md/?.
Released at Trip 98 in cooperation with Elven 11.
review: Not much of an effort this, a hastily thrown together intro
composed of a blocky swirly dot tunnel, a rather cool credits part, and a
Nah Kolor fullscreen logo. Not much to shout about. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Worms In My Head 1999, 14.11, AGA 060 64k Intro.
code: Klod, gfx: Klod 3d, Dzordan objects, Ridler objects, Traitor
objects, music: Teo. Winner of the Satellite 2 64k intro competition!
review: Great surprise to amiga scene society! Klod/Nah-Kolor is back on
track again. Few months ago he decided to left scene but what do we see?
Great come back with very nice intro production. So - check it out!
Worms is prepared for very speed amigas 060 and it runs very shitty on
weak cpus on 030/50 it looks horrible! First i should say its a
another 3D intro without design - only pure coders show. Hmm, so what
have we got inside? Launching Worms we notice a typical intro song,
rather fast and not releated with action on screen. First scene contains
standard curved pillars stying around a kind of lake. Moving light source
point is flying and lights surfaces in realtime. After while four red
NAH describsions appears, they arise from ground.
Second part is a well known object in water effect. This time Klod
drowns a mans head. Still moving background texture makes this scene
looking better. Shock! In another part were inside big thorus filled in
half with water. But what a water! First time i see something like that,
surface is waving and also reflects shapes of few small thorus flying
around. Looks great! Sad that its so slow on 040/40. Continue our ride
and were again on starting 3d scene, light source isnt here anymore, but
water in lake started to undulate and reflects objects for sure,
especially big blue 3D nah logo. Last 3D world contains woman person
but whats up? oh my god! shes bald! standing in front of mirror.
Camera runs around and we notice that womans body reflects in mirror - and
this is true picture, not a fake like in 99 of amigas intros where part
of screen is only copied on mirrors surface. But look! Something strange
happens with glass, its covered with animated texture. Oh fuck! Is this
devilish mashine going down? After while credits appears. This is the
end.
No logos, no handmade graphic except textures, medium music but great
and not so fast coded engine in small resolution. Thats Worms from
my head. Nothing more. Worth of Your time. kempy
Dive 1999, 28.12, AGA 4MB 40k Intro.
code: Ripper, gfx: Mag666, music: Raze The Player 6.1A format.
6th in The Party 99 40k intro competition.
review: Radar-like display opens this intro, sweeping around the screen
before dissolving into particles forming the word NAH KOLOR. Next is the
logo and credits over a blue animated backgrund and some additional words.
One nice thing about this intro is that it keeps a thumbnail of the action
in the top right corner, nice design touch. Next is a small picture of a
scary shark-like fish, which after a few moments have blue/white
lightspheres overlaid. Next is more of that blue animated background with
more words overlaid.... And then it ends. This intro at least goes for a
wholesome design in blue and white, though it doesnt altogether succeed.
A pretty middle-of-the-road intro.
Please note that the version reviewed is the final version, released
after the party. The intro uses Scouts c2p routine. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Devotion 1 2000, AGA/P96 Multifile Diskmag.
code: Mr.Tickle/Darkage, gfx: Antony/ex Dreamdealers title, Adam/DCS
main, Optic/Talent clips, music: Teis/Spaceballs, Tecon/PlanetJazz,
Teis/Spaceballs, editors: Darkus/Haujobb and Magic/Nah-Kolor main,
Alvin, Teis/Spaceballs, Makke/Visuale.
review: Certainly a nicely designed mag, Devotion screams style at you
from the first instance you look at its panel. A very clean and readable
font, and page design that looks a lot like - oh yes! - ROM - gives a
professional impression. But as we all know, the most important thing in a
diskmag is the quality of its articles. And this is a place where
Devotion excels, we really have to say. I honestly believe I have not
read a more interesting mag since ROM, and if they continue to release
issues like this, then we have a new 1 mag in the not-too-distant future.
The best mag in ages.
Not really sure about the release date, but its after Mekka Symposium
at least, since they feature a report from the party. My best guess is
around may. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Magic 2001, 15.04, AGA 030 15MB FPU Demo.
code: Tolkien main, Klod additional, gfx: Fame, Pix, Traitor, Lazur,
Antony, Fusko, Ubik 3d, Degrysin 3d, Spark backgrounds, music:
Dascon. 17th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition.
review: Well, yet another demo that I cannot see due to that dread FPU
missing from my accelerator card... In addition to the credits above,
Magic is given an project coordinator credit, and Voicer is credited
with some help They announce that what was released at MS was a
party version and that a final one will follow. glenn
Narcosis 1994-
??? Jedi, Motive founder, Neotronic founder, Quest founder, R-9
founder.
Narcosis was formed by four former Dimension-X members Motive, R-9,
Neotronic and Quest in early 1994.
Narmala Pocket
Space Cake 1993, 28.12, ECS File.
code/gfx: Arthy, Music: Shun/Liquid.
Split 27th in The Party 93 demo competition.
Nation
40k Intro 1993, 07.04, Intro.
7th place in TG93 intro competition.
Nation-X
Lobotomi 1993, 07.04, Disk.
6th in The Gathering 93 demo comptition.
Nature http://move.to/nature
??? Pipe gfx, 06-12/97, Rex 06/97.
Wannabe 1997, 17.06, Demo.
4th in the Icing 97 demo competition.
YAFK 1997, 28.12, 40k Intro.
7th in The Party 97 40k intro competition.
Kicker 1998, 11.04, Demo.
5th in The Gathering 98 demo competition.
Automatic 1998, 13.06, Demo.
2nd in the Remedy 98 demo competition.
Grid 1999, 04.04, 40k Intro.
Winner of the Mekka Symposium 99 40k intro competition!
Grid2 2000, 28.12, AGA 12MB 64k Intro.
Winner of The Party 2000 64k intro competition!
review: I cant even begin to tell you how much this is starting to
irritate me. This intro requires a FPU MY ASS!!!!!
Please note that the above review concerns the fixed version of the
intro. Requires an FPU and 12MB fast. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Navigators, The
??? The Mafiosi trade.
The Navigators was founded by Norman Bates. The group was later disbanded,
and Norman Bates gfx trade, Melodic Drama trade and CCCP code were
later in Countach and Spirit.
Nebula
ENG Antichrist org, 94, Dangermouse code gfx swap, 94, Jinx swap,
94, Manik music swap, 94.
??? Apache 64 code, 93, Candy Man music, Equalizer code sysop, Gaza R
music, 93, Gundam gfx, Impose gfx, 93, Nexus code, Osd code,
93, P.A.K music, 93-94.
Nebula was an English-based demo group, under the management of Oedipus
main organizer and founder and Antichrist. Then when Oedipus left for LSD
the group carried on for a few more months, but never released anything.
Wit also later joined LSD.
Graphician Baggpuss left the scene for a while.
Doctor Who 1993?, ECS File.
code: Danger Mouse, gfx: Gundam, Danger Mouse, music: Oedipus.
Charts Intro 1993, ECS Intro.
Code: Apache 64, Gfx: Baggpuss, Music: Gaza R.
Goingtro 1993, ECS Intro.
code: Osd, gfx: Impose, music: Pak.
Necropolis old
SPA Relian gfx, 09/92.
Relian won the graphics competition at the Darkness and Fifth Generation
Party 92.
Necropolis new 1994-
??? Barman ex Sepultura, Darklord ex Sepultura, JMC ex Sepultura,
Megamiga ex Sepultura, Ravana ex Sepultura.
A Spanish group that died about two years ago, but is now reborn.
Theyre doing a Spanish mag called Fanzine.
Nemesis old -1992
ENG Infiltrator founder, Megadrive sysop LIVING HELL, 03/92,
N.O.M.A.D founder crack, 02/92, Rotox ex Ghost.
GER Mr.Rox trade sysop SCHIZOPHRENIA, 92.
SWE Hoson swap, early92.
ITA Tom Cat sysop DARK DATA SECURITY.
NOR IT sysop CONTACT ZERO, ex Alcatraz, new pre 07/92.
CAN Devious Doze sysop AKIRA PROJECT, 07/92.
USA Loverboy sysop INVOLUNTARY DEATH distsite, Mr.Yuk! sysop DYER
MKER, Reet-Mon sysop CENTRUM distsite, fullmemb?, Wolverine
sysop CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM.
??? Amok trade, 92, Nocternal, Scorpio, TIC founder crack, XTC 92.
Nemesis was a purely illegal group, formed by Action Man, N.O.M.A.D,
Infiltrator, Zelnik, The Surge and TIC all from Quartex. When they died,
most members formed a new group called Ministry Action Man, Zelnik...
together with members of Crack Inc and Thrill Kill Kult. Nemesis was later
reformed by their cracker The Surge in 1992.
One of the original founders, UK resident Zelnik stopped all activity
early 92.
Eddie and Ice joined Accession.
German trader Pioneer was busted 04/92 for blueboxing!
Contact Zero sysop VIRTUAL REALITY joined Angels new.
Badcat joined the new Angels.
Skywalker ex Model joined Scoopex.
French Connection joined Crack Inc.
Professor joined Fusion early 92.
Englishman Cosy left the scene early 92.
Nemesis new
SWE Virus music.
FRA Thomas.
??? Cedric, Markopolo, The Surge founder crack.
Nemesis was apparently reborn by earlier member The Surge.
Boards NEWORK WHQ den, ELEVENTH HOUR usa, SUBROSA usa.
Nemol
??? Zalo gfx, 12/93.
Boundless World 1993, 29.05, Demo.
6th in The TCC 93 demo competition.
Neo
ENG Watts swap.
IRE Khul Wang Hung Liu, code, ex Nerve Axis.
NOR Numen ascii, 10/95, Zack swap, early95.
Neo was originally formed when lots of members left Nerve Axis, and needed
a new group. When Neo later died, Rombust rejoined Nerve Axis.
Devistator and Spangly joined Eltech 04/96.
Neoplasia NPL
GER Butthead music, 05/95, Cyborg mainorg music, 05-12/95, Danger D
gfx, 05/95, Doc Holyday gfx, 05/95, Janosh code, 05/95, Peace
swap, 94, Phase swap, 05/95, Procyon code, 05/95, Technoking
swap, 05/95, THCM code, 05-12/95, Wizard code, 05/95.
FIN Icebeat music, 05/95, KML gfx swap, 05/95.
GRE Alien code, 05/95, Dark Angel gfx, 05/95, Ex music, 05/95,
Neptunos music, 05/95.
Neoplasia mentioned in their intro at The Party 95 that most NPL members had
joined Crazy. This means at least these people joined: THCM, Cyborg, Phase,
Technoking, Doc Holiday and german graphician JCS doublememb Sector 7,
05/95-.
Sign 1995, 21.05, 40k Intro.
code: THCM, gfx: JCS, music: Cyborg.
Released for the Nexus 95 40k intro competition.
review: Opens with a nice NPL logo with a 3D starfield behind it.
There are some reasonable advanced effects, like the very nice
fire effect and a voxelspace terrain...but its all too blocky to make
any kind of impact. Sorry. Looking at the review of The End below, it
seems like theyve recycled most of the effects from this and used it in
that intro! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
The End 1995, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro.
code: THCM, gfx: Toxic/Abyss, music: Cyborg The Player 6.1A format.
review: This intro opens with a good logo with a starfield behind it
sound familiar at all?, but holds that effect just a little too long.
I guess its precalculating at this point, so its partly excusable - I
hate those please wait while precalculating messages... At least were
getting an effect, a good graphic and some music! Next is a spacecutting
routine, but the objects spheres, it seems are so blocky the routine is
ruined. Next theres a rather good fire effect, followed by a blocky
voxel landscape. This part is also, unfortunately, very blocky and has an
unusual choice of palette. The whole thing is rounded off with a sort of
chunky image stretcher/zoomer/thing, which starts with what seems like a
map of the world... Then it all ends quite abruptly.
Since no actual text appears anywhere in the intro, I depacked it and
found some text describing the credits. The name is based on the
filename. Also see my review of Sign above... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Nerve Axis NVX, 1992-, http://www.nerveaxis.net/
ENG Babbage code gfx, 12/96-02/98, Crash! Dean Ryan, org, 12/96-06/01,
Meson gfx raytrace editor Pressure, 12/96-08/98, Schlott Tommy
Schlott, code, 12/96-08/98, Tango ascii project manager,
12/96-08/98, Venom 12/96-08/98, Wade gfx, ex Gods, later Haujobb,
new 03-08/98, Zone org gfx www, 12/96-08/98.
ICE Jam music, 12/96-08/98, Spoon music, 12/96-08/98.
NOTMEMBSANYMORE:
AMF eng, sysop NORTHERN X-POSURE, Axe eng, org, ex Eclipx, new late93,
Carbon gfx music, -notmembanymore-, 12/96, Damage gfx, 12/96, D-Vice
aus trade music, new mid 93, Epsilon trade, 12/96, Evil C Clive, eng
mainorg, 93, Rombust eng code, re-Neo, 93, Stigg eng code, Pak
Patrick, sco music, new mid93, Carebear sysop, Corn sosys WELSH
COAST, Cyber code trade, Dark Elf code, Decker trade, new mid93,
Dreamer, Dr.Kaya ex Zero Defects, Excalibur gfx music, Gundan trade,
new mid93, Iceberg ex Alliance, John Doe sysop THE RECLUSE, KGB
sysop STARGATE, 12/96-08/97, Leech code, Leonardo gfx, Maffia codeE
ascii, 12/96, Michelin Man, Mozart trade, Neelix eng sysop LA LUNA,
12/96-08/97, Nightflyer, Phantom trade, ex Fine, new mid93, Rage trade,
12/96, Skittle code, 12/96, Squidge music, 12/96, Sarek org, 93,
Terminal Storm code music.
Nerve Axis was born in July 1992 by Telemach, and was originally head-
quartered around Bolton, Manchester in England. Later that year, in
september, several British groups split up, and Nerve Axis gained a lot
of good members. Their demo Impossible Cube 93 was the first British
AGA demo. Lots of members later left, forming the new group Neo. Among
the ones who left were previous star coders Khul and Rombust. OSD left the
scene altogether. From an alltime high of 45 ! members this left them
with 7. After some time without even a coder, things then started to pick
up. They recruited new members, and after Neo died Rombust rejoined.
Today theyre a whole new crew, and are way on their back to almost
singlehandedly reviving the British scene. Their first signs of real success
came when they unexpectedly WON the democompetition at The Assembly 97 with
their amazing demo Pulse.
1993 - Original founder Telemach left to concentrate on his new group
Ascii Unlimited mid 93. His organizing duties were taken over by Sarek and
Evil-C. Kenton left to form a new group mid 93. English coder Oedipus left
for Destiny shortly after the Destiny Communion party in august. English
coder Lando is no longer a member, but has resurfaced in Mangoo in the year
2000!
1996 - Bliss left the group for Steps of Change in april. The first issue
of their diskmag Pressure 12/96 was released in december.
1997 - The group travelled to finland for the Assembly party in august,
and brought with them a demo thats a very close contender for demo of the
year 1997. Pulse 08/97 won the competition at this major party, and
established the group as a major force in the demo scene.
1998 - In february the group released the promotional intro Sentient Ore
for Darkages diskmag Showtime 9. In a major cleanup, Ace sysop 13TH
HOUR, ZipZippy eng sysop TRUCK OR TREAT II, 12/96-, Demolee fin
raytrace sysop MOS EISLEY, doublememb Abuse, 08/97-, Turbo eng sysop
CYBERSPACE, 12/96-, Nik code, 12/96-, Nexus code, 12/96- and Icon
trade, 12/96- were all kicked in april. August came with Assembly again,
and the group once more travelled to finland with a new demo. The result was
another success Relic 08/97 won the demo competition for the second
year in a row.
2001 - In an interview with group leader Crash in Haujobbs Devotion 2
06/01 diskmag, the groups future was discussed. Most members now have
pcs, and the prospect of further amiga demos are almost nonevident. Their
coder Schlott now works as a pc coder for Runecraft in Yorkshire, England,
currently finishing up work on his first commercial title, the puzzle game
Super Bubble Pop. Zone is also working at Runecraft, designing front
screens, menus and websites for various projects. Coder Venom has emigrated
to the usa to work for a large ISP, while finnish musician Ganja ex Mystic,
old handle Slice, new late95, who left for Scoopex some time ago is in the
finishing stages of cutting his first commercial cd. Meson has probably left
the scene for good, devoting his time to the woman he loves.
Nightflyers board QUANTUM ERROR is closed, though Nighflyer himself
remains active!
Impossible Cube 1993, 29.08, AGA Demo.
code: Rombust, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Winner of the Destiny Communion Party 93!
Demons Rage 1993, .10, Demo.
code: Khul, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Pressure promotional 1996, Intro.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Get Crazy! by Ganja.
Pressure 1 1996, 24.12, AGA 2MB HD Filemag
code: Tommy Schlott, gfx: Zone, Meson, music: Azazel/TBL, Rundfunk by
Ganja, editor: Meson.
review: This new filemag actually does the unthinkable and changes the
standard diskmag layout! This actually tries a different approach to
presenting its articles than the standard RAW/ROM style! Does it work?
Yes and no. Its always nice with originality, but Im not sure when it
comes to userfriendliness. Usually, when you pick up a mag, you instantly
know how to control it since they are all pretty much the same. With
Pressure, you migh feel initially a little confused, since almost nothing
is as it usually is! Happily, however, the mag multitasks just fine,
which means I can run it in the background - which makes writing these
reviews a lot easier! :
Content-wise, however, its not that impressive. Its quite obvious
that all the truly talented editors are already writing for other
magazines Still, the whole mag reeks of a crew hungry for glory, so I
wont write this off just yet... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Pulse 1997, 10.08, AGA 030 4MB Multifile.
code: Schlott, gfx: Meson, music: 3 Minutes by Ganja, Aphrodesic by
Jam Spoon remix by Ganja. Winner of the Assembly 97 demo competition!
review: If Captured Dreams is the king of 1997, then Pulse is
certainly the handsome prince! From out of nowhere comes a gang of
British sceners, lead on by a coder noones really heard of before, and
shows the finns at the Assembly what TOTAL DOMINATION looks like! There
are HEAPS AND HEAPS of excellent, greatlooking, innovative effects, as
well as two thumping techno soundtracks and graphics that are functional.
You dont really mind that theres only one fullscreen picture, and that
its not particularly exciting, because theres so much else going on.
The fact that theres no outstanding graphics and sound are more than
made up for by the code. Pulse is almost 8 minutes at least on my
machine of some of the most pure enjoyable demo material Ive seen in
ages. Thank you, Schlott - I can watch another two hundred boring BBS
intros now
If this is their idea of a demo made for 060 owners, then I guess Ill
be able to live with my 030 for a while longer. You see, I encountered no
problems whatsoever on my machine not the slightest hint that it wasnt
catching up. One of the top 3 demos of 1997, no doubt about it. The
raytraced picture of the fish is Catching Rays by Meson, which came 4th
in the raytrace competition at the same party. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Sentient Ore 1998, .02, Intro.
code: Babbage, gfx: Zone, music: Bassbin Bangin by Ganja.
review: Nerve Axis deliver a nice promotional intro for the Darkage
diskmag Showtime 9 here, and manages to maintain their position in my
eyes as a top quality demo group. It seems Schlott is not their only
coder of some quality. The intro opens with the words DARKAGE and
SHOWTIME 9 bumpmapped, over which two moving light points travel
around, lighting a couple of letters at a time. Then the music kicks in
for real, and were presented with some of this issues headlines. The
music is a chapter onto itself, a weird and - at times - wonderful little
piece of big beat ambient techno electronic wondrousness... Try saying
that after 10 pints! Rather nice, oh yes. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Relic 1998, 08.08, AGA 020 6MB Multifile.
code: Schlott, gfx: Meson, Wade picture, music: Ganja The Player 6.1A
format. Winner of the Assembly 98 demo competition!
review: Relic doesnt update too frequently on my machine : As
predicted, its a pretty processor-intense demo, though on fast Amigas it
surely rocks! It tries to relate a story, but watching the demo that
doesnt really matter...Its all just there to showcase the effects
anyway! As mentioned, the graphics engine of this demo is heavy on the
processor, but it is also very impressive. Given the complexity of the
engine, the relative slowness can almost be forgiven. Having said that,
its not so slow its unwatchable by any means!
While the accompanying text file claims it requires 6MB fast, the system
test it performs at the beginning claims it only requires 4MB. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Network old NET
NOR Alf 12/90, Blade, Dorian old handle Agro, Duke, Felix, Headache
12/90, Kaos ex Motion, Mad ex Cult, new 12/90, Skeletor ex
Cult, new 12/90, SwEinstein Svein Berge, code, ex Cult, new 12/90.
??? Raider ex Decept.
Mainly consisting of Norwegian members, Network was coorganizer of two
copy parties in Norway 1989 and 1990. Years later, another Network
was/is active, but this group has absolutely nothing to do with the
original ones, who probably sprang out from Network on the C64.
Daisy left.
Sphinx joined Violence.
Rick joined Flash Production.
Finnish Catman joined Dual Crew.
Norwegian Bug rejoined Razor 1911.
White Hot and Savage both ex Wizzcat were kicked.
Norwegian Assassin, sysop EXTENSION BBS joined Razor 1911.
Norwegian musician Shorty ex Giants showed up in Spaceballs years later
as a coder!
Norwegian Joker ex Phobia changed his handle to Corny and joined Vision.
Norwegians Shocker old handle Beast and Yoghurt both ex Cult, new 12/90
joined Dual Crew RAW1.
Stratos Vibratos ECS Music.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Maniac and Bug.
info: This musicselector is the only known real source for modules in the
FRED format. It is perhaps worth noting that Maniac later became better
known under his real name Jogeir Liljedahl!
Watch This! ECS Demo.
Aldri I Bergen 1990, 01.07, ECS Demo.
2nd in demo competition at the Bergen Party 1990.
Network new NTW
SPA Lantium gfx, ex Goblins, doublememb Essence, new late97, Leunam
Manuel Sanchez, gfx music edit, earlier doublememb Haujobb, doublememb
Darkage 02/98, late96-07/99, Nork Abraham Sanchez, music swap edit,
doublememb Darkage, ex triplememb Massive and Osmose, late96-05/97,
Phornee code, ex Goblins, doublememb Essence, new late97, Wind
Antonio Vargas, code, late96-07/99.
ENG Darkus Lee Harwood, editor, ex Digital, doublememb Rebels, new 98.
FRA Sloody Belloni Laurent, swap, late96.
??? Blue music, late96, Cueder music, doublememb Ozone new details,
new 02/98, DJ Uno music, late96, Lapola raytrace, new late96,
Scout spa? code, 07/99, Wasi spa? code, doublememb Amiga Circle
details, new late96-07/99, Weirdo spa? music, 07/99, Xele code,
rescene 02/98.
Network made a name for themselves in 1997 by releasing their diskmag
Trashcan, causing some renewed interest in the Spanish scene. The end of
the year saw them recruiting two new members from the old Spanish group
Goblins, who simultaneously joined Essence! When Darkus joined from Digital
in mid 1998, he took over editorship of Trashcan.
Trashcan 1 Diskmag.
Trashcan 2 Diskmag.
Trashcan 3 Diskmag.
Trashcan 4 1997, .05, Diskmag.
INT - code: Flynn/ex Capsule, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
MAG - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editors: Mork, Leunam.
Synthesys 1998, 25.07, Demo.
3rd in the Euskal Party 98 demo competition.
Anorexia 1998, 25.07, 64k Intro.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Chipsanity by Dascon/TRSI.
Winner of the Euskal Party 98 64k intro competition!
Crossing The Deadline 1999, 24.07, 40k Intro.
code: Wasi, Wind, Scout, gfx: Leunam, music: Weirdo.
Winner of the Euskal Party 7 intro competition!
review: A little 40k-intro by - you wont believe it - three coders with
only normal standard routines. But therefor very colorful with nice
textures pixeled by Leunam, those give this tiny piece a sweet design but
unfortunately without special effects. Also it is only to be seen in 2x2
resolution and has a little run-time problem at least on my machine
after the credits part. The really cool thing is the 3D-effect if you
watch it with 3d-classes! At last it is a bit too short. zito
ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast.
New Age 1995-
SWE Calladin gfx, Elusive Peter Hippelainen, music, ex Sardonyx, also in
Peek pc and Smoke music, new 06/96, Fender Jonas Hedeback, music,
aka FNDR, also in Peek pc and Smoke music, 08/96. Maxiphly code.
??? Acryl gfx, 08/96, Celtic code, 08/96, Iz gfx, Penta music,
Sverker code.
New Age was formed a few days before Remedy 95 by some ex-Giants members.
1996 - The 64k intro Murr 08/96 ended at 6th in the competition at
Assembly in august. Swedish graphicians Spot and Plus8 left for Three Little
Elks in november.
Swedish musician Note Stefan Karlsson, 09/96, known for his work in the
C-Lous diskmag No Sense, decided to leave the scene ROM9.
Dutch coder and sysop Infant THE HIDEOUT, new 06/96-08/96 was
headhunted to New Age by Note. He wasnt a member for that long, before
moving on to Nah Kolor.
Everyone is Jesus 1996, 26.05, 64k Intro.
code: Infant, gfx: n/a, music: n/a
5th in the Icing 96 64k intro competition.
Murr 1996, 18.08, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Infant, Celtic, gfx: Acryl, music: Fender.
6th in the Assembly 96 intro competition.
review: The usual phong objects dominate this intro, with spacecut
toruses galore. It never goes beyond the another phong, HOW exciting
stage, unfortunately. The fire effect in the end is not particularly
convincing, either. I can control my enthusiasm. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
New Data
Ghost joined Outlaws.
New Masters, The TNM
GER Tip Armin Sander, code.
This legendary German group made many of the best utilities in the late
80s, with tools like the TNM-Cruncher being used by the entire scene. TIP
was also a member of The Prophets AG, but I am uncertain if that was prior
or after TNM... He also coded the Oktalyzer music program.
New Order
HOL Cool Ed music, 89, Marc gfx, 89, Menno gfx, 89, Silver S.
music, 89, Stranger code, 89.
??? Delta, Digital S. 89, Hightown 89, John Flash 89, MCJ 89.
Sweet Nothing 1989, ECS Intro.
code: Stranger, gfx: Marc logo, Menno little char, Wild Copper big
char, ripped, music: Silver S.
review: Nothing remarkable. Very C64-like design, and not much else.
The coder admits its his first intro. Remarkably I had no problems
running it on my machine. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Worked fine, but DOpus looked a bit weird afterwards.
New Wave -1992
NOR Bushman sysop THE BUSH WHQ, Inter City Squad code, new ca 01/92,
M.M code, 11/91-07/92, Mutant music, later Stone Arts, Xtasy Stig
A. Olsen, code.
USA Cyberbit sysop LIGHT YEARS, down RAW3.
??? Challenger, Emo.
New Wave may not be a very wellknown name, but the fact remains that their
members have been quite important in the evolution of the scene. They were
the ones that cooperated with Pure Metal Coders on the release of the first
few issues of R.A.W, for example. Their coder M.M. coded the first two
issues, and his code was also used for issue three! By that time, though,
M.M. had left for the army, and was unable to work any more with the code,
so from the fourth issue his code was replaced, and New Wave had nothing
more to do with the mag. They were declared dead late 1992.
1992 - R.A.W 2 02/92 was released in february, and announced the
joining of Stormbringer sysop of DREAMLAND, old handle Master of Noise
and Chainsaw in finland Princip sysop INTERCHANGE and Gadget swaps
joining from Cytax sweden Gadgets quick handle change to Logic and
subsequent leaving once again, this time for Noxious the joining of Inter
City Squad code in norway and Pitcher trade in Sweden and finally the
death of Bold Eagles norwegian board THE ABYZZ, which he took down
due to personal problems in his life. He was reportedly also considering
leaving the scene as a consequence of this. Norwegian coder Flesh joined
Majic 12 around mid 92.
Bushmans board went down when he went to the army, around the same time
that the group died.
Finnish Chainsaw new ca 01/92 joined LSD.
Swedish trader Pitcher new ca 01/92 joined Noxious.
Lion Trade, ex Goonies joined Vision.
American sysop Master Copy DAWNS END joined Awesome.
Norwegians Kingpin swap, Comajim music, ex Alive, 11/91 and Vimme/Wimme?
gfx, 11/91 joined Offence sometime between 02 and 07/92.
Princip, sysop INTERCHANGE ex Palace and Stormbringer, sysop DREAMLAND
both joined Shining 8.
Norwegian Hunter rejoined No Limits.
Dr.M joined Celtic.
Its Getting Harder 1990, 06.10, Demo.
5th in the No Limits Imp-666 Amiga Conference 90 demo competition.
Suicidal Failure 1991, ECS File.
R.A.W 1 1991, .11, ECS Diskmag.
Cooperation with Pure Metal Coders, see there for review.
R.A.W 2 1992, early, ECS Diskmag.
Cooperation with Pure Metal Coders, see there for review.
New Wave Inc. -1991
NWI were an English group, and had nothing to do with the largely Norwegian
group called New Wave. They died around june 1991 and Ranx, Dobbin, Optrix,
Lurch and Jaz joined Flashing Bytes.
Next
DEN Newmark.
??? Albatros, FXR ex Revolt, new mid 91, Ghother ex Revolt, new mid
91, Rhod.
Next is dead.
The French division joined Rebels.
Frenchmen Surfer, Conquest and Zoom joined The Silents mid 91.
All members of Shadows in Germany and Denmark joined mid 91.
Next Generation Crew NGC
FRA Bluesilence music, ex Eden, Clary swap, ex Eden, Gandbox music, ex
Eden, Hardfire music swap, doublememb Intense details, later
Spaceballs, early95-04/96, Matrix gfx swap, 10/93, Silk ex Eden,
new ROM4, Slaine gfx, ex Eden, Sylver ex Eden.
??? Badsnail music, 10/93, Blackbird code, 10/93, Crisis gfx, 10/93,
Cyborg code, 10/93, Fixion code, 10/93, HST gfx, 10/93, Lionel
code, 10/93, Mushies music, 10/93, Sound Aestesis music, 01/93-
12/94, Sunraf gfx, 10/93, Viper code, 10/93, Yolan gfx, 10/93,
Xulax gfx, 10/93, Zaltor gfx, 10/93.
Vade 1993, 18.10, ECS File.
code: Viper, gfx: Sunraf, Yolan, Viper font, music: Sound Aestesis.
review: Not too exciting. Theres some dot-fx and a rather uninteresting
tune. I will tear it to shreds with more detail at a later date glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Animatunes 1994, 12/10, AGA Trackmo, 2 disks.
info: Supports external diskdrives.
Nexus
SWE Byte, Hesiodos martin Berzell, swap, Scanner music, Trazzon.
??? Binkley pcorg code, new PRP4, Cyborg sysop, ex Revolution, new
PRP4, Exorcist amorg code, ex Revolution, new PRP4, Incognito
music, ex Revolution, new PRP4, Vermin gfx, ex Orion/Revolution,
new PRP4, Zippy gfx, new PRP4.
Boards MUTE STATION WHQ new WHQ PRP4.
Prowler, Coke and Hermes Martin Evvaldsson, swe swap got kicked PRP4.
Onkel Vanja 1994, 30.07, ECS File.
X-Com 1996, 10.11, 64k Intro.
3rd in the Gravity 96 64k intro competition.
review: This intro was made with DemoManiac v1.17, and therefore not
worthy of inclusion in Scenery. Just press the right MB, and youll
know what I mean. glenn
Nightfall
ITA Xad 9009 code sysop HIDDEN POWER, 92
??? Booger code, 92, DSK code, 92, Highlander music, 92, Lynx gfx,
92, Mrc gfx, 92.
The Ripper joined Polaris.
SMAU 92 Report 1993, .02 ECS Slideshow.
code: Booger, Xad, DSK, gfx: Mrc, Lynx, music: Highlander, Case/Zenith.
info: SMAU actually took place in october 1992!
Nihondreamers NHD, 1991-1995
FRA God Brozos gfx, Knice music swap, Nemo gfx, P-Chan music, Pern
gfx, Ranma Michael Garcini, gfx, Ryokan code gfx, 93, Slaine
mainorg artdirector, Solid-Snake gfx, Stackpointer code, The
Dreamer gfx, Trax music, Ys swap, Zen swap.
SWI Denis swap.
Nihondreamers was a French demo group, born in 1991. They had only one
foreign member in all their years of existence Swiss swapper Denis.
French graphician Dyze joined Bronx.
Japanime Motion Picture 1991, 2 disks.
Abunai Advertising 1992, ECS Intro.
Abunai Dangerous Demonstration 1993, ECS Demo.
X-mas Tro 1993, 08.01, ECS Demo.
Intro members list 1993, ECS Intro.
code: Ryokan, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Sol-740 Advertising 1993, ECS Intro.
code: Ryokan, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
info: Advertising for a diskmag that was never released.
Mes amis les animaux 1994, ECS Demo.
Les amis de Bibi-lolo 1994, AGA Demo.
Nikki Corruptions
FIN Duracell swap, late90, Ferro music, 07/92-93, Sir Arthur gfx,
07/92-93, Vodka, Zytax code, 07/92-93.
In addition to the trackmo, Nikki Corruptions released a few PD games.
Piece of Mind 1992, 25.07, ECS Trackmo.
code: Zytax, gfx: Sir Arthur, music: Ferro.
3rd in the Assembly 92 demo competition.
Nine Design
??? C-Real music ascii, new 04/96, Cook swap ascii, Enhanced gfx
ascii swap, Floppyman org edit swap, Hawk org swap edit, Keldon
swap trade edit sysop, old handle Mr.Fish, new 04/96, Kidnix
sysop, Max music, new 04/96, SecondPhase music swap, Zoarchus
music, new 04/96.
Linkan and Bevis was kicked 04/96.
Noice 1991-, http://www.noice.org/
SWE Inco C.A., music, 12/94, Tommy Tommy Jansson, music, 12/94, Zalo
sysop DIGITAL HIGHWAY, doublememb Session 02-03/95, 01-03/95.
Mainly a C64 demo-hacker-group with some Amiga members and an exponentially
growing number of PC coders. Founded in 1989 by Punch and Swoffa Amiga
section has been around since 1991.
Dutchman Spike new early 93 joined Silicon Ltd. after a short while.
Digital Excitation 1992, mid, ECS Disk.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: John Magi. Winner of the Svithiod Meditation
party demo competition in Vaestervik, Sweden, 1992!
Reductio ad Absurdum 1992, 28.12, ECS Disk.
code: n/a, gfx: Rocket, music: n/a.
18th in The Party 92 demo competition.
info: Hold down J while booting, then type ESUS for secret part!
G. 1993, 05.08, Disk.
code: n/a, gfx: Rocket, music: n/a. 3rd in the ECC93 demo competition.
Nolem
Apparently a joke group. Behind the handle Jordy we can find French
celebrity musician Clawz!
Graisse Antique Grece Antik 1993, 28.12, ECS Multifile.
code: Golgoth, gfx: Niklavite, Drebin, music: Missibakka.
24th in The Party 93 demo competition.
No Limits NL, 1988-
NOR Badcat Henrik Johnsen, code, 03/90-92, Baltazar Even Ambjrnrud,
founder code train, 88-91, Catch22 Lars Ambjrnrud, code, old handle
Morgan, 09/89-04/94, Colargol 90, E.X.E 03/90, Flasher Tomm A.
Eriksen, gfx, 09/89-06/90, Fugitive gfx, 92, Genius Christian Moen,
code gfx, 09/89-04/94, Hattrick music, ex Razor 1911, new 03-06/90,
Hunter rejoined from New Wave, 03/90, Magnum ex Visual Arts, new
04/90, Outsider Fritjoj vreb, gfx, ex Visual Arts, new 04/90, TWY
ex Visual Arts, new 04/90, Vega John R. Furulund, music,
03/90-04/94, Whirlwind Tor Ringstad, founder code, 88-06/90, Wizzkid
ex Visual Arts, new 04/94.
??? Goose 03/90, Jaf gfx, 04/94.
NL s a Norwegian demo group, started in September 1988 by Whirlwind and
Baltazar. I have seen one single crack from them. Their main achievement is
perhaps that they were very early, possibly the first, to code a vector bob
routine Vector-Bobs, 10/89.
1990 - In april, they were seriously reinforced when most of the Norwegian
group Visual Arts joined plus musician Hattrick/Razor 1911 joined. They
supposedly opened a Norwegian elite board called CRIME ZONE late in the
year. In october, they coarranged a successful party in Arendal with IMP
666.
Norwegian musician Croon Kristian, 03/90-01/91 left.
Viper 03/90 joined Scoopex -?- Viper joined Vision. Did Viper rejoin,
only to later leave for Vision?
La Linea 1989, 06.09, ECS File.
code: Baltazar, gfx: Flasher, Genius, music: Baby by Walkman/IT.
Vector-Bobs 1989, 15.10, ECS File.
code: Whirlwind, gfx: Flasher, music: Hubbard2 by Walkman/IT.
Winner of the Shape TRC party demo competition!
info: Also known as Vector Ball.
Spotlight 1989, 15.10, ECS File.
code: Whirlwind, gfx: Genius, Morgan additional, music: Cybernoid 2
Theme by Jochen Hippel/independent Hippel format.
Released at the Shape TRC party.
2nd Paradise BBS 1989, ECS Intro.
code: Red/Steps Ahead, gfx: Mutant/Dual Crew font, music: M.By
Hurricane by Hurricane/Linek.
INFO: Text by Softaid/No Limits sysop?.
Wave IIntro 1989, ECS Intro.
Wave IIIntro 1989, ECS Intro.
Wave III Intro 1990, ECS Intro.
code: Morgan, gfx: Genius, music: Battlesquadron by Ron Klaren/Cope Com.
Memories 1990, 05.03, ECS Intro.
code: Morgan, gfx: Flasher, music: Jochen Hippel/independent.
Wave Intro IV 1990, .04, ECS File.
code: Baltazar, Genius, gfx: Flasher, music: Andromeda by Hattrick.
info: With this intro, it was announced that most members of Visual Arts,
and Hattrick/Razor 1911 had joined the group.
Exploited Brilliance 1990, 30.06, ECS Demo.
code: Whirlwind, gfx: Flasher, Genius, Morgan, Baltazar objects, music:
Once Upon A Time... by Hattrick ProTracker format.
Released at the Bergen Party.
Party Invitation 90 1990, ECS Demo.
code: Morgan, gfx: Flasher, music: Asphyxiated by B-Zyclone.
Cooperation with IMP 666.
Invitation to the No Limits IMP 666 Party 10/90.
Import Intro 1990, .12, ECS Intro.
code: Genius, gfx: n/a, music: Jochen Hippel Hippel COSO format.
Somewhat FunnyECS Intro.
Magic Fly ECS Demo.
code: Badcat, gfx: Flasher, music: The Pestilence by Kristian
ProTracker format.
New Board Intro 1991, .01, ECS Intro.
codegfx: Catch22, music: Strange Feelings buy Croon.
New Jack City BBS 1992, ECS Intro.
code: Badcat, gfx: Fugitive, music: n/a.
Ancient 1994, 01.04, ECS File.
code: Catch22, Genius, gfx: Jaf, music: Reaser by Vega.
info: Produced during 1989 up to 1994. Released at The Gathering 94.
North Star NS
SWE Atom 05/89, Crab code, 05/89, Dragon sysop DRAGONS LAIR, later
Dual Crew, 10/90, Foetus editor, 05/89, Germ late89, GlueMaster
Lars Malmborg, code music, 90, Kaktus Anders Berkeman, code, 05/89,
Mahoney Per Tufvesson, code, 89, Odie Magnus Persson, code music,
late89, Omega code editor, 05/89, Starfire Johan Nilsson, code
editor, 88-05/89, Titan music, later Uncle Tom/Scoopex, Virus,
Zymox late89.
North Star was an exclusively Swedish demo group, perhaps best known for
their early diskmag Exceller 8 and their two members Kaktus and Mahoney -
authors of the origina NoiseTracker and some truly wild musicdisks!
Starfire coded a couple of antivirus bootblocks that acted in a way the
writers of the viruskillers didnt appreciate... They were therefore - to
this day, even - classified as viruses. Theres little doubt that Starfire
never meant for this.
1988 - The first issue of their pioneering diskmag Exceller 8 was released
in cooperation with Fairlight. Coder Celebrandil joined.
1989 - Three more issues of Exceller 8 were released, one more with
Fairlight and finally two more with The Silents. They lost Celebrandil
code to Fairlight. Swedish musician Titan contributed music to the demo
Big by the Swedish division of Scoopex. He would later join Scoopex
himself, under the handle Uncle Tom.
1990 - French section was formed around the middle of the year by members
of Brain Wave. They all finally left for Agile in 1991.
His Masters Noise ECS Musicdisk.
code: GlueMaster, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Interpol ECS Demo.
Exceller 8 issue 1 1988, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
code: Omega, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Cooperation with Fairlight.
review: Unfortunately this mag cannot be reviewed as of right now, since
it quite simply refuses to work. No amount of reconfiguration of my system
can get the blasted mag to boot properly, the best I could do was get the
mag to boot and start playing some music, though with a completely green
screen. : glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- see review.
Exceller 8 issue 2 1989, .02, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
INT - code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
MAG - code: Omega, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. Cooperation with Fairlight.
review: The very nice intro for this mag loads and runs fine, but then
gurus as you press the left mousebutton : The mag itself shows about the
same level of compatibility as last time. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- see review.
Exceller 8 3 1989, apr-may, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
code: Omega, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editors: Foetus, Starfire.
Cooperation with The Silents.
review: The third issue of X8 is a very good example of an early amiga
diskmag, with code certainly the superior of its rivals like Cracker
Journal. There is a good amount of articles, though far from all are scene
related - theres also a lot about games, movies and music. This is not
really a criticism, since all mags were full of this kind of thing back
then... Speaking of the code: X8 was almost certainly the first mag ever
to feature clipart in the articles! Graphics are mostly good, with a
special nod to the cool EXCELLER 8 logo in the editorial article. Article
selection are done like in Crack Journal and Hack-Mag, with each page
being assigned a number, and the reader just thumbing through them. This
was their first issue in cooperation with The Silents, after two issues
with Fairlight.
This mag totally refused to work on my system, so I was finally forced
to succumb to WinUAE to be able to read it! Sacrilege, I know... It
worked satisfactorily under a KS 2.0 configuration. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review!
Exceller 8 4 1989, jun-jul, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1 -- Note: See review!
No-Soul Produkktions NSP, 1992-
GER Barock Alexander, founder gfx, 92-early93, Bass Patrick Lindsey,
founder music, 92-early93, Foxx founder music, 92-early93, Lynxx
founder code, 92-early93.
NSP started life as a subgroup of The Silents, only to leave them late 92
to be a group in their own right. Bass has released several music singles
under his real name, Patrick Lindsey, and at least one single under the
NoSoul name.
Static Chaos 1992, late, ECS Trackmo.
code: Lynxx, gfx: Barock, music: Bass, Foxx.
review: Their first release, made while they were still a subgroup of The
Silents. Check out the disk from DOS, its got the main module on it!
The music sounds like someone trying to do Jesper Kyd...badly! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: The endpart has graphical errors, even after setting
chipset to original.
Nova france 1990-
FRA Arthy, Cygnus, Djiby gfx, 08/93, DTS early93, GFA gfx, Gadin
early93, Hades ex Devils, Ivory, Marc, Mr.Keel Alexandre
Kairouannais, swap, ex Devils, rescene later, 07/93-early95.
??? Header ex Delight.
Nova was formed when Nova Inc. and Voyagers fusioned. They seem to be based
in France its where most of their members and their website are.
Nova france and Nova sweden are NOT the same group!
Odin and Header were kicked out. Odin joined Gods, and
French musician Bluesilence ex Devils, early93 and swapper Clary left for
a short visit in Eden before settling down in Next Generation Crew.
Coronal joined Analog.
Lex left for Orient.
French coder Poison Emmanuel Marty, ex Devils, 08/93 got kicked. His
further scene career is unknown.
Freedom 1992, late, ECS Trackmo.
Essential Oldies 1993, ECS Musicdisk.
Intro 1993, 27.12, ECS Intro.
code: Powerbrain, gfx: UFO/Banana Projects, Lex, music: Freddy.
Released at The Party 93.
SOHO 1994 or pre, AGA, 3 disks.
Nova Sweden
SWE Fazer swap, ex Genetic, new mid93.
Nova sweden is NOT the same as Nova france!
Swedish musician Deelite joined Xentric.
Swedes Limbo ex Genetic, new mid93 and PGL ex Circle joined Noxious.
Nova Inc.
Nova Inc. and Voyagers fusioned into Nova.
Noxious NXS
SWE Boshiken swap, Cerize Peter Hanning, code, ex Strange or Voice?, old
handle Crayon, Clav music, Core Stefan Backman, sysop FINAL
IMPACT WHQ opened late92, ex Strange or Voice?, new late92-11/92,
Knotis code, 10/91-04/92, Reverend D sysop TRESPASS, new
early92-01/95, Udden trade, early92, Zanitor Joakim Hall, swap,
04/92, Zany trade, ex Metallians.
??? Dr.Mirios music, 12/92, Predator gfx, Sudden ex Spirit, Triton.
Noxious were a relatively solid, mostly Swedish demo and modem crew.
Among their founding members were Dolphin and Zanitor. Their most famous act
was probably the release of Crayons ProTracker 2.1A in april 1992, taking
over the legacy after Amiga Freelancers. Many people complained about the
early versions however, saying how they were terribly buggy and
incompatible. Later versions remedied this, but the Noxious ProTrackers
never reached Amiga Freelancers popularity.
1992 - Swedish swapper Logic joined from New Wave around january. Kazer
sysop, ex LSD stopped by briefly on his way to Defjam early in the year.
Swedish swapper Zanitor one of the founders was NOT kicked, as reported in
some places.
1993 - Swedish graphician PGL ex Nova moved on to Illusion late 93.
Swedish WHQ and musician Dolphin Anders Ramsay, 01/91-12/92 left the
scene. Since Dolphin was the WHQ, where does this leave Noxious!?
Dolphin reported in Propaganda 4 that the only remaining section was the
inactive swedish one.
Swedish coder Mr.Taxfree 04/92 left the scene.
Swedish swapper Limbo ex Nova joined Razor 1911 new.
Deshay joined Shining 8.
Inferno ex Spirit joined Palace.
Swedish sysop Rabzi sysop PROVOCATION got kicked. In an earlier intro,
they helped plug the then-independent board, so its a fair assumption
that Rabzi came from independence to Noxious.
Schizo ex Supplex joined Circle.
Shortie and the Norwegian division got kicked.
German musician Dynamite ex Analog, new mid 93 joined DCS.
Swedish coder and swapper Colorbird ex Razor 1911 old, 92 joined Scoopex.
While in Noxious, he published a pack called 800 DEGREES. It is
uncertain what happened to this after he left.
Germans Dark swap pack NoPack and Rebel MC swap, both ex Desire both
joined Interpol. However, RAW 6 claims Dark joined the new Jetset for a
while before moving on to TRSI...
Trader 24X left to join Energy.
German swapper Misery changed his handle to Skull and joined the new Jetset.
Devan joined Shining 8.
Raven ex Rage and Wild Thing got kicked out.
Swedes Portwer sysop EQUIPOISE, 10/91, Logic swap and Bratz
10/91-04/92 joined Rebels.
Dutch swapper Cone pack NOPACK, ex Spirit, 09/92 joined Gothic.
Boozo sysop INTROSPECTIVE, ex Basstech joined Submission.
Floyd sysop BEYOND REALITY, Hurricane, Pitcher ex New Wave and Xstaz
sysop ICE PALACE, ex Alpha Flight all joined Legend. Xstaz did NOT
join from Spirit as stated in EuroChart 15 and 16, he stopped by AFL first
Swedish swapper Logic ex New Wave gave the NoPack pack to Hurricane when
he left. Later Hurricane also left, and passed it on to the Dutch Cone.
When Cone left for Gothic, I guess Dark took over...
Winger ex Pirates was kicked, and therefore joined Alpha Flight with
Punisher.
Swedish sysops Bugs Bunny POLE POSITION, ex Drakpak, 10/91 and Rogue
GATES OF IMPRECATION, boardname OUTLAW TOWN 10/91, old handle
Whistler were both kicked.
Kevin Key sysop INSIDE TREATMENT, ex Fusion joined The Silents.
Bontro ECS Intro.
code: Knotis, gfx: Predator logo, Dolphin fonts, music: Dolphin.
review: This one features a classic design, but with a few twists.
What appears to be a VERY standard intro with a logo at the top and a
sinusscroller, soon proves to be a little more imaginative than that.
Theres also a textplotter for boardnumbers, and some imaginative use
of the sinescroller in the background while board adverts are plotted.
The tunes a pretty bland affair, to be frank. Im not sure about any
release date, but based on the credits and the boards OUTLAW TOWN later
changed its name its probably from the same time period as the NOG IS
NOT ENOUGH! intro. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA!
Intro 1991, .04, ECS.
Released at Anarchy Easter Party 91.
Nog Is Not Enough! 1991, 28.10, ECS Intro.
code: Knotis, gfx: Bratz, music: Huga! by Dolphin.
review: A fair little intro, made at an internal meeting just to show
their board numbers and contact adress. Theres a million of these, and
this is about average. Nothing irritates, little excites.
This intro has the most amazing compatability problem Ive ever seen!
I first tried just running it, and it ran fine but a little too fast.
It was damned hard to read the text since it was plotted so fast! So I
tried KillAGA, and - wait for this - it ran BUT WITH SERIOUS GRAPHICS
GLITCHES! Weeeird... glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: See review.
ProTracker 2.1A Intro 1992, 19.04, ECS Intro.
code: Knotis, Mr.Taxfree, gfx: Bratz, Jocke/Carnage font, music:
Dekkadance by Dolphin. Released simultaneously at the Phenomena and
Light party Sweden and at The Gathering Norway.
review: This is the intro supplied on the disk with the release of
ProTracker 2.1A. As I remember, you didnt have to rip the great tune,
because it was included on the disk as an example module. Dekkadance is
certainly the best tune Dolphin ever made! The intro itself is nicely
designed, and fits beatifully with the tune. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /,b chip, ,b fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Propaganda Intro 1992, .12, ECS File.
code: Colorbird, gfx: none, music: Exile by Elmer/Supplex.
review: A rather boring intro with only one effect a bouncing jellyball
and a text plotter ugly font! announcing the upcoming release of a new
papermag for the scene called Propaganda. Ofcourse, Colorbirds plans
never gave fruit, and the papermag project was later cancelled without a
single issue being released. Instead, it was later born as a diskmag
with Colorbird as editor in Circle. Four issues were released for
Circle and the new Razor 1911 before the mag was abandoned totally.
The release date Ive concluded with is a result of the tune being made
in october 92, and the first issue being scheduled for march 93.
Therefore this intro had to be released some time inbetween the two, and
what better opportunity than The Party in december 92? glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Note: WAY too fast, even with KillAGA.
ChipnDip 1993, 30.05, Musicdisk.
Released at The Computer Crossroads 93.
Beyond Belief 1993, 28.12, AGA Demo.
Released at The Party 93.
NSTR -1992
NSTR died. Zicem rejoined Legend.
Nuance NCE, http://www.nuance-family.de
GER Andy Andreas Dubouis, music, re, 12/97, Big-Rat Kai Hoepner, org
edit X-Files, 10/97-02/98, Evrimsson Evrim Sen, music, 10/97-
04/98, Madstop code, 01/98, Phlexible writer, 10/97, Raven Harald
Wittmaack, founder mainorg gfx, 01/97-02/98, Sunny Sonja Felber, edit
Wild, new 01-02/98.
SWI Kalikone Bregnard Alain, 10/97-02/98.
AUS Axiom code, 04-05/98.
??? Grace ger? code, 10/97-02/98, Merlin M! ger? music, 10-12/97, Miao
10/97, Odin gfx, 10/97.
People below this line are NOT members of the group any longer, despite that
we do not know when they left the group. We sometimes have to separate like
this to get a clearer overview of a group. The break here is from a
memberlist in the Wild Announcement Intro 10/97.
GER Abstract gfx, 08/93, Frenchy, Gfx-Twins gfx, Iceboy, Jackal code,
08/93, Lomex, Overdog ex Delight, Painkiller, Professor code,
08/93, Savage, Thor Juergen Kopfmueller, swap, 93, Wusel code, ex
Style, new late96.
ENG Quark music swap, old handle James, 93.
??? Mythos music, 08/93.
Raven was one of the original founders of Nuance, back in the early 90s,
and says in an interview in Insomnia 2 that he will stay in the group
until he dies! The group has some rules which must be followed no double
memberships and never more than 15 members. The now publish a scene mag
called Wild, the news mag X-Files and the chippack Trilobyte on a
regular basis! And by the way, German editor Sunny is a GIRL :
German musician Andy originally ex Damian, new late 93 once left for
Essence, and then left the Amiga scene altogether, to concentrate on his
PC demo scene activities. However, in late 1997 he returned to the Amiga
scene in his old group, Nuance!
1993 - MAD left before he was kicked mid 93.
1996 - German coder Shaken was kicked out due to inactiveness 04/96.
1997 - They announced their upcoming diskmag Wild with the Wild
Announcement Intro 10/97, and also released X-Files 19 10/97 that
month. Germans KilloByte code, 10/97 and X-Poole Marco Willemsen, org
music, ex Bonzai, new late93-10/97 were removed from the memberlist,
probably sometime between 10/97 and 01/98. December saw the release of X-
Files 20 12/97.
1998 - Swedish coder HBE ex HBS no entry, 10-12/97 left the scene
early 1998, after releasing a less than great intro at The Party 7. This
left Grace as the single remainding coder. English member Darkus, doublememb
from Digital old handle Nemes!s, early98, is no longer a member, as of mid
98. He is now in Network and Rebels.
Wellknown Belgian swapper Flynn left.
English musician Mindshadow changed his handle to Jozz and joined Defekt.
English section was kicked. The dudes below?
Andy ger music, 12/93 and Michael eng music, 08/93 were both kicked,
and consequently both joined Delite. For more info on Andy, read the
history section above.
Xentec joined Addicts.
German swapper Exumer joined Sanity.
Image joined Defekt.
Spirit and Obelix joined Platin.
Psycho Demon ex Subzero joined Alpha Flight.
BBS Intro 1992, 18.07, ECS Intro.
code: Professor, gfx: Abstract, music: FMD92.
Subtle Shades 1993, 02.08, ECS Trackmo.
code: Jackal, Professor, gfx: Abstract, music: Michael, Mythos.
2nd in the 680xx Convention 1993 demo competition.
Extreme 4king 1997, 30.03, 4k Intro.
4th in the Mekka Symposium 97 4k intro competition.
X-Files 15 1997, Filemag.
info: Ravens title picture is Melting Love, which he came 4th with at
the Mekka Symposium 97.
X-Files 18 1997, .08, AGA Filemag.
info: Ravens title picture is called Witch Bitch.
X-Files 19 1997, .10, AGA Filemag.
code: Madstop, gfx: Alive/Digital title, Nero/Matrix main, music:
Michael/Anathema, editor: Big-Rat.
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Wild Announcement Intro 1997, 18.10, AGA Intro.
code: HBe, gfx: Raven, music: X-Poole.
review: After a too bright opening Nuance logo and some really lame
afterburned gouraud i believe wectors, we are taken to the mainpart...
please take note that by this time the incredibly intense music will be
well and truly on your nerves! Here were shown an upscroller explaining
the upcoming Nuance mag Wild. This part is ok, all done in shades of
brown. The upscroller can be paused with the rmb, for easier reading. They
outline some of the most important articles theyve got lined up for the
first issue though wed like to put a small question mark in front of the
articles from the toilet thing there guys..., as well as the credits
for the entire first issue! Editors will be Kalikone and Raven, code by
Kill O Byte, graphics by Raven and modules by Merlin M! and
Deelite/Balance. Press the left mousebutton and youre shown the credits
again briefly, nicely done. Not the most interesting announcetro in the
world, but by all means, it gets the job done. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
X-Files 20 1997, .12, AGA Filemag.
code: Madstop, gfx: n/a title, Nero/Matrix main, music: n/a, editor:
Big-Rat.
Project N 1997, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro.
code: HBE, gfx: Raven, music: Merlin M!
Released for The Party 97, but not shown.
review: This intro shows every sign of people who have not been paying
much attention to the evolution of the demo scene. The intros main fault
lies in its choice of a 2x2? blocky approach to the routines it presents
- even the bitmap tunnel! Theres a phong object here, but its small,
greyscale and blocky too. It doesnt seem like this kind of intro is
really your thing, Nuance - why dont you try something a little
different next time? This looks like its from 1993 or 94. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
X-Files 21 1998, .01, AGA Filemag.
code: Madstop, gfx: Wade/Gods title, Nero/Matrix panel, music:
Breezin by Prodigy/Oops, editor: Big-Rat.
review: This issue opens with a picture of a little girl clutching her
teddy bear. Its a good picture, but nothing terribly exciting. As we
enter the mag, I immediately notice the old design is still there. Its
REALLY time to remove that Ethic logo now, dont you think, guys?
A much needed cleanup of the groups, reducing the amount to almost half
of what was previously included, helps a lot on the readability of the
mag. Still, theres no hiding that this is just plain old X-Files, still.
Personally, Im waiting for the new design.
The module was later released separately to aminet by Oops! themselves.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
X-Files Intro 1998, 03.02, AGA Intro.
code: Grace, gfx: Raven, music: Evrimsson The Player 6.1A format.
review: Nuance deliver a pretty standard intro here, albeit with some
competent people delivering the artwork. It all opens with a title
picture of Ravens usual good quality, before continuing into the only
real part of the intro. This part consists of a goodlooking, slowly
twisting tunnel in the background and a text plotter on top. Nicely
designed, but you can safely miss it without losing out on anything.
This intro announces the offical X-Files homepage at
http://big-rat.home.pages.de now http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/bigrat/.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
X-Files 22 1998, AGA Filemag.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Clockwise by Prodigy/Oops! and
Dascon/Essence.
Cant Stop 1998, 10.04, 40k Intro.
code: Axiom, gfx: n/a, music: Evrimsson.
5th in the Mekka Symposium 98 40k intro competiton.
info: The source code was released to AmiNet by its coder not long after
its release!
Subtle Shades 2 2001, 15.04, Demo.
5th in the Mekka Symposium 2001 demo competition.
Nuclear Dezigns
Mini Party Intro 1993, 07.04, ECS Intro.
code: Needlejaw, gfx: Levy, music: n/a. Released at The Gathering 93.
Nukebusters
New Zealand coder Manslayor left for Factor IV 01/90.
Nukleus NLS
Art 1995, 01.04, 40k Intro.
3rd in the Virtual Conspiracy 95 intro competition.
review: Appalling graphics, appalling music, and the best routine is the
one with the dots. Its amazing what some people will release... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Nut Bolt NB or NB
SWE Manta sysop FORBIDDEN DREAMS, doublememb Artcore, 06/94.
USA Shadower sysop DEATH ROW WHQ, 98-01/99.
??? Shard docs.
Nut Bolt seem to occupy themselves mainly on the illegal scene,
concentrating on boards etc.