Pack Inc.
GER Iceman mainorg, Schiedel, Warrior-X.
New German packmaker crew formed by ex-members of Public Art and RAM71-TEAM.
Pacman Productions
F.U.B.A.R. 1993, 28.12, AGA File.
code: Unco, gfx: Hellraiser, Unco, music: Zodiak.
Split 19th in The Party 93 demo competition.
Palace
DEN Alf and Drac train sysops TRADERS HEAVEN WHQ opened RAW4, 91,
Frostie sysop LEVIATHAN opened RAW4, ex Sonic, new RAW4, Terrax
Michael, music, 12/91.
GER Hijack ex Symbiosis, Skywalker ex Adept.
FIN Dr.Koff.
N-Z Slaine ex Extreme.
Boards ROMAN HOTEL swe, DEAD HEAT swe, 91.
Palace was a demo and illegal group based in Denmark. Anyone know if there
were ever any issues of their proposed diskmag PacMag released?
1992 - Swedish coder Mr.Urk joined Shining around january, but soon after
the group kicked all their swedish members except MadCap. Madcap left for
Spaceballs, and thus the group no longer had members in sweden. Finnish Tex
changed his handle to Dr.Koff, also around january. Tyrant swap left for
Adept in september, since he was tired of being the only member in Germany.
Palace is dead!
Chromer joined Sonic.
Norwegian coder Pushead joined the new Angels.
Danish coder and cracker Caesar joined Alpha Flight.
Radical joined Endless Piracy.
Danish sysop Howard sold all his equipment, so ELYSIUM went down forever
in early 92.
Scarloc joined Legend.
Norwegian sysop Scratcher TOTAL PANIC joined Fairlight RAW4.
Zany and Lynx, sysops SUSPERIA, joined 2000AD RAW4.
Previous swedish leader Virus ex Alpha Flight, new RAW3 joined TRSI for a
short while, then moved on to Legend.
Danish sysop Zoonie HOUSE OF GAMES got kicked, and joined Alcatraz
STD10.
Inferno ex Noxious joined Skid Row RAW3.
Gadget and Princip were in Palace 2 days before joining New Wave RAW2.
All Swedish members were kicked out except Madcap, who joined Spaceballs
shortly after RAW2.
Bit joined Amaze RAW2.
Danish coder TAS joined Parasite 06/92.
Swedish graphician Butch joined The Silents.
Danish musician Hellrazor ex 2000 AD joined TRSI.
Norwegian coder Octoplex ex Anarchy joined Dual Crew.
Pandemonium
??? Halfbyte music, doublememb Bizarre Arts 06/96.
Panic 1990-1992
GER Al Capone Jan Willutzki, swap, late90, Crazy Maze Markus, music, new
mid92, Destinator code, Dust gfx, 10/91, Dux swap, Flagg Kai,
mainorg, 10/91-92, Jesus code, Manhunter founder music, ex Bitch
Magnet.
FIN Alfred swap, Crom Markus Vattulainen, Deetsay music, doublememb
Insane details, Gazer Niko Varjonen, code, Kid Frost Mikko
Lehtonen, music.
ENG Bub and Bob sysops BUBBLE BOBBLE.
??? Aerobase swap, Apollo ex Vanish, Blackstar trade, Boogieman
sysop, Funky Jochen, Hawkwind sysop, Hotmilk sysop, ex
Fairlight, Kiwi, Marlow trade, Skytec gfx, 10/91, Skyfox Sven,
SMS sysop, Sniper Harald, X-Pert trade.
Panic was born around july 1990 by members of Bitch Magnet. They were under
the leadership of Flagg for their entire existence. The date of the groups
death or rather split is a little uncertain, but it was not long after
the cooperation with Agnostic Front split, possibly sometime in 92. At the
time of the groups death, Jesus was coding a trackmo that never got
released. This trackmo contained about six modules by CONS Raphael, new
09/91, and when the project fell through he lost his scene motivation. He
remained inactive from the scene for several years, before reentering the
scene on the pc as a member of n-Factor in 1996.
1991 - Scott joined Magnetic Fields around the middle of the year. German
musician CONS joined in september. German musician Dr.Headcrash later
Virgill! left around october.
1992 - Germans Lynxx music, 10/91 and Foxx joined The Silents early in
the year. German musician Crazy Maze joined the group, and together with
C.O.N.S. the two built up the music label CMC Music Factory. One of the
final things to happend to the group was their cooperation with Agnostic
Front, under the title Panic Agnostic Front PAF. A few intros were
released under this name. German musician Emax left for TRSI in december.
Expert joined Poison.
DJ Head ger code and Skaga got kicked.
Gambler trade and Montana Rice got kicked.
German coder Piranha 10/91 joined The Silents.
Rator, sysop WONDERLAND joined Agnostic Front.
German swapper Trasher ex Hardline joined Sanity, and took his pack
Trashpack with him.
Plural-Msm-Writer ECS Intro.
code: Gazer, gfx: none, music: Kid Frost sample.
review: Definitely alternative, this. It consists of a textwriter on top
of a bouncing blue-patterned background with a horizontal starfield in
front. In addition, theres a rather obscure music sample playing.
Stooop that traaain, I wanna geeet off!... You wont die if you dont
get this, but you might just enjoy it... glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Morphic Fields BBS Intro.
Cooperation with Agnostic Front, see there for info.
Space Egg ECS.
code: The Piranha, gfx: Dust, music: Manhunter.
review: In 1000 WASTED DREAMS, Piranha mentions my last demo Space Egg,
meaning that this was released before the 1000 demo.
demo 1991, 23.12, ECS Demo.
Released for the Vision and Mirage X-Mas Party demo competition.
1000 Wasted Dreams 1991, 19.10, ECS Trackmo.
code: The Piranha, gfx: Skytec, Dust, music: Virgill/Coma intro, Sado
Goredon by C.O.N.S, Panic-Movie by Lynxx.
Winner of the Action Party 91 demo competition!
review: A true horror example of generic design, this follows the two
magic formulas the logo-bar-effect-bar screen layout and the effect-
textscreen-effect rhythm. The music and graphics are barely functional.
The music in the opening part, that chip-style thing, seems unrippable.
The music in the main part bugs note: cons says its not the music, but
the code to fade out the track, and it crashes after loading the endpart.
It boots the whole thing, then gurus. However, the main part of the demo
worked perfectly. No time to check with caches off. Thanks to CONS for
clearing a few things up, like the music credits! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: See review!
Panoramic Designs PD, 1990-
NOR Buzz Stig Bakken, gfx, 91, Condor Marius Kintel, code, 91, Jostein
Jostein Hoel, code, 91, Shagul Terje Semb, 91, TRS Trond Sausjord,
code gfx, 91.
PD was originally a C64 group, and was formed late 1990 by the former
Norwegian division of Armada. Their first production Amiga First 10/90
was released at the No Limits Imp-666 Amiga Conference 90, announcing the
groups birth.
Amiga First 1990, 06.10, ECS File.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Stemmingsfullezeb by n/a ProTracker MOD
format.
6th in the No Limits Imp-666 Amiga Conference 90 demo competition.
Never Again 1991, ECS Trackmo.
code: Jostein loader, Condor flag, loader, tech-tech, fractal, gods,
TRS dragon anim, gods, loader, gfx: TRS loader logo, flag, loadergfx,
gods, endpart, Dungeon Master/DM dragon anim, loader, Buzz tech-tech,
music: Michelangelos Dream by Headx/Andromeda ProTracker MOD format,
TRS sample.
info: Probably released at The Party 91, but Im not 100 sure.
Panzerfaust -1989
Panzerfaust died late 1989 when the group changed their name to Cave.
Paradise PRD, 1991-1993
GER Accomplice gfx, new 08/92, Brutus swap, ex Armageddon, Flash
music, Killraven Andre Wiedenhofer, swap, re from Interpol, 92,
Seat music, Viper, Wolfgang CHINA TOWN, 91.
FIN Madman sysop BLUE WING, new early 92, Sledge Hammer.
FRA Furax sysop FANTASIA new late91, ex Quartex, new late91.
SPA Thorin music.
SWE Poseidon music.
HOL Al Bundy sysop BUNDYS PLACE.
USA Animal sysop THE UNFORGIVEN, Don Dog sysop DUNGEON OF WHO/LINE
NOISE, Dr.Feelgood sysop OVERDOSE.
??? Ascender ex Gothic, new RAW4, Major-Midi ex Energy, Rog code,
new 08/92.
Boards TIMETRIALS usa, THE BROOM CLOSET usa, VALHALLA can, TOTAL
RECALL usa, DREAM MACHINE bel, CENTRAL NETWORK.
Paradise was a German demo group, formed by Tedric in april 1991, and
organized by Tedric and Arcatronic. The group died mid to late 1993.
Originally, there were two other groups called Paradise, one of which was
also based in Germany, and one cracker group in Belgium. This was solved
easily though, when all three groups fusioned into one. However, the
Belgian people didnt stay long, and opted to go to Fusion instead.
When they left, rumours that Paradise had died starting floating around,
which were untrue.
1993 - Graphician Premium 12/92 joined Desire mid 93. German coder and
original founder Tedric joined The Silents 05/93.
Crayon joined Diffusion.
German graphician and musician Nox joined Zenith.
Arcatronic ger? mainorg sysop SPAGETTHI HOUSE left.
Finnish swapper Private Dick ex Klondyke joined Legend.
American sysops Powerhouse TWINPOWERS and Dictator TONE TOWN left.
German swapper Agony ex DCS joined The Elektronic Knights.
Germans Stearo swap, ex Desire and Nose joined Alcatraz.
German coder Raw Style new 08/92 joined DCS, but quickly moved on to
Alcatraz.
The American whq board TOTAL RECALL left to join Chryseis as their WHQ
instead, late 92 or early 93.
Norwegian coder Flesh ex Majic 12 joined the reborn Angels.
Optimus Maximus 1992, 19.04, Demo.
3rd in the Easter Conference 92 demo competition.
Virtual Meltdown 1992, 27.12, ECS Disk.
code: Tedric, gfx: Nose, Premium, Shadowmaster, Icejam, music: Sam, Spaf,
Time Guardian. 8th in The Party 92 demo competition.
Paradox old PDX, 1989-1991, http://www.paradogs.com
FRA Clash 06/90, Corto code, Fisc, Olivier mainorg supply sysop
OLIVIERS PLACE, later Quartex, 09-12/90, Skywalker code, 90,
Spirit 12/90.
DEN Bad Boy code crack, ex Trilogy, 07/90, Black Hawk code crack,
12/90, Metal Force, Midnight Maniac mainorg, 12/90, PCSU gfx, Qrd
code, Tas
code, 11/90.
GER Luke and Chuck ex Vision Factory, new late90, Skyline sysop LITTLE
AMERIKA, later Quartex, new ca 10-11/90.
USA Loverboy sysop INVOLUNTARY DEATH, 03-09/90.
??? Brigade new late90, Cobol gfx, 90, Freddy code, 06/90, Hexodus
code gfx, aka Hxs, 11/90, Kevin new late90, Labyrinth gfx, MCM
gfx, 90, Pinnacle music, Prisoner of Wife usa? sysop,
ex Classic old, new late90, Samplemixer music, 90, Shapiro crack,
03/90, Stormlord, The Infernal Duo supply, 90, TSH new late90,
Zelnik ex Classic old, new late90.
Boards SLEEPY HOLLOW usa, 06-09/90, MIDDLE EARTH usa, 03-09/90, PARADOX
CANADA can, 03/90, THE JUNGLE usa, 03/90.
Paradox was originally formed late 1989 by members of the danish group
Trilogy Bad Boy, Black Hawk, Tas, Pcsu, Qrd and the french group M.A.D
Olivier, The Surge, Clash with the intention of forming the mightiest
cracking constellation ever. Leaders of the group were originally The Surge,
Midnight Maniac and Olivier, with Blackhawk and The Surge doing most of the
cracking. Suppliers were Action Man, Spirit and Paragon. With this setup PDX
was immediately one of the top amiga cracking groups, and were staples on
the top of the charts from day one. Thanks to the history published on the
groups website for some information.
1990 - During 1990, Paradox were at war with another cracking group,
Angels, which culminated in the famous intro from Skywalker, where a devil
is brutally molesting a defenseless angel : MayDay stopped all activities
late this year. The Danish board HALLOWED GROUND 03-09/90 had to close
its doors late this year, since the Danish police had started to suspect
what was going on. German sysop Skyline joined around october. Danes Static,
Vandal and Droopy joined Rebels in december.
1991 - LSDs Grapevine 1 06/91 reported that the UK section of
Paradox had left to form a new group called Infinity. Tension grew within
the group until it eventually died. When this happened, most of the members
joined Quartex confirmed: TIC crack, 90 and The Surge mainorg crack
sysop, 11/90. Paradox went into hibernation, but the group was reactivated
after two years.
Freddy is Back 1990, 03.06, ECS File.
code: Freddy, gfx: Freddy, various, music: Occ-san-gen by Uncle Tom/
Razor 1911 ProTracker MOD format.
Released for the Alcatraz Pentcoast Party demo competition.
info: Also used for the GEN4 - Generation 4 Intro competition, 29.06-90.
Snurkledemo 2 1990, 18.11, ECS File.
code: Tas, gfx: Hxs, music: Fun-Climbing by Maestro/Kefrens ProTracker
MOD format.
Intro 1991?, ECS Intro
code: Qrd, gfx: Pcsu, music: Pinnacle.
Strange Balls 1991?, ECS File.
code: Hexodus, gfx: Labyrinth, Hexodus, music: Sample Mixer.
Paradox new PDX, 1993-, http://www.paradogs.com
FRA Acid gfx, 04/94, Barret Oliver ex Shining, old handle Daryl,
Flasher Jack Charlet Franck, code, 04/94.
DEN Blackhawk code crack sysop2 MERCYFUL FATE, 93-04/95, Hotbier sysop
THE JUDGE, 04/95, Metal Force Henrik, sysop1 MERCYFUL FATE,
93-04/95.
ENG ADS supply, 94.
GER Lincoln.
HOL Eros gfx, ex Jetset, old handle Eswat, IKillr gfx, ex Jetset,
Timeless ex Jetset.
ITA Zool org.
SWE Nero sysop PROPHETS HOLD, 01/95.
AUS Woody sysop WOODYS WORLD, 04/95.
USA Nuisance sysop NIRVANA WHQ, 04/93.
??? Babydock crack, 03/93, CPT fra?, gfx, 12/93, E.F.A crack, 94, Hot
Tuna and Mimicom supply, 94, Hurricane swe? modem, 03/93,
Maximilien org, Order and ED209 supply, 94, Paragon supply,
03/93, The Colonel crack.
Boards LITHIUM WHQ usa, 07/94, HOUSE OF COOLNESS EHQ ger, HOUSE OF
PAIN usa, YEE SIDE can, LIVING CHAOS eng, SKARA BRAE ger,
CREEPING DEATH ger.
Paradox was reborn i 1993 with Daryl/ex Shining as one of the leaders.
Midnight Maniac was back albeit with a slightly lower profile than
earlier, Blackhawk was still one of the scenes most prolific crackers, and
Paragon still one of the best suppliers. Paradox were the undisputed number
one in its second incarnation. Maximilien was the new leader, and new
members like Zool italy and Lincoln germany helped raise the group even
further. The group now expanded, for the first time, into the console scene.
Releases were made on the SNES and Sega Genesis, under the able hands of
Belgarion code and Papillon org. Even more challenges were sought, and
the group turned its attention to the pc scene...
1993 - Kaoz and swapper Killraven early93 were kicked. Killraven joined
Anthrox late 93.
1994 - French coder Ninja 12/93, in Angels three months earlier left to
join Scoopex. French musician Monty 12/93-04/94 left to form Universal
Soldiers with his friend Schmoovy-Schmoov/Complex late this year.
1995 - Then the groups leader Maximilien was busted by the police, once
again killing Paradox in the process... Paradox would be reborn a third time
after two more years, in 1997, but now entirely on the console scene.
Calimero 1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro.
code: Ninja, gfx: CPT, music: Monty ProPacker 2.1 format.
10th in The Party 93 40k intro competition.
Review: Not much content here, though nicely designed. Still, when you
compare this to Ninjas last intro Destroy Fascism For Angels three
months earlier, this is undoubtedly the weaker one. The only real
effect is some vector-spheres bouncing on a moving vector-plate thing
thats not all that exciting. It seems theres a theme of sorts to
this, where two chickens find love. Dont ask. Music and gfx are
simplistic, but acceptable. Ninja reprises his upscroller with vector-
tunnel in the background routine from Destroy Fascism in the endpart.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Cobalt - Calimeros Return 1994, 23.04, 64k Intro.
code: Flasher Jack, gfx: Acid, music: Shade by Monty ProTracker MOD
format. Winner of the Saturne Party 2 intro competition!
Paragon old
NOR Alex, Cooper ex Byte Busters, Crocker, Cruizer music, Dr.Floyd ex
Byte Busters, Dr.Voodoo ex Byte Busters, Eaze, Echo old handle
Epa, Elwood music, Jester music, Khorne gfx, Laban Henrik
Endresen, swap, 92, MC Metal swap, 92, Mr.Zig-Zag, Nimrod Steinar
Knutsen, code ex-edit FreenEasy, Obscure, Slimeball, Tom music.
??? Faze gfx.
Paragon was a Norwegian demo group.
1992 - Norwegian Selwyn ex Byte Busters was kicked out, while Norwegian
musician and writer Mystra ex Rubbers joined Addicts in august.
Dr.Ami, MC Blaster and Maniac Man got kicked.
Norwegian musicians El Loco and Sundance Kid old handle Marlin joined
Talent.
Norwegian coder Black Panther ex Flash joined Crusaders.
Conjuring Tricks 1992, 15.04, ECS File.
8th in The Gathering 92 demo competition.
Paragon new
Paragon appears to be a finnish demo group, and has nothing whatsoever to do
with the Norwegian group Paragon, who was active in the early 90s. Coder
Kenny was a confirmed member of Haujobb for both the My Kingdom 12/97
demo and for the Yes! 04/00 intro... so what was he doing in this group?
The same question applies to Kidlove. Hmmm...
Popgun 1998, 08.08, 64k Intro.
code: Kenny, gfx: Kidlove, music: Chromag The Player 6.1A format.
5th in the Assembly 98 64k intro competition.
review: Hmm, this ones a bit of a mystery... We all know the names of the
producers of this, I guess, but the group is new to me. Oh well, the intro
then. Its really nothing special in any respect, Im afraid. Some of the
graphics, as well as the tune, reveal that this is done by people with
skills, but the intro itself never comes alive. There are no good effects,
and the voxels and vectors are slow compared to other products.
Reading the depacked executable seems to reveal this uses a demosystem
originated within Haujobb... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Parallax PRX
FIN Allah sysop THE CHAMELEON WHQ, ex Digital, triplememb LSD and
Insane, 08-10/95, Bandog code, 04/95, Block 93, DCD code, ex
Decnite, Debug code, 08/94-08/95, Geffen, Guru ex Complex, new
08/92, Hijack Rolf Tiittanen, ascii trade, doublememb Alpha Flight,
Ice-T 93, Legend Jarno Kilpia, code gfx music, ex Addonic, new
09/92-08/95, Metal code sysop, Mike swap, Raider, Reserve 93,
Sardiini swap, Simply code, earlier Decept, 08/94-08/95, Stratos
ex Complex, new 08/92, Tim 93, TJM music, Top-Azz music, Tukan
gfx, 08/95, Warthog raytrace webmaster, 08/94, Yolk Mikko
Karvonen, org music, ex Sonic, 93-04/95.
SWE Culture sysop HELLS UNDERGROUND, 01/95.
??? Device swap.
Boards TURPENTINE TRIP fin, ex Decept.
Parallax is a Finnish demo group, who for a short while was a subgroup of
Scoopex, under the name Parallax Design. However, they soon decided that
independence was best, and reverted to their original status.
1992 - Finnish musician Legend joined from Addonic in september.
Finnish graphician Mistral joined Mystic in 1996. Mistral worked on the
demos Drool This 08/94 and Zif 08/95 before leaving. BUT, he
contributed to ther Mystic demo Megademo 08/99, and was credited as
Mistral/Parallax!
Finnish sysop Talbot TABOIL joined Frogs.
Finnish swapper Darky ex Equinox got kicked.
DCD code, TMC gfx and Visualize gfx joined from Decnite. However,
Visualize was kicked because of his attitude and TMC left the scene.
Now only DCD remains in the group.
Critical Mass 1993, 09.08, Demo.
Released for the Assembly 93 demo competition!
Drool This 1994, 06.08, AGA 4MB HD.
Code: Debug, Simply, Gfx: Mistral, Legend, Warthog, Music: Yolk, Legend.
3rd in Assembly 94 demo competition.
Deep 1995, 14.04, AGA 2MB HD, 2 disks.
code: Debug, Bandog, Legend, gfx: Destop/CNCD also director, music:
Yolk and Legend The Player 6.1A format.
Winner of the Gathering 95 demo competition! Cooperation with CNCD.
review: Niceness! Not bad at all, this winner from the unusually weak
TG95 competition. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ZiF 1995, 12.08, AGA HD Demo, 2 disks.
code: Debug, Simply, gfx: Mistral, Tukan, music: Legend.
Winner of the Assembly 95 demo competition!
Paralysis 1992-.
FIN Dale founder, DJ founder, Icebass founder, Suhu founder,
Tedious founder.
Paralysis was born late 1992 as a Finnish demogroup.
Finnish Vortex joined Bronx.
Paramount PMT
SWE Jet swap, Mirador, Smallomph.
??? Sixpack gfx, Zodie.
Paramounts birth was announced in Cracker Journal 23 12/90 as a new
modem group.
Megaxil joined The Family.
Paranoid PRD
GER Achim sysop FLASH BBS, Dragon sysop DARKNESS WHQ, 92-04/95,
Killtech Steven Mller, ex Prestige, Link.
DEN Quaid swap.
BEL Alligator.
??? Beathoven Michael, Death ex Fate, Fox, Knuelle ex Fate, Omc ex
Argon, Satan, Scream ex Fate.
Paranoid was a demo group, based in germany.
1992 - Salvatore joined Alpha Flight around october.
Ripper joined Atomic.
Paranoimia -1990
USA Al Capone sysop ALCATRAZ, early90.
Boards FBI BBS usa.
Paranoimia was an elite cracking group built on the ruins of the legendary
World of Wonders, and became a legendary group in their own right. Among the
ones from the old group were Kontrasoft and Metallica. I believe they were
in several wars with other groups, and were popularly called Paralamia :.
However, the most fantastic claims came when they were rumoured to be the
computer division of the actual Mafia! Their exact date of birth is a little
uncertain, but the earliest dated crack I have seen was 18.05-89. The
American FBI BBS was carrried over from World of Wonders.
1990 - Two Danish members joined Supreme ca 05/90. German Malzam ex
Tristar was briefly a member before moving on to Vision. Paranoimia then
died sometime between 06 and 08/90. Metallica, Hellion and Corsair all ex
World of Wonders joined Skid Row. Most others formed The Company with ex
members of Quartex. Skid Row did have an American board called ALCATRAZ,
but the sysop was called Beatbox...He may have changed his handle... Kreator
took some time before finally joining Prologic.
German musician Subzero joined Skid Row.
German cracker Kontrasoft ex World of Wonders left the scene.
German sysop Guru Josh TECH opened 12/89 joined Tristar.
Their WHQ BBS USA was busted! mid 90. This may be the bbs they got from
M.A.D in early 1990, presumably DEVILS ISLAND.
Parasite old PST, 1992-
DEN Beadwave, Colin raytrace, new mid93, Krueger swap, 09/92, Liquid
Martin Larsson, music, ex The Elektronic Knights, new 06/92-12/93,
Pearl ex Angelica, Splatt gfx, 12/92, Steffen Steffen Rabenborg,
swap pack, ex Quartz, old handle Speedy, 12/92, Tas code, ex Palace,
new 06-12/92, Xarium code, ex Balance, later Rebels, new mid93.
??? Bored ex Rednex, new early 92, Conan code, Doktor ex The
Elektronic Knights, new 06/92, Douglas code, old handle Solid,
01/93, Fred ex The Elektronic Knights, new 06/92, Nut Weelin music,
ex The Elektronic Knights, new 06/92-01/93.
Parasite was originally founded by Dino and Peter in 1992. The original
founders later left, and declared the group to be dead. An attempt to revive
it was made by Danish superswapper Speedy, but this was quickly denied by
the original founders, now active on the PC. See the entry for Parasite
new for more information on this. The two founders now run Parasite PC,
and the Amiga section is officially dead and will never be revived.
News in EuroChart 15 declaring the groups birth reported that Dino,
Slide, Mount, Easley, Shayera and Gargoyle all came here from Cult, which
conflicts rather extensively with my information... Can anyone confirm or
deny if Shayeras PST-Tracker 12/92 was ever released?
Founder Dino ex TSC/Prologic, new mid91-01/93 and Gotcha joined Spoon.
Danish coder Shayera ex Cult, new 06/90 and Jack got kicked.
Danes Yeager and Mongole both ex Illusion, new 06/90 joined Surprise!
Productions.
Danish musician Slide 10/92-12/93 joined Polka Brothers, first as a
doublememb, and later fulltime. Later danes Gargoyle code, ex Aero,
10-12/92, Easley org swap, 09-12/92, Mount gfx, 09-10/92 and Pixie
gfx, ex Triax, new mid93 also joined.
Fuck Her Brains Out packmenu 1992, ECS Intro.
code: Gargoyle, gfx: Splatt logo, Easley font, music: Slide.
review: Nice but unspectacular, is the menu for Speedys pack FHBO. The
menu always opens with the number of the current issue flashed onto the
screen, before it spins onto a cube that moves to the bottom right of the
screen. Then a PST is overlaid onto it, and the two spin happily until
you decide to make a selection Across the top of the screen resides a
heavily dithered PARASITE logo by SPlatt, below which the title and number
of the pack resides. Below that again, across the middle of the screen, is
the place where you can make a mouse-driven decision about what to view,
and the bottom has the aforementioned vector cube spinning in the right
corner, and a text plotter across the rest. Dark blue bubbles float up
behind the onscreen text and logo at all times. Overall not the worst
packintro around.
The intro was used for all issues released, I believe - the issue
reviewed here was 6 92. Remarkably no compatibility issues were
encountered, even when booting the pack from df1: glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Imperial Tunes 1992, 15.10, ECS Musicdisk.
code: Gargoyle, Tas, gfx: Slide font, Splatt logo, Airwalk/Kefrens
font, music: Insane People!, Bones Brigade, Caused by Bordom,
free From Wires!, Hidden Rebel by Slide, Always, Free, Cold
Destiny, Strings In Space by Liquid.
info: Released before THE FOUR SEASONS. Apprently very good. Contains
secret part.
Zyclonium 1992, 28.12, ECS File.
code: Gargoyle, Tas, gfx: Splatt dragonlogo, endpartlogo, cycloniumlogo,
Easley dragonlogo, greenborders, rotatescrolllogo, Dino crystals,blue
parasitelogo, music: Mesmerized by Slide PP21 format.
16th in The Party 92 demo competition.
Demo 2 1993, ECS File.
code: Gargoyle, Tas, gfx: Splatt, Colin raytrace, Dino additional,
Slide additional, music: Vodka by Slide.
Review: An extensive demo with several new and innovative effects, plus
heaps of graphics. The tune is a forgettable funk affair.
The demo requires minimum 1mb total memory. Type SECRET PART for the
hidden part a vector-world and a text-plotter. The supposed 8 spheres
is just 5 spheres and 3 sprites, as revealed in Upstream 7!
Zeg claims the relase date is 01/94...? glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
The Four Seasons 1993, .01, ECS Musicdisk.
code: Solid, gfx: Dino, music: Winter Time by Nut Weelin, Pseudo My
Mous, Drums by an Alien, Trains of Horror, Minor After Minor, The
Great Warrior, Bali Dancer by Liquid, Blending, Obtain Majority by
Slide all mods PP21 format. Released after The Party 2.
Imperial Tunes 2 -The Hitsingle- 1993, 19.05, ECS Musicdisk.
code: Gargoyle, Tas, gfx: Mount others, Splatt loadergfx, Slide
font, music: Believe In Me, Judgement Day by Slide Liquid,
Introtune by Liquid all mods PP21 formats.
Pink In Mono 1993, .12
The Dentro 1 1993, 28.12, File.
code: Gargoyle, gfx: Splatt, music: Slide PP21 format.
Dansk Toppen 03 1994, 26.08, ECS/AGA Diskmag.
code: The Whistle/Parasite intro part, gfx: Bizzardt/Parasite
intropart, Devilstar/Spaceballs aga titlepic, music: Techno7-tw by
The Whistle Tracker Packer 3 format. Cooperation with Razor 1911.
Parasite new 1995-95
DEN Butthead org code, Speedy org swap trade.
NOR Felix org swap, Magz gfx.
??? Cyberstorm gfx, Eagle, Jummen swap, Mind code, Mosher swap,
Scoop code, S.M.D. gfx, Yabbo org music.
The new Parasite was a very shortlived project, since the original founders
didnt approve of a new Parasite - they felt they owned the rights to the
name!
Partners In Crime PIC, -1991
Partners In Crime died aroung mid 1991. Some people joined Paranoid and
Cytax, Holy is independent.
Passion PSN, 1994-
DEN Blizzart gfx, ex Kefrens, 11-12/94, Cutcreator Allan Kirkeby, music,
ex Static Bytes, new early95, Raven sysop THE LOOP, 12/94, The
Colonel trade, 11/94, Zarch trade, ex Triflex.
??? Black Angel sysop PLATINUM, 11/94, Guybrush gfx, Jake music,
11/94, Razta code, 11/94, Red Cheese ex Rebels, new late95,
Tronic, X-Man trade, ex Addonic, new ROM5.
Passion is a demo group based in Denmark.
1997 - Swapper Adonis joined Amaze Design late97. Ibenz left for Digital
around 09/97.
Danish graphician Silicon 11/94-08/95 joined Rebels ROM9.
Danish graphician Prowler 12/94-12/95 left to join Scoopex ROM9.
Organizers Pearl Martin Serup, swap edit Dansktoppen, 11/94 and The
Whistle code music, 11/94 have both left the scene, which makes PSNs
future highly uncertain. Silicon is still in, but the destiny of the
remaining PSN members Guybrush, Prowler and Cutcreator is unknown. Their
contact with the group in the last months were very scarce ROM8. Does
this mean we can declare Passion dead?
Danish musician Subject doublememb Balance, 11/94 terminated his double
membership, changed his handle to Prophet and joined Scoopex 01/97.
Danish swapper Decoy ex Control, 11/94-03/96 joined Puzzle ROM8.
Talented danish coders Boogeyman ex Oblivion, new 11/94 and Scope ex
Balance both joined Scoopex ROM8.
Ramosa Jacob Ramskov, Music, 11/94, ex Oblivion? and Tsar1 swap were
both asked to leave, while sysop Webster ELECTRONIC CONFUSION left
the scene completely 04/96ROM7.
Passionate 1994, 22.11, File.
code: The Whistle, gfx: Silicon, Guybrush, Blizzart, music: BraveNew
WorldV1.1 by Ramosa Tracker Packer 3 format.
review: It doesnt CONTAIN anything, does it? Theres a few not-too-good
pictures, the odd uninteresting effect or two... But now, having watched
it, I cant remember a single outstanding thing. Dull. The first ever
PSN production. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Dansktoppen 4 1994, late, Chart.
Code: n/a, Gfx: n/a, Music: n/a, Editor: Pearl.
Nitte! 1994, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Boogeyman, gfx: Blizzart, music: Old School Chip 1 by Subject.
3rd in The Party 4 40k intro competition.
review: Boogeymans first production for PSN was this 40k intro. glenn
GLE tested A2000/000-7 /1mb chip, 2mb fast/2.04.
Note: Not enough memory. Probably needs 2mb chip, and is
therefore AGA only, since only AGA machines have 2mb chip.
A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
Alien Dream 1994, 28.12, AGA File.
code: The Whistle, gfx: Silicon, Blizzart, music: AlienDream by Ramosa
Tracker Packer 3 format. 19th in The Party 4 demo competition.
review: A lot better than The Whistles previous Passionate, though
hes reused one or two effecs. The opening picture of the grinning green
head by Silicon was later used in Boogeymans Vacation 2 also, though
in a different context. Anyway, the best parts of Alien Dream is
probably the music and the tunnel parts. Nice and subtle, this is.
Oh, and the small picture in the endpart was nice too. Approved.
AGA only, but for no apparent reason. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Vacation Demo.
code: Boogeyman, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
Alien Inspiration 1995, .06, AGA File.
code: Boogeyman, gfx: Blizzart, Pris/Edge, music: Subject.
Vacation 2 1995, 11.08, AGA FAST File.
code: Boogeyman, gfx: Prowler, Silicon, Boogeyman, music: Hollywodden
Head4 by Subject Tracker Packer 3 format.
review: Again, this is good! Boogeyman keeps impressing, as a coder that
cares about how his productions look. Theres plenty of goodlooking
effects, including a variation Ive never seen before! Were shown smooth
and good stuff like a voxelspace, phong, bitmap manipulation, texture
mapping, bitmap interference with smileys :, and a new combination
gouraud glenz! The endpart looks a lot like Lone Starr/Spaceballs
intro for R.A.W 5, dont you think?
The accompanying text file mentions it requires some fast. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ComaDose 1995, 28.12, 40k Intro.
code: Boogeyman, gfx: n/a, music: Gatecrashing-4 by Subject
TrackerPacker 2 or 3 format. 15th in The Party 5 40k intro competition.
review: Very good. This is competent in all areas, with a functional tune
and good, strong, solid routines. Everything here - from the zooming
intro, the zoomrotated stretching plasma, the dungeon, the fast blue
tunnel, to the envmapped objects - is done in goodlooking style with fast
routines. Its a consistently solid production. If theyd left out the
dungeon part and substituted it for a picture or an improved tune, Id be
over the moon. As it is, Im just slightly hovering : Passion obviously
lost a great resource when Boogeyman joined Scoopex. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Chronic 1996, 06.07, AGA Demo.
Code: Boogeyman, Music: Slide/Polka Brothers.
Winner of the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition!
Pearl
AUS Rabbi swap, Sumaleth Rowan Crawford, gfx.
Australian musician Hunz ex Southern Guild, 94 joined Sauce early 94.
Vacation 2 Demo.
Code: n/a, Gfx: n/a, Music: Subject/Balance ProRunner 2.0 format.
Satisfaction Guaranteed 1993, 05.12, ECS File.
Code: Netrunner, Gfx: Alchemist, Music: Mel.
Rosedale BBS Intro 1993, 27.12, ECS Intro.
Code: Flex/Davlex Design, Gfx: Sumaleth, Music: Ginseng/Alchemy.
Released at The Party 93.
Pearl Party 94 1994, .01, ECS File.
Pearl Party Update 1994, 11.03, ECS File.
Code: Netrunner, Gfx: Sumaleth, Music: Astroboy.
Doomed 1994, 20.05, ECS File.
Code: Netrunner, Tachyon, Gfx: Sumaleth, Alchemist, Music: Astroboy.
Pentagon 1991-
FRA Adx, Cholles, El Gob, Insider, Jug, Lupus, Merclaw, Nitch System, Post
Mortem.
USA Crayon.
Cheap Blittering 1991, 06.02, ECS File.
Cooperation with Drifters, see there.
Perfection
Boards EUROPES HEART also in TRSI, 02/93.
Ive never heard of Perfection before or after, but since they had an elite
board like EUROPES HEART, I guess theyre worth noting. Modem only?
Perfects, The 1990-
SWI Atomix new 03/90, X-Large new 05/90.
The Perfects were a swiss demo group, born in 1990. When they died, swiss
members Axel music, Fly code and Peace gfx all joined Brainstorm,
while Dr.O, Rotter, Israel and Sledge joined Zeus.
Perplex
DEN Ramosa music, later Oblivion, 10/93.
Perspex
ENG Huk swap.
??? G-Zuz gfx, new WHN1, Smudge ex Marram, new WHN1.
Boards ALTERNATE REALITY WHQ new WHN1, CD EXCHANGE usa.
Sysop Proteus PARADISE LODGE quit. His board is now PD only WHN1.
Phalanx
FIN Roland music, later Gate, 89, Tai-Pan code, later Complex, 89.
Norwegian musician Walkman joined IT.
Blob ex X-Beat, new 01/89 joined Gate.
Rolands Musicbox 1989, .01, Musicdisk.
code: Blob, gfx: n/a, music: Roland.
Phantasie -1990
This Australian group died around early 1990. Most members joined ACU.
Phantasm old? PHM
NOR Blitzie code, Decker gfx music, later Andromeda?, Disaster code,
Dr.Bad music, Ecstasy code swap, re-Scoopex RAW4, Elling code gfx
swap, Floyd gfx swap, Heartbreaker gfx swap, Joker gfx swap,
Ogre gfx, Winger gfx.
FRA Clawz music, later Extreme, 04/91.
Intro 1992, ECS Intro.
code: Ecstasy, gfx: Ogre, Decker, Elling, music: Astralbeat by Decker.
Released at The Gathering 92.
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Phantasm new? PHN
GER Gandalf code raytrace sysop, Phoenix Frank Wille, code, 95,
SiliconSurfer Tim Rhsen, code.
??? Apollo code, Bastard ascii, Crisi Code, McCoy Code, Noodles
music raytrace, Rico music raytrace, Slaxx gfx music, Spirit
code raytrace, Steeler code, The Alien code.
Phoenix is the author of the assembler package PhxAss.
cr8y joined Savage 04/96.
BlackBox-Symposium Party Invitation 1995, early, AGA File.
Cooperation with Polka Brothers, see there for details.
Papis Kamin 1996, 07.04, 4k Intro.
3rd in the Symposium 96 4k intro competition.
Review: This 4ker contains only one effect, a hypersmooth fire one.
Just one single effects not really enough to convince anyone, so its
no wonder this ended up last of the three competitors. The effect can be
pause with the right mouse button. No credits appear in the intro.
Phase
FIN Crux, Darkman swap, 92, Dr.Blitz, Duplex, Galactus, P-CU swap, ex
Electron, Taifun Black Judge.
Phase was formed when some members of Electron decided to kick all the
lamers from their group, and form a new group.
Norwegians Whiplash code and Acen joined Compact Inc.
Daffy joined Byte Busters 05-06/92.
Phase Distortion PHD
GER Airon music, Cyclone code, Lunkwill code, Maniac raytrace,
Pirat org music, Skywalker code, Wiz Kid gfx ascii projectorg,
Xtreme sysop.
ITA FBY music.
SWE Johan gfx
CRO Juice music ascii.
Boards PARADISE NEWS SYSTEM WHQ ger, AMIGA CARRIER +385, DIGITAL
DISASTER ger, PALLADIUM ger, SWEET DREAMS ger.
Maniac is passive 06/96.
Phase Truce PHT
POL Binar music, 11/96, Caro gfx, 11/96, City code swap, 11/96,
Kaiser code, 11/96, Luk code swap, 11/96, Mecenas org raytrace,
11/96, Mr.Peer mainorg swap, 11/96, Revi code, 11/96, Smooth
swap, 11/96, Traitor gfx raytrace swap, 11/96, Wild music,
11/96.
Phase Truce are a purely Polish demo group.
Beut 1996, 10.11, ECS 64k Intro.
code: Kaiser, gfx: Mecenas, Luk, music: Binar.
6th in the Gravity 96 64k intro competition.
review: This one needs a lot of work a rather uninspired affair. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA!
Phase 1997, 14.12, 64k Intro.
6th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition.
n/a 1998, 4k Intro.
review: This is an extremely slow-moving intro on my machine, with
admittedly large phong-objects, and a recurring overlaid Phase Truce
logo. No sound. Would be interesting to identify this glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Phaze 101 1989-
ITA Paranoid code, 10/89.
??? Crain Chris, founder.
This group was born when the group 101 - The Maltese Hackers changed their
name, around the middle of 1989. Torch 10/89 claimed to be a coder, but
was unmasked as a lamer and a liar, and eventually kicked out.
Phenomena PHA, 1988-
SWE Aqua swap trade, ex Active, new ca 07/90, Aramon new ca 07/90,
Armsmaster swap, 91, Azatoth Olle Lindroth, code, +inactive+,
11/90-93, Celebrandil Mrten Johansson, code, ex Fairlight, new 90,
left scene 91, Color Robert Andersson, gfx, ex Dual Crew, new 12/90-
92, Core code, 91, Danko music, 04/90, Dream Warrior code, ex
Triangle, 03/90-91, Firefox Jimmy Fredriksson, music, 03/90-92, Jas
Jacob Strm, code, ex Rebels, Karon trade, new 04/91-early92, Mace
code, ex Dual Crew, new 12/90, Madster gfx, 91, Mantronix Martin
Wall, music, ex Razor 1911, new mid91-92, Mr.Gurk Gunnar, code, ex
Triangle, 08/89-91, Paralysis swap, 91, Syncro code, ex Science
451, new mid90, The Punisher swap, new mid90, Tip Robert Ling,
music, ex Dual Crew, new 12/90-92, Twins code, 04/90-91.
Phenomena was formed around 1988 by Avalon Mattias Berntsson from
Katrineholm, Sweden, who later left the scene. A successor of the group
Crack Force Five, they were a swedish-only crew, stressing friendship as an
important reason for this rule. Years later, of course, Andromeda would do
the same thing. A pure demo group, they are perhaps the ones that made the
best trackmo of all times the fantastic Enigma 03/91. While Scoopex
Mental Hangover 04/90 was the first trackmo, Enigma was the one that
truly defined the standards of the genre. Unfortunately, after topping the
charts for ages, Azatoth lost his initiative to code.
Coder Celebrandil was one of the last great innovators if the scene, a.o.
things introducing raytracing to demos in 1988. He also invented the much-
used effects glenz vector and spacecut vector. Today he is working designing
ICs for Stockholm-based firm Mentor Graphics, though hes still coding on
his spare time - though sadly on the PC. Mr.Gurk was the author of one of
the most-loved utils for the coder of the early days the sinus-generator
Cosaque version 1.1 30.08.1989.
Another of their coders, Vogue, would later move to the PC scene, where
he joined a group called Triton, helped code their legendary pc demos
Crystal Dream 07/92 and Crystal Dream II 05/93, before he and Mr.H
committed the music tracker program known as FastTracker 94. He is
now busy co-writing the game Into the Shadows.
1988 - Swedish coder and cracker DiMarz left the group for Razor 1911.
1990 - After Unos contribution to the Scoopex demo Chromium 11/90 in
november, he gfx, Photon code, Judas and Invid all joined Scoopex a
month later, in december.
Swedish coder Odeon ex Majic 12 left to form the new Razor 1911.
Swedish graphician Terminator 03/90-04/91 joined The Silents. Terminator
worked on several classic Phenomena releases, including Music Dream II
91 and Enigma 03/91.
Swedish coder Antiaction ex Vortex 42 joined Defjam.
Innerspace Demo.
Joyride pre 1992, .07, ECS File.
Lost In Space pre 1989, .11.
Music Dream I ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk.
Heads Intro 1988/89?, ECS Intro.
Code: Cobra, Gfx: Crome, Freedom, Music: Crome.
Who Cares 1989, mid, ECS File.
Code: Mr. Gurk, Gfx: Eagle, Music: Firefox.
Bikie 1989, late?.
Code: Mr.Gurk, Gfx: n/a, Music: n/a.
Megademo ECS Megademo.
Code: n/a, Gfx: n/a, Music: Its No Secret, Lets Party, Like The
Wind, Megademo Tune v2 and Never Ending Love by Firefox.
Spectre-Northstar Party Demo 1989, 05.11, ECS File.
Code: U.F.A., Music: Firefox.
Jocke Intro 1989/90?, ECS Intro.
Code: Jocke, Gfx: Terminator, Music: Firefox.
420 Bobs 1990?, ECS File.
Code: Mr.Gurk, Gfx: Eagle, Sensei/Censor, Music: Firefox.
Ice Cold Coke 1990, .04, ECS File.
Code: Mr.Gurk, Gfx: Twins, Music: Danko.
Vectormania 1990, 03.11, ECS File.
Code: Azatoth, Gfx: Uno, Music: Firefox.
Winner of the Amiga Halloween Conference 90 demo competition!
Information: Azatoths debut demo. According to himself, very inspired by
Red Sector Incs Cebit 90 1990. Of course, his next demo was to be
the landmark Enigma 1991.
Fructail 1990, 09.12, ECS File.
Animotion 1990, 28.12, ECS File.
code: Celebrandil, gfx: Havok/ex-Ecstasy logo, music: Tip and
Mantronix/Razor 1911 NoisePacker format.
Winner of Dexion Party demo competion!
review: Good code and a great tune arre the best parts of this demo,
which managed to climb all the way to the top at the classic Dexion
party. The design is decidedly old-school, with a terrible logo at the
top Havok would later join Anarchy and Sanity and make great graphics,
a scroller at the bottom and some effects in the middle of the screen.
The effects are all quite acceptable, and probably pretty advanced by the
standards of back then.
This was presumably Celebrandils first demo for Phenomena, since
theres some text explaining why he left Fairlight. ADL mentioned it
didnt work on the A1200, which puzzles me since it works perfectly
fine here. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Obvious Disaster 1990, 29.12, ECS File.
code: Mace, gfx: Color, Mace, music: Tip.
Released at the Dexion Party 90.
info: Needs KillAGA.
Corkscrew 1991?, ECS File.
Code: Photon, Gfx: Terminator, Music: Firefox.
Crystal Symphonies 1991, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk.
Code: Jas/Phenomena, Gfx: Uno/Scoopex, Music: Tip Mantronix.
Cooperation with Scoopex and Rebels.
Review: This Scoopex - Rebels - Phenomena coproduction was placed here,
under Phenomenas entry, since the second CS was a pure Phenomena
production. The Partial credits are based on text information in the
bootblock. This classic is unreviewable, since it refuses to work on my
current machine. Unfortunately my old A500 is long since deceased, so I
cant get that out to check it out either : glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Wont work, see review.
Music Dream II 1991, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk.
Code: Twins, Gfx: Uno, Twins, Firefox, Terminator, Music: Tip, Firefox.
Information: Tunes are packed with Twins utility NoisePacker 2, and are
among others Chinese Dream cooperation introtune, Macrocosm
firefox, MegaEnd cooperation endtune.
ECES 91 Invitation 1991, ECS File.
Interspace 1991, .03, ECS Disk.
Code: 4042, Gfx: The Sarge, Music: InterspaceIntro and The End by
Firefox, Mantronix/Razor 1911, Tip.
Enigma 1991, 30.03, ECS Trackmo.
code: Azatoth, gfx: Uno, Terminator message font, Imbecille/?
uncredited, music: Musiklinjen by Firefox Tip.
Winner of demo competition at the Anarchy Easter Party 91!
Review: Azatoth proved to be a coder with a talent the like of which is
seldom seen, when he created ENIGMA! Amazingly, this was only his second
released demo. As soon as the first bears of the amazing title theme
opens the show to a 3d starfield with overlaid credits, you sort of feel
youre in for something a little special... And you have probably never
been more right. Perhaps the demo with the most new ideas EVER, it set
the standards for others to follow in the trackmo genre. Just amazing!
It seems Uno contributed to this AFTER he left for Scoopex, since the
ENIGMA logo is signed UNO SCX. The logo in the Star Wars scroller part is
signed Imbecille, though hes not credited anywhere in the demo. I only
experiences one slight problem when running it, there are some graphical
errors in the ligtsourced world part. Otherwise everything went smoothly.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Crystal Symphonies II 1992, ECS Trackloaded Musicdisk.
code: Jas, gfx: Color, music: Tip and Mantronix.
review: Now a pure Phenomena production, CS2 still bears strong
resemblances the the first edition. The fact that the same basic code
has been used has perhaps a little to do with that... Style-wise, this
is as smooth as it gets, with exceptional music, smooth graphics and a
damn-near perfect code. Lots of options, including volume control and
lots of scrollers to read. A true classic.
The tunes on the disk are The Sweat Shop 7:50, Yummy Gap 3:15,
Liberation 2:40, Disharmony 3:52, Life-Phobia 2:13, and The
Search For Me 4:02. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Phobia
NOR Jamcat, Jason Futuro, Mr.Dixon, Mr.Hat, Phisto, The Ruler.
AUS Ragman sysop IMAGERY, 04/95.
Phobia is dead. Joker joined Network.
Seigmenn in Space ECS File.
Phoenix
SWE Beathoven music, Creep mainorg, 90, Dino code, 90, Dr.Strange
code crack, 90, Extazia gfx music, 90, JS code, 90, Lance code,
Lexter code, 90, Lux Interior music, 90, Marvin code gfx music,
90, Megatron code, Mosh code, 90, Mr.Bad music, New Age, Nitz
gfx music, 90, Prime swap, Proton code, Sensor gfx swap, 90,
Skywize code, 90, Sledge gfx, 90, Teeze mainorg gfx swap, later
Anarchy, 90, Twister gfx music, 90, Zims code, 90.
FIN Hit code, 90, Mtp gfx, 90, Rubberboy code, 90.
NOR Bad Sector music, 90, Bladder code, 90, Duke swap, 90, Sphinx
gfx music, 90, The Chosen swap.
ENG Isis code, 90, Marc P music swap, 90, Penguin swap, 90, Turbo D
swap, 90.
HOL STP Sound System music, 90.
N-Z Access 2 90, Arm A Leg 90, Diffusion 90, Dr.Pain 90,
Mollysoft sysop, 08/90, Pseudosoft 90, Rojhal 90, Sillysoft 90,
Trojan Blue 90.
USA Darth Wader code.
Phoenix was a demo group based in Sweden, under the leadership of Teeze and
Creep.
Zed joined Defekt.
Megademo II pre 1989, .11.
Cheapdemo 1990, 12.04, ECS File.
code: Hit, gfx: MTP, music: Twister.
nonworking A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 4mb fast/1.32.04.
Phokuz
Phokuz on Penis 1993, 24.02, File.
CodeMusic: Brondan, Grandmaster D, Gfx: Brondan, Grandmaster D,
Brandywine Productions, Major Tom.
Whiskey Sunrize 1993, 06.06, Intro.
CodeGfx: Brondan, Music: Hecko.
More Blood 1993, 24.09, File.
Code: Brondan, GfxMusic: Sicko, Hecko.
Phuture 303 P303
GER Angeldust gfx swap, Base swap, late95, Cie Thilo Geertzen, music
swap, ex Appendix, new late95, Clever swap, CMP Design gfx, Xedos
code.
SWE Axehandle code, Badger Martin Ahlqvist, gfx swap, late95, Leo Paul
Barker, swap, 94, Parsec Erik Spre, code, 01/98.
POL Blaze Patryk Kalinowski, swap, alte 96, Dave music swap ascii,
doublememb Freezers, new 06/96, Digital music, doublememb Vacuum,
new 06/96, Lightman raytrace, new 06/96, Mopty raytrace, new
06/96, Mr. Uhu swap, Nico code, new 06/96, Trash gfx, doublememb
Vacuum, new 06/96.
DEN Chelsea gfx, Drac swap, Jaxx music, Ravid code.
ENG Daze gfx swap, LFO code music swap, late95, Rage internet, VIM!
music, Zenophobe trade.
FIN Substance music.
NOR Zany music, Zapotek swap, 09/96.
??? Echo music, doublememb LSD, new ROM9.
SUB Rave Network Overscan RNO.
Rave Network Overscan RNO has become a sub-group of Phuture 303 RNO is
pure A500 and so has become the A500 division of Phuture 303 06/96.
Striker was kicked due to inactivity 06/96.
PICI
PICI is a Czech group.
Laxative 1993, ECS Musicdisk.
Picco
??? Grogon gfx, 97.
Picco is a Polish demo group.
1997 - Artworks Generation 24 04/97 reported that polish coder ALN
misspellt Alan joined Dinx Project.
Hills 1996, 23.06, 4k Intro.
Winner of the Polish Summer Party 96 4k intro competition!
Tonite 1997, 4k Intro.
code: ALN, gfx: Grogon, music: none.
Pic Saint Loup PSL/Appendix subgroup
??? Dr.Cloo 91.
PSL is a Polish music group, quite famous down there, who recently joined
Appendix as a subgroup.
PIL
POL QBA swap, triplememb Nah Kolor and Anadune, late 96.
PIL is probably a shortname for something else.
Piranhas
Boards WEST ger, 09/90, TEMPLE OF DESTRUCTION ita, 09/90, GRATEFUL
DEATH swi, 09/90.
Piranhas were a mainly Swiss demo group.
1990 - Into the second half of the year, the group was experiencing severe
internal problems. They lost their swiss sysop TMA THE LAST HOPE, ex
Slimebyte, new 05/90 and several members were kicked or left.
Pirates PTS
GER Chip-Buster 91, Cobra sysop BREAKING THE WALL, Crime Time 91,
Disaster Claudius, 91, Freak sysop STOLEN SLIME EHQ, 91, General
91, Housequark 91, Railway 91, Shogun 91, Subzero 91, Warlord
sysop ANIMALIZE.
SWE Agent swap, 91, Beethoven 91, Clifton 91, Cruzer 91, Dark
Priest 91, Dr.Diesel 91, Dr.Mad 91, Drew 91, Elias 91, Jac
91, Jazz 91, Lonewolf 91, Maestro 91, Matrix 91, Mercy swap,
91, Metal 91, Rille sysop IMAGINE, Sledge 09/91, Smooky 91,
The Master sysop SLIME CITY, new 09/91, Trodac sysop PIRATES
NEST, 91, Wildcat 91, Zed 91.
NOR Ace 91, Devil Jan Henrik Kragtorp, swap, 91, Gusman 91, Hugo
91, Hungman 91, Pepperoni 91.
N-L Dr.Soft 91.
ENG Airbrush 91.
TUR BZ Beyaz sysops EAST END, 91, Titan sysop TURKISH DELIGHT,
91.
USA Shadowlord 91.
??? Shocker ex Energy.
Pirates was a mainly German illegal group.
1991 - The entire group Roadriders joined as a Turkish division in the
middle of the year.
1992 - The group was split in two around january, when the legal members
formed a new group called Kreators. The illegal section retained the Pirates
name, and carried on under that handle. Twix joined Byte Busters, Techno
Priest joined Cytax, also around january.
Winger old handle Eagle joined Noxious.
Dutch swapper Antichrist ex Angels old, 91 left early 92, and is now
independent.
German sysop Flashlight ELITE TOWER, 91 joined Legend.
The Swedish section broke up, and most of its members joined Amaze.
American sysop Q CRYSTAL MONOLITH WHQ, ex Addonic, new mid 91 joined
Skid Row.
Nox joined LSD RAW3.
Cap and Ribald ex Argon left the PiratesPossessed coop to join Legend.
Eazy-E also joined Legend RAW3. Another source claimed he was one of
the legal members who joined Kreators...
Finnish swapper Tony is now Model/Sonic.
Plague
ENG Coaxial Paul, ex Archaos.
USA Prometheus sysop HARDWIRED, 92.
1992 - Delbs joined LSD early this year. Musician Dexter joined Digital in
april. Irish sysop Green Beret CRACKHOUSE joined Frogs briefly, before
moving on to Submission in august.
Shockwave joined Ghost
Englishmen Recoil and Darkman joined Eclipse new.
Finnish swapper Ice 92 left the scene, but returned after a long time as
Mick/Dual Crew.
Gridlock 1992, 04.04, ECS File.
Planet Jazz PJZ
NOR Tecon Per Kristiansen, 02/98.
??? Lavache 02/98, Morbid code, 02/98, Optic gfx, 02/98, Sublett
code, ex Giants, new ROM9, 02/98.
Im currently living with a distinct feeling that theyre all Norwegian.
Yo Elephant 1998, 23.02, AGA Intro.
code: Morbid, Sublett, gfx: Optic, music: Tecon.
review: Ehrmm...right. These guys wont win any prizes for seriousness,
thats for sure. But then again, I dont think that was what they were
aiming for, do you? What we have here is a 600k intro that - while a
little large - is good, absurd entertainment for a minute or two.
OK, Ill just come out and say it: I like this little slice of weirdness!
Do it again, guys! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Plasma
Ben and Thor joined Defekt RAW6.
Platin PLT
GER Gfx-Twins gfx, ex Iris, Kais code, ex Addicts, new mid93, Lotus,
Obelix Manfred Otte, org swap, ex Nuance, new RAW5, Thexder ex
Laserdance, Xeniator trade sysop SATANS PALACE, ex Dual Crew, new
RAW5.
??? Ace new RAW5, Brainiac code, ex Mador, new WHN1, Caliph sysop,
Direct code, ex Dytec, new GEN6, Elliott music, Emilio music,
Freezer ex Dark Circle, new RAW5, Judas music, Moon phreak, new
RAW5, Mr.Magic sysop BLACK PLANET WHQ, Necrotism Gfx, old handle
Techno One, Sommer new RAW5, Spirit ex Nuance, new RAW5, Triace
music, Wildschwein code.
Platin was a German demo group. Mac and Urchin are NOT members!
1993 - German sysop Phantom HEAVENS GATE, ex Dark Circle was kicked
late93.
1994 - German Generation editor Damion ex Amaze, new 09/92 left to
form Artwork in november! Shortly after, Detector ex Mexx, new mid93, The
Loop music, ex Arise or Scandal, old handle DPL, 12/94 and Jive all
followed.
German Faxe left.
Exact and Buster got kicked.
Germans Stingray trade and Byte.Max sysop MYROOM CITY were both
kicked mid93. Stingray had just joined.
Musician Sonic ex Pulse, 12/94 joined Avantgarde.
Ascender joined Vanish.
German sysop Joke DARK CENTER, ex Dark Circle left.
German Spoiler ex Addicts, new mid93 joined Duplo.
German sysop Warlord CELTIC CROSS joined Anthrox.
Germans Chromag music and Desto joined Dual Crew.
Generation issue 6 late 92/early 93, Diskmag.
code: Fred of Visdom/Netzwerk, gfx: Necrotism, music: Eating Glass.
Remix by Flash/Paradise, editor: Damion.
review: This is an early issue of the mag with no articles, Generation.
Its basically just a news-and-ad mag, the kind thats more usually
called a packmag these days. Its small, though, so why it wasnt made a
one-file mag is beyond me. Theres nothing that stands out here, either
way. The graphics are functional, but not good, and the same goes for the
music. Not too exciting. Cant find a release date anywhere here, so I
had to guess. My guess is based on the news it often collided with SLH11
and sometimes with RAW4. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA!
Plaztique D-Zign/Twilight subdivision
DEN Genius, Melomaniac, Sundown.
??? Cybersoul.
Boards SYNERGY WHQ den, ARTIFICIAL WONDER den.
Pleasure
GER Cobra C.Doering, gfx music, 04-11/92, Dulux Axel Gajewski, gfx
swap, old handle Picolo, 11/92-93, Fashion Design Andreas Keirat,
gfx swap, 04/92, Gemini D. Bruns, ex Centura, new SLH11GEN6.
FIN Gazer ex Krafted.
??? Ben gfx, 04/92, Chap code, 04/92, Chip code, 04/92, MC Noise
code music, 93, Raistlin code, 11/92, Ripguy music, 04/92,
Sallow gfx, 11/92.
Dope left the Amiga scene and bought a PC SLH11GEN6.
One Day Meetro 1992?, ECS Intro.
CodeMusic: Mc Noise, Gfx: Picolo.
The Taste of a New Generation 1992, .04, ECS File.
Code: Chip, Chap, Gfx: Ben, Fashion Design, Cobra, Music: Ripguy.
Released at the Shining 8 Party 92.
Birthday Intro 1992, 15.11, ECS Intro.
Code: Raistlin, Gfx: Picolo, Sallow, Cobra, Music: Cobra.
Attention 1993, early, ECS Intro.
Code: Tomcat/Paragon, Gfx: Picolo, Music: Mc Noise.
Pointless
SWE Ache org music, 12/93-08/94, Drowsy code, Nrg org code music,
12/93-08/94, Prowler gfx trade, 08/94, Zod code, 08/94.
Iltis 1994, 06.08, 40k Intro.
code: Zod, Nrg, gfx: Prowler, music: Ache.
12th in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition.
review: Certainly no doubt that Pointless have squeezed at lot of the 30k
of diskspace that this intro occupies. This intro is BRIMMING with
effects of varying quality. The best bits are the remarkably great
Pointless logo which reminded me a lot of Fade Ones twisty logos! and
a fast, good 3D dot landscape. Other things here are a 2x2 fractal zoom,
a fast linedrawer, a zoomrotating Iltis logo, and a 3D starfield.
The music is the real letdown, with its techno overkill approach.
Not bad at all, and certainly not pointless : glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Poisen
Catweazle, Toxic and Emax joined Zylon mid 91.
Polaris
SWE Noice Tony Welving, music swap, ex Cytax, new 09-12/92, Wiquie
swap, ex Cytax, new 09/92.
Polaris was originally a Croation team. Their Swedish section was formed
late 92 by Noice and Wiquie from Cytax. After The Ripper ex Nightfall, new
PRP4, ROD swap, Satan, Dr.J, Alpha, Metal, Blue Deville, Diablo and Elf
joined Banana Dezign, the group died.
Polka Brothers 1993-
DEN Airwalk Jesper Knudsen, founder code, ex Kefrens, new UPS10, 08/93-
98, Devilstar gfx, doublememb Virtual Dreams details, 95,
Easley gfx swap, ex Parasite, Gargoyle code, ex Parasite, 12/94,
Julius music, ex Lemon., 95, Merge Anders E. Hansen, code, ex
Kefrens, old handle Laxity, new 12/94-95, Mount Tage Majland, gfx,
ex Parasite, 04/94-12/95, Pixie gfx, ex Parasite, 12/94-12/95, Sca
Lasse Bodilsen, code, 95, Slide music, ex Parasite, 04/94-12/95,
Zinko Jack Dandanell, swap, ex Kefrens, new 04/94-95.
GER Argon code, ex Complex, new 12/94-95, Crash Marco Schultz, code, ex
Complex, later Farbrausch pc new 12/94-95, Crazy Crack Boris
Fornefeld, code, ex Complex, new 12/94-12/95, Chromag Timm Albers,
music, later Essence, 12/94-95.
??? Colin gfx, 04-12/94, Omar music, 94, Vandrup gfx, 12/94-12/95.
Polka Brothers were originally born mostly as a Danish joke group with
members doublejoining in from other groups. The original memberlist, as
shown in POLKA BROTHER? demo, were Airwalk/Kefrens, Vention/Kefrens,
Easley/Parasite, Twilight/Desire, Mount/Parasite and Dice/Kefrens.
Of these, Twilight later left the scene to make game music for Craftgold.
Polka Brothers will definitely live on in the annals of demo history as
one of the crews that brought humour to demos in a big way. Together with
the pioneers Budbrain and Melon., these are probably the FUNNIEST groups!
Danish coder Airwalk was totally gone from the scene fro two years, from
1995 to 1997, but now seems to be doing a comeback of sorts! The reason for
Airwalks disappearance was that he had to serve in the army. Apparently,
he liked it there and stayed for two years! He is now back, however, has
picked up coding again, and will probably be releasing something for the
Polka Brothers in the near future! Thanks to SCA for some information!
1994 - At The Gathering in early april, the group released the demo
Friday At Eight 04/94, which finished third in the competition.
Additionally, danish coder SCA joined the group at this party. Danish coder
Vention ex Kefrens left to work for FunCom in norway this year, seemingly
ending his scene career. He did briefly reappear around 1997-98, as a member
of Scoopex. Four german ex-Complex members Raw Style, Crash, Argon and
Crazy Crack teamed up in december, one of which promptly won The Party 4
intro competition for them!
1995 - German coder Raw Style ex Complex, new 12/94 left early this year
to join Lego. Danish musician Tivurr ex Kefrens, old handle Dice joined
Movement. This seems unlikely, given that he worked on No! 12/95...
Perhaps he later rejoined?
Megademuuuh 1993, Demo.
Polka Brother? 1993, .08, AGA Intro.
code/gfx/music: Airwalk/Kefrens.
Released at the Melon Dezign Birthday Party 93.
review: This seems like a sort of first production, introducing the Polka
Brothers to the world. There are some stuff inbetween the various text
pages, like dots falling down on a spinning vector plate, but nothing to
shout about. On the 030, the text pages switch so fast its hard to read
them though before it moves on to the next one. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Friday At Eight 1994, 03.04, AGA File.
code: Airwalk, gfx: Mount, Colin, music: Goy Stole Final re3 by Slide,
n/a by Dice. 3rd in The Gathering 94 demo competition.
Gevalia 1994, 25.06, Demo.
code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Stave 2Kontrol Awk by Slide.
2nd in the South Sealand 94 demo competition.
Bobble Trouble 1994, 25.06, AGA File.
code: Sca, gfx: Devilstar, Dize/TSL, music: Courtsofchaos by Omar/
independent ProTracker MOD format.
6th in the South Sealand 94 demo competition.
review: Typical early Polka production, with fast mostly vector-based
effects in quick succession, this is sort-of FRIDAY AT EIGHT light.
Some might find the spank my monkey animation tasteless, but I guess
thats all down to your sense of humour. This is not extraordinary in any
way, Im afraid. Not badly done, but failing to stand out from the crowd.
Omar was not a Polka member, and only delivered the music for this demo.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Noname 1994, 25.06, AGA File.
code: Vention, Laxity additional, gfx: Devilstar, Pixie, TNT, music:
1 by Slide. Released at South Sealand 94.
info: Devilstars indian picture is cool!
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Blob 1994, late, Slideshow.
Code: Airwalk, Gfx: Pixie, Music: Tivurr, Slide.
Alone 1994, late, File.
Code: Gargoyle, Gfx: n/a, Music: n/a.
Love Me Daddy 1994, 13.11, Demo
14th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition.
4k0 1994, 28.12, 40k Intro.
code: Crash, gfx: Mount, music: Chromag.
Winner of The Party 4 40k intro competition!
review: It never lets up for a second, but just keeps going from start
to finish. Polished but rough, and with a great sense of design, the
german Crash dominates the Party 4 intro competition! Another great
factor in the success of this intro is the music by Chromag, which also
helps the adrenalin-pumping. Best part: The fabulously fast voxel routine
which actually looks like mountains! Fabulous. Excellent. Awesome! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
The Prey 1994, 28.12, AGA Multifile, 2 disks.
code: Airwalk, Merge, gfx: Colin, Pixie, Vandrup, Devilstar/Virtual
Dreams, music: Slide. 6th in The Party 94 demo competition.
review: Not bad early AGA demo, featuring ex-superstar Merge aka Laxity.
This demo is most amusing as an early version of xxx effect reference.
Most routines in this demo have since been done a lot better. The musics
the usual techno, tough not the worst tune Ive ever heard. The two
fullscreen pictures, Pixies Why? and Devilstars Daddy Dearest, both
competed in the graphics competition at The Party.
The demo can be run from disk or harddisk according to your own
personal preference. Average. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Twisted 1994, 28.12, AGA 2MB Trackmo, 4 disks.
code: Gargoyle, gfx: Pixie, Slide, Colin, Vandrup, music: Slide.
2nd in The Party 4 Wild competition. Utilizes external disk drives.
BlackBox-Symposium Party Invitation 1995, early, AGA File.
code: Crash, Argon, gfx: Gandalf/Phantasm, music: Noodles/Phantasm.
Cooperation with Phantasm.
review: Heavy Metal music and lots of effects highlight this slightly
unusual invitation intro/demo. Actually this is more like a demo with
constantly changing effects, only with some party info overlaid, than
anything else. This was made by Crash and Argon using their own utility
DemoManiac, and thats the only reason Im allowing it. Using something
made with your own utility means youve still coded it yourself.
Not bad, but far from great. A plus for unusual music, though.
Ironically, Noodles won the music competition at the party he helped make
the invitation for! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Facts 1995, 26.05, File.
Herb! 1995, 09.07, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Crash, Argon, gfx: none, music: Tivurr/Movement Art of Noise 4ch
format. Winner of the South Sealand 95 64k intro competition!
review: Flames and large, afterburned vector objects make up the fuzzy
start of this intro. Next theres a grey phong torus before we finish up
with the best routine in the intro a goodlooking voxel terrain.
Everything except the phong torus in Herb! is terribly blocky, which
draws the overall impression down a bit... This is still a nice intro,
but nothing of extraordinary interest. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Creep 1995, 28.12, AGA? 40k Intro.
Cooperation with Artwork, see there.
Winner of The Party 5 40k Intro competition!
No! 1995, 28.12, AGA ?MB File.
code: Crazy Crack, gfx: Crazy Crack, Pixie, Mount, Vandrup, music:
Spritzstunden.5 main and Nature And A Doll end by Slide, Tivurr
both Tracker Packer 3 format. 9th in The Party 5 demo competition.
review: This small demo NO, Im not talking about its disksize! seems
rushed and thrown together. Its not bad, albeit at this size perhaps a
little short... They could have saved themselves the endpart, with the
landscape and the sheep. Its not that pretty, and probably eats a lot of
memory and diskspace. Still, the few effects here are reasonably good,
with the standout one being a vector object with different rotating
bitmaps on each side. The main tune is good, thumping techno, while the
endtune is a little too weird for my taste. There is NO hehe mention in
the demo of who made what tune, making it a little difficult for me to
place the modules : Theres also a few OK pics by Pixie and Mount.
The file is 2.8mb in size unpacked, so this probably wont work on
2mb only machines... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast.
Poorsoft
FIN Blue Spider swap music, Flashback music, Maniac code, Smash
code, 93, Steel music.
1993 - Y-Boy changed his handle to Smash.
Mets rulez! ECS Intro.
Pornos, The
The Pornos were a joke group formed by fun-loving members of other groups.
There were *A LOT* of members for a while...
TG94 Invitation 1994, .03, ECS File.
Code: Claudia Schiffer, Gfx: Jokke, Music: Son-Ja.
Invitation to The Gathering 94.
Positron
Fantasy Space Slideshow, 2 disks.
Cooperation with Damones.
Posse PSE
Boards CHAMELEON fin, 10/95.
Possessed
GER Mr.Mistral sysop BROOKLYN EMPIRE, Satanic Slaughter swap,
late90, Steel sysop DARK CITY OF FEAR, 91.
USA Gwenhwyuar sysop ICEWIND DALE.
??? Drax new ca 07/90, Prime Evil new late90.
Boards DEATH HOUSE usa, STARGATE usa.
Creon, sysop DIGITAL DREAM joined Crystal 09/92.
Cap and Ribald left the PiratesPossessed coop to join Legend RAW3.
German Annabel joined Creed RAW2.
Tiger is out of jail and back in the scene mid 91. He joined Model.
German graphician Angel Dawn joined Jump mid 91, and Salvatore also joined.
MegaMon 1991, ECS Intro.
Potion
Raos 1999, 64k 8MB Intro.
code: Mavey, gfx: Ash, Konus 3d, music: X-Ball. 2nd in the Xenium 99 64k
intro competition. Cooperation with Weeds.
Suicidal 2000, 04.11, AGA PPC 64k Intro.
code: Mavey, Diamond, gfx: Nelson, music: Tzx.
Winner of the Satellite 2000 64k intro competition!
info: Potions first PPC-only production. Reviewed in Darkages Showtime
16 04/01, where the reviewer called it the best ppc intro so far.
Option 2001, 15.04, AGA PPC 64k Intro.
code: Mavey, Diamond, gfx: Rork, Nelson textures, Rem textures, music:
Skip. Winner of the Mekka Symposium 2001 64k intro competition!
review: Well, another no-starter for me Im afraid. Due to system
requirements, I can only tell you what Option tells me This little
beast of an intro REQUIRES an amiga with a PPC processor, a graphics card
and 32mb fast ram. Ahem. Anyone with a suitably specced A4000 sitting in a
cupboard somewhere doing nothing, that theyd like to donate to the good
cause? Thought not. So anyway, heres their brag list of features effects:
truecolor 640x480x32bit CGX screen, realtime raytracing, phong shading,
bezier texture scaling, reflections, refractions, shadows, moving light,
wather not sure what they mean here... Weather? Water? -glenn, ppc
sound engine, calculated 18 channels digiboosterpro music! Sounds tasty,
doesnt it? glenn
Power
Christmas Ultra 1993, .12, ECS File.
code: Zyron, gfx: Daddycool, Jebu, music: York.
Powerdrive
SWE Biten Bytes gfx, 01/90, Biz swap, DoWN Martin Vilcans, code gfx
music, aka Dragon of Winter Night, 05/89-01/90, Dyne gfx, Heradotos
code, Hrafnir music, Hyperion swap, Ralph 124C41+ Staffan
Vilcans, org gfx, 05/89-01/90.
Powerdrive was a swedish demo group. Other demos released by the group
include Computers in Control, Hyperspace, Sun Demo, Kilodemo,
Vektor Hektor and Stretch When Wet. Thanks to Ralph 124C41+ for help
with this section!
Bad Luck Demo ECS Demo.
code: DoWN, gfx: DoWN logos, Ralph 124C41+ font, music: DoWN ?
Computers in Control ECS Demo.
code/gfx: DoWN, music: Hrafnir intro, DoWN main part.
Hyperspace ECS Demo.
code: DoWN, gfx: DoWN, Ralph 124C41+, music: DoWN.
Kilodemo ECS Demo.
code: DoWN, gfx: DoWN, Dyne, Ralph 124C41+, music: Hrafnir, DoWN.
Metalpower ECS Demo.
info: The only thing ever produced by the swiss section!
Stretch When Wet ECS Demo.
code: DoWN, gfx: DoWN, Dyne, music: DoWN.
Sun Demo ECS Demo.
code: DoWN, gfx: Ralph 124C41+ font, music: Fred.
Vektor Hektor ECS Demo.
code: DoWN, Heradotos vector coding, gfx: Ralph 124C41+ ?, music: Rob
Hubbard ripped.
Snakewoman 1989, 13.05, ECS File.
code: DoWN, gfx: Boris Valejo main pic, Ralph 124C41+ font, DoWN
logo, music: DoWN.
Released for the demo competition at the Equinox and Horizon Party.
Power Girls 1989, 08.07, ECS File.
code: DoWN, gfx: Cai pic, logo, Ralph 124c41 font, music: End by
Particle/Clones SoundTracker 15 inst format.
30th in the Digitech - IBB Summer Conference 89 demo competition.
Wadda 1990, 06.01, ECS File.
code: DoWN, gfx: Ralph 124C41+ large font, waddas, Biten Bytes waddas,
DoWN logo, colouration of large font, music: DoWN ?.
Released at the Phenomena and Censor Party 90.
Powerline PWL, 1995-
SWE Chip Jesper Svennevid, code, 06/97-98, Gunrider Johnny Bengtsson,
ascii, 06/97, Mad Druid Magnus Eklund, 06-12/97, Orhan gfx, 06/97,
Raylight Henrik Magnusson, code, 06-12/97, Wasp Alex Lfgren, music,
06/97-98.
Swedish coder Picnic left the group in 1995.
The official Powerline ftp site is at ftp://ramses.ml.org/pub/powerline
Still Born 1995, 17.06, AGA HD File.
2nd in the Icing 95 demo competition.
info: Powerlines first demo.
Repugnance 1997, 17.06, AGA 4MB Multifile.
code: Raylight, Chip, Scout/C-Lous c2p, gfx: Orhan, music: Wasp.
Winner of the Icing 97 demo competition!
review: Repugnance is a power demonstration, nothing less. Its a demo
that twists and turns, bends and swings, and all perfectly timed to the
heavy beat of the techno soundtrack. And I dont mean that in a bad way.
Theres something a little fresh about this demo, something a little extra
that puts it up there as one of the best demos of 1997. Its hard to pull
out specific effects and say this is excellent, since its the way it
works together that makes it special. Theres great performances on every
level here, with the coders doing a great job, the graphician turning in
an amazing semi-abstract fullscreen, and the musician keeping it all
together with a heavy, dynamic tune. Recommended. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Enforcing The Law 1997, 28.12, AGA 8MB Multifile.
code: Raylight, Chip, Scout/C-Lous c2p, gfx: Mad Druid video clips,
music: Wasp. 11th in The Party 7 demo competition.
review: Before watching this demo, I read the accompanying text file.
It told me that although this demo would run on my system, it would be
slow and not very exciting, since it was optimized for 060 processors.
There was even a requester when I ran it, saying that it would not
perform to its best on my system. So I doubleclicked the file, not
expecting to be impressed in any way. And I have never been happier about
being wrong.
Enforcing the Law is the second surprise from the new Swedish hope
well, at least in my eyes :, Powerline. It is a much more bleak, dark
and monochrome demo than Repugnance was, but in some ways this actually
works to its advantage. I dont think Ive ever seen a demo in this genre
look more colorful in almost total black and white. I know Im not
making sense, but dont take my word for it - go see it yourself.
But lets not forget the speed issue. DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM! I watched
the demo on an ordinary Blizzard 030-50, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
There are some stuff in this demo that will take your breath away, even
on a humble machine like mine : You wont believe your eyes when you see
that ride along the road, with voxel mountains on all sides...and that
shiny box towards the end, wow! And that twisting, zooming pattern...was
that an animation? The only really SLOW parts I noticed were the video
clips, and theyre not really that important to the overall effect.
One last thing Id like to point out about this demo is the fact that
theyre actually trying to be innovative here! When everyone else is
doing their fire effects, these guys have come up with some incredibly
realistic smoke! And I have never seen ANYTHING like the aforementioned
road trip before... Powerline are the best newcomers of 1997. This demo
comes Highly Recommended from the staff here at Scenery. Wow. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Powerslaves, The
??? Creator, Fantasy, James T. Kilroy, Joe Copper, The Red Fox.
Boards POWERSLAVES HQ hol, 09/90, ORIENTAL HOUSE hol, 09/90.
I WILL write extensively about this classic group, and their trendsetting
Megademo, once I find the time : AFAIK, they were primarily German.
Megademo ECS Megademo.
Predators
Megademo 1990, early, ECS Demo, 2 disks.
Prestige PSG
GER Saito crack, ex Crack Inc, Scotty sysop CENTRAL LINK, 04/95.
N-L Deathknight org trade, 03/93-11/94, Fletcher 03/93, Jake sysop NO
VEGETABLES, 03/93, The Freak 03/93.
DEN Enzo sysop SKY TOWER, nolongermemb, 03/93-10/95.
POL Mok crack, 03/93-07/94.
BEL Mousebuster sysops EEK A MOUSE, 03/93-04/95.
CAN Devious Doze sysop, bbs was AKIRA PROJECT in Nemesis 07/92, 03/93,
Striker sysop THE NOTICE, 03/93-04/95, The Joker sysop JOKERS
DEN, 04/95.
USA The Wizard sysop WIZARD PALACE, Zion sysop ZIONS HIDEOUT,
03/93.
??? Abh, Blackbird, Bomber Man 03/93, Candy Man, Chaotic Descent
03/93, Devil Raven den? nor? modem, 05-10/95, Fury den? trade,
03/93-10/95, Groo 03/93, Hardrider 03/93, Hitman 03/93, Jabo
03/93, King Cobra, Leeroy, Mark trade, 03/93-11/94, Mr.Hyde
03/93, Nightshade! 03/93, Polaris trade, 03/93-11/94, Ponton,
Prince of Thieves nor? 08/95, Raj! den? nor? modem, 05-10/95, Samir
org crack, notmembanymore late95, 03/93, Shane 03/93, Shark
03/93, Skol 03/93, Snake Delboy den? 03/93-10/95, Stylemaster
DJ trade, ex Skid Row, 03/93, Troops supply, 03/93, Troll supply,
03/93, Willy 03/93.
Boards THE ENQUISITION usa, 03/93, COMPLEX 39 usa, CYCLONE hol,
03/93, NEON CITY hol, 03/93, WORLD OF ELITE hol.
Prestige were for quite some time one of the foremost Amiga illegal
cracking groups. There were sections in Italy selling console copiers,
France and Switzerland. They are/were also active on the PC. For review of
their cracktro done for them by Funzine, see their entry.
Prestige is dead ROM5.
Panic left early 93, and is now independent.
Killtech left for Paranoid late 92 or early 93.
Another Cracktro 1992, .10?, ECS Intro.
code: Duke, gfx: Alpha, music: Genius.
Its Never Too Late 1992, 10.10, ECS File.
code: Duke, gfx: Fnord, music: Genius. Released at Ami-Expo 92.
The Big Jump 1992, 11.10, ECS File.
code: Duke, gfx: Duke, Alpha, music: Genius.
Cracktro 1 ECS Intro.
review: This is their classic cracktro, plain blue background with just
plain text overlaid. No music. Right mouse button to advance pages.
Filesize for this intro is typically just 4.5K.
Used for their crack of Bloodnet AGA supplied by Troops Troll.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Primary Design Team, The TPD
Click 1996, 18.08, AGA 64k Intro.
code: Judge, gfx: Lion font, music: Mad Jack.
4th in the Assembly 96 intro competition.
review: Not good. No attention to design, boring music... The best part
is the envmapped multi-spiked sphere. But overall...nah. I cant believe
how this placed BETTER than the excellent C-Lous intro! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Prime -1991
Prime is dead. Storm and most other members joined Energy, while Supermann
joined Fairlight.
501 ex Damian joined TRSI.
Tsunami and Zakka joined Omega.
Red Devil and Cenobite joined Aero.
Prime Design
Fashion Design joined Static Bytes.
Primus 1994-
Primus was formed when the German division of Orion was kicked out.
Chucky, 2DD renamed to Hyper Hype and Beeblebrox renamed to Gangsta
soon left for Obsession.
Principes PRC
GER Tiger Sascha Iwanov, swap pack Cypress, later Slope, 94.
??? Paladin swap pack.
Principles
??? Demonoid ex FX, new WHN1, Xedius new WHN1.
Prisoners
USA Rowdy Roddy Piper sysop PIPERS PIT.
Prodigy PDY
GER Argon trade, Cyquest trade, Diddl supplier, Generation sysop,
Hitpoint crack, Krypton sysop BRAINCRASH, doublememb Shoot
details, 08/95, Mercury sysop, Nitro mainorg, Nostromo
spread supply, Rastaman trade, Razor mainorg, S.U.X. supply,
Stargate trade, The Best! crack, 93, White Knight sysop BIGGER
DEFFER, 04/95.
DEN Joshua sysop CONSCIOUS DREAM, triplememb Superiors and Zekt, Metal
Force crack sysop MERCYFUL FATE, 10/94-05/95.
UK Centory supply.
HOL Jake trade sysop.
USA Picard sysop USS ENTERPRISE WHQ, 05/95, Skeleton sysop.
??? Alpha1 code, 03/93-05/95, Gazzer code, Laxical music, 05/95,
Mark Spoon supply, Niko supply, 93, Siriax code train, 03/93-
05/95.
Boards PRIORITY ONE WHQ usa, 93, DAWN OF ETERNITY usa, 05/95, AMIGA
MANIA usa, TASK FORCE ger, RADIO THEHERAN ger, DESERT STRIKE
ger, DOOM OF EXTACY ger, 05/95, COSMIC CIRCUS ger, 05/95,
POOH hol, 93, VANGUARD aus, PHOBIA aus, 95, BANDITS BBS aus,
95, LIVING CHAOS eng, NEO GEO ger, ACID SLAM, STATE OF AVERSIA, NO
VEGETABLES, SYSTEM ONE console only, THE HOLE 93, CHILDS PLAY
93, SYNERGY 93, CREEPING DEATH 93, CASTLE ROCK 93.
Metal Force, sysop of MERCYFUL FATE is just one of two sysops, the other
one being Blackhawk/Paradox.
Trainer Intro by Abyss 1995, Intro.
Code: Dexter, Gfx: Skindiver font, Music: Pink The Player 6.0A format.
Review: Slightly unusual, but not very good is this trainer intro made
for Prodigy by Abyss. The main screen has a standard 8x8 font, and a
dot tunnel behind the text. Theres a scroller at the bottom. As you
press the button, youre progressing through several pages of text, and
each page is separated by the screen clapping together, then opening up
again - from the top right and the low left. Not terribly exciting.
-- Used for Sensible Golf +14 Kotzflash 29, by Siriax. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Profecy
FRA Gretzky Vesco Franck, early93.
??? Furio gfx, 08/93, SLN music, 08/93.
Mery left SLH11.
Numeric III 1992, 28.12, Disk, 2 disks.
24th in The Party 92 demo competition.
Professionals, The 1987-
This was the group that started out a few legends... The two founders were
George later in Subway and J.O.E later in a.o. Scoopex.
J.O.E cofounder left for the TSK Crew 88.
Profex PFX
FIN Di33y gfx music, later Dual Crew, 91, Ginky code, 91, Jaz code,
91, SJ gfx, 91, Stormbringer code, 91, Urpex code, 91, Wiry
mainorg code gfx, 91.
The most remarkable thing about Profex, I suppose, is the fact that later
celebrity musician Dizzy was once a member. I also have him listed as a
Decept member in 91...
Coltrain joined Sigma.
Stenkil Frenkil 1991, ECS File.
code: Wiry, gfx: SJ, music: Di33y.
review: Nothing very remarkable about this small intro-thingy. The main
focal point, naturally, is the stencil vectors Wiry has coded. Obviously
inspired by Scoopex Mental Hangover where such vectors were first
seen. Remarkably, it ran without a single hiccup. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Progress old -1994
Progress died as a group early 94 proabably when they joined forces with
Faith to create the new group Scandal.
Progress new PGS
GER Chuck trade sysop STARGATE, 09/96.
SWE Sy-Klone sysop WHITE ROOM, doublememb Arclite, 01/95.
??? Blade trade, Capslockman mainorg trade supply sysop, Cody
supply, Cujo code, Disc-Devil trade, Enemy code, Excalibur
sysop, Hudson Hawk gfx ascii trade, Kyle Caine code, Lance
supply trade sysop, Lemmon sysop, Malcom trade supply, Marty
McFly trade, Prayer sysop, RH+ gfx org, Scandic trade sysop,
The Enemy crack, The Fly sysop, Transformer trade, Zaxxon
sysop, Rebel! ascii sysop.
New Cracktro For 1996 File.
Proline
??? Mave code.
Swapper Walker joined Interactive.
German Decadence joined Vision old.
Sting left to form Bonzai, which may also include other ex-Proline members.
Information Intro 1992?, ECS Intro.
code: Mave, gfx: Sting, music: Hi-Lite/Scoopex.
Prologic -1991
DEN Krueger swap, later Kefrens.
??? Kreator ex Paranoimia, new ca 07/90.
Prologic is dead. Members joined Budbrain and Static Bytes Playboy,
Hawkeye 09/91. News in Anarchys Stolen Data 4 08/90 that the group
was dead seem to have been greatly exaggerated :
Survivor joined Defcon 1.
Trashcan, The One, Tama and MB Designs joined Euphoria.
TSC changed his name to Dino and joined Parasite mid 91.
Germans Duck often misspellt in mags as Chuck and Sting both joined Decade
06/91.
Xion joined Gate late 90.
Intro 1991, ECS Intro.
2nd in the Aero Conference 1991 demo competition.
Promise
HUN Anorganic code.
Nipples Chicks 1996, 13.04, 40k Intro.
4th in the Scenest 96 40k intro competition.
Prophecy 1990-
ENG Executioner ex Reaktor, new 10/90, Mr.Turnip swap, ex Apex, new
late90.
Prophecys birth was announced in the news corner of D-Tects Hack-Mag 2
11/90. That very same mag also announced PPJ and Ratso Rizzo leaving the
group to build a german section of Flash Productions, and the joining of Mr.
Turnip from Apex.
Prophets AG
??? Fred Feinbein, Mr.Magic code, 04/88-89, Odin, TAR stopswap, 03/89,
The Prophet, Tip Armin Sander, code.
Prophets AG were once one of Alpha Flights many subgroups, but left to be
an independent group in fabraury 1989. They were a German group.
Proton
Proton will probably only be remembered for at one time having Jester as a
member...
1990 - German musician Jester ex Treacl joined Red Sector Inc. after the
Action Conference in october for a short while, before moving on to Sanity.
Proton Ltd.
1992 - The group announces in june that their promised swapper-mag Full
Contact will never get released.
French musician Chrylian joined Dreamdealers.
Przyjaciele Stefana B. PSB
Gravity 2 Invitation 1997, early, AGA ?MB File.
code: Mroova, Zorka19, gfx: Kaziuk, Skafander, music: Team17.
review: Read closely, for this review will expose two LIARS. Coders
Mroova and Zorka19 didnt code this invitation, Crash and Argon did!
If you press the right mousebutton, the bottom of the screen will be
adorned with the text DemoManiac intern debugger. Shame!
The accompanying text mentions it needs some fast. This invitation is
in Polish, but they mention an English version soon. I really like the
WB snapshot in the end part, despite all! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
SzarikRemix 1997, 13.07, AGA File.
code: Mroova, gfx: n/a, music: Klinton.
Released for the Intel Outside 4 crazy demo competition, unplaced.
review: Would someone get these people some professional help? And could
the people sent to help them make them stop uploading slideshows of their
dogs to AmiNet? The amiga community would be eternally grateful.
Requires some fast. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Scener: Rantka 2 1997, 30.08, AGA 2MB File.
code: Zorek, gfx: Cyclone/Abyss psb logo, Tremor PL title, Rodnej
image processing, music: Beautiful Days by Looping.
Released for the Gravity 97 wild competition.
review: Yeah...right. This demo probably makes a whole lot more sense to
people who actually speak the language It appears to be some sort of
story told in words and strange pictures...but its hard to say, hehe!
The best thing about it is the decidedly cool soundtrack. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.
Fuck 1997, 14.12, 64k Intro.
9th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition.
Fuck amigapl 1997, 14.12, 030 64k Intro.
12th in the Astrosyn 97 64k intro competition.
Pseudo-Ops
ENG Spiral sysop GOOD OMENS.
??? Blade, Commander, Jarre, Renegade crack, 12/89, Rockwell, Shadow,
Yiddo.
Boards GOTHAM CITY usa, 09/90.
Pseudo-Ops were in early days most known for their Psudo-Ops Viruskiller,
a then-unique concept where the killer remained resident in memory after a
reset, and warned you if you tried to boot a disk with a virus on it!
Later there were also a few demos and cracks.
Psionic PSI
SWE Santzia L. Laitinen, swap, 08/94.
??? Mood code gfx, 08/94, Parch music, 08/94.
LEspereranza 1994 or pre, Music.
Blizzard of Aahhhs 1994, 06.08, ECS 40k Intro.
code/gfx: Mood, music: Parch.
Split 21st in the Assembly 94 40k intro competition.
review: Some design here, probably because the graphician and the coder
are one and the same. Not bad, but wont turn many heads. Theyve got the
design part pretty well worked out, so I guess its time to work on the
routines, man! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Psycho
Wea joined Analog, but later moved on to Speedy.
Psycho Killers
Intro 1995, 30.08, ECS 64k Intro.
Released for the Intel Outside 2 64k intro competition.
review: Very blue and quite uninteresting. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Public Enemies.
Guru Demo 1990, 05.01, Demo.
Released at the Phenomena and Censor Party 90.
Public Image Limited PIL
Annaliza 1994, 13.11, Demo.
5th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition.
Pulsar 1989-
FRA Numitor mainorg code gfx swap, 05/90.
AUT 2705 code, 05/90.
??? Arion swap pack, 05/90, Conan code, 05/90, JR music, 05/90,
Platoon code gfx, 05/90, Technos code, 05/90, The Profaner code,
05/90, The Titan code, 05/90.
Pulsar was born in august 1989, and many members of Poltergeist joined. In
the end of the year, Numitor was caught by the police for stamp cheating.
1990 - In april, Austrian TMB left to join Scoopex.
German coder Transfer 05/90 joined Paradox old.
Pulse
??? Chipsi gfx sysop, Macho gfx, Monsun trade swap, Sunny gfx swap,
Steve trade, Strike music, rejoined.
This Pulse has no connection with the PC group that features several
ex-Amiga celebrities. Sunny female and Monsun male are a couple!
German swapper and packer The Verdict Reval joined Orion.
Donk left to form Avantgarde. Cascay doublememb Endless Piracy joined.
The entire subgroup Boom Design left that group for dead, and all joined
Avantgarde.
Sonic joined Platin.
Puma
FRA Gebe founder, ex Willow, Latyl founder, ex Willow.
Punishers PNS
ENG H.I.T. Moonweed sysop FLYING TEAPOT, Hybrid sysop ULTIMATE
DREAM.
ITA Winky sysop HOLY HOLE, 91.
AUS Captain Kirk sysop USS ENTERPRISE, 91, Microchip sysop
CHERNOBYL, 91.
FIN Wal, N.G.
USA Highlander sysop BAD BOY CLUB, Scotty Boy sysop POSSE.
??? Damien, Digit music, Einstein music, ex Betrayal, 91, Mekkanik
gfx, 91, Homeboy ex Energy, I.O., Krayz, Manx, Pedro, Starr,
Vikingchild, Vitex, Voyager, Xag code, 91, Zigor, Zorro.
Boards FAST TRAX usa, 91, NOYZE usa, DANSE MACABRE usa, DEFCON 5
usa, SLIME CITY swe, THE FOREST ger.
Hybrids sysop information was partly retrieved from Infinite Perfections
entry the fact that Punishers had BOTH a board called ULTIMATE DREAM and
a member called Hybrid seemed a little too much to be a coincidence :
Ice joined Anthrox.
Englishman Scooter new ca 05/91 joined Skid Row.
Banger ex Anarchy left the scene.
The Master ex Tarkus Team joined Pirates.
Executioner, sysop TREASURE ISLAND left to be independent.
Pure-Byte
DDT joined FIG.
Pure Metal Coders PMC, http://www.stud.ux.his.no/rovik/pmc.html
NOR Cocy code, 12/90-12/92, Darkwalker swap, ex Visual Bytes, Designer
code gfx, late90-04/92, Mystery swap, 07/90, Peter Peter
Salomonsen, music, 06/91-12/92, Rattle gfx, Timewalker music, ex
Cult, new 12/90, Vanguard code, 12/90-06/91, Zorax code, 12/90-
04/92.
MAL Cyber Pirate write, ex Cytax.
PMC was once a force to be reckoned with. Their coder Cocy was wellknown
following his excellent Alfa Omega 1991 demo, and their diskmag R.A.W
was rapidly developing into a success. However, when Cocy started coding on
a game, and the R.A.W production team joined Spaceballs, there wasnt much
left. Id really like to know what became of their excellent musician
Peter, though :
1992 - R.A.W 2 02/92 was released in february, still in cooperation
with New Wave, and carrying an intro supplied by Spaceballs. The issue was a
major success, boosting the groups popularity by miles. It announced Metal
King was still coding on a commercial game that Lonerider had joined from
Visual Bytes that Flush had now stopped swapping that Cocy was coding the
follow-up to Alfa Omega 91 and that norwegians Anders Hamre from
Amiga Freelancers and Anders from Airborn had joined.
1993 - At The Gathering 93, Norwegians Lord Helmet swap edit, ex Cartel,
12/90, Kingpin swap and Perplex code, 11/92, both ex Offence old joined
Spaceballs. With the editor, co-editor and coder of R.A.W jumping ship,
PMC lost one of their greatest assets. Though it was claimed in Generation
6 that Lord Helmet joined Andromeda, this is obviously untrue.
Norwegian coder Anders ex Airborn, 04-12/92 joined Duplo. Anders was also
sysop of PURE METAL LINE until it was busted!
Norwegian graphician Ramjet ex Cartel, 12/90-12/92 joined Spaceballs.
Thanatos fra gfx, 09/92 and Zapper nor music, ex Cartel, 12/90-04/92
both got kicked.
The French section was kicked.
Norwegian coder and musician Copernicus Anders Hamre, ex Amiga
Freelancers decided to leave the scene.
Asymptotic, Fullstar, Hexogen and Rhah joined Dreamdealers because they
were fed up with Thanatos.
Norwegian musician and swapper Dreamer ex Amaze, early93 left the scene.
Batman, sysop PIECE OF HEAVEN 05/91, got kicked.
Norwegian trader and swapper Flush Frode, 12/90-05/91 sold his Amiga and
left the scene.
Norwegian swapper Lonerider ex Visual Bytes, new ca 01/92 sold his Amiga,
bought a PC, and consequently got kicked.
Norwegian graphician Fairfax ex Beastie Boys, 11/91-12/92 joined Offence
06/92.
The Jack gfx, 12/90, Leatherface, Achmed B code, 90, Dr. Feelgood ex
Miranda, Xion and X-Ray nor gfx swap, ex Gate, 12/90 all got kicked.
Dr.Feelgood left to form Obituary.
Cartel joins... 1990, ECS File.
code: Achmed B., gfx: The Jack, Antichrist, Ramjet, music: Zapper.
info: The name of the demo is not accurate, but AFAIK theres no real name
for it... Its the one where the group Cartel announces that theyre
merging into PMC! :
A Little Intro... 1990, late, ECS Intro.
code: Designer, gfx: Ramjet, music: Introtune1.4 by Zapper ProTracker
MOD format.
review: Just a logo, a starfield and a scroller for Flush to send some
messages to his contacts. Uninteresting for the rest of us. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Mesmerized 1990, 28.12, ECS File.
code: Cocy, Vanguard math, gfx: Ramjet, The Jack logo, X-Ray logo,
music: Riff-Raff by Zapper. Released at the Theatre Network Party 90.
review: An unspectacular demo from the coder team that would later make
Alfa Omega. Go figure! Were not given a lot of effects, theres some
interference, some plasma and some triangle stuff that seemingly goes on
forever. The demo has no exit, and once its run through, it starts all
over again. The best part: Ramjets picture at the start. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Frontal Lobotomy 1990, 28.12, ECS File.
code: Zorax, gfx: Ramjet, music: Credulity by Oistein Eide/MON.
Released at the Theatre Network party 90.
review: This demos greatest assets are clearly Ramjets pictures
especially the pissed off smurf :- Other than that, it doesnt really
come alive for me, despite talented people working on it. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1. -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Alfa Omega 1991, 30.06, ECS Trackmo.
code: Cocy, Vanguard assistant, gfx: Ramjet, music: Garbage
Collection by Peter. 2nd at the Amega Party.
review: A true classic. This demo exhibited truly advanced coding when it
was first released, the vector animations had everyone going ooooh....
It was something new, never done quite so good before. Theres a fair few
effects here that made Cocy a household name for a while. It was only
beaten in the competition at the Amega party by another legendary demo
Tomsofts Virtual World.
As a result of the faster machine I ran it on, the scrolltext at the
bottom became increasingly out of touch with what was going on onscreen.
glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 --
Note: Music bugs a little sometimes.
R.A.W 1 1991, .11, ECS Diskmag.
INT - code: Designer, gfx: J.O.E/TRSI pic, Fairfax logo, music:
Basshigh2c by Comajim/NW ProTracker MOD format.
MAG - code: M.M./NW, gfx: Enigma/Andromeda, Wimme/NW, music: Tanker by
Mutant/NW, Bonus by Peter, Jakarta by Comajim/NW, editor: Lord
Helmet.
Released in cooperation with New Wave NW.
review: The first issue of a legendary disk magazine. Graphically, its
not everything the later editions are. That checkerboard design doesnt
really do it for me : Ofcourse, from the second issue onwards wed be
treated to Fairfax increasingly great art... For HD install, remember
that the disk/assign MUST be called R.A.W:.
News that Walkman had joined Scoopex were, naturally, WRONG! glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
R.A.W 2 1992, .02, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
INT - code: Lone Starr/Spaceballs, gfx: Fairfax/PMC logo, Sator/
Spaceballs font, music: Raw Intromusic by Vinnie/Spaceballs
ProTracker MOD format.
MAG - code: M.M./NW, gfx: Fairfax/PMC, Wimme/NW, music: Nightdrizzle
by Mr.Man/Andromeda, Helmet for Sale by Jason/Kefrens, Chroxial
by Dexter/ex Anarchy, editor: Lord Helmet main, Kingpin/NW.
Released in cooperation with New Wave.
review: The show opens with a very cool R.A.W logo done by Fairfax, before
the intro starts proper. It seems to use a variation on the RecVec system
pioneered by Cocy in Pure Metal Coders own Alfa Omega 06/91 demo to
at first show a flight into a small cluster of houses. We travel into the
window of one of the houses, where a RAW logo resides and we travel around
and inside this while an overlaid textplotter informs us of the headlines
for the upcoming issue. The design of the intro perhaps leaves a thing or
two to be desired, but it does leave an overall good impression -
especially the very nice music by Vinnie.
After clicking the mouse, the mag continues to load, and opens what is a
very stylish interface - we dare the suggestion it was the best-looking
diskmag to date, Stolen Data included! It looks and feels, in a word,
smooth. Fairfax title picture is also great, with a cowboy sitting atop
his horse observing the slightly absurd spectacle of a ship stranded atop
a mountain range in the skies...all beautifully done in shades of red and
orange.
Motifs handle is spellt incorrectly Mofit in the news item
concerning Alliance Design. The news that Zephyr/Amaze joined Vision
Factory are 100 incorrect, as I have the official version from the man
himself
The mag works remarkably well on my 030 machine, provided you boot with
no caches and the original chipset. Im told the mag works fine even on
A1000s To manually install the mag to your harddisk there is no
installer on the disk, remember that the disk/assign MUST be called
R.A.W:. The intro specifically needs KillAGA or similar on AGA machines.
glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Caches off, orig chipset
BASE Connection 1992, 18.04, ECS Intro.
code: Zorax, gfx: Designer BC logo, Fairfax PMC logo, music: Activ-
Waste! by Zapper. Released at The Gathering 92.
review: A logo at the top, a logo at the bottom and a sine-scroller in
the middle, accompanied by a mediocre techno tune. This intro was meant
to recruit composers to a new techno music-group called BASE. I certainly
never heard of them again, so I guess its safe to assume it wasnt a big
success...and neither is this intro. Nothing Id recommend. glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Needs KillAGA.
The Gathering 92 Pictro 1992, late .04, ECS File Slideshow.
code: Anders, gfx: Fairfax, music: Yoghurt, Karsmanatic and What...
by Steinar Apalnes/independent 4ch MOD format.
review: Not much to describe here, theres a PMC logo at the top of the
screen, the middle is occupied by some pictures duh! and the bottom is
where the obligatory text writer resides. Competent enough, I guess, with
three nice tunes and an OK logo. Anders recycled this code for a very
similar production called R.A.W 4 at The Party in december! glenn
GLE tested A500 /000-7 /mb chip, mb fast/2.04.
A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Note: Musics bugs slightly.
R.A.W 3 1992, .07, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
INT - code: Lord Mindless/Offence, gfx: Mystix/Anarchy picture, Sector
9/Razor 1911 font, music: Lizard/Offence.
MAG - code: M.M/New Wave, Cocy fixing, gfx: Fairfax/Offence, Vimme/
Offence fonts, music: Wild Impressions.2 by Lizardking/Strange,
Newspaper Groove by Axel/Brainstorm, and Movements by
WOTW/Supplex all 4ch MOD format, editor: Lord Helmet.
review: How do you review the best mag on the scene? Fabulous!
You can easily run this from your harddrive, just remember to assign
R.A.W: to the main directory what would have been the root of the
floppy. Enjoy! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
R.A.W 4 1992, .11, ECS Multifile Diskmag.
INT - code: Dr.Jekyll/Andromeda, gfx: Fairfax/Andromeda, Duel/Andromeda
font, music: Lord Interface/Andromeda.
MAG - code: Perplex, gfx: Facet/Anarchy intropic, Fairfax/Andromeda
main, Perplex fonts, music: Well Make It Live by Soul/
Shining, Slow Motion by Axel/Brainstorm, Editor: Lord Helmet.
review: The Andromeda intro that graces the front of the fourth issue of
R.A.W is very nice indeed, and puts you in an expectant mood before
plunging into the mag itself. After just two issues, theyve decided to
change the code entirely, and consequently also the design. The new
design is perhaps cleaner, and the new code has some innovations, like
the way you can choose how the text is formatted. However, I must say
that I quite liked the old design : Editorially theyre as provocative
as ever, not pulling any punches this time either.
This would be the last issue of R.A.W released by PMC before the next
issue the entire editorial staff had left the group in favour of rising
stars Spaceballs! glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.
Alpha and Omega II: Downtown 1992, 28.12, ECS Trackmo, 3 disks.
code: Cocy, gfx: Ramjet, music: Peter, Onar Am.
4th in The Party 92 demo competition.
R.A.W 4 - Party Edition 1992, 28.12, ECS File Slideshow.
code: Anders, gfx: Fairfax, music: Palles Theme2 by Jester/Sanity 4ch
MOD format. Released at The Party 92.
review: For the coding specifics, you can just refer to the review of
The Gathering 92 Pictro 04/92, since it appears to be nearly
identical. Lazy, lazy Anders... : The show opens with a nice picture by
Fairfax, which is a rendition of the poster for the movie Home Alone.
The logo in the slideshow itself is also nice. The music is not bad, about
par for Jester. Well, what more to say? Theres no exit. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0 -- Note: Needs KillAGA.
Pussy -1991
SWE Bizox ex Timex, Chunkei swap, ex Timex, Dot ex Timex, Dr.Yes ex
Timex, Eclipse ex Timex, Izzy ex Timex, R42 music, ex Timex,
Torkel ex Timex, Tsathoggua swap, ex Timex, Wolf ex Timex.
??? Falch gfx, 12/90, R24 music, 12/90.
Pussy was a mainly Dutch group, who died in march 1991, when the group
changed their name to Jetset. I am actually uncertain whether this concerns
both the dutch and swedish members... The groups swedish division was
formed when the entire group Timex joined.
TCB joined Destiny.
Bronx Warrior joined Argon mid 91.
Swedish coder Barf ex Timex, 12/90 left.
The French and Dutch sections left the group.
Swedes Dr.Satan ex Timex and Mightymuz joined Vogue.
The English section is dead the members joined other English groups like
Destiny, Slipstream and Magnetic Fields.
Little Intro 1990, .12, ECS Intro.
code: Barf, gfx: Falch, music: R24.
review: This little intro was released to announce that the previous
members of Timex had now formed the Swedish division of Pussy. Its not
much to tell the world about, but what little there is is quite
competent. The tunes nice, as is the logo...though the codings a little
on the simple side. Nice enough for what it is.
Released in week 51... glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0. -- Note: KillAGA.
Puzzle PZL, http://home7.inet.tele.dk/pzl/
DEN Deckard Mads Voster, gfx raytrace, 12/96-08/97, Decoy Danni Hansen,
swap, ex Passion, 08/97, Fazion code, Firebird partyorg, Hexagon
code, doublememb Mystic, 96-08/97, Kreon code, Mickey code, Powdi
Per Bloksgaard Christensen, code, ex Ambrosia, new 97-08/97, Relief
music, 08/97, Robotnik code, SCA code raytrace, Tactica gfx,
Tricktrax org code music, 08/97.
NOR Archangel music, triplememb Rebels and TRSI details, 03/96-08/97.
ENG Trooper spreader.
??? Deone gfx, 08/97, Liquid music, 96, Ruben 3dgfx, 08/97, Subsonic
3dgfx, ex Spoon.
Large portions of the memberlist was taken from one published in Friendchip
1, released in december 1996. I take it the other homepage address I had
at geocities is defunct.
1996 - Danish graphician and raytracer Phonetic joined Mystic.
Musician Muttley left.
Danish coder Selector left.
Jedi sysop left to join Rebels.
Elements Musicdisk.
code/music: Melomaniac, gfx: Tactica.
Voodoo 64k Intro.
The Sketchbook 1996, spring, Slideshow.
code: Hexagon, gfx: Deckard, music: Liquid.
Ketogane 1996, 06.07, Demo.
4th in the South Sealand Party 96 demo competition.
Zoo 1997, 10.08, AGA 4MB Demo.
code: Hexagon, Tricktrax, gfx: Deckard, music: Tricktrax.
Pygmy Projects 1993-, http://stekt.oulu.fi/flame/pygmyhome/index.html
FIN Cence Tapani Tolpanniemi, music, Cenobit gfx, ex The Silents,
08/93, Coconut Matti Kantola, founder code, ex Damones, 08/93, Flame
Jani Vaarala, founder code, ex Damones, 08/93-late96, JOLOO5X Janne
Leinonen, music, ex The Silents, Phobic Tomi Huoviala, gfx anim,
Silver Eagle Sami Vaarala, code, ex The Silents, 08/93-10/96.
GER Jester Volker Tripp, music, ex Sanity, new 02/95.
Pygmy was formed by Coconut and Flame, both ex-members of the shortlived
Finnish section of The Silents. They released one demo, Maximum Volocity
08/92 for The Silents before getting kicked out. They then joined Damones,
before finally forming Pygmy. I guess we should feel lucky they tried their
hand at doing it on their own, since PP is a group that created a few quite
memorable productions! They have a special symbol, the so-called Pygmy
sun. It can be seen in Extension above the logo, G-Force as a
gouraud object and Logic envmapped.
1993 - Their very first demo, the trackmo Extension 08/93 surprised
everyone by taking the very first place in the assembly democompetition!
1995 - The year started great for PP, after they were joined by famous
german musician Jester/Sanity in february! This move sent shockwaves
throughout the demo scene, but unfortunately it would seem like he ceased
all scene activity in favour of his professional music career shortly after
joining...
Extension 1993, 10.08, ECS Trackmo.
code: Coconut, Flame, gfx: Cenobit, music: Cyberride by Jester/Sanity
Pygmy Packer format. Winner of the Assembly 93 demo competition!
review: Great in its time, Extension rocked the scene. Who would have
expected a bunch of unknowns to come along and WIN the ASM93 demo compo?
The show opens with a picture of a woman with a snake wrapped around her,
while the demo loads. Once its loaded, we get the name of the crew and
the demo presented, in what is a rather unique style. The music is timed
to the FX, and theres plenty of that here. Most of the effects are dot-
or vector-based, with stuff like a dot-landscape, dot-cityscape, solid
cityscape, dots dropping down on a vector cube, vector cube shadow-
casting onto another vector object etc. It sort of signalled the end of
those two trends! Well, Kefrens Desert Dream 04/93 had pretty much
buried the dot stuff four months earlier, so I guess this was more of a
twitch :
The music by Jester is liked by many. However, I am very individual :D
Its frantic techno with wah-wah guitars overlayed. Youve been warned.
A file version requiring a little more memory was released in december.
This production uses a unique music format, dubbed the Pygmy Projects
Packer by the common conversion utilities. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
G Force 1994, 06.08, AGA 40k Intro.
code: Silver Eagle, Flame replayer, gfx: none, music: Papaija Pygmy
Packer format. Winner of the Assembly 94 40k intro competition!
review: Wow! Im sure THIS kicked butt in Finland! Impressive is the only
way to describe this pioneer intro. Massive gouraud shaded objects move
around the screen, including the infamous fish and a large face object.
Totally oustanding. The intro was Silver Eagles first solo project. His
only work before this was an endpart for the TSL trackmo Maximum
Velocity 08/92.
Needs a bit of fastmem, though I do not know EXACTLY how much. Worked
fine on my 4mb configuration. glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
G Force Final 1994, .12, 020 Intro.
Logic 1995, 13.08, AGA HD Multifile.
code/gfx: Flame, Silver Eagle, music: Low Voltage, Chromosomes and
Kardaaniakselli by Paralogic System. 2nd in the Assembly 95 demo compo.
review: Not all that impressive, this production still managed to come in
second at ASM95...the party they won two years earlier with Extension
08/93. The effects are perhaps better and more advanced this time
around, but Extension still has the edge in pure entertainment power.
Lots of fx, as mentioned, includes envmapping reflection, phong,
texturemapped tunnel, shade cluster which Andromeda invented with their
The Party 4 winner Nexus 7, texturemapped tilting cityscape, morphing
rendered gold sheet, particles forming words... The music is the usual
techno shit, no better or worse than the norm. Paralogic System is a
separate group or single composer, what do I know?, and not a member of
PP.
It seems they used a custom replayer for the music once more! Silver
Eagle is credited with player the original Pygmy Packer was by Flame,
and there are some files that correspond to the music names, but not to
any known format. Any information on this is most welcome! : glenn
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
Pyrodex old PRX
GER Bitmaster gfx, 93.
Boards HOUSE OF COOLNESS WHQ ger, 02/93, KRUSTYLAND ger, 02/93,
BEVERLY HILLS 02/93.
All members joined Abyss in early 1994, including famous German musician
Pink 05/93-01/94 and coders Poet new 12/93 and Bartman! It is also a
possibility that this includes Dexter.
The Detonation of Paula 1993, .02, ECS Musicdisk.
info: Mentioned in the sample text of Pinks tunes Razor 1911 Cracks and
Synthetic Challenge. It apparently includes 12 tunes on 1 disk, and one
introdisk containing raytraced animation from Bitmaster.
Pyrodex new
GER El Barto code crack.
Pyrodex is the old illegal group that german scene celebrities Bartman
and Pink belonged to before building the demo group Abyss. They now seem to
be rebuilt, doing ultimate versions of old games - check their fabulous
Giana Sisters release! intro by Bartman and Pink - grin :-