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NORBY OF TRISTAR AND RED SECTOR INCOOPERATED NORBY/TRSI POLISH HQ P.O.BOX 20 56-300 MILICZ POLAND ______ . ___________ _ ___ ______ _______________________ | _)|(_ | /\ _) (_)_ _)(_ | \ (_ _ | | | | _) | __\|__) | /__\ \ (_X_ \(__ |__/ ___)(__ |___ | |__| \ \ \ \ PKL \ ...BACK TO THE ROOTS... ________________________ _______________________ \______________________ \_/ __________________/ _____||~~~ ~|__||~~~ ~l_/ /l_______~~~\_||~~~~ ~|_____ |::· |¦ | |¦ _ \_______| ||¦ | ·::| |· |! | |! |\ |! l! ||! | ·| |· l______|e!l______| \_/l___________|l_______| ·| | | | N E W S - N E W S - N E W S - N E W S - N E W S | | | | COLLECTED BY NORBY OF TRSI | | | | SUPPORT BY: | | | | ZINKFLOID/TRSI, RADAVI/EFFECT, JAZY/VISION&WARTEC, | | BACKFIRE/ALCHEMY, BODZIO/THE EDGE, ACEN/COMPACT, | | LOVELY/BETA TEAM, DAFFY/D-29, LENIN/FREEZERS, | | WEA/PSYCHO, GUNMAN/MYSTIC, LORD/S!P&VISION, | | MR.KING/SCOOPEX, NAPOLEON/DREAMDEALERS, | | OVERDOSE/IRIS, QWERTY/MAD ELKS, CHMIEL/F.C.I. | l____________________________________________________| ABYSS: - ZYSTAR renamed to MEM'O'REE. - SENTINEL is not a ABYSS member. AGNOSTIC FRONT: - They spread stickers at the WOC in Cologne saying: `What a luck that I am not in BIG DESIGN!! (ed.-that`s the only way to go!!) ALCATRAZ: - Control and Orbit left for TRSI. - Head and Mad Butcher were kicked! - Birdie never JOINED! - Some1, Schizo and Colourbird, Diesel and Deelite were NEVER members of ALCATRAZ - MC DISK is absolutely dead!! - A new diskmag from ALCATRAZ will come named `COMPASS`. - QUEDEX and PIGMENT are working on a cool Jump and Run game which will be distributed by MAX DESIGN. - They are working on the follow up to VOYAGE, it's called TEAMWORK. It's promised to be the biggest project ever. - 4T THIEVES (musician) moved from England to Finland to work as a babysitter and built up the new Finnish division for ATZ. - Probably there will be a big co-operation demo from TRSI and ALCATRAZ next year. It will contain 3 disks full of new effects and done by Austrian members only of these two groups. It will be released as a pure friendship production!! - Some members in Sweden was kicked(?) and built up a new group called ALCATRASH. - They have kicked out a lot of members lately and reduced their members to 17! This is Disney of Alcatraz (WHQ) providing some offical news about our group. First of all, we did some kind of an "Operation Shrink" within the group, several members have been kicked out. There are 16 remaining guys, check the memberlist... We intend to freeze the memberlist quite soon, after some minor changes. AUSTRIA Disney WHQ Quedex Coder Iluvatar Graphician Pigment Graphician FINLAND 4T Thieves SFHQ, Musician GERMANY HMC Musician, GHQ Sigma Coder BELGIUM Cybersonik BHQ, Editor MALTA Mop MHQ, Editor, Swapper NORWAY Micro-Pal NHQ, Sysop, "P"editor Brainbug Musician Teo Graphician, Designer SWITZERLAND PGCS CHHQ, Graphician Hornet Coder Bros Coder Greg Musician ALCHEMY: - They got Norwegian division with two members: The Clash - musics, Walker - swapping - 40K INTRO was relased at The Party III, and take 6th place. - Frodo change his handle to JOHAN, and he's no graphician, anymore. - They decide to dismiss Accord...without any cause... - Official Alchemy memberlist: POLAND: Axel - coding , swapping, editor Backfire - main swapping, pack-making,...madness !!, WHQ Bob - coding, article writer ??? Cromax - graphics, musics Exolon - swapping Johan - captain, editor Ozzy - graphician Saggitarius - graphics TipTop - coding....(i guess ???) Vico - coding NORWAY: The Clash - musics Walker - swapping, organizing, NHQ BETA TEAM: - Roberts joined BETA TEAM. - Official memberlist of BETA TEAM: CBM - coder LARSEN - coder LOVELY - swapper, pack-maker ROBERTS - musican CLASSIC: - They are re-born with some old members and with a lot of members from MINISTRY!! - They got 3 new members - all from QUARTEX, but rumours are saying that CLASSIC paid 2000 US$ for these members. (ed.-could that be true??) COMPACT: - Omaha Thunder/ex-Destiny joined, together with his board Digital Pleasure. - Matt/ex-Hiron joined as coder and musician in Poland. - Grey/ex-Hiron joined as graphician in Poland. - Whiplash renamed to Fizban. - Acen/ex-Phase joined as mailtrader. - Scientist/ex-Phase joined as coder. - Unix is in the army. D-29: - D-29 have got a new division in Norway. - Flower Child (musician) joined the danish division at The Party III. - Drac (musician) and Warner (swapper) did the same... - Memberlist: FINLAND: SWEDEN: DENMARK: NORWAY: Slade Quedo Adonis Airhead Noblehawk D-Lite Daffy Rabbit Mint Darkhawk Nelson Exact-1 Drac DJ.Ere Freeze Flower Child Cryzor Deathsester Guybrush Guz Warner DECNITE: - SPEED DEMON (ex.Tommy/INTERACTIVE) renamed to HIGHLIGHT - Branca joined DECNITE from ENERGY. DREAMDEALERS: - NAPOLEON joined as swapper and Live Coeditor. ENERGY: - A lot of members left for TRSI, OHM and QUARTEX. - The new WHQ is now in FINLAND. For joining/swapping write to: COMRADE/ENERGY WHQ T. Gunnar Pohjolantie 3 SF-32800 KOKEMAEKI Finland - Some members from the illegal section of Energy re-built QUARTEX in Austria. - DR.GRELL re-joined ENERGY and is now the illegal WHQ. - HANGAR 18 is still the ENERGY WHQ despite a lot of rumours. It will soon get more nodes!! - Soon some demos by ENERGY again!! - There are rumours that various known ex-Energy members re-built the Austrian part to become the national number 1 as they were it 3 years ago! - Jason, Greili and Antitrack were kicked out. - Troccadero, BHN, Zippo, MCM, Catfish and LEE joined as cracker and trainermaker. - Mike, Parallax, Lord, ANC, Brainwasher and Nomad joined as supplier. - SCENE LYRICS by ENERGY is dead forever because WILD RAGE got kicked and left the scene!! F.C.I.: - Chmiel joined F.C.I. from STATUS O.K. - Carlo joined F.C.I. from NEANDERTHAL MEM. - Kurczak, Carlo and Chmiel working on new charts called: SWIERSZCZYK. - Memberlist: Echo - Code Plexa - Code Ufo - Code Kurczak - Code Dreamer - Music Chmiel - Swap Carlo - Swap FREEZERS: - Lenny and Dempsey left U.S.S.R and joined FREEZERS. - They are looking for swappers. - Lenny working on scene-mag called "Icehouse". - Memberlist: Alex - music, add. gfx Bart - code Dempsey - code Gordon - code Martin - code (tools) Lenny - code (tools) Shogun - code Joy - code Freeman - gfx Sputnik - code Lenin - main swap FUSION: - Bostich, Winston, Tea Pot and Mehellia are working on a 3 disk demo which should be released in 1994 on A500. According to members of TRSI and ENERGY it should be the best produced A500 demo ever!! - FUSION is beside TRSI, RAZOR 1911 and FAIRLIGHT the oldest group in the scene! - Some of the old C64 leaders got busted for phreaking and fraudal misuse of credit cards. MAD ELKS: - MAD ELKS is NOT a subgroup of MYSTIC now! - Iceman left UNION and joined MAD ELKS. He renamed to REDMAN. - Jeremy left the scene. - Gunman left MAD ELKS and joined MYSTIC. - Tai-Pan kicked out. - Zielu joined as sysop. - They've got new board called 'Silents of the Elks'. *** +48 (0) 22 886 4541 (22.00 - 07.00) this number until December *** - They're looking for GOOD CODERS (!!!) & Boards! - Their actual memberlist: Dak (code, swap) AliS (gfx, swap) Valdi (code) Kopara (main swap, organizing) Sca (swap) Redman (ex.Iceman) (swap) Fli (gfx, swap) Zielu (sysop) Xenos (gfx) Qwerty (swap) - all above in Poland Zombie (swap) - in Sweden Avenger (swap) - in Finland Quaid (swap) - in Norway MYSTIC: - Gunman joined MYSTIC from MAD ELKS as graphician, raytracer and swapper. - Katani joined MYSTIC from UNION as coder. - XTD left UNION and now he is MYSTIC & TRSI member. OBSESSION: - Qba left OBSESSION and joined ILLUSION. - Ranger left OBSESSION and joined ISCH CREW. - Sigge left OBSESSION and joined ILLUSION. - MAS joined OBSESSION as a coder. - SLINE joined OBSESSION as musician, swapper and graphician. - Meberslist: Derk ... Graphician,swapper,organizer Dodger ... coder Executor ... coder Latro ... swapper Mas ... coder Sebax ... graphician,swapper Sline ... Graphician,swapper,musician QUAZAR: - New Polish group. - P.G. joined after kick from MAD ELKS. - Actual memberlist: Magiel - menager, swap, music Kodi - swap, raytracing Vip - swap Sherkey - gfx P.G. - code Nostromo - code,gfx Pipen - code RAZOR 1911: - COLOURBIRD never got an offer of a TRSI leader to join! COLOURBIRD was so pissed that he was kicked out of SCOOPEX, so he sent SKULLFUCKER and SPYCATCHER diskbombs. SPYCATCHER was really angry about this so he phoned COLOURBIRD and said that he is TSM/TRSI and whether COLOURBIRD would like to join or not! Of course COLOURBIRD said YES and wondered himself why none of the TRSI members ever heard of him!! SANITY: - News from Sanity by Chaos/Sanity, approved by Mr. Pet, McDeal ARTE. ----- I (Chaos) and Mr. Pet might have some problems with design, and I think there is much to improve, even if we have improved much since our last demo, World of Commodore. But there is another field where we have severe problems: Demo psychology. Due to deadline problems (We finished ARTE ten minutes before the original deadline) and carelessness we didn't thought that many people might reset if they see a picture saying "this is PRACTICALLY the end", and not noticing that it is only PRACTICALLY the end, and that there is one third of the demo still to come. And therefore most of the people simply didn't notice that they just missed perhaps one of the fastest and best realtime vector routines ever (in the eyes of a coder. Other demo freaks might not care about a routine being realtime, rotating in all 3 axes, etc...) in an amiga demo (done by Chaos and McDeal). In other words: We messed it up again, many people, including the party organizers reseted after the second part and didn't noticed that there is a third one to come. The main reason to write this article is to make everybody know that there is this third part, and that you should watch it! But if we are spreading this article, I use the opportunity to write some more stuff about ARTE and my future plans. I want to start with the usual arrogant, selfcentered "spardimerda" stuff, about us and ARTE being the best and why... We tried very hard to make ARTE as compatible as possible. We actually found only 2 Computers at the party place where ARTE crashes, both of them being highly upgraded A3000. I am trying to find the problems, most likely to be found in the Sanity Operating System, so I would be pleased if you write to me if you encounter any problems (with detailed hardware specification) so that we can code a bugfix and to make sure that future demos work. The main problem is, that we try to pull the last out of the machine. It is easy to make a demo run on a 2MB A1200 68020, or on a 1MB A500, supporting only special memory expansions, or even only $c00000-Memory (like some coders do...), but we tried to make it run on ALL Amigas, with ALL CPUs, with enabled caches, with ALL possible memory configurations. All code is relocateable, it will be loaded to real fast memory if possible. You can see this best at the vector routine: It gets faster with real fast mem even on an A2000, and it's fast as lightning on 68030/40. Another thing we are fucking proud of is the size of ARTE: We crunched 3 modules, many, many effects and dozens of pictures and clip art on one disk. We need only about 1.6 kb of crunched data for each second of demo. The most asked question at the party was "only one disk?", although they have only seen 2/3 of the demo. Perhaps this is what distinguishes realtime demos from animations. After all this "Oh we are so proud of this" stuff now some info we are less proud of: Broken Promises is canceled! ----------------------------- More then 2 years ago, shortly after Elysium was finished and I had enough rest, I coded a few routines (that haven't been released yet) that have been totally stunning at that point of time, and that are still very good. I had the Idea of making BP, and I planned to release it at The Party I (!). BP was not as much related to special effects, it was more related to the concept of interaction: Most of the effects can be interactively altered, they run in a (non intuition) Window, Gadgets make it possible to alter resolution, size, details. Effect and Modules from other demos can be loaded (most of the effects in the first part of "World of Commodore" support this feature, ofcourse without window and interaction. ARTE effects are incompatible since they use a slightly different protocol, but I guess I would have make them run with a few "special case treatments") But there were two problems: I spend too much time to make the graphical user environment, the so called "Inyerface" run on an A500. It lead me to some very complex copperlists that were dynamically created, especially because it should not only work, it should also be good-looking. A lot of paper was filled, and I have to apologize to HaVoK who filled disks with test, design and graphics for BP. But the most severe problem was that I didn't actually worked on BP. We were never able to plan our projects well. First I started coding a music disk for Jester, no problem, two month of work I thought, and it took me more then twice as long till I got the last graphics and code to work together. Now I had invented the copper-zoom (102-zoom) for more then 16 pixels, but I used it only in the menu, so I had to code a demo that pulls the effect to it's limit, the "Optimum Fuckup". This took much longer then I expected too, especially since Jester said to me that he made a new music shortly after I finished all the design and timing for the old one (Breakout Remix). After all, the demo was less successful then expected, but in some kind more successful then all other demos because it impressed some guys at NEON enough to ask me if I could code some zoom-routines for their coming project, Mr. Nutz. So one project followed the other: WoC (which did not cost too many time), parts of three games, Mr. Nutz among them, ARTE (which was meant as a small intro and then took half a year for me and more for Mr. Pet), and other small things. Beside being a coder, I finished FOS (school), civil service and some semesters of technical computer science. In other words: I coded on BP only "occasional". All the time BP blocked me that much that I said to some friends: "Either it will be released at The Party III, or it will never be released". At The Party III I even broke that promise, but now, with my thought sorted, I think I made the right decision: Cancel and concentrate on Demos instead of myths. There simply isn't enough time and motivation left to create something that complex. But it was a great experience. A few interviews and rumors, and they actually bought it: I think I am the only coder that became #1 in the Eurocharts without actually releasing anything for more then 6 months! Broken Promises entered the Charts without being released, without even been coded! Some guys claimed that they have made "screen shots" of it and were mighty proud releasing a badly digitised nothing (All they got was an ARTE-Preview by Mr. Pet). The best of all: would you believe a rumor about something called "Broken Promises?". This shows how far you can go! Compatibility in general ------------------------ Perhaps this is the point to write some words about the compatibility discussion that is held in some diskmags and networks: Writing trackmos has no disadvantages towards making "system friendly" demos, even with compatibility in mind! (Except for harddisk installation) Commodore officially tries to supports "Original Chip Set" as long as possible, at least for triple-A. In other words: Read the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual, and hit the Hardware as you like as long as you follow a few rules that are outlined there. But NEVER rely on special configurations (memory, CPU), kill the system carefully or allocate the resources and let the system run on the background, DON'T use absolute addresses and test as much as you can. Commodore won't support ECS or AGA features in AAA, so if you want to use them, you can be sure that your demo will not run on future Amigas. Therefore there is NO SUCH THING as a compatible AGA-Demo. My solution in the future will be to write either AGA-only demos that don't give a damn on triple-A, but where EACH effect would be useless on non-AGA anyway, or to write mixed demos where the AGA-effects are skipped on non-AGA-Amigas and have two copperlist (one AGA, one non AGA) for some effects. These demos should run kinda downgraded on AAA, but at least they run. Please notice: There are computers without AGA, but with fast CPU, therefore you can make a great A1200-Demo without using the AGA-features, and you will get many friends among the turboboard and A3000 users. I will support the A500 in future, even though I might also release a pure AGA-demo. Ofcourse it is BRAINDEAD to make utilities with hardware-code like the good old KefCon and most Trackers. If you are going to make a utility, please try to do it using the OS. Protracker is the best (or better, worst) example. At the beginning there was NO working protracker on the A4000, and even now I have some problems. If you are coding screens, gadgets, mouse and all this by yourself, you have much more work as if you would try to learn the basics of Intuition. Invest your time in doing it right with OS instead of patching around. It is very frustrating to see the Protracker with Hires or Superhires sprites, to get crashes when the ScreenBlanker activates themself and so on. If you use a good utility like Magic User Interface by Stefan Stuntz, then you will save time, gain 100% compatibility and inherit many useful features. SURPRISE! PRODUCTION: - Messerschmitt is the WHQ of S!P. - Antibyte (coder) joined from Scoopex. - Luke (gfx) joined from Scoopex. - Private Dick/Legend joined. - Dawn (musician) joined in Germany. - Scorpion/Orient (gfx) joined in Denmark. - Splat! (gfx) joined. - The WHQ Board is THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST. - LORD is also a Vision member. - Executioner left the S!P for more than 1.5 year (it was a bad news that he stayed in) - CREATOR joined S!P as a subgroup. - CyberDance (swapper) was kicked out. - 7th Son (coder) renamed to CodeX. - Memberlist: HUNGARY: Messerschmitt : WHQ, mailtrader Lord : mailtrader, sysop, musician (CREATOR of S!P) CodeX : coder Robin : coder Griff : musician Delta MC : graphician Abstract : graphician AUSTRIA: ENGLAND: J.O.E : graphician,musician Ape : musician ReeBok : coder, leader Dickie : modemtrader Luke : coder,graphician Mace : modemtrader Corwin : graphician Mad Man : modemtrader, ANSI-gfx Antibyte : coder Strobe : UKHQ, modemtrader FRANCE: NORWAY: Elwood : FHQ, mailtrader Happy : NHQ, mailtrader Fred : musician, mailtrader Elmoore : graphician Kid : graphician FINLAND: Patriot : mailtrader, soon sysop HiJack : SFHQ, mailtrader SWEDEN: DENMARK: Duz : musician Dr.Poison : DHQ, mailtrader Eddie : graphician Scorpion : musician Jesus : musician GERMANY: Panther : coder, musician Dawn : GHQ, musician, coder Sabadon : mailtrader SUSPECT: - JEZO and TRASH HEDA left SUSPECT and joined TRSI. THE EDGE: - The new group in Poland. - A 40K INTRO is in progress and it will be probably released on next polish party, so don't you dare to not appear there... - Memberlist: Bodzio - swap Rain - sounds Screef - visuals Unholy - code THE INTERCEPTORS: - New polish group: THE INTERCEPTORS. - Memberlist: AT - swapper BOBO - raytracer DEMON - gfx DROZOL - gfx ELK - code MARS - gfx, swapper STONE - code (main) TRSI: - Some members from Poland make TRSI - POLISH DIVISION! - NORBY left INVESTATION and joined TRSI as SWAPPER and POLISH ORGANIZER! - TAP, WALT, DR.D and LEVIATHAN left INVESTATION and joined TRSI. - XTD, ANIMAL, TOM, PYTHON, PLUTON and SEQ left UNION and joined TRSI. - TRASH HEAD and JEZO left SUSPECT and joined TRSI. - Memberlist of TRSI - POLISH DIVISION (29.01.1994): ANIMAL - graphician DR.D - graphician JEZO - graphician LEVIATHAN - coder NORBY - swapper, organizer PLUTON - graphician PYTHON - swapper, graphician SEQ - graphician TAP - coder, swapper TOM - coder TRASH HEAD - swapper, organizer WALT - coder XTD - musician - Cone/TRSI is back in the scene! Feel free to contact him now! - Zorlac (graphics) and Ultimax (coder) joined in Holland. - Dark/NOXIOUS joined as new swapper. - Call Austrias best BBS (TRSI AHQ) under +43-7672-27743 which has now 3 nodes/ringdown; sysop: PRAYER - Control and Orbit joined from ALCATRAZ! - Eswat did not join from JETSET but he is painting for TRSI. - THE EDGE is now also TRSI USHQ. - Rio and Negativ were kicked out. Rio left the scene and left the SUICID mag (issue 7) which was already completed for 98% unfinnished. He formatted all the mag files. But fortunately he sent all mag files to other members before, so there is a new coder finnishing it! It should be out when you read this!! - SUICID 7 will be the last one with Zinkfloid as main-ed. The new main-ed. will be WARHEAD! - TRANSFOMER, REDSKIN and NOLEM were kicked out of TRISTAR RED SECTOR INC. - There will be some future projects done by ALCATRAZ and TRSI together. This might contain a big demo and probably a diskmag. - PARANOID ILLUSSIONS BBS got kicked. - DRUNKEN ROM and 501 weren`t busted!! - Silencer joined in Sweden! - Obituary (WHQ) is online again after its HD crash!! UNION: - XTD left UNION, and now he is only MYSTIC & TRSI member. - Iceman left UNION and joined MAD ELKS. - Snoopy left UNION and joined ENERGY. (He is also SPEEDY member.) - TOM, PYTHON, ANIMAL, PLUTON and SEQ left UNION and joined TRSI. - KATANI left UNION and joined MYSTIC. VISION: - Mr.King left VISION and joined SCOOPEX. - Jazy joined and now he is VISION and WARTEC member.