Brutal (c64)

Brutal ([B], 1990-1993)
DEN> Baze (Thomas Jørgensen, swap, 04/91-03/92), Bleze (code gfx swap,    04/91-92), Iron Boss (Brian Knudsen, swap, 03/92). GER> Deathtralker (sysop 'THE DECADENCE', early93). ???> Raise (code, 04/91), Slash (code gfx, 08/90-04/91).

Boards; THE LOST EMPIRE (hol, 12/91), BRUTAL LTD. (den, 12/91).

Brutal are a Danish and Dutch demo and cracking group, formed in august 1990 by TCH and Slash. They were soon joined by the swapper Base/Zyrox and Raise and Bleze from Shape. Wildstyle/Paramount joined briefly but was then kicked. Baze, Raise and Bleze then joined Miracle, but after a brief period they all returned. 1993 - The group went into cooperation with Dunex around february. RCS returned to the scene in early 93. Unfortunately the group was declared dead in august. TCH (code crack gfx editor, 08/90-), RCS, Tarasque, Technoir and Scenk all left to build a new group called Inbread. "Brutal Recall" will from now on be released by them.

Brutal Recall #1 (1991, 13.04, Multifile Diskmag). code: TCH, gfx: TCH, music: Boogaloo/Light (intro), Metal/Bonzai (mag). review: This mag seems to be almost entirely TCH's effort, what with him being the coder, graphician (good too!) and editor. But it's actually far from bad, more like a promising beginning. There's not a lot to read yet, most articles seem to be more concerned with explaining what they WILL BE. The graphics and code are more than functional, and give a good overall feeling. I didn't like the control method much, but I guess that's more down to personal preference. It works. [glenn]

Brutal Recall #7 (1991, mid.10, Multifile Diskmag). code/gfx: TCH, music: JCH/Vibrants (intro), Iron Cat/TRC (mag).

Brutal Recall #8 (1991, late, Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: TCH, gfx: Trax/TRC (logo, chars), music: JCH/Vibrants. MAG - code:

Brutal Demoparty 92 Invitation (1992, 19.04, File). INT - code: TCH/Brutal, RCS/Ikari, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. INV - code: Yedo/Ozone, gfx: Bleze (logo, small charset), Vic/Camelot (big font), music: "Echo Style" by Iron Cat/TRC. Released at the Easter Conference 92. review: This invitation intro opens with a BRUTAL intro that looks like it was just taken from one of their cracks =) If features two BRUTAL logos,  one on top and one in the bottom, and two jumping scrollers inbetween.  Hardly cutting edge stuff. No graphics or music is credited. We press  space, and is taken to equally unimpressive main invitation part. This one  has another BRUTAL logo in the bottom of the screen, with the rest being  taken up by the invitation text. This can be scrolled up and down using  the joystick. And that's about it really =) [glenn]