Alpha Flight 1970 (new)

Alpha Flight 1970 [new] (AFL'70, 1993-, http://www.afl1970.net)
GER&gt; Chotaire (music, 09/95-12/97), Chrysagon (12/97), Danzig (12/97), Eco (12/97), Ignorance (crack, 09/95-12/97), Marc (org write,    09/94-12/97), Rayden (Patrick Zeh, code gfx music, also in Chalice,     also in Breeze and Cyberpunx 06/99, 05/96-12/97), Skinhead (Jochen     Ehlers, crack hack trade, old handle Supreme, 08/93-12/97), Xerox (gfx     sysop THE ESCAPADE EHQ, ex Excess, new mid94-12/97). N-L&gt; Styx (Jurgen Mol, org swap, 09/94-12/97). POL&gt; ALG (12/97), Archangel (ex Vermes, new 01/96-12/97), Baldhead (code,    12/96-12/97), Wizard (music, 12/96-12/97). ENG&gt; Derbyshire Ram (crack supply, ex F4CG, also in Remember, new 12/97). SCO&gt; Caledonian (12/97). NOR&gt; Zapotek (Sveinung Bergkvist, swap, later Axelerate, 09/95-12/97). SWE&gt; Violator (12/97). USA&gt; Rug Rat (sysop EDGE OF MIDNIGHT WHQ, 12/97). ???&gt; Argos (12/97), Chash (12/97), Goldhand (12/97), Lynchbit (12/97), Mad Hatter (12/97), nd! (04/03), Ned (12/97), The Heretic (12/97), Zatt (12/97).

Boards; ANTIDOTE (swe, 12/97).

PREVIOUS MEMBERS (pre 12/97) -

GER&gt; Agressor (09/94-01/95), Arne (Arne Puszelski, music, new 93-12/95), Case (phreak, new 08/93), Dark (09/94), Dr.Disk (new early93), Honesty (09/94-01/95), Jack Alien (crack, ex X-Rated, new early93), Leeway (09/94), Max (crack, 91-01/96), Pha Q (01/95), SecretMan (trade supply,    re, 09/94-01/95), Skid Row (code crack fix gfx trade, 09/94-01/96), Starkiller (swap, 09/94), The Sys (91-mid94). ENG&gt; Shuze (Paul, code crack swap, 09/95-01/96). POL&gt; Blaze (crack swap, also in Galicya, new 09/95), Titanic (Roman    Jedlecki, swap, 01/95). HOL&gt; Ream (Jorgo van Osch, code crack, ex Accuse, new mid94-01/96). SWE&gt; Stash (09/94). USA&gt; Ancient Mariner (sysop THE EVIL ISLAND, ex Chromance, new 09/94-    01/96), Pol Pot (sysop HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA WHQ, ex Arcade, new     mid94-01/96). ???&gt; Amuze (crack, 95), Avalanche (ex T'Pau, new 05/93), Bizarre (09/94), Centaurion (crack, ex Charged, new mid94-09/94), Cryonic (01/96), Curlin (ger? crack, ex Motiv8, new 09/94-01/95), Darius (09/94), Diamond (09/94), Flash (ger? code gfx, new 01/96-01/97), Hawk (code, ex    Presence, new mid-09/94), Leader (code, ex Hysteric, new mid-09/94), Mario (leader founder, 09/94), Menace (founder, new early93), Mercenary (01/96), Murphy (09/94-09/95), Peacemaker (ger? crack, ex Motiv8, new    09/94-01/95), Pernet (ger? music, 12/96-01/97), Racoon (ger? ex Motiv8,     new 09/94-01/95), Spider (09/95), Vortex (ger? ex Motiv8, new 09/94-     01/95), Xenox (01/95-01/96).

AFL'70 was reborn for real at the CeBit meeting in Germany, in the first half of 1993. Earlier in the year, Airwolf/Success released a few cracks under the AFL'70 name as a joke. Their old leader Mario took back the reins. 1993 - Rough was a member for approximately two months. Avalanche joined from T'Pau in may. Icarus joined from Red Sector in may, only to leave the scene a few days later. Link was kicked out of the group in august, after he supplied the group with the original of "Rings'n'up" which proved to be a rerelease and not a new game. German phreaker Case joined, also in august. Stephen (ex Triumwyrat, new early93) left for Epic in september, and started cracking again. Natas got kicked in october, when they also told that rumours that Sting had returned to the scene were false. 1994 - Around the middle of the year, Ancient Mariner (sysop of their WHQ THE EVIL ISLAND) joined Chromance, but they were soon reinforced with the old Arcade board HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA. They alse recruited their new EHQ ESCAPADE from Excess around this time. German graphician RRR decided to end his double membership, and be in Oxyron only. German Ramirez left for Talent. In september Peacemaker, Racoon, Vortex and Curlin all joined from Motiv8. In addition that month, dutch swapper Spectator left for SCS-TRC, Supreme renamed back to Skinhead, and Ancient Mariner returned from his stay in Chromance with THE EVIL ISLAND. Mutant-X joined around december. 1995 - American Mutant-X was kicked out again after a very brief stay around january. Cracker and swapper Blaze joined from Xenon (by way of a very brief membership in Chromance) around september. He will stay in Galicya as his second group. Max and Marc were both forced to reduce their activities, due to new educational duties. This means Styx is now the new co-leader together with Marc. Chotaire's board THE PIRATE ISLAND got formatted, and will not go online again. Chotaire sold his bbs equipment. Pol Pot's HOLIDAY INN CAMBODIA is also down, since Pol Pot is working on his own C*Base mod, and will hopefully go up again soon. Ancient Mariner is about to reopen THE EVIL ISLAND too, after his accident a while back. Skinhead is set to join the army in october, in which time Ignorance will take over the role as main cracker. 1996 - Former leader Skid Row returned to the group and the scene, Archangel/Vermes joined to form a new Polish section, Flash (code gfx) joined and finally Rick/ex Paramount returned to the scene and will serve as a swapper - all around january. The demo "Getoese" by Rayden was planned for release at The Party 96 in december, but they missed the deadline and was unable to participate in the competition. 1997 - The end of january finally saw the release of Rayden's "Getoese" [01/97] demo. Dutch Calypso (code crack swap supply, 01/95-) left late in the year, and is now probably only in Amnesia. Chotaire returned to active membership around november-december! Englishman Derbyshire Ram also joined the group from F4CG around this time. He decided to keep his double membership in Remember.

Getoese (1997, 31.01, Multiload Demo, 1 diskside). code: Rayden, Baldhead (additional), gfx: Rayden (main), Cyclone/Abyss (title, santa anim), Flash, music: "Intro", "Majik" and "Powerful" by Wizard, "Wizardry'96" by Rayden and "The End Tune" by Pernet. review: The main problem with "Getoese" is its pacing; the irq loader simply doesn't take us to the next part fast enough to maintain our interest in the demo. Which is a shame really, since this is a nice little production with some interesting effects and some excellent design here and there. Especially the introductory credits sequence had my hopes up, since it has a simple but effective and attractive design. After this we get to Cyclone's cool title picture (which was previously used in Abyss'  "DisIsSid III - Getoese" on the amiga!). Then we come to an interesting effect; a fullscreen picture by Rayden of a muscular man, perhaps a gladiator, has some plasma effects overlaid to nice effect. Then a cool dissolve to Flash's B&amp;W hires pic "Breathe With Us" before we are taken to the next effect a 512-dot dottunnel. Then another fullscreen pic by Rayden appears, "The Tiger" (with which he finished 11th at The Party 96), hardly his best. Next is a sort of blocky shaking plasma part, nicely executed. Another variation on the pic-with-plasma effect comes next, but the first instance was much more successfull. No author is credited for this picture of a sunset, but it's likely by Rayden. Then comes a grey screen with a b&amp;w partly jigsawed picture of a naked woman on the right hand side, and some text in german on the left. The second-to-last effect is a big Tut- Ankh-Amon pic scrolled up and down the screen, quite a pointless part really, before the big text saying THE END. The demo comes with a selfcoded, simple noter by Rayden with some more precise credits and additional information. The demo was originally to have been released at The Party 96, where they narrowly missed the deadline, and was instead released at the end of january 97 - likely outside of any party. [glenn]