Sharks, The

Sharks, The
FIN> Deadbeat (Timo Rönkkö, code crack gfx, 07/92-12/02), Mysdee (Jarkko,    06/95). GER> Elvin (swap, 07/92), Stryker (swap, early91), Zap (Oliver, code crack    swap, 08/89-07/92). SWI> Andy (gfx swap, 07/92). ???> Darkforce (ger? code crack, 08/89), Tim (code, 88).

The Sharks were a finnish and german demo and cracking group. A news item in Relax #1 says the group was 'rebuilt' in 1989, but since we currently have no information on that earlier incarnation, we are holding off separating the two for now. The group was once in a cracking cooperation with Thundertronix. Darkforce is behind the wellknown sequence packers Dark-Squeezer and Level-Squeezer.

Technophobia (1992, 25.07, Demo). code: Deadbeat, gfx: Andy, music: JCH/independent, Drax/Vibrants, Maniacs of Noise (MON). 3rd in the Assembly 92 demo competition. review: I will remember this demo mostly for its priceless "amiga emulation" part, but that is in fact not its only quality. A much longer demo than the two that beat it in the competition, that in itself was perhaps the downfall of this one; it lasts for almost fifteen minutes (at least that's what they mention in one of its texts, I didn't actually get  out a stopwatch and time it ;]). Another part I liked was the sprite multiplexer one, though I can't really put my finger on exactly WHY... :) Andy's graphics are functional throughout, though seldom outstanding.  This also featured a part with sampled music (2 Unlimited's atrocious "Twilight Zone"), similarly to Dual Crew's winner demo at this same party.   The execution of the demo is clearly inspired by the amiga trackmo  revolution that was going on around the same time as this demo came out -  and it was probably one of the first demos on the c64 to take the trackmo  concept to heart. All in all, this is a fair demo, though not quite  outstanding. [glenn]