Melon Dezign (group)

Melon Dezign (1992-)
Melon Dezign is an Amiga demo group.

Members

 * Denmark
 * Bannasoft (code, ex Falcons, new early 92-95),
 * Paleface (founder, ex Quartex, 92-94),
 * Seen (Henrik Lund Mikkelsen, founder gfx, ex Quartex, 06/92-95)


 * France
 * Audiomonster (Raphael Gesqua, music, ex The Silents, 06/92-94)
 * Hof (gfx, ex Movement, 92-94)
 * Mack (Hamidi Amar, gfx, ex Scoopex, 92-95)
 * Motif (code, ex Alliance Design, 92)
 * Schmoovy-Schmoov (Sebastien Atoch, code music, ex Reverse/Digital, 11/93-04/94)
 * Walt (Brance Christophe, gfx, ex Alliance Design, 04/92-95)


 * Norway
 * Benjamin (code, ex Scoopex, 05/95)
 * Heatseeker (Ivar Just Olsen, code, 95)
 * Jason (Kim M. Jensen, music, 95-04/96)
 * Vegard! (Vegard Wolf Dyvik, music, ex Balance and Scoopex, 05/95)


 * Ooops!
 * Alex (A.Garnier, gfx) and Nam (P.De Belen, code, both ex Movement, new late94-95)

Group History
Melon Dezign was formed by Paleface and Seen after they left Quartex, as a demo and intro subgroup of the cracking crew Crystal. They eventually left their mothergroup Crystal to exist on their own, but I believe the game development company Lionheart consists of Melon Dezign members. They've produced an amazing array of crackintros over the years, most of them for Crystal, but also for a.o. Ministry.

Hitman was kicked due to laziness early 92. In December, the French members (at least Performer and Walt) went to The Party with a brand new trackdisk demo... But after talking to Lone Starr/Spaceballs and seeing "State of the Art" Performer decided not to release it...and the demo was lost forever =( This story was related to me by Performer, so it's definitely true.
 * 1992

Late in the year, Performer and Walt released the short demo "Booo II" with the aid of Joachim (gfx) and Travolta (music) from the Norwegian section.
 * 1994


 * Danes Slammer (code, new early 93), Xience (gfx, new early 93) and Solnova (gfx, all ex Anarchy) joined the new Rednex.
 * Danish musician Hithansen, who originally joined from Rednex, left them for the NEW Rednex!
 * French coder Performer (Renaud Lerouvreur, ex Anarchy, 04/92-94) left the Amiga scene for the PC. I've seen his cool intro "Red" for Razor 1911 on the PC, which he made with Zebig and TDK; other Amiga abandonnees. He left behind some great demos for Melon, most notably "Humantarget" [04/92].
 * English musician Mark Knight (formerly known under the handle TDK; The Dark Knight, ex Anthrox) left the scene after securing a job in the game industry at Mindscape. He is working as in-house musician at Electronic Arts. His work can be heard in games like Battletoads (amiga), Sim City 2000 (amiga), Mario's Time Machine (super nintendo), Wing Commander, Liberation, Out to Lunch, Dragonlore (pc), Dungeon Keeper 2 (pc), Duke Nukem (ps1) and Shox (ps2). He has a website at www.madfiddler.co.uk. Sorry for including them all Mark... ;)

Releases


Crack Intro (1990, ECS Intro)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Bannasoft/Falcons
 * gfx
 * Seen
 * music
 * Tronic

Crystal Intro Incredible (1991, ECS Intro)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Paleface
 * gfx
 * Seen
 * music
 * TDK/Anthrox (NoisePacker 3 format)

The Party Invitation Intro (1991, ECS File)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Paleface
 * gfx
 * Seen
 * music
 * Banana/TEK (NoisePacker 3 format).

Ministry Cracktro 1 (1992? ECS Intro)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Motif/Melon Dezign
 * gfx: none
 * music
 * "Matkamies" by Heatbeat/Carillon (ProTracker MOD format)

Bomb (1992, ECS File)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Performer
 * gfx: Hof (logo)
 * Seen (font)
 * Walt (design)
 * music: -Ripped- from the game Magic Pockets

Humantarget (1992, 18.04, ECS Trackmo)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Performer
 * gfx
 * Walt
 * music
 * Static/Rebels.


 * Info: Released at the Eastern Conference '92.

Bodil (1992, mid?, ECS File)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Bannasoft
 * gfx
 * Seen
 * music
 * Audiomonster

Info Freako (1992, mid?, ECS File)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Bannasoft
 * gfx
 * Seen
 * music
 * Audiomonster


 * Info: Invitation intro for The Party '92.

S.O.S. (1992, 29.06, ECS Disk)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Bannasoft
 * gfx
 * Seen
 * music
 * Audiomonster


 * Info: 5th in the Hurricane and Brutal Summer Party '92 demo competition.

Anniversary (1992, .10, ECS Intro)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Performer
 * gfx
 * Walt
 * music
 * TDK/Anthrox

Prism (1992, late, ECS Trackloaded Slideshow)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Performer
 * gfx
 * Mack
 * music
 * DeLorean

The Tetris Intro (1992, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Bannasoft
 * gfx
 * Seen
 * music
 * Mark "TDK" Knight


 * Info: Winner of The Party '92 40k intro competition!

Booo (1993, early, ECS File)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Performer
 * gfx
 * Walt
 * music
 * Uncle Tom
 * Heatbeat

How to Skin a Cat (1993, 29.05, ECS Trackmo)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Slammer
 * gfx
 * Solnova
 * Mack
 * music
 * Nuke/Lemon.


 * Info: 3rd in the TCC93 demo competition.

680xx Convention Intro (1993, 02.08, Intro)

 * Info: Released at the 680xx Convention 1993.

The Romantic Demo (1993, 10.08, ECS Trackmo)

 * Credits :
 * code/music
 * Bannasoft
 * gfx
 * Hof
 * Mack
 * Walt

GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
 * Info: 3rd in the Assembly '93 demo competition.

Crayon Shinchan (1993, .11, ECS Trackmo)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Schmoovy-Schmoov
 * gfx
 * Walt
 * music
 * Audiomonster

Mind Expanding (1993, 28.12, ECS File)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Schmoovy-Schmoov
 * gfx^music
 * Walt

In order to run it on the A500, I had to decrunch the executable first in order to have enough memory. GLE tested A500 /000-7 /½mb chip, ½mb fast/2.04.
 * Info: 23rd in The Party '93 demo competition.

Where Is My Conscience? (1994, 24.04, ECS 64k Intro)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Schmoovy-Schmoov
 * gfx
 * Walt
 * music
 * Ukulele


 * Info: 2nd in the Saturne Party 94 64k intro competition.

Acidtrip (1994, 24.04, ECS File)

 * Info: 10th in the Saturne Party 94 demo competition.

The Birthday Party Invitation (1994, mid, ECS File)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Bannasoft
 * gfx
 * Seen
 * Walt
 * music
 * "Nintendo" by Heatbeat


 * Info: Invitation to Melon Dezign - The Birthday Party.

Booo II (1994, late, ECS File)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Performer
 * gfx
 * Walt
 * Joachim (endpic)
 * music
 * "Booo 2", "Rune Went Mad" and "Joachim.Uff" by Travolta (Tracker Packer 3 format)

Ninja (1994, 28.12, ECS File)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Ivar 'Heatseeker'
 * gfx
 * Joachim
 * music
 * Jason

A follow-up, Ninja II, was later released on the PC in cooperation between Melon and Scoop.
 * Info: 7th in The Party '94 demo competition.

Planet M (1995, .07, AGA Trackmo)

 * Credits :
 * code/gfx
 * Nam & Alex
 * music
 * Groo


 * Info: Winner of the Somewhere In Holland '95 demo competition!

Baygon (1995, .07, Trackmo)

 * Credits :
 * code
 * Bannasoft
 * gfx
 * Walt
 * music
 * -sampled-


 * Info: 2nd in the Somewhere In Holland '95 competition.

Melkedemo (1996)

 * Info: Competed at Kindergarten 6 demo competition.