Deadline

From ExoticA

Contents 1 Deadline (DLN, 1989-1993) 2 Members 3 Group History 4 Releases 4.1 Born (1989, 07.08, ECS Demo) 4.2 Music Pack (ECS Intro) 4.3 The Gathering 92 Invitation (1992, early .01, ECS Intro) 4.4 Resident issue #1 (1992, 05.06, ECS Filemag) 4.5 Flatliners (1992, 17.08, ECS Intro) 4.6 Mustro (1992, 14.09, ECS Intro) 4.7 Notelines (1992, fall, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks) 4.8 Dentro (1992, .10, ECS Intro) 4.9 Xmas intro (1992, .12, ECS Intro)

Deadline (DLN, 1989-1993)

Members

FIN 

• Mellow-D (Jaakko Manninen, later MD/Five Musicians, music, leader, ex Razkels, spring 92)
• Doc.X (code, ex Razkels, spring 92)
• Nutcase (Sami Saarnio, music, code, gfx, ex Eremation, spring 92)
• Visage (Aki Ehoniemi, gfx, swap, ex Eremation, spring 92)
• Roland (Otto Vara, BBS, ex Eremation, spring 93)
• Xendi (Mikko Alasaarela, gfx, swap, leader after Mellow-D went PC, 08/92)
• Tatu (Tatu Tiala, later Casket, swap, packs, fall 92)
• Venture (code, ex Desire, fall 92)
• Bad Karma (Jari Lahteinen, later James/Decnite, music, swap, packs, fall 92)
• Colonel (Sami Leino, swap, ex Zenith, fall 92)
• Dionysos (code, fall 92)
• Lopez (code, fall 92)
• Flashburn (code, fall 92)

NOR 

• Cybermonks (music, 06/92)
• Lloyd (editor, 06/92)
• Rhino (gfx, 06/92)
• Jason (music)
• Freaky Angel (?)
• Jellyfish (code)
• Mike (?)
• Shady (?)
• TDK (?)
• Wailer (?)

Group History

Deadline was originally a Norwegian group, which eventually developed a Finnish section that became more successful than the main group. The Norwegian members were coarrangers of one of the earliest editions of The Gathering. Later the Norwegian part of Deadline merged with main Gathering organizers Crusaders, and these Norwegian members probably went along: Freaky Angel (confirmed), Jellyfish (code), Mike (confirmed), Shady (confirmed), TDK.

1992 

They cooperated with Crusaders on the invitation for The Gathering 92 [01/92], and coarranged the party with them in april. The finnish section was born by Mellow-D and Doc.X from Razkels in the spring. Nutcase, Roland and Visage joined from Eremation. They released several productions before the end of the year; "1st Intro" [08/92], "Mustro" [09/92], "Notelines" [fall/92], "Dentro" [10/92] and finally "Xmas Intro" [12/92]. By this time the Norwegian section had stopped releasing stuff altogether.

1993 

The finnish division died in the spring of 93. Many members - at least Dionysos (code, fall/92-), Bad Karma (swap pack music), Nutcase (code gfx music, spring/92-) and Xendi (gfx swap, 08/92-) - joined Balance between june and october. Information that Bad Karma joined Atomic (old) seems to be incorrect. Sysop Roland ('SATISFICTION', ex Eremation) stayed independent until he closed his board in 95, and graphician Visage (ex Eremation, spring/92-) also decided to stay independent. Both have now returned to Amiga-scene in Mandel Bros in the year 2000! This group also features Nutcase.

• Finnish coder Lopez left the scene.
• Finnish coder Flashburn was kicked.
• Finnish musician Mellow-D bought a PC and left the Amiga scene 10/92. He joined Sonic PC sometime between 01 and 06/93.
• Finnish HQ, graphician and swapper Xendi (08-10/92) joined Balance.
• Finnish coder, graphician and musician Nutcase (02/92-) left 04/93 and stayed independent for two months, then joined Balance 06/93.
• Finnish swapper and packer Casket (old handle Tatu) joined Legend.
• Norwegian musician Jason joined Kefrens (new).
• Norwegian board 'THE PYRAMID' got busted.

Releases

See Deadline/Reviews for personal reviews for these releases.

Born (1989, 07.08, ECS Demo)

Credits 

• code: n/a
• gfx: n/a
• music: "Valeria Part 2" by n/a

Info 

20th in the Digitech - IBB Summer Conference 89 demo competition.
This intro signalled the birth of the group, and the names behind the text in the intro was Tile and Jesus - so these two are probably the founders?

Music Pack (ECS Intro)

The Gathering 92 Invitation (1992, early .01, ECS Intro)

Info 

Cooperation with Crusaders.

Resident issue #1 (1992, 05.06, ECS Filemag)

Credits 

• code: Cray/Arctic Image
• gfx: Rhino
• music: Cybermonks
• editor: Lloyd

Flatliners (1992, 17.08, ECS Intro)

Credits 

• code: Doc.X
• gfx: Nutcase
• music: "walk_with_me++" by Mellow-D (4ch MOD format)

Mustro (1992, 14.09, ECS Intro)

Credits 

• code/music: Nutcase
• gfx: Visage

Notelines (1992, fall, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks)

Credits 

• code: Paraside/independent
• gfx:
  • Xendi
  • Visage
  • Nutcase
• music:
  • Mellow-D
  • Nutcase

Info 

Paraside was NOT a member, just a friend of the group.

Dentro (1992, .10, ECS Intro)

Credits 

• code: Venture
• gfx:
  • Xendi
  • Visage
• music: Nutcase

Xmas intro (1992, .12, ECS Intro)

Credits 

• code: Dionysos
• gfx: Xendi
• music: Nutcase