Giants

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Giants (GTS)

SWE> Hawk (Niklas Jonsson, mainorg code swap, Triplememb Ambrosia and
     Darkage 97, 12/96-02/98), Iz (ex Beatless, new late95), Keldon
     (Kenneth Fajkowski, swap edit, 12/96), Leprechaun (Anders Linqvist,
     swap, ex Beatless, new late95), McPudel (gfx, ex Beatless, new late95),
     Note (Stefan Karlsson, swap, ex Beatless, new late95), Rooster (swap,
     late95), Xargion (code).
NOR> Mr.X (code, doublememb Instinct [details], 11/97), Two-Bit (gfx music),
     Wiseguy (sysop 'OUTER SPACE' EHQ), Woober (code music sysop 'ETERNITY'
     WHQ), Zack (gfx swap).
FIN> Avenger (org swap, 95).
???> Orhan (old handle Firelord), Spot (ex Duplo, new late95).

I always found the Giants slogan 'Giants - We Are Huge' to be rather
amusing... News way back in Generation #6 claiming all members had joined
Interactive in Germany are probably untrue...except if they all moved to
Germany and joined up :) Hawk and one other coder (real name Fredrik
Schultz) are the authors of the NES emulator A/NES. Some news said that NEO
Norway joined. Any info on who this involves? Their old homepage,
http://hem.passagen.se/giants/giants.html, appears to have gone down.
  1994 - Crusader released his second ascii colly "Seven Wayz" in august.
  1996 - The swedish twins Candyman and Crusader (doublememb Epsilon Design)
both joined Session in june. A 4k intro was their only competition entry at
The Party 96, but they also released the first issue of their chartmag
"NightTrain" at this party.
  1997 - ROM #9 reported that Wizard had stepped down as mainorganizer, and
handed the job over to Hawk. The coder, graphician and musician (04/96-)
joined Digital Corruption later in the year.

Coder Sublet joined Planet Jazz 97.
Norwegian raytracer and swapper Thrym (09/96) terminated his membership to
  be in Massive only 97.
After a big cleanup in 97, Bon (nor R. Nyheim, org swap pack, 12/96),
  Malakai, Fugazi (swe Robin Forsberg, swap, ex Beatless, new late95),
  Dwangi (Christian Johansson, swe swap, late 96), Groover, Tyneo (nor gfx),
  Sway and D-Coy (swe org music) were all asked to leave the group. The
  reason was inactivity, and failing to keep in touch with the rest of the
  group.
Elusive (ex Yodel) left to help form New Age a few days before Remedy 95.
Numen and Speed Devil left for X 06/96.
Norwegian Crack left the scene 06/96.
Norwegian musician Cope joined Apathy 06/96.
Ali joined Interactive.
Norwegian Shorty joined Network.

Releases

See Giants/Reviews for personal reviews for these releases.

  Megademo (1990, .06, ECS Megademo).

  Fade To Black (1996, 05.04, 4k Intro).
  Code: Wizard. 6th in The Gathering 96 4k intro competition.

  Free Entrance (1996, 26.05, Demo).
  6th in the Icing 96 demo competition.

  4Kb (1996, 28.12, AGA ?MB 4k Intro).
  code: Orbit (main), Wizard, gfx: Orbit, music: Wizard.
  9th in The Party 96 4k intro competition.

  NightTrain #1 (1996, 28.12, Chartmag).
  code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a, editor: Keldon.
  Released at The Party 96.