LSD

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LSD (Light Speed Distribution) [old]

LSD is a Amiga demo group.

ENG> 2-Cool (10/92), Bernard Sumner (Phil Bak, music, 10/92), Bill (sysop
     'ACE-AMIGA'), Chime (new early 92), Dangermouse (sysop 'THE TOWER'),
     Delbert (ex Digital, new 92-10/92), Delbs (ex Plague, new early 92),
     Destiny (sysop 'SATELLITE CITY', new 06/91), Echo (music, doublememb
     Phuture 303 ROM9, 10/92-97), Fish (gfx, 10/92), Ikari (ex End of
     Century 1999), Mark (gfx, ex The Silents, 10/92), Maximan (code,
     06/91-10/94), Monty Python (code, 06/91), Mub (code, 10/92-08/94),
     Orchist (ex Druids [no entry], new 06/91), Parasite (Martin, mainorg
     swap, 06/91), Paw (swap, 06/91), Pazza (whq gfx editor, 10/92-93), Pod
     (swap, 06/91), Rebel (swap, 06/91), Shagratt (Dave de Pauw, code gfx,
     06/91-10/92), Spirit (gfx music, 06/91), Watchman (gfx, 06/91-10/92).
GER> Ferris (sysop 'PHREAKERS PHUNLAND', 10/91).
NOR> Aragon (new early 92), Turrican (Bjørnulf Solberg, gfx, ex Addonic,
     92).
FIN> Chainsaw (swap trade, ex New Wave).
BEL> Tomcat (code, new early92), Wonder (org swap).
CAN> Van Damme (sysop 'DEATH ROW').
USA> Oldman (sysop 'THE HOLE', 04/93).
???> Adventurer (ex Trackers), D-Siya (ascii, 08/93), Denzil (swap, ex
     Apocalypse), Dr.Mabuse (modem, new early92), Duke (ex Digital, new 92),
     Etron (04/93), Lars Vegas (old handle Gonza), Matrix (David Counter,
     code, ex Digital, new 92), Nethead (nor? gfx, ex Frogs), Nightstalker
     (sysop 'PRISONERS OF REALITY', new early 92), Nox (ex Pirates), Optima
     (ex Agile), Phantom (code).

LSD was once an important, if often criticized, part of the English scene.
They took in a lot of members, until they were finally so bloated, the group
died. Their diskmag "Grapevine" was pretty popular in some circles, while
others criticized it for being made up largely of text just downloaded from
boards and published as articles (also the case of the last Cracker Journal
issues).
  Maximan wrote Lemmings II for the Sega Master System, Game Gear and
Nintendo Game Boy. Shagratt is the author of the virus killer program Nuke!
and its sister production Nuke! Saddam (1.2b 24/6/1991).
  1991 - In early june, the group released for the very first time
"Grapevine #1", and announced inside the joining of new coder Orchist from
Druids.
  1992 - Version 1.5a of Shagratt's viruskiller "Nuke" was released on the
19th of february. Kazer (sysop) joined Noxious, but quickly moved on to
Defjam in early 92. Belgian swapper Alligator was kicked early92. Fugitive
and english swapper Sidewinder (06/91) left the scene early this year. Yonex
(sysop 'BRAIN FOREST') joined from Hotline early 92, but was soon kicked!
All foreign sections were kicked in august. The French section formed the
new group Artefact. Pazza (Grapevine editor) was busted late 92 by FAST and
the drug police! He still continued working for LSD, releasing even more
issues of Grapevine... Graphician Watchman started working for Core Design
late 92.
  1993 - Danish sysop Zoonie ('HOUSE OF GAMES') joined Decade early93.
  1995 - When Oedipus (Joe Pietroni, code) joined from Nebula, he became
editor of Grapevine for one issue only (Grapevine #21 [01/95]). Shortly
after its release, his mother died, and he slowly drifted away from the
scene... 'UTOPIA' went offline in june, and was not busted despite rumours.

Galaxy joined Interactive.
Norwegian swapper Viking (ex Amaze, new early 92) joined Manitou.
Deicide joined Devils.
Vinh joined Delicious.
Prisoner and Buckaroo left.
Anarchist joined Endless Piracy.
Adam left due to a lack of motivation.
Spectral (ex Stealth/Mystix) left the scene.
Soul/ex-LSD left the scene.
Trigon (ex E-Motion [no entry]) joined Alcatraz.
English sysop Scavenger ('THE POOL') joined Alpha Flight.
Data (new early 92) joined Legend.
Harlequin joined Scoopex.
Overlord joined Dual Crew.
The Invisible joined Rebels.
English Ford (ex Spirit, new late91-10/92) joined Gange D-Zine/Ghost.
Speed Master (sysop 'SANCTUARY') joined Skid Row.
Norwegians Archie (code), Alien (code, both ex Addonic), Howard (ex Addonic,
   old handle Dr.Chipblower) and Nash left to form a new group called Ice.
Jack (sysop 'DETONATION BOULEVARD', ex Cyberactive), Clawboy and Switchblade
  joined Desire to build a Norwegian division.
English sysop Destiny was kicked.
Lord Zero joined Legend.

  The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul (ECS Musicdisk, 4 disks).
  code: Shagratt, gfx: Ford, Fish, music: Echo, Bernard Sumner, Digger.

  Retro Demo (ECS Demo).
  info: Mentioned in "Grapevine #1" [06/91] and thus released before that.

  Grapevine #1 (1991, .06, ECS Filemag).
  code: Monty Python, gfx: Spirit (jim morrison), Watchman (logo),
  ???/Anarchy (font), music: Spirit.
  review: The very first issue of GV was perhaps not the most visually
  pleasing read ever. After a brief intro sequence with a reproduction of
  the Jim Morrison title picture of the then-new film The Doors, and an LSD
  logo that undergoes a few palette changes, we are in the main reading
  department. This is just a textplotter, where pages are flipped with the
  mousebuttons, and with an extremely annoying colorcycling in the
  background. Three minutes of reading, and you're guaranteed a headache.
    This issue announced new coder Orchist's joining from Druids. Remarkably
  it works perfectly problemfree on my configuration. [glenn]
  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.

  Grapevine #2 (1991, .07, ECS Filemag).
  code: Monty Python, gfx: Watchman, music: Spirit.
  review: After the abysmal presentation of the first issue, loading issue
  #2 for the first time was a very nice surprise. We are first greeted with
  a very nice LSD PRESENTS logo, before an even nicer picture. The mag's
  code is bascially the same, though the colorcycling seems to be of a
  higher resolution this time, and perhaps therefore just a tad less
  irritating to have behind the text. The font is also new, replacing the
  one from the first issue. This one is even totally uncredited, so it is
  fair to assume that it, too, was ripped. The music is another medley of
  music by Spirit, I heard at least some Jarre and the Ghostbusters theme in
  there. He's not the world's best musician...
    This issue announced the joining of Destiny with the group's first
  board, 'SATELLITE CITY'. It also raised its fists at Tracker/Crack, who
  they claim have been ripping LSD packs, and putting his own name and menus
  in them! [glenn]
  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.

  Jesus on E's (1992, 24.10, ECS Trackmo, 2 disks).
  code: Shagratt, gfx: Watchman, Pazza, Shagratt, Mark, music: Echo.
  Released at the Digital Symposium 1992, unplaced.
  info: The original is not very compatible, so an AGA fixed version was
  later released.

  Grapevine issue #13 (1992, late, ECS Diskmag).
  info: According to a review in Solen Data #10, the graphics are all
  christmassy, so I guess it was released around x-mas ;)

  Grapevine issue #21 (ECS Diskmag).
  code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.

Music in the UnExoticA collection

The following demos in the UnExoticA collection were created by LSD.