Sanity (old)

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Sanity [old] (SNT, 1990-)

GER> Brainwave (trade sysop 'SPACE RATS'), Dieter B (code), Erik (sysop),
     Gash (music), Ice (swap, 11/90), Jeff (sysop), Shadow (ex The
     Undertakers, new winter90), Sonic 1 (gfx).
???> Killroy (gfx, 91), Rys (gfx, 91).

Sanity was an all-german demo group, born in march of 1990 by Panther (code)
and Hawk (code), who quickly took in Vindicator (music) and Cruiser (gfx) as
well. Their first production (presumably) was the musicdisk "Best Game Music
Monthly #1" [03/90], which announced the birth of the group.
  1990 - German musician Jester joined the group in november, after a short
stay in Red Sector Inc. The demo "Dee Groove" [12/90] by Panther was
released at the Dexion Convention in december.
  1991 - Probably early in the year, the group released Jester's musicdisk
"Fool's Gold" [91], followed by the group's breakthrough demo, "Elysium"
[04/91] which came 3rd in the Amiga Convention Summit demo competition!
The Fog (11/90) joined Bit Arts in the middle of the year.

  When the group eventually died, its members were scattered. The biggest
group of members, including Chaos (code, ex The Undertakers), Diddle (swap,
ex Treacl), Zaphod (swap, ex Amaze), 16 Beat (music), Jester (music, ex
Proton, new 10/90), Cthulu (gfx), Hawk (founder code), Cruiser (gfx),
Vindicator (code^music) and Panther (founder code) left to form a new
section of Rebels. They released the demo "Sanity Is Dead" under the Rebels
label to announce this. Their stay in Rebels would be a short one, however,
and soon most of these guys had formed the NEW Sanity, which also included
several ex-members of the original Sanity, like musician Bit Arts (ex Red
Sector Inc.) and coders Flosoft and Mr.Pet.

Mike D. (swap pack) joined Anarchy.
Germans Benni B. (music) and Slaxx got kicked.
Zodiac and Hi-Lite (old handle Bubbler) joined Vision Factory.

  Best Game Music Monthly #1 (1990, 24.03, ECS Musicdisk).
  code: Panther, gfx: Cruiser, music: "The Fly" by Vindicator (ProTracker
  MOD format), various. info: This production, featuring various ripped game
  music, announced Sanity's birth by Panther and Hawk.

  Blah Blah I (1990, after 03.11, ECS Musicdisk).
  code: Hawk, gfx: Cruiser, Hawk (blahlogo), music: "All Points Bulletin",
  Beyond the Ice Palace", "Bubble Bobble", "Clouds Kingdom", "Cosmic
  Pirates", "Days of Thunder", "Empire Strikes Back", "Eye of Horus",
  "Ghostbusters", "Kid Gloves", "Kikstart II", "Leatherneck", "Leviathan",
  "Pandora", "Platoon", "Quadralien", "Return to Genesis", "Sentinel",
  "Snoopy", "Spitting Image" "Speedball", "Thundercats", "Whirligig" and
  "Xenon" by David Whittaker (Whittaker format).
  Released at the AmiExpo.

  Oh Crinkey What A Shit (ECS Intro).
  code: Chaos, gfx: Cruiser (logo), The Pride (font), music: Bit Arts.
  review: There's only disadvantages to running this on fast machines
  (scrolls that scroll too fast...). This is only interesting as an early
  Chaos production, not much else... [glenn]
  GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0 -- Note: Caches off, orig chipset.
             A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
                -- Note: Caches off, orig chipset.

  Dee Groove (1990, 28.12, ECS File).
  code: Panther, gfx: Cruiser, music: "Oblivion" by The Avatar/Zylon of AFL
  (ProTracker MOD format).
  Released at the Dexion Convention 1990.
  review: This one was, I guess quite advanced for its time. There's filled
  vectors, stencil-vectors, vector-bobs...and combinations of the above.
  There's attempts at design, but nothing great. And that tune irritates
  the hell outta me! Ok, it's not all bad - it's an OK little demo for it's
  age, but nothing special. [glenn]
  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.

  Sanity Kickstart Intro (1991, 22.01, ECS Intro).
  code: Hawk, gfx: Cruiser, music: Ben Daglish/independent (ripped).

  Fool's Gold (1991, ECS Musicdisk).
  code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Breakout", "Children of Science", "Cubes of
  Silver", "Epilepsy", "Fast Food" by Jester.
  info: This is a real gem, Jester's first music disk! He would make one
  more, "Jesterday", later in his career.

  Elysium - Search for Anarchy (1991, 28.04, ECS File).
  code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Elysium" by Jester (ProTracker MOD format).
  3rd in the Amiga Convention Summit demo competition.

  Flash for Fantasy (1991, ECS File).
  code: Mr.Pet, Flosoft, gfx: Rys, Killroy, Mr.Pet, Music: 16-Beat.
  Released at Ami-Berlin-91.
  review: Well, these guys have certainly seen Scoopex' groundbreaking
  trackmo "Mental Hangover" [04/90]! A few of the effects here bear more
  than a passing resemblance to that old classic... The rest of the effects
  are much in the vein of their own "Dee Groove" (though that had a
  different coder), with various vectors, stencil-vectors and vector-bobs.
  Nothing special. [glenn]
  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
                Note: Some vector routines had graphical errors.

  Rosebud Party Slideshow (1991, .12, ECS Slideshow).
  info: Made at the Rosebud Meeting 11/91, released at Prime 91.

  Turmoil (1991, 28.12, ECS Musicdisk).
  code: Mr.Pet, Flosoft, gfx: Cougar, music: Bit Arts.
  Released at The Party 91.
  review: This is completely written from memory, and from ripping the
  tunes :), so please excuse any inaccuracies. As far as I remember, I
  think there's a great music-analyzing color-'thing' :D that I liked a
  lot. That's the part that sort of stuck in my mind. And the music?
  Well, Bitarts was always one of my favorite musicians, ever since I first
  heard his tunes in the Red Sector Megademo. These are a little more
  jazzy, but very moody and absolutely great. Recommended for the music
  alone. Don't remember much of the graphics, but it's by Cougar, so how
  bad can it possibly be. If you've a machine that's specced low enough ;)
  this is about as good as you can do. Now, I'm off to hear 'Emotional
  Thing' one more time. [glenn]
  GLE tested A1200/020-14/2mb chip/3.0.
             A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
                Note: On both configurations you get the 'loading' logo, it
                boots for a while, and then it crashes.
                Nothing seems to help, not even kicking down to 1.3.