Delight

Delight (DLT, 1991-today)

Delight is an elite international group with its strongest historical roots in France and Germany, which succeeded in many core areas of The Scene (Amiga/PC/Consoles), having been ranked among the bests in demos/intros, cracks, trainers, musics, and many more fields at different times of its 20+ years existence.

Born on February 23, 1991 with 14 demomakers in Paris, France, the group quickly released the much praised 'Overdose' demo then grew exponentially to reach above 70 simultaneous members at its peak. During its whole existence the group has welcomed a total of over 200 members located in at least 14 countries. After producing and releasing for the Amiga platform until 1999, Delight became one of the finest PC warez groups in the 2000's with more than 500 releases to date. The group has also released some games for the Nintendo GBA console, and has recently entered the PS3 scene, releasing intros and utilities (not illegal ISOs!) for the Sony console.

Unlike other crack groups like Quartex, Paradox, and Skid Row, the philosophy of Delight has always been founded on friendship, self-transcendence, competition, freedom and openness, and was less motivated by hubris, arrogance, harshness, money and greed. This has had sometimes an impact on productivity, although the relatively high number of productions and releases speaks for itself. This trend was in particular reflected in some of their slogans, like "Unlimited Pleasure" and "For Fun Not Status".

Due to this Delight cannot be compared to the above-mentionned groups. Instead, its oldschool roots and its broad spectre of activities (from true demomaking to serious H/P/A) with a lower focus on money generation made the group look more similar to TRSI and Razor 1911, who were among the true pioneers of the Scene.

Members

Although it aims to be as accurate and exhaustive as possible, this memberlist doesn't give much information on members who have been involved in illegal activities related to the releases of PC software, GBA games and DVD-rips over the past 12 years. The reason is not only to protect the privacy of these persons, but also and primarily due to the secrecy which surrounds their identity. According to this, the below listing covers exclusively the Amiga period (1991-1999) as well as PC demo-making in the 2000's, and recent PS3 developments of legal releases.

Belgium (3)

Phil Douglas (cracker, credited as Delight in cracks for Delirium before joining this group, 08/1993)

RAM (code, ex The Band and Commando Frontier on C64, 1993-)

The Red Baron (code, ex Bamiga Sector One, 1993-)

Canada (2)

BlackRose (co-sysop 'Vulture's Nest', 1996-)

The Vulture (co-sysop 'Vulture's Nest', 1996-)

Denmark (10)

Brainiac (Henrik Nielsen, music, 1992-)

Depete (Christer, music, 1992-)

D-Trade (modem trader, 1992-)

IZI (Søren Wind, gfx, 3D designer, 1992-)

Kasai (local section organizer, swapper, ex Light, 1992-)

Le Spek

Quayle (gfx, music, aka Towie, ex Light, 1992-)

Spike (Claus Larsen, music, 1992-)

Wozzy (sysop 'METAL CONNEXTION', 1994)

Zeus (code, 1992-)

Finland (2)

Echo (trader, doublemember Delirium, 1993-)

Guido (trader, doublemember Delirium, 1993-)

France (76)

Abbas (Abbas, code, 05/1991-)

Acetip (Bernard Briais, music, 1991-)

ADN (Adrien Mistretta, code, 1993-)

Anex (gfx, 1992-)

Arios (Sebastien Le Clainche, music, ex Symbiosis, 12/91-08/94)

Atwill (ex Extreme, 1991)

Audiomonster (Raphaël Gesqua, music, intros & 'Overdose' demo, 02/1991-, later The Silents, Melon Dezign)

Bad Genius (code, 1991-)

Barbarr (Emmanuel Julien, code 'Mad Cow Disease' demo, 1996)

Babydock (Marc, code, crack, H/P/A, initally a shadow member then officially joined in 1993, network admin, webmaster www.delight.org, ex Interpol (old) and Paradox (new))

Baron (Philippe Facqueur, code 'Slaughter' demo/part 1: elliptic 3D, ex Aces, Europe and Sphere, 02/1991-)

Beachy (David Marquis, swap, 1993-)

Bilbo (Philippe Neumann, ex Extreme, 1991)

Blackbird (Stéphane, code, crack, trainers, H/P/A, joined in 1992, lead organizer crack section (2nd generation, 1993-1994), later joined Prestige then rejoined Delight)

Blodd (code, 1993-)

Bofman (Yann Chevaleyre, code Amiga & PC, 03/1991-)

Bomber Man (Orig. supplier, ex Paradox (new) and Prestige, 1995-)

Bugs (Orig. supplier, 1992)

Byse (Cyril Harpoutlian, gfx, street art, 03/1991-)

Cabal (orig. supplier, trader, 1993-)

Clawz (Mathieu Berthaud, music, ex Extreme, later TSB, Digital (old) and Oxygene 1991)

Cyrius 4 (Fabrice Bernard, code 'Ghost Battle' musicdisk and 'Slaughter' demo/part 3: 3D fractal landscape, Amiga & PC, 02/1991-)

Darry Booper (Frédéric Bouquerel, music, gfx , 02/1991-)

Daryl (Romain Duzea, spread, ex TRSI)

DCA (David Cohen, code 'Overdose' demo, 02/1991-, later Rebels)

Dino (Saer, code, crack, former member of Yankees on C64, 05/1991-)

Doh (Nicolas Desessart, music, aka Doh Spirits, later Dreamdealers, 1991-12/1992)

Dr Gang (Thierry Schwyter, music, aka SML, ex Brainstormers and Paradox (old))

Exterminator (code, 1993-)

Faith (code, sysop 'THE MUSEUM' EHQ, aka Faddy, ex Razor 1911, ex Alcatraz, 1991)

Flip (Philippe Bourmault, code, 'Explorer' trackmo, 1994-)

Flyspy (Philippe Courtes, code, 'Slaughter' demo/part 2: fireworks, ex North Star and Agile, Amiga & PC, 1992-)

Franck (code, Bytekiller Pro 1.0)

FRX (François-Xavier Dolbeau, code, ex Aces, Europe and Sphere, 02/1991-)

Gremlin (swap, 1991-)

Haze (Iotis, code, gfx, former member of Yankees on C64, 05/1991)

He (Sébastien Saint-Jean, gfx, street art, 1991)

Header (swapper, 1992, later joined Nova (france))

Heden (code of PS3 intros & utilities, 2010-)

Hydris (code, 1993-)

Ice-T (Jérôme Deruti, P.O.Box in France, 1991-)

Junkie (external member, code, ex-Artwork, 1993)

JTC (Julien Dupeyron, swapper, 1993)

Kid (gfx, 1992-)

Krom (swapper, 1991-, later changed handle to Wizz and joined The Silents, then was kicked and joind Digital (old))

Linus (Walid Sadfi, gfx, code, demo section organizer (1995-1997), older handles Big Red and Feyd, 05/1991-)

Lord Byron (Stéphane, gfx, 1991-)

Lunatic Asylum (Guillaume Leroux, music, 1991-)

Maximilian (shadow member, co-operative organization tasks as leader of Interpol (old) and Paradox (new), 1992-1993)

Mik (Michaël Bry, code, 1993-)

Mr Howard (Cédric Pernet, code, music, alias HPL, 1993-)

Mr Mixx (Jérôme Legal, swap, trade, street art, aka MightyMixx, 02/1991-, later Melon Dezign)

Ninja (code, crack, ex Paradox (new), 1997-)

Overboy (code, 'TheBoot' multi-selection boot menu, 1993)

Paranormal (code, 1993-)

Performer (external member, code, intro of cracks/oneparts by Dino, ex Concept and later Melon Dezign 1991)

Quartz (Didier, gfx, 02/1991-)

Rave (swap, ex Extreme, old handle Postcard, 1991, later joined TRSI)

Reflex (Frédéric Cordier, music, 05/1991-, later Rebels)

Ronan (Ronan Bel, code, 02/1991-)

Rookie (Thibault, gfx, design, 02/1991-)

Scud (shadow member, co-operative brainstorming, ex Rebels aka Thomas / Ministry, 1991)

Shup (ex Extreme, 1991)

Skyman (Yannick Turbe, code, ex Alcatraz, 1991)

Slaine (Yann Marfisi, gfx, swap, aka Shean, aka Killerfrost, 02/1991-)

TDC (Pascal, code, aka The Dream Child, 1991, former member of Yankees on C64, later Rebels)

Thanatos (external member, gfx, 1993)

Traitor (trader, orig. supplier, former Alliance Design and doublemember Mystic, 1995)

Trash (Jean-Michel Stenger, code, gfx, 1994-)

Twist (Christian Bédué, ex Extreme, 1991)

Twix (gfx, music, ex Trackers (The), 1992)

Vicious (Michael, trader, ex Complex, old handles Mr.Ngy, Mr. Nice Guy, 06/1991-)

Voyce (François Morel, founder, global leader (1st generation 1991-1993) then demo section organizer (1993-1995), musician, orig. supplier, trader, H/P/A, ascii designer, gfx, street art, 02/1991-1995, other handles as doublemember and original supplier: Flex / Quartex (old), Oracle, Crystal, Nemesis (old), Paragon / Fusion, Crack Inc, Skid Row (old), TRSI+The Dream Team PC, Interpol (old) (as co-founder), Paradox (new) (as co-founder))

Walt (external member, gfx 'MomoCompilStuff' fucktro, 1991, ex Sphere and later Melon Dezign)

Whirly (Stéphane Becker, code, 1993-)

Willy (Pascal, orig. supplier, ex Paradox (new) and Prestige, 1995-)

Germany (44)

Agony (modem trader, code, 1993)

Alpha One (code, crack, trainers, 1994-, later joined Prodigy)

Apollo (external member, orig. supplier, doublemember Classic)

Baseangel (music, 1999 & 2000's, member of Delight PC)

Blue (trader, sysop, 1994)

Can (Attila Damon, swapper, music)

David (code 'Nightshift' (2004 demo), member of Delight PC)

Deathlord (trader, ascii design, 1993-)

Drake (Daniel Köllen, German section organizer, swap, gfx, 1992)

Dr. Ram (sysop 'Houze of Madnezz', 1993-)

Effendi (gfx, swap/spread, alt. handle Effendie, 1992, later joined Agnostic Front then Arise)

Felon (trader, cracker, doublemember Prodigy, has been member of Prestige and Devious Dezigns, 1994)

Fred (Rouven Meidlinger, code 'Scene'O'Phobia, 1992)

HavoC (code, music, gfx, 'Nightshift' (2004 demo), 1999 & 2000's, member of Delight PC)

Hooligan (co-sysop 'EUROPE'S CHAOS' distribution site, 1994)

Jacky D. (orig. supplier, 1994)

Julie (2000's, member of Delight PC)

Keith 303 (Klaus Spang, music, also member of Delight PC, 1994-)

Laxical (Hans-Joachim Sobczak, music)

Masque (swap, music, code, 1992)

Mem'O'Ree (Gregory Engelhardt, music, also member of Delight PC, 1994-)

Mercury (sysop 'DOOM OF EXTASY', 1994)

MMM (music, Delight PC, 2000's)

Mr. Sony (sysop 'EMPIRE PALACE', 1994)

Nitro (orig. supplier Delight PC, doublemember/organizer of Prodigy, 1993-)

Overdog (joined Nuance, 1992)

Place (music)

PPX (trader, ascii design, 1993-)

Raster Blaster (sysop 'BYTE PARADISE' GHQ, 1993)

Saxon (sysop 'FLYING DRAGON' GHQ, 1995)

Scan (Amiexpress code, co-sysop 'BREAK AWAY' EHQ, 1993-)

SDD (lead organizer crack section (3rd generation, 1994-1995), organizer of Delight PC, trader, music, 1993-)

Siriax (Dennis Lewerenz, code, crack, trainers, co-organizer, orig. supplier, 1993-, later joined Prodigy and remained doublemember of Delight for a while)

Slick (Orig supplier, trader, 1993-)

Slime (Sysop 'Homeless BBS' GHQ, 1997)

Stearo (German section associate organizer, swap, ex Precise, 1992, joined Desire then Paradise)

Tagesdosis (music, Delight PC, 2000's)

The Fugitive (orig. supplier, credited as Delight for cracks by Delirium, 08/1993)

Thexder (Roland Voß, music, swap/spread, other handle Triace, 1992-)

Trion (co-sysop 'EUROPE'S CHAOS' distribution site, 1994)

Undertaker (code, 1992)

Vascal (code (utilities), co-sysop 'BREAK AWAY' EHQ, 1993-)

Violator (swap, 1992)

X-Tasy

Ireland (2)

Replay

Flyer

Italy (5)

Kenshiro (trader, 1994-)

Maverick (crack, sysop1 'FUNKY TRADING', 08/1995)

Modem Boy (trader, 1993-)

Spiderman (sysop 'TOTAL RECALL', 1994)

U.M.M (sysop2 'FUNKY TRADING', 08/1995)

The Netherlands (4)

Muad'dib (Amiexpress code, sysop 'THE UNDISCOVERED' DHQ, 1994)

Nitro (code 'Mr. Brownstone', 1993)

Wishbringer (staff 'THE UNDISCOVERED' DHQ, 1994)

Xanion (music 'Mr. Brownstone', 1993)

Norway (8)

Assassin (sysop 'EXTENSION', 1992-)

Badcat (Henrik Johnsen, code, ex No Limits, 1992-)

Baltazar (Even Ambjørnrud, code, ex No Limits, 1992-)

Brainbuster (code, 1992-)

Dreadlock (staff 'MIDDLE EAST' NHQ, 1994)

Goblin (sysop 'MIDDLE EAST' NHQ, 1994)

Turbo Brain (Stefan Bernbo, code, music, sysop 'THE ULTIMATE RIDE', 1994-)

Whirlwind (Tor Ringstad, code, ex No Limits, 1992-)

Poland (2)

Mad Shocker (Zbyszek Malinowski, music, 1995-)

Quasi (Dariusz Panchyrz, music, 1995-)

Sweden (14)

Agressor (trader, co-sysop 'UNDERCOVER' EHQ, 1993-)

Cybergod (trader, ascii artist, ex doublememb Ram Jam, late 1995)

Dale'n X3M (staff 'TOTAL DISASTER', 1994)

Demax (Stefan Hallsten, co-sysop 'UNDERCOVER' EHQ, alt handle Dee, ex Chaos A.D., 1993-)

Fazer (sysop 'FLATLINE', ex Razor 1911)

Freddy (music, 1993)

Fuze (trader, 1994)

Kane (trader, co-sysop 'LOVE LIKE BLOOD', doublemember TRSI, 1994)

MFM (Tomas Svensson, cracker, coder, trader, network/H/P/A, 1994)

Nike (Amiexpress code, sysop 'INSTANT PLEASURE', triplemember TRSI and Crux, 1995-)

Pitcher (staff 'UNDERCOVER')

Snowfire (trader, staff 'GLOBAL EFFECT', 1995)

Steam (Carl Joakim Ulfeldt, music, other handle Twister / Anarchy)

Trazer (music, ex Danger Productions, 1994-)

Switzerland (1)

Samir (external member, cracker, 1993-, doublemember Prestige, ex-Zenith)

United Kingdom (4)

Phantom (trader, staff 'AREA 51' UKHQ, 1995)

Sasha (sysop 'DATALUS BBS', UKHQ, 1994-)

Talon (orig. supplier, lead organizer crack section (4th generation, 1996-1999), trader, 1994-)

TAS (sysop 'DAWN RAID' UKHQ, 1993-)

United States (14)

Cardinal (sysop, 'THE VOID', 1995)

Circuit Breaker (sysop 'DIGITAL EXTASY', 1994-95)

Codex (sysop 'THE KREMLIN' USHQ, 1995)

Cyquest (staff 'THE VOID', 1994-)

Don Dog (sysop 'UZI SUICIDE', ~1995)

Jammaster (sysop 'INNER CITY', 1991-)

Leper Messiah (sysop 'DAMAGE JUSTICE', 1993)

Lost Dutchman (sysop 'THE LOST DUTCHMAN MINE', 1993-94)

Paradox (sysop 'DIGITAL CANDY', 1993)

Shadowvex (Kevin Mitnick, sysop 'THE FIEND CLUB' WHQ, H/P/A, 1991)

Snow Queen (co-sysop 'FASTRAX', 1992)

Swift J (sysop 'CHAOTIC ENTITY', 1993-94)

The Saint (trader, staff 'THE FIEND CLUB' WHQ, 1991)

Voyager (co-sysop 'FASTRAX', 1992)

Unlocalized members (15)

Alien (???, 1994-)

Bassmann (design, 2010-)

Breaker (???, 1993-)

Cheech! (cracker 'Populous 2-Trials of the Olympian Gods', 1994, later joined Delirium)

E$G (staff 'DIGITAL EXTASY', 1994-)

Exotic (trader, staff 'UNDERCOVER', 1994-)

FGF (staff 'DIGITAL EXTASY', 1995)

Ghettoboy (trader, 1994)

Gorefest (???, 1994-)

Mr. Been (???; 1993-)

NK!/PSE (trader, 1995-)

Perfection (trainers, 1994)

Soulsmoker (orig. supplier, 1995)

WWI (cracker 'Alien Breed Tower Assault', 1994)

Xyrion (gfx, ascii/ansi, Delight PC, 2010-today)

External & Shadow members

External members made occasional contributions to the group as themselves not mentioning the other groups they were working for at the same time. They were credited with their sole handles for their works in the related Delight releases. They were also considered 'one-time' members as friends of the group, but they generally didn't appear in an official way in any DLT member listings. They included:

Performer and Walt / Melon Dezign, respectively for a cracktro and a funny fucktro, both in 1991.

Junkie / Artwork and Experience, for his coding contribution on the last part of the Slaughter demo in 1993.

Thanatos for a logo which has been used in Delight menus/cracktros (1993).

Samir / Prestige as cracker, and Apollo / Classic as original supplier, for the release of 'Catch 'Em' final retail version (08/1994).

Shadow members were influential figures who have supported the group activities on an organizational basis/level. In return they have received support from Delight for their own activities. They included:

Maximilian / Interpol (old) and Paradox (new). Delight and Paradox sometimes cross-issued releases one for each other. Max and Voyce (aka Paragon/Interpol (old) and Paradox (new)) were friends in real life.

Babydock / Interpol (old) and Paradox (new) was initially a shadow member of Delight before he joined the group as an official member.

Scud / Rebels aka Thomas / Ministry has been a shadow member of Delight due to moral support and friendship, in the same fashion Voyce has been a shadow member of Rebels for a single day (kind of a private joke).

Questionable & non-existent members

2Tuff (UK, trader, staff 'THE FIEND CLUB', 1991-, better known as orig. supplier for Crystal)

Questionable: 2Tuff was listed here as a member of Delight in the older version of this page. In most recent interviews, 2Tuff lists the groups he had been a member of, and Delight isn't listed among these groups.

Coffee (CH, Modem Trader, 1991)

Non-existent: double handle of another existing member for illegal activities (modem trading).

Lizardking (SE, music, 1995)

Questionable: Is listed as Delight member on certain websites. One of his musics was used in a Delight cracktro in 1995. Doesn't quote himself as a former Delight member on his official profile on AMP-Da Scene.

Prayer (FR, Modem Trader, 1991)

Non-existent: double handle of another existing member for illegal activities (modem trading).

Sleine (FR, gfx, 1994)

Non-existent: Sleine is a fictional graphic artist who is welcomed as a new member and is presented as reworking scans of drawings made by others in the caricature demo 'Graphist for Sale, Très Sale". Any resemblance with an existing person is purely accidental.

Turtle (FR, swapper, 1991)

Non-existent: Daryl wrote in scrolltexts about his sister who was a member of Delight, but he never had a sister (confirmed).

Group History

pre-1991

There was an Atari ST group called Delight, which were active from 1985 to 1989. Although both groups are from different origins and do not share any members in common, Delight on Amiga took inspiration from its former counterpart on the ST scene, which became history in cracking some of the best games ever released on this platform. In spite of this, Delight Amiga/PC/Consoles have no common roots with Delight on Atari ST, and both groups should be considered as separate entities.

1991

The group was founded in February by Voyce, a musician and ex-leader of small demo groups such as Brainstormers as well as a prolific original supplier for years in many decent crack groups. The original team was created along with ex-members of French groups Sphere (Darry Booper, Quartz, Audiomonster, FRX...) and Concept (Ronan, Rookie...) as well as independents, at the occasion of a meeting organized at Killerfrost's premisces in Paris on 23rd February. Most French members listed as having joined on 02/1991 were present at the meeting. Many other members joined in 1991, while some left towards the end of the year (DCA, TDC and Reflex for Rebels, Audiomonster, Ronan and Rookie for The Silents, ...).

The same year two BBS's were recruited in the United States, 1) The Fiend Club WHQ with 2nd ranked H/P/A conference in the U.S., operated by Shadowvex (ex-Alpha Flight) and 2) Inner City USHQ operated by Jammaster (ex-Miracle). Faddy (ex handle Faith) joined from Razor 1911 to operate The Museum EHQ in Nice, France, then left to become independent late 1991, after two members of Delight were busted along with most of French members of Quartex and The Company in the Blue Box affair led by the local police.

1991 saw many releases from Delight, including the much praised 'Overdose' demo, two other well-spreaded demos, several intros and dentros by FRX, Ronan, Performer, TDC, Faddy. The Momocompilstuff was a fucktro against Voyce and Darry Booper made by Walt (later leader of the French side of Melon Dezign). Dino (ex-leader and cracker of The Yankees C64 group) started to crack and onepart several games. Delight also welcomed members of The Yankees, members of Symbiosis (musicians Doh and Arios) and the whole group Extreme. Delight also released Necronom preview as well as popular utilities with intros in front of them.

1992

Delight became more international. Entire sections were recruited mainly in Denmark (with ex-members of Light), in Germany (joining from various groups), in Norway (with ex-members of No Limits. After the French police raids in late 1991, where a list of accounts was seized, The Fiend Club WHQ became independent. Inner City became WHQ of Delight, soon joined by Fastrax USHQ (sysops Voyager and Snow Queen). Assassin, sysop of The Extension EHQ was busted by the Norwegian police. Notably due to this black series, 1992 has started as a difficult year for Delight. Several French members left the scene. Some others left including French swapper Krom (aka Wizz) who joined Fusion, and German graphician Effendi who joined Agnostic Front.

Although the group became less productive this year, Dino continued to release cracks and oneparts. Many packs were issued this year by Mr Mixx, by Daryl & Rave, and by Voyce. Further games and utilities were released, such as Bytekiller Pro 1.0 coded by Franck/Delight. The German section produced Scene-O-Phobia, a small zine, while further productions and important organisational changes have been cooking in the wake of 1993. "Bagpipe Palmepeede" by Doh/Delight ranked 3rd at The Party music competition in Denmark at the end of December.

1993

Major changes occurred at Delight this year. Since the beginning, Voyce had pursued his major contributions to the crack scene with handles Flex (1991) and Paragon (1992-1993). A key original supplier and close friend of Maximilian, he notably co-founded Interpol (1992) and the second instance of Paradox (1993), and contributed as influential member to other officines such as Fusion, Crack Inc. Skid Row and TRSI+TDT PC, all of this while remaining the active leader of Delight.

Until this year, considering the centralized nature of the group around its founder and global organizer, Delight had been prevented to become an active group on the crack scene. After his decision to leave the crack scene by mid-year, Voyce progressively decentralized all decision powers in Delight by quitting global leadership and delegating more organization tasks to other members.

Early 1993 Voyce recruited Blackbird, a very talented independent coder/cracker who quickly became one of the best trainer makers of all times on the Amiga platform. Blackbird was awarded full responsibility to organize the activities of Delight on the crack scene, and quickly recruited German trainer makers and crackers Siriax and Alpha One, along with SDD, MFM, Slick, Talon, and others in Germany, the UK and Sweden. The UNDERCOVER EHQ (sysops Demax and Agressor) also joined Delight. Voyce recruited THE CHAOTIC ENTITY as new WHQ and LOST DUTCHMAN MINE as USHQ. Babydock was invited to join from Paradox, but first collaborated as a shadow member before joining one year later as an official member. Delight quickly became one of the best elite trainers and crack groups for the year 1993.

When he definitively retired from the crack scene in June, Voyce still retained leadership of the group's demo activities. The Danish section (Kasai, Brainiac, Zeus, Izi, Depete, Towie/Quayle...) released their first Delight demo at the beginning of 1993. Slaughter, a major coding proof-of-concept demo with contributions of several top-level coders, was released at the occasion of the CEBIT. Among various other productions this year, Dutch members Nitro and Xanion released their own game Mr. Brownstone, inspired from the classic Boulder Dash. Delight also used at least 7 new intros and cracktros for new releases this year, mostly coded by German and French members.

1993 ended with Delight as the best trainer group and in the top-10 crack groups in the charts, Voyce (as Paragon) was also ranked best original supplier worldwide, having supplied 7 of the 10 best games of the year to Interpol and Paradox (all during the first 6 months of the year). "Blow-up" by Arios/Delight ranked 3rd at The Party music competition in Denmark at the end of December.

1994

Delight continued to release cracks and trainers, along with new cracktros. Blackbird left for Prestige, where he could work more closely with his friend Samir (leader of PSG), who released one crack for Delight as an external member. SDD, with the help of Talon and Siriax, took over leadership of Delight crack and trainers activities (including cracktros). Siriax and Alpha One issued a fair number of new releases until they became doublemembers of Prodigy and Delight at the end of the year. One game was also released under a one-time co-operation between Millenium and Delight. Delight has again ranked among the top-releasing groups for this year.

On the demo side, Flip and Trash released the trackmo Explorer, along with a 40k intro. With these the group ranked first in both categories at the Analog party near Strasbourg, France, organized during the summer time. Danish members also released their second demo. Other intros and cracktros were released this year, including a series of simple cracktros by Siriax and Alpha One, and more advanced works by Paranormal and Whirly (the latter with a logo by Antony / Dreamdealers).

1995

Despite its slower pace of releases mainly due to Prodigy and Prestige taking advantage of recruiting in its ranks, Delight still issued a few good trainers and cracks this year, along with new intros. Most productive members on this side were as usual Siriax and Alpha One, and Talon.

1996

Delight crack section could have died in 1996. Fortunately Alpha One and Talon were still active for a few releases, such as Battle Squadron - The Destruction Of The Barrax Empire (AGA fixed) +12.

French demomakers released The Mad Cow Disease, featuring a few real-time Phong shading 3D objects. The demo hardly found its way to the BBS's and was spreaded mainly to a confidential circle of friends and contacts.

1997-1999

1997 and subsequent years saw Delight PC gaining momentum, while the pace of releases on the Amiga slowed down progressively until there was nothing left in either productions or releases for this platform towards the end of the decade. Most outstanding Amiga works were musics, notably released at demo parties.

From 1997 and on, Delight PC started cracking a few games and commercial utilities. A short-living Delight Console section cracked/released some games notably for the Game Boy Advance platform. Vulture's Nest was the last known BBS WHQ for Delight, based in Canada. The group was led by Talon on Amiga and SDD on PC, with members such as Bomber Man & Willy, Cabal, Vulture, MFM, Keith303, Havoc, and others.

A last intro was still produced on the Amiga in 1997 for the few releases left, such as BosCar. No demos were produced during that period. The only other multimedia work was Babydock's launch of the Delight.org website featuring a short group history and a download section for the main group's demos/intros.

2000-2009

A grand total of more than 500 releases (cracks, keygens, etc.) have been spreaded around on the Internet during the 2000's. Members responsible for these remain mostly unknown, but are suspected to be mostly German and possibly French, as both countries have always hosted the most numerous and many of the most prolific members, and a lot of the releases have localized names.

In 2004, Delight PC released the Nightshift demo, coded by David with music and design by Havoc.

2010-2013

Delight is still releasing illegal PC stuff and content. This section members remain mostly anonymous, except for a few demomakers still active who are participating in gfx, musics, and other competitions at parties.

Legal stuff has also been released on the PS3 by Heden: three "old school" pretty intros, and a bunch of utilities for coding and managing the system.

Common Works, Joint-Ventures & Alliances

Common Works

. Several co-op. packs released with TRSI.

. Contributions by many other group members to Delight productions and releases.

. Contributions by Delight members to other groups productions and releases.

Joint-Ventures

The only official joint-venture has been MLD : Millenium + Delight. It has been a short-time living one-release JV achieved in 1994.

Pacts & Alliances

1991

Underground alliance with Quartex in France, based on original supplying and cracks contributed by some Delight members, also members of Quartex through different labels. See 'French credited suppliers/crackers associations (1991)' subsection in members' countries on Quartex page.

1992-1993

Pacts of non-agression and cross-brand releases with Interpol, then Paradox, notably through a handful of co-releases by doublemembers Paragon (i.e. Voyce) and Babydock, which were labelled as Delight mentionning contributions by Paradox.

1994-1995

Pact of non-agression and cross-brand releases with Prodigy, involving various works by Siriax and Alpha One.

Releases

Major Demos

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Overdose (1991, .03, OCS/ECS File Demo)

Delight logo (Darry Booper) in introduction of the 'Overdose'

Credits

code

DCA

music

Audiomonster ('Hard Feelings')

design

Audiomonster

DCA

gfx

Darry Booper (logos and fonts)

Voyce (blinking stars behind text)

scrolltxt

Audiomonster (main)

Voyce (end greetings)

One of the 'plasma' effects

Background story

The demo was released within weeks after the creation of the group.

It received much acclaim by peer groups and is still viewed as (one of) the demo(s) which made the best use of 'plasma' effects, in conjunction with an excellent slow music creating an ambient mood.

The 'Overdose' demo was often considered among the 10 best demos released in 1991 for the Amiga platform, although it was only listed in the top-20 of the Eurocharts, which comprised older demos released well before the year 1991.

End demo 'plasma' lightning effect, behind a dark castle

Links

[Youtube 1] Video on Youtube (fullscreen).

[Youtube 2] Video on Youtube (uploaded by Audiomonster).

[Youtube 3] Video on Youtube (uploaded by Cyberpingui).

[Dailymotion] Video on Dailymotion.

[Bitfellas] Demo profile and Amiga file download.

[Pouet] Demo profile and official release disk download (DMS).

[Cyberpingui] Original official release disk download (ADF).

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Slaughter (1993, .03, ECS File Demo)

Title screen by Anex

Credits

code

Baron (elliptic 3D and final debug/one-part)

Cyrius 4 (fractal landscape)

Flyspy (fireworks)

Junkie (ending scrolltext)

onepart

Paranormal/Delight (pre-work on a trackload routine, code isn't in the demo)

President Screw/Spaceballs (putting together some routines in one file) and Major Asshole/Spaceballs for some support

Ooze/Artwork (additional work on compatibility between parts)

Baron/Delight (engineering, optimization and final release)

music

Doh ('Tapiocapolis')

1st elliptic 3D on Amiga, using floating point calculations

gfx

Anex (title screen, demo title logo)

Quartz (Delight vertical logo)

Darry Booper (fonts)

design

Voyce

Baron

Cyrius 4 (fractals)

scrolltxt

Voyce

Full 3D fractal landscape (realistic play!!)

Background story

This demo was supposed to be part of the competition at The Party in December 1992, but a succession of challenges (both human and technical) delayed its release, and it was finally rushed to be ready for the CeBit 1993 organized by Commodore and Scoopex in March 1993.

President Screw and Major Asshole at Spaceballs helped one-part the demo at The Party. Ooze/Artwork also helped and Junkie (ex-Artwork) was recruited to continue this work. The demo was finally compiled in its final form by Baron, a founding member of Delight who also developed flight simulators for a French aeronautics/defence company in his professional life.

When Chaos / Sanity saw at The Party 1992 the fractal landscape developed by Cyrius 4, he decided not to release his next Sanity demo which was expected to feature a less impressive fractal landscape.

Sphere dots by Flyspy

Although it was a major breakthrough in Amiga coding, the Slaughter demo received mitigated critics, mainly because it was rushed and parts were skipped with left button. It also missed two parts lost in the onepart process: "my room" in concave 3D by Flyspy, and "unlimited 3D" i.e. 3D based on concept of unlimited bobs, by Paranormal. At last, it featured a classic presentation at a time when the Scene was primarily influenced by the visual style imposed by Melon Dezign and others.

Playable part

The 3D fractal landscape part in the 'Slaughter' is fully playable with the keyboard and the text says to use keys 4 to turn left and 6 to turn right. This will not work in WinUAE without tweaking parameters due to bad standard key mapping of the numeric pad by the emulator. Turning left or right makes the entire landscape lean in 3D which adds a realistic effect, as in a game. Hidden keys are also implemented to allow moving the screen up and down, speeding up and slowing down the trip through the fractal mountains, but they are not documented at the bottom of the screen, because some of them may crash the 3D display routine on various versions of the original Amiga.

To correctly emulate this part in WinUAE, go into "Game ports" menu, and select 'none' in Port 2.

Controls

mapping

including hidden keys

End scroll with Quartz logo

'4'

Turn left (numeric pad)

'6'

Turn right (numeric pad)

'2'

Scroll down (numeric pad)

'8'

Scroll up (numeric pad) will bug at some height

lft shift

Speed up

rgt shift

Speed down

Links

[Bitfellas] Demo profile and Amiga official disk download. May not fully work (Guru med on boot, or music disappearing) due to boot util.

[Pouet] Demo profile and identical Amiga official disk download with the same issue.

[AmigaScne FTP] Standalone file, should work better with common Amiga emulators such as WinUAE.

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Explorer (1994, .07, AGA Trackmo)

Title screen by Trash

Credits

code

Flip (main, all three parts)

Trash (support code on some parts)

musics

Arios ('Shadow of the Fire' rock style, main part)

Flip ('fil176', 'fil194', retro + ending parts and beginning sample)

gfx

Trash

design

Trash (whole demo)

Flip (3D landscapes)

Main part: Rotozoom 50fps full screen, among many effects

scrolltxt

Flip (main scroll, hidden part)

Trash (main scroll, hidden part)

Beachy (main scroll greetings, hidden part)

Voyce (main scroll greetings, hidden part)

Whirly (hidden part)

Background story

This trackmo (trackload demo) was released at the end of the Analog 'Sun is a Pacman' party held on 23-24 July 1994 in Wittenheim, in the East of France between Colmar and the French-German border. The demo, which features a lot of various effects, was first previewed for the Saturne party earlier this year.

Flip and Trash joined Delight only 2-3 months before their demo was released.

Nostalgic part: unlimited bobs and more classics in AGA

'Explorer' did not participate in the Analog demo competition, as there were not so many demos presented there. Delight won the compo with another, smaller demo entitled 'Graphist for Sale'. It also won the 40k intro competition with 'Where is Pacman?' made by Trash/Delight.

The demo features three main parts. The first one (Main) proposes cool effects of the same kind as what various other groups are showing at the same period. The second one (Nostalgic) brings a new look to older effects thanks to AGA enhanced color palette. The third one shows a man running on water in full 3D, with a good number of facets, including splashes.

Ending part: A man designed in 3D runs on the water

The 'hidden part' which is mentionned on some websites is in fact an additional scrolltext with private messages by Delight members to other sceners. It can be seen easily by waiting a few minutes after the regular main scrolltext.

Main scrolltext quotes "As you probably noticed Delight is a demo group not supposed to crack games" and the memberlist shows only demo members based in France, but this phrase is followed by another funny one in French, which instills irony and doubts.

In addition if you have a look at the greetings, some of the other Delight members are listed here.

Hidden part: a hidden scrolltext!

The reason for this is that some Delight coders at the time were joining game companies and didn't want their names to be associated with an elite crack/trainers group.

The scrolltext said, at last, that a new forthcoming demo by Whirly and ADN was about to be released, but this demo has never been finished and thus has never been released.

Links

[Youtube 1] Video on Youtube (full demo).

[Youtube 2] Video on Youtube (parts 1 & 2 only).

[Bitfellas] Demo profile and Amiga disk download (DMS).

[Pouet] Demo profile and Amiga disk download (DMS).

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Nightshift (2004, .04, PC Demo, Multifile)

One of the beautiful scenes of the demo (source: Pouet.net)

Credits

code

David (Lead code)

HavoC (Supporting code)

music

HavoC

gfx

HavoC

design

HavoC

scrolltxt

Just a small greetings list and short comments at the end.

Background story

'Nightshift' by Delight! (Delight PC) has been ranked 10th at the Breakpoint party in 1994.

The demo features a series of 5-6 nice 3D complex scenes with much details, in a rather cold atmosphere supported by a clean space techno tune. One memorable scene represents the big hall of the Breakpoint party with all the computers on the tables.

In the .nfo file accompanying the demo in the official release pack, the authors say that 'Nightshift' is their first demo. This simple assertion misled many to believe that either they were new to the scene, or that Delight was a new group releasing their first demo.

In both events, this is absolutely untrue. HavoC in particular had been a member of Delight since at least 1999, when he presented his soundtrack 'The Basic Idea' at the Mekka 1999 Symposium. The track was co-composed with BaseAngel. The year after, he presented two tunes in Alternative and Progressive music compos at Mekka 2000 Symposium. And so on.

At the same time, it is true that while 'Nightshift' was released more than 13 years after the first demo of Delight on the Amiga, it was still their first great demo for the PC platform. And overall, it received a warm welcome and good critics from the scene.

Links

[Pouet] Demo profile and official PC archive download.

[HavoC's website] The soundtrack of 'Nightshift' as well as a few other musics by HavoC.

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Smaller Demos/Dentros

Sound Theme From Ghost Battle (1991, File)

Credits

code

Cyrius 4

musics

Jochen Hippel / Thallion Software

music rip

Cyrius 4

gfx

Darry Booper, Quartz

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FRX Dentro (1991, File)

Credits

code

FRX

musics

Reflex (intro)

Arios (main)

gfx

Quartz

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MomoCompilStuff Self-fucktro (1991, File)

Credits

code

Performer

music

Audiomonster

gfx

Walt

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Museum BBStro (1991, file)

Credits

code

Faddy

music

Doh

gfx

Faddy

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Unlimited Pleasure (1993, File)

This small demo is also called 'Endless Pleasure' and 'ULikeDLT' (the file name for trade on the BBS), according to sources.

Credits

code

Zeus

music

Brainiac (ProRunner 2.0 format)

gfx

Izi

Quayle

Kasai

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Graphist For Sale-Très Sale (1994, File)

Credits

code

Whirly

music

Voyce ('Miasmes' + 'Metastases')

gfx

Linus

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Mad Cow Disease (1996, File)

Credits

code

Barbarr

music

Voyce ('Dead or Alice')

gfx

Linus

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Intros & Cracktros

More than 30 intros and cracktros were coded and for the most part used by Delight in front of their Amiga releases. ~20 of them can be seen on Youtube.

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Packs & Trainer Menus

More than 12 different pack and trainer menus have been coded and used by Delight on the Amiga.

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Miscellaneous Stuff

XOR Boot (1992, Visual bootblock + Installer)

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Scene'O'Phobia 1 (1992, Scene Mag, File)

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Mr. Brownstone (1993, Game, File)

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Utilities (Productions & Modified/Adapted Releases)

Bytekiller Pro 1.0

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'TheBoot' Multiselection Boot

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AmiExpress Tools Collection

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Alt. versions of X-Copy and Diskmaster

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Rumoured & Wrongly Credited Releases

Pandemonium (1994 or pre, Music)

This one was wrongly credited. It was released by Delite, a small group in the UK which wasn't related to Delight.

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Gorbatchev Music Disk

This one was probably a rumour, as it seems that nobody have ever seen it.

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BBS's

• THE FIEND CLUB WHQ (usa, 1991)
• INNER CITY USHQ (usa, 1991) WHQ (1992)
• THE MUSEUM EHQ (france, 1991)
• EXTENSION EHQ (norway, 1992)
• FASTRAX USHQ/WHQ (usa, 1992)
• DIGITAL CANDY WHQ (usa, 1993)
• CHAOTIC ENTITY WHQ (usa, 1993-94)
• DAMAGE JUSTICE USHQ (usa, 1993)
• THE LOST DUTCHMAN MINE USHQ (usa, 1993-94)
• DIGITAL EXTASY USHQ (usa, 1994) WHQ (1995-)
• THE BREAK AWAY EHQ (germany, 1993-)
• HOUZE OF MADNESS GHQ (germany, 1993-)
• BYTE PARADISE GHQ (germany, 1993-)
• UNDERCOVER SHQ (sweden, 1993-)
• SUBLIME DEMENTIA FHQ (france, 1993)
• FLATLINE SHQ (sweden, 1994)
• DAWN RAID UKHQ (united kingdom, 1994-)
• THE UNDISCOVERED DHQ (the netherlands, 1994-)
• BLACK LINE EHQ (germany, 1994)
• DOOM OF EXTASY EHQ (germany, 1994-)
• METAL CONNEXTION ScaHQ (denmark, 1994)
• MIDDLE EAST NHQ (norway, 1994)
• DELTA CITY IHQ (italy, 1994)
• TOTAL RECALL IHQ (italy, 1994)
• ENDLESS DEATH GHQ (germany, 1994)
• EMPIRE PALACE GHQ (germany, 1994)
• CENTRAL CITY GHQ (germany, 1994)
• DATALUS BBS UKHQ (united kingdom, 1994-)
• THE ULTIMATE RIDE (norway, 1994)
• MONKEY ISLAND MB-Site (germany, 1994)
• ELECTRIC LADYLAND MB-Site (germany, 1994)
• MCI ESCAPES dist. (germany, 1994)
• EUROPE'S CHAOS dist. (germany, 1994-)
• THE KREMLIN USHQ (usa, 1995)
• THE VOID WHQ (usa, 1995)
• UZI SUICIDE USHQ (usa, 1995)
• FLYING DRAGON GHQ (germany, 1995)
• INSTANT PLEASURE SHQ (sweden, 1995)
• AREA 51 UKHQ (united kingdom, 1995)
• CHECK POINT NHQ (norway, 1995)
• FUNKY TRADING IHQ (italy, 1995)
• MAGIC (???, 1995)
• VULTURE'S NEST WHQ (canada, 1996-)
• HOMELESS BBS GHQ (Germany, 1997-)
• www.delight.org (1995-1999)
• www.delight-crew.de (2000-2008)
• Delight channels on EFNet, DALNet and IRCNet networks.

Original page deleted due to multiple errors, then entirely recreated by group's founder Voyce, in the early months of 2013.