Hitmen
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Hitmen (HIT)
Hitmen started mainly as German cracking group on the C64, founded as a one man group by Jihad/Action (crack) in may of 1990, which it stayed until the entire German section of Vision joined around december the same year. It later turned into a Demo- and reverseengineering Group which is active on many different Platforms.
Members
Hitmen has disbanded twice, the first time it dissolved in 1991 and got rebuild in 1992, just to dissolve again in the beginning of 1993 and get rebuild once more in 1995. Unlike in other similar cases in the Scene, all "reincarnations" were "official" and initiated by the original members, namely Jihad and Curlin.
1995-today
- GER
- Curlin (code crack gfx, 09/95-)
- Groepaz ([real name removed by personal request], code, 09/95-)
- Jihad (crack, 09/95-)
- Shok'Ray (ex Onslaught, also in Megastyle Productions [details], 09/95-??).
- Peacemaker (fix, 09/95-)
- Racoon(01/96-??)
- Raze (09/95-??)
- Sabotage (01/96)
- Tyron (09/95-??)
- Vortex (09/95-??)
- Jinx (09/95-01/96)
- Lawnmoverman (09/95-01/96)
- POL
- Moonchild (code)
- BOS
- Erol (Erol Tahirovic, code)
- SWE
- Tranziie (09/95-)
- ???
- Jayce (01/96)
- Marcus (01/96)
- Moby (01/96)
1992-1993
- GER
- Death (Marc Lange, swap, 02-03/92).
1990-1991
- GER
- Bass (ex Internal Affairs, new 12/90)
- Hires (ex Internal Affairs, new 12/90)
- Jihad (crack, 91)
- Lynx (Jörg Kosicki, swap, 03/92)
- Mad B (ex Internal Affairs, new 12/90)
- Mad Butcher (Ralf, swap, 01/91)
- Tom (01/91)
- N-L
- Curse (swap, early91)
- Ixon (swap, early91)
- SWE
- Mason (new early91)
- Stanze (new early91)
- ???
- Cevin (crack, 91)
- Derse (ex Ruthless, new 12/90)
- Fox (ex Paramount, new 12/90)
Boards
- Mystical Paradize +49-2137-13943 (HQ, ger, 01/96, offline, Sysop: Peacemaker)
- The Dungeon +1-214-342-7281 (US-HQ, usa, 09/95-01/96, offline, Sysop: Alchemist)
- Warez Aquarium +46-837-1360 (EHQ, swe, offline, Sysop: Sledge/Fairlight)
- Internet: ftp://ftp.inf.bme.hu (ex, Sysop: Jean/Chromance)
History
References: CSDB History on Hitmen Website
1989
Back in 1989 Jihad and Curlin (at that time called Accu) have been members of Action... While Curlin left Action and joined Vision after he got into troubles with Spitfire/Action for some reason, Jihad still continued doing finest Quality cracks for Action. After a short time also Jihad was unhappy in Action, because of Spitfire's behaviour, so he wanted to teach him a lesson. Hitmen was born, with Jihad still being the main cracker in Action so we also got the newest originals available in Germany. Jihad was acting under the handle of The Barrel for Hitmen, Curlin was spreading the Hitmen wares as a freelancer these days, after a short while people were questioning who Hitmen was... Also Spitfire was getting mad as Hitmen was nearly as fast as Action and even did better versions. After a short time Jihad and Curlin joined Hitmen under their real handle. At that time also Twist was working for us. We became more successful and bigger.
1990
- December
- Curlin (crack) joined from Vision, and Derse from Ruthless. News in WOW's "Internal #3" that someone named 'RAF' joined with Curlin are untrue.
1991
- Early january saw the release of "ViNews #3" by Curlin and Mad Butcher, which announced the joining of three ex-members of Internal Affairs; Hires, Mad B. and Bass. Dr.Disk changed his handle to Hermit and joined Chromance in january. Dense left for Manowar in january. Swedes Mason and Stanze joined early in the year. Jihad was interviewed for Triad "Gamers Guide #5" in the early months of the year, but then inexplicably left the group not long after... According to the "Gamers Guide #9", the group died, probably around may. Jihad formed another new group, called Joy Division. The german members Curlin (code crack, ex Vision, new 12/90), Thunder (gfx), Racoon and Alfatech left for Triad.
ViNews #3 (1991, 02.01, Multifile Diskmag). INT - code: Curlin, gfx: n/a, music: n/a. MAG - code: Curlin, gfx: Curlin (main), Thunder (werner), DMC/Dominators (2x2 font), music: Laxity/Vibrants, editors: Mad Butcher (main), Curlin. review: First of all, this mag will get a positive response to their unorthodox design. Perhaps not all ideas are the best (what is that 'Werner' doing there guys?), but at least they have the courage to think new. Apart from that, the mag's editorial content is about normal for this kind of thing. Atleast the English is on such a levels that the news items don't confuse, like can sometimes be the case with Sex'n'Crime =] One nice section, which I'd like to see expanded is the 'crax test' (inspired by Triad's "Gamers Guide"?). If they wrote a little more about WHY one version is superior to another, instead of just giving us those meaningless numbers, this would be an interesting section. There is no mention of the music being exclusive or anything, so it was most likely ripped. To sum up, this is actually above average for these kinds of mags, where the editorial content is not really supposed to transcend the 'editorial, news + adresses' formula. [glenn]
Hotshot 7 (January 1991) - vision is DEAD! some german members joined hitmen, formed by jihad of action.
Hotshot 8 (February 1991) - DERSE left ruthless and joined HITMEN. BREGO also left and joined BRONX. - HIRES of internal affairs joi- ned hitmen and changed his na- me into DANDY.
Hotshot 9 (March 1991) - DENSE left hitmen to join MANOWAR. - STANZE joined HITMEN. - STORMIE left demotion and joined HITMEN and at the same time he changes his name into gilius. - misfit, rams, patrick, style and airwolf joined HITMEN. - the rumours which says that some of the ruthless members should have joined a new group with dandy/hitmen is false!
Hotshot 11 (May 1991) Ö RUTHLESS died. scorp, curse, fp, alfatech, ice, probe and henry joined forces of HITMEN. ronn, svg, duck-d, rodney and softmaster went legal, and ofcoz audial arts is still alive.
Hotshot 12 (June 1991) Ö SCORP ex-hitmen, RODNEY BALAI and SOFTMASTER of audial arts joined us in flash inc. Ö dense left hitmen when they died. later he was caught by the cops. he asked several groups if he could join (flash, illusion, chromance) but all said no. he is now groupless. Ö name: left: joined: <<<<<<< <<<<<<< <<<<<<<<< tom hitmen chromance rough hitmen chromance
Hotshot 13 (July 1991) * heatwave is a new dutch demo group. the group consists of old members from internal affairs, ruthless and hitmen. their first demo will be avalible in a short time. * falcon left the ruling company and joined verdict as a modemtrader and a cracker. curse (ex-hitmen) joined trc. xenon left trc and rejoined xentrix. trc is in war with house designs as house released trcs unsold game called "synex". * rebels was built up by some x-hitmen members. (have we heard the name some- where before?) mayday left wow and joined rebels. after a while he left them too and joined genesis project. * nightshade = nsd (x-hitmen) joined verdict. twf (x-hitmen) joined titron.
1992
"JIHAD rejoined HITMEN,which was rebuilt by CURLIN and RACOON after they left TRIAD." (propaganda #4)
- January
- Memberstatus 1/92 from a note by Racoon: Hypnotist (Coder, Cracker), Racoon (Leader, Vinews Editor, Swapper), Curlin (Leader, Vinews Editor, Cracker), Jihad (Modem Trader, Cracker), Elektor (Cracker, Swapper), Death (Painter, Swapper), Thunder (Painter), Levis (Swapper), Boz (Painter, Swapper)
- September
- Memberstatus 9/92 stated in the Intro to "Dodge": Racoon, Death, Curlin, Hypnotist, Lynx, Demon, Magic eye, Drago, the Gee, Silver, Sony, Dylan, Flatline, Master jay, Hibisch, Elektor
1993
- Silver joined Topaz early this year.
- May
- Rad left Hitmen and joined TRC
Hitmen dissolved in the spring of 1993. After Jihad got his PC and lost interest in programming C64 stuff a bit earlier, the group was continued by Curlin and Racoon, until they also lost interest in that sort of things.
1995
The original Hitmen staff finally decided to rebuild the group and kick ass again while visiting a local pub some time in december 1995.
Propaganda 19:
+------+
|HITMEN| **
_|HITMEN|___________________________\/__
+------+
The best of news appeared with HITMEN
returning to the scene. With a lot of
noise, the group announced themselves
doing so by firstreleasing the preview
of CANNON CRAZE. Reactions from groups
out on the boards have proved very
positive. With a new group, we see
energy, hunger and vitamins all togeth-
er, and that encourages us all. Sharing
the number-2 board DUNGEON with TRC*SCS,
HITMEN immediately establish themselves
as a qualitylabel.
WHAT THE CONCEPT LOOKS LIKE
WHAT THE CONCEPT LOOKS LIKE
________________________________________
The idea of rebuilding the group came
early August with JIHAD, PEACEMAKER
and CURLIN cutting to terms over a
beer. It did not take long until the
concept saw light of day, and from there
more people were added.
HITMEN intend to NTSC-fix software for
selected groups throughout the field,
and with a talent like PEACEMAKER, it
will without doubt be requested service.
Furthermore the group intends to focus
on the mailscene, and recruiting SUZUKI,
claiming to depart from OXYRON, the
group has created the essential network.
JIHAD'S INVOLVMENT
JIHAD S INVOLVMENT
________________________________________
+----------------------------------+
| "Jihad is going to call the |
|boards to do some public relations|
| and will take care of getting |
| originals..." |
+----------------------------------+
says CURLIN to PROPAGANDA, but still
some people have been slightly sceptic
about JIHAD'S involvment in the group.
Nasty tounges claim JIHAD has done his
share on the 64, and is still only
interested in the PC and whatever it
may bring. Some people go even further
and accuse HITMEN for lying about who
supplied their comeback release CANNON
CRAZE. HITMEN claim JIHAD was respons-
ible for obtaining the game, while a
lot speaks for NIGHTSHADE/TRC*SCS act-
ually helping old friends out.
+-----------------------------------+
|"You know, NIGHTSHADE was in HITMEN|
| some years ago, so there shouldn't|
| be any problems", |
+-----------------------------------+
says CURLIN when commenting on sharing
THE DUNGEON with the Dutch cooperation
TRC*SCS, and of course this triggers
the suspicions even further. Should
this be the case, it is still usual
groups helping each other out.
PROPAGANDAJOURNALIST IN HITMEN
PROPAGANDAJOURNALIST IN HITMEN
________________________________________
The much appreciated journalist for
public affairs at PROPAGANDA entered
HITMEN at a fairly early stage. Quickly
he flooded the boards with his presence
and ran wares at a pace, placing him
as the worldwide numberone runner all
summer. His efforts brought back fine
memories from MURDOCK/G*P who would
boast with his 800 BLOCKS/DAY. Tranziie
will be doing public relations for the
group as well as running wares through
the entire network.
+--------------------------+
| CURLIN, CROEPAZ, |
| HI-LITE, JIHAD, |
| JINX, LAWNMOWER MAN, |
| PEACEMAKER, RACOON, RAZE |
| TRANZIIE, TYROON |
| AND VORTEX |
+--------------------------+
**
\/
+------------+
|THE DUNGEON |
|THE DUNGEON |
|XXXXXXXXXXXX|
+------------+
Propaganda 19:
+---+
|d=b|
|'o'|MOST VALUABLE GROUP RIGHT NOW
|/_\|
+---+
+----------+
| HITMEN |
______________| HITMEN |______________
+----------+
+------------------+
| For setting up |
| a group at the |
| top, taking up |
| the struggle |
| with already |
|established names.|
| Few dare |
| doing so. |
+------------------+
Over the years, groups have come and
gone over the surface of earth. Some
have made impact and some have passed
by without the flinch of an eye. HITMEN
takes a brave turn relaunching their old
label attempting for the top once again.
Their focus has been clear, competing
in firstreleasing software with other,
trusted old groups. With grace and
class the wellrespected names behind
the concept have taken the boardscene
by storm. In just a short while, they
have made it clear, they are a group
to watch out for, and we definately
will. With the reward, we wish you all
the luck, and may the spirit in terms
of fun remain within.
Propaganda 20:
+---+
|HIT|MEN ..
|HIT|MEN --
+---+
________________________________________
HITMEN were much appreciated with their
comeback not long ago on the Commodore-
market. With a rather pompous entrance,
that stunned the public, things slowed
down slightly releasewise. However, the
HITMEN label is very active in terms of
public relations. You will find the
group on virtually every board, and
on a quite regular level you will find
them fixing software for other groups,
most recently for TRC*SCS, who unlikely
decided not to fix the title on their
own. HITMEN is still a name to focus on,
with plenty to give.
B
BUILDING UP A SUCCESS
_____________________
When HITMEN was announced to return,
they did so with a surprisingly reduced
staff. It appeared as though HITMEN
planned to be boardgroup only, with
old, experienced people taking part.
The last few months have however been
hektic. Recruting swappers speak of a
will to be distributed to a wider public
and just recently CURLIN announced a
musician in the German area might become
a valuable asset to the group. The
latter information tells us, HITMEN
have decided not to remain on a small
scale, but instead taking part of the
other big organizations on the field.
T
THE POLISH BANDWAGON
____________________
Following the trend of the valuable
Polish market, HITMEN recruited MOBY,
a Polish supplier whose first deeds
already have been seen. With a Polish
coverage, HITMEN will be taking part
of the most important market today.
Whether this will leave room for an
expanding section is yet uncertain.
R T
RUMOURS ABOUT THE MINISTRY
__________________________
THE MINISTRY very quick to enter the
HITMEN-squad. Being sacked from ON-
SLAUGHT, they quickly needed a new
a label to stand by. DODGER, also crack-
ing for HITMEN appeared fairly pleased
with the decision and commented it
ironically on WARE'S AQUARIUM. The
nastiest of tounges rumoured that the
cracking duo MINISTRY were only taken
in to please Swedish TRANZIIE, but
that is not true. THE MINISTRY will be
highly valuable, especially considering
that HITMEN have switched into topgear,
also concerning a boost on the mail-
market.
V
VALUABLE SYSTEMS SIGNED UP
__________________________
HITMEN decided not only to focus on
having one of the best boards in the
world. THE DUNGEON was simply not
enough! Signing up the Swedish WARE'S
AQUARIUM, shared with FAIRLIGHT and
PEACEMAKER reopening MYSTIC PARADISE,
HITMEN have some of the juiciest names
in the market. We can only congratulate
them on the issue and take of our hats.
T
THE ALCHEMIST DOESN'T PAY HIS BILLS?
____________________________________
Recently THE DUNGEON was taken off line,
due to some private occurences with
THE ALCHEMIST, sysop of the system.
It might be that phonebills have been
a bugger to pay at times, but the board
has during likewise happenings always
returned, which leaves little room for
worries. We just have lean back and
await the announcement as it returns.
________________________________________
HITMEN MEMBER STATUS
+-----------------------------------+
| CURLIN, DODGER, GROEPAZ, HI-LITE, |
| JAYCE, JIHAD, JINX, LAWNMOWER MAN,|
|MARCUS, PEACEMAKER, RAZE, SABOTAGE,|
| TRAZ, TYROON AND VORTEX. |
+-----------------------------------+
+--------------------------------------+
| HITMEN HEADQUARTER |
| THE DUNGEON |
| THE DUNGEON |
| XXXXXXXXXXXX |
+--------------------------------------+
Propaganda 21: +------------------+ |O | _|Old group returns.|___________________ +------------------+ Coming back from a long haze, HITMEN arrives, surprising the entire market. The group does so with an impressive intensity on the boards and launching the preview MAGICAL FORMULA. The game is refered to being supplied by ancient veteran JIHAD, while rumours speak of NIGHTSHADE/TRC*SCS doing the old crew a favor to get them back properly on track. HITMEN furthermore sign on THE DUNGEON as their worldheadquarter, sharing it with both SCS*TRC and DEM- ONIX.
Propaganda 21: THE DUNGEON-episode is an ongoing head- line in all magazines currently. The popular board is finally going back on- line within the next 2 weeks. THE ALCH- EMIST should have solved all problems and paid his bills. THE DUNGEON will as before be running for both TRC*SCS and HITMEN, just like THE MYSTICAL PARADISE, that just recently followed the the American, and apperently successful concept.
Propaganda 21:
+---+
|HIT|MEN ..
|HIT|MEN \/
+---+
________________________________________
The group that was awarded comeback of
the year by PROPAGANDA has found harm-
ony in their presence. Without doubt
they have had the highest representation
on the American and European boards,
with a tremendous effort put into it.
Still the group has lacked the availa-
bility of releases to make them a really
dangerous and competetive group. Respe-
cted fixerwise, they have however man-
aged to keep busy. Their activity is
throughout admirable, and we wish for
them to continue holding faith high.
E
EUROPEAN BOARDS COMPETING EACH OTHER
________________________________________
The German board THE MYSTICAL PARADISE,
managed by PEACEMAKER has gained immense
popularity since the group decided to
connect a 1-8OO to it. Even though the
1-8OO was disconnected quickly, a second
was announced and HITMEN found themselv-
es competing with the other Europan HIT-
MEN board - WAREZ AQUARIUM.
+------------------------------------+
|"WE WILL MOST PROBABLY BE HOOKING UP|
| A 1-800 TO WAREZ AQUARIUM IN THE |
| FUTURE AS WELL" |
+------------------------------------+
says a happy TRANZIIE who has been one
of the more productive factors concern-
ing phonearrangements in HITMEN. Just
recently, TRC*SCS entered as secondhand
group to THE MYSTICAL PARADISE.
S
SELFCONCIOUS CRACKER DISMISSED
________________________________________
DODGER, a talented cracker who also
spent time in ONSLAUGHT was dismissed
from the staff. It is obvious DODGER
himself was very proud with his work,
but the other members were not pleased
with his selfrewarded talent combined
with laziness and let him go. Currently
both PEACEMAKER and THE MINISTRY are
doing the crackingjob, among many others
in the group. Additionally they have
also recruited DR.DOOM from Holland who
will be swapping. Supplying the preview
COLONY, he will also take active part in
supplying. ZORE, who comes directly from
the inactive and quickly fading HARDCORE
was added to arrange the "non-existing
graphics", says CURLIN on DREAM PARK.
The supplier MOBY and veteran ARROGANCE
were removed for their weak interest in
the group.
H
HITMEN IN A CREATIVE PHASE
________________________________________
HITMEN have hooked to the latest trend
of crackergroups taking active part in
demoproducing. Many of the members are
currently busy working on a demo that
will see light of day at X96 later this
year. Not much has been revealed about
the production, but CURLIN, JIHAD,
PEACEMAKER, TYROON and ZORE among others
are the names behind it.
HITMEN MEMBERSTATUS
+-----------------------------------+
| CURLIN, DR.DOOM, GROEPAS, HI-LITE |
| JAYCE, JIHAD, JINX, MARCUS, |
|PEACEMAKER, RACOON, RAZE, SABOTAGE,|
| TRANZIIE, TYRON, VORTEX AND ZORE |
+-----------------------------------+
HITMEN HEADQUARTER
+------------------------------------+
| THE DUNGEON |
| THE DUNGEON |
| XXX-NOT UP. |
+------------------------------------+
Propaganda 21:
+-+ +------------------+
|O|PEN LETTER |by Jayce of Hitmen|
|O|PEN LETTER | [The Minsitry] |
+-+ +------------------+
+----------------------------------+
|C |
|Concerning what was written in the|
| latest issue of Vandalism News |
+----------------------------------+
F
First of all, let me say that the turns
in this matter have been quite few. In
the beginning, the PROPAGANA-staff act-
ually were accused for protecting us by
writing what they call the truth. Let's
get to it.
JAZZCAT writes that I and MARCUS (THE
MINISTRY) got kicked out of ONSLAUGHT
for not being able to crack the game
MEGA THRUSTABALL, an old game that
LEGEND had released earlier. The
"original" that I received from JAZZ-
CAT was to begin with, already cracked.
Furthermore it was old - what any ser-
ious cracker would call a re-release.
ONSLAUGHT refered to it as a "new sales-
version". What the difference was, I
do not know.
The fact is, that we didn't even attempt
cracking this game. As some of you might
know, we are both in the last year of
school, and those who actually finished
school know that the last year is a
tough one. There are many tests. We have
many times give up our social lives to
study, so why should the scene be more
important? JAZZCAT knew this, as I told
him myself on DOWN BY LAW.
He also says "we are an international
based group" meaning that I and MARCUS
shouldn't be used to this, but to a
Swedish based core. GENESIS*PROJECT
was actually the -first- group of this
kind we were in, and for what it seems,
also the last. We have been in many
groups over the years, and I speak for
both of us when I say that we never
experienced such a bad organization
- ever. Sometimes you could see a new
face on the boards claiming to be in
ONSLAUGHT, and when you asked who he
was, the answer was: "he joined up two
weeks ago - didn't you know?" Commun-
ication is the keyword, while in ON-
SLAUGHT there was no such thing.
______________________________________
Before we got kicked, JAZZCAT claims
to give us a "second chance" by giving
us a firstrelease-original to put out.
But reaching us in person was, as he
says, very tough. This is another big
lie. We are both available by phone
every monday through friday between
22-O8 cet, and that is a fact. We might
not be awake, but we are there. All
other times I can be reached on my
cellular phone, so you see we were
- not- hard to reach, not at all.
Anyway, JAZZCAT e-mailed me on WARE'S
AQUARIUM asking how to give me the ori-
ginal. My answer was to put it on the
drives under a fake name and when I
would have leeched it, I'd let the sys-
op delete the file. JAZZCAT'S reaction
to this was as he says: "...how lame,
and so they were kicked". This I cannot
understand. If he had wanted us to put
that game out, he would have done as I
suggested as noone would have been able
to spot, see or download the original
on the drive anyway. This shows he's
full of shit. At last, he defends his
group by saying "we contain(ed) members
such as MAJESTY, CHRYSAGON, IGNORANCE,
DEEKAY and LA STYLE". That's impressive,
but why have names on the memberlist
that weren't active in any way, but
just being names to brag? Or as in the
case of DEEKAY, as stated on the US
boards in mid 1995 : "he is not con-
sidered a member of our group, but will
do grapchis for us".
This is what I had to say about this
matter, and I hope it made things a
bit cleare, as it's what - we - exp-
erienced, and not what JAZZCAT claims
to have happened.
Faithfully,
Jayce/Hitmen
One half of the both
loved and hated
- The Ministry -
- Hi-Lite joined from Hardcore around august-september. Around september, they recruited Dodger and Shok'Ray from Onslaught. They also left swapper Suzuki (previously in Dytec, Equinoxe etc) join on trial basis, but after a short while decided to end his membership.
1996
Back in the middle of 1996 Hitmen made their first steps on a console named Playstation. At that time no one believed that anybody would be able to upload and execute homemade stuff to the Playstation using only an Action Replay with a Comms-Link, they didn't even dare to dream that this machine would have its own scene.
Then two freaks wanted to prove them all wrong. Jihad and Curlin started to hack around on the machine and pretty soon found a way to execute programs which have been uploaded to the Playstation using the ActionReplay Executable from Datel and later on with a reverse engineered homemade Rom.
After a while they got in contact with Ez-O-Ray and Blackbag. Ez-O-Ray released their genius Rom version which made things lots easier. And when Blackbag started to publish the important information about the Playstation internals, things started to roll.
Finally it was there, Eco2Exe, created by Silpheed. This started to inspire people to grab the Yaroze compiler (which was available at the net at that time) and start coding. Now they where given the possibility to run their programs on a normal Playstation through the ActionReplay with Comms-Link. This is where it all started, the Playstation Scene was born.
- January
- Dodger (ex Onslaught, new 09/95) was removed, after his behaviour was not deemed fit for the group.
- March
- The board THE DUNGEON was scheduled to go up again on march 15th.
Propaganda 21 (April 1996) +-------------------------+ |T | _|The dungeon offline again|____________ +-------------------------+ The very popular board THE DUNGEON is yet again taken offline due to the sys- op ALCHEMIST not paying his phonebills. People from TRC*SCS and HITMEN claim it will be back online in just a matter of time.
Propaganda 21 (April 1996) +---------+ ___________________________ |RUNNERUPS| HITMEN |---------| HITMEN made strong impact | | on the market, when coming | | back, and doing so with | | fine abilities to fix and | | crack. HITMEN is definately | | to watch out for. | | | | ___________________________ | | QUESTIONMARK | | QUESTIONMARK has been sub- | | ject of discussion, but al- | | so a growing factor in the | | mailreleasing industry. | d=b | The mystery remains. | 'o' | | /_\ | ___________________________ +---------+ +------------------+ | | | C O M E B A C K O F T H E Y E A R | +------+ | |HITMEN| | |HITMEN| | +------+ | | |An older group with respected people |entertained the public when arriving in |the spotlight again. Showing an imp- |ressive intensity on releases as well |as fixing made it not become one of |those akward attempts we have seen |from other comebacks. Their presence |on the boards has been a pure delight. | | | | | SETBACK: HOW LONG|CAN THEY KEEP UP? +------------------+
Propaganda 21 (April 1996) +---------+ ___________________________ |RUNNERUPS| F CG AVANTGARDE |---------| F4CG+AVANTGARDE in Holland | | made both the streets of | | Amsterdam and Utrecht un- | | safe for a few days. | | | | ___________________________ | | F CG HITMEN | | F4CG+HITMEN in Denmark was | | entertaining. JIHAD puking | | tequilla, $IXX & JUCKE sel- | | ling bad grass to PCretards | | and F4CG+HITMEN on every | | toilet made sure the org- | d=b | anizers had a nice week of | 'o' | cleaning ahead of them. | /_\ | +---------+ ___________________________
- December
- Curlin stops almost all C64 activity to concentrate on PC and PSX and lays down organization of Hitmen. (Groepaz taking over)
1997
Propaganda 22 (January 1997) +------------------+ | | | S U R P R I S E O F T H E Y E A R | +------+ | |HITMEN| | |HITMEN| | +------+ | | | | |Not only did HITMEN continue at a fai- |rly good pace in releasing, but they |also released 2 demos that after all |were quite impressive for coming from |an illegal group. One can only say hats |off for the effort|and good luck in |1997. | | | | SETBACK: ORGANIZATION IS SHOWING | INTEREST IN OTHER FORMATS. +------------------+
Propaganda 22 (January 1997)
+--+
|HITMEN ..
|HITMEN --
+--+
________________________________________
With almost 2 years and running, the
reunion of HITMEN has grown into a mat-
ure organization with a strong situation
on the market. They are continously up-
dating their structure and focusing on
new sides of the business. Their con-
tribution to the demoworld is admirable
and even though many would not regard
CUCUMBER JUICE 2 as the most stunning
piece of code ever done, it is a trem-
endous effort presented in classy,
old-school style. According to TRANZIIE,
there should be a 3rd released in 1997.
N
NEW OFFICIAL LEADERSHIP.
________________________________________
JIHAD and CURLIN have declared not to be
particulary interested in the future of
the Commodore 64. Instead they have dr-
eams and ambitions to work on the SONY
PLAYSTATION and PC on several levels.
Piracy is of course an evident factor,
but also the legal sector attracts.
Somehow, it is a punch in the fact for
the market who have seen HITMEN as one
of the most active groups over the past
year. According to TRANZIIE, mediapro-
file in the group "BOTH JIHAD AND CURLIN
HAVE NOT REALLY BEEN DOING ANYTHING FOR
THE 64-DIVISION FOR SO LONG, THERE WILL
NOT BE A DIFFERENCE ANYWAY". The offic-
ial leadership has been passed on to
GROEPAZ, even though has been managing
the group for a long time. It has also
been suggested that many of the cracks
by CURLIN, were in fact done by him.
S
SPICE IN THE LEGAL SECTOR.
________________________________________
Continuing the success of legal works,
HITMEN expand their staff in the creat-
ive area. CUPID follows from F4CG, a
group where his talent did not quite
get a chance for maximum exposure, un-
like commented in the RELAX MAGAZINE.
CHAOTIC, talent from one the absolutely
most popular demogroups right now -
SMASH DESIGNS, followed shortly and will
be part of HITMEN as a second group.
Or first. You be the judge.
J
JACK ALIEN JOINS HITMEN.
________________________________________
JACK ALIEN, who has been one of the
most popular crackers in the world over
the years left his activities in F4CG
the german HITMEN.
+------------------------------------+
| "I WILL CHECK HITMEN OUT, AND SEE |
| WHAT IT IS LIKE. GOOD THING IS, I |
|CAN PROBABLY DO LESS WORK IN HITMEN,|
| WHICH IS ALSO WHAT TRIGGERED MY |
| DECISISION.", |
+------------------------------------+
says JACK ALIEN who is also interested
in learning to code on the PC from form-
er fixer-wizard SUICIDE. JACK ALIEN'S
last work for F4CG will be released
soon, as he is leaving on good terms.
T
TOLLFREE CRUSADE
________________________________________
THE MYSTICAL PARADISE, the number-one
board in Europe, awarded BOARD OF THE
YEAR in the annual PROPAGANDA AWARDS,
was formatted. It is unclear who actu-
ally has hostility towards HITMEN or
PEACEMAKER, who runs the board. The
board was fortunately up and running
quickly, without any valuable losses.
Recently, HITMEN have once again started
their crusade in setting up toll-frees,
and most likely we will see THE DUNGEON,
their American board, run for the
number-one-spot. Well deserved, that
is.
HITMEN MEMBER STATUS
+--------------------------------------+
| CURLIN, BALANCE, BANSHEE, BURN, |
| CHAOTIC, DIVERSE, GROEPAZ, HI-LITE, |
| JIHAD, JINX, MOONCHILD, PEACEMAKER, |
|RAMMY, RACOON, SABOTAGE, SCAT, SEVEN, |
| SORE, STAN, TRANZIIE, TYRON, VORTEX. |
+--------------------------------------+
+------+
|BOARDS| THE DUNGEON
|BOARDS| XXXXXXXXXXXX
+------+ MYSTICAL PARADISE
XXXXXXXXXXXX
WARES AQUARIUM
XXXXXXXXXXXX
+--------+
|INTERNET| GANGSTA'S PARADISE
|INTERNET| XXXXXXXXXXXX
+--------+
- January
- we quit Gangsta's Paradise, leaving it as Chromance only, cause we don't see any sense in supporting an FTP site that is slower than most of the C64 boards around
- the well-known ex-Avantgarde members Cupid and Jack Alien join Hitmen
- Burn and Seven start work on a new Digital Excess (archive.org) project.
- March
- Burn's 4k intro Elven Magic makes 2nd place on Mekka/Symposium, beaten only by one vote
- Peacemaker stops all fixing activities concentrating on coding and organising only now
- K.Rostoen of Shape joins Hitmen as musician
- April
- Erol joins us from the ranks of Tempest
- May
- Balance and Zore get kicked because of inactivity
- July
- Deff (ex-Avantgarde) joins up with the Hitmen
Propaganda 23 (June 1997) HITMEN have definately slowed down their activities on the 64 but have become the first group in the world to finish of an intro for the PLAYSTATION. JIHAD, PEACE- MAKER and CURLIN are currently hypnoti- zed by the miracle from SONY while die hard 8-bit fanatics are yearning for a comeback on the machine. If MARC only has an interest in HITMEN on the PLAY- STATION remains to be seen but we at PROPAGANDA welcome movement soon. LA STYLE from GENESIS PROJECT came along to help HITMEN out on the PC. +------------------------------------+ |HITMEN: ALCHEMIST, BANSHEE, BURN, | |CHAOTIC, CUPID, DIVERSE, GROEPAZ, | |HI-LITE, JACK ALIEN, JINX, KRISTIAN | |ROSTOEN, LUKE, MOONCHILD, MOTION, | |PEACEMAKER, RACOON, RAMMY, RAZE, | |SABOTAGE, STAN, SEVEN, TRANZIIE | |SKUD AND TYRON. | +------------------------------------+
- August
- MagicMan of Crazy fame joins our ranks as coder.
- Weasel joined Hitmen as cracker
- September
- Sledge left Fairlight to join up with the Hitmen posse
- November
- Hitmen take the scene by storm: #1 cracking group, our main crackers Jack Alien and Moonchild #1 and #2 single crackers and our main trader Racoon #1 swapper in propaganda #25's charts
1998
- February
- Jack Alien left us due to losing interest in cracking the so-called "new" games and will concentrate on his work for Remember in the future
- March
- The Mystical Paradise, our EHQ board run by Peacemaker, was taken down by a HD crash and won't be online anymore. Thanks to everybody who supported this board in such a great way and made it one of the best boards around (Propaganda Award 1996)
- April
- Burn and Se7en left Hitmen to concentrate on upcoming Digital Excess Productions
- Raze left Hitmen for Padua
- May
- JB joined to serve us with graphics
- Morphfrog joined as a trader
- June
- Starkiller joined us, he will soon bring back his BBS 'Cold Fusion'
- July
- German coder and graphiciain Hi-Lite (01/96-) left for Padua
- August
- Chaotic left us.
- September
- the cracking Section went into COOP with Excess for a trial-period
- Oktober
- Rammy left us.
1999
the first half of 1999 finally tought us that the cracking buissnes in C-64 world is dead and so all activities in that section were stopped. Naturally this caused a lot of changes for the group and just the hardcore demo people made it to the staff that will take the name of Hitmen to the next millennium.
- January
- Moonchild left us due to lack of motivation and time. He will hopefully be back some time after studies...
- July
- (25/07) Pacman joins the PSX Section
- August
- we decided to leave the cracking business behind, and due to that the cooperation with Excess was stopped as well
- Racoon left us and stays in Excess
- November
- (05/11) YES... Peacemaker is back in bizz
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
Releases
We need help with finding more Releases! A list with Releases that we know exist but havent found yet is maintained here.
Tools
Demos
References: Achievements C64 Demos PSX Demos
- Cucumber Juice (1996, 08.04, C64 Demo). 2nd in the X96 demo competition.
- Reanim8ed (april 1998, C64 Demo), 2nd at ms98 competition
Magazines
ViNews
References: Vinews on Hitmen Website Vinews on C64Mags WIKI
Condom
References: Condom on Hitmen Website Condom on C64Mags WIKI
Raddings
References: Raddings on Hitmen Website Raddings on C64Mags WIKI
Cracks
not sure if the shitmen info should be on this page, it might be a better idea to make a seperate page for it. however at the moment (ie while it is still beeing created/edited) it should probably stay here to make editing easier/quicker.
Fakelabel: Shitmen (SHIT)
References: CSDB Shitmen Section on Hitmen Website
Just like many other (Cracker-) Groups of it's Time, Hitmen also had a "fakelabel" or "Lamerlabel" which was used to release substandard Games and other Funproductions.
Members
Releases
References: CSDB Achievements Demos Cracks
