Absolute!

Absolute! (ABS, 1992-)

Absolute! is an Amiga demo group.

Members

Hungary

ADT (code music trade sysop 'LOCAL GRAVEYARD', doublememb Royal early96, ex Soc. Brigade, 08/92-early96)

B2 Man (ex Live Act)

Crm (code gfx, 08/92-04/94)

Edge (code, 93-04/94)

Ern0 (music codePC)

Fester (Sos Balint, mainorg edit 'Sledge Hammer', ex 23 Celsius Crew, 93)

Goophy (code, ex Cerberos Design)

Jean (edit stopswap, ex Surprise! Productions, new early93-97)

Lord (Peter Labos, org pack sysop 'NUMBER OF THE BEAST', triplememb Impulse and Crimson Jihad)

Mc Green (music swap, ex Live Act)

Petroff (Peter Wodzinsky, music, 12/93-12/94)

Rack (László Molnár, gfx, ex Majic 12, new early93-late96)

Rainbow (ex Live Act)

Sliver (ex Live Act)

Poland

Musashi (code, new late95)

Scorpik

France

Mental (Eris Sassin, swap, ex Anarchy, new early93)

Norway

Rancor (Kristian Loksa, music swap, ex Scoopex, new RAW5)

Austria

243 (trade sysop 'SOUTHERN COMFORT', new late95)

Belgium

Sike (trade)

Spunk

Tilt

Unknown

Brian (music codePC, 08/92)

Fate and Poko (sysops 'FATAL CONNEXTION', new early97)

Popeye (raytrace)

Sike (new 93)

Spunk (new 93)

Group History

Absolute! was formed around october 1992 by the best members of Soc. Brigade (ADT, Ben...) and Live Act (Asti, Viti...). They're probably best known for their hungarian graphician Rack and their diskmag 'Sledge Hammer'. There was actually 9 issues of the mag released in Hungarian before the first English release! After the last issue of SH had been released, there were some rumours and loose advertising for a new cooperation mag with Dreamdealers, called "Cult". Fester would be main editor, and Napoleon from Dreamdealers would do the code. They also arranged the Hungarian party The Hammering in 1993 and 1994, and tried to coarrange Wildstock '95 with a pc group, but that party was cancelled. Rack has NEVER been a doublemember of Balance, as claimed in some mags. A mag released late 95 carried news that Lord and Fester were now main organizers. Who were before?

In 1993 they had a german division including Twilight & Doc Holiday, who were responsible for the music in the "Clair-vo-yance"-demo, but at the end of 1993 the german division left to build up the german crew Lego.

Other small productions ABS has released include "Vector Dreamz" (file), "Utah Saints Fan Club" (AGA demo), "Party IV Report" and "Cult Special Partyedit" (2disk AGA diskmag).

1993

Twilight, Doc Holiday and Rackler joined from Wildfire and opened a german Division with Rackler as their organiser, who also continued his packseries "Forbidden Planet" under the label of Absolute. They recruited new members in germany: Twice (Code, Music), DSN (Gfx, Music) and Star (Sascha Hoeppner)/ex-Elysion (Trader, Swap). After the german divison left together with Rodney (gfx, ex E.M.I, 93) from Sweden because of the difficulties with the distance between the countries at the end of the year to build up the group Lego together with some other german friends, Absolute kicked all other foreign members, and are now 100% Hungarian late 93.

1994

After travelling all the way to Finland for the assembly with members of Sanity from Germany, Lord released the 'slideshow' "Assembly 94 Slideshow" [08/94] soon after.

1995

Graphician Skowron joined Funzine late 95. 'PALACE' BBS is not an HQ anymore (late95).

1996

Polish Musician Scorpik (new late 95) left the Amiga scene for Pulse on the PC in late 1996. Pulse, incidentally, features many talented ex- and current Amiga scene celebrities, like f.ex. Lazur. Anyone with a Pentium gathering dust would be well advised to check out their productions. You might see a name or two you recognize :)

1997

Early in the year, Jean returned from his studies in France and returned to his native Budapest. Mr.Now is not a member, as was stated in a diskmag. Poko and Fate joined with their board 'FATAL CONNEXTION'.

• In Hungary, swappers Archibald (Bela Nadas Jr.) and Ben (founder, ex Soc. Brigade), coders Asti (08/92) and Viti (ex Live Act), musician T-Bozz (04/94) and graphicians Hamlet (ex Alcatraz, old handle Jaby, 93) and Hazel (old handle Mace) were kicked out due to communication problems.
• Hawk was kicked.

Releases

See Absolute!/Reviews for personal reviews for these releases.

Musication Vol.1 (1992, ECS Musicdisk)

Pizza Place (1992, 30.08, ECS File)

Credits

code

ADT

Asti

Crm

gfx

Crm

Adt

music

Brian

Clairvoyance (1993, ECS File)

Credits

Code

ADT

Edge

Gfx

Rack

Rodney

ADT (some fonts)

Music

Twilight & Doc Holiday

Download:
Exotica.org // Pouet.net // Breaks Amiga Demo Collection

Sledge Hammer #11E (1993, early, ECS Diskmag)

Credits

code

ADT

gfx

ADT

Jaby

music

Chromag/Essence

Rancor

editor

Fester

Vektor Dreamz (1993, late, ECS Intro)

Credits

production

ADT

Crm

Petroff

T-Bozz/independent

Swedish Music Disk (1994 or pre, Musicdisk)

Hammering 94 Party Invitation (1994, .03, File)

Cream (1994, 09.04, AGA File)

Credits

code

Edge

Crm

gfx

Rack

Crm

music

T-Bozz

Info

Released at Hammering 94.

Assembly 94 Slideshow (1994, late.08, AGA Slideshow, 2 disks)

Credits

code/gfx/music

none

compiler

Lord

Sledge Hammer #13 (1994, late, Diskmag)

code

n/a

gfx

CAT/Essence (title)

music

n/a

Info

CAT's title picture is called "Android".

Wildstock 95 Party Invitation (AGA File)

Info

Though the invitation intro was released, the party itself was never held!

Music in the UnExoticA collection

The following demos in the UnExoticA collection were created by Absolute!.

Demo	Year	Party
Clairvoyance	1993
Cream	1994	The Hammering '94