Deadline

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Deadline (DLN, 1989-1993)

Deadline was originally a Norwegian group, which eventually developed a Finnish section that became more successful than the main group. The Norwegian members were coarrangers of one of the earliest editions of The Gathering. Later the Norwegian part of Deadline merged with main Gathering organizers Crusaders, and these Norwegian members probably went along: Freaky Angel (confirmed), Jellyfish (code), Mike (confirmed), Shady (confirmed), TDK.

Members

Finland
Mellow-D (Jaakko Manninen, later MD/Five Musicians, music, leader, ex Razkels, spring '92)
Doc.X (code, ex Razkels, spring '92)
Nutcase (Sami Saarnio, music, code, gfx, ex Eremation, spring '92)
Visage (A. Ehoniemi, gfx, swap, ex Eremation, spring '92)
Roland (O. Vara, BBS, ex Eremation, spring '93)
Xendi (Mikko Alasaarela, gfx, swap, leader after Mellow-D went PC, 08/92)
Tatu (Tatu Tiala, later Casket, swap, packs, fall '92)
Venture (code, ex Desire, fall '92)
Bad Karma (Jari Lahteinen, later James/Decnite, music, swap, packs, fall '92)
Colonel (Sami Leino, swap, ex Zenith, fall '92)
Dionysos (code, fall '92)
Lopez (code, fall '92)
Flashburn (code, fall '92)
Norway
Cybermonks (music, 06/92)
Lloyd (editor, 06/92)
Rhino (gfx, 06/92)
Jason (music)
Freaky Angel (?)
Jellyfish (code)
Mike (?)
Shady (?)
TDK (?)
Wailer (?)

Group History

1992
They cooperated with Crusaders on the invitation for The Gathering 92 [01/92], and coarranged the party with them in april. The finnish section was born by Mellow-D and Doc.X from Razkels in the spring. Nutcase, Roland and Visage joined from Eremation. They released several productions before the end of the year; "1st Intro" [08/92], "Mustro" [09/92], "Notelines" [fall/92], "Dentro" [10/92] and finally "Xmas Intro" [12/92]. By this time the Norwegian section had stopped releasing stuff altogether.
1993
The finnish division died in the spring of 93. Many members - at least Dionysos (code, fall/92-), Bad Karma (swap pack music), Nutcase (code gfx music, spring/92-) and Xendi (gfx swap, 08/92-) - joined Balance between june and october. Information that Bad Karma joined Atomic (old) seems to be incorrect. Sysop Roland ('SATISFICTION', ex Eremation) stayed independent until he closed his board in 95, and graphician Visage (ex Eremation, spring/92-) also decided to stay independent. Both have now returned to Amiga-scene in Mandel Bros in the year 2000! This group also features Nutcase.
Unsorted
Finnish coder Lopez left the scene.
Finnish coder Flashburn was kicked.
Finnish musician Mellow-D bought a PC and left the Amiga scene 10/92. He joined Sonic PC sometime between 01 and 06/93.
Finnish HQ, graphician and swapper Xendi (08-10/92) joined Balance.
Finnish coder, graphician and musician Nutcase (02/92-) left 04/93 and stayed independent for two months, then joined Balance 06/93.
Finnish swapper and packer Casket (old handle Tatu) joined Legend.
Norwegian musician Jason joined Kefrens.
Norwegian board 'THE PYRAMID' got busted.

Releases

See Deadline/Reviews for personal reviews for these releases.

Born (1989, 07.08, ECS Demo)

Credits
code
n/a
gfx
n/a
music
"Valeria Part 2" by n/a
Info
20th in the Digitech - IBB Summer Conference '89 demo competition. This intro signalled the birth of the group, and the names behind the text in the intro was Tile and Jesus - so these two are probably the founders?

Music Pack (ECS Intro)

The Gathering 92 Invitation (1992, early .01, ECS Intro)

Info
Cooperation with Crusaders.

Resident issue #1 (1992, 05.06, ECS Filemag)

Credits
code
Cray/Arctic Image
gfx
Rhino
music
Cybermonks
editor
Lloyd

Flatliners (1992, 17.08, ECS Intro)

Credits
code
Doc.X
gfx
Nutcase
music
"walk_with_me++" by Mellow-D (4ch MOD format)

Mustro (1992, 14.09, ECS Intro)

Credits
code
Nutcase
gfx
Visage
music
Nutcase

Notelines (1992, fall, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks)

Credits
code
Paraside/independent
gfx
Xendi,Visage,Nutcase
music
Mellow-D, Nutcase
Info
Paraside was NOT a member, just a friend of the group.

Dentro (1992, .10, ECS Intro)

Credits
code
Venture
gfx
Xendi, Visage
music
Nutcase

Xmas intro (1992, .12, ECS Intro)

Credits
code
Dionysos
gfx
Xendi
music
Nutcase