Sanity

Sanity is a Amiga demo group.

Sanity (old) (SNT, 1990-)

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" (March, 1990), which announced the birth of the group.

Sanity (new) (SNT, 1992-1996).

Sanity was rebuilt in 1992 by several of the original members, most of whom were in Rebels in the meantime.

The French members, musician Moby (Frederic Motte, 12/93) and graphician Ra (Oliver, both ex Dreamdealers, 08-12/93) ventured into professional careers. Moby secured a job at Mindscape in America, and Ra opened a comic shop in his home town in France. They both remained active on the PC scene for a while, in the group Nooon. You'd be well advised to check out these demos! (thanks to Essence's "ROM #4" for some info).

Members (old) (1990-)

Germany

Brainwave (trade sysop 'SPACE RATS')

Dieter B (code)

Erik (sysop)

Gash (music)

Ice (swap, 11/90)

Jeff (sysop)

Shadow (ex The Undertakers, new winter '90)

Sonic 1 (gfx)

Unknown

Killroy (gfx, '91)

Rys (gfx, '91)

Members (new) (1992-1996)

Germany

Cruiser (founder gfx)

Cthulhu (Jan Jessen, founder gfx)

Hawk (Stefan, founder code)

Panther (founder code)

Trasher (Oliver Plink, swap pack 'Trashpack', ex Panic, triplemember Bomb and Artwork)

Vindicator (founder code music)

16 Beat (Joachim Soppe, founder music)

France

Ronan (Clochard, code, ex Anarchy)

England

Havok (Steve, gfx)

Group History (old) (1990-)

1990

German musician Jester joined the group in November, after a short stay in Red Sector Inc. The demo "Dee Groove" by Panther was released at the Dexion X-Mas Conference '90 in December.

1991

Probably early in the year, the group released Jester's musicdisk "Fool's Gold", followed by the group's breakthrough demo, "Elysium" 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.

Unsorted

Mike D. (swap pack) joined Anarchy.

Germans Benni B. (music) and Slaxx got kicked.

Zodiac and Hi-Lite (old handle Bubbler) joined Vision Factory.

Group History (new) (1992-1996)

1992

Jester contributed music to the Anarchy demo "Flower Power", Winner of the Digital Symposium '92 demo competition!

1993

Danish swapper The Pride (ex Brainstorm, new ca 01/92) and Dutch swapper Kr'33 (ex Axis, swap pack "Femur Bundle" from Axis, new 09/92) both joined Lemon. in January.

1994

German coder Tron (ex Anarchy, 03/93-) left the group in early December to be independent. He later reconsidered his independence, and joined Artwork in the early days of '95. The end of December came and Chaos released "Roots" for The Party '94 demo competition (with some parts by Tron) to a disappointing 8th position.

1995

German musician Jester sent shockwaves through the Scene when he left for the primarily Finnish group Pygmy Projects, whom he'd contributed the tune "Cyberride" for their Assembly '94-winning demo "Extension"! After releasing their final demo in 1995, the group fell apart. Many of the best members left for other groups, and the few remaining ones grew inactive. It is uncertain whether the group technically died in 1995 or 1996, my conclusion is a guess.

1996

An interesting production surfaced in the pc demo competition at The Party 6, where Free Electronic Band (FEB) won with their demo "Alto Knallo". The demo was coded by former Sanity members Chaos (Dierk Ohlerich) and Mr.Pet (Peter Cukierski).

Unsorted

German graphician Cougar (08/93-96) first joined Artwork as a doublemember, but when Sanity died he became a fulltime member. He was responsible for many of the greatest graphics in Sanity demos, and won the graphics competition at The Party '93 with his fabulous "Dragonsun" picture.

German coder Zap (ex Coma, new R.A.W. #2) left to join Masque.

German musician Virgill (ex Surprise! Productions) joined TRSI.

German coder and musician Microforce (Joerg Simon, ex Coma) left the Scene.

German supercoder McDeal (Karsten Weiss, ex D-Tect) only participated in one demo for Sanity ("Arte") before deciding to leave the Scene altogether in late '94.

German megaswapper Exumer (Thomas Kopfmueller, ex Nuance) left the Scene in late '94.

Editors Disney (Martin, austria, ex Alcatraz) and TFG (Niels, denmark, ex Majic 12) both joined to work on Sanity's planned diskmag, but when those plans fell through they were both unceremoniously kicked (UPS #10).

The French section 'is now Ozone', according to EuroChart 15.

German musician Bit Arts (ex Sanity (old)) joined Complex (SLH #11).

Alex, sysop of 'BASE LINE' joined Zenith (R.A.W. #4).

German coder Flosoft (Florian Stuemann) left the Scene together with graphician Cthulhu (R.A.W. #4). Cthulu later returned, a.o. contributing pictures to the two "Roots" demos.

German coder Cosmos joined TRSI.

German swapper and one of the founders, Zaphod (Niels), was kicked.

German swapper and one of the founders, Diddle (Marc Vasters) left the Scene.

Releases

See Sanity/Reviews for personal reviews for these releases.

Best Game Music Monthly #1 (1990, 24.03, ECS Musicdisk)

Credits

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)

Credits

code

Hawk

gfx

Cruiser, Hawk (blahlogo)

music

"All Points Bulletin", "Beyond the Ice Palace", "Bubble Bobble", "Cloud Kingdoms", "Cosmic Pirate", "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)

Info

Released at the AmiExpo '90.

Oh Crinkey What A Shit (ECS Intro)

Credits

code

Chaos

gfx

Cruiser (logo), The Pride (font)

music

Bit Arts

Dee Groove (1990, 28.12, ECS File)

Credits

code

Panther

gfx

Cruiser

music

"Oblivion" by The Avatar/Zylon of AFL (Protracker MOD format)

Info

Released at the Dexion X-Mas Conference '90.

Sanity Kickstart Intro (1991, 22.01, ECS Intro)

Credits

code

Hawk

gfx

Cruiser

music

Ben Daglish/independent (ripped)

Fool's Gold (1991, ECS Musicdisk)

Credits

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 - The Search for Anarchy (1991, 28.04, ECS File)

Credits

code

n/a

gfx

n/a

music

"Elysium" by Jester (ProTracker MOD format)

Info

3rd in the Amiga Convention Summit demo competition.

Flash for Fantasy (1991, ECS File)

Credits

code

Mr.Pet, Flosoft

gfx

Rys, Killroy, Mr.Pet

Music

16-Beat

Info

Released at Ami-Berlin-91.

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)

Credits

code

Mr.Pet, Flosoft

gfx

Cougar

music

Bit Arts

Info

Released at The Party '91.

Fastest Demo (1992?, ECS File)

Credits

code

Mr.Pet

gfx

A.Christoulakis

music

Mr.Root

Jesterday (1992, 17.04, ECS Musicdisk)

Credits

code

Chaos

gfx

Cougar, HaVoK (titlepic)

music

Jester

Info

Winner of Shining 8's Eastern Party '92 demo competition!

Optimum Fuckup - Part I of the Confusion Trilogy (1992, 29.06, ECS File)

Credits

code

Chaos

gfx

Havok

music

"Optimum Fuckup" by Jester (Protracker MOD format)

Info

9th in the Hurricane Party demo competition.

World of Commodore 92 (1992, .11, ECS Trackmo)

Credits

code

Chaos, Mr. Pet

gfx

Cruiser

music

"Stardust Memories" by Jester, "Reachtech-No Limit" by Bit Arts

Info

2nd in the World of Commodore '92 compo.

Interference (1993, 05.01, ECS File)

Credits

code

Microforce, Cosmos

gfx

Cougar, Havok

music

Virgill/Masque (2 tunes in Prorunner 2.0 format).

Terminal Fuckup (1993, 27.03, ECS File)

Credits

code

Tron

gfx

Havok

music

Jester (Promizer 1.0c format).

Info

3rd in the CeBIT '93 demo competition.

Boggledop (1993, late, ECS File - 338 lha)

Credits

code

Tron

gfx

Havok, Sire/Lego (raytrace), Christine/Independent (pic)

music

"Crack The Eggshell" by Jester (Protracker MOD format)

Arte (1993, 28.12, ECS Trackmo)

Credits

code

Mr. Pet (main), Chaos, McDeal

gfx

Ra

music

"Livin' Insanity", "Elekfunk!" and "Mobyle" by Moby (Protracker MOD format)

Info

3rd in The Party '93 demo competition.

Hospital Since Friday! (1993, 28.12, ECS Intro)

Credits

code

Tron

gfx

Cougar

music

"Spice It Up" by Jester (Protracker MOD format)

Info

16th in The Party '93 demo (!) competition.

Roots (1994, 27.12, AGA Trackmo)

Credits

code

Chaos (main), Mr.Pet, Sire/Lego, Tron/Independent

gfx

Cougar, Cthulhu, Oliver R. Wilke/Independent (anim)

music

"Harm Me With Harmony" by Jester (Protracker MOD format)

Info

8th in The Party '94 demo competition.

Roots 2.0 Final Version (1995, 23.04, ECS/AGA 020+ Trackmo)

Credits

code

Chaos, Mr.Pet

gfx

Cougar, Cthulhlu

music

"Harm Me With Harmony" and "Relentless Rage" by Jester (Protracker MOD format)

Info

2nd in the Black Box Symposium '95 demo competition.

Music in the UnExoticA collection

The following demos in the UnExoticA collection were created by Sanity.

Demo	Year	Party
Arte	1993	The Party '93
A BBS Intro	1991
Best Game Sound #1	1990
Boggledop	1993
Chess Board	1990
Dee Groove	1990	Dexion X-Mas Conference '90
Elysium - The Search for Anarchy	1991	Amiga Convention Summit
Fastest Demo	1991
Flash for Fantasy	1991
Fool's Gold	1991	CeBIT '91
Hospital Since Friday!	1993	The Party '93
Interference	1993
Jesterday	1992	Eastern Party '92
Oh Crinkey What A Shit	1990	The Party '91
Optimum Fuckup	1992	Hurricane and Brutal Summer Party '92
Roots 2.0	1995	Black Box Symposium '95
Terminal Fuckup	1993	CeBIT '93
Thunderbold	1990
Trash Pack no.21	1993
Turmoil	1991	The Party '91
Velveteen	1992
World of Commodore	1992	World of Commodore '92