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2001, April 20 |
History of Topaz Beerline |
posted by: Scapegoat |
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There might be an occasion where my memory fails, and I tell you a lie. I tried to be as careful as possible, when writing this document. Feel free to ask, if in doubt. Revision4:
The text was polished a little [20.04.2001], corrected member
history [DeAtH, 28.09.2000] and dementia fixed [Zardax,
13.06.1996]. * After a year, James Bond II and MCS leave the group (which then dies) to join another finnish group called Power Division. Other members of the group are TPR and Destino. * Power Division is renamed to Division of Power. The reason is simple: the letter D is in the beginning of the alphabet, P isn't. * James Bond II and MCS both change handles. James Bond II become Wild Finn, and MCS is renamed to Scapegoat. * Division of Power is renamed to Albion as Zardax, Wop, Coax, Bx and Clf join the group. * TPR changes his handle to Crony and Wop is renamed to Galaxy. Wild Finn changes his handle to Mixer. * Albion splits up. A group called Brains is formed by some of the ex-members. Soon the group is renamed into Origo. * Coax and Galaxy decide to form a new group - Coax calls Scapegoat, and Scapegoat joins. Studio 3 is formed. * Angus, Aze, Tiger-Jack & Inferno join Studio 3 * Coax, Scapegoat & Slayer form Topaz in the beginning of the year 1990 And
We Grew.. A demonstration (=demo) called Beyond Times was finished. Scapegoat didn't feel like releasing it, so it never was. At that time he started to create diffrent kinds of tools & utilities - mostly because Coax needed one. One of them was the SoundKiller, a music editor. The exclusive player code (one of the worlds fastest quality players at that time) came from Zardax of Origo - the best friend of Coax. In the beginning we started to get people into our group; namely people like d'Arc & HTD (FATE), Doom, Gremlin & Rolex (DREAM), Beat (ABASE). (Groupname stealing fuckers pay attention: FATE & ALBION are reserved words, so suck off!) When we had 'a cracking section' we had members like Judge Dredd & Cim and Acorn & Lobster. But In both cases, we finally thought that we had no good reason to have such a section, and dropped them. Origo Dreamline needed a swapper, so Slayer joined them. Gremlin did parts for our two first demo, before he left for membership in Deathsector and Beyond Force The
Dark Ages Began.. Well, the well known disk magazine MAMBA didn't like my letter at all. At that letter I told that our musician had died. That letter did contain also a portion which stated that we were looking for a musician. After the very negative response from MAMBA I myself realized how stupid that letter must have sounded. The real thing was that we needed another musician before Coax had died, but for some reason I included that query into that letter. I (or we) didn't want to fill in Coax's place as no one ever can do that. He was my best friend, and he ment so much to me that you just cannot replace him. We released a note-demo called CORRECTION to clearify all this. Read it. d'Arc started creating a row of masterpieces. They kept floating out, in form of demoparts (which I then put together as demos, adding my lousy parts). Rolex renamed himself to Addict. Doom was kicked out from the group as in that time we had no PC section, and he was more busy with PC than c64. From what I've seen, he has been doing awesome stuff with PC! We needed more people. Caprix, Kirk and Fizban (all from Denmark) joined. At that time we released BLIND MARATHON at the Light+Phenomena party in Gothenburg, Sweden. Later, Caprix and Kirk joined Oxyron. Before that, Fizban was kicked out because he just had not done anything worth to release. Rebel joined our forces, did some graphics for us and then left us to build up a group of his own. AMJ and Anvil of Side-B (Deathsector, Raze etc.), TMB (Extasy) and Hawkeye (Beyond Force) joined. Death (Hitmen) and Hifi (Damones(Amiga)) followed. By enlisting Hifi we had a board called THE LOST GENERATION for awhile. CALYPSO joined. Later on he gave up Topaz when he wanted to concentrate only on Amnesia(Great attitude, man! oNE gROUP dEVOTION rULEZ!!) . Death left the scene after A Token From The Hell, and joined the PC scene for three (3) years as graphican, web designer and webmaster. Check his graphics out! The
Near Past... Today, we have also our own label for releasing stuff, namely PROBLEMCHILD PRODUCTIONS. You migth see some stuff coming out, like a game called PENQUIN TOWER, coded by d'Arc on c64. The future plan is to finish the game atleast on c64 (and PC?) platforms. There was also an Amiga version.. Oh
Yeah... Where Does The 'BEERLINE' come from?
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