http://www.cucug.org/lynx-amiscene.html (Amiga Plus Extra No. 5/97, 05/1997)
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Demo Groups
- 100% - Nice but very few graphics, functional info and releases to download. As this group is devoted to ASCii-art and BBS-utilities, nothing really exciting is available on this site, which is rarely updated.
- Abuse! - Rather boring, with one cool logo (IFF, so it's Amiga-only), tiny bits of information, very basic design and no releases available. And that face... hmm...
- Abyss - Massive site with a professional, competent, maybe a bit too formal design. Info and download-links concerning all the Abyss releases (PC and Amiga), including THX, the chiptune-tracker.
- Accession - Huge traced logo, a memberlist with photos and an unpolished way to download some crackintros, with "more to come soon" promised.
- Anadune - Beautiful Anadune logo by Lazur, but the rest of the site is badly designed. Varied information, which is a bit too compact sometimes. Almost nothing to download.
- Artwork - Cool site, with a good design and a lot of detailed information. Great reading. Minor annoyance is that only screenshots of the releases are available, not the actual demos.
- Balance - Good, simple but effective design with a great menu bar. Some short to very short information, a not-activated-yet gallery section and... no releases.
- Baroque - Single-person music group (hey, I need to list it somewhere!) presenting itself through a page with fun graphics but not much of a design and an empty "about" page. Lots of modules to download, of course.
- Broken - Graphics are OK, the group-info bit is a tad small and categorized in an overcomplicated way. No demo releases to download, only some utils. Their killer page definitely is their members gallery. Be warned. :)
- Candle - "Hot" main page, with a lot of burning stuff and nice graphics. The only other thing worth looking at is the information page, where the group's philosophy is explained. The colourful background there interferes a bit with the text. Only one release available.
- Capsule - Competent, accessible but rather basic design. Enough detailed info and releases on the site to keep you off the street.
- Carnage - Every group should try to make one working site before making more that don't. This is a good example of the latter. All I could find via this links-to-Carnage-sites index are a picture gallery, some logos, a bit of ascii-info about the group and even more links pointing to empty spaces in cyberspace. Messy, and seriously user-unfriendly.
- Crux^Bad Karma - Great design, with a lot of varied logo art. Plenty of info to find about the two merged groups, including recent releases and a few promising but yet unfinished subpages by members.
- Cydonia - Lynx-friendly site, which means a simple but well implemented design with few (nice!) graphics. Extensive information about the group, it's members and projects. Releases available.
- Darkness - One page only, with a rendered logo, a memberlist and one Amiga release from 1992 to get. Better try another page.
- Death Row - Big site with an enormous amount of information and stuff to download. The design is good, but lacks consistency. Nice "The Scene" section with news, rumours and party results.
- Delirium - Functional but dull site with the usual information and a handfull of crack intros.
- Digital Chaos - Small, elementary site with standard information like a memberlist and a releaselist with download-links. The simple but nicely implemented design gives the site a clean, nearly professional look.
- Digital Corruption - Extensive, unnecessary usage of frames makes this homepage look confusing. Even worse is that there's nothing related to the demo-scene here (yet), except a few nice logos and one BBS intro to get. Look somewhere else for content.
- Drifters - Minimal site with a few short pages of textual information, a few own graphics and some more ripped ones. Releases available.
- EBS - Unimpressive pages (two of them, yep), bringing you the Memberlist Of EBS and the History Of EBS. Everything else desperately waits to be constructed somewhere in the future.
- Effect - Very nice graphics and overall design, flawed by the annoyingly big (but, without any doubt, beautiful) logo on the main page. Not much general info, but a highly detailed "releases" section, split into categories, with all files online.
- Embassy - Good looking rendered graphics, implemented in a consistent overall design. Nice info on the group, but no releases available.
- Essence - Extremely cool, colourful title- and menu-page. Subpages feature the usual info, while their design isn't up to the high standards of the main page. Large picture gallery though, and a good, functional releases-page, with download links.
- Extend - Simple site with a nice design, carefully using frames. The site is a bit small, with not so much information. Most productions are to be leeched. Quite corny slogan, by the way.
- FairLight - Very good overall graphics and design, entertaining content with interviewed scene-legends and retro-cartoons. But hey, where is the Amiga-stuff, except for their classic intro in gif-anim format? Under renewed construction now.
- Fake - No design and no content. This is nothing more than a quick information sheet with e-mail- and download-links. What was the name of the group again?
- Finesse - Nice space-travelling concept, nicely implemented. Minimal info about the group, with only one (PC) release available.
- Flood - Basic graphics, ugly design. Some colours just hate eachother. :) ... Short group history, short members page, no releases yet, and a simple page with links. More to come, according to the author.
- Gigatron - Reasonable design, though it's nothing special. Not much here, only a few downloadable Amiga demos and a WWW-demo (using ShockWave), which is of very little use on an Amiga-related site.
- Grasshopper D - Cutesy style rules! Kewl site with intelligent usage of frames, downloadable releases with previews, a guestbook to be signed. Not to forget the omniscient GHD- Horse, of course. Ha! Sorry. :)
- HardWired - A simple informative page is all that's available here. Not badly done, but it's still only one page. No releases to get here.
- Impact DK - Very cool main page, but the text-based subpages lack the same special graphical touch. The provided information is quite complete and nicely presented. Most releases are now available for download purposes.
- Interactive - Good, consistently organised site with decent graphics which fit together to make a very nice design. Good job for a music group. ;) Basic group info and a whole lot of modules to download, as well as one somewhat older demo release.
- Iris - Completely revamped site, offering a massive amount of information about everything related to the group, as well as almost all releases to be downloaded. The design isn't really special, but everything is nicely done, the layout is consistent and some nice pictures are there. And isn't it the actual content that counts?
- Kinky - Minimal site, with a boring design. However, there are releases and contact addresses for you to try.
- Klaxon - Small group, small site, intelligent slogan and almost nothing to do, though at least it looks okay. One production to leech.
- Limited Edition - Not that much info on this site (an info-section of two sentences), but it looks allright and there are some releases to get. Check out the music page: a lot of mods are waiting.
- Lulo, Algo & Ergo - Cheaply designed single-page home of this group from sweden. Absolutely nothing to read here. I'd only visit this site to get one of the few music-releases.
- Les Shadocks - Pretty graphics, as far as there are any, a few utilities to get and an online scene magazine in the french language. The rest is seriously lacking content.
- Lightstorm Inc. - Tiny bits of info (about one line per section) on a rather simplistic site. It's just too much into beta stage yet. One intro and one music module to be downloaded, the usual member list, plenty of "under construction" signs and, of course... more to come in the future. Ah, that beautiful future.
- Melon. Dezign - Wicked! Highly original black/white graphics, separate indices for girls and boys, all releases online, music to download, perfectly presented art galleries and, first of all, an undefinable sense of humour. Not much textual info, but their presentation makes that rather unnecessary. Impressive.
- Mono - Artistically advanced home of this amazingly active multi-platform underground music group. (Was that a sentence or what?) Cool graphics, loads of music to get, and some informative pages for newbies as well.
- Nuance - Competent but simple designed page, with nothing to read, nothing to get and nothing to do. Let's see how this develops, but right now it's just too much under construction.
- Nerve Axis - Completely new site with a good design, functional information about the group and a nice categorized releases page with download links. Buggy html (f.e. in the memberlist-page) and some hard-to-read text sometimes.
- Obscene - One page only, with a nice logo on top and three intros to get. No info yet, but it's still in beta stage, according to their web dude.
- Offence - Simple but useful site with almost no graphics. Featuring a short history, a guestbook, the usual links and all releases (not too much) to be downloaded by you, this site will attract you for a few minutes, but not much longer.
- Oops! - Isn't the banner on top of this page enough? In short: consistent, colourful design, lots of releases to get and regular updates. Not much to read or do yet, though. Should I say more?
- Oxyron - Readable, informative pages, accurately describing what the group's projects are. The graphics are nicely done but the overall design is nothing special. Very few Amiga releases to download from the site.
- Phantasm - Confusing under-construction-like design with quite ugly graphics. This page just isn't finished. They've put their releases online, but that's all there is actually.
- Phase Distortion - Music group site with a beautiful, clear main page. Nice graphics. Impressive amount of releases to download through a somewhat messy modlist-section.
- PhaseTRUCE - A lot of stars, a few lines of text, no downloads, a disappeared "products" section and a Hollywood-influenced interpretation of the official Amiga slogan. :-) ... Not much more.
- Phil97 - Simple site with simple but great colourful retro-game-style graphics and design. Lots of info on Phil, lots of ASM sources to download, and a few finished products to get as well. Very readable, nicely structured.
- PowerLine - Simple but good looking main page with compact info and artistically inspired photographs. Perfectly hidden releases page with plenty of productions.
- Pure Metal Coders - Retrospective site, featuring quality retrospective graphics and classic retrospective releases to leech (1989-1991). More info and releases promised.
- Puzzle - Temporary page, as they say it, and they are quite right. Single-page-site with no graphics, no downloads and no information. Only a few lines of group news.
- Quartex - There Can Be Only One, is their slogan, but I guess they don't mean websites with that because they have two. Too bad that both pages, despite some pretty Quartex logo graphics, have nothing to offer at all, except for a memberlist and a few pages with links. Make it one, and make it better.
- RamJam - Very straightforward design with tiny graphics. Nothing to read, but everything that has to be there is there, including a lot of downloadable releases.
- Scoopex - Extremely cool graphics and overall design. This site rocks. The information available is a bit minimal sometimes, but as long as they present it this way, I don't bother. Good use of frames. Releases are available, by the way.
- Session - Nicely done site, with professional looking graphics. Not totally finished yet, so the info is a bit too basic. Releases available.
- Silicon - Confusing page, because most of the text is in French and the design is rather messy. However, the graphics are great fun and if you search for the short English messages you will find an all English releases page with downloads and a member list.
- Spaceballs - Beautiful graphics, but the design is a bit simple. Be sure to read "The Spaceballs Adventure" under the history link. It looks like it's going to be a long, entertaining story. All classic releases are available to the public.
- Spooky Fellows - Some good graphics, but nothing stunning. This group is working on a game, and as far as I could see, there haven't been any releases so far.
- Syntax - Good navigation concept through use of an original button-bar. No spectacular graphics, but it looks decent and well designed. The scene-oriented part of the site is rather minimal though, with not a single demo to get. Luckily, the "Celzius" link points to the old site, providing more info and downloads.
- Syntax Terror - Funny, sometimes humorous site, with absolutely nothing substantial, really. Nice but not that cool design and graphics, and no releases yet.
- Team Hoi - World famous (well, at least in the Netherlands) demo and games group. Nice, bright design, with pretty graphics. Quite big art and module galleries to be seen and heard, as well as all their demo releases to be downloaded. Don't forget to check the links page: nostalgia assured.
- Teklords - Laaarge main page without any subsections. Everything looks good, the information is nice, but it's not presented in the most convenient way. Much more, including a major redesign, is promised for the near future.
- TRSi - Cool logo, a lot of plans, but absolutely nothing there.
- Talent - Oldschool logo, almost no content, but a nice "releases" section with download-possibilities. Good looking, simple but effective, memberlist-page as well.
- The Black Lotus - Cool graphics, straightforward but effective design. The "blackbox" section is cool, with parts of demos to be seen and heard, but there's not much more to do, really. Of course you can leech all the famous TBL demos from the site.
- The Jormas - Everything that makes a cool scene site is here. Extremely cool graphics which perfectly fit together, extensive info about the history of the group, and, most important, a huge releases department. Highly recommended.
- The Problem - Good graphics, good overall design and lots of nicely presented information, all available through a huge but cool main page. This Amiga/BeOS music-and-a-few-other-things- group definitely spent a lot of time to build all this. Downloads (mostly modules) are available.
- Three Little Elks - Original, cartoonesque homepage with scary white elks staring at you all the time. Be sure to read "the story of 3le" because everything, including download-links and lots of preview pictures, is there. Great reading.
- Triumph - Fantastic graphics, good design, almost nothing to read, but dozens of releases. Special sections for demos, music, trainers and utilities.
- Tulou - Minimal site, design is allright, but it's only one page yet and there's hardly any info available. No releases, but they DO have a nice WW-Wall to fill.
- Venus Art - Sophisticated page with quite a lot of information. The presentation could have been done a lot better, though. Nice screenshots on the "demos" page. Nothing to download via the site.
- Ward - Alternative design, you will probably love it or hate it, but it's original, no doubt about that. Releases and previews of releases are available, as well as some functional info about the group.
- X-Zone - Neat black & white design, maybe a bit too formal, and the usual stuff online, including releases, memberlists and news.
Demo Parties
- Abduction '96
- Abduction '97 - Finland, june 6/8.
- AMIGAthering #1
- AMIGAthering #2 - Greece, august 5/8.
- Bizarre '97 - The Netherlands, september 12/14.
- Euskal '97 - Spain, july 25/27.
- Gravity '97 - Poland, august 30/31.
- Icing '97 - Sweden, june 14/18.
- Kindergarden '97 - Norway, july 3/6.
- Place to Be 5 - France, august 25/29.
- Remedy '96
- Remedy '97 - Sweden, june 12/15.
- Siliconvention '97
- Summer Computer Conference '97 - Sweden, july 4/6.
- Symposium & Mekka '97
- Symposium & Mekka '98 - Germany, Easter.
- The Party 6
Scene Oriented Magazines
- Broken's Ultimate Scene List - Impressive, well organized listing of a private collection covering thousands of demo scene releases. No graphics, just the info. They're desperately looking for a publisher for their CD set, which features every release listed.
- EuroCharts - Amiga demo scene chart. Online voting, offline reading. Well informative site with quality graphics.
- Defy - Online magazine by Cydonia. Good design with small but OK graphics.
- GFX Zone's Scene Stuff - Nicely shaped online magazine with a huge lot of information about 3d graphics. Many articles, an impressive glossary and galleries with both 3d and pixel graphics.
- Jurassic Pack - A logo, a few lines of info and a download link to get the latest (probably last?) issue of this diskmagazine. Nothing more, nothing less..
- Network - Magazine in progress, by Comic Pirates. Planned to become the major platform independent (Amiga, Atari, Acorn, PC and c64) online scene magazine. General info available. Competent design.
- NoSense - Independent online magazine. Two issues so far. Alternative looking design.
- Oepir Risti - Diskmagazine; latest issue is downloadable. Online version announced. Very nice pictures.
- R.A.W. - Online magazine, covering almost everything related to the Amiga scene. Nice graphics and an enormous amount of information.
- Generation - Artwork's diskmag. Latest issue available, both as lha archive and online zine, with the latter having a basic but clear layout with kewl gfx and an extreme number of articles.
- PC SuxX - General demo scene archive. Looks more than it is though, since most of the pages consist of links only. The same links (and often more) can be found elsewhere. The "coders" section seems to be more interesting, and there are links to some recent demos at Aminet.
- Pressure - Diskmagazine by Nerve Axis, covering scene info as well as non-scene articles. Good info, mag is available.
- Probe - Hq of the diskmag by The Problem, featuring a few articles and the latest issue to download. Not too much online info, nice presentation.
- R.O.M. Digest - Everything about R.O.M., the diskmag. Download links, words from the editors, etcetera. The logo rocks, the info is minimal but useful and nicely presented. It's just what they say it is: "the hyper-handbook for R.O.M.".
- Showtime - All issues of RamJam's diskmagazine are here, as well as an online voting system.
- The Jungle - Diskmagazine, with the latest release available as www-zine as well. Well done graphics.
- The Word - Carnage presents the latest version of their diskmag on this simple page. Simple download page, not much more.
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