Before Strider created FairLight, he was in a group called WCC (West Coast Crackers). This was actually one of the FIRST releases FairLight ever made. A quick, fairly good looking intro was put together to announce the formation of a new group; FairLight! The fancy font was ripped from the utility "GEOS".
This is the first intro EVER by FairLight on C64! It was made by Gollum, and the graphics were taken from the game "FairLight". This was the one that started it all...
Oh, NO! Haha... This one was programmed by Strider, and was a VERY, VERY small intro. So don't complain. It was meant to be short, and this is all that he could muster out. Anyway, it wasn't used on many releases...
A desperate attempt to try something new, didn't work out, and this poor attempt at an intro was only used in a couple of games.
The above intro may have been the first one, and the one that started it all, but THIS one was the one that hung around forever it seemed. Programmed by Woodo, and featuring the Druid II intro-tune, it became the #1 loved (hated?) intro by FairLight. In order to make the intro even more compact, Gollum re-wrote the music player-routine and the music data, resulting in a few hundred bytes saved. It was a LOT at the time! It's available as an animated .gif on the front page.
This intro was programmed by Gollum (I think - correct me if I'm wrong - "too much beerguzzling error") and featured a "new" technique where the little squares that build up the "FLT" characteds changed colors in a funny way.
This intro was coded by Gandalf and Hobbit, and is real cool. The word FairLight having each character drawn one by one, and the stars floating in the background. Pretty cool stuff, and it was something different. Not used often enough, but surely not forgotten.
Bacchus was responsible for this intro. One daring thing with this one was that he decided to stop using the Druid II intro-tune, and replace it with another piece called "Another one bites the dust!". The switch was successful, but the new tune never did reach the same cult status as the Druid II tune! Was also far to big to be used on any normal crack, so it was mainly on our mags, exports and full sidedisk cracks.
Golden Collection Intro - Code by Bacchus and Rowdy, Music by Benn and Ratt and Graphics by Rowdy. In the latest few years, FairLight has introduced the concept of "Golden" versions, which are new, perfected cracks and versions of old classic games which were never properly cracked, or at least in Bacchus' possesion in a decent version. Featured here is Impossible Mission, for instance. Remember that one!? -"Stay a while... Stay forevvvverr....."
A very compact intro coded by Watchman and logo by Rowdy, which was used from
time to time. Not seldon was it assembled to a spot in memory - for example
the screen memory of a game - before it was even charpacked, and not seldom
did it feature the music of the game, as there was no music in it originally.
New Classics Intro - Coded by Alchemist and also put into an intromaker. Logo also drawn by Alchemist and inspired by the game Retrograde from Thalamus.
This intro was coded by Moonchild of our former Polish division.
More intros! This one was coded by Gandalf who was a friend of Hobbit's in Belgium. Later the two became enemies, rumors say, but hey the guy produced a very nice intro for FairLight. A very nifty little intro using the normal C64 charset to generate a much nicer large font for the scroller. Later adapted into an intromaker by Bacchus.
The "Printro" as it was called. One of Bacchus' little idΘas with text appearing on printer-like paper as if it's being "printed". A very short intro, which still gets the point across.
One of the very first intros used by Gollum. Appearing first in Gollum's own cracks as an independent, but quickly adapted to a FairLight intro after he joined in mid-1987!
A small intro used mostly as a trainer intro, but also as the main intro on games which didn't have much room for a normal one. Coded by Black Shadow.
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