N.P.G. THE HISTORY
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 by The Gardian Angel/TLS


 The History of the quite unknown group
' New Power Generation '  is similar to
the History of many other groups in the
scene.  But anyway  I have to fill this
pages up with text...

]  The  former-members  of  N.P.G.  were
]' Lone Starr ' and ' The Byte Pirate '.
]These two ST-addicted-freaks  were some
]of  the very first  ST-Guys  which were
]swapping legal stuff instead of Games.

  They were impressed by the Union Demo
and  wasn't able  to leave the Computer
while watching on the Cuddly Demos... 

 'Lone Starr' had before his ST an C-64
and  was  experienced  with  PC and  AT
Computers. He was one of the very first
who had swapped the TEX-Demos. He still
has  his  C-64  and  has  a  job  which
allows him to work on a computer  ( and
when  I  say  Computer I  mean  a  very
horrible-expensive-mega-workstation ).

  'The Byte Pirate'  was  ,  before  he
explored the world of Demos,one of this
little    Game-swappers  without  being
important in anyway.But unluckly he was
busted and was about to leave the whole
mess when he saw his first Demo...

  Then he used his contacts to get more
and more Demos.  That was the time when
he met the N.D.R. ( the meaning of that
letter-construction is really  meaning-
less at all).    The only member of the
N.D.R. was 'Lone Starr', both dicovered
their aim to get as much  Demos as they
can  and so  they  joined  together and
formed the 'New Power Generation'. That
was in October 1989.

  Three months later 'Lone Starr' asked
a  demo  swapper  in   the   south   of
Germany to  join... he refused , but he
finally joined in early 1990 as the 6th
member: 'FAA'.

  The other three new members were 'the
Invisible Men'  ( ' T.I.M. '  but later
'Garth'), the Future Fighter ( 'T.F.F.'
and even later 'Apollo') and 'Blagger'.
Then  ' TBP '   left   the   Crew   and
'the Guardian Angel' ('T.G.A .') joined
in his place.  The  very first releases
were Disks , with  many unpacked little
Demos  copied  on  one  Disk and marked
with a  Bootsector & a 'Desktop-Display
-Picture'...  Then when the first Coder 
joined the crew (Garth)  we produced an
Intro ( in one month of work ! )  which 
included  an  overscan-scroller ( awful
slow ), colour-cycles, musixx (wow..?!)
, a distorter, a VU-meter (ugly-colors)
and few rasters...
    We   were   always  aware   of  our
' substandart ' (arf arf) and called it
'Nothing Important Demo' (...)   Lately
I think it was a mistake, because if we
had called it  'greatest demo the world
ever has seen' or 'best in...'  ( Where 
have I read this before...?! ) it would
have been spread a bit more... but with
that  name  only  one  crew  puts it on
there Intro-packs, 'TBC' ( thanks ' Doc
Prof '  even  if  you  have still Disks
from me ).   After that  release nobody
has heard anything for a long time from
us,but then  we  get  an  offer to make
a guest-screen for the same group
mentioned above 'TBC'. But the mistake
was that we had have only 2 month to do
it... We hurry but you can see the
result on your own... (also I want to
mention that 'T.G.A. of N.P.G.' has NOT
done any gfx (not even an pixel)in that
Screen (nur fur Insider witzig...)).

]     Anyway we produced two more guest-
]screens for megademos from other groups
]but only one megademo was released: The
]European Demos. ( You may know that the
]whole Screen was done by our  GFX - Man
]'Blagger', not too bad eh'?!).The other
]Guest - Screen   was  thought  for  the
]'Swedish Gold' by 'Phallanx' , but they
]stopped  that  production.  Then  again
]there was a long period of darkness...

But after a while 'T.G.A.' was bored by
only  swapping demos  and  so he forced
the coders to do a menu-intro  which he
could use on his packed Demo-Disks.That
was exactly one year after founding the
group. But it takes another 4 months to
release  the first  'Demo Compact Disk'
that  was  around X-mas 90-91. ( N.P.G.
claims  the  prize   for  the  lazyiest
coders !!! ) From that date on 'N.P.G.'
has released 31 'DCD`s'.But exactly one
year later (X-mas 91-92) we stopped the
production ...   because  of  " various
reasons... ".

[  Now NPG is working on their megademo,
I saw just some previews ( amazing !! )
but as  I  said  above  we are not  the
fastest ( ...in manyways !? )  so don't
expect it this decade ( har har ).  You
may  ask  why we have never done cracks
or game-menus...  It's  because so many
of our friends were busted in that time
and the second reason  ( and surely the
main one )was that all our members live
in different german-cities. So it would
have taken  ages to supply , crack  and
then spread the production.

[Anyway you should now know a little
[  more about the New Power Generation.

  Excuse my bad english
        and go on raving the world....

"And remember Winners don't use drugs"