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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 - Site with an impressive amount of info about the group, it's members and the releases (both utils and demo stuff). Things might look a bit overcomplicated sometimes, caused by the massive amount of info on each screen and the screaming colours of the graphics, but in general it's well worth a look.
  • Capsule - Competent, accessible but rather basic design. Enough detailed info and releases on the site to keep you off the street.
  • Carnage - Good rendered graphics accompanied by nice and less nice pixelled artwork can't hide the lack of design on these pages. Especially the group info and releases page deserve more than plain ascii files. No demo stuff to download, but there are links to various pages of Carnage members, where a bit more can be found sometimes. Especially Kenco's page is well worth a look.
  • C-Lous - It's all temporary, they say, and unfortunately they seem to be right. A few links don't work, for example the "releases" button on the main page, some links provide two lines of info, and so on. What's there are a memberlist with seperate pages for each member (ranging from content-rich to extremely empty), a short but friendly welcome and their latest big demo to be downloaded. From the main page, of course.
  • Crusaders - Neat but almost useless retro-style site, with quite an impressive memberlist for a group with no releases after 1992. No downloads available.
  • 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.
  • Da Passive! - Quite an achievement: eight sections to be clicked, but still tiny bits of information. No downloads, an incomplete releases page, a lot to appear Real Soon Now (tm), a nice but simple design without much graphical touches, except for a few photographs. Hopefully things get going when the reorganisation of the group is over.
  • 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.
  • Donut Fetish - No graphics and no information except a memberlist, some minimally documented links and an empty recipe for the fabrication of donuts. You'd better bring your own food.
  • 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.
  • Genetic - Decent, yet 90% completed site with a good, original design, a user-friendly layout and rather nice but not spectacular graphics. The content provided is excellent and nice to read, releases are well presented and - most of the time - ready to be transferred to your hd. Coders should not forget to check the ASM section.
  • 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.
  • Impulse - Elementary design with great graphics give this site a professional look. All releases, thorougly described, are available from the download section and there's a gallery with some impressive visual candy. Add plenty of info about the group and it's members, which makes this site well worth a look.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Nature - Comprehensive site giving a good overall impression, though no graphics or design of shocking quality are to be found here. The necessary things are well done, like the memberlist (with photos, they took the risk) and the group history. The download section is very well implemented, with seperate pages for most releases, giving some extra details. Nice, but I still didn't find the promised flowers.
  • 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.
  • Nevermind - Not much here. No graphics except one logo on the main page, a few small texts, not even to speak about the "design". Visit it when you're desperately looking for one of the three releases to get or when you're looking for the only Yugoslavian Amiga BBS list I've seen so far.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Phenomena - Killer site! Nostalgic stories, famous graphics still looking pretty today and a demo-and-music-download paradise with ratings, screen shots and descriptive little texts, all perfectly presented. Too bad they don't seem to know that the best Amiga emulator is an Amiga, but I won't get into politics here.
  • 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.
  • Rebels - Exciting graphics on the main page give this site a great look. The subpages are rather simple, mostly consisting of good textual info, but still have a very nice overall design. Be sure to check the well done "past releases" and "modules" download pages: there's enough there to keep your internet traffic going for some time.
  • 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.
  • 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 - Nice cartoon-style graphics combined with exactly one nice demo picture, but the design is a bit simple. A memberlist with quite some details is available, including the traditional low-amount-of-girlfriends quotum. 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 and new 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.
  • Talent - Oldschool logo, almost no content, but a nice "releases" section with download-possibilities. Good looking, simple but effective, memberlist-page as well.
  • 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.
  • 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 Experience - Basic information about the group, a memberlist with links to the respective personal homepages and a few things to download, including an assembler programming tutorial. The design isn't worth mentioning: purely functional, a bit a-creative and without any pretty pictures.
  • 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 Lightforce - Simple and cute design, flowers implemented, with a few nice logo graphics. Cracktro's are to be downloaded, and the links section seems to be disappeared. More than weak on the info front.
  • 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.
  • TRSi - Cool logo, a lot of plans, but absolutely nothing there.
  • 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.
  • Union - Microscopic bits of unpolished group info fill half of the site. Could be more readable. The other half, however, is filled with great pictures in a huge gallery section. Well worth a look, as well as the download page where a mentionable amount of releases can be leeched. Graphics range from good to bad and ugly, which makes a messy design.
  • 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 Scene Oriented Magazines
  • 3w:ROM - Beautiful graphics, a great design and a whole lot of text to read make this special online edition of ROM-the-diskmag necessary food for the postmodern Amiga scener.
  • Defy - Online magazine by Cydonia. Good design with small but OK graphics.
  • EuroCharts - Amiga demo scene chart. Online voting, offline reading. Well informative site with quality 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.
  • Pressure - Diskmagazine by Nerve Axis, covering scene info as well as non-scene articles. Good info, mag is available.
  • 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 Demo.Guide - More than 200 demos are mentioned, rated and reviewed in this online index (AmigaGuide-version available) by Dr. Dreyer, hosted by the editors of Generation. The extensive textual info is nicely presented and the additional info is interesting, with lots of statistics and overall group-charts. Essential for every demo freak.
  • 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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