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 BRITISH SCENE REPORT
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 by GANGSTER / Mad Vision UK


This is a small guide to the crews that
are, or were in Britain. I do not  know
much about some of them, and there  may
be  a  few that I have missed out  - so
get  in  touch  with us if we  did  not
mention your crew.



]ADDRENALIN
                This  is  a  new  group
formed  in January 1992. They   do  not
have  a cracker, but have a coder.  The
interesting  thing  about this group is
that Ruthless is a member.  His name in
this  group   is 'The Eskimo In Egypt'.
They have done just over 5 CD's at  the
moment.Their  intros  are  coded  by  a
guy  called  The Monster Beetle.  Their
CD's  look quite good,  but  they  will
have    to  work  hard  to    establish
themselves  in  Britain since there are
many other crews similar to them.


]AUTOMATION
               R. I. P.  again  another
famous  crew  who died out. These  guys
did more CD's than any other  group  in
the world (over 500).  Originally there
were  many ,  many   members  including
groups  such  as  the BBC, Unnameables,
Sub  Humans  in  Turkey,  Guardians  of
Logik etc. they all eventually left  or
were thrown out ( G.O.L. ). In the last
few  months, there were only  two  guys
making  CD's  ;  The  Bald  Eagle   and
Vapour.   Most of the ex members joined
the BBC.  Automation  attempted a  late
come back  recently,  but  without  any
success.


]AWESOME
                - R.I.P. they are dead.
Everyone  knows  about  Awesome,  quite
good intros coded originally by  people
who were not even  members.  They  went
through a lot of members near the  end.
Lots of modem  guys  joined,  and  then
left  this  group.  Ruthless as  always
was  criticised because  he  would  not
let  other members do anything in  this
group. He wanted  all  the  credit.  He
also went under the  name  of 'Ecstacy'
of the Replicants and  claimed to  have
coded some of the last few intros.
 Many  people say that this is not true
because Ruthless/Ecstacy cannot code.
 The  group died when some members left
to join Hotline.


]B.B.C.
               - R. I. P.  the Bad Brew
Crew.  Guess what ? - yes, they too are
now dead !  This group was originally a
part of Automation, but because of some
problems  between Andy the 'Arfling and
Vapour  of  Automation, the  BBC  split
away and became an independent cracking
crew. They produced over 50 CD's  which
contained  games that they  had  mainly
cracked  themselves.  The  Law  of  the
Unnameables  soon  joined after leaving
Automation.  In  their last few months,
they were joined  by  the  Medway Boys,
Apollo from  Guardians Of Logik, and  a
few other guys. At this stage, they had
about 5 or 6 crackers in the group. But
sadly, only Zippy from  the Medway Boys
was cracking anything,  the others were
busy with exams  and  things.  So  this
group too died  out  due  to inactivity
from most of the cracking guys.


]CYNIX
                This group appeared out
of nowhere !  They  started  up in late
October 1991  and  are  definately  the
number one British cracking crew.  They
do not make menus. Rumour  has  it that
there are some famous British  crackers
in the group who are using new names so
no one bothers them. Their members list
changes constantly.


]D-BUG
                This is a new group who
only use their own cracks on their CD's
Their main problem is that they are too
slow. All the games work 100%  but come
out  too late to spread very well.  The
3 main guys  are  Vapour, The  Law  and
Apollo -  all ex members of Automation,
but they are obviously using new names.
 They  have done 29 great Cd's so  far,
and  if  they  can crack  games  a  bit
faster ,  then  they   have   excellent
potential.


]DODGY SOFT
                - This crew has made  a
LOT of CD's - not sure exactly, but  it
may be about 200. Their biggest problem
is that nobody spreads their CD's well.
Hardly anyone has got more than  a  few
of their CD's. They have  also  made  a
lot of utility CD's including some with
midi software, childrens  software, art
and others too. They have a cracker who
is called  Dodgy King -  he  claims  to
have  cracked  a  lot  of  their games,
including B.A.T. which  very  very  few
people have cracked 100%.  If  they had
better spreaders, then they  would be a
very poular crew. Sadly,  not many guys
have even heard of them.


]D.T.B.
                - Dirty Tricks Brigade.
Not sure if this group is still  alive.
Their last menu was 29.  They are  very
strange because most of their last CD's
contained professional  software -  yet
their first few CD's contained games.
Perhaps they started as a  games  group
then decided to  do  professional  CD's
instead later. They  had  no  coder  or
cracker and perhaps no grafix guy too !
They used mainly one intro - but  their
CD's contained very good software.  Not
as good as T.R.B. or F.C.C.  but  still
they were good. Hey guys,  if  you  are
sill alive - get in touch with us !


]DREAM WEAVERS
                - This is an example of
a group with potential that died young.
They created over 20 CD's and did  some
utility disks. Ruthless joined later as
Dream Warrior. R.I.P.


]EVOLUTION
                - not much known about
this CD crew.  They  have no coder  or
cracking guys. Get in  touch  with  us,
and let us know about you please !


]F.C.C.
                - The Floppy Copy Crew.
These guys were the first to make  CD's
with professional titles on them.  They
are dead now because their main  coding
guy - The Monster stopped doing illegal
activities and made the main  code  for
the Monster Stereo Cartridge. There are
rumours that Alec from F.C.C. has  been
threatened with grevious bodily harm by
unknown guys if he makes any more CD's.
Not sure if this is true - but Alec has
certainly not made anymore CD's since !
They  did  very  good  CD's  with  good
quality software - but not as  good  as
T.R.B. for example.


]FLATLINERS
            - An other menu making band
Very various menus,some with Sound trax
sound ship music,fonts and games.
 They have a section in Iceland.



]GENESIS INC.
                - These guys  are  only
known because  of  the  mega  slaggings
that they gave  to  Ruthless  on  their
menus number 2 and 3. They have cracked
only  2  games  and  some  professional
software. The two main guys -  Gor  and
Lawz are ex members of  Pompey  Pirates
and they both left controversially with
lots of rumours and gossip about this.
 If these guys were more consistent and
a bit faster,  than they too could have
a lot going for  them.  But  sadly,  it
seems  that  they  only  produce  their
disks whenever they feel like it.


]HOTLINE U.K.
                - This is basically all
the  surviving  members of Awesome  who
joined  Hotline.  Ruthless  created  11
CD's  for  Elite before leaving and  is
now  in  Quartex.   Ruthless  had  many
problems in this group.  He was accused
many  times  of  ripping  other  crew's
cracks  and  claiming  them as his.  He
also claimed to have cracked some games
which had NO PROTECTION AT ALL  ( Crime
City etc.).  The  second  part  of  the
intro o  n the last few Elite menus was
possibly  ripped from the Dream Weavers
- though he claims to have coded it !


]MEDIUM RESOLUTION
                  -   Not  much  known
about these guys.  They did the grafix
for the Genesis Inc. menus  which  had
mega slaggings to Ruthless. -  Get  in
touch with us !




]THE MEDWAY BOYS
                - Yet another big  crew
who died out 6 months ago. They did 100
great menus and then  cracked  numerous
games. They joined the BBC for a  while
but left soon because the other members
were not doing anything.  They died  in
the autumn when Zippy got a new job.


]NOW 5
                - They  did  nearly  30
CD's. They had a cracker and  a  couple
of coders too. They  have  joined  with
X.T.C. and become Pure Energy. They are
hated  by Ruthless, because  they  were
the  closest  rivals  to  Awesome. They
were the fastest CD crew recently.


]POMPEY PIRATES
                - this crew is possibly
the best known British menu making crew
they have currently  done  99  numbered
menus, and several other cracks  plus a
few more menus numbered as 13 part 1 to
5. They have a lot of guys who  dont do
anything (Richard III, Juggler etc.).
Almost all their menus have  full  Docs
on them, and all the games seem to work
100%. When they slag someone,  they  go
at  it  with  a  vengence - Derek M.D.,
Illegal etc. They also seem to hate all
non-English people. Rumour has it  that
they will stop after menu 100.


]PURE ENERGY
                - This is a new  group.
It is a joining of two older English CD
crews - Now 5  and  XTC.  All  the  old
members from both crews are still  here
and are  joined  by  The Penguin -  the
main coding guy from T.R.B. ( R.I.P. ).
They  have  at least one cracker -  The
Bootlegger - but they have not  as  yet
cracked  any  of  their own games. But,
they are still definately  the  fastest
English CD making crew - due  to  their
many contacts in big cracking crews.


]QUARTET
               - This  is  a strange CD
making crew.  They  have  an  excellent
coder called Bloodangel, and  a  really
good grafix guy called Percy. They also
have another grafix guy called Nik. But
these guys do not make many CD's. Their
productions do not spread very well. In
fact, Bloodangel and Percy do more work
for other crews than for Quartet !
Ruthless said that Bloodangel is now  a
member  o f Hotline  -  but  Bloodangel
denies this - he says he does not  like
Ruthless  and he is  NOT  a  member  of
Hotline !


]THE RADICAL BANDITS
                    - R.I.P. these guys
did 30  great  CD's  with  professional
software and no  games.   Probably  the
best non-games crew in Britain  if  not
the world. They died  before  Christmas
due to internal trouble mainly  between
The Rude Dude and Derek M.D.  The coder
and artist left and joined Pure Energy,
The Rude Dude is now on the P.C.


]TIME WARP
                - Not sure if this crew
is still alive either.  They  did  well
over 50 CD's. Almost all of  their CD's
were 'theme' disks, i.e. they contained
similar types of games or programs.  An
 Example  is  their  'Sub Logic' disk -
this  contained  Flight Sim 2 + Jet + 2
scenery disks  - a theme disk -  okay ?
They did some interesting  Source  Code
disks with lots of nice source coded by
cool coding guys world wide - and  they
also did some font and grafix disks  to
accompany with the source  code  disks.
Please get in touch guys !


]THE SOURCE

    -  Frosty did professional software
menus. MUG UK did his famous Depacker &
ripped lotsa music...