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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"