Carnage, Area 51 (A51) and Cybertek.

Wouldn't mind getting back in touch with anyone from the above groups...

I can't remember everyone's names but Sprinter comes to mind. I remember while in Cybertek (we didn't last long due to frequent alcohol induced disfunction) we worked on a Tetris clone which never got released. Someone thought of the awesome name "CLItris" at one of the piss-up meetings. I remember seeing the graphics made by Slush (think he was ex-Pandemonium) and the game half written but like everything it faded away...

I mainly concentrated on coding and most of my prods were utilities.

Hey Zeb,

We've had a sprinkling of ex-CRN & A51 members around these parts, so hope they get in contact with you soon.

Slush/Cybertek? Wasn't that you Marc (Pentagram)?

@Zeb

Hardly speak to anyone from A51 now although I do still see Bucko^A51 and liquiddsn (ex-Gobliiin^A51) when I go back to Lincolnshire for visits.

Although I should probably fire off a few emails and see if anyone visits the forum.

Rememeber this tools pack we (well, you) did: Zebtools

Yeah I hate to admit it, Slush/Cybertek was me, and yes it was me who thought up Clit-O-Tris. There was also a JetPac clone in AGA that I did the graphics for but was too pissed and stoned to do anything with it.

Only thing I can remember Cybertek doing was an intro that was 400k (the music was 340k and a shite dance remix).

Sprinter was a total piss head.

Riddler ran the BBS board which was more hit and miss than anything else.

Sirius was a swapper, mostly of GIF porn it has to be said.

I think Holsten and Fireball came down to Devon at the meet at Zeb's place, with their wizzo 14k baud modem the size of a fucking laptop!

In the end I think we just started throwing Zeb's floppy disks out his window to see how far they'd go :)

This is from an LSD article from Zeb :)

P R O D U C T I O N S

* Myself and Sprinter are working on a
new Stereogram creator which uses a
new algorithm allowing for better
results.

* I think (?) we're taking part in a
joint production for Christmas of
which I've heard little rumours about.
To be released on seven disks!

* I've coded loads of little
utilities, a few of which have already
been uploaded onto a couple bulletin
boards. When I get my Amiga back I'll
sort the lot out and release the lot
of them with full documentation. The
pack will include FSplit, Convert,
FStrip, NAsk, AmigaGuide Creator,
PrtFxStr and many more. Some will
also have the source code included.

* Another Tetris clone for AGA
machines only. Features two player
mode, special FX, usage of Commodore's
unreleased SpecialFX.library and more!

* An AGA Amiga version of the Speccy
game JetPac.

If I remember right, most of this was meant to be done in High Wycombe, but we were too pissed and stoned and more interested in watching the cable porn while Sirius fucked off to a house warming party and was pissed off he didn't pull a Swedish maid.

Fuck knows how all this is coming back to me :)

Damn, I was just gonna suggest that it was blatantly obvious who thought up the Clit-o-tris title. So predicatable m8y :lol:

Sounded like the group to be in and a damn shame I missed out. Beer over productivity any day :)

Only alcohol made it possible :)

Cybertek were good for ideas, it was just the tedious job of making the ideas come to life that we were shite at.

I remember the sickness demo me and Sprinter were planning in 1994 (14 fecking years ago!). It was a bad year for disasters (Estonia Ferry and Achille Lauro spring to mind) and spent many a long phone call, rat arsed, thinking of how to make it in the worst taste.

Still, got to laugh.

Wow, Marc, you remember a hell of a lot more than I do! :D

The one thing that sticks out in my mind at the High Wycombe gathering was having the police knock on the door at god knows what time asking to set up a surveilance operation in Sprinter's bother's bedroom as they were trying to catch an escaped convict who was travelling through the area to visit his mum.

What with the amount of alcohol, dope and computer equipment in the house I also have a vague recollection that things died down a bit after they set up their gear upstairs.

I remember the disks getting thrown out of the window as do I remember the boxing that was being attempted. All they could get was a woman down the phone line repeatedly saying, "Hello, Bolivia!"

I can remember Sprinter's curiousity about the Zappo CD Rom I had just bought, and we took it apart and couldn't get the bloody thing back together again. Remember the silver chewing gum wrapper in the back on the circuit board? :)

I have a hazy recollection of that of the police turning up. I remember a big rush to hide the joints and turn off the porn hahaha

I remember the pub up the road burnt down a few days before we arrived so that ruined the weekend as well :)

Wasn't there some people in the country lane behind your house we aimed the floppy disks at?

I remember a vodka slammer contest as well as Sirius found some vodka somewhere haha

Great days huh :)

Because of our facial hair Fireball was being called God and I was called Jesus. Right in the middle of all that was when the police turned up.

A couple of Sprinter's mates turned up from other groups and one I remember was Freeman (Paul Kempster) who was a musician. I'll never forget how the bassline to one of his tunes was exactly like a song that hit the charts a few years later. It was the same group that released Killing Me Softly.

I remember hearing something about the pub burning down and also something about a pub that had strippers working in it just down the road - same place?

Because a large number of people turned up I took my Amiga into the kitchen so I could code in peace. Not long after one lad who was writing a piece of music was banished there as his music was annoying people as it sounded much more like a car alarm.

Sprinter had someone accidentally spill a bottle of beer over his A1200 so it was given a full shower/bath THEN taken apart and placed in the airing cupboard overnight. Amazingly it worked fine except for a slightly sticky keyboard.

Anyone remember Thrust/CRN Norway? I'm still in touch with him after all this time but only via mobile phone. He made all the music for Atmospherical Melodies including two mixes for me, a cover of a track by Alanis Morissette and a Jarre megamix in chip style.

@Zeb i used to swap with freeman ;)

Can't remeber much about it now ie what group he was in but i remeber starting an .iff advert for him for Visual Intensity disk mag still have the start of the advert tho i never finished it!

I've about 15-20 tracks of his he gave me while at the party, all mod files.

I can't remember what group he was in either but I do remember a disk pack he was helping with and I had a preview copy. I remember being quite surprised to see the coder had opened a 32 color screen and was using only 8 so I remapped the graphics and never got round to sending it back.

Zeb: Out of interest, do you have any old (completed) Cybertek prods or any old prods that we're missing from our database? Cheers.

That reminds me, I must get onto Darrol (D-Man) to see if he's managed to dig out those old copies of lamer news. :D

Hey Zeb,

Got your email. Yep, I do remember you mate. Got a lot of your stuff lying around on floppies and a 20MB HD somewhere.

What are you up to these days?


Kei

@DaZZaBoY: Not sure don't think we actually got round to making anything! As I remember, anything we started never got finished.

@Kei: Not a lot right now. spending most of my time playing BF2 and trying to get my head around themes in PHP Nuke. I've written a couple very nice modules & blocks only to find when you change theme they fuck up. Nice.

Can't see the point of themes if modules have their own CSS anyway.

Hi Zeb,

Hope you're enjoying the network card, dont forget to drop my CD around the office if you get a chance! :)

Ruairi

P.S. Bet you never expected to see me here! ;)

hahaha no I never expected it! :D

The network card worked perfectly - no dropped connections so we've decided to scrap the wireless idea as it kept dropping the connection every 5 minutes.

Will do with the CD ;)