Absolute!

Absolute! was formed rearranging Soc. Brigade around August of 1992. Old inactive members were kicked and new talented ones recruited. Although they claim the trackmo Aabsolute to be the first official Absolute! release, I have filed it under Soc. Brigade, since it says Soc. Brigade throughout the entire demonstration. You can read their own story in the scroll text of Musication vol. 1 - The first REAL Absolute! release ;)

The group released the disk-magazine series Sledge Hammer. Originally started by Soc. Brigade and written in Hungarian language. The 10th issue would be a turning point, since it was the first to be released under the Absoulte! label and for the first time a little "e" was added to the issue number... English edition. To the best of my recollection no Hungarian edition were released though.

July of 1994 saw the 13th issue and what was to become the last English issue in the series. In January 1995 a new disk-magazine, Cult, was announced. Cult was to be the successor to Sledge Hammer, but apart from a TP4 Special and an advertising intro (Cult is Born), no issues were ever released.

To everybody's big surprise, on the 8th of April 1996, issue #14 emerged... Though still using ADT & Rack's original code and graphics, the language was once again Hungarian and the responsible groups behind were Frame 18 & Promise.

They also carried on their Soc. Brigade traditions as party organizers, and arranged the parties BASH 3 in January 1993 and The Hammering in April 1994. In cooperation with PC group Byteam, they planned to arrange Wildstock '95 in Budapest, November 1995. Those plans eventually went south leaving the two groups blaming each other. You can read the cancellation notice in RAW #09.

Sources:
- Various productions by Absolute!
- Numerous Amiga diskmagazines
- Glenn Lunder and his Scenery project