Phenomena

Phenomena was formed around 1988 by Avalon (Mattias Berntsson from Katrineholm, Sweden), who later left the scene. A successor of the group Crack Force Five, they were a swedish-only crew, stressing friendship as an important reason for this rule. Years later, of course, Andromeda would do the same thing. A pure demo group, they are perhaps the ones that made the best trackmo of all times; the fantastic "Enigma" [03/91]. While Scoopex' "Mental Hangover" [04/90] was the first trackmo, "Enigma" was the one that truly defined the standards of the genre. Unfortunately, after topping the charts for ages, Azatoth lost his initiative to code. Coder Celebrandil was one of the last great innovators if the scene, a.o. things introducing raytracing to demos in 1988. He also invented the much- used effects glenz vector and spacecut vector. Today he is working designing ICs for Stockholm-based firm Mentor Graphics, though he's still coding on his spare time - though sadly on the PC. Mr.Gurk was the author of one of the most-loved utils for the coder of the early days; the sinus-generator Cosaque (version 1.1 30.08.1989). Another of their coders, Vogue, would later move to the PC scene, where he joined a group called Triton, helped code their legendary pc demos "Crystal Dream" [07/92] and "Crystal Dream II" [05/93], before he and Mr.H committed the music tracker program known as "FastTracker ][" [94]. He is now busy co-writing the game "Into the Shadows". 1988 - Swedish coder and cracker DiMarz left the group for Razor 1911. 1990 - After Uno's contribution to the Scoopex demo "Chromium" [11/90] in november, he (gfx), Photon (code), Judas and Invid all joined Scoopex a month later, in december. Swedish coder Odeon (ex Majic 12) left to form the new Razor 1911. Swedish graphician Terminator (03/90-04/91) joined The Silents. Terminator worked on several classic Phenomena releases, including "Music Dream" II [91] and "Enigma" [03/91]. Swedish coder Antiaction (ex Vortex 42) joined Defjam.