Static Bytes

Static Bytes was formed in the beginning of 1990 and in May that same year, they released their first demo, the STB Megademo. This demo featured coding by a young a talented coder named Armalyte. He would later change his name Sunjohn and even later to Hannibal and become one of the most recognized and highest ranked coders in the Amiga Scene.

After releasing 14 issues, The Crusaders decided to stop releasing their popular chart, The Eurochart. Although several disk magazines had their own charts and German group Jump released their World Charts, the scene hungered for an "official" and acknowledged chart. At first Kefrens and STB picked up the task as a cooperation project, but later Kefrens backed out of the agreement and left STB on their own. The final "go-ahead" by The Crusaders was given and on the 28th of July 1992, at the Hurrican & Brutal Summer Party in Denmark, the first issue of the "new" Eurochart (issue #15) was released. Main editor, Estrup, later worked as a professional journalist for a Danish computer magazine. Static Bytes would continue to release 13 issues of The Eurochart before passing the torch on to Depth in 1995.

Although primarily a Danish group, they've had some very talented foreign members. In 1991/92 Norwegian TMB Designs was a member and in 1992/92, so was fellow countryman and artist Sauron, who won the graphics competition at The Gathering in 1992. In 1994/95 German artist Friendly joined and did the marvelous GUI for Eurochart #27, STB's last issue.

Sources:
- Various productions by Static Bytes
- Numerous Amiga diskmagazines
- Glenn Lunder and his Scenery project