T.R.S.I.

Red Sector was born in the spring of 1985, when Bill Best, Kangol Kid and Greg decide to join forces under this label. At this time, the group's members were spread over America and Canada. Towards the end of 1985 Irata and Mr.Zeropage formed the European section. Irata became the group's main trader. Red Sector ran the first ever Canadian bulletin board. All this was on the C64, but when the Amiga 1000 appeared in 1986, PBA, MZP, Bill Best, Irata and ECA all bought one. The first Red Sector intro on the Amiga was released in early 1987, and was coded by HQC. Twilight coded the second RSI intro, with music by the father of SoundTracker, Karsten Obarski. In 1987, RSI entered into their first cooperation, with Def Jam. It was not only their first cooperation, but the first ever cooperation on the Amiga! However, it didn't last too long. The C64 section was officially disbanded in 1988, and everyone moved over to the Amiga. Years later, it was restarted by Mr.President, Irata and Mr.Cursor, but that's another story. 1988 was also the year of the first big busts. Irata was, for example, visited by the police in the morning of the 24th of october, but they found only five disks. RSI had hard times, and started to look at other venues for their activities. They recruited TCC as their demo division, and 9 months later their baby was born: the Red Sector "Megademo" [09/89]! This demo took them to the undisputable top of the demoscene, and made legends of its makers. 1988 - Danish musician S.L.L (87) joined Bamiga Sector One. 1990 - As a demo group, you can perhaps talk of RSI pre- and post- "Megademo". 1990 started well, with the successful releases of the mag "Criminal" [02/90] and the demo "CeBit '90" [03/90]. Onyx left Vision Factory since he was frustrated with the internal organizing of the group, and joined in february. Swedish sysop Istvan ('MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE', ex Empire, 09/90) joined Fairlight. Later in the year they would enter into a cooperation with Tristar, the result of which we all know. TRSI was born. Big thanks to an article about TRSI in ROM #4 for massive amounts of source material for this precise history! Please excuse us if this seems like a straight rewrite of your article, Mop. If it's too close to the original text, consider it a tribute rather than a ripoff :) I really couldn't word it better than you. If Dr.C's real name, Holger Kruse, seems familiar it's probably because he's the author of one of the most-used utilities for Amiga InterNet users these days, the TCP/IP stack utility "Miami". German musician Bit Arts (02/90) joined Sanity. He did some of the best tunes for RSI's "Megademo" [09/89], and is probably best remembered for that. German Beatmaster joined End of Century 1999. ---------------------Tristar didn't do much on their own, and it wasn't until they entered into the longest lasting cooperation in the scene with Red Sector in 1990, that things started to take off. I have no information on what people Tristar brought with them into the cooperation...but I would sure like some ;) At least Flynn (ger 09/89) was brought over. Vince coded the packer "Double Action 1.0" for Tristar. 1989 - Knackosoft and Flynn organized the Tristar Party 89 in Venlo, Holland on the 9th of september, generally considered the scene event of the year. 1990 - German sysop Guru Josh ('TECH', ex Paranoimia, 02/90) joined Classic. German coders and crackers Beermacht (2 guys) left in 1990, before the merger with RSI, to be independent. German Malzam left for Paranoima, then quickly moved on to Vision before settling in Angels. Digital Illusion joined D-Tect. -------------------TRSI was born 29.06 1990, when Tristar and Red Sector Inc decided to join forces on the Red Sector and The Silents Summer Conference 1990. 1991 came and went, and 1992 saw the birth of a separate TRSI demo section, called Masque - responsible for the great WICKED SENSATION demo. However, the following year saw them tired of being merely the demosection of TRSI, so they left - taking all the legal members with them! This was certainly a blow for TRSI, but members like Warhead and TSM helped them back onto the throne. At The Party 93, most of the Polish section teamed up - with XTD and Norby at the helm. 1994 saw strong releases like CUBIC DREAM, ARTIFICE and VIKTORIA. Thanks to Mop's article in ROM4 for background info. German musician Virgill joined Complex according to Propaganda #4, but Virgill later made music for the TRSI demo "Twin Peaks" [12/96]... I believe the truth is closer to a double membership. 1990 - German sysop The Seeker ('HOLY TOWER') decided to leave the scene towards the end of the year for personal problems. Germans The Master and TCM (Martin, trade, new 08-11/90) were also kicked late this year. German musician Jester joined from Proton in october, but moved on to Sanity the following month, without having produced anything for the group. 1992 - In december swedish musician Emax joined, and immediately contributed tunes for TRSI cracktros and demos. 1994 - 2Fast left to form Avantgarde in the middle of august. 1995 - Three main organizers now, Control, Warhead and Uyanik! German graphician Navy (ex BASF, 12/93) was kicked early in the year, for unknown reasons. German musician Blackthorne (93) joined Essence around the middle of 1995; his joining was announced in their mag ROM #5 [95]. Nah Kolor was originally formed in the middle of 1995 by the Polish section of TRSI - Dreamer (ex Surprise! Productions, 12/94), Norby (new 12/93), Bald Horse, Lazur (ex TPDL), Elis (code, 94), and QBA - to serve as their demosection, like Surprise! Productions and Masque had in the past. However, the plans had not been correctly cleared with the leaders of TRSI, and at The Party 5, Nah Kolor was given the choice of being real TRSI members or leaving in favour of this new group. The result was that Norby and Bald Horse decided to stay in TRSI, and that the rest continued as Nah Kolor. The rest of the Polish section was dismissed, and these people are no longer official members; Python (swap, early 95), Reset (swap, early 95), Trash Head (swap, early 95) and XTD (music, new 12/93-12/94). At least Trash Head and XTD joined Mystic. German graphician Fiver2 (ex Acrid, old handle Fiver, 12/93-95) joined Artwork sometime this year, after the release of his slideshow "Honeycomb" [95] for TRSI. 1996 - Graphician Scar joined Session late 96. 1997 - The Finnish group Mellow Chips joined as a subgroup, to serve as the TRSI demomachinery. 1998 - At The Gathering in april, the Mellow Chips pay off - they win the demo competition with "Rise"! Dutch graphician and swapper Blunt (Henk Wijnholds, ex Coolio/Ambrosia, doublememb Grasshoppers Development, new ROM9) left the scene early 98. The English section was kicked. Finnish coder and sysop JHL ('ZENLANDIA', 04/91-05/94) joined Complex. His work for TRSI includes a crackintro. Tap, Walt (coders) and Dr.D (graphician) were kicked. Dr.Grell joined Energy. German swapper Dark (ex Jetset new) joined Axis new. Cracker Saito (hol? aut? 03-08/93) joined Vision Factory. Kid Frost joined Arise. Swedish sysop Fix ('FASTLINE', 05/92) joined 2000 AD 09/92. Norwegian graphician Wood joined Andromeda 05/93. The entire subgroup Surprise! Productions (S!P) left early 92. However Flynn, TSM, Warhead, Dreamer and Peachy left S!P and joined up with TRSI. Daryl (ex Kid Icarus/Alcatraz) joined Delight after a short period, and took his wellknown papermag 'B.A.D' with him, late 91. Vince and Nik got kicked 09/91. Captain Midnight left late 90. German sysop Mr.Hell ('SUDDEN DEATH') joined Decade.