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Scene History Archive

NFO pack. V2.2 - 04/01/98 By tOAST - rAZOR 1911

Document version 1.2                          



This readme is divided into a few sections:



Section 1.1 - General information



Secton 1.2 - Map of the archive


Section 1.3 - BRIEF OLDSCENE TUTORIAL


Section 1.3 - RULES for contributing



section 1.4 - Contributing - concepts and ideas, up and coming features?



Section 1.5 - brief HISTORY of this collection



Section 1.6 - DISCLAIMER



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Section 1.1 -  General Information



        For a history of this package, see history.txt.



        The emphasis on this package is for GAME GROUPS,

        and in particular, for DECEAST groups.  Since hybrid/prestige

        class/celebre/etc are still going, and/or died in late 1996,

        i did not emphasise to collect them.



        Any current group members with a collection of NFO's please

        contact me.



        I Hope you enjoy this pack! Please keep checking the WWW page,

        for any new revisions!



        http://www.uoguelph.ca/~shost/toast.html

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 Section 1.2 - Map of the archive





        ANY group with a "#" beside it indicates this group has NFO's

        BEFORE 1990. these groups are of particular interest, as is ANY

        nfo from before 1989.

        

        The following is a current tally of GAMES GROUPS

        directories, and approx. how many .NFO's are contained within.



        * ANY directories marked with a '*' ARE IN DIRE NEED

        of some CONTRIBUTORS! If you can contribute ANY, or you used

        to be in these groups and you kept every .NFO, PLEASE contact me

        at ad834@hwcn.org


 LEGEND:

        # - NFO's exist from before 1990

        * - I need MORE of these. PLEASE contribute! =)

        *new, *upd - New, Updated.



    # * Bently Sidewell Productions -                           2

        Celebre -                                               3       
        CIA - crackers in action                                1 *OLD
      * Class -                                                 5
        Classic -                                               1   
        CMEN                                                    2 *OLD 
        CPC2001                                                 1 *OLD 
        CPI (canadian pirates international) - SEE PTL CLUB
        Crystillian                                             1      
        Divine                                                  2
        Dominators                                              1      
        Dread -                                                 1

      * Dynamix -                                               8       
        Eclipse -                                               15      
    #   Ffa -                                                   4

    #   The FiRM -                                              22      
        Fairlight -                                             45      
        Foundation                                              1
      * Genesis -                                               19
        High Voltage                                            1       
        Hoodlum -                                               2       
        Hybrid -                                                94       
        Illusion                                                4
    #   International Network of Crackers (INC) -               147
        Legacy                                                  2
      * Legend -                                                12       
    #   Miami Cracking Machine -                                3

        MEA CULPA                                               1 *OLD

        National Elite Undergraound Alliance (NEUA)             6

      * Nexus -                                                 12       
        Napalm -                                                30      
        NEUA                                                    9  *OLD
        Nuaa -                                                  1

        Ofg - (origionally funny guys)                          1

      * Paradigm -                                              6

        Public Enemy -                                          25 *OLD
        Prestige -                                              107      

        Pentagram -                                             24       
      # PTL CLUB                                                5 *OLD* 
        Pyradical                                               5       
        Quantus -                                               2 
        Quartex PC                                              2        
        Razor 1911 -                                            444
        Reflux                                                  18
        Release On Rampage -                                    3

      * Romkids PC                                              2      
        Romlight                                                1     
        Scoopex PC                                              1      
        Scotch                                                  2                      

      * Skillion -                                              7       
        Skid Row PC                                             3      
        Syndrome                                                1
    #   Tcs -                                                   1

        The Dream Team -                                        58      
        TDT-TRSI (CoOP) -                                       17

        Tdu Jam! -                                              47       
    #   The Humble Guys -                                       125      
        Tristar and Red Sector  -                               35      
        Twa - The Warez Alliance                                1

        Twt -                                                   1

      * Tyranny -                                               12      
    #   The Underground Council (Ugc) -                         4

        UNTOUCHABLES                                            6       
        Zeus (Before being called paradigm) -                   3     



        

        Explanations of other directories are as follows:



        

        courier - A bunch of misc. trading group NFO's.  One day a courier

        group NFO division may be devised.



        416/905 - NFO's from local 416/905 release/trading groups, or BBS

                  ads. (416/905 is the toronto scene, LARGEST in the world)



        Razor/Risc/dod/scum/pcy/tim/tra/gnx/cartel/blade/9000c/premiere/

        amnesia/exile/narc/trg - Groups I have been in over my 'career'



        Pwa - Legendary utils group



        FTP -   Ftp site ads. (like bbs-ads)



        Misc - Mainly UTIL group NFO's.   I TRY to take people's

        contributiosn and put the util .NFO's in there for a

        futire UTILS section! which would take a lot of tiME! someone  

        HELP in organizing the utils section!



        BBS - BBS ads of various Boards, including MANY MANY legends.



        DIZ - A few old file_id.diz's from various groups. Kind of neat.

        NOTE that DIZ's didn't come around until 1992 or so.

        IF you like this section, see the CAPTURE COLLECTION.         


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SECTION 1.3 - BRIEF SCENE TORORIAL:

I will merely show you the OLDEST groups and nfo's i have and tell you the
basics in chronological order.


OLDEST CURRENT VERIFIED NFO: in 1980's - ultimaiv.doc - 1987

OLDEST GROUP NFO: Bently SIdewell Productions - in /bsp

OTHER OLD FOUNDING GROUPS:

        group name              dir in collection
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        PTL club - in           /ptl
        Public Enemy  in        /pe
        the FiRM  in            /firm
        Miami Cracking machine  /mcm
        cpi2001                 /cpi1002        ?
        ffa                     /ffa            ?

        (any group marked with ? means i know NOTHING about them)


Please note that MCM merged with some other group to form INC, and THG
is also a second generation pirate group.  A lot of INC and THG
came from the c64 scene, but we don't want to go that far back.

Now, groups like THG/INC defined the scene. they standardized the .NFO,(thg)
invented couriering (thg), and invented the utils release group (inc)

Inc/thg were the main players in the scene , with all kinds of other groups
showing up including trsi, public enemy, the FIRM, razor 1911, and
others.  Groups like FLT/TDT/RAZOR/ spawned AFTER these guys started dominating,
so these are basically third generation groups.

any group that started after 1991 is basically typical of the groups
you find today, not much has changed, except for the internet. =)


That's it. not much eh? well i don't know all that much about the early
scene, and that's what is facinaating. If you have any pieces
of the picture that could help, please do tell me.

Section 1.3 - RULES for contributing:



        1) ALL CONTRIBUTIONS MUST BE IN .ZIP FORMAT



        2) ALL .NFO'S MUST HAVE THE ORIGIONAL FILEDATES!

                - archiving the nfo's preserves the dates.



        3) ALL NFO'S MUST BE ORGANIZED INTO A DIRECTORY STRUCTURE

           SIMILAR TO THE ONE SEEN IN THIS ARCHIVE!



        3.5) Please try to dupe check the NFO's if possible  so you don't

             send me any duplicates.



        4) PC RELATED NFO'S ONLY!                                 

        







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Section 1.4 - Contributing! i have an interesting concept!



        Do you wish to contribute to this package? Would you like to

        organize and control a particluar aspect of this collection?



        Currently things that can be taken on by individuals would include

        the following types of NFO files:



        Courier groups

        Utility Groups

        BBS/FTP ads

        YOUR LOCAL SCENE (ie: 416/905, 212/718, etc)

        anything else? (art scene? <G>)


        If you want to do amiga/console, do it seperate. as of now the
        console section is discontinuted.



        If you have already made such a thing, I can add it to this collection

        in a directory, provided you orgznise it's directory structure, and

        handle ALL readme files (or tutorials, etc).



        ON a LAST note (wow if you read this far you are really interested)

        The collection is VERY unorganzied within directories. MANY dupes of

        nfo's COULD exist. IF ANYONE wants to write s small program to help

        organize this collection or something feel free to!



        All people who contribute can be given credit, and/or space to say

        anything they want in these files.

        

 

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Section 1.5 - HISTORY



A Brief history of the NFO pack is as follows:



        While searching through old disks, and looking through NFO's

        i was marking the disks that had neat NFO's on it for later

        reference.  I thought "why not collect 'em on my hard drive?"

                                                             

        So i took them and put them in a directory called d:\nfo =)



        Eventually i gethered a LOT of nfo's from various sources, and

        decided to organize them into directories.



        I decided to go on a limb, and advertise a plea for MORE nfo's

        on my web page.  I updated my page, put in the pleas, and let

        stuff rest.



        A few days later, People like Rage (paroxyism), and Sargonnas were

        telling me they had a bunch of NFO's to trade. SO i traded what they

        had for what i had, and the collection was placed on the web for

        public download.



        Eventually, i had given the pack to many people, put it online at

        a private site, and people were contributing to it. Many people

        like Sector 9 (razor founder), trademark (former crue member, very

        closely affiliated with THG) contributed loads of very valuable NFO's

        to the collection.



        I thank ALL contributors (expecially the first two), or else

        the collection would not have happened =)



        Oldschool BBS archives like 2112, gave me MANY of the PRE 1990 NFO's

        that i have today.



        IN any case, now I have decided to keep things going, seeing that

        there is MUCH improvement to be made in the collection, there is

        a lot of history to be acquired.



Where is this collection going:



        The main purpose of this package, is to provide a SOLID reference

        into the old scene.  This collection contains information about the

        scene, enough so to know what was going on.



        Basically this thing is the LARGEST public library of what happened

        in the scene in the early days.  MUCH of what happened prior to 1990

        is very shaky, and i hope to gether NFO's and inforation from oldschool

        dudes who were there to give input/NFO's.  And that is my main goal:

        to COMPLETE the scene archives, and make sure they will live on for

        the entire life of the scene.



 THANKS TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS - PAST/PRESENT:



 The origional people who i traded .ZIP's of NFO's with in 1996:



        "rage" - From Paroyxsm Web Site

        "sargonnas" - From Isreal





 And to the most recent contributors: (in no particualr order)



        - Sector9 - RAZOR 1911 FOUNDER

        - Vaesolis - twice contributor! =)

        - Trademark - Trinity/Crue(past) TRG(present)

        - The Razorcd (100 NFo's from it)(does this count??<G>)

        - Ralph (BELGIUM) former THG/NEXUS/RAZOR courier

        - DEViL - former RAZOR 1911 Supplier/trader

        - COOL HAND - former INC vice president!

        - The Reaper/Styx - Former INC members.
        - Kaisersosa - scene end user.
        - Ipggi - www.defacto2.org creator.
        - 'system shock' - 'born dead' , 'tom & jerry' , 'platform' , 'purify'
          'barnil' , (all of his past nick names) - who contributed to the
           ISREALI (what a coincidence) scene part.

       - FREDDY KRUEGER (TRG leader, Toronto) (many of the BSP/PTL club NFOs)
        - Maximizer
        - The Cardinal - former RAZOR/LEGENDPC/FREELANCERS
        (and many others: if your name is not listed! contact me if
         you in fact did something! i am forgetful <G>)

THANKS TO - Auto Tek (301) - Formerly INC and TWA member for his help!


        Again i hope you enjoy these. =)



Section 1.6 - DISCLAIMER



        THE MATERIAL PROVIDED HERIN, IS FOR INFOMATIONAL PURPOSES

        ONLY. THE VIEWS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH, THE UNIVERSITY OF

        TORONTO DO NOT REFLECT THOSE OF THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARCHIVE.



        THE AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSABLE FOR ANYTHING THAT MAY OCCUR TO

        YOU, WETHER IT BE PHYSICAL/EMOTIONAL DAMAGE RELATED TO THIS

        FILE.  ALL NUMBERS INDSIDE THIS ARCHIVE MAY OR MAY NOT

        EXIST AT THIS TIME, AND THE AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSABLE FOR

        REMOVING THESE FROM THE ARCHIVE.



        *** PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT ANY NUMBERS IN THIS ARCHIVE!





Any questions? Feel free to email me at ad834@hwcn.org


Nfo pack V2.2 - File edited 04/01/98 by tOAST - rAZOR 1911



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