Part of: amiga scene groups
History:
Scoopex (short:
SCX) is a
international Amiga demo group founded in
1987. However, Scoopex has its
roots in the
Austrian c64 group
Megaforce. In fact, even the
official Scoopex
slogan "
Generations Ahead"
descends from the old Megaforce slogan "
Always Lightyears Ahead". While Megaforce produced more
cracks than
demos, Scoopex focused more and more on demos. And as more
sceners from other countries joined, Scoopex was the group with the most demo
releases in
1989, including demos like "
Seven Sins" and "
Lazer Lights".
With the time going on, Scoopex influenced the
demo scene. The very best example for that is the demo "
Mental Hangover". To
quote their
website:
"'Mental Hangover' got released, brought Scoopex to the top of the charts and changed the style of demos completely. Up to that point all big demos were socalled 'Megademos', which consisted of different parts with different music linked together by a loader, which was the same after each part. 'Mental Hangover' was the first 'Trackmo' (Trackloading Demo) ever and invented the style that was used in demos from 1990 until approximately 1996."
During this time (1989/90) Scoopex achieved a very high and, what's more, very good
reputation inside the
demo scene, based on their
gfx,
track and
demo releases.
From
1991 till
1994, Scoopex had some
trouble with
keeping up to the high
expectations, and also the most
notable Scoopex
production from that
period, the
packdisc "
Nevermind", wasn't able to stop
rumours about a soon-coming
death of Scoopex.
However, Scoopex faced the situation, and with help from Scoopex's
France
division,
the group rised again in
1995/
96 with
productions like "
Artcore", "
Cyberia" and "
Zero Gravity 2".
Motivated by that
success, Scoopex made again more stunning productions during
1997 and
1998, like the "
5977"
slideshow by the talented
graphician Lazur, one of my personal
favourite demo "
My Kingdom" and the very well known demos "
Alien 2" and "
The Sign". Alien2 used such a good
graphics engine that a
german Amiga magazine even rumoured about a
commercial game engine being based on the Alien2 engine. Another good demo is also "
1000%", released in
1998.
In addition, Scoopex took in
1997 the
Amiga scene magazine "
Seenpoint" over and led it to new
popularity.
In
1999 Scoopex released their first
major demo for the
PC, a
port of the
Amiga demo "
Alien 2". However, Scoopex was on
low profile again, with no other notable release in 1999, many
members quitting and the
dead of "
Seenpoint" in
2000. After a
dreadful long period of 11 months Scoopex released a new PC demo, "
Audio Video Disco". In
2001, there were, again, only a
few releases, the best known of them being "
Art", another PC demo. On the other side, "
Seenpoint" was re-established, but is now no longer a Scoopex-only
production.
Currently, the members of Scoopex are: Antibyte (
organizer,
coder),
Arancia (
graphician),
Biter (
3d graphician,
musician),
Darklon (
coder),
Deck (
musician),
Dylan (
coder),
Dynac (
coder),
Fishwave (
Seenpoint editor),
Ganja
(
unknown),
Karpow (
trader),
Kufa (
coder),
Lahve (
trader),
Laxical (
musician),
LostCluster (
coder),
Mazor (
graphician),
Mermaid (
oldskool artist),
Metal Designer (
coder),
Noogman (
graphician),
Peci (
coder),
StingRay (
coder),
TMB (
webmaster,
trader)
and
Virgill (
excellent musician).
Some former but notable members of Scoopex: Shark the Master (
founder),
Vectrex (
coder),
Challenger (
coder),
Slayer (
coder),
Reward (
graphician),
Spycatcher (
unknown),
Mr.King (
unknown),
Boogeyman (
coder) and
Lazur (
excellent graphician)
List of their demo releases:
Note: All demos are available from the Scoopex site (http://www.scoopex.org/),
some Amiga demos even as .avi files)
2001
Delirium (
Flash)
003 (PC)
Art (PC)
2000
Audio Video Disco (PC)
Millenium (Amiga & .AVI)
Seenpoint 10 (Amiga)
1999
Alien 2 (PC)
Das EFX (Amiga)
Eclipse (Amiga)
Hyper (Amiga)
Pulsar (Amiga)
Seenpoint 9 (Amiga)
1998
1000% (Amiga & .AVI)
Abduction98 Invitation (Amiga & PC)
Alien 2 (Amiga & .AVI)
Effusion (Amiga)
Haupex (Amiga & .AVI)
Moving (Amiga)
Seenpoint 8 (Amiga)
Superautodrome 2 (Amiga & .AVI)
System Crime (Amiga & .AVI)
Torque (Amiga)
1997
5977 (Amiga)
EC30 Intro (Amiga)
Gosh (Amiga)
My Kingdom (Amiga & .AVI)
Performance (Amiga)
Phorce (Amiga & .AVI)
Seenpoint 7 (Amiga)
Superautodrome (Amiga & .AVI)
The Sign (Amiga)
Zero Gravity 3 (Amiga & .AVI)
1996
Abduction96 Invitation (Amiga)
Cyberia (Amiga)
Quantum (Amiga)
Satyanarayanan (Amiga)
Zero Gravity 2 (Amiga & .AVI)
1995
666 Intro (Amiga)
Alien (Amiga)
Artcore (Amiga)
Free Your Mind (Amiga)
Iso (Amiga & .AVI)
Noname (Amiga)
Zero Gravity (Amiga & .AVI)
1994
And Love For All (Amiga)
Forbitten Area (PC)
Laziness took me (Amiga)
No Human Vibes (Amiga)
SAC (Amiga)
Scoopex Melodies (Amiga)
1993
Scoopex plays 2 Unlimited (Amiga)
Cebit93 Invitation (Amiga)
Ectobye (Amiga)
Maxima (Amiga)
Pha-Q (Amiga)
Semi 40k (Amiga)
Semi93 Invitation (Amiga)
1992
It's Tricky (Amiga)
Seen Before (Amiga)
Smooth Chimes (Amiga)
Too Late (Amiga)
World Charts 5 (Amiga)
World Charts 6 (Amiga)
World Charts 7 (Amiga)
World Charts 8 (Amiga)
1991
Chromium (Amiga)
S.t.u.n.n.e.r Dentro (Amiga)
VGA (PC)
1990
Beast Sonix (Amiga)
Elefant (Amiga)
Glory Stars 2 (Amiga)
Green Surprise (Amiga)
Megademo 2 (Amiga)
Mental Hangover (Amiga & .AVI)
1989
136 Bobs (Amiga)
165 Bobs (Amiga)
190 Bobs (Amiga)
205 Bobs (Amiga)
209 Bobs (Amiga)
2nd Demo (Amiga)
Big (Amiga)
Blitter Infection (Amiga)
Bobs In Space (Amiga)
Boys In Blue (Amiga)
Glory Stars (Amiga)
J.O.E.'s Slideshow II (Amiga)
Just Filled (Amiga)
Laser Light (Amiga)
Megademo (Amiga)
Seven Sins (Amiga)
Vectrex (Amiga)
Xenomorphs (Amiga)
1988
1st Demo (Amiga)
Packdisk Series
Infestation (Amiga)
NamNam (Amiga)
Nevermind (Amiga)
Scoopex Demodisk (Amiga)
Slayer Pack (Amiga)
Sources: http://www.scoopex.org/ and my memories.