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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
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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
For updated packs, please see:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~shost/toast.html
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