This document...
This document contains information on various people you
can write to, or sometimes email, for coder's and PD services
such as libraries. Mostly PD things, but there is a seperate
list of general clubs, usergroups,
and magazines too.
The Public Domain Libraries are where
the bigger collections of PD hang-out, and you can 'order'
a collection or specific ones from these places, they are
allowed to charge for costs for repair and postage, but not
to sell the actual PD itself for profit. Below that are the
Coders.
Please inform me of any others you know in other countries or
in England.
Please bear in mind that the programming
groups are not PD libraries and won't usually just send you
stuff for nothing - it's a good idea to have new programs to
swap with them.
Only the coders and PD Libraries known to me can be listed
here. So if you know of another, or indeed are another libary
or Speccy group, I would very much like to hear from you. If
you think there is some missing information you can supply, do
not hesitate to contact me also!
KEYS
I have tried to include for each group: name, whether a group or a person, country, members, programs produced and there will be more information on some (the more famous / internet aware / people I know).
In the addresses below, [xx] is the country - if none specified then they are
English.
- AU=Austria
- CZ=Czech Republic
- DE=Denmark
- EN=England
- FR=France
- GE=Germany
- GR=Greece
- IT=Italy
- NE=Netherlands
- NW=Norway
- PO=Poland
- SC=Scotland
- ??=Unknown as yet (do you know it?)
If the country is next to a group name, all the group come
from that country (AFAIK) unless there is a specific [??] mark
next to a person's name/pseudonymm, in which case only that
person is from the specified country.
Three dots (...) represent missing info, badly needed (!).
- Alchemist PD and catalogue information: Andy Davis,
62 Tithe Barn lane, Woodhouse, Sheffield. S13 7LN
- Fountain PD: 11 Camel Road,
Silvertown, London. E16 2DE. Lots of demos, the catalogue
is on-line in their section.
- MGPD: 1 Pelham St., Sutton in Ashfield, Notts. NG17 2EF
- Prism PD: Martyn
Sherwood, 13 Rodney Close, Bilton, Rugby. CV22 7HJ
- Propac PD: 153 Pickhurst Rise, West Wickham, Kent. BR4 0AG
- RAS PD: Now defunct
- Rasputin PD: No address - do they still exist?
- Rave PD: No address
- Sinclair Freak'eren: [DE] See the usergroups
section.
- Total PD: Now defunct
- WoMo: [GE] Ernastraße 33, D-51069, Köln. Germany
- ... MORE!
What follows is a list of quite a few coding teams and
people who either have been, or still are, writing things for
the Spectrum.
- The format of the listing is as follows:
- The name is first, as a link if there is anything more
about them.
- The programs produced by them are stored sperately via
links, or below the name after 'Programs' if there is no
other information in a seperate file. m..n represent
succesive demos with the same name ie CIR 1..4 means
there are demos: CIR 1, CIR 2, CIR 3, CIR 4.
NOTE: It's supposed to be in alphabetical order, but it's
my order not a program's. So there may be a few out of place.
Words like "The" are placed at the end, and spaces are
ignored, so "The Mad Guys" would be indexed as
"Mad Guys The".
There is also an index to all the groups with more detailed information.
Black Knight Software (BKS)
BusySoft [??]
Programs: Blava demo, ...
Cadmium
Probably don't exist now. Don't know anything else
about them.
Hacker Chris
(email: chris@phantom.riviera.pl) [PO]
Was also a member of Pentagram, but did quite a bit before this
so has been included seperately.
Has a demo ftp site: phantom.riviera.pw.edu.pl in directory /pub/speccy.
- Mirage 1..5
- Big Shit 1..8
- Great Shit
- Dream Warrior
- Kix
- Sky
- Unreal
CIR Team [GE]
Programs: CIR 1..4, ...?
Convention
- Icabod (email rjc94@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
(60 Glebelands, Merriott, Somerset. TA16 5RE)
- Death (Gavin Harrison, Trelawne, Pakenham, Bury
St. Edmunds. Suffolk. IP31 2LS) (used to be called
Twix, then Gangster)
Cool Guys Limited (CGL)
Spirit
Programs: Lots of cracked games, some useful +D EXECUTE type files,
and +D utilities.
Datasoft (email
jmg7@ukc.ac.uk)
Doc.R
Dynamite Dynastie [GE]
Ethanol Soft Incorporated
(ESI) [PO]
Exodus [??]:
Extacy-3 (Bogie's email al5701@bristol.ac.uk)
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Fleshbrain [??]
Fuxoft [??]
Illusion
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The
Interceptors [??]
Jaxxon Hollis [??]
Programs: Mr. Vain, also helped in others, can anyone
supply more details?
K3L [??]
Not a lot known - a fairly new group
Kassoft [PO]
Programs: Kassoft 1..6, ...?
The Knuckle Girls
Note: The only all-girl coding team there is!
The Lords [NE]
(an email address exists!)
The Mad Guys [GE]
Megavision [GR]
Well, I think its a group...
Mikropol [PO] (Tomasz Puwalski, Moczynskiegol/14, 85-016 Bydgoszcz,
Poland)
Programs: Signal 1..3, Screen$ compressor, CODE compressor, ...?
MQM Team [CZ]
Not entirely sure about the country
Nick Snake (email immortal@compulink.gr)
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Programs: ...
Noro Hard/Soft [??]
Programs: LCD demo, ...?
Omega [GE]
Programs: Omega 1, Ugly, part of Unused, ...?
Pentagram [PO]
Phantom [FR]
The President [NW]
Used to be known as Alfasoft
Programs: TNT 1..4, Got To Get, Buffalo, Jukebox, Straight, Heart,
loverights, Woodpecker From Space, Baby, IQ_Test, Popcorn
Roberto [IT]
Sgt. Pepper [??]
Programs: Sgt. Pepper demos 1..11, ...
Spectec [AU]
Programs: Spectec 1..7, ...?
Substance []
Probably don't exist anymore
Programs: The Real Deal, Ceremony, ...?
Saposoft [??]
Programs: Sapo 1..4, ...?
SSC [??]
Programs: Bateria, ...
Technium 220 [SC]
Not a lot known - a fairly new group, and I'm not even sure they're
Scottish... Please help me out here?
TFF Team [??]
Theo Develegas [GR] (email
corporal@compulink.gr)
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Programs: Music demos 1..10 (for SU mag), VGA 128, Piggy Punks,
EEC 1993, Dinosaurs, Black/White 1, Black/White 2, ...???
Note the link is to his own site, may not be fully working
yet.
Tigers Claw [IT]
Programs: Advanced Patience (card game)
Total Eclipse
Unbelievables [GE]
United
Minds: [SC]
Wonder [FR]
Programs: First Wonder, ...?
Zack
(email djm8@ukc.ac.uk)
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Programs: Magican, Quark, Chef's Mate, ST-Ripper, Crystal, Megatron,
I'm No God, ...
Although 'officially' a member of Extacy 3, he's currently in
Germany as part of his degree.