Faction (FTN)
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???> Lazzer (09/98), PCP (09/98), Zoltrix (09/98).

Faction (actually short for Friendship In Action) was a cracking
group.


Factor
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Factor was a swedish demo group.


Faculty (FCY)
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Faculty was an hungarian demo group.


FairLight (FLT, http://www.fairlight.org, 1987-)
------------------------------------------------
SWE> Black Shadow (Christian Lindeberg, code crack sysop SEVENTH HEAVEN,
     07/87-11/91), Crocodile (trade, 04/95), Damage (sysop THE DUNGEON EHQ,
     05/91-04/92), Exolon (Bjrn Wesen, crack, 01/89-11/91), Gaston (crack,
     05/91-06/92), Hof (trade sysop FAR OUT, 07/92), JBM (org, 11/91),
     Rebel (sysop TRANCENTRAL EHQ, 07/91-01/95), Rhys (trade sysop
     NEUROBASHING, 93), Richi (sysop DOPE HOUSE, 09-10/93), Sandman (sysop
     SANCTUARY, also in Epsilon Design, 12/93-01/95), Shaggy (new 05/92),
     Strider (crack mainorg, 06/89-01/92), Xerxes (sysop GLOBAL EFFECT,
     09/94-01/95).
ENG> Kitaro (sysop MILLENNIA, new 05/92-09/93), Splatt (supply sysop
     SPLATTERHOUSE, 09/91-06/92), Striker (supply, 01/93).
ITA> Black Moon (sysop ARACNOS, 12/92), Deathbringer (sysop LAST FRONTIER,
     06-07/92), Highlander (sysop PARADISE DREAMS, 06-12/92), Tron (sysop
     SPACE STATION, 11/92-10/93).
GER> Bob Duncan (crack, 11/92), Luke and Chuck (supply sysops THE FUCK
     SHOP, 05/91-10/93), Selim & Rudi (sysops THE JAM, new 10/92), Sniffy
     (sysop SPIRITUAL HEALING, 11-12/92).
FRA> Cypher and Mery (sysops HANG LOOSE, ex Analog, new 93-10/93).
CAN> Wildfire (sysop TRADE LINE, later Anthrox, 03-04/92).
USA> Big Boss (sysop MIRAGE WHQ, new 05/92-09/94), Ghetto Boyz (sysops THE
     GHETTO, 08/93-04/95), Hosehead (sysop GREAT WHITE NORTH, 01/92),
     Neuromancer (sysop CATASTROPHE, 06-12/92), Swift J (sysop CHAOTIC
     ENTITY, 03-10/93), Truckin Duck & Shane Gouseman (sysops THE EMPIRE,
     09-10/93).
???> Axel (06/92), Dennis the Menace (supply, 05-11/92), Fashion Light (new
     10/92), Fireball (06/92), Firebird (new 11/92), Genius (11/91), Izzy
     (06/92), Link (06/92), Mac (new 10/92), New Kid (supply, new 11/92),
     Problem Child (new 04/92), Ramius (new 12/91), Sarge (11/91), Silencer
     (11-12/91), ToM (crack, 09/91-12/92), Tiger (09-11/91).

Boards; BAD RELIGION (usa, 12/92), MAFIA CREW (can, new 01-07/92), SMALL
     HOURS (usa, 09-10/93).

PREVIOUS MEMBERS (pre 11/91) -

SWE> Conqueror (crack, 06/89-02/90), Istvan (sysop MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE,
     10/90), Zike (sysop PLEASURE DOME EHQ, later Agile, 06/89-03/90).
ENG> Marvin (sysop CITY LIMITS, 05-07/91).
N-L> Sleeping Bag (sysop CRYSTAL PALACE, 07-10/90).
USA> Spazm (sysop PROGRAMMERS HEAVEN, 12/89-10/90).
???> Blaizer (new 90), Celebrandil (06/89-90), Dagger (06/89-90), Dave
     (crack, 10/90), Doppleganger (90), Drone No.5 (supply, 05-10/91),
     Excalibur (06/89-90), Germ (06/89), Gluemaster (06/89), Griffith (90),
     Hobbit (gfx, 03-06/89), Kaktus (06/89), Mahoney (06/89), Odie (06/89),
     Predator (90), Spike (90), Vigilante (90), Warlord (09/91), Wiz (90),
     Zymox (06/89).

Boards; IRON FORTRESS WHQ (usa, 11/89-10/90), VIOLATORS PLACE (swi, 07-
     10/90).

Fairlight amiga started releasing stuff around the middle of 1987, just a
few months after the formation of their "mothergroup" on the c64. The first
active amiga member was Black Shadow, who made everything the group released
in their first year.
  1989 - The first two official boards were opened in july; IRON FORTRESS
WHQ in the usa and PLEASURE DOME EHQ in sweden.
  1990 - SEVENTH HEAVEN apparently took over EHQ status from PLEASURE DOME
sometime between february and april this year. SPAZTIC BBS changed its name
to PROGRAMMERS HEAVEN in march this year.
  1991 - The year started slow for Fairlight, with just a handful releases
in the first half of the year (two of them in cooperation with Skid Row in
february), but picked up from may when Gaston started cracking for the
group. In fact, he cracked ALL of the group's releases this year, except for
a single crack by ToM. FLATLINERS was WHQ and THE DUNGEON EHQ in may. Rebel
opened the doors to TRANCENTRAL in july this year. Sledgehammer (sysop HEAD
TRAUMA) was announced as a new member in november, but his stay must have
been short, since he was NOT on a memberlist published the following month.
Ramius was announced as a new member in a cracktro released in december.
December was also the last month Pizzaman's FLATLINERS (05/91-) was
apparently announced as a member board. New WHQ was APOCALYPSE.
  1992 - This was a good releasing year for the group, with Gaston still
handling the majority of the cracks, but with ToM and Bob Duncan adding
themselves to the race towards the end of the year. The canadian board
MAFIA CRACK CREW was announced as 'new' in january, and it was also this
month that their distsite GREAT WHITE NORTH apparently appeared for the
first time. Two new boards appared in february; ENTERPRIZE (usa) and ELEGANT
MACHINERY (norway, from The Silents). Problem Child was announced as a new
member in april, and Shaggy (ex Dual Crew) in may. May was also the first
appearance of MIRAGE BBS, and apparently THE DUNGEON disappared from the
boardlist and TRANCENTRAL took on EHQ responsibilities.. Towards the end of
may, they also announced Kitaro (MILLENNIA) as a new member. Late june,
P.O.W (sysop APOCALYPSE, 10/91-) decided to concentrate on PC and console
warez, and thus MIRAGE was upgraded to be the new WHQ for the group. Late
june saw PARADISE DREAMS and LAST FRONTIER appear on the boardlist, and
early july FAR OUT appeared for the first time. Phonebilly took ELEGANT
MACHINERY and left for Crystal in september (or possibly earlier, he was not
on the lists for more than a month after first appearing). Four new members
were announced in october; Selim & Rudi (THE JAM), Mac and Fashion Light.
November announced an additional two new members, Firebird and New Kid, plus
the recruitment of subgroup Diamonds & Rust. The board PLEASURE DOME is
actually a D&R board, and is not listed here under FLT for that reason.


Faith [old] (FTH, 1993-1994)
----------------------------
GER> Dr.Dre (sysop MARLEYS COFFEESHOP, 09-11/93), Mogue (also in Fire &
     Ice), Murdoc (sysop HEAVENS GATE, 09-11/93), Triton (sysop RADIO
     TEHERAN, 09/93-01/94).
ENG> PMF and Gilby (sysops CHEZ AMIE, 09-11/93).
ITA> Eniac (sysop IRON LAW BBS, 11/93).
USA> Deathbringer (sysop HORROR ZONE, 10-11/93), Flux (sysop CANADIAN MIST,
     10-11/93), Maker & Baser (sysops COURTS OF CHAOS, 09/93), Soultaker
     (sysop BEYOND DEATH WHQ, 09/93).
???> Mario (09/93), Mike Hammer (06-09/93), Mumu (09/93), Rapid (ascii, aka
     Rpd!, 09-11/93).

Faith was an illegal cracking group formed by germans Gandalf and Oliver
Stoned (previously in Paranoimia) in 1993. The two divided the group's
activities up between them after a while; Oliver Stoned taking care of the
pc section, while Gandalf was responsible for the amiga and consoles. Later
Oliver Stoned joined TRSI with the entire Faith group, a situation that
worked thus: They released the English or international versions of games
through TRSI, and the german version under the Faith label.
  1994 - After The Party 93 in december of last year, Gandalf changed his
handle to Ghandy and changed his focus from illegal activities to the
demoscene. Faith died as a group in early 94 (probably) when they joined
forces with Progress to create the new group Scandal.


Faith [new] (FTH, 1998-)
------------------------
???> Apu (09/98), Flux (09/98), Siriax (code supply, 05/98).

Faith was reborn early 1998 by Exon, with the blessing of original founder
Ghandy, as a cracking group.


Falon (1990-1991)
-----------------
Falon was a dutch demo group, founded in late 1990 by Jay One (gfx) and
Sane (swap). Soon also Weirdo (Olav Hinke, music) and Knightram (Mathijn
Maantjes, music swap) joined. Falon had no coders and they only released one
production with the help of coder Magician Lord/Axis in january of 1991.
After the release of the "Sinus Intro", Falon merged with a Danish group
organized by swapper Dr.Poison (Jan Jorgenson) and renamed to Ozone.
Unfortunately, this group lasted for only one day (!) before all members
joined the UK-based demo group The Lunatics. This did not last long either,
as after just one week the danish division decided to leave the Lunatics and
restart their original group (before the merger with Falon).
  Thanks to Sane for information on this group!

  Sinus Intro (1991, .01, ECS Intro).
  code: Magician Lord/Axis, gfx: Jay One, music: Weirdo.


Fanatic
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FIN> Raven (Mika Hiltunen, swap, 02-07/94).
DEN> Growl (Kim Andersen, swap, 08/94).


Fantasy Force, The (TFF)
------------------------
The Fantasy Force was an exclusively finnish demo group.


Fire & Ice (F^I)
----------------
???> Boomer (94), Dnss (08/94), H2o (08/94).

Fire & Ice were an ascii group.
  1994 - Since he felt he was the sole remaining productive member of the
group, Mogue (ascii sysop ENDLESS PAIN) was eventually fed up, and wanted to
start his own group. He left to form ArtCore with some others in june this
year.


Fi-Re Crew (1989-1992)
----------------------
Fi-Re Crew was a hungarian demo group.
  1992 - Renegade/Damage joined, and Soldier was kicked due to lameness in
the middle of the year. They died after several prominent members decided to
leave the scene in order to code games. Mr.Pixel then took an initiative to
form Impulse with some of the ex Fi-Re Crew members and some others.


Fire Starters, The (TFS)
------------------------
The Fire Starters were an australian group, mostly focused on importing
pirated software to Australia.
  1990 - One member was caught by the Australian police around april, and
had his computers and disks confiscated.


Flash Productions (FP)
----------------------
DEN> The Pride (swap, 10/90).

  Digital Concert VI (1990, OCS Musicdisk).
  code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: Commando.

  Papyrus (1990, 01.09, OCS Demo).
  Released for the Bounty Party demo competition, in cooperation with
  Kefrens [details].


Flood (FLD)
-----------
DEN> Chrome (doorcode sysop VOLVO'S INN, 11/95-01/96), Gilthanas (sysop
     WAREZ UNLIMITED, 01/96), Hell Ride (sysop RIDERS TEAM, 01/96),
     Jawlog (doorcode sysop THE TRIP, 08/96), Menace (doorcode,  01-
     02/96), Scqeech (sysop CRITICAL ZONE WHQ, 01-02/96).
NOR> Arcane (01/96), Madsen (01/96), Sealapex (sysop PITSTOP, 01/96).
SWE> Recall (sysop SKYLINE, 01/96).
FIN> Vostok (sysop THE MAZE, 01/96).
???> Adonis (01/96), Cool TJ (01/96), Kreon (01/96), Mickey (01/96),
     Phonetic (01/96), Psychotron (doorcode, 01/96), Relief (ascii, aka rLf,
     01/96), Rodex (01/96), Sticky (01/96), Tronic (01/96), Unmad (01/96),
     Visitor (01/96), Vostok (01/96).

PREVIOUS MEMBERS (pre 01/96) -

Flood appears to have been a danish-based, mainly boardoriented group.
  1996 - Jawlog joined sometime between january and august.


Floppy (FLP, 1994-)
-------------------
POL> Def (code modeller, 08/97), Fame (gfx, 08/96), Revisq (Patryk
     Gegniewicz, music, also in Anadune, 08/96-08/97), Thorus (code, 08/96),
     Zig (Wojciech Gajos, code, 08/97).
???> Pickpoke (gfx, new 08/97), Yasi (08/97).

  Unanimiter (1996, 30.08, AGA 64k Intro).
  code: Thorus, gfx: Fame, music: Revisq (The Player 6.1A format).
  2nd in the Intel Outside 3 64k intro competition.
  review: The intro opens with a Floppy logo, before a relief bump routine
  where we travel around the bump and credits appear on top of it. The
  light also changes color several times. This is followed by a blurry
  tunnel, before a phong-spring is overlaid... and then things take a nice
  turn for the stylish as the bump routine is back again, but this time it
  also rotates while everything is going on... And another logo by Fame,
  saying Unanimiter, and we're done. Short but most decidedly sweet.
    Original size 60228 bytes, compressed with StoneCracker 4.04. [glenn]
  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.1.

  Fairytale (1997, 31.08, AGA 040 Multifile Demo).
  code: Zig, gfx: Fame, music: Revisq.
  2nd in the Gravity 97 demo competition.
  review: Loosely ufo-themed, this demo has some cool 3d, but is too short
  and not nearly as exiting as the fourth-place winner from this
  competition, Nah Kolor's "Episode". A special mention must go to Revisq's
  soundtrack, though - it is definitely the glue that keeps this demo
  together. An ok demo, but nothing you need to go out of your way for.
    040-40 is recommended minimum configuration. Yasi and Def are also
  credited, but what they made for this demo, I simply don't know. Def may
  have been modeller. [glenn 08/05]

  KAH835GB (1997, 31.08, AGA 8MB File Demo).
  code: Def, gfx: Pickpoke, Def, Azzaro/Madwizards (director), music: Revisq
  (The Player 6.1A format). Cooperation with Madwizards.
  3rd in the Gravity 97 demo competition.
  review: More of a storytelling than a demo, this is another slice of
  Azzaro-directed weirdness. Only the specially interested need apply. Not
  my cup of tea, to put it in another sense.
    The huge memory requirement probably comes as an effect of all the
  digitized graphics, and being in a single file format. Having them in
  separate files on the harddrive, loaded on demand, would probably have
  made it possible for this one to use a lot less memory. This was likely
  Pickpoke's debut performance for Floppy. 030-50 is the suggested minimum
  configuration. [glenn 08/05]


Focus Design (FD, 1992-1997)
----------------------------
Focus Design was a Danish demo group born in early 1992 by Fish (formerly
Elin) and Tome (formerly The R) from Static Bytes, Kollaps from Cult and
Tris from Abuse. Kollaps is also known as MZ1453/GFB, and Corial and Optima
are brothers. They were the long-standing arrangers of the South Sealand
summer parties in Denmark.


Fraxion (FRX, 1990-)
--------------------
NOR> Astaroth (90), Lix (09/90).
DEN> Def (trade, new 04-05/92), Frostie (trade, 04-05/92).

Fraxion was a norwegian demo group, born in 1990 after The Flash Team (TFT)
decided to change the name of their group to Fraxion. They were demo-
oriented, though there were a few cracks, trainers and the utility Fraxion
Ripper by Flash of Genious (FoG). They also released at least one crack in
cooperation with Mayhem.
  1990 - Norwegians Delta-X and Copper both left the scene, while The End,
Exen and Lobber were all kicked out - all around september this year. This
meant there were 18 members left in the group.
  1992 - Danish traders Def and Frostie joined from Reflectors in april.


Freestyle (1992-)
-----------------
Freestyle was formed in late 1992 on the ashes of the original Axis; when
Axis died, most of its members went on to form this group.


Freezers (FRS)
--------------
SWE> Reverend D (sysop TRESPASS WHQ, 02-05/95), TBM (doorcode ascii, also in
     Pro Arts, 01-05/95).

  1995 - Swedish trainermaker Coolorado left for Insane in april.


Fresh Prince
------------
Fresh Prince was never a complete group, just one coder who happened to
not be in any group at the time. His intro 'McIntro' must surely be the
most successful non-group production ever, coming in second at the
prestigious The Party in 1994. Rebels took notice and recruited the Danish
coder just days after his success was a fact.

  Lola/McIntro (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro).
  code: Fresh Prince, Kata/Balance (replayer), gfx: n/a, music: "Muslingers"
  by Slide/Polka Brothers. 2nd in The Party 4 40k intro competition.
  review: most impressive the first time you see it, Lola/McIntro (both
  names appear in the intro) is a polished and cool effort from lone coder
  Fresh Prince. As far as I know, this is the only thing he released on his
  own. Cool music. [glenn]
 GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.


Frogs (-1993)
-------------
Frogs was formed by Front Soldier (later Cesium) and GS, and the name of
the group was composited from their handles. The group ceased to exist when
the entire group merged with Balance some weeks before easter of 1993.


Fusion (FSN)
------------
Fusion was a cracker group, with roots all the way back to the original
Fusion on the c64. The amiga section coexisted with the c64 section for
quite a while.
  1992 - Swiss sysop Slain (HALLOWED POINT) and traders Sabber and Floyd
joined from Zenith late this year, but stayed only briefly before moving on
to Ministry.
