Darkness Group History

For the record...

Year:1991

Location:ARGENTINA....

     After five years of ideas,names,criticism and/or suggestions from my
     friends i came to the name DARKNESS , after thinking for long time in
     LEGEND (which was already used in Europe for the ppl in C64 and then on
     AMIGA ) and desisted thanx to my official informer about the C64 scene,
     Juan "Darkboy" (yeah yeah Johnny i remember everything ) who put me at
     the news 'cause i was hangin' around in another planet or better said
     the other gang, the ZX Spectrum, in which with Cyclone and some others
     (Guybrush & company) done a demo under the group we called Technosoft
     (Guybrush Depeche influences?) besides several cracks and disc versions
     (new things in ZX at that moment) with the help and graphic touch of
     Cyclone (excellent one indeed).

     Why DARKNESS???

     The name comes from a song of ... who else ... Ozzy Osbourne from 1983,
     named "Waiting For Darkness".(Complains about my fanatism are not welcome
     and/or in case i don't give a shit).

1991 :Where do i start???

     Time to meet new people. Being in the military service and between runs,
     frog jumps and so on i had no choice but run from the monotonous and
     lamentable reality of being on of the chosen to waste time with the
     militars. This gave me enuff time and hunger to start what i always
     wanted, build the group and get away from the common (and lonely) that
     was doing all for myself. I started to work in a computer store were i
     meet somebody that to this day deserves much of the credit and "fame"
     of DARKNESS... Keywiz.

     Between attend people ( annoying !!!) and other things .. with a boss
     that deserves the gold prize to fun (Hi Charly!!!) and a couple of
     partners which was a pleasure to work with ("GP" Chuzas & Gaston !!!!);
     always talking with Keywiz about the argentine computer ambient or
     whatever was that (now and yesterday.... deplorable), also about Z80!!!,
     and then my desire to make the group. With this in mind and actually
     with people which i knew i could count with;
     Karnoff and his abilities with Deluxe Paint;
     Cyclone ... which i already knew very well and had good ideas;
     Largo which was one of the persons that made my mind to switch to
     the AMIGA (i bought it that year) and who spent lots of time with
     Deluxe Paint, REAL 3D and the NEWTEK demos;
     and Gaston, fanatic of Amiga and disposed to give a hand on everything.

     And of course my master and Amiga guru which i knew he could help me in
     case of trouble :) SoMEoNE. Who help me to understand a bit the fucking
     guru meditation and the kindness of the A.Replay. (God bless you DATEL!!)
     With all these people in mind and doing some animations, music, graphics,
     cracks, and the ruin which was kinda new and not well known on Argentina,
     the MODEM.

     The Search of the Grail (*)

     Well well what can we say... long talks with half world; QSD; Samantha;
     Pegasus; Telechat; INTERNET!... asking all the time... a crusade which
     last till end of '91, in which we found a warrior on the same path and
     with we made our way to what was the most expensive world at that moment
     called europe: EXIT (Whenever you are we salute you!). It's impossible not
     to mention people like Gizmo, Edison, BayernPower, Red Baron, Daffy Duck,
     Jackie, Dangerous, which were in the same like us and didn't look to
     another place. Also someone i can't forget to mention, speaking of our
     own country, and in special way to Gibson.
     (*)(comes on white boxes but at the end blue)

1992 :Razor cuts ... and a lot.

     Ahh! 1992.. year of new stuff, more ppl (all kinds, no doubt about it) and
     large phone bills.. Local!!!) Year of the QSD wars, my new home and
     interest (becoz i careless DKS): RAZOR 1911, efinet and his ghost duty
     (all were like ghost over there, like his integrants ..without point
     some fat swaggerer), HIJOS DE LA NOCHE, the N91.../DEMO account .
     How many things... but well we done it all, from the thousand & one cracks
     for PC, the AMIGA ones of the spanish versions, which we paid of our own
     pocket and which were paid by our AMIGA supplier (hi Gerardo and
     Guybrush), not a lot... about 10 to 1 but were spend a lot of money and
     the others didn't know where it came from (call 'em people that don't
     deserve mention and Less on my page ).Year in what the PC & AMIGA users
     fulfilled his trashcans with photocopies of the password of Monkey Island
     1&2; Indiana Jones; Sierra's adventures (bullshit whatever you say ,PP);
     Future Wars ... the list is countless. Talking of the people that were
     in the group, some much like passengers and other not so, it worth to
     mention and detach :

     MODERNO : Vanguard in matter of graphics. Much advanced in style and
               ideas.

     MADBIT : Who done the way of the music bands and done, at the end of '92
     - beginning of '93 with his solo project MATRIX. A gem between a lot of
     carbons (too much better said) Persons with got it with music and ANSI
     like him, a few. A pioneer.

     BLASTER : Hmm..some logos, his loved Topaz (putazz) and his wonderful
     386 to play LINKS. Famous for left his shadow on the wall of enano
     (don't ask how).

     GUYBRUSH : Together with his brother brought a lot of ideas, good music
     and a MOD which lasted for the Hall OF Fame. (in fact two! count the
     one from the unreleased "KILL MARIO!!!" Demo.)

     TRON : Trader like few. Deserves to be in this page. (joined in the
     middle of 1993)

     Some spend more time asking to be in and then done nothing or forgot
     all about it.

     Our demo of the Simpsons, done in AMIGA by Cyclone, Largo and me, the
     PC version with transitions coded by Keywiz which attracted all the
     attention of the show in the Sheraton Hotel that year (Expo Usuaria,
     if i remember well), when the people of the TOPAZ stand leave us to load
     it on one of his machines and automatically all those persons paid
     attention to our demo and not his product (besides the courses of the guy
     at the stand coz we forgot to tell him that the demo didn't exit to dos
     and becoz of the "fuck u" in the scroll text :) ) Memorable.

     A weekend in the life of DARKNESS

     Barbeques with submarines, calls at any time (and to anyone), the jumps
     of botita, the cow leaving the pool without water and 20 guys sleeping in
     the floor (it's supposed we could sleep, right??). What ???? of What im
     talking about?? Of the authentic CopyParty's (call it any name with the
     only reason to bother between us and/or with the help of the machines)
     in where we put our minds to work, somebody to speak shit about (in
     the cyberspace or out of it, in that moment Virtual Reality ... like
     ETERNAM!!! no?? ;) ), the passwords of Bubba (Give us Battle Squadron for
     PC!!!) in the Telemate phonebook to abuse all we could.

     Call to QSD, championship of Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 and Pinball Dreams
     with my Amiga 500, shoot the stupid cat of Keywiz between other sports.
     To all this the nono didn't stop to sleep and the others asking please
     to Blaster that one day of his life he take a shower (including someone
     asking in good manner aka Please ! and without kick him.
     Note:THESE WAYS DONT INCLUDE  PP)

     RAZOR 1911

     I joined Razor 1911 in february '92 (making team with SoMeOnE which was
     already in the group) and i dedicate myself much to all that was cracking
     with the help of SoMeOnE, some trading and with him and PHASEDRAGON,
     created the first / best bbs of AMIGA and later PC, MAC and SNES in
     Argentina: PAINKILLER.

     Razor made me leave things a little aside with DARKNESS coz there was not
     much to crack on Amiga that we could release with DKS and i needed to
     demonstrate why i was in a group like Razor.

     To the end of 1992 Argentina was flooded with intros and cracks.
     (The computer stores so happy and the bad tongues thinking we were
     taking money for it ..... fuck them!)

     DARKNESS RULES!

     To Be Continued....

Strider/Darkness (aka Fate/Quartex)

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