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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