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.aLTAIr.nFo.fILe. v.14.05.1999.

.wHAT's.tHAt.aLTAIr.tHINg.aNYWAy?

So  you  want  to  know what ALTAIR is. If you do, just
take  any  star  atlas  or  something and check it! You will
surely  find  word  "altair" there. If you are not satisfied
with  this answer, here is an alternative one: 'Altair' is a
name  of a polish demoscene group which happened to take its
name  from a celestial body called so. Still don't know what
I  am  talking about? Well, I am afraid I cannot help you...
Just  keep on reading and you might soon get an idea of what
'Altair' really is.

Altair  was founded by GED and Stealth a long time ago.
GED  had  an Amiga and was supposed to be an artist and main
organizer;  Stealth had a PC and was supposed to be a coder.
But  because  of  laziness  and  lack of time, our group did
barely  more  than  just  exist.  In  the  beginning of 1997
something  began  to  change.  In  the meantime, some people
joined  the group, GED became Malfunction and Stealth became
BlueShade.   Amongst   those  who  joined  our  group  were:
Corrozya,  Dzozef,  Harvuh  (calling  himself Axis now). The
first  official appearance of Altair on the scene occured on
Intel  Outside  4  Party held in July of 1997 in the city of
Wloclawek,  Poland.  We presented some of our work there and
even  made  it  to the second place with Dzozef's, and MLF's
DNA  64k  intro. We relased some other productions there but
they  were  not  rated  so  high.  This year we have been to
RushHours98 and relased some artwork as well as one 256-byte
intro.  Our  next  move was to come to Quast98 Party held at
Elblag  in  July. Almost unanimously, we think that this was
the  nicest  party we have been to as a group... The relases
there  include  music, ray, gfx and 256b intro (the last one
came  3rd  in  the  compo  :). At Satellite, we relased some
music  but  failed  to  stay in Szczecin (the city where the
party  was  held)  until  the  end  of the party due to some
higher  powers...  During  the  next  few months, as we were
preparing for FreeSide (which failed to take place) and then
for  Astrosyn  2, some things have changed. First, our group
gained  a new coder - Lett. Then we were joined by two other
guys: DJ Regal (swapper and musician) and Singer (musician).
And  thus  came Astrosyn 2. The party was nice although some
might  disagree  with this opinion. At least it was nice for
us,  who  managed  to: 1) have real fun, 2) estabilish a new
group called United Dancers (you will surely hear about that
if  you  hadn't  already), 3) win two 1st places and one 2nd
place (4k intro, gfx and 64k intro  ;), 4) join new member -
Insect (swapper and ascii-maker)...
Let's wait for more . . .

.mEMBERs.

.hANDLE . . . . . . . .  FUNCTIOn.
.aXIS . . . . . . . . . . . . MSx.
.bLAZE  . . . . . . . . . . . MSx.
.bLUESHADE  . . . . . . . CODE 3d.
.dJ REGAL . . . . . . . SWAPP MSx.
.dZOZEF . . . . . . . . . CODE 3d.
.fUZZY  . . . . . . . . . . . GFx.
.gODAI  . . . . . . . . HTML TEXt.
.iNSECT . . . . . . .  SWAPP AZKi.
.jANE . . . . . . . . . . . . GFx.
.lESNIK . . . . . . . . . . . MSx.
.lETT . . . . . . . . . . .  CODe.
.mAGNETIC . . . . . . . . . . MSx.
.mALFUNCTION  . . . .  GFX MSX Hq.

.sINGER . . . . . . . . . . . MSx.
.vIGGITH  . . . . . . . . .  CODe.

.sTUFf.

.nAME . . . .  KIND    . PARTY . . . . . PLACe
.dNA  . . . . INTRO64  . IO4 . . . . . . . 2Nd
.tERAZ  . . . INTRO256 . QUAST'98  . . . . 3Rd
.nOIZ . . . . INTRO64  . ASTROSYN2 . . . . 2Nd
.kHAOS? . . . INTRO4   . ASTROSYN2 . . . . 1St

.qUITE A LOT OF MODULEs.

.qUITE A LOT OF GFx.

.gREETs.

aetherna . agravedict . aion . amnesty . anakata . anxiety . beyond
bomb  .  blasphemy . byteway . chloride . cncd . cocoon  .  cryogen
devilsorgy  .  diffusion . dilemma . dimension . eclipse  .  enenzi
exmortis  .  exodus . fizz  .  flow . fuse  . grinders  .  hellcore
hypnotize . interror . ipc  . knights . korozone . liberty . logrus
nahkolor  .  nomad  .  norferin   .  nwo  .  omnicolour  .  platoon
procreation . role . samar . scream  . set . spawn . supportersclub
suspend   .   syndrome   .  tatanka   .  tesko   .  the black lotus
the planet of leather moomins . theloop  . trauma  . united dancers
vector . vision               .                   and all we forgot

.cONTACt.

.sNAIl.
.hANDLE  . NAME  . . . . . . . . ADDRESS.
.rEGAL . . PIOTR SUCHARSKI . . . KLAUDYN 164 . . . . 02-080 IZABELIN . Pl.
.iNSECT  . TOMASZ JURGIELEWICZ . WIENIAWSKIEGO 2/1 . 62-510 KONIN  . . Pl.
.mLF . . . SLAWOMIR BUBEL  . . . ROGOZINSKIEGO 17/57 02-777 WARSZAWA . Pl.

.eMAIl.
.hANDLE . . . . . . ADDRESs.
.aXIS . . . . . . . zebrowski@alpha.sggw.waw.pl
.bLUESHADE  . . . . blueshade@bigfoot.com
.dJ REGAL . . . . . sucharp@grafit.mp.pw.edu.pl
. . . . . . . . . . dj_regal@friko6.onet.pl
.dZOZEF . . . . . . s0929@pjwstk.waw.pl
.lETT . . . . . . . lett@promail.pl
.mAGNETIC . . . . . magnetic@scene-hu.com
.mALFUNCTION  . . . malfunction@bigfoot.com

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