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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ --- Chicago Division Armitage Russel Simmons 1978 Coder Blackpawn Jim Scott 1979 Coder Descolada Samuel Stauffer 1981 Coder * Dr. Clone Christopher Richmond 1977 Musician Fructose Dan Bragiel 1980 Dancer Freejack Christopher Barton 1975 Musician Kosh Gerry Swanson 1977 Graphician * Purple Viking Jakob Nebeker 1980 Coder Pyromaniac Paul Bragiel 1977 Organizer * --- Montreal Divison Breester Bryan Internoscia 1979 Graphician Chin Chin Martin Stygar 1978 Graphician R.V. Stephane Hockenhull 1979 Coder Snake Grunger Francis Bernier 1981 Graphician * ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ * Denotes membership in the Game Boy division. ., 2_ Recent News ,. We've just accepted members to our new Montreal division. We look forward to seeing some interesting productions from these guys. ., 3_ Release List ,. ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ FILENAME SIZE DATE DESCRIPTION ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ARISE.ZIP 1.4 MB 06-08-96 NAID'96 Demostration. 4th place. PROPHET.ZIP 150 KB 01-05-97 Co-op intro with Dark Avenger & Tran CAUSTIC.ZIP 64 KB 02-13-97 Realtime Raytracing intro. HEROIN#1.ZIP 800 KB 12-13-98 Electronic magazine/charts. RAY.ZIP 9 KB 11-05-99 4k Realtime Raytracing intro. ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ., 4_ Contact Information ,. Beyond can be contacted via the internet. Please direct general concerns to Pyromaniac. Below is a list of contact methods: Internet Email: All members paul@heroin.net Armitage russ@paypal.com Blackpawn jimscott@mad.scientist.com Descolada descolada@ameritech.net Dr. Clone crichmon@students.uiuc.edu Freejack (may be contacted through Pyromaniac) Fructose dbragiel@indiana.edu Kosh gerry@interaccess.com Purple Viking nebeker@students.uiuc.edu Pyromaniac paul@paragon5.com World Wide Web: http://www.heroin.net/ ., 5_ Brief History ,. .Winter 1996. Pyromaniac decided to hold a small demo party/gathering at his house named Surreal. It was here that all the future Beyond members were to first meet. It also presented the first exposure to the demo scene for Armitage and partially for Kosh. Pyromaniac then decided to convene weekly Demo discussions at school, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Those to first attend included Pyromaniac, Dr. Clone, Armitage, lb, ErisE, and Freejack, as well as a few one-timers. Many ideas were discussed and explored in an attempt toward preparing an entry to NAID - The North American International Demo Competition to be held during the summer of 1996 in Montreal, Canada. Kosh also participated in the discussions by contributing a story board and sending email. .Spring 1996. Dr. Clone, Kosh, and Armitage continued to express interest in making a presentation for NAID. Pyromaniac and Freejack promptly left their former group, Pure Resistance, to found Beyond. Armitage quickly developed a 3D library as well as a 3D viewer and editor called TPaint. As the semester came to a close, the group slowly started to create the elements from which the eventual demo would be comprised. .Summer 1996. Our first Demo, Arise, was presented at NAID. It features many 3D effects by Armitage, as well as art by Kosh, and music from Freejack. It was created in less than a week, after we finally began to appreciate the upcoming competition deadline. The demo took 4th place - a decent result that we were happy with, considering that Arise represented a rushed effort. Pyromaniac holds the last of his Surreal parties. This one tops them all with attendance toping 35 people. .Winter 1996. Pyromaniac holds the now annual Beyond winter conference at his house. Guest attendees are Tran and Dark Avenger. Work on the now infamous in-house project codenamed "The Prophet" is completed. This also serves as the going away party for Tran before he leaves for 3DRealms. February brings the release of our realtime raytracing intro Caustic. It was created within a week period and features code by Armitage, music by Freejack, and art by Sky and Pyromaniac. It was released at the General Probe III demo party in support of our Polish scene friends. .Summer 1997. Beyond appears at E3 for the first time. This game industry show is simply what video games is all about, and should be attended by all demo scene fanatics. We share a hotel room with our buddies at DDD and 3DRealms. Chaos indeed! .Winter 1997. Beyond winter conference takes place again. No productions are completed but projects are discussed, which includes our e-mag Heroin. .Summer 1998. Beyond appears at E3 for the second time. This time Pyromaniac organizes for 15+ demo sceners to stay at the same hotel, as well as the 40+ demo sceners in attendance to get together and hit the Atlanta club scene. Former and current demo groups in attendance you might recognize include Complex, DDD, Dust, Fascination, Five Musicians, Future Crew, Guild, Ice, Iguana, Renaissance, Silents, TBL, TDT, and Ultraforce. .Fall 1998. Freejack drops out of the University of Illinois to persue studies in Entomology (insects) on the island of Aruba, which is off the coast of Venezuela. The lack of a stable internet connection prevents the upload of his music disk tenatively called "reduviidae". .Winter 1998. Heroin issue #1 is released. It gets over 2000 downloads in the first five days. Beyond winter conferece is held once again with a nice turnout. The results of the party was a small Game Boy intro, along with a few random effects and the usual partying. If you are interested in this intro contact Pyromaniac. The coder of this intro, Descolada, is now an official member of Beyond. .Spring 1999. With the spring season comes two new member to our group. Their handles are Blackpawn and Purple Viking. They both attend the University of Illiois. Look forward to Blackpawn's windows based productions and Purple Vikings killer 4k intros. .Summer 1999. A beyond member finally attends a european demo party. While on his 2 month tour of europe, Pyromaniac attends Takeover 99. It was an outstanding success! He also manages to meet up with other demo sceners along his trip in France, Hungary, and Poland. Also, this summer marks the major landmark of the creation of the Montreal division of Beyond. This has been a while in the making with our close ties to the Montreal scene since the first Naid. This just makes the links even closer. We welcome Breester, Chin Chin, R.V., and Snake Grunger. Shortly afterwards, Snake Grunger makes a trip to the LTP3 demo party in France. That makes two Beyond members in europe, 1999 is officialy marked as the year that Beyond invades europe! .Fall 1999. Purple Viking finishes up his 4k realtime raytracing intro called 'Ray'. We decided to release it at The Flash Party in Argentina to support our South American friends. ., 6_ Special Thanks ,. We would like to send out a special thank you to Haji for making us those wonderful ascii's that you see. ., 7_ Greetings ,. Beyond would like to collectively send our utmost greetings to the following groups: Acme, Bomb, Calodox, Cammora, Complex, Chrome, Class, CSR, Deus, DDD, Dust, Exceed, FC, FM, Hugi, Hipnotica, Hyperopia, Iguana, Imphobia, Jamm, Majic 12, Matrix, MFX, Night55, Nooon, Pulse, Renaissance, S!P, Silents, Septic, Suspend, TBL, TPOLM, TRSi, Xography. We would like to send out greetings to these game industry companies: 3DRealms, Digital Illusions, Epic, Guild, H2O, Leryx Longsoft, Monolith, Neo, Orange Games, Polygon, Pyro, Remedy, Shiny, UDS, Witan Our extended family is: Aap, Arjan Brusse, Angelday, Andude, Atom, Atx, Breester, Civax, Cyber, Dan Wright, Dark Avenger, D-Lee, Darkness, Dascon, Derpunkt, Enebereza, Enok, Fysx, Gore, Gravel, Hugo Elias, Humanoid, Hunz, Hornet, Imode, Incarnate, Jamon, Java, Kolinahr, Kuroi Neko, Louie, Made, Nero, Optic, ParticleX, Rappid, Raybondo, Reptile, Reward, Rodney, Skorpik, Sky, Stone, The Watcher, Thor, Tran, Yitzhaq, Unreal, and Xerxes.