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WHAT IS OUTBREAK - HISTORY - MEMBERS - RELEASES - CONTACT - GREETINGS

* * WHAT IS OUTBREAK? * *

utbreak is a demogroup located in the south of sweden, wich have
some local members who are dealing with some heavy graphics,
music, and of cource, coding.
We are pretty often travelling around to different demopartys to
compete at the usual competitions.
We are also coding BBS-utilitys, sw-programs and other utils...

* * HISTORY * *

utbreak was fouded in the summer of '95 and then we were
just coding BBS-utils for our BBS. We were doing lots of smaller
applications for DOS and we were visiting some demopartys, for
instance CC95 (Computer Convention) wich was, sad enough, a disaster.
At that time Outbreak consisted of one coder (TheC) and two (!) 3D-GFX
(Cl0ne and Combi).

Ok. Later on, Breakin (coder) & Fnordman (music) got involved in
Outbreak. They had their own group called EMILBUS, and were just
kicked by Sublime (Hint, EMILBUS backwards...).

Terminator (now known as Metronome) joined us as a musician. He was a
beginner, but was going on to be a goodie... won TGTBT96 multichannel
compo for example, but when he had already left for Goto10,
complaining that we were.
inactive, something that he of course, will regret now then we are
producing demos, sound & vision to the rest of the world =)
Nope, no hard feelings... hej Henke!

Well, after a while Sublime was showing an interest of Outbreak, and
they suggested that Sublime and Outbreak should be one single group.
And so we did. Sublime was the new name of our group, and sure, we had
a pretty nice time togetha. There were also some Amiga pals in Sublime
and we also held the TGTBT96 (Too Good To Be True) in Munka Ljungby,
south of sweden. During that, the Amiga-Sublime members got pissed,
and they wanted to break Sublime into molecules, wich we did.

So, Outbreak was back to normal, with some new members. The new
members was the excellent musicians Merlin & Liquid Buddha, and a very
good graphic artist named Mantic. Fnordman, however, decided to leave
Outbreak.

After some months, LB (Liquid Buddha) also decided to leave Outbreak,
inactivity was proberly the right reason...

Two traders joined us so they can help us spread our productions, they
are known as N0b and $cranton.

Under the past 2 years, we have coded some small utils, and I (Thec)
have written some Pascal-for-beginners-texts and some music has been
released. At HYPE'97 we was competing with our first demo(s) called
lovetro(tm) and otb-ansi (no name really) and it did'nt go quite well.
Ok, lovetro came 4th or something like that, but hey! we was not
expecting anything, it was coded in 1 day or so... also was the very
cool ANSI-64kb (guess who did it =).

We are now known as some strange people at parties, dressing strange,
deliver cool products and is the very first receiver of the words:
"Shall it sound like this" in a music-compo (Hype'97). The song came
out shared 10th =) As a matter of fact, the organizer stopped the song
after 2 patterns, and asked that stupid question, and they were forced
to play it over again =)

Our future looks fine. Our 2D & 3D-effects starting to look good, and
we are coding on some serious productions for the demoparties in '97.

* * MEMBERS * *

he Outbreak of today consist of the following members:

Handle    Occupation    Computer    Main Task

TheC      Student       486dx66     Coder/GFX/Organizing
BREAKiN   Student       P100        Main Coder/"Music destroyer" =)
MERLiN    Student       P???        Musician
Cl0ne     Student       P90         3D-GFX/Ideas
Mantic    Student       P120        Graphics
Icon      Student       P100        3D-GFX
N0b       Student       P???        Trader/Voter
$cranton  Student       P100        Trader/Voter

If you want to be a member of OTB and are good at any task, please
send some of your newest work to us. We dont need any more traders.

If you want to be a dist-site for us, please send us a E-mail or call
our BBS for more info. Only serious BBS:s will be dist-sites.

* * RELEASES * *

FILE:                DESC:                                  CREDZ:
OTB!LOVE.ZIP 970216  Lovetro 1.1 (updated version)          Breakin
Competed at the Hype'97 where it got   TheC
6 votes and placed 4th (2nd Pc-demo,   Grip
it was a combined compo).
Thanx for the heartpicture by
Grip/Istari.

OTB!ANSI.ZIP 970216  Outbreak's ansidemo                    TheC
Competed at the Hype'97, where it got  Breakin
one vote. No wonder since the Lovetro
competed at the same time... ;)

OTB!DANS.ZIP 970323  Ett demo som dansar                    Breakin
Polynominal^5 contribution             TheC
Bob/CdY

OTB!PÅSK.ZIP 970329  Glad påsk!                             Breakin
Something made at Icon's place...      Icon

*+*+* MUSIC, MERLIN *+*+*

This is only a couple of Merlin's tunes, the ones so far released
under Outbreak. He released about 50 tunes before that.Please check
them out as well, there's very many good ones!

FILE:                DESC:                                  CREDZ:
TRIPBLUE.ZIP 961107  A trip to the blue                     Merlin
THEWAIT.ZIP  970125  The Wait                               Merlin
INMYHEAD.ZIP 970125  In my head                             Merlin

OTBCOCO.ZIP  970323  Cococoder or Who killed Laura Palmer?  TheC
Made at Breakins place some time before
the P^5 party...

*+*+* MUSIC, OTHERS *+*+*

Don't blame our musician for any of the song under this label, they're
very unserious, very, very unserious even. They're made by Breakin and
Clone during demoparties just before deadlines, as jokes and such.
Some of them is made by Breakin, made because he didn't wan't to make
the texturemapper right then ;)

FILE:                DESC:                                  CREDZ:
OTB!ETEF.ZIP 970216  En tröja som e' ful                    Breakin
They actually asked if this song       Clone
was playing correctly. That made us
laugh just a little bit. It was played
correct. It's a interesting mixture of
colacans (unsynched) and such. Only
things present at Hype'97 used at
samples. Thanx to Obscure and PW inc.

OTB!ESSS.ZIP 970227  En socka som suger                     Breakin

OTB!BCS1.ZIP 970227  Breakin's chipsong #1                  Breakin
The song used in our ansi-intro.
Figured it might be fun to release it.

OTB!BCS2.ZIP 970227  Breakin's chipsong #2                  Breakin
Not .MOD-compatible. Free to use as
long as Outbreak is greeted/credited.
Sounds almost ok ;)

OTB!ELSL.ZIP 970323  En låt som låter                       Breakin
Yes. Don't listen to this one!
Another mouthmade module ;)
Made at Polynominal^5 in Malmoe.

FILE:                DESC:                                  CREDZ:
OTB!P2S.ZIP  970304  PCX to SCX convertor 1.0               Breakin
OTB!XMP.ZIP  970304  Simple module-player 1.1               Breakin

* * HOW TO CONTACT US * *

f you want to contact us for any reason, could be anything from
just chat to how to organize TGTBT or what so ever. So please write
(or call if you can't write) to:

*THEC*

E-mail                     Snail-mail
-not yet available-        Albert Sandberg
Växthusvägen 21
S-266 31 Munka Ljungby
Phn: +46-431-31372

*BREAKIN*

No E-mail =(               Snail-mail
Anders Nilsson
Haparandagatan 13
S-252 52 Helsingborg
Phn: +46-42-158404

If you want contact with other members in Outbreak, you can send the
letter through me (TheC) and I will deliver it to them.

*BBS*

Mayday OTB^WHQ  +46-431-31356 24h Lots of coding/demos/music/BBS-utils

*IRC*

We are pretty often on IRC. Try #Outbreak or #Coders...

* * GREETINGS * *

obscure-factor-h&t-phoenix-asphyxia-goto10-neurotica-yodel-#coders
sahara surfers-comedy-noice-karva-fate-allattendersatTGTBT-primitivos
flushed design-DPS-VLA-OTM-and everyone not included in this list

We hope that the list will be longer soon enough...