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tHE STORY OF sUCCESS AND tHE rULING cOMPANY
sUCCESS
lET ME START WITH sUCCESS FIRST. aT THE bOCHOLT PARTY IN gERMANY (1991)
sUCCESS GOT REBUILT BY THE MAIN gERMAN MEMBERS (E.G. aRROGANCE, rAZE, rAP,
sTEEL, b-wYZE, hI-lITE, lIFESTYLE, tYREE (AT THAT TIME CALLED nIGGA), gORDON
AND A COUPLE MORE) AND THREE dUTCH GUYS FROM vERDICT (nIGHTSHADE, fALCON AND
sATCOM).
lET ME START WITH sUCCESS FIRST. aT THE bOCHOLT PARTY IN gERMANY (1991)
sUCCESS GOT REBUILT BY THE MAIN gERMAN MEMBERS (E.G. aRROGANCE, rAZE, rAP,
sTEEL, b-wYZE, hI-lITE, lIFESTYLE, tYREE (AT THAT TIME CALLED nIGGA), gORDON
AND A COUPLE MORE) AND THREE dUTCH GUYS FROM vERDICT (nIGHTSHADE, fALCON AND
sATCOM).
aFTER 2-3 WEEKS i (bURGLAR) JOINED FORCES TO STRENGTHEN THE dUTCH SECTION
AND i LEFT THE OLD dUTCH DEMOGROUP pOWERS OF pAIN.
hEADLINE (EX-uNION) JOINED ASWELL AND DID A COUPLE INTROS, BUT HE LEFT THE
SCENE QUITE EARLY.
sOON AFTER THAT sKARABEE JOINED US AS OUR FIRST gABBER MEMBER. a COUPLE OF
YEARS AGO HE DISAPPEARED AFTER PIMPING A COUPLE WHORES AND DRUGDEALS. nOBODY
KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM, HE'S PROBABLY IN JAIL OR SOMETHING.
wE ALSO TOOK IN gUZZLER TO RUN HIS BOARD tHE lOST eMPIRE FOR US, WHICH AT
THAT TIME WAS THE TOP DUTCH bbs.
mICRON WAS DISCOVERED BY nIGHTSHADE, AND WAS STILL UNKNOWN UNTIL HE JOINED
US. hE HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY TOOLS, LIKE BLUEBOXES, PACKERS,
TERMINALS AND THE ICE-MACHINE.
aNOTHER NEW MEMBER WAS tHE yANK, WHO WASN'T OF MUCH VALUE FOR US, SO HE
DIDN'T STAY TOO LONG ANYWAY.
sOMETIME LATER nIGHTSHADE, mOREN AND ME WENT TO THE sUCCESS+dOMINATORS PARTY
IN pAPENBURG/gERMANY (1992). wE HAD A GREAT TIME THERE AND SOON mOREN LEFT
pARADIZE AND eLECTRIC bOYS (GROUP BUILT BY IRONFIST OUT OF zENITH/pUBLIC
eNEMY PEOPLE).
mOREN SOON BECAME ONE OF sUCCESS' MAIN MEMBERS. hE FOR EXAMPLE BROUGHT IN
TWO FORMER bABYGANG MEMBERS (dANY bOY FROM fRANCE AND mISTRI FROM THE uk).
bOTH HAVE BEEN QUITE VALUABLE TO US WHEN IT COMES TO FIRSTRELEASES.
aRTIX USED TO BE A MEMBER OF sUCCESS ASWELL. hE USED TO BE IN pOWERS OF
pAIN, vERDICT AND pARADIZE. hE IS NOW MORE KNOWN BECAUSE OF HIS GRAPHICS IN
NUMEROUS GAMES.
aROUND THE SAME TIME WE ALSO GAINED MEMBERS IN aUSTRIA (dANNIE AND mR.dISK)
WHOM HAVE SUPPLIED US QUITE A COUPLE FIRSTRELEASES ASWELL.
a PARTICULARY FAMOUS MEMBER WAS tHE sILVER sURFER (EX-hOTLINE) WHO DID QUITE
SOME CRACKING FOR THE GROUP, HE ALSO USED TO RUN ONE OF OUR eURO BOARDS.
sOME OF YOU MIGHT REMEMBER sTEVE (EX-zENITH/aVANTGARDE) WHO ALSO HAS BEEN A
MEMBER OF THE RULING CO-OP FOR SOME TIME.
tHE gERMAN SECTION WAS LED BY aRROGANCE, BUT MOST gERMAN MEMBERS LOST
INTEREST. tHERE WERE A COUPLE THAT WERE ACTIVE, NAMELY sHOCKER AND rAMIREZ
(NOW BOTH IN oNSLAUGHT).
aT ONE TIME WE ALSO HAD A bELGIAN MEMBER CALLED aTMOS, BUT HE DIDN'T STAY
LONG AS HE WAS HANGING WITH lEGEND TOO MUCH. hE DID HAVE DAMN MANY CALLING
CARDS THOUGH.
iT DIDN'T TAKE US TOO LONG TO GAIN THE NUMBER ONE SPOT IN MOST MAILMAG
CHARTS, AND WHEN THINGS REALLY STARTED ROLLING WE HAD A FIRM GRIP ON THE
TOP-CRACKING-GROUPS, TOP-SWAPPER (nIGHTSHADE) AND TOP-SINGLE-CRACKER
(bURGLAR) CHARTS. mOST OF OUR sUCCESS (HENCE DA NAME) WAS ACHIEVED BY GOOD
pr AND GOOD MAILVERSIONS OF ALL THE GAMES THAT WERE RELEASED. wE HOSTED
SEVERAL BOARDS IN THE PAST (E.G. eDGE OF mIDNIGHT, dIVINE uLTIMATUM, tHE
lOST eMPIRE, cHRYSTALBALL, rEBELLION AND OFCOURSE, tHE dUNGEON). mOST OF
THOSE WERE SHARED WITH OTHER GROUPS AT ONE TIME OR THE OTHER (NAMELY gENESIS
pROJECT, 20cc, dOMINATORS AND hITMEN).
wE STARTED OFF TRADING WITH eXCALIBUR (SOME OF YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THE INTRO
i MADE FOR THEM), BUT THINGS AROUND eXCALIBUR SLOWED DOWN AFTER
x-fACTOR/eXCALIBUR LEFT THE SCENE. mASSIVE oNSLAUGHT TOOK OVER AND DID QUITE
SOME FIXES FOR US UNTIL HE FUCKED UP cREATURES 2.
wE ALSO HUNG AROUND tsm FOR A WHILE, AS zALDRON/tsm (EX-aRMAGEDDON) WAS A
GOOD FRIEND OF MINE, HOWEVER IT NEVER RESULTED IN A RELEASE, MAYBE BECAUSE
WE GAVE cREATURES 2 TO mo FIRST (ALLTHOUGH zALDRON AND mo WERE ABOUT TO FORM
THEIR OWN GROUP, IT NEVER HAPPENED).
oUR MAIN ntsc FIXING PARTNERS BECAME eMPIRE AND dEMONIX, WITH WHOM WE BOTH
SHARED A bbs OR TWO.
sUCCESS WAS ALSO THE FIRST GROUP TO HAVE A pOLISH SECTION (E.G. hAIN AND
bRUSH, sLIVER, sEBALOZ, tITANIC, sAILOR, amc) WHO GOT US QUITE A FEW
RELEASES ASWELL.
wE ALSO WERE FIRST TO HAVE AN aUSTRALIAN SECTION WITH vENGEANCE AND mORBID
(NOW BOTH MEMBERS OF oNSLAUGHT). vANDALISM nEWS WAS RELEASED A COUPLE OF
TIMES UNDER THE sUCCESS FLAG ASWELL.
tHE WAREZ KEPT ON FLOWING BUT WE SEEMED TO HAVE A PROBLEM IN THE DUTCH GAMES
MARKET, WHICH WAS MAINLY CAUSED BY trc.
tHE rULING cOMPANY
tHIS BRINGS US TO tHE rULING cOMPANY WHICH STARTED OUT IN THE EIGHTIES AS A
ONE OF THE BEST DUTCH DEMO GROUPS. trc IS KIND OF FAMOUS FOR IT'S HABIT TO
FORM CO-OPERATIONS (PREVIOUSLY WITH wORLD wIDE eXPRESSIVE AND LATER WITH tHE
bLASTERS iNC). trc HAD FAMOUS MEMBERS LIKE rEYN oUWEHAND (AT THAT TIME
CALLED mACmAGIX) AND hITHOUSE (REMEMBER HIS mAMBA TUNE?)
aCTION jACKSON BECAME THE LEADING FORCE BEHIND trc AND HE TALKED cba INTO
JOINING trc AFTER THE trc+wwe CO-OP ENDED. tHE JOINING OF cba HAS LATER
PROVEN IT'S VALUE WHEN trc BECAME ONE OF THE TOP DUTCH CRACKING GROUPS.
trc HAS BECOME QUITE FAMOUS BECAUSE OF THE MAG aj RELEASED CALLED fRONTPAGE,
WHICH WAS A ONE-FILED MAGAZINES CONTAINING SCENE RELATED THINGS AND MOVIE
REVIEWS.
rIGHT NOW WE ARE WORKING ON fRONTPAGE oNLINE, WHERE YOU CAN vote ALREADY ;)
cba HAS RECENTLY LEFT THE C64 SCENE, AND WE WISH HIM ALL THE BEST IN HIS
FUTURE LIFE. wE WILL KEEP ON PARTYING TOGETHER, THOUGH :)
trc HAS HAD TWO MAIN BOARDS IN THE us, NAMELY vIRTUAL rEALITY (WHICH WAS A
TOP BOARD AT ITS TIME AND WAS SHARED WITH eMPIRE) AND pOWERSURGE (NOT REALLY
WORTH MENTIONING THOUGH).
trc ALSO HAD MEMBERS LIKE jITY, cAVRON (AND HIS BOARD CALLED sTATE OF THE
aRT), jORDI (FORMER tbi) AND A HELL OF A LOT MORE.
gAZZA IS NOW WORKING ON fRONTPAGE ONLINE WITH aCTION-jACKSON AND ME.
aj IS ALSO RUNNING HIS OWN WEBPAGE CALLED wONDERWORLD ALSO FEATURING HIS
MOVIE-REVIEWS AGAIN.
tHERE IS PROBABLY A LOT MORE TO WRITE ABOUT sUCCESS' AND trc'S HISTORY, BUT
i DON'T REMEMBER EVERYTHING (ESPECIALLY trc HISTORY), SO GO ASK SOMEONE ELSE
TO WRITE A COMPLETE HISTORY ;)
tHE cO-oP...
iT ALL STARTED RIGHT AFTER tHE pARTY'93, THE BUS BACK TO hOLLAND. wITHIN
sUCCESS WE ALREADY HAD DISCUSSED THE ORIGINAL MARKET WE BASED OUR SUPPLY ON.
aND IT HAPPENED QUITE A COUPLE OF TIMES THAT sUCCESS AND trc WERE COMPETING
ON THE SAME GAMES. aS NEITHER scs OR trc WERE HOSTILE TOWARDS EACHOTHER (AND
WE LOVED TO PARTY TOGETHER) WE DECIDED TO JOIN FORCES. wE DISCUSSED SEVERAL
POSSIBILITIES (ALL MEMBERS OF ONE GROUP JOINING THE OTHER FOR EXAMPLE), AND
WE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT A CO-OPERATION WOULD BE THE MOST VALUABLE TO
BOTH GROUPS. hENCE IN JANUARY 1994 THE RULING CO-OPERATION WAS A FACT.
wE STARTED WITH SHARING rEBELLION, WHICH WAS psi hq ASWELL (psi WAS A NEW
FIXING GROUP WITH BOTH us AND eURO MEMBERS (E.G. cOUNT zERO) AND tHE dUNGEON
WHICH STILL REMAINS TO BE OUR wORLD hEADQUARTER.
wE DROPPED rEBELLION QUITE SOON, AS aLCHEMIST (SYSOP FROM tHE dUNGEON) DID
NOT QUITE LIKE wHITE lIGHTNING (SYSOP OF rEBELLION). tHE CHOICE WAS EASY, AS
CLEARLY, tHE dUNGEON WAS THE BETTER BOARD OF THE TWO.
oNE OF OUR FIRST MAJOR RELEASES WAS FOR EXAMPLE lEMMINGS (ESPECIALLY cba
SHOWED HIS LEVELPACKING-SKILLS ON THIS GAME (JUST KIDDING, nIELS ;)
tHE CO-OPERATION SOON STARTED TO WORK OUT VERY WELL, WITH nIGHTSHADE AND
aCTION jACKSON BEING THE MAIN SUPPLIERS. cRACKING AND FIXING WAS MAINLY DONE
BY OURSELVES. tHE FIXING WAS SOMETIMES PASSED TO A NTSC GROUP (E.G. dEMONIX,
eMPIRE).
aLCHEMIST DID HAVE SOME PROBLEMS KEEPING THE BOARD ONLINE WHICH RESULTED A
COUPLE OF MONTHS DOWN TIME, AT THAT TIME WE EVEN HAD A PRIVATE SUB AT dREAM
pARK (i'M PRETTY SURE THAT f4cg HAD ACCESS TO THE SUB, BUT WHO CARES;). wHEN
THINGS WERE LOOKING BETTER FOR aLCHEMIST tHE dUNGEON CAME BACK ONLINE TO
STAY. rIGHT NOW WE ARE SHARING tHE dUNGEON WITH OUR GOOD FRIENDS IN hITMEN,
JUST LIKE OUR eURO hq CALLED mYSTICAL pARADISE. tHE dUNGEON IS ALSO SHARED
WITH dEMONIX.
dURING THE YEARS WE FELT WE SHOULD EXPAND, SO WE TOOK IN sPECTATOR,
sPLATTERHEAD AND lcf (NOW OFFICIALLY LEFT THE SCENE). lATELY WE ALSO GAINED
mR.aMMO FROM tRIAD, AND YOU ARE LOOKING AT WHAT HE MADE POSSIBLE ;)
aLSO WE DECIDED TO HAVE A CZECH REP. SECTION ASWELL, SO bACILLUS AND
aLLITAICE JOINED. bOTH ARE RESONSIBLE FOR QUITE A FEW RELEASES ON OUR
ACCOUNT.
aNOTHER SECTION IS PRESENT IN hUNGARY, ALLTHOUGH IT'S ONLY TWO GUYS,
sTAKE/EX-cHROMANCE AND cREDO, BUT BOTH ARE INACTIVE.
aT THIS TIME MOST OF THE gERMAN SECTIONS OF BOTH GROUPS BECAME INACTIVE
AND/OR JOINED OTHER GROUPS, AND AS WE THOUGHT WE REQUIRED A GOOD gERMAN
SECTION ASWELL WE TOOK IN cOUNT zERO (FROM rsi,tALENT,psi AND A COUPLE
MORE). TO DO SOME HEAVY FIXING AND CRACKING FOR US.
cOUNT zERO HAS BEEN A GOOD CHOICE AS HE IS VERY TALENTED IN BOTH FIXING AND
CRACKING, ALLTHOUGH HE IS DISLIKED BY MANY FOR HIS ATTITUDE, BUT WE COULDN'T
CARE LESS FOR WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK OR THOUGHT.
(cz: i COULDN'T CARE LESS, eNNO ... THX FOR THE FLOWERS...)
tHE gERMAN SECTION HAS BEEN EXPANDED WITH sUPERSTITION WHO USED TO BE IN
ANOTHER TOP gERMAN GROUP UNDER A DIFFERENT HANDLE.
a COUPLE OF DAYS AGO l'tRIMM LEFT wow AND JOINED US ASWELL.
aS MOST OF THE pOLISH SECTION LEFT THE SCENE OR JOINED ANOTHER GROUP (E.G.
hAIN AND sLIVER), WE TOOK IN eL bANDITOS TO DO SOME MAJOR MAILTRADING AND
SUPPLYING.
iN THE FUTURE THE pOLISH SECTION WILL PROBABLY GAIN MORE MEMBERS, BUT THAT
WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN DUE TIME (ALL GOOD THINGS TO THOSE WHO WAIT:).
aLSO tRISTAN/eMPIRE BECAME A MEMBER OF THE CO-OP, HOWEVER HE DISAPPEARED
FROM THE SCENE AGAIN (PROBABLY IN JAIL AGAIN).
aLLMIGHTY (AKA mOLOCH (aRMAGEDDON AND FORMER nei, f4cg)) JOINED US RECENTLY
ASWELL, BUT THE NOTORIOUS GROUP-JUMPER HE IS, HE ALREADY LEFT/GOT KICKED.
tHE 'x' pARTIES...
iN 1995 scs*trc AND fOCUS ORGANIZED x'95 AT eASTER IN uTRECHT/hOLLAND. tHE
EVENT WAS WELCOMED BY MANY AND A LOT OF PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER eUROPE ATTENDED
AND GOT DRUNK WITH US ALL. sOME SCENERS ARE STILL REFERRING TO IT AS ONE OF
THE BEST C64 PARTIES EVER.
x'96 HELD AT THE SAME PLACE IN aPRIL'96 WAS AN EQUAL sUCCESS, HOWEVER ON THE
ORGANIZERS PART A LOT OF THINGS WENT WRONG, DUE TO THE BAD ATTITUDE OF THE
OWNERS FROM THE DWARF-VILLAGE IN uTRECHT. aNOTHER BAD THINGS ABOUT x'96 WAS
THAT i GOT QUITE ILL RIGHT AFTER THE PARTY AND HAD TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL THE
NEXT DAY. i'M STILL REGAINING STRENGTH AFTER MY BRAIN INFARCT, BUT WELL,
LIFE GOES ON.
iN aPRIL'97 WE ORGANIZED x'97 tAKEOVER AT THE NEW PARTYPLACE IN eINDHOVEN.
x'97 SORT OF LACKED THE ATMOSPHERE PRESENTED AT x'95 AND x'96, BUT THE PARTY
POSSIBILITIES WERE GREATLY IMPROVED. a MAGNIFICENT COMPO HALL, ENOUGH SPACE
FOR EVERYONE, A MASSIVE INTERNET CONNECTION AND AS MUCH BEER YOU CAN HANDLE.
hOWEVER WE WILL BE CHANGING THINGS FOR THE C64 SCENE TO GET THE OLD
ATMOSPHERE BACK, RIGHT NOW WE ARE MAINLY THINKING OF PUTTING ALL C64 SCENERS
IN A SEPERATE ROOM. tIME WILL TELL THOUGH.
tHE iNTERNET...
scs*trc HAS SHOWN GREAT ACTIVITY ON THE INTERNET ASWELL, WE WERE THE FIRST
TO SET UP AN ILLEGAL ftp SITE, SOME OF YOU MIGHT REMEMBER
PITEL-LNX.IBK.FNT.HVU.NL, WHICH WAS THE FIRST LOCATION OF tHE dIGITAL
dUNGEON. tHE ftp SITE WAS SET UP BY vIKING, AND MAINTAINED BY cba AND ME.
wHEN THE MAIN ADMINS AT THE hvu STARTED COMPLAINING ABOUT COPYRIGHTED
MATERIAL ON THEIR COMPUTERS WE HAD TO MOVE. mR.aMMO (AT THAT TIME STILL IN
tRIAD) DIRECTED US TO UTOPIA.HACKTIC.NL (THE FIRST HACKERS INTERNET PROVIDER
IN hOLLAND, LATER TO BECOME XS4ALL), WHERE IT STILL REMAINS UNDER A
DIFFERENT MAIN HOSTNAME (REPLAY.COM). nOWADAYS IT IS KNOWN AS
FTP://FTP.SCS-TRC.NET/PUB/C64.
tHE dIGITAL dUNGEON IS WITHOUT DOUBT THE NUMBER ONE SCENE ftp SITE WITH a
lot OF USERS (PRACTICALLY EVERYONE WITH A C64 AND AN INTERNET ACCOUNT) AND a
lot OF TRAFFIC. sEVERAL THOUSANDS OF FILES ARE LEECHED FROM IT DAILY. lATEST
STATISTICS SHOW ABOUT 150-250 mEGAbYTE LEECHED DAILY, WHICH IS A damn LOT
CONSIDERING THE AVERAGE C64 FILE LENGTH.
wE ARE ALSO WORKING ON OUR MAIN WEBSITE, AS WE DO HAVE A LOT OF DIFFERENT
SUB SITES MAINTAINED BY OLD scs*trc MEMBERS, BUT NOT ONE MAIN SITE. tHE
DOMAIN NAME HAS ALREADY BEEN APPROVED, SO YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK
HTTP://WWW.SCS-TRC.NET/ IT is UP ALREADY :)
tHE fUTURE...
scs*trc WILL RELEASE A DEMO CALLED sPANKERZ hEAVEN IN 1997, FULLY CODED BY
ME WITH MUSIC AND GRAPHICS FROM SEVERAL OF THE GREATEST
COMPOSERS/GRAPHICIANS. tHE DEMO WILL BE OLDSTYLED, SO YOU WILL NOT SEE ANY
4X4 EFFECTS OR ANYTHING, JUST PURE C64 CODING. i WILL NOT COPY ANY pc
EFFECTS, AS THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHER GROUPS DOING THAT OVER AND OVER AND
OVER AND OVER AGAIN, IT'S GETTING BORING YOU KNOW...
cOUNT zERO IS PLANNING ON GETTING SOME UTILITIES OUT SOON ASWELL, SO YOU
MIGHT GET STUNNED BY ANOTHER LAZY CODER ASWELL :)
aNYWAYS, i HOPE YOU LIKED READING SOME OF scs*trc'S PAST, PRESENT AND
FUTURE. mAKE SURE YOU MEET US ON tHE dUNGEON (214-342-7281) AND mYSTICAL
pARADISE (+49-2137-13943) AND ON THE iNTERNET.
sTORY WRITTEN BY: bURGLAR OF sUCCESS FOR dOMINATION ISSUE #9
vERIFIED BY: mOREN OF sUCCESS
sOURCE: scs*trc'S HOMEPAGE
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