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- «c2»«ac»SCARAB - A NEW GROUP IS BORN«»
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- «c1»By Zerox/Gods«»
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- «ac»«c5»A NEW GROUP«»
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- «c7»Scarab may be a new group into the amiga scene, but the members are not
- newcomers at all. Infact most of the members of «c6»Scarab «c7»(do not mistake it
- for the group Scarab-Corpse on PC), come from the german crew «c6»Secretly!
- «c7»That's the group which won the Mekka-Symposium 4k intro competition last
- year by the way.«»
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- But right after the Mekka-Symposium party Secretly! got some internal
- problems, and all the members (except the organizer and founder) left them
- to create Scarab. We in the «c6»D.I.S.C. Team «c7»asked the new unofficial "organizer" of Scarab
- why they didn't get rid of the problem within Secretly! instead of founding
- a totally new group. «c6»Scicco «c7»answered «c6»"The problem you were talking about was
- Mr.Vain, and he was the leader and founder of Secretly. Mostly everyone of
- us had a problem with kicking the founder and keeping the original name. We
- thought that if we have skill it doesn't matter under which label our
- productions will be released. So that's why we decided to leave the group
- and found a new one even when Secretly! started to become known.".«»
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- «c7»And this was the start of the new group. But before actually starting up, a
- name of the new group had to be decided. «c6»"We did some internal voting",
- «c7»Scicco tells us. «c6»"First of all I collected suggestions of all
- members and Lubber/Padua. We had about 60 possible names. The second step
- was to find out the best names. Every member voted for the names he liked.
- After two or three voting steps we had 5 names left. The final voting
- decided the name. There were alternatives like 'Ophrasia', 'Zodiac',
- 'Contour' and 'Unified'. Scarab won the voting, it had a slight lead with
- one point over the others. So now we call us ourself Scarab. :)".«»
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- «c7»In addition to the Secretly! setup minus «c6»Mr.Vain, «c7»Scarab also got some
- reinforcements. The coders «c6»Sniper and R.A.Y «c7»joined them in Germany, and
- last, the first foreign member joined aswell. It was the Danish musician
- «c6»Puryx.«»
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- «c7»Some of the Scarab members are doublemembers (and triplemembers), therefore
- we asked Scicco if this would have any effect on the productivity level.
- «c6»"Of course a doublemembership will steal you some resources from the group
- which results in a longer period of development. So it is on the group to
- get most of the power out of a doublemember for the groups interests.
- I think the key to keep a member interested in some work for Scarab is to
- give him a prospect of success and the feeling that the group still stands
- behind him.".«»
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- «c5»THE FUTURE«»
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- «c7»The Scarab members have been behind some good productions in the past, but
- under the Secretly! label. Especially the «c6»Boom intro «c7»was very impressive.
- Now we're naturally interested in what they'll come up with in Scarab. But
- to find out what they are was working on, was not that easy. Scicco writes:
- «c6»"You have to see that I don't want to tell you much about our plans. :)
- I dislike to announce a production which might will not be finished in time.
- But you can be sure that we're currently working on some new stuff. So keep
- your eyes open.". «c7»The D.I.S.C. Team couldn't be satisfied with this answer,
- so we tried harder to get the Scarab crew to reveal something.«»
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- «c6»"First of all I have to say that we loved it to create a 4k intro, so you
- can easily imagine that we won't stop coding 4k intros in the future. We
- coders like to kill bits and bytes in some small code. :) In addition we
- will try to bring you some quality stuff in the future so you have to
- understand that we won't release loads of intros and demos each month but
- we will try to concentrate on some more quality in the productions so that
- you might like them. :)" «c7»Scicco tells us. In the middle of November last
- year Scarab released their first production under their label. It was a
- «c6»slideshow «c7»with pictures from the TRSAC 3 party.«»
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- We in D.I.S.C. certainly believe Scarab will manage to come up with some
- quality productions in the future as the group consists of some really
- talented & friendly members. The members of Scarab also have the advantage
- that 5 of the members live close to eachother in Berlin/Germany. This makes
- the internal communication and cooperation much easier. And besides, about
- all members know eachother and are friends. This could only mean that the
- scene will get much more to look forward to from the «c6»friendly forces of Scarab.«»
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- «c7»There's one man which we should all thank for this. He's actually not a
- member of Scarab nor the amiga scene. But his name is «c3»Lubber/Padua «c7»and a
- part of the cool C64 scene. He actually won the 32K Game compo at the MS
- party with Dreamcars 64 last year. Anyway, it was «c6»Lubber «c7»which got «c6»Scicco
- interested in the amiga scene. And we all know that this has resulted in
- him keeping «c6»StingRay «c7»motivated... and well, keeping another amiga group
- alive and kicking! So thanks to Lubber, which still come up with
- suggestions and support for the Scarab members. And certainly he also gets
- some help in return from Scarab.«»
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- «c7»Good luck to both «c6»Lubber/Padua «c7»and «c6»Scarab «c7»in the future!«»
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- «c6»CURRENT MEMBERSLIST OF SCARAB:«»
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- «c7»DaNDeE - Graphician«»
- DC.Clark - Musician & Coder«»
- Influence - 3D Modeller & Tracer«»
- Medi - Tools-Coder«»
- Puryx - Musician«»
- R.A.Y - Coder«»
- Scicco - Coder & Webmaster«»
- Sniper - Coder«»
- StingRay - Coder«»
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