| Scener |
Died on |
At age |
Trivia |
| Lieutenant | December | Unknown | |
| The Cliffhanger | January | Unknown | Cliff designed the Colorado POD license plate image file with the month and year registration tags. CAF is his initials. Lives/Lived in Sheridan Colorado |
| Scum | 2024 | Unknown | |
| Geoff Follin | May 2024 | 57 | Geoff Follin was the older brother of Tim Follin. They composed several C64 soundtracks together.
Geoff sadly passed away in May 2024. |
| Dolph | 31 May 2024 | Unknown | After his career in the C64 scene, he was well-known for his carpentry and crafting skills, as well as a vlogger.
According to his wife, he reportedly passed away on 31 May 2024, after a battle with cancer. |
| James | 26 February 2024 | Unknown | |
| MBB | 23 February 2024 | Unknown | |
| Micron | 2023 | Unknown | |
| Anry | 2023 | Unknown | http://g0th.org/
http://siiix.com/ |
| DemongerX | 12 December 2023 | 54 | Passed away due to a heart attack in December 2023. |
| Peet | 25 September 2023 | 48 | |
| Freon | 7 September 2023 | 46 | Freon unfortunately passed away 7th of September 2023 |
| Spotter | 13 August 2023 | 50 | |
| Dow Jones | 8 July 2023 | 47 | |
| Markus Sinalco | 7 June 2023 | 47 | Quit coding swaping etc in 1989.Told to the police by Tom/Sodom, just for fun at the age of about 13.
Now rebulilding Discboxes,learning english language and beeing confused of JCH Editor... |
| Ariel | 19 May 2023 | Unknown | Died 19.05.2023 |
| Stepz | April 2023 | 48 | |
| Shadow | 11 March 2023 | 46 | Passed away in an accident 2023-03-11.
No Bounds was dedicated to him. A longer article about him was published in Propaganda #34. |
| H.I.C. | December 2022 | 50 | H.I.C. died in a car accident in December of 2022.
Rest in peace pal! We will never forget you! |
| Johannes Bjerregaard | 2 November 2022 | 52 | Legendary C64 musician. Was a member of Maniacs of Noise for a short while.
He died on November 2nd, 2022, 52 years old. He is survived by his wife and two children. |
| MacGyver | 5 October 2022 | 43 | Started in the early 90's as a hard working swapper, spreading AWT wares and building up relationships with various groups and individuals.
Later, he turned out to often bring valueable input into all kinds of productions - of his own groups like DMAgic and Protovision, and beyond. E.g. he had the idea to have Welle: Erdball compose the soundtrack for Metal Dust.
Visiting many C64 parties and events, he served as the eyes and ears of his crew into the scene.
Was an important maintainer of the C64.SK News Portal.
Does many things in the background, rarely appeared in credits - but without him surely some projects wouldn't have been what they became. Some believe he's part of the preternatural "invisible glue" that keeps the world together.
Staff member of the printed magazine RETURN (January 2012 - August 2015), Editor in chief (February 2014 - August 2015).
Left the scene in Autumn 2015. Made a comeback in Spring 2019. Died October 2022. :( |
| Stringfellow | 2 June 2022 | Unknown | |
| Tron | 30 March 2022 | 52 | I was actually the first ever to use the phase-shifting effect with the noise generators on the 6581 with the tune "Hawaiian Punch". It worked only after a cold start of the 64 that would reset the noise/random generator. Don't think anybody noticed it tho. |
| Enigma | 6 January 2022 | Unknown | |
| B | 4 January 2022 | Unknown | Also known in the ASCII scene as nUP!
Died on 4 January 2022 of cancer. |
| Ultimax | 1 December 2021 | 50 | Organized Breakpoint 2009 last second sponsorship by 20th Century Fox (promoting that early leaked Wolverine Movie)
Became paralyzed 2016 by Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND), Lou Gehrig's disease, Sclérose latérale amyotrophique (SLA) or Maladie de Charcot. |
| Jarre | 25 November 2021 | Unknown | Passed away 25-11-2021 in hospital. He suffered a brain haemorrhage.
Info about his passing: https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=108959 |
| Seanser | 16 October 2021 | 45 | |
| Mugg | 13 October 2021 | 51 | |
| FatFrost | 10 September 2021 | 44 | Is quite partial to a Chinese buffet. |
| Karoshier | 5 August 2021 | Unknown | |
| Brian De Marqui's | 30 July 2021 | 46 | Brian De Marqui's (46) passed away of Covid-19 on July 30, 2021. |
| ASL | 13 July 2021 | 50 | He died in 2021 |
| The Magic Roundabout | 18 June 2021 | 49 | GTG/Rebel Alliance only did one intro and one "demo" and Sister Roundabout was the first (and indeed only) nun of the Holy Order of C64 Coders. =-)
TMR passed away after spending more than a year in hospital, bravely battling Covid-19. |
| Rap | 13 March 2021 | Unknown | died 13.III.2021 due to a pancreatic cancer (info from TSL). |
| Pumpkin | 2020 | 46 | |
| Dezed | 31 December 2020 | Unknown | Passed away from a stroke in his sleep on New Year's Eve (31 December 2020). Rest in peace. |
| Ultrasyd | 15 October 2020 | 39 | Sadly passed away on 15 October 2020 due to heart attack. RIP.
His death was announced on Twitter from a close friend of his. |
| X-Byte | 9 October 2020 | 45 | |
| Reward | 7 August 2020 | 47 | Went on to Amiga to join Scoopex and later Complex.
Passed away in his sleep 7 August 2020 due to liver failure. RIP. |
| Vernunftmensch | 19 July 2020 | Unknown | |
| By-tor | 24 April 2020 | Unknown | "Fred" |
| Kawasaki Ryo | 13 April 2020 | 72 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryo_Kawasaki |
| Sky | 2019 | Unknown | My beloved friend died, he rest in peace in the Hajduboszormeny Funeral.. Miss you..,
Noted by Unreal |
| Heartbreaker | 19 October 2019 | 43 | Sister of Max Sterling, best friend of Stephanie Hayes.
Has been featured in a number of adult films. |
| Smirk | 2 October 2019 | 38 | Abaddon just confirmed at Demozoo that Smirk has passed away on 2 October 2019. No reason/cause of the death was specified.
RIP. |
| Mechanic-al | 28 August 2019 | 67 | From Denver, Colorado.
(died from heart failure, longtime smoker) |
| Crime | 28 February 2019 | Unknown | |
| DDT | 25 January 2019 | 48 | DDT/Accession aka Len Merikanto, passed away at 48 (24-November-1970 :: 25-January-2019).
He was hospitalized on 19-jan-2019 due to heart problems. A percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty was performed that same day. Sadly, he developed pneumonia, and on 25-jan-2019 his heart stopped twice and was pronounced dead at Meilahti hospital in Helsinki, Finland. |
| The Moose | 2018 | Unknown | |
| Pixman | 8 November 2018 | 31 | Does more drugs than anybody else can handle. |
| Ben Daglish | 1 October 2018 | 52 | Ben Daglish is known for creating many soundtracks during the 1980s for home computer games, including such Commodore 64 hits as The Last Ninja, Trap, and Deflektor. Daglish teamed up with fellow C64 musician and prolific programmer, Antony Crowther, forming WE M.U.S.I.C., which stood for "We Make Use of Sound In Computers". (Excerpt from the Wikipedia entry.)
Daglish passed away from lung cancer on 1 October 2018. |
| Andrew Colin | 25 September 2018 | Unknown | Obviously not a scener |
| BHF | 23 April 2018 | 46 | The name Baard is pronounced "bored" in English.
(Baard H Fosse)
Joined Abnormal in 96, but it was no c64 related stuff.
Just music for some videos that ZTH made. Then in 2011 c64 came back on the menu.
*NOTE FROM HOAXERS*
Our dear friend BHF sadly passed away on April 23, 2018. He will be dearly missed. |
| Hoxy | 1 February 2018 | 49 | |
| TSP | 12 December 2017 | 44 | |
| Torsoft | 26 September 2017 | 95 | |
| Chon | 4 July 2017 | Unknown | |
| Firefox | 2 June 2017 | 45 | Died in June of 2017 aged 45. |
| Mr. Bacher | 7 May 2017 | 47 | I changed my handle to CombatManiac, winter/spring 1989. |
| AndyJ | March 2017 | 44 | Compunet ID : PFP1
Passed away in March 2017 at the age of 44. |
| Dflame | 23 December 2016 | Unknown | (formerly known as Michael Holdorf, divorced)
Died on 23.12.2016 due to heart attack. Used several handles as Gemini, Bonfire, Crime, Titan, Milan, Phönix and maybe more... |
| Crime | 23 December 2016 | Unknown | Notorious graphics ripper. Died on 23.12.2016 due to heart attack. Was a freelancer for The Stock, not a member. |
| Titan | 23 December 2016 | Unknown | Notorious graphics ripper. Died on 23.12.2016 due to heart attack. Was a freelancer for The Stock, not a member. |
| Milan | 23 December 2016 | Unknown | Notorious graphics ripper. Died on 23.12.2016 due to heart attack. Was a freelancer for The Stock, not a member. |
| Ooves | 15 September 2016 | 38 | |
| Octan | 16 May 2016 | Unknown | Brother of Antares and Minos.
Died in car accident (16th May 2016). |
| Bonestripper | 2 March 2016 | 40 | He was diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer in November 2015 and passed away four short months later. |
| Peter Parker | 26 December 2015 | 45 | His joining Gamma Cracking Force is anounced in Hitler Diktator, membership shift from Gamma Cracking Force to ROM mentioned in Roulette [german] |
| Coolhand | 13 September 2015 | 70 | Orange County Register, September 19, 2015: "Lueck, Roger W., 70, of Huntington Beach, died 9/13/2015."
His death was confirmed when Elwix called and spoke to his wife. |
| Ramos | 15 August 2015 | 39 | died of heart attack on 15/08/2015 |
| Crush | 18 March 2015 | 40 | |
| The Raider of the Lost Ark | 10 February 2015 | Unknown | Collapsed on open street at tue, feb.10 2015 and died (reported by ATT) |
| ZX-Jim | 7 February 2015 | Unknown | |
| Friar Tuck | 2014 | Unknown | Original THW member, discovered in Star Control.
Deceased 2014, heart attack. |
| Axis | 22 December 2014 | 40 | |
| Lobo | November 2014 | Unknown | Passed away in November 2014. :( |
| Zdzislaw Gostkowski | November 2014 | Unknown | |
| Dave | 25 October 2014 | 35 | |
| Zeb | 26 August 2014 | Unknown | |
| Misser | 22 August 2014 | 44 | |
| Mr.Alpha | 8 April 2014 | 40 | Was involved in the same car crash that killed Charlie. |
| Split | 1 April 2014 | 40 | |
| Tony Gibson | 2013 | Unknown | Not a scener, just added to credit a tune.
Sadly he passed away in 2013 after a battle with cancer.
http://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2016/02/tony-gibson-a-tributeobi.. |
| Commodore Master | 13 October 2013 | Unknown | |
| Shock-Wave | June 2013 | Unknown | |
| Groven | 21 April 2013 | 35 | |
| Mogwai | 31 January 2013 | Unknown | "Tributes were being laid in Patong over the weekend following the death of Phuket businessman, Swedish man Niklas Nicke Kring, 42, who died in a motorbike crash. [...] Mr Kring lost control of his motorbike around 8am on Wednesday morning [31 january 2013] between Loch Palm golf course and the Kathu gas station intersection on his way home from Patong, Thailand." (The Phuket News)
Was sysop on the Amiga BBS ARTLine in the 90ies. (0755-61537). |
| TRSoft | 11 January 2013 | 47 | |
| XYZ-Soft | 11 January 2013 | 47 | |
| TRSoft | 11 January 2013 | 47 | |
| Conan | 23 December 2012 | 43 | Brother of Yodelking.
Passed away in 2012. |
| Terric | 12 August 2012 | 36 | He was the most friendly person you can imagine. Sadly he deceased in 2012. |
| The Spy | 7 August 2012 | Unknown | |
| Robin Hood | 20 April 2012 | Unknown | At the 6 a.m. of 20 April 2012 Robin Hood died from a bad disease ... R.I.P Jacopo !!!
The Overkiller / Hokuto Force |
| Hawk | January 2012 | Unknown | Hawk and Snorks compunet MBX: GH16 |
| Dolla | January 2012 | Unknown | RIP.. Dolla passed away in January 2012. |
| Prodigy | 2011 | Unknown | Ran the BBS Terminal Obsession for NEI, later ILLUSION and again later AVANTGARDE at +1-813-846-7726
His name was Arnold. Unfortunately he passed away. |
| Tigerman | 2011 | 32 | |
| Nantco | 1 December 2011 | 43 | Passed away in 2011. |
| Kevin Bulmer | 12 November 2011 | 48 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Bulmer |
| Hogan | October 2011 | 40 | |
| Zoro | 2 September 2011 | Unknown | |
| Tyrant | 28 August 2011 | 39 | Was a 'token' or honorary US member of Fire Eagle, supplying calling cards and importing / ntsc fixing demos.
Always joked about making a spoof group called "George and the WaffleMen" just to goof around. He was a great friend...l8r d00d! |
| Daredevil | 1 June 2011 | 40 | |
| Poison | 6 May 2011 | 35 | Always been into gfx and swapping.
Quit the scene for a five year period during the nineties and did a lot of other stuff.
Studied art in Umeå. |
| Chuck Norris Copy Service | 18 April 2011 | Unknown | |
| LIZ | 22 January 2011 | Unknown | Brother of Stoat. |
| Lizard | 22 January 2011 | Unknown | Brother of Stoat. Real name: Matt Stubbington. |
| Intensity | 19 January 2011 | 28 | |
| Walt Harned | 2010 | Unknown | |
| Jedi | 28 December 2010 | 38 | Born and lived in Sweden under his active days...
Committed suicide 28 December 2010 by mixing pills and wine. |
| Jerry | 20 September 2010 | 67 | Father of Sergeant Pepper/Triad,
Has never ever had a fully working SAAB.
Jerry/TRIAD passed away on the 20th of September, 2010. |
| Zebulon | 14 May 2010 | Unknown | Zeb, you my friend went offline around 13-15 May 2010. You will always be remembered, it was a privilege to have you on board, we had a blast at Datastorm 2010. Rest in peace /Unscene. |
| Pershy | 17 March 2010 | 39 | Good friend and contact in these days of C64 fame.
Really enjoyed swapping and meeting with him and the others from Strike Force / Movers. |
| Lord Ronin | 3 December 2009 | Unknown | On Thursday, December 3, 2009, at approximately 8:30 a.m, Dave "Lord Ronin" Mohr passed away due to heart failure. Dave was a passionate devotee of all things relating to Commodore and Amiga computers. For many years, he was chancellor of the Anything Commodore User Group (a.k.a. Astoria Commodore User Group) in Astoria, Oregon. He was a prolific writer for his club's monthly newsletter, "The Village Green". He also wrote for Commodore Free magazine, worked regularly on the disk-of-the-month for the Clark County Commodore Computer Club of Las Vegas, and edited the newsletter of the Meeting Commodore Users Through The Mail. He was an active participant on the Homestead mailing list, the ACUG0447 mailing list, and on Facebook. He organized ACUG's MossyCon Commodore events 1-5. |
| Armin Gessert | 8 November 2009 | 46 | |
| Compirudi | 6 August 2009 | Unknown | |
| Toush | 2008 | 30 | |
| Creative Insanity | June 2008 | Unknown | Shockwave: Ken passed away from cancer a few weeks ago this year (June, 2008). |
| Bruce Travers | 19 June 2008 | Unknown | Ran the oldest BBS (NorthLink) on the east coast.
Bruce died on 19 June 2008 from complications related to cancer and heart disease at the age of 68. |
| Digiarts | 7 April 2008 | 32 | |
| Holger Gehrmann | 11 February 2008 | 39 | One of the two founder of reLINE Software GmbH, Hannover/Germany in 1987. The company disappeared in 2004.
Holger died by suicide |
| Westbam | 2007 | 36 | |
| Matrix | 19 August 2007 | 32 | Passed away after a car accident.
He was co-founder of Elektron Music Machines, the producers of the SIDStation. |
| Pablo Toledo | 15 July 2007 | 35 | Passed away 15 July 2007. |
| Jim Butterfield | 29 June 2007 | 71 | Not a scener himself, but taught many sceners how to code.
One of the biggest pillars of the 64 world along with Steve Punter and Brad Templeton. |
| Jim Butterfield | 29 June 2007 | Unknown | |
| Lone | May 2007 | Unknown | |
| Derbyshire Ram | 27 May 2007 | 68 | Passed away peacefully at his home early on Sunday morning, 27th of May 2007.
He was so brave and fought cancer with every bit of effort he could find for four years. Right up until the Saturday evening prior was he sitting in his chair with all his children around him.
Rest in peace old friend. |
| Richard Joseph | 4 March 2007 | 53 | See entry at Wikipedia.
March 4th, 2007 - Richard Joseph has passed away
Hello. I'm very sorry to inform you that musician Richard Joseph (Barbarian, Cauldron 2) passed away this afternoon. He was diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year, and was undergoing chemo but was very weak. He slipped into a coma earlier today but sadly his body gave up earlier this afternoon. I got to know Richard thanks to the Back in Time Live events, and he was just the kindest person to talk to, and a top lad! Rest in peace Richard. (Source: Morpheus of http://www.c64.com) |
| Alf | February 2007 | 37 | From the web-log of Scan (http://arminus.darktech.org/blog/2007/02/rest-in-peace.php):
Quote: Rest in peace, "Alf"
Last week an old friend of mine, whom I've known since I was 14 or something, died at the age of 38. Together with Carlo (aka Alf from The New Generation Crew) I wrote my very first demo on the Commodore 64 and was one of the main influences in my life that made me decide I wanted to work with computers.
Rest in peace, Carlo, you will be remembered. |
| Turtle | 2 November 2006 | 41 | Passed away November 2, 2006 after an organ failure. |
| Candyman | 5 September 2006 | Unknown | Sysop of the FBR WHQ "Candyland".
Last instance was known to be heading south of the border to Mexico, but this is rumor.
He went on to found The Humble Guys, one of the most famous early PC cracking groups. He tells about this phase in his life in a detailed interview from 1998: http://defacto2.net/wayback/the-scene-news-from-1999-september-..
On the 5th September 2006 Candyman of FBR died of heart failure. |
| Blue Angel | 2 September 2006 | 42 | Blue Angel was the wife of Sgt. Pepper and the only female member of Excess.
She sadly died aged 42 on the 2nd of September in 2006. |
| EVS | 24 May 2006 | 31 | Edwin van Santen of the 20th Century Composers (20CC) died of a long illness at 24-05-2006. |
| Rat | 2005 | Unknown | The maintainer is not entirely sure if RAT (who was a member of HCC according to at least one release) really was Dirk. If it was him, he sadly died in 2005. He was a very nice chap and will be remembered by many as such. |
| Leper Messiah | December 2005 | 30 | Ironhead was a original supplier/swapper/organizer in Death and a amiga swapper/original supplier/cracker in Myth.
lived next door to Lennie
Took his life in december 2005. R.I.P. |
| H2zero | 10 May 2005 | Unknown | |
| Kjell Nordbo | 31 April 2005 | 29 | Sadly passed away in April 2005 by committing suicide. Will be sorely missed by all who knew him. |
| Tuure Vickberg | 1 March 2005 | 90 | His age is correct, see this account from his son: http://www.roger-russell.com/mystery/mystery.htm |
| Russell Lieblich | 26 January 2005 | 51 | He sadly passed away in 2005 at the age of 51.
See entries at Wikipedia and MobyGames. |
| Mean Gene | 2004 | Unknown | Sadly passed away in 2004. |
| Ettore Perazzoli | 10 December 2003 | 29 | Made the 6510, VIC-II, VIC-I and CRTC emulations in VICE, part of the hardware-level 1541 emulation, speed optimizations, bug fixes, the event-driven cycle-exact engine, the Xt/Xaw/Xfwf-based GUI for X11, a general code reorganization, the new resource handling, most of the documentation. He also wrote the MS-DOS port and the initial MS-Windows port.
R.I.P. - Passed away on 10 dec 2003 |
| Darkwind | 3 December 2003 | 29 | (Comment by Six/Style) Originally called himself "Silver Dragon", changed his handle to "Darkwind" because he tired of me calling him "Silver Drag Queen". It took me all of 4 minutes to start calling him "Dickwind". Paul was a good sport, and a solid member of THW, responsible for much of the incoming warez during the importing days of the group. According to his family, he committed suicide in 2003. |
| Mother Hood | 30 January 2003 | 74 | Was the best Giver anyone could ever know |
| Cleve | 2002 | 26 | Norbert died after a tragic accident in 2002. |
| Marius Skogheim | 2002 | 27 | |
| Tiger2XLC | 14 April 2002 | 37 | Kurt MacMullen went on to be an Engineer at the Johnson Space Center for NASA. Died April 2002. |
| Captain Picard | 1 April 2002 | Unknown | Died on April, 1st, 2002 because of a pneumonia |
| Alf | 23 January 2001 | 28 | Died of terminal illness at 23.01.2001 |
| Martial Artist | 12 January 2001 | 29 | "Dave passed away very suddenly on the morning of Friday, January 12, 2001. He died in his home, listening to music and playing a computer game. An attack of bronchial asthma was established as the cause, something which he had complained of the past week or so before."
David's on-line memorial: http://www.bretz.ca/dave/
Dave is featured in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckQw50MTeTY |
| 4WD Soft | 2000 | Unknown | Overall nice coder and discrete composer, sadly passed away in year 2000. |
| Floyd | 29 October 2000 | 27 | Floyd used to be a member of a small norwegian group named Freezers. He later on joined Danish Science and became a rather good graphican making logos for quite some groups around the globe. He shortly went to the Amiga scene as a member of the Norwegian Amiga group Phantsam, until he suddenly vanished from both the C64 and Amiga scene.
According to a local newspaper in Norway Nils disappeared in year 2000, and was later found dead the same year.
https://www.nrk.no/hordaland/meldt-savnet-1.201452
https://digitalarkivet.arkivverket.no/gen/vis/15/pa000000004699.. |
| Glen E. Bredon | 8 May 2000 | 67 | |
| Jukka Tapanimäki | 1 May 2000 | 38 | |
| Javor | 1999 | 22 | |
| Ron Fick | December 1999 | Unknown | Following the shutdown of Xetec in 1995, private support of XETEC products (including the LT. KERNAL hard drives and XETEC printer intefaces) was carried on for several years by Ron until his untimely death in December 1999. |
| Mr.W | 1998 | 27 | |
| Numskull | 1998 | Unknown | |
| Spash | 1997 | 23 | Spash died in a motorcycle accident in 1997.
2003's meteological low "Manolito" in Germany
was named after him.
|
| Waveform | 23 April 1997 | 24 | Waveform passed away due to complications from Hodgkin's Disease (cancer)
On IRC he could always be found on EFnet in #Waveland
John worked on his game Venturia under the Stallion Software label
John had an infectious personality, enjoyed pitchers of Miller GD at sports bars, and drove like a madman |
| Jazzy D | 16 February 1997 | Unknown | Died February 16th 1997 whilst fixing his car. |
| The Scientific Man | 28 June 1996 | 24 | The man behind the handle TSM is Hein Holt´s, better known as "Hein Design" of Black Mail, brother. He passed away some years ago. Information about this can be read in an interview by HH at "Hall of Fame".
TSM founded Vision together with his brother HPH and Shock back in 1988, where they also released some cool demos. |
| Doone Soft | 1995 | Unknown | Big trader in N WV. Retiree. Went Amiga in 1990. |
| S-Copy | 1995 | Unknown | "Previous member Bug (Stein Erik Giske, ex Subway, re Network, 11/90-) tragically died this [1994 or 1995] year, after spending some time at a mental institution. "
https://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/artist/150/ |
| Skyline | 1995 | Unknown | [Hein] Died of cancer around '95. Don't know the exact year. |
| THINKTANK | 1995 | 19 | "Passed away in 1995: an automobile accident, was moving his disabled SUV off the road when a truck hit him" (XmikeX) |
| The Star Man | 1995 | Unknown | BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE YUGOSLAVIA
This story started some good time ago (actually in August '88) when we organized a copy party at some youth club. It was done by MR.PRO (at that time in THP), COZY MC (brain damage) and me, SHIZZCAT. I know that you've never heard of these names, but they're pretty popular here in Yugoslavia. At that time we found a free telephone line and started exploiting it, so we called our friends like MAD ALL, STRIDER/FAIRLIGHT, JEFFIE, FUN FUN/TRIANGLE, MATRIX/DOM and many others, frequently every weekend from there.
The other day (February, 2nd 1989) I again walked to the youth club without anyone else this time, because nobody was at home. I got there and called JEFFIE up. A few minutes later, somebody turned on the lights in the corridor and I heard some voices. Two policemen and a janitor (sounds familiar) came in the room. The pigs wanted to examine me, but I didn't let them. But I got hit over my mouth with a police club. They took me to the station, and started all that investigation. I kept MR.PRO's name quiet, although he made 1/3 of all phone calls.
One inspector took my photos and my fingerprints. They drove me home and gave me a piece of paper which invited me for more examinations at the police office later on. The telephone bill I got made me almost getting an infarct - it was over 4,000,000 Dinars (which is something like 2000 DM or 850 GBP). So I told everything to my father, who must now pay for the whole shit. Well that was the first time I ever had problems with the police, but I think I had it in style. /SHIZZCAT of VICTORY |
| Charles Callet | 1995 | Unknown | |
| Breaker | 1995 | Unknown | Died tragically in a car accident in 1995. |
| Shizzcat | 1995 | Unknown | BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE YUGOSLAVIA
This story started some good time ago (actually in August '88) when we organized a copy party at some youth club. It was done by MR.PRO (at that time in THP), COZY MC (brain damage) and me, SHIZZCAT. I know that you've never heard of these names, but they're pretty popular here in Yugoslavia. At that time we found a free telephone line and started exploiting it, so we called our friends like MAD ALL, STRIDER/FAIRLIGHT, JEFFIE, FUN FUN/TRIANGLE, MATRIX/DOM and many others, frequently every weekend from there.
The other day (February, 2nd 1989) I again walked to the youth club without anyone else this time, because nobody was at home. I got there and called JEFFIE up. A few minutes later, somebody turned on the lights in the corridor and I heard some voices. Two policemen and a janitor (sounds familiar) came in the room. The pigs wanted to examine me, but I didn't let them. But I got hit over my mouth with a police club. They took me to the station, and started all that investigation. I kept MR.PRO's name quiet, although he made 1/3 of all phone calls.
One inspector took my photos and my fingerprints. They drove me home and gave me a piece of paper which invited me for more examinations at the police office later on. The telephone bill I got made me almost getting an infarct - it was over 4,000,000 Dinars (which is something like 2000 DM or 850 GBP). So I told everything to my father, who must now pay for the whole shit. Well that was the first time I ever had problems with the police, but I think I had it in style. /SHIZZCAT of VICTORY |
| Scope | 19 March 1995 | 20 | Was found dead on a subway track in Stockholm .
All around good guy!
Brother of Shark/Censor Design.
G*P dedicated a crack to the memory of Scope in 2012, Jars' Revenge [tape] +2D, with a special intro, only used that time. Another tribute to remember him was released by G*P/F4CG/ATL in 2015, 20 years after he passed away: Hello Scope. |
| Ludwig | 1994 | Unknown | |
| HCA | 1994 | 22 | HCA is dead. Around 1994 HCA took his own life at the hand of a machinegun. |
| Ulysses | 23 September 1994 | Unknown | R.I.P. - Car Accident, Sept. 23 1994 |
| Atis | 1993 | Unknown | Coded the game Domino ( http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=2251&d=18&h=0 ) together with TSO.
His untimely death in a car accident is remembered in Remembrance Of.... |
| The Magic Wizard | 15 December 1993 | 23 | Was stabbed to death in his apartment, his case is currently a homicide listed in the Denver Police Departments Cold Case Unit. |
| Mao | 12 December 1993 | Unknown | He died in a car accident. |
| Charlie | 31 May 1993 | 20 | Christian was involved in a lethal car accident on its way to the TCC'93 party (Gothenburg, Sweden). His life tragically ended three days after his car accident on May 31st 1993 at the age of 20 years. His girlfriend Andrea, The Murphy, The Sneaper and Mr.Alpha who were also in the car luckily survived the car crash.
The car crash is mentioned in A-Head #3. A tribute was released in the form of He is Gone... |
| Gassy | 10 April 1993 | Unknown | Died of pneumonia in 1993 |
| The Beautiful Blonde | 26 March 1993 | Unknown | According to Network #5 she died being hit by taxi, while being pregnant. |
| Barricade | 1 January 1993 | Unknown | Passed away 1 January 1993. |
| Robin Hood | 1992 | 27 | Robin Hood was the founder and driving force behind The Hood Works, the 513 (USA) AC's all-purpose importing, cracking, and NTSC fixing group. Robin died in late 1991-early 1992 (suicide). |
| Duffy Hawken | 1992 | Unknown | |
| Yon | 8 December 1992 | Unknown | |
| Stephanie Hayes | 16 October 1992 | 17 | Best friend of UIA member Heartbreaker.
Died of a blood clot due to complications after a pregnancy in the early 1990s. |
| Troublekeeper | 26 September 1992 | 17 | Died in a traffic accident in 1992 |
| Scoundrel | 1991 | 21 | |
| JR Predator | 21 December 1991 | Unknown | * Biggest C-64 Party Animal *
Died of leukemia
AFAIK December, 21th 1991 at 7.00 am. Mamba #25 contains some background information on Jordi and the deployment of the Spanish cracking scene.
1985 - Mets AMD and JJ in the university of computer science of Barcelona and they all create SDMB-FIB. JJ & AMD as crackers, JR as swapper.
1986 - SDMB-FIB disolves and JR and AMD continue under the name of JR Predator & AMD
1988 - Founds The Blasters Inc with ACM and BSR |
| Byte Andy | 21 September 1991 | Unknown | |
| 801 DC | 21 June 1991 | Unknown | John sadly passed away in an airplane-accident, midsummer 1991, and has been missed ever since. See Goodbye John |
| Coax | 6 March 1991 | 17 | Died in a train accident near his home on 6.3.1991 |
| Roger Rabbit | 1990 | Unknown | His change from TEC to G*P/FE is mentionerd in Note to Contacts.
Roger/G*P received fame for his 2x2 charset that he created in 1988/1989 and that is still widely used today. Roger went to a grammar school that was flooded with sceners such as Double-U/The Sharks, Lez Fetz/Bionix, Vok/Dynamix, The Guard/Poison, Chotaire/Pandora and more. Roger died way too young (1990?) after a school party when he drove home on his bike and became involved in a terrible car accident, see Goodbye Roger. |
| Secundus | August 1990 | Unknown | Died of a heart attack in August 1990. RIP |
| Mamasoft | 18 March 1990 | Unknown | R.I.P.
Died in a car accident on 18 March 1990.
(The Overkiller) |
| Leader | 1989 | Unknown | |
| The Superior | 1 August 1989 | 19 | Attending Silkeborg Amtsgymnasium (86-89) I met other C64 nerds and we quickly got a group created. The Danish Connection (TDC). We created some very simple demos but first when I got The Programmers Reference Guide I learned the magic of machine code. The ball started rolling from there. I was the only one who could program machine code so when I was asked to join The Xidex Crew (guys all from Skanderborg) I said yes.
But soon after Marauder and I created Draxan Enterprises and here I changed my handle to Mexatrex (I was very fond of the letter X in that period of my life).
During my time at Silkeborg Amtsgymnasium I drooled over the Amiga 1000 but it was too damn expensive so when the A500 was released I took the jump. |
| Dice | 1988 | -1 | |
| Jim Wilson | 1988 | Unknown | Not Scene as such but his Stuff does Appear on here.
Mastertronic and Codemasters Prolific Graphic Designer. Friend of the Darling Bros.
Sadly Drowned after Falling from a Sea wall in the late 80s. |
| Migges | 1987 | Unknown | |
