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index - The history
Index Productions is a part of the Norwegian PC demoscene.
If you don't know what the demoscene is, take a look here to find out.
It all started in the summmer of 1995, when St. George and I (cortex) decided
to go to a demo-party for the first time. The party was Odyssey 95 in Norway,
and we had a lot of fun there, even though it was not a very good party.
During the party, we found out there was going to be a 4k intro competition,
so we wanted to enter. We compiled some old code, and made an ugly little
intro. The intro was called Desparate, and was bascailly just some text
blurring out on the screen. It was all written ten minutes before the
deadline, and it showed. We didn't place very well on the result list (4th),
but at least we had made our first appearance on the big screen.
When we returned from Odyssey we found out we wanted to make a 64k intro, and
so we did. The intro was called Exotic and was not a very good one. We
released it, as the 4k at Odyssey, under the name of The Useless Corporation
(TUC). It was a silly name, but we didn't have anything better to call us at
the time. The Useless Corporation intially consisted of 5-6 members, who were
all close friends of ours. The other members of TUC were not as interested in
the demoscene as St. George and I, and therefore left the group after a short
while.
During 1995 we met several other poeple interested in the demoscene, and
decided to start a new group called Index. When Index was initially formed
the member list looked like this:
Alias Function
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amok code / gfx
cortex code
mellow organizer
oce code / music
react gfx / ansi
roma code / gfx
sode gfx / ansi
st. george code / gfx / music
After a short while all the new members of Index were either kicked out for
various reasons, or left to join groups like Proxima and Sublogic. In the
beginning of 1996, the only active members left were St. George and I. Once
again it was just the two of us, as we sat down and made a 64k intro for the
party Online 96. At OnLine 96 Index had three releases, a 64k intro called
Exotic ][ (a follow up to Exotic), a fast-demo called Gel-O and a 4k intro
called Plastic.
Shortly after Online 96 we were contacted by a talented musician, Zauron, who
wanted to join our group. We reviewd some of his work, and after a short
period of getting to know him better, he joined us. Zauron also hooked us up
with another musician, Lioz, who joined shortly after. Index now had four
members, and this is the same people who make up Index Productions today.
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