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Saxonia Issue 02 Part 007
Void - The story from the beginning to the present day.
Powerslave/Void & Gods
Void has now been alive since September 1995, originally we decided to leave
our current groups and create a friendly group, i admit that we weren't the
striking team within the UK scene, (yes there was a UK scene!) groups such
as LSD, Anathema, Anarchy, Eltech, Dual Format, and Tesko where the one's
which inspired myself and Griz/ex-Void to form the group.
I remember the day, as if it was only yestaday.. myself and Griz where
spending a sunny day in Blackpool where it was decided to form a new amiga
group and leave our old group of Ultima were we had been in for a year or
to.. with being fed up of producing gfx and music and these never got
released as much as we had hoped.
So it was done, after putting the word out we started to recruit some
friends which I had been swapping with over the years... One quiet, timid
young guy wanted to join, he was called Rabl/Indy... those who can't
remember his name will reconise him a Gone/ex-void, who now owns his own
clogg making buisness and sells Tulips, well that's what he always wanted to
do..
Anyway, soon we had 16 members in 4 European countries, and our first intro
was just a basic members add, logo screen and plain music.. well it was a
start. Entitled "Borntro" it started the Void wagon rolling...
In 1996 we released our 1st intro called "Fudged" coded by Snoopy/Void, Gfx
by Griz and music by myself. A short intro with at that time the effects
were the fire plasma, and pictures and basic scroller.
But, the scene wasn't happy.. they started a backlash that the intro was
done with DemoManiac.. this was untrue.. the ASM was released and then all
those started to take note. Looking back at this intro now, I can see why
they thought it.. but at the time we wanted to be taken seriously as a group
and the thought of us cheating was not nice..
Early 1997, and Raptor from a group called Sector7 joined us, our 1st member
from Poland. He coded the "Dusted" intro, which was to be released at some
party in Poland.. this never made it to the competion. The intro worked only
on A500 machines, and everytime i try to load it up with the degreaders it
crashes.. made in AMOS.. or sometimes known as the lazy way of coding... Gfx
again by Rabl (Gone), who was happy that his work was being used and music
by an unknown musician called Omega, a friend of Raptor's.
Later on another intro was released by Raptor called "Members Intro" very
original.. hehe a small intro to say that Void Poland is alive.
As most groups had sub-groups we decided to follow and with this a small
group from Holland joined under the Void group, calling themselves S2 they
released a nice little intro with help from Huib/Mellow as BBS intro for our
new board "Macron". Styles/Void^S2 provided the upbeat music and code and
gfx by Huib/Mellow.
In 1998, we had a very quiet time, Void Poland was kicked due to
disagreements and Raptor spreading lies to the scene, confirmed by some
Polish swapping legends. So with Void Poland no longer in the frame and the
current UK members leaving due to work and family commitments, we thought
this was the end of Void.
However, we we wrong, In 1999 a coder by the name of Sunblock joined us
from Norway, he was well known as Skinner/Eltech in the early years. With
this he brought to Void "Going Around" guest music by Maze/Giants as he was
then. Bringing to Void yet another intro called "SALT" again music by Maze
and this was released at an Oslo party. To be honest i think we were the
only entrants... backroom party's were quite common..
The year 2000 arrived and fresh new faces appeared in the group, Punisher
who was starting to branch out in code and Malmis who was a up and coming
gfx'er, the "Voy Voy" demo was released at the Kindergarten party and
reached 4th place.
2001, and Freedom Arms was released at both the Gathering and Mekka
Symposium parties, the demo came again 4th at the Gathering, but only 20th
at Mekka party, mainly due to the Gathering being earlier in the year.
Later that year in November, I went to visit Gone/ex-void at his castle in
Holland, for a short break and to see how he was. When we where there, we
hit upon the idea of another intro, many previews later and we found out
that Punisher had released it under the Apathy label...
At a similar time, Saxonia was in the early coding stages, the gfx were
finished and the code was nearly ready, then we heard nothing from Punisher.
All the hard work was wasted... not a sign from him... Saxonia was shelved
for the time being.
In 2002, a new scener appeared named Rumrunner, starting off in the amiga
scene. He joined Void as a coder and musician, bringing to Void the
"Alive-Tro" an ascii intro to let all know that we are not dead. Music was
supported by myself.
Since we had the original gfx from the Saxionia previews, we decided that
this was the direction to go, Rumrunner released a invite intro for Saxonia
with music from Tripper/Void, and to send the feelers out... the response
proved positive, so work began.
Christmas 2002 and we released a small intro to all, just to reassure the
scene that Void wasn't dead.
February 2003 and Saxonia issue 1 was released, be passed from emails and
with thanks to Ghandy and Zito from Scarab for there help to spread the
word.
So as this is near to the end, let me quickly thank all those who have had
some part in Void over the last 8 years. I thank you all, thanks
guys :)
FURRBALL
GONE
GRIZ
HURRICANE
JAY
KILLIT
MALMIS
SCANDAL
SKINNER
SNOOPY
STYLES
ZANY
Void are always on the lookout for new members to join us, the only
true qualification we ask for is friendship.
