Yeah thanks for writing that TCB, especially didn’t know too much about Prestige since by then I was getting out of the Amiga scene.
Your list of things required in a group was interesting, people from ‘outside the scene’ don’t realise just how complex + inter-connected all these things were!
eg: Orig supplier but no crackers? they will join a different group – of course vice versa, crackers with no originals aren’t much good either!
No way to call around for free? no group, you lose… etc, etc… almost every ‘job’ in a group relies on several others being in place, which is why there were so few ‘major’ groups (successful groups who steadily released games for long periods of time).