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Hey TCB,
Can you drop me a line? mace501 at hotmail dot com.
Thx mate!
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Never met with anyone from The Band until 20 years later over here on the forum I met Gonthar. They you had Anthony/The Silents (biggest copiers seller in Belgium) & Cenobyte/Crystal (cc reseller) + Crazybyte/TSL (later Purple Haze/GOD) all based in Antwerp.
Hey Foxy: never got that mail from you? Please resend: mace501 at hotmail dot com. Merci et à un de ses jours! 🙂
@ Foxy: nice to read you again! Drop me a line: mace501 at hotmail dot com. We can chat outside this room, je parle français, donc auqu’un problème là! 🙂
About Duncan: if I told you what he did for a living, you’d probably go completely nuts. Same for our cracker, who remained unknown to everyone. Only about 3 people in The Band really knew him. One of the most under-recognized talents back in the 80’s. Our releases worked 100%, I can’t recollect one crack that went bad in all those years we were active in the scene…
Anywayz, j’attends avec impatience un petit mot de ta part. Je suis sûr qu’on a des choses à se raconter! 🙂
@Foxy: of course, Angels weren’t The Band…
When we decided to burry The Band, Duncan wanted to go on. He first joined Vision Factory, don’t remember why he left. He then formed Angels, and I think Duncan (J-C for the friends), really had a tough time with them Frenchies. He probably had a lot of stress… :satisfied But, he had his experience from The Band, so he was indeed able to bring Angels to some sort of standard. The success of The Band, was that we all worked hard to get there. From cracker, to coder, to swapper to modem freak. We were all dedicated to get the job done. And above all: we wanted to be respected by the scene for what we did: working releases, good trainers and here and there a nice intro. No flames, no half baked cracks, no stolen code and no false credits… unlike other groups we’ve known back then. We did not last for that many years, but I think we set the standard for future scene groups. Ah well, it was a nice time and I still like to think that we put Belgium on the map! (together with BS1)And about flames, they were part of business as usual! The only group we ever had a big flame with, was Ackerlight. Somehow, they couldn’t stand our gutts. Never knew why really, and… never cared
Well Foxy, it *does* seem that you knew your way around in the scene…
About Skid Row, never knew them personally, but I do know some where scum bags 🙂 But, unlike Skid Row, when we received originals from other groups, we from ‘The Band’ always mentioned the group who supplied us with the original. I remember the game called "Ring Side", which, at the time, had a new form of copy protection. Quartex were releasing "? gogo" at the time and gave us the original to have a go at it. We finally cracked (and trained) it, and let Quartex know how :D, and thanked them in our intro. Like true gentlemen do 😉
I’m looking forward to your next story about ‘loneliness and bankruptcy’. Well, after two years of hard work in the scene, with ‘The Band’ nearly always being somewhere in the top 10, came the time to think about the future. We all spent huge amounts of money, time & effort for this so called "hobby": hardware, disks, envelopes, stamps (which we re-used, of course), originals, fuel (numerous trips to Paris and London), and so on. I was still at school at the time, and the scene had already "cost" me one year. We had a last meeting somewhere end of December in 1989, and decided to call it quits. In 1987, when we were formed, we never, ever thought or hoped to ever reach the top 3, but we did it! It’s been a hell of a ride, and for those of us who really quit, came "the dark hole". it took me *months* of, let’s call it "rehabilitation", back into the ‘normal’ world.
Suddenly, I was no longer part of the scene, for which I had lived for, for two full years, in order to create "name and fame"… Ah well, it’s been over 18 years now, and thinking about that period fills me with happy thoughts of friendship, success, fun, the occasional "bump in the road", but also, and especially in the end, the constant threat of possibly being caught. We mentioned a PO box address in our intro’s for god’s sake… unthinkable these days…
Anyway, hope to hear from you soon!
Foxy :
Ok, most people only knew their official and lame french leader. The guy couldn’t speak english and was plain stupid.
But the man behind Angels was a belgian freak who was the former leader of The Band (an oldskool cracking group).
The guy had experience, a good cracker, some idiots slaves, modems and money.Anecdote
When I am talking about idiots slaves, I mean the so called french leader of Angels. The belgian guy, Duncan, found a perfect idiot in that guy. He was stupid enough to buy a game in Paris, then, when it was mfm and couldn’t be easily transfered via modems, brought the game to the cracker in belgium (with his own car). A 500km night ride (320 miles). To perform such a madness, he had to be an unemployed and full time devoted idiot. Devoted enough to bring his wife with him.This way, when he was about to fall asleep, she could drive for him.
Oftenly, when he went back in Paris, the game was already cracked by another groupTo be continued …
Well Foxy, I would sure like to hear the rest of the story… As a former member from "The Band", I’ve known Duncan personally, also the stupid french leader of Angels, and, basically, all the "idiot slaves" you are referring to. You’ve awoken my curiousity, so let’s hear…
