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One of the Russians speccyman (AAA), collects the zx-spectrum demos, intros and other scene stuff. He needs assistance, or rather they need information about the following people where they live (country, city).

Some information has already been collected, but will be glad of any assistance!

Here the list of people who he looking for:

Donat
Perspex
TSS
Max Hedrom
REC
Sauron (he write a music) 1994 (First Demo For AY (tap))
Hangyaboys
Lewis Jones
TAK
Gavin Hamill/Richard Crawford
Pak/Roger
Paltry Panic
Igor Simcak
Regent Software
M/Z
Zigurat
Zoetway Music
Vietnam Boy
Rasputin PD
Orgon/Hacker Donald/Masters Of Universe
Damian Griffiths
SSC Soft
Busysoft/Fuxoft
Resoft/Faraon Software
BB-Soft/Change Soft

If you know any information please leave in comments!

Fuxoft = František Fuka from Czech Republic http://www.fuxoft.cz/ - not related to busysoft afaik

Thanks a lot, Carbon!

hmm... no more info ? x_O

Busy Soft - Slavomír Lábsky, Bratislava, Slovakia. http://busy.speccy.cz

Sauron - Adrian Sumera, Brezová pod Bradlom, Slovakia

Big snx, factor6!!!

Resoft All Faraon Software - René Pavlo, Trenčín, Slovakia

thx AGAin, factor6!!! ;)

Gavin Hamill/Richard Crawford = UK (I assume). Their 'demo' appeared on a Your Sinclair cover tape, but it was actually a blatant Timbaland job of a type-in listing from 1987. So fuck them.

I think Pak/Roger = DC Pak and Roger, who later formed the group Exodus (Poland).

Rasputin PD = a mail-order PD library from Stoke-on-Trent, UK. I think the owner was called Darren Randle, but I may have remembered that name from somewhere else entirely. He never replied to my letters, the bast.

I think Lewis Jones and Damian Griffiths were probably also UK people who wrote stuff for cover tapes / fanzines, which ended up in PD libraries being tagged as a 'demo'. Let me check...

DC Pak's name is Przemyslaw Kasprzak, he's Pole but I don't remember the town he comes from.

..sorry.. Kaszprzak, that is correct.

thanks a lot, friends!

right... the programs by Lewis Jones and Damian Griffiths (not really demos, just 128k 'PLAY' tunes) were first published in 'Outlet', a UK mail-order fanzine.

Damian Griffiths's address is handily given as: Watford, UK.
Lewis Jones's address... isn't.

BB-Soft and Chance Soft - some Slovak guy(s), dunno who. They greet many famous sceners in their Super Mega Demo including Mata and Qjeta (MQM Series) and have Qjeta's song Phenomena in the intro.

Oh, found something at last: Chance Soft is from Partizánske, Slovakia and BB-Soft is from Veľké Bielice, Slovakia.

Chance Soft is maybe Andrej Viselka, regrding to text in Super Mega Demo scrollers...

Igor Šimčak is also from Slovakia

SSC Soft - UK
Vietnam Boy - Poznań, Poland

And after loading up a few demos:

DC Pak: from Sulejówek, Poland (according to the address in 'Gemini')

Donat: from Poland (well, the text from D+M Demo: "Wszystkiego najlepszego, zebyscie zyli bez prodlemow, zeby Wam niczego nie brakowalo..." looks very Polish to me)

Hangyaboys: 'Garfield Demo' is "directed by Ferenc Dezsenyi" and appears to be very much Hungarian.

TSS = Martin Hajduch of Slovakia

(will work my way a bit further down the list, if I get the chance...)

T.A.K. - UK

@Gasman: yes, Donat's text is very Polish :) and Ferenc Dezsenyi is Hungarian name, although some Slovaks have also Hungarian names. But this demo seems to be Hungarian because of the nick 'Hangyaboys' - The 'gy' in the middle is Hungarian thing, pronounced somehow like Czech and Slovak Ď (soft D) ... ok, end of language lesson ;-D

Are you sure about this? I have a feeling that the 'SSC-Soft' who wrote Play It Once More (the only entry on zxdemo under that exact name) are Swedish Software Crackers.

...but I also have a feeling that there are at least two other "SSC"s, one of which is Shumice Software Company (I don't think we have any problem tracking them down :-) ) and the other of which had no identifiable contact info at all. I need to do a bit more digging here...

Oh, maybe. You're probably right about that SSC-Soft.

Orgon/Hacker Donald/Masters of Universe - guys from Poland. Hacker Donald's first name is Zygmunt :)