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.oO Last Updated August 1996 Oo.

.oO Opening Words Oo.

This file contains gerneal information about the Beyond demo group.
It will be updated periodically, so if the above date seems old, check
for a new version of this file on a Beyond FTP site, which are listed
in section 4, "Contact Information."

.oO Table of Contents Oo.

1. Member List
2. Recent News
3. Release List
4. Contact Information
5. Brief History
6. Special Thanks
7. Greetings

.oO 1. Member List Oo.

HANDLE          NAME                    BORN    TASK

Armitage        Russel Simmons          1978    Coder
Dr. Clone       Christopher Richmond    1977    Musician
Freejack        Christopher Barton      1975    Musician
Kosh            Gerry Swanson           1977    Graphics Artist
Pyromaniac      Paul Bragiel            1977    Organizer

.oO 2. Recent News Oo.

Our webpage is now complete.  Visit it at http://www.mcs.com/~beyond.
We have no new projects to announce, due to the fact that we are
currently pursuing nonspecific developement as well as a possible
commercial undertaking.

.oO 3. Release List Oo.

FILENAME       SIZE       DATE        DESCRIPTION

ARISE.ZIP     1.4 MB     06-08-96     NAID'96 Demostration.  4th place.

.oO 4. Contact Information Oo.

Beyond can be contacted via the internet.  Please direct general
concerns to Pyromaniac.  Below is a list of contact methods:

Internet Email:
All members  beyond@mcs.com
Armitage     resimmon@students.uiuc.edu
Dr. Clone    crichmon@students.uiuc.edu
Freejack     cbarton@interaccess.com
Kosh         kosh@cloud.com
Pyromaniac   bragiel@students.uiuc.edu

Internet FTP:
ftp.mcs.com /mcsnet.users/beyond

World Wide Web:
http://www.mcs.com/~beyond

.oO 5. Brief History Oo.

.Winter 1996.

Pyromaniac decided to hold a small demo party/gathering at his house
named Surreal.  It was here that all the future Beyond members were
to first meet.  It also presented the first exposure to the demo scene
for Armitage and partially for Kosh.

Pyromaniac then decided to convene weekly Demo discussions at school,
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Those to first attend
included Pyromaniac, Dr. Clone, Armitage, lb, ErisE, and Freejack, as
well as a few one-timers.  Many ideas were discussed and explored in
an attempt toward preparing an entry to NAID - The North American
International Demo Competition to be held during the summer of 1996 in
Montreal, Canada.  Kosh also participated in the discussions by
contributing a story board and sending email.

.Spring 1996.

Dr. Clone, Kosh, and Armitage continued to express interest in making
a presentation for NAID.  Pyromaniac and Freejack promptly left their
former group, Pure Resistance, to found Beyond.  Armitage quickly
developed a 3D library as well as a 3D viewer and editor called TPaint.
As the semester came to a close, the group slowly started to create the
elements from which the eventual demo would be comprised.

.Summer 1996.

Our first Demo, Arise, was presented at NAID.  It features many 3D
effects by Armitage, as well as art by Kosh, and music from Freejack.
It was created in less than a week, after we finally began to appreciate
the upcoming competition deadline.  The Demo took 4th place - a decent
result that we were happy with, considering that Arise represented a
rushed effort.

.oO 6. Special Thanks Oo.

We would like to send out a special thank you to Haji for making us
those wonderful ascii's that you see.

.oO 7. Greetings Oo.

Beyond would like to collectively send our utmost greetings to the
following groups:

Acme, DDD, Guild, Halcyon, Imphobia, Night55, Orange, Pure Resistance,
Pulse, Renaissance, Terraformer, The Perfect Team, Twilight Zone,
Valhalla, Xography.

We send our respect to these groups:

Abaddon, Cammora, Cascada, Complex, Cubic Team, Dubius, Dust, EMF,
Fascination, FC, FM, Iguana, Jamm, Live!, Majic 12, Masque, MFX,
Nooon, Plant, Psychic Link, Realtech, S!P, Triton, Zuul Design.

Our extended family is:

Ajt, Annihilatus, Andude, Blitz, Dark Avenger, Darkness, Darkwolf,
Delph, Der Piipo, Gravel, Humanoid, Hornet, Incarnate, Matthias,
Mellow-d, Nexus, Oman, O'neill, Retrospect, Sky, Straka, Tran,
Unreal, Xerxes, The Surreal Crew, and The UIUC Crew.