Napalm
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  1994 - American sysop Mizar ('MENACE TO SOCIETY') left for Empire around
september.


Nato
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DEN> Conix, Greco, Maduplex, Megasnail (crack, 07/89), Overall, Tentakil,
     Tiger.
???> Audiocelzius (crack), Croydon, Derek B (ex Crazy, new 09/89), Tankard
     (ex Illusion, new 12/89), TWP (ex Action, new 12/89), Xenon.

Nato was a primarily Danish group, doing mostly cracks.
  1989 - Danish musician Drax joined Amok. Danish Crime was kicked late 89.
Derek B joined from Crazy, while Raistlin (code) joined from Rough Trade
Inc. around september. Raistlin later moved on to Oneway. Tankard joined
from Illusion, while TWP joined from Action joined in december.
  1990 - Early in the year, Buds left for Fairlight after releasing their
demo. The connection with Fairlight continued, as the two groups went into a
shortlived cracking cooperation around march. Infocomie (crack) and Mr.Smart
both joined from Class in july, then both moved on again to join Bonzai in
december. Macro Nit (crack) decided to rejoin his old group Dominators
around the same time.
  1991 - Pet joined Dominators in january (or possibly december of last
year).


Natural Beat
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  1996 - Taki contributed a tune to Graffity Produkt's "Higher Love" [12/96]
demo at The Party.


Neoplasia (NPL)
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GER> Fireball (Stefan Huebner, code music, 07/96), Toxic (David Maus, code,
     07/96-12/98).
???> Ernie (mainorg gfx, 07/96), Gourment (gfx music, 07/96), Skill (code,
     07/96), St0ff (code, 12/98), Viscid (code gfx, 07/96-12/98).

Neoplasia is probably a German demo group, under the leadership of Ernie.
They were also previously active making demos on the amiga.

  Felony (1996, 21.07, Multifile Demo).
  code: Toxic, Fireball, Viscid, Skill, gfx: Ernie, Gourment, music:
  Fireball. Released for the Dresden 96 party.
  review: Oh dear. This dreadful IRQ-loaded demo fails miserably mostly on
  the "strength" of its awful soundtrack. There are a few OK effects on
  offer, most notably tha plasma and fire ones, but nothing exceptional
  enough to keep you interested in spite of all. Some of it is just
  meaningless, like scrolling the exact square root of 2 across the bottom
  of the screen (500 decimals :). What the hell is that supposed to do, give
  mathematicians a hard-on? The design also sucks, so there's no helping
  this one. There's a couple of almost-ok logos by Ernie though, making him
  the only one leaving this show with some dignity. This was the group's
  first ever trackmo.
    A selfcoded note is attached (code: Toxic, gfx: Viscid (pic), Ernie
  (char), music: Gourment) that is marginally better than the demo. [glenn]

  8bit Should Be Enough For Everyone (1998, 28.12, Demo).
  code: St0ff (additional), Toxic (additional), gfx: Viscid, music: St0ff.
  6th in The Party 98 demo competition.
  review: Another mediocre demo from NPL, unfortunately... They're going for
  a chuckle on behalf of the pc community here, with a 'start button' on the
  opening screen, a rendition of the classic DOS 'Norton Commander' crossed
  out, etc. The effects are unfortunately not very impressive, with a badly
  rendered tech-plasma, a flame effect and a smaller, dithered plasma at the
  very end. I'm sorry I can't recommend this, even though it did bring a
  small smile to my face, since it's just not... very good. Bear in mind
  that this was probably NOT meant as a very serious production. This small
  demo was also supposedly made to celebrate the group's 1500-day-
  anniversary :) [glenn]


Nerds
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DEN> KBS (Kim B. Srensen, swap, 01/93).


Network (NET)
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NOR> Matcham (code), Tony.

Famous Norwegian demo and utility group, most notorious for their coder
Matcham and his groundbreaking "TimeCruncher"s!
  1990 - Norwegian graphician Crept left the group for Flash Inc., while Zix
left for Illusion - both in july.


New Edition
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Some of their members left 09/87 to form High-Tech Boys [no entry].


New Fashion (NF)
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SWE> Artrax, Blaster Inc. (code, 02/88), Firelord, Flexy, Gryzor, Merlin
     (code, 02/88), Mix, Ranger, Slainer, TOC.

NF were a Swedish demo and cracking group, divided into two sections in the
north and south part of Sweden.

  We're Back (File, 2 parts).
  code: Blaster Inc., gfx: ripped, music: ripped.
  review: Has even less to offer than On The Top, with two very nearly
  identical parts! No use bothering with this. Ranger was announced as a new
  member. No release date. [glenn]

  The Real Thing (1988, 01.02, File, 3 parts).
  code: Merlin, gfx: ripped, music: ripped.
  review: This demo is quite uninteresting, and has more than a few things
  in common with On The Top, released the day after this. They share the
  same intro, and one of the tunes were used in both demos! Uninteresting.
  [glenn]

  On The Top! (1988, 02.02, File, 4 parts).
  code: Blaster Inc., Merlin, gfx: ripped, music: ripped.
  review: Another typical demo of its time, with no extraordinary routines
  and ripped graphics and music. The music is from games like Hunter's Moon
  and Side-Walk. There's about a million of these out there. [glenn]


New Life (NL)
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???> Crox (den? code crack, 03/88), Wolf (den? crack, 03/88).


New Men
-------
Excell and Gandalf joined Jewels.


Ninjutsu Design
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???> T.Error (Ringo Reuter, doublememb The Imperium Arts).


Nipson (NSN)
------------
???> Jesper Kyd (ex Feniks, new late94).

Nipson is a Polish demo group.

  Eiger (1994, late, Demo).
  code: ASL, gfx: n/a, music: n/a.
  info: Trackmo-style (IRQ loaded), one diskside.


Nirvana (-1993)
---------------
  1993 - The group lost X-Radical to Vision and Cavron to The Ruling Crew in
may, and subsequently died.


No Frills International (NFI)
-----------------------------
USA> Edison Carter (05/88), Goobug (05/88), Master Kracker (10/87-05/88),
     Ranger 11 (10/87), Rogue (05/88), Starfire (05/88), The Ancient One
     (10/87-05/88), The Macho Man (05/88), The Paladin (10/87), The Trancer
     (10/87).

Boards; GREAT ESCAPES (usa, 11/88), WARES FOR THE MASSES (usa, 11/88),
     PIRATE'S BAY (usa, 11/88), THE DARK CASTLE (usa, 11/88), TRINIDAD (usa,
     11/88), THE ENDLESS CAVE (usa, 11/88).

NFI are an American cracker group.


Noice
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SWE> Dox (S. Berglund, swap, 09/94), Joyride (code, 07/00), Ratpoison
     (music, 05/93), Zzap69 (Tobias Svensson, music swap, 09/95-07/00).
???> Devil (code gfx, later F4CG, 05/93-09/94), Draz (gfx, 05/93), Ecoder
     (music, 05/93), Mazy (05/93), Peace (music, ex Oxyron, new 09/94),
     Poison (gfx, 05/93), Ranger (gfx, 05/93), Scoop (gfx, 05/93), Stasi
     (gfx, 05/93), Swoffa (code gfx, 05/93).

Noice are a mainly swedish demo group.
  1992 - Ranger (gfx) left for Fairlight in december, but his stay was
probably short, as he is a confirmed member of Noice again in may 93.
  1993 - Swedish graphician Poison left early this year. Rumours say that
the entire group joined Triad early 93, but that is probably false.
  1994 - The month of september brought the recruitment of Peace/Oxyron
(music), the release of Devil's graphics editor "Drazlace V1.0" and also the
dismissal of finnish swapper Sandman (who had a double membership in Utopia
to fall back on). They expressed high hopes that Ablaze (gfx) would return
soon.
  1995 - Motion (swap trade), who was kicked some time back, finally teamed
up with Chromance around september.

  Digital Dreams (1992, 19.04, Demo).
  Released for the Easter Party 92 demo competition.

  Imse Vimse Get (1993, 30.05, Demo).
  code: Devil, Swoffa, Mazy, gfx: Draz, Swoffa, Stasi, Scoop, Poison,
  Ranger, music: Ecoder, Ratpoison.
  4th in The Computer Crossroads 93 demo competition.


North East Crackers/Importers (NEC/NEI)
---------------------------------------
USA> Grim Reaper (code crack fix, 05-12/92), Horizon (code crack,
     11/90-12/91), Mr.Brownstone (05-12/91), Murdock (11/90-12/91).

Boards; SOUTH OF HEAVEN (usa, 12/92), THE SHAOLIN TEMPLE (usa, 12/92), REIGN
     IN BLOOD WHQ (09-10/91).

PREVIOUS MEMBERS -

USA> Archmage (11/90), Butcher (11/90), Death Merchant (gfx, 03/90),
     Defiance (11/90), Guardian (code, 03/90), Prodigy (supply sysop
     'TERMINAL OBSESSION', supports Censor, 11/90-06/91), Sir Cyro
     (05-12/91), The Dominant One (11/90).

Boards; SHANGRALI (usa, new 07/91), THE DISC SHOPPE (USA, 03-11/90), SECOND
     TO NONE (USA, 03-11/90), ELECTRIC WAREZ (USA, 03/90), ETERNITY (USA,
     03/90).

NEC/NEI were an American group, who spent most of their time importing
European releases to the USA, and fixing them for NTSC. Were in cooperation
with the the europeans in Legend and Genesis Project (10/91).
  1991 - Hitmen's "ViNews #3" [01/91] accused Horizon of ripping Mirage's
release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, essentially just replacing their
intro with his...


Nostalgia (NO)
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???> 6R6 (crack, 11/01), Didi (crack, 05/97), H-Bloxx (supply, 05/97).

Nostalgia is a group dedicated to retro-cracking, releasing old games in
'perfect' versions.

