X-Troll
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X-Troll was a demo group of the Atari ST Demo Scene
. It was founded in 1989 and went inactive in 1994. Beside some demos two members of the X-Trolls coded the technically most impressive shoot'em up game on the Atari ST: "Lethal Xcess
", the follow-up to the famous "Wings of Death". X-Troll went into hibernation mode around 1993 and was resurrected by Cyclone somewhen after the millennium. All members are still active in some way. Nexus 6 is still releasing chiptunes from time to time, while Sunnyboy mostly is looking for old disks to prepare them for release. Cyclone however has taken over Alive Diskmagazine from ST Survivor to support the Atari scene.
Atari demos
Atari demos generally refer to demos created for the Atari ST home computer.- History :The Atari Demo Scene can probably be traced back to a group called "The Exceptions" who created a series of music demos in 1987. In 1988 the Atari Demo scene gathered further momentum with the release of the...
. It was founded in 1989 and went inactive in 1994. Beside some demos two members of the X-Trolls coded the technically most impressive shoot'em up game on the Atari ST: "Lethal Xcess
Lethal Xcess
Lethal Xcess is a shoot 'em up game developed by two members of the Atari ST demo crew X-Troll and published by Eclipse in 1991. An Amiga version was also created.-Gameplay:- Story :...
", the follow-up to the famous "Wings of Death". X-Troll went into hibernation mode around 1993 and was resurrected by Cyclone somewhen after the millennium. All members are still active in some way. Nexus 6 is still releasing chiptunes from time to time, while Sunnyboy mostly is looking for old disks to prepare them for release. Cyclone however has taken over Alive Diskmagazine from ST Survivor to support the Atari scene.
X-Troll Members
- Sunnyboy alias Claus Frein (master coder)
- Cyclone alias Heinz Rudolf (graphics artist / coder)
- Nexus 6 alias Mirko Mönninghoff (musician / coder)
X-Troll Demos
- 1988 – Acid Intro
- 1988 – Musicdemo
- 1988 – Longscreen
- 1989 – SpriteMagic
- 1989 – The Final Swobbler
- 1989 – The New Year Demo
- 1990 – AudioPac
- 1990 – NEOshow
- 1991 – DigiDrums
- 1993 – DigiSound
- 2005 – Bootsector Scroller (ranked 3rd at the outline 2005 bootsector competition)
- 2005 – Keftales Bootsector (ranked 2nd at the outline 2005 bootsector competition)
- 2006 – Bootplasma (ranked 1st at the outline 2006 bootsector competition)
- 2006 – Alive Jukebox (ranked 2nd at the outline 2006 wild competition)
- 2007 – White Noize Bootsector (ranked 2nd at the outline 2007 bootsector competition)
X-Troll Products
- 1988 – MEDI
- 1989 – Turbobooster
- 1990 – Block-Editor
- 1991 – Lethal XcessLethal XcessLethal Xcess is a shoot 'em up game developed by two members of the Atari ST demo crew X-Troll and published by Eclipse in 1991. An Amiga version was also created.-Gameplay:- Story :...
(Wings of Death 2) - 1991 – MV2000
- 1992 – SMDsend
- 1992 – Super Magic Tool
- 1992 – Dragon World (unreleased sequel to Lethal Excess)
- 1993 – Danger Zone (unreleased vertical shooter for Sega Mega Drive)