The Exceptions

They were early pioneers writing demos for the Atari ST platform.

After finding the initial Basic implementation limiting, they moved onto writing some simple graphical demonstration computer programs in assembly.

[1] After an early period of cracking games software and adding these demo screens to the loaders they eventually realised the coding was more fun.

[2] It featured a large collection of music ported from various Commodore 64 games by their recently joined musician Jochen Hippel.

[3] A selection of the more influential releases are listed here: Like most demo groups the members used handles or nicknames to identify themselves.