Step6: Choosing a nickname
So I wanted to create demos. Next step is to choose a name.
When you are an artist, you often choose a nickname. That the same for programmer (which are also kind of "artists" right? 🙂 ). Before the Amiga 500, I choosed "Alex Pix" as nickname. surely because I already loved pixels. When I started using the Amiga 500 I decided to choose another one. I created a group with a friend and his brother (remember, demos are made by groups). He proposed names around satanism (yeah young people like strange and forbidden things). So we created "Satan Crack Band" (SCB) and my friend name was "Belial". He proposed me Oriens. Oriens sounded nice so I said ok.
Oriens is the name of a demon. I that time, I did not know anything about demons (neither today lol). Searching the internet give this info: Oriens is the demon of the east. And sadly he is also one of the forgotten demons in the official lists! So you will not find much about this poor little Oriens. Anyway, a name is just a name, so I kept this one.
Here is one picture I’ve drawn on Amiga 500. Inspired from "Choose Your Own Adventure" book illustrations. The software used to draw was Deluxe Paint. We’ll speak about it later.
With my two friends, we did not created any demos. So I decided to create another group with another friend HAWK. That was in 1989. Serious demo things are starting now.
As a bonus here are the covers of the books I was reading at that time. I read the 11 first book of the serie «Choose Your Own Adventure» (In French «Livre dont vous êtes le hero» / A book where you are the hero). The illustration, of the flying demon is from «The Talisman of death».
Cool video
Hybris Nemesis WILD DEMO from The Party 2000.
Parody of the little mermaid song «part of that world» talking of beeing a nerd or coder. So funny.
Demo of that time
Wild Copper & TecSoft – Megalo Demos (1988)
French demo group.
Nickames of known sceners
Taking on pouet.net the best groups, here are the names, so you can get more examples of choosen names:
And same for sceners, taken from 10 best rated production for Amiga OCS or AGA on pouet, and most active users:
Would be interesting to know the story behind each of these nicknames. I know Sim and I know this is start of his first name. Another story is about Moby (famous Amiga musician), that had trouble with the other famous musician Moby. The first one had to change for "El mobo".
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