(this is just a quick edit of our homepage (http://www.nano.no/~espeng/gollum/)
                          (written by twinny / gollum)

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                            1. Information about ut
                            2. Current Memberstatus
                            3. Current Releases
                            4. Distribution Sites
                            5. How to contact us

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                            1. Information about us
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Gollum was started summer 1991 by $volkraq and Gwatozhy, both interested in
computers almost from the day of birth. In winter 1990-91 somewhere, Gwatozhy
got his own PC. He learnt the basic facts of programming in Turbo Pascal (then
5.5) from a friend called Kaare Nilsen. Later on, after a few weeks (things
went really fast then), $volkraq learnt the basic facts from Gwatozhy, and the
rock was rolling. The name of the group was easy to find after reading some
J.R.R. Tolkien. Gollum was the name of the most slimy, sticky selfish and
terribly antisocial creature in the whole Lord of the Rings, ...and the name
was decided as a matter of fact. Together, these two guys made some creative
things like a drawing program and a intro showing Donald Duck being shot in
his head with a bullet, causing a great explosion.

In the end of summer, both attended to a computer-oriented course at a school
in Skien. There, they met Blobylde, who turned out to be pretty interested in
programming. He joined Gollum after a few months. Around Xmas 1991, they
produced a education-information program to be distributed all over the
schools in the district. The program was finished, working very good indeed,
but something went wrong in the distrobution of it.

The next member to join was me (Twin Killer), who they met at a private party
for four guys. I turned out to be very interested in programming too (what a
surprise), and I was already running a BBS, then called Bad Sectors BBS. So
naturally, I became a member ;)

Another member called Oscar, joined in after this. He was kicked out again
late 1993 due to inactivity and bad cooperation (no hard feelings, he's a
good programmer).

Early 1993, Blobylde's neighbour turned out to be a especially creative and
fast-learning guys. After a little Gollum-incubation-time, he joined Gollum
in a weird ceremony. He called himself Pixman.

Well, the eternal goal was to make a good demo, and we tried to do something
to The Gathering 1993, but the demo ("Invisible") was put together after
deadline, so the result was thereafter. Nevertheless, we got a surprising
number five for it. We don't count this demo as a serious release. At last
we got something out of The Gathering 1993, becuse we met a guy called
Lancelot, who Gwatozhy maintained contact with. It did'nt happen anything
until he sent us a disk containing graphics and music that turned out to
be so nice that we wanted him to join us, and he did so.

After The Gathering 1993, Gollum was expanded with an Amiga Section but that
turned out to have no meaning at all. One of the members converted to PC, but
then he sold his PC again, and nothing more happened.

So.. We started on a demo ("Assembler Instinct") for The Party 3, but once
again we put together the demo at the Party, so the demo contained lots'a
designing and timings bugs. However, it ended up on 7th place and Gollum's
spirit almost died. At this Party we also used Future Crew's Musicdisc
Interface and realeased a musicdisc called "The Scream from Mirkwood"..

I'm not sure about this, but I think Taskmaster joined right after The Party 3
or something. Or maybe it was before? I dunno. Anyway, after some weeks we got
two new musicians, Braintoumor and Heywood, they lived in the neighbourhood,
and they had already made lots'a music, So ofcourse they joined too. Then
Hamlet joined as a coder, (I don't know if he's going to do something but
anyway; he's still a member ;).

At The Gathering 1994, things went pretty good actually. Pixman and I (Twinny)
put together a intro called "Das Grelle". Everything was done at the party so
we did'nt expect so much of it. However, it turned out to be a big success,
and we won the intro compo, with twice as much votes as the second place.
$volkraq made a 4-channel mod named "Sound o'da Lunatic", and surprisingly he
won the music compo. Wow.. This was a great party, we thought, and we all
leaned back and did'nt do nothing for a looong while.

Summer 1994, together with some friends I (Twinny) arranged a Party here in
Norway named "Bush Party 1994", around 50-70 guys showed up, and we had a
great time! At this party Pixman coded a intro called "Fidderli Fisk", which
won the intro-compo. At the same time I (Twinny) coded a 2kb intro and it was
placed 2nd in the 4kb intro compo. $volkraq and B&H also competed in the music-
compo at that party, but they did'nt reach high, becuse one of the groups
present at that party had so much members that they almost alone decided how
the results would look like.

Then we went to Finland, to attend The Assembly '94, which turned out to be a
big flop, I have only negative things to tell about that party, but atleast we
had a great booze on the boat together with most of the Darkzone members.

Then again we returned to Denmark to attend to The Party 4, (which was a great
party indeed!), but we did'nt release anything there either. So we used all
the time to talk to friends all over the world, and ofcourse make some new
friends ;)..

Next was The Gathering 95. We arrived the first day, and guess what; We had no
power ;)..But after 6-7 hours and some arguing with a crazy electrican we
finally got some power.. 2-3 days went fast, becuse we were quite busy talking
with friends from other groups and stuff. The compos were delayed many hours,
and on top of that the internet-connection and the party-network was a hoax
as expected ;) Anyway; I (Twinny) worked on the musicdisc ("Reactivate"),
and we had also a great time making "Gathering - The Motion Picture" ;)..
But as usual; things could be better, and the results sure looked weird too!

...to be continued!

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                            2. Current Memberstatus
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 Twinny,      Espen L. Grimsgaard, Code/PR/Sysop, espeng@nano.no
 $volkraq,    Kjetil Hoem,         Code/PR/Music, svolkraq@spirea.gih.no
 Pixman,      Knut Taraldsen,      Code
 Blobylde,    Jorn Haarek Haugen,  Code
 Gwatozhy,    Jan-Henrik Ejme,     Code
 Lancelot,    Tommy Fjelldal,      Code/Music
 Hamlet,      Rune Myrland,        Code
 TaskMaster,  Juha Mild,           Graphics
 Braintumour, Jan Terje Augestad,  Music
 Heywood,     Andre Karlsen,       Music
 Pagan,       Tom Erik Paulsen,    Graphics
 Bianco,      Ole Martin Haukedal, Graphics

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                              3. Current Releases
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 Invisible                   Demo            1993
 Assembler Instinct          Demo            1993
 The Scream from Mirkwood    MusicDisk       1993
 EnjoyMusic                  MOD/S3M Player  1994
 Das Grelle                  80kb Intro      1994
 Bushparty Invitation Intro  Intro           1994
 Fidderli Fisk               64kb Intro      1994
 Grimtro                     2kb Intro       1994
 Bentro                      Birthtro        1995
 Pixtro                      Birthtro        1995
 LGP Invitation Intro        Intro           1995
 Reactivate                  MusicDisk       1995

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                             4. Distribution Sites
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 Sidewalk Cafe           World Head Quarter     +47-355-12227
 The Supreme Court       Dutch Head Quarter #1  +31-165-067577
 Genesis                 Dutch Head Quarter #2  +32-221-56624
 A.C.E.                  French Head Quarter    +33-145-887548
 BlasterSound            Spanish Head Quarter   +34-582-93583
 Triplex BBS             Finnish Head Quarter   +358-050-62277
 Side Effects            Italian Head Quarter   +39-755-725175
 Stairway to Heaven      Danish Head Quarter    +45-747-26303
 The Portal              Swedish Head Quarter   +46-261-96363
 Digital Zone            German Head Quarter    +49-696-86340
 Invalid Environment     Finnish Dist           +358-416-66715
 Scoop BBS               Norwegian Dist         +47-517-48535
 Action BBS              Norwegian Dist         +47-748-07766


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                              5. How to contact us
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Internet.........: espeng@nano.no (twinny)
                   svolkraq@spirea.gih.no ($volkraq)

Snail Mail.......: Espen Grimsgaard (twinny)
                   Lyngveien 81 G
                   N-3930 Porsgrunn
                   Norway

                   Kjetil Hoem ($volkraq)
                   Kopperud Hybelbygg K516
                   Kalkveien 11
                   N-2800 Gj›vik
                   Norway

Voice phone......: +47-67171588 ($volkraq)

Modem............: Sidewalk Caf‚ at +47-355-12227


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