This left Fairlight without much of its former demopower, and the search began for replacements. December brought even more bad news, as swedish musician Danko decided to leave the group, and swedes Pernod and Judge left for Horizon. This was followed by more bad news when longtime member The Hobbit also left the scene soon after.
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Following Karl XII/GB's appearance on swedish national tv in late may, selling out the entire carding and phreaking scene, important members The Alchemist and Zaphod decided to leave the scene around june or july. Originals were a problem during this time too (early summer), and all their cracks were spread with notes requesting new suppliers. The news was publicly announced in a note spread with some cracks done around the 1st of june. In late may Viper was visited by the police, who confiscated some addresses and stuff, but he didn't leave the scene. They were also at the Defiers Party 1989 in may, where they came 2nd with another Pernod & Judge demo Megabmxninja. In march they had FOUR active crackers The Alchemist, Bacchus, Gollum and Viper! May saw the group travelling to the Equinoxe and Horizon Party in Eskilstuna, where they recruited Seagull and Smirnoff from AVT, and came 3rd in the demo competition with Pernod and Judge's Algot's Revenge. Griffith also joined towards the end of the year.ġ989 looked a lot better. Fox Fights Back + in october listed Black Shadow, The Sarge, Strider, The Hobbit, Excalibur and Gollum as members. In late autumn, Excalibur left for Abyss, while Doppelganger of Abyss went the other way and left Abyss for Fairlight. Y was later dismissed, and 4042 and Sharp also left after a short while, and X changed his handle to Exolon. The article The History of Fairlight in Exceller 8 2 mentioned that Excalibur, Sharp, 4042, X and Y joining in late spring of this year. Gollum was now the sole active C64 member! Happily he managed to recruit the Swedish members of Front ( Saruman, Olo, Audrey and Getafix) in july, gaining two new crackers in Saruman and Olo. He returned for a couple of cracks in april and may, but was eventually gone for good. This meant that, in the beginning of march, only Gollum and Strider were left as active C64 members! Then, on the 14th of march founder Strider released his final C64 crack, and left to work exclusively on the Amiga. Dragonlance (who had first appeared in november last year) also ceased to be a member sometime around january or february of 1988. They joined in february, but left pretty quickly.
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His place was temporarily filled by subgroup The Platoon (TPL), consisting of cracker HAM, Brain and Orco.
He released a small note (written using his own tool Woowriter) with the dramatic name "Woodo is dead!!!" to announce it. Belgian coder Gandalf, who was last heard from in december of this year, later became Lord Blitter on the amiga.ġ988 begun with the departure of Woodo in january or february, who left the scene to work on games. On the 18th to the 21st of december they coarranged the Triad & Fairlight Copy Party 1987 in Stockholm, Sweden. Black Shadow got more and more active on the amiga, but still found time for a few cracks on the c64 now and then - but his last known work on the c64 was in december of this year. The november release Colossus Bridge V4.0 listed Strider, Gollum, Woodo, Black Shadow, The Hobbit, Gandalf and Dragonlance as members at that time. Towards the third quarter of 87, they opened their first BBS, The Pleasure Dome in Sweden.
The group was voted #8 cracker group of the month in Illegal 18 (july 1987), then #6 in Illegal 19 (august 1987). The first months were spent cracking games. The next two members were coder and cracker Woodo (ex Razor Express) from Denmark and Belgian graphician The Hobbit. The july 1st release Road Runner Multitrainer listed Strider, Gollum, Black Shadow and Nighthawk as members. They almost immediately recruited another Swedish cracker, Gollum. They decided they wanted new names, and thus became known as Strider and Black Shadow, respectively. FairLight are a legendary Swedish-based demo and cracking group, born in april 1987 on the c64 by two members of the West Coast Crackers (WCC), No.1 and Sir Galahad.