Tristar and Red Sector Incorporated

Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated (TRSI) is a computer scene and underground formation which derives from the longest-running cooperation in scene history, getting started in 1990. RSI existed from 1985, before being joined by the "T" later on. Evolving from the Commodore C64 to the AMIGA and later to PC and various game console platforms - like PSX, Xbox, Nintendo - TRSI released lots of renown digital productions, always remaining dedicated to the old school spirit from the founding days and experimenting in phreaking or network alteration. Its members were spread around the world and still contribute to computer scene art and code from all different walks and trades of life, after more than 23 plus one years of history and infamous partying.

History

1985

Red Sector Incorporated short form RSI, was founded on the Commodore C64 as a group for cracks, fixes, trainers, packs, intros and demos. The founders were three suppliers from Canada: Bill Best, Greg & Kangol Kid. After the initial formation in spring, The Skeleton & Baudsurfer set up RSI's first WHQ, "The Pirates Ship" BBS, in the following summer, which was Canadas first BBS ever. Later on, the Pirates Ship became the "Dawn of Immortality" BBS. At the end of the year, Irata & Mister Zeropage were asked to join the group and set up a european section in Germany, with Irata being the groups main trader, followed by additional importers in the United States. Slogans at the time: "No risk, no fun - Red Sector Number One" & "Red Sector - The Leading Force!" The Light Circle was a basis for several future european members of RSI, a coalition of Radwar Enterprises, Cracking Force Berlin & Flash Cracking Formation.

1986 to 1987

Red Sector Incorporated first released on the AMIGA 1000. During the summer time, RSI decided to concentrate on the AMIGA and formed an AMIGA division. In the beginning of 1987, Red Sector's Commodore 64 section had been put out of action for a while, to bundle forces on the AMIGA. At this time, RSI's first AMIGA demo was coded by HQC and released to the Scene. It was followed by the second one of Twilight with Music by Karsten Obarski. At the end of the year, a short termed cooperation was formed with Ghenna of Defjam, marking the first group cooperation ever on the AMIGA.

1988 to 1989

By now, all active members had moved to the AMIGA. A fast stream of imports from the United States and Canada continued to be processed in Europe. Among a wave of police raids, Irata & Mister Zeropage got busted and RSI fell asleep for a period of time. A slow restart by Irata, Onyx & SLL began the recovery of Red Sector Incorporated in the second half of this year, while Onyx came to know TCC Design. For the first time, RSI met Tristar members to party together. RSI and Defjam restarted releasing together. Later on, Irata became the main leader of the group. In 1989, Red Sector Incorporated recruited The Clumsy Creepers as their demo division on AMIGA. The filemagazine "News on Tour" got its first issue in August, written by RSI. In September, the "Red Sector Mega Demo" was published for ECS, a milestone in scene demo history and an instant classic, manufactured as a two 3 1/2 inch disc production, winning the "Tristar Party" demo competition. It later had been voted one of the best ten AMIGA demos ever. Among others: Coding by TCC Design, Doctor Beat, Delta. Music by Romeo Knight, SCS, Mark 2 & Bit Arts. Graphics by Scum, Dark, Doctor C, Rat Sign, Delta. The demo division also released "The Red Sector Demomaker" on the AMIGA, which was distributed by DATA BECKER.

1990

The group Public Enemy was founded. Red Sector Incorporated and Public Enemy joined forces and extended to the PC. In February, RSI published the first issue of "Criminal" magazine. RSI was voted number one in the "World Charts" on AMIGA. The AMIGA demo "Follow Me" was released for ECS, followed by "Revenge of the Babbnasen" in the same format. It won the Cebit demo competition in March. On the AMIGA, RSI and the relatively unknown group TRS fusioned to become Tristar and Red Sector Incorporated, or as short form: TRSI, on June 29. This was the beginning of the longest running merger in scene history up until today, being finalized in June at "The Silents & Red Sector Summer Conference" in Denmark. From there, TRSI became a vital crew in scene history, diverting activities to several playgrounds. Slogans at the time: "Twice the Fun - Double the Trouble" & "Back to the Roots" For a brief period, a multi platform cooperation was in effect: Public Enemy / Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated / Defjam / The Dream Team

1991 to 1992

Public Enemy left the coalition, followed by The Dream Team. Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated remained and still consists predominantly of european members from Germany, Austria, France & England. TRSI spawned its austrian AMIGA demo section Surprise ! Productions, founded by TMB. In December, the "Prism Vectors" demo ranked third at the "Prime Party" on the AMIGA. Slogans at the time: "The sleeping Gods" & "The Everlasting" In March of 1992, the TRSI "Misery Dentro" won the Cebit demo competition on the AMIGA. After previously being abandoned, the Commodore 64 section was revived by Irata, Mister President & Mister Cursor as RSI in August, featuring Psychobilly, Benson, Dense, Termo & Street Tuff. TRSI spawned yet another demo division, called Masque. Their AMIGA demo "Wicked Sensation" won the "World of Commodore" exhibition in November. "Ecliptica" ranked third in December at "The Party" on the AMIGA.

1993 to 1996

RSI was voted the best first release group on the Commodore 64. In April, "No Pain, No Gain" came in second as AMIGA 40K at "The Gathering". Masque also ranked second with "Misery Dentro II" at the Cebit demo competition on the AMIGA. Meanwhile, TRSI formed a polish demo section. Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated published several noteworthy demos, among them "Cubic Dream", "Artifice" & "Victoria". The groups overall production activities peaked early in 1994. A number of releases was produced in cooperation with Zenith. Slogan at the time: "No fame, no money, no power - only Fun 'n Friendship" On the Commodore 64, "The Party IV Scroll" demo got shipped. The last issue of the papermag "Bullet Proof" was released. The polish demo section of TRSI formed Nah-Kolor in the middle of 1995. Shortly after, it had been dissected from Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated, with some members staying. Zinkfloid founded TRSI Recordz to publish the scene music samplers "Cyberlogik" I & II, plus an album by CNCD. TRSI also released on the SNES Super Famicom. A game soundtrack album by Doctor Awesome was published by TRSI Recordz in 1996. The "Television" demo ranked second in April at "Scenest" on the Commodore 64. In December, "Twin Peaks" came in fourth on the AMIGA at "The Party".

1997 to 1999

Mellow Chips joined Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated as a sub group demo section. TRSI Recordz published an album by Andrew Barnabas. In July, TRSI & Locker House released "Insomnia" issue one, an AMIGA disc magazine. "Dose" by Mellow Chips ranked second in October as combined AMIGA demo at the "Demolition Party". Mellow Chips of Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated won the demo competition at "The Gathering" with the AMIGA production "Rise" in 1998. TRSI & The Light Circle released for the Nintendo 64. In October, "EKG" came in second at "Compushare" as a PC 64K with Replay. TRSI Recordz published an album by Muffler in 1999. "Spice Melange" won the "Bush Party" in June in the PC demo competition with Polar Dreams.

2000 to 2006

Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated, in the new millennium, released on the Sony Playstation and Gameboy Color. At the "TRSAC Party", TRSI ranked second with "Bizarre Love Triangle" on the AMIGA, with Haujobb & Depth in October 2001. In 2003 some members left the coalition to revive TRS again, which did not stop the remaining formation to produce up-to-date titles. Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated released on the Gameboy Advanced. TRSI published the first ever realtime ray tracer in 1KB in August 2004, "SW Raytrace 'em All" by Hitchhikr. Together with Hoodlum & Paradox, the "Hoodlum Cracktro" was released and widely acknowledged in November. In April of 2005 "Mini" won the "Maximum Overdose" party for TRSI as combined demo on the Commodore 64. Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated produced for the DTV in 2006. "Animatron" came in third on the Commodore 64 at the Breakpoint demo competition in April. For the console demo section, "Bloody Memories" ranked fourth with Titan on the PSP. At "Maximum Overdose" in May, "Rohrschach" won as combined demo on the Commodore 64 for TRSI. In August at Evoke, a third place was scored with Titan for "Lick It" on the PSP.

2007

In April, Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated released a firstie on the XBOX 360 with Bloody Memories 2.01, a combined XNA demo and sample game, The Great Giana Sisters, ranking fourth in the wild demo competition at "Breakpoint". Ghost in the Machine took the crown at Maximum Overdose as combined demo on the DTV in May. The One Trick Pony Intro scored first as PC demo at Sundown in September. TRSI's 4K Wannabe demo won the Main Party PC wild demo competition in November. Astaroth rejoined TRSI after 15 years of being away from the scene and started his comeback with an Flash-Demo called Back2Black at Evoke.

2008 to 2009

In February, 2008 - A DTV Odyssey won the Oxyron demo competition for TRSI, including its very own DTV Modplayer & Speech Emulation. 2nd Element ranked third at Breakpoint during the animation competition in April. Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated published the Kernel for Demos on the DTV, plus the classic game Boulder Dash and its source code on the same platform. The Sundown Invitation on Personal Computer was widely well received in July, together with Bitfellas & UK Scene Allstars. TRSI reached the 3rd slot with a live coded Flash-Demo in August at Evoke called Back2Red. In October, 7K Candy placed 1st at Main 2008 as wild demo. The "Numerica Artparty" mp3 competition in March 2009 was won by Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated. Parallel, a "T2" cracktro for Genesis had been released. In April, "Fortress of Narzod" secured the second place with 32K in the 96K game competition on C64 at Breakpoint, while "Le Cube" won third as a wild demo in conjunction with Drifters & Calodox. A handmade graphic "The Sleeping Gods" came in fourth. The mp3 and tracking music competitions at Evoke in August brought a second respectively third place for the group. Early October saw TRSI contributing at the MAIN party in France, including a popular invitro in conjunction with Alcatraz and the Rebels cooperation "Hil", which scored 4th as combined 4K on PC. A DTV production Misery III got first as wild demo, "My private Spacetrip" ranked second at the huge screen on the locations rooftop and "I'm free" came in third in the music competition.

BBS

Recently Active Members

• 71M - Coder
• Astaroth - Coder
• Ayatollah - Coder
• Benson - Coder
• Chromag - Musician
• Digiman - Amiga Man
• CONS - Musician
• H2o - Graphician
• Linus - Musician
• Peiselulli - Coder
• Rebb - Musician
• Shazz - Coder
• Spotter - Analogue Graphics
• Streettuff - Coder
• tEiS - Musician
• Warhead - Organizer
• WoDK - Vector Models

Vintage Members

Countries with TRSI members include Canada, Germany, United States of America, Austria, Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom, France, Spain and Turkey.

References & External Links

• TRSI official website
• TRSI on Pouët
• TRSI on CSDb
• TRSI on Scenery Amiga
• TRSI PC cracktros on Defacto2
• TRSI PC file and information repository on Defacto2
• TRSI selected old school files on Scene.Org
• TRSI Recordz Discography
• Amiga Music Preservation All TRSI Amiga Musicians on AMP
• Red Sector Incorporated on Wikipedia RSI internal Wikipedia page
• Red Sector Incorporated Megademo
• ROM4.LHA Article by Mop. R.O.M. diskmag, Issue 4 (requires an Amiga or Amiga emulator, such as UAE)