Cascade is a loose group of people sharing their dedication for the good old Commodore home computers of the 80s, still wellknown today under their names "C64" and "Amiga".

Cascade was founded in spring 1988, most probably in march or april, by Bruce, Bongo and Axis, three sceners living near Frankfurt/Main/Germany. The group soon moved from C64 to Amiga (probably already in summer of 1988) and became quite successful as cracking and (primarily) demo group, also running several wellknown boards. Read the AFL Cracker Journal for some more infos (e.g. an interview with Bruce & Bongo in issue 21).

Whilst having several divisions with loads of members located in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Holland, France, Belgium, Canada and the USA, the group had no C64 section at that time. In 1990 Cascade released some more succesful demos mostly made by the guys in Sweden (hi Phazor, Lester and Skimmer btw. :-). But in 1991 the group was set inactive, when Bruce & Bongo joined the Tarkus Team and the rest of the german section joined other groups or left the scene. Although the danish members eventually continued for a while in 1991, the Cascade story seemed to be over...

In 1995 two C64 sceners, Mr.Lee and Zeldin (that's me, who is just writing this), were forming a new group. We decided for 'Cascade' to be the name of this new group, after doing some page hopping in some dictionary (sounds familiar for many of you, eh). Never really being active scenewise on Amiga, both Mr.Lee and me were unaware, that Cascade was an already existing Amiga group (though inactive for several years). A fact that most propably would have influenced our decision in naming the group Cascade...

Somewhen in 1998 Phazor got in contact with me, after he stumbled upon the Cascade Homepage. Curiosly he asked me, if this Cascade has some relation with the old Amiga group and if I had some old Amiga demos of Cascade. It was the first time I was aware that old Cascade stuff on another platform is around. After having some thoughts about it (and exchanging several mails with Phazor), I decided to merge both old and new group together. I extended the website with an Amiga section and upd all the old Cascade Amiga stuff I could grab together (Amiga stuff was hard to find in the Inet back then). This was a good move as in the time to come more and more old Cascaders appeared and managed to get in contact with each other again after so many years. Finding their old demos on the website and watching them, made most of these guys totally happy, having tears in their eyes :-)

Meanwhile I also got in contact with the founders of Cascade, making the merge really official... And by the way, realizing that one of the Cascade founders originates near Frankfurt like myself (and furthermore Ray and Monte Carlos), makes Cascade somehow a Hessian group, at least a bit ;-)

Bye and "Schoppe in de Kopp!" :-)

Age: 37 (born in Bad Homburg/Hessen/Germany)
Scene Job: Cascade HQ, Webmaster, Grafix, Code
C64 since: Dec. 1986

• First appearance 1987 (with some Cracks)...
• 1988 - 1989 in the group 'Inner City'...
• 1989 - 1995 in the group 'V-Lucid'...
• 1989 - 1990 also a member of the Amigagroup called 'Frankfort Masters'...
• May 1995 Re-Foundation of CASCADE C64 Section together with Mr.Lee...

Food: Pizza, Pasta and some native German Food
Drink: ÄPPLER (Hessian Applewine), Coffee
Music: Die Ärzte, Bhangra Pop, Bollywood Soundtracks, Jay Sean, a-ha
Movies: Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Kal Ho Na Ho, Dil Chata Hai, Kannathil Muthamittal, Kairo, A tale of two sisters, 23, Schtonk, Terminator SCC
Games: Newcomer, Diablo II, Dragon Wars, Indy 3+4, Monkey Island 1-3, Rigels Revenge, Archon, Paradroid, Wizball, Invasion (Bulldog Software) and some 100 C64 games more!

"As graphician, I pixel the things I can't code!"
("How about a painted chessboard-animation .ed" ;-)

Age: 30 (born in Frankfurt/Hessen/Germany)
Scene Job: Code, Music
C64 since: Dec. 1991

• First Appearance 1995, when he joined Hardcore...
• 1995 also a member of APS...
• 1996 he coded the Demo 'Fire' under the APS-Lable for the Symposium '96...
• 1996 he teamed up with Onslaught
• since May 1997 a member of CASCADE...

Food: Spaghetti, Pizza
Drink: Milk from German Cows
Music: Freak-Beats, Crazy Melodies
Movies: Metropolis, The Clue, Casablanca and the James Bond Series
Games: Mafia, Turricane, Katakis, Last Ninja, Doom

1. "Malma, Zeldin..." ("Paint it, Zeldin..." .ed)
2. "Jemand, der sagt etwas sei unmöglich, sollte wenigstens so kooperativ sein, denjenigen der es gerade tut nicht am arbeiten zu hindern!"
   ("Someone who sais that something is impossible, should at least be so cooperative, not to disturb those who are doing it!" .ed)

Age: 38 (born in Hamburg/Germany)
Scene Job: Code and Grafix
C64 since: Dec. 1983

• First C64 actions of Mr.Lee, were coding some decent stuff, like:
  an Adventure Maker (1986-1987)
  the Visass (1988-1989)
  an Adventure Maker in Infocom Quality (1990-1994)
• in 1994 he coded the 'Assblaster' and 'Kitron'
• May 1995 Re-Foundation of CASCADE C64 Section together with Zeldin...

Food: FLEISCH! (Meat .ed) :)
Drink: Pepsi Max
Music: John Barry
Movies: The Big Blue
Games: All Ultima and Infocom Adventures

"Halt die Schnauze, Maiwan!"
("Shut up, Maiwan!"....that's Mr.Lee's bird .ed)

Age: 38 (born in Frankfurt/Hessen/Germany)
Scene Job: Musix
C64 since: Dec. 1985

• First Appearance 1986 and 1987 (with Musix)...
• 1988 - 1989 in the group 'Inner City'...
• 1989 - 1995 in the Group 'V-Lucid'...
  (1989 - 1990 also a member of the Amiga Group called 'Frankfort Masters'...)
• 1992-1994 only active from time to time...
• in early 1994 he quitted the scene...
• May 1996 Comeback in CASCADE...

Food: Pizza, Doener Dueruem, Currywurst
Drink: Scotch and German Beer!
Music: Dream Theatre, Savatage, Asia
Movies: Highlander, Star Trek
Games: Archon, Paradroid, Fort Apocalypse, Pacmany

1. "Oops!"
2. "Get me a beer, Zeldin!"