Chemical Reaction (artscene group)

Infobox computer underground
group_name = Chemical Reaction (cRO)

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caption =
origin =
country = Germany
status = active
years_active = 1997–present
category = artscene warez
founders = rADIATORS and bLOOD
products = cRO Art Packs and Diskmag
affiliates =
website = [http://www.chemical-reaction.org Chemical-Reaction.org]

Chemical Reaction, which is spelled "cHEMICAL rEACTION" (cRO) is an artscene group that was founded by the sceners rADIATORS and bLOOD in the year 1997 in Germany, Europe. The name was derived from the Chemical Brothers album with the same title. Famous members of the group include hETERO, bATE, pALEDETH and fLI7E.

Group History

The original idea and reason for the creation of the group was to create a diskmag (disk magazine, named after the early electronic magazines that were distributed via floppy disks) that is made of the finest scene artwork in the categories ascii, ansi, gfx (graphics), tracks (music) and demos, a diskmag that should separate itself from the Warez scene and build its own art-scene. [http://web.archive.org/web/20030201222010/www.chemical-reaction.org/index.php?main=history cRO History] , from Archive.org, retrieved July 6, 2007] [http://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=1806 Chemical Reaction Intro Releases] , "Pouet.net"]

The group mostly works on request. At the beginning was many stuff produced but never packed together, which caused the loss of many of the artists. The main idea of releasing a diskmag with a w32 engine took 5 years to be realized. Before this just artpacks were released, but it also took cRO one year to release the first artpack.

The group structure changed in the year 2000 when sORT8 and pALEDETH became co-leaders of cRO.

After releasing the first artpack in 2000 cHEMICAL rEACTION was being recognized by many scene groups and the number of artwork request increased. The requests were mostly for .nfo file logos, FILE ID.DIZ, Cracktros and Intros.

The founder rADIATORS quit the group in 2002 for personal reasons and fUSSIE, mR.nICE and nEOMAN became the new leaders. It is ironic that the first cRO diskmag was released the same year, the diskmag that lead to the creation of the group in the first place.

Chemical reaction exists to this day and the active members still do artwork on request. cRO is not a commercial organization. It's a hobby for all the members and they do it just for fun. They can be reached at the Internet Relay Chat channel #cRO at the EFnet.

Official Contact

* [http://www.chemical-reaction.org Chemical-Reaction.org] Website
*IRC Channel: #CRO (Efnet)

References

ee also

* ANSI art
* ASCII art
* Bulletin board system (BBS)
* Computer art scene
* - Underground artscene groups featured on Wikipedia