![]() ![]() 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. 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.ฤก988 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. ![]()
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