on this Page we try to give you an idea of what we did in the past and how the group developed over time. please notice that this is in no way complete or strictly accurate, memory fades and things are forgotten - if you are a former member who is able to make this info some more complete, please let us know.

1989

Back in 1989 Jihad and Curlin (at that time called Accu) have been members of Action... While Curlin left Action and joined Vision after he got into troubles with Spitfire/Action for some reason, Jihad still continued doing finest Quality cracks for Action. After a short time also Jihad was unhappy in Action, because of Spitfire's behaviour, so he wanted to teach him a lesson. Hitmen was born, with Jihad still being the main cracker in Action so we also got the newest originals available in Germany. Jihad was acting under the handle of The Barrel for Hitmen, Curlin was spreading the Hitmen wares as a freelancer these days, after a short while people were questioning who Hitmen was... Also Spitfire was getting mad as Hitmen was nearly as fast as Action and even did better versions. After a short time Jihad and Curlin joined Hitmen under their real handle. At that time also Twist was working for us. We became more successful and bigger. Now we are trying to give you a list of people who have been in Hitmen in the glorious times and what they are doing nowadays.

Alfatech		CSDB	He was in Censor and programming for Funcom, haven't heard of for a while
Scorp		CSDB	He joined Flash Inc. in the end
Francois Prijt	web	CSDB	I guess he is still doing musics
Probe	web	CSDB	To be found on IRC
Ice		CSDB	Never heard of again
Curse		CSDB	Never heard of again
Nightshade		CSDB	Is a member of TRC*SCS
Ghost		CSDB	Never heard of again
TWF		CSDB	Stopped computing
Def Squad		CSDB	Followed TWF
Thunder		CSDB	He is doing GFX on other systems
Elektor		CSDB	Stopped computing
Cevin		CSDB	Stopped computing
Cruise		CSDB	Stopped computing
Death		CSDB	Still doing GFX on other systems
Rough		CSDB	Is a member of Chromance
Tom		CSDB	Lost interest
Airwolf		CSDB	Is interested in making a comeback
Misfit		CSDB	Currently in WOW
Stanze		CSDB	Dropped computing due to lack of interest
Mason		CSDB	Our only paymember, CitiBank administrator ;)
Gilius		CSDB	Stopped computing due to lack of time
Necromancer	web (archive.org)	CSDB
Hibisch	web	CSDB	lost contact

...and probably some more dudes we don't really remember at the moment..sorry..

1992

Memberstatus 1/92 from a note by Racoon: Hypnotist (Coder, Cracker), Racoon (Leader, Vinews Editor, Swapper), Curlin (Leader, Vinews Editor, Cracker), Jihad (Modem Trader, Cracker), Elektor (Cracker, Swapper), Death (Painter, Swapper), Thunder (Painter), Levis (Swapper), Boz (Painter, Swapper)

Memberstatus 9/92 stated in the Intro to "Dodge": Racoon, Death, Curlin, Hypnotist, Lynx, Demon, Magic eye, Drago, the Gee, Silver, Sony, Dylan, Flatline, Master jay, Hibisch, Elektor

1993

Hitmen dissolved in the spring of 1993. After Jihad got his PC and lost interest in programming C64 stuff a bit earlier, the group was continued by Curlin and Racoon, until they also lost interest in that sort of things. Many guys tried to take over our fame and glory by stealing our name, and even some former members popped up, saying they would rebuild the original Hitmen posse. Naturally they failed.

1995

The original Hitmen staff finally decided to rebuild the group and kick ass again while visiting a local pub some time in december 1995. We grabbed the scene by its balls again and climbed to top positions in the cracking and bbs-business, and last not least managed to wake up some of the sleeping demo forces of the good old days.

1996

Back in the middle of 1996 Hitmen made their first steps on a console named Playstation. At that time no one believed that anybody would be able to upload and execute homemade stuff to the Playstation using only an Action Replay with a Comms-Link, they didn't even dare to dream that this machine would have its own scene.

Then two freaks wanted to prove them all wrong. Jihad and Curlin started to hack around on the machine and pretty soon found a way to execute programs which have been uploaded to the Playstation using the ActionReplay Executable from Datel and later on with a reverse engineered homemade Rom.

After a while they got in contact with Ez-O-Ray and Blackbag. Ez-O-Ray released their genius Rom version which made things lots easier. And when Blackbag started to publish the important information about the Playstation internals, things started to roll.

Finally it was there, Eco2Exe, created by Silpheed. This started to inspire people to grab the Yaroze compiler (which was available at the net at that time) and start coding. Now they where given the possibility to run their programs on a normal Playstation through the ActionReplay with Comms-Link. This is where it all started, the Playstation Scene was born.

1997

C-64 Homepage moved to goerres.de (archive.org)

1999

However, the first half of 1999 finally tought us that the cracking buissnes in C-64 world is dead and so all activities in that section were stopped. Naturally this caused a lot of changes for the group and just the hardcore demo people made it to the staff that will take the name of Hitmen to the next millennium.

and to be complete, let me list again what happened to the dudes that served you in the last years:

Alchemist		CSDB	prolly even more busy than in the past =)
Burn		CSDB	busy with reallife
Chaotic		CSDB	currently in PADUA
Jack Alien		CSDB	active in the Ranks of REMEMBER
Jinx		CSDB	busy with studies
Luke		CSDB	busy with studies
Magicman		CSDB	busy earning money with M$ bugs 8=)
Moonchild		CSDB	busy with studies
Racoon		CSDB	left for EXCESS, then quit the scene
Rammy		CSDB	to be found on IRC (Rammy_/#AmigaPL)
Sabotage		CSDB	busy with reallife
Seven		CSDB	to be found on IRC
Sledge	web	CSDB	never heard of again
Starkiller		CSDB	to be found on IRC
Vortex		CSDB	busy with reallife
Zore		CSDB	never heard of again

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