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Fantastic Italian Research Enterprise (FIRE)
Name:Fantastic Italian Research Enterprise
Handle:FIRE
Type:Group
Active:YES!
Country: Italy
Members:
Luca(Member)
Alex (FIRE)(Ex-member)
RDG(Ex-member)
AFC(Ex-member)
ADG(Ex-member)
NF Software(Ex-member)
SVS(Founding member)
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Fantastic Italian Research Enterprise


Releases by Fantastic Italian Research Enterprise
TitleCategoryRelease DateLang​uageSizeDistri​bution
128b (SVS) [It's Only Gravity!]Demo/128Byte2003-09-07English16KFreeware
2048 OctaluxeGame/Logic2019-12-30English16KFreeware
31 Lines DemoDemo1991English64KFreeware
4-Mat XmpDemo2008-06-17English16KFreeware
Alex 92Demo1992-12-15English64KFreeware
Alex ShowDemo1989English64KFreeware
Amiga Techn​ologyDemo/Joke1989English64KFreeware
Another 1Demo1990English64KFreeware
Assem​bloids Basic V3.5Game/Logic2017-09-19English64KFreeware
Astronomy 1Utility/Scien​tific2004-04-03English64KFreeware
Attack Of The Mutant CamelsGame/Shoot'em up2007-03-16English64KFreeware
Austr​oConv UtilityUtility/BasicC​ompiler2000English16KFreeware
Austr​ospeed Compiler (English)Utility/BasicC​ompiler2005-02-25English64KFreeware
Avventura 1Game/RPG2023-04-18English/Italian64KFreeware
Bal-Sys V3.1Utility/Progr​amming2008-03-19English64KFreeware
BASIC TetrisGame/Tetris2019-02-02English16KFreeware
Block​heads Plus/4Demo/Picture Show2019-02-01English64KFreeware
CarillonDemo/Music Box1998-02-26English64KFreeware
CentripodGame/Centipede2007-03-16English64KFreeware
Cheque​rasterzDemo/128Byte2007-04-20(none)16KFreeware
Comin BackDemo1995English64KFreeware
Conway's Game Of LifeGame/Life2013-07-17English16KFreeware
CopyRel V2dUtility/Disk2006-10-04English16KFreeware
Crackers' Demo 4Demo/MegaDemo2005-08-10English64KFreeware
Crackers' Demo 5Demo/MegaDemo2016-07-30English64KFreeware
Don't ForgetDemo1989English64KFreeware
DVM Andrea Brown Drawn By AIDemo/Graphics2022-08-05(none)64KFreeware
EleonORA C16Demo/Graphics2013-07-10(none)16KFreeware
FeelingsDemo1989English64KFreeware
First In 91Demo1991English64KFreeware
Frees​capedGame/Freescape2021-10-14English64KFreeware
Galza-27 Plus/4Demo/Picture Show2019-09-30English64KFreeware
GraphicsUtility/Graphic2003English64KFreeware
Hibern​aculumDemo1995-08-07English64KFreeware
Hot DemoDemo1990-09-06English64KFreeware
Info Italy PrgDemo1991English64KFreeware
Lake CampingDemo/Graphics2022-07-02English16KFreeware
LamenessDemo2003-09-05English16KFreeware
Last SunDemo1989English64KFreeware
LodPlay V1Demo/Music2008-06-17English16KFreeware
LogoCompoDemo1998English64KFreeware
LogoCompo 2Demo2000-05-29English64KFreeware
LogoCompo 3Demo2001-02-12English64KFreeware
Lone News 01Magazine/First Issue1996-10-30English64KFreeware
Lone News 02Magazine1997-01-27English64KFreeware
Lone News 03Magazine1997-04-20English64KFreeware
Lone News 04Magazine1997-07-03English64KFreeware
Lone News 05Magazine1997-10-01English64KFreeware
Lone News 06Magazine1998-01-06English64KFreeware
Lone News 07Magazine1998-04-21English64KFreeware
Lone News 08Magazine1998-07-04English64KFreeware
Lone News 09Magazine1998-10-05English64KFreeware
Lone News 10Magazine1999-04-11English64KFreeware
Lone News 11Magazine1999-12-12English64KFreeware
Lone News 12Magazine2000-09-01English64KFreeware
Lone News 13Magazine2001-05-28English64KFreeware
Lone News 14Magazine2003-03-24English64KFreeware
Lone News 15Magazine2003-11-27English64KFreeware
Lone News 16Magazine2004-07-04English64KFreeware
Lone News 17Magazine2005-04-18English64KFreeware
Lone News 18Magazine2006-01-05English64KFreeware
Lone News 19Magazine2007-03-24English64KFreeware
Lone News 20Magazine2008-06-17English64KFreeware
Lone News 21Magazine2018-05-07English64KFreeware
LoneNews EditorUtility/Text2005-04-13English64KFreeware
MacrossDemo/Picture Show1996English64KFreeware
Mike Oldfield Music BoxDemo/Music Box1996-06-27English64KFreeware
Mikro​pyrosDemo/128Byte2007-04-20(none)16KFreeware
OldfieldDemo1989English64KFreeware
On The NetDemo/Infor​mation1996-06-01English64KFreeware
OpenC16Cart 128k Games Colle​ctionGame/Compi​lation2021-06-17English16KFreeware
Parts DemoDemo1991-10-30English64KFreeware
PETSC​IIBOTSDemo/Picture Show2023-04-01English16KFreeware
PhalanxDemo1991English64KFreeware
Plundered HeartsGame/Adventure2020-12-19English64KFreeware
Plus Graph 2.0Utility/Graphic2013-11-05English64KFreeware
Plus/Extra 3+1 (Bugfixed)Utility2002English64KFreeware
Quintet (Luca)Demo1989English64KFreeware
Rebuilded DemosDemo/Compi​lation1995-08-04English64KFreeware
Rockstar Manager +2!Game/Manag​ement2013-09-04English64KFreeware
Rule64Demo/64Byte2007-04-20(none)16KFreeware
Sabrina Digi 2010Demo2010-07-17English64KFreeware
SlowflowDemo/64Byte2007-04-20(none)16KFreeware
Smells Like Happy BirthdayDemo2014-11-27English64KFreeware
Space PongGame/Pong2018-04-28English64KFreeware
StarshipsDemo2017-02-02English/Italian64KFreeware
Steady Eddie ReadyDemo/Graphics2020-10-06(none)64KFreeware
Sulphur EyeGame/Freescape2023-04-13English/Slovak64KFreeware
Super​dither ECM EditorUtility/Graphic2021-09-01English16KFreeware
Superior OrderMisc/GeneralUnknown(none)16KFreeware
SVS Disk ExplorerUtility/Disk2002-07-01English64KFreeware
SVS-Calc 2.5Utility/Sprea​dsheet2014-11-15English64KFreeware
SVS-OSUtility1990English64KFreeware
Swapper ToolUtility/Database1994English64KFreeware
Tales Of Edoras Plus/4Demo/Picture Show2019-02-01English64KFreeware
ThalassaDemo2007-06-16English64KFreeware
The IT CrowdDemo/Digi2009-09-15English64KFreeware
TLCplay 1xDemo2008-06-17English16KFreeware
TLCplay 2xDemo2008-06-17English16KFreeware
To TarzanDemo1991-09-20English64KFreeware
Tree SomeGame/Action2013-07-15English16KFreeware
Tron 8 WOJGame/Tron2022-11-21English32KFreeware
Tropical ECMotionDemo2020-10-29English16KFreeware
Tubular Bells IIDemo1994English64KFreeware
Warrior SpiritsDemo1989English64KFreeware
Wizball Title TuneDemo/Music2019-09-29English16KFreeware
Word Slide!Game/Maste​rMind2022-01-29English64KFreeware
WordleGame/Maste​rMind2022-05-07English32KFreeware
Castle Master +3DF! [PAL/NTSC]Game/Freescape2020-09-24English64KCrack
Champi​onship Wrestling +GDGame/Fighting2023-12-24English16KCrack
Daley Thompson's Star Events +2FG!Game/Sport2020-12-01English16KCrack
Exorcist +5MGame/Action2016-12-02English16KCrack
Exploding Fist +5MD!Game/Fighting2013-03-28English64KCrack
Ghost Town +8 [PAL/NTSC]Game/ArcadeAdventure2019-04-13English16KCrack
Ghosts 'n Goblins +4!Game/Action2018-09-05English16KCrack
Karate +DGame/Fighting2024-01-08English16KCrack
Karting Grand Prix 101%Game/Sport2023-05-10English32KCrack
Liberator +5MDGame/Shoot'em up2013-04-11English16KCrack
Loco-coco +3J [PAL/NTSC]Game/Action2017-04-05English16KCrack
Matatu GDFGame/Cards2016-12-29English64KCrack
Phantom +6D [PAL/NTSC]Game/Gauntlet2019-08-16English16KCrack
Pin Point +4MF 101% [PAL/NTSC]Game/Action2014-10-29English16KCrack
Robo Knight +4MGame/ArcadeAdventure2013-04-27English16KCrack
Rock Star Ate My Hamster Mille​nniumGame/Manag​ement2021-11-22English64KCrack
Saboteur C16 +2JGame/ArcadeAdventure2014-02-08English16KCrack
Tomcat +GDGame/Shoot'em up2024-01-17English16KCrack
Voidr​unner +3Game/Centipede2014-09-21English16KCrack
Who Dares Wins II +4M [PAL/NTSC]Game/Commando2022-01-18English16KCrack
128 release(s).


Igniting The FIRE
SVS speakds about the early days of the group, and how it got formed:

"I had seen a C116 exposed behind a shop's window. I logged in to inquire and was told to me that the successor would have 64kB of memory, and I realized that valuable advantage, having a selfmade computer experience with the Olivetti machines of the company where I worked. I was also told it would have a "Machine Language Monitor", which at the time I had no idea about what that was. The price was more than 900,000 Lira, hence... Out of reach.
Few months passed, when I saw an advertisement that spoke of a shop in Padua whichwould eventually sold that 64kB machine for 420,000 Lira. So, after having convinced my wife (I got recently married) I and a C64 user friend of mine went to buy it. On the way my friend instilled in me a lot of doubts and advised me to get a C64 instead. I didn't listen to it and have never regretted it.

I started programming in Basic, with the only help of the manual. At that time I was used to read "Commodore Computer Club" (CCC) [Ed.: an Italian magazine] which had a page dedicated to the "minor" Commodore machines. Studying the listings for C64 (incompatible with the Plus/4) I started to learn the first rudiments of the Machine Language (ML). I still remember when I tried – crazy idea – to use a JSR $FFD2 on the Plus/4 and an 'A' actually appeared on the screen. I didn't know in fact that the Jump Table was common among all the 8 bit systems of CBM.
After the first programs in Basic, I felt the need to have an Assembler. My C64 friend gave me one written in Basic. I converted it to the Plus/4 and wrote the Macro Assembler core with it. I recall it also taking 20 minutes to compile a single subroutine. Once the basic part in machine code worked on the Plus/4, I used it in turn to encode other parts of itself.
That was the period in which the address of Alex] appeared on CCC, he lived in the province of Treviso, about a hundred kilometers from my house. At the beginning he was selling software obtained from abroad since only he had useful addresses for that. After several meetings, a good friendship began. Alex knew RDG who lived about 10 Km from me. One day he came to see me and we can say that the FIRE group started there.

RDG had a very vast software library and also enjoyed a free subscription to CCC as he had sent them routines (one was for displaying 80 characters in the video). We spent many saturday afternoons exchanging software and informations. I remember Alex advising me not to trade my Macro Assembler for just a game or two as it was worth much more :)
Then came the era of the "swappers". I recall with pleasure the arrival of the postman with the packages containing the foil-wrapped floppies, and the scrolling through the lists that the correspondents enclosed. It was necessary to respond quickly in order to propose the new titles to the correspondents before they got them from the "competition". Because of the swapping, I also built up a stamp kit in order to mark the envelopes with tags like "SVS", "F.I.R.E." "Do not bender" etc. Good old times!"

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