Misc News
100% Prophets
As Admass reports, the new site of the video demo group 100% Prophets is online. Here you can get their video demos. They also offer two oldschool a500 demo CDs. Among the list of members you'll find a lot of well known names from the Amiga era, such as the musicians OddJob (formerly known as Jester), Virgill and Laxical. Pervart has recently joined the group as a 2D and concept artist.
3D Object Converter
Zoltan Karpati has created a polygon based 3D Object Converter for Windows. He is interested in feedback - tell him which formats he should add.
Aardbei: New, very young member
Dylax^scx posted this to CFXweb: "On Friday the 20th of April 2001, 16:10, aardbei took on a new member, we usually don't post news about such trivial things but this event is quite unique, since aardbei's latest recruit is only 1 day old! His name is Rasmus, he is snq's son, we congratulate him and his girlfriend Ineke on their new addition to the family. Let's hope he will follow into the footsteps of his dad."
Acumen: World War II memoirs
Acumen (aka Milan Kolarovic) placed 2nd at the Assembly 2001 Wild Demo competition with "World War II memoirs", a documentary on crimes committed during WW2. The soundtrack will be released later in MP3 format. You can download the video from milankolarovic.com.
Addict: Planet #3 out
Addict released the Planet #3 chartsmag in cooperation with Orange Juice at Mekka & Symposium 2001. This issue includes five tunes, 1600 group links, 100 scene links, more than 40 different charts categories, and small photo reports from the Addict anniversary and MS 2001. You can fetch it from addict.scene.pl.
The 5th issue of the "leading Polish diskmag" Legend, which is released under the Addict label, is scheduled for the end of August. It's also planned to release an English version with music by distance and krii.
Alambik: Scripting language
Alambik Ltd. has developed a scripting language (Alambik Script 4.0) for
producing "multi-content
audiovisual creations" similar to demos. The interpreter has recently been ported to the Windows environment. At the-demo.com, you can download the Alambik Viewer and 27 sample productions.
Assembly 2001
All Assembly releases can be found at ftp.asmparty.net. The winning 64k intro Sonnet is also available from 3state's website.
Atari ST emulation
PaCidemo is a beautiful website dedicated to Atari ST demos that can be viewed using an emulator for PC, e.g. SainT. More than 170 MB of stuff is located there.
Black Maiden: New music division
The German art group Black Maiden now has a sound system and music division, Black Maien Hifi. The first release of this division is the "sweet and swinging" (quote from Poti) drum'n'bass tune under the cherry-tree by Zippy. At MS 2001, the first demo by Black Maiden, funkysexy, was presented; it ranked 7th. Poti further reports that 2mad has joined as a coder, and that there has been a major redesign of www.blackmaiden.de.
Blackmarket: Papermag
Raver/DCS released the paper magazine Blackmarket #228 at Mekka & Symposium 2001 where about 80 copies were spread. Now a new issue has arrived, Blackmarket #242, which essentially has the same contents, but contains a different cover and editorial, more photos, more exclusive graphics (by electric, visualice, tmk, louie and 187), better design, edited and bugfixed articles, updated charts, and more scene reports. No more xeroxing - each copy will be printed with a laser printer. The magazine will be distributed at parties; it can also be ordered via snailmail for about 10 DM (5 EUR / 5 US$), contact Raver if interested.
Byterapers: 15th anniversary!
One of the oldest demoscene groups that is still active has just celebrated its 15th birthday. Byterapers started out on C64. Their latest demo has been released at Assembly 2001 (Recycled, a co-op with Doomsday). Check out the gallery of the birthday party.
Cheese Tracker: IT for Linux
Cheese Tracker is a new Impulse Tracker clone for Linux, coded by Juan Linietsky aka reduz. It has the same shortcots and almost the same features; however, xi, xm, mod and filters are currently not supported. The program uses Libmikmod for module playback.
Chiptune labels...
The famous chiptune label Analogik was dead. But after the previous organizers Kenet and Med had decided to put it to a rest, apparently due to lack of interest, it was revived by other members of the group. The website promises "lot of new members" and "lots of new music" to hit the street in the future.
A new chiptune label called DigisoniX has recently been founded. Its (pretty beautiful) website is hosted by chiptune.com. The members are loonie, rez, radix, gusse, key-g, and hunz. No releases so far, apparently.
Compressed File Library 3
Sol/Trauma (Jari Komppa) has released new versions of his CFL library, a Doom-wad-like file library. "Completely rewritten c++ version of CFL. Additional functionality includes pluggable class factories, easy CFL file creation runtime, and possibility of having multiple separate CFL objects in memory. Also included are cfl testing tool source to ease porting and making of additional plug-in compressors, preprocessors and ciphers, and also a completely redesigned makecfl utility, which makes creating ini files a snap. A win32 executable binary of makecfl is also included. Most of the new features were implemented with savegames in mind. You may wish to get zlib from ftp.cdrom.com, although cfl3 works without it as well." Available at CFXweb.
Concept: New website
SiN has created a new website for the Spanish demogroup Concept based on a cool idea: the group is presented as a large corporation; the group members are presented as members of the board of directors, there's a share price graph, and everything looks serious, thus making it especially funny. Check it out here. Yero has joined Concept as a musician - or, in other words: he's taken over the audio department.
CoolPHat: First anniversary
The PC and console intro group CoolPHat is celebrating its first birthday. There's a new scroller/cracktro available from their directory at Scene.org. CoolPHat is looking for 2 scene coders, 1 3d modeller, 1 web master, and 2 ascii drawers. Contact coolphat@usa.net and include information on what software you use, what groups you've been members in, and samples of your work.
Crest: Homepage moved
Crest is a passionate demo freak from Germany, who has visisted and sponsored many demoparties. His little homepage, with party reports and a list of top 64k intros, has lately moved; it's now hosted by untergrund.net.
Darkage: Showtime 16 is out
Showtime issue 16, the Amiga diskmag, is out - edited by Zito/Darkage, featuring more than 110 articles (scene, science fiction) and a gallery. The editorial and charts can also be read online.
Demoscene Outreach Group
The Demoscene Show at the 2001 Game Developers Conference was a success. "The demoscene received a warm welcome from game developers at the 2001 Game Developers Conference with a selection of the best demos shown during lunch. A number of sceners, active and in-active, were present during the session including members of the legendary Future Crew."
On August 15, the demoscene is going to have its public appearance at the SIGGRAPH 2001 Birds of a Feather session, a side meeting open to the general public that is held during the annual SIGGRAPH conference. Speakers will be Saku Lehtien of Remedy Entertainment (aka Saku/Maturefurk), Soren Hannibal of Shiny Entertainment, Aaron Foo of Sony Computer Entertainment America. The location: LA Convention Center, Room 506.
Keep updated by regularly checking out www.scene.org/dog.
Demoshow CD
Radio_24 of Calodox has created the Demoshow CD, a compilation of 150 demos and intros from different groups, released in different years, all tested under Windows Me and DirectX 8a. The simple interface is supposed to help newbies start the demos. Check out the related website.
Demo Source Codes
Fresh demo sources: The source code of Yuri Nation, place 11 at the Mekka 2001 demo competition, is now available at CFXweb. This demo was made by macaw (creator of the 64k intro Nean der taler - 2nd at The Party 2000). A note: This source release contains only one cpp file, neither the data nor three header files linked into the cpp file have been inclued.
The source code of Conceptual, the first demo made by FirEdge of Ethereal, is also out. "The demo ranked 15st on 18, but we have the same amount of points as the 13rd demo. In any case, this demo won't be an anthology product. :)" The full sources of the demo are downloadable from ftp.nl.scene.org in the VIP3 demo directory.
Also, the final version of Art by Scoopex & Farbrausch, the winning 64k intro at Mekka 2001 (now only 46 kbytes), is available at farb-rausch.com and CFXweb along with its source code.
Devotion: Issue 2 out - new editors team
In June 2001, Devotion 2 (Amiga diskmag) was released under the Haujobb label. A completely new staff had taken over the magazine, led by Wade - an ex-editor of Seenpoint and ex-member of Scoopex, now a member of Haujobb - and Sane (also known from Seenpoint). Serious trouble had preceded the release of the magazine. Work on Devotion 2 started short after the release of the first issue, more than a year ago. In the course of the time the father of the magazine, Darkus, and the "second main editor" Magic did not keep regular contact.
It later turned out that Darkus was in a difficult phase of life and had apparently lost motivation to continue his work in the scene. He, however, denied Magic the right to complete the half-finished issue and release it. This was the reason why Magic published the pack dvn2dead.lha featuring the articles he had written or received for the issue. Then Wade contacted Darkus, willing to help finish the second issue; he organized a team that wrote a lot of articles. According to his description in the Devotion 2 editorial, they managed to finish the entire magazine, but waited for Darkus' approval without success; therefore they decided to publish the mag anyway, not caring about the former main ed's permission.
The magazine contains a lot of articles with critical opinions on individual sceners. In spite of the argumentation being comprehensible, and the language being on a rather high level, it is doubtful that this is a good service for a small and diminishing community such as the Amiga scene; some texts such as the fictional story on Magic's funeral are beyond the limits of good taste.
Be careful when you download Devotion 2: It has been reported that the original version contained a virus (of course it was not intentionally included). The file Haujobb-Devotion2.lha from Scenet is supposed to be clean.
Diskmag Webring closed
The Disk Magazine Webring has shut down. For a period of two years, the Disk Magazine Webring connected the sites of diskmags from various computer platforms and countries. It also had a homepage hosted at its own domain, www.diskmags.com. Now its maintainer, Richard Karsmakers, has decided to shut it down. "The number of member sites doesn't grow, the number of extra hits generated is not big enough. Besides, I don't have time enough to keep the ring working properly. I have a dozen other sites that absorb all my time already..." We at Hugi thank Richard for maintaining the ring and wish him all the best for his new projects.
Eurochart #34
The Official Eurochart 34 (Amiga) was originally spread via snailmail only, but it can now be downloaded from the Amiga.pl magsite.
Exceed hospitalized
In late July, Tomcat reported about a strange accident that shocked the Hungarian scene: "A balcony collapsed during an Exceed group meeting, and some members standing on it were injured. Warpig's right arm was broken, D-Lee and NNS suffered more serious wounds while falling from the second floor. They're now in hospital. Robson was fast enough to jump from the balcony into some shrubs, so he survived without a wound." Meanwhile D-lee is out of hospital, and Warpig has removed the bandage from his hand because he wanted to work.
Fairlight: New tunes
New tunes have been released under the Fairlight music label; among others, these are ambient tunes by Xerxes and a new member, Bliss.
Female Computer Entities
Optimus' page about girls in the computer scene has changed its server; the page is now hosted by Paraknowya. When Optimus posted news about this to Orange Juice, he generated 400 hits within a few hours. His CPC demoscene page has also moved to this server.
FMOD: Update
As sulphur reported at CFXweb, the latest version of FMOD 3.33 was released with a new Linux update and a few other features. The latest version of MiniFMOD is 1.6. Go to www.fmod.org.
Freax: A book on the scene
As already appeared on Orange Juice, Tomcat / Greenroom is continuing the project he was running since 1996, but had suspended for almost a year: writing the complete and detailed history of the demoscene, from the very beginnings to these days. This book, titled FREAX, will probably be published next spring or summer - so, Mekka-Symposium or Assembly 2002.
Even better, there is some chance that this project will be connected to Trixter/Hornet's demo DVD project. If so, a nice package will soon appear containing the FREAX book, and some DVDs with the best classic demos in video format - something you can show to your grandchildren.
Fromage: NES chipdisk
Lapine released a NES chipdisk called 8 bit 10, with ten songs, each in a unique style. You can grab it from the Fromage site. There's also a new compilation called Victoly, consisting of one-hour compo tunes that placed 1st in their respective contests.
FTP: New scene ftp server
A new Polish scene ftp has opened at toya.scene.pl. The admins are kbi, gex, uralspd and soulrider; you can contact them via IRCnet, #polishscene.
Fudge: Clone intros for Win32
Echo converted the three Clone intros released in 1998 to Win32. You can get them from the demo-scene.dk server.
The Clone series consists of the 64k intros Clone Meets Clone (Takeover 1998), Kill the Clone (Summer Encounter 1998), and Alien Sex Clone (The Party 1998).
GameBoy Emu w/ Java Source
David Winchurch has released the source code to his GameBoy Emu. "GameBoyEmu is actually my final year project. As you'd expect its a game boy emulator written in Java that is designed to work on the Internet. It currently emulates the standard game boy and the game boy color and compatability is pretty high." You can download the source code at CFXweb.
Havok Radio: "Hand book"
Solorize made the HavokHandbook, a little tool to accompany The Havok Free Radio Station; it automatically fetches the URLs that are read out during the show from the Internet. You can get it from ukscene.org.
HeadcrasH
StyX reports: "The following brown-fured beings joined the elkcrew: Opo, 3d modelling and animation, Youpi, 2d gfx, 3d modelling and code, Orcan, code (all from France)."
Hugi: Hugi 22 online
Hugi 22 is available for online reading at CFXweb. The Russian edition was released two weeks after the international one.
Hugi Size Coding Competition 14 is over; this time the task was to code an assembler for the fictional SPEW CPU that had originally been designed for compo #9. The source codes of all entries are available at the Hugi Compo website.
Bonz has programmed a Linux viewer for Hugi #18 and newer issues, available from Hugi's directory at scene.org. Read his diary included in this Hugi issue, and send him comments.
In July 2001, iliks joined the Hugi staff. He's a student of computer science living in Novosibirsk, Russia. For Hugi, he's been active as a writer, translator and musician.
hybris/NEMESIS: South Party DivX
The TP'99 wild demo winner South Party has now been converted into a 95MB DivX file. Until now only an MPEG1 version with out-of-sync sound on most systems has been available. If you want to enjoy the new version - hybrisNEMESIS.com.
Infuse Project: New DemoGL
Otis of Infuse Project released DemoGL v1.31 build 0528. New features in this version: cube map support for cubic environment mapping (static and dynamic), compressed textures support (DXT1, DXT3 and DXT5), exportation of mainwindow handles, support for all new OpenGL extensions by nVidia and ATi hardware generated mipmaps, code enhancements, bugfixes and updates of the documentation and the example programs. It's available at the central DemoGL site, along with its full sourcecode.
Just for Fun: Website
Just for Fun, an old PC demogroup (founded in 1993), has got
a new website.
Their latest release is a Webtro. Among the future projects
is a comic-style demo; they are also working on
Tiny Tunes Volume 3, featuring chip music by Benji.
JFF are looking for
new members: coders, 3d graphicians (3ds max modelling), 2d graphicians,
and musicians. Contact Judge Miguel if interested.
katastro.fi: New site
Lassi Tasajärvi reports: "New katastro.fi site now officially open and submitted for your perusal. All your childhood heroes in one place... supermen and villains from groups like komplex, orange, tpolm, cncd... plus the present Finnish media art scene. All here just waiting for you."
Languelab: mimikry ep
Languelab's mimikry ep is supposed to contain really good music.
Massage #24
The 24th music massage newsletter is out: from jazz through chip experiments to triphop or hiphop, a lot of stuff is covered.
M4nkind: Zaac's website
The French graphician Zaac of Mankind (who made title pictures for several Amiga diskmags, e.g. Seenpoint 9 and Devotion 2) now has his own website online. The site features pixel and acryl paintings, plus some animations.
Media: Radio & TV on the scene
The media have lately displayed increasing interest in the scene - especially in Germany. The most important thing to mention is the programme "Demo-Dienstag" that is broadcast on the channel NBC Giga every Tuesday. It regularly covers new scene demos. The audience of this TV channel is mainly composed of teenagers interested in computer games. The programme has been heavily criticised by German demo groups such as Vacuum for showing demos without prior written permission by the creators. On the other hand, it has stirred up interest among a part of the audience to venture into the art of demomaking.
On April 27 and 28, Querfunk featured a programme on chip music ("Digital Noise from the home computers in the children's rooms").
On Wednesday, June 27, 2001, there was the first programme about the demoscene broadcast by a popular German radio station, Fritz, audible in Berlin and Brandenburg. From 10:00 pm to 1:00 am Crest and Wayfinder presented a lot of information about the foundation and development of the demoscene, its parties, and its music. The programme was also distributed as an MP3 stream.
The show electronic beatz on the music channel VIVA 2 supposedly covered electronic kindergarten, an Austrian exhibition on computer culture at which also demos had been presented (see the report in this Hugi issue). The reporter had interviewed Adok about the demoscene.
3sat broadcast a TV report of Mekka & Symposium 2001; see the paragraph on Mekka & Symposium for more information.
According to Tomcat/Greenroom, the Hungarian TV channel RTL Klub broadcast some pictures about a Hungarian Amiga party, fyanica, showing people bashing malfunctioning computers. "Some 'professionals' said: 'There are so-called demoparties, at which 'compos' are held, these are about crashing and destroying computers, that's what the entire party is about.'" In other words, they claimed that "compos" were computer breaking vandalism parties, and that the "demoscene" was a synonym for this. The Hungarian demoscene is upset, and Tomcat, being the head of FLaG demoparty organizing, threatened to sue the TV channel.
Finally, on the occasion of Assembly 2k1, another article about the demoscene was published in Wired magazine. This article was apparently inspired by Vincent Scheib's introduction to the demoscene at Gamasutra.
Mekka & Symposium: TV report
3sat broadcasted a TV party report about Mekka & Symposium 2001. T.C.P./Eichel commented at Orange Juice: "Well done, compared to other tv party reports. Not the usual 'ooh, look at all those funny dirty freak bastards, they're all crap in the head and kill each other with their compiootars'... " The report is in German language; a divx-encoded version is to be found in the Mekka & Symposium 2001 directory at scene.org; a transscript is also located in this directory, as well as its translation.
The demogroup oCCult uploaded a 160 MByte archive containing 740 hi-res jpg photos from Mekka & Symposium 2001 to their server.
Monotonik: Sad news...
Ramone/Mono died in Germany in late June 2001. "Ramone was one of the former mainstays of Mono211 with his genius hiphopjungle tracks, and was also known for his great ascii-art. To say we're all surprised and upset would be a massive understatement. we've set up a little tribute page - hopefully, we can remember him happily through his music," wrote H0l at Orange Juice.
Nah-kolor: Fears
Nah-kolor won the Abstract2001 PC demo compo with a 9mb demo called Fears. The group is working on the first issue of a new Amiga diskmag called Cocktail, with Punisher, Strife and Magic being the editors. A partnership with the Macintosh scene is planned.
Nectarine: Almost a real radio
Nectarine (Scenemusic) is one of the first ten radios chosen by Philips to be supported by their new products. The new Philips stereo Hi-Fi systems have an IM tuner to which you can connect your network or satellite plug. 100 radio stations will be supported on the long run, for now it's 10, and Nectarine is one of them. Before the end of summer 2001 Nectarine will also be available with Acer and Philips car radio systems. (Source of information: Postings by Yes to Orange Juice.)
No Error: Relaunched
The scene music center No Error v2.0 opened. It's now hosted by scene.org. Keep an eye on his site to get up-to-date knowledge of what's happening in the music section of the demo scene.
Obituary: Douglas Adams
One of the most creative and humourous minds of the 20st century has passed
away: Douglas Adams, aged 49, has died of a heart attack. Adams, who held
a BA and a MA in English literature, was mainly known
for his sci-fi novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and its sequels.
Many gags, expressions and proper names have become very familiar among the geeks community
and even outside it. Adams was the inventor of Ford Prefect and Zaphod
Beeblebrox, and it was him who gave 42 as the answer to the ultimate question
about life, the universe and everything.
Some of Adams' unfinished works might soon be published, including an incomplete new novel, called The Salmon of Doubt, and the screenplay for the long-awaited film of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Keep checking douglasadams.com if you're interested.
A nice tribute is the so-called Earth Edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, hosted by BBC. This is basically supposed to become a huge encyclopaedia with contributions from the visitors. It follows a similar concept as everything2 and, basically, the Internet as a whole.
Also, Pan Interactive is developing a PC game version of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It is going to be a realtime arcade adventure; the player will assume the role of Arthur Dent.
Douglas Adams: So long and thanks for all the fish...!
oCCult: Karpov 4k final
The final version of the 4k intro Karpov uses OpenGL, features "an enormous amount of 3d objects, textures, dynamic lights, funny spiders, and two unbelievable instruments" - says Pigpen. This version is supposed to be a bit faster, brighter, and it includes a progress-o-meter. Requirements: >700 MHz, TNT2 or better; Voodoo cards aren't properly supported.
Pain: Issue 04/01
The April issue of Pain is out. The next one is supposed to come soon, in August.
Peon: Expiration source
The winner demo at Fiasko 2000, Expiration, has been released in source code. It runs on Windows and requires OpenGL; it has been successfully tested on Voodoo I, ATI Rage Pro, Riva TNT2 and GeForce 2 cards. To build the demo, you need the Bass 0.8 sound library, the Independent JPEG Group's libjpeg8b, libpng, and zlib. The demo was made for Mingw32/Gygwin compilers but it will probably compile with other compilers without any significant changes. The full source is available at CFXweb.
Pixelate #4 out
The fourth issue of the hobby games programming magazine Pixelate is out. It's distributed as a zipped file with HTML documents, and can also be read online. There are a few beginner tutorials, on creating a sprite class in C++, using binary trees and handling makefiles. In addition, there are games reviews and little corners such as the feedback section. You can get the mag from CFXweb.
Polish OpenGL Programing Center
Piotr Smirnow aka EclipSe reports: "At opengl.si.plthere is also a page - Polish OpenGL Demos, 3DEngine, Free Games Center."
Quasars looking for 3d modelers
Bacter wrote: "We (Quasars) are looking for 3d modelers that are willing to help us with a major demo project for MS2k+2 that will be held in Germany next year. Please send mails to Bacter or Trashey! Thank you loads!"
R3bound
To avoid name conflicts, the music group rebound was renamed to R3BOUND; as a consequence, the domain name has changed accordingly. "A new rinsing psidream tune "vector war" is up now as well and brand new tracks coming up from dijin, deepflow+mav, sporophyte and krii in the near future. If you are into deep, cold, ill-tempered soundscapes and running drum and bass beats, get and stay tuned!" wrote Krii at Orange Juice.
Revivals of old groups
Surprise!Productions, one of the largest demogroups of older days, is back, now just having five active members (avalanche, Klumsy, Loki, Multiplex, ReeBoK, Sky). They have already released a demo called 003 at Escape 2001 in Finland.
The group Rebels is also having a comeback. With their demo Twenty4 (coded by Seffren), they won the 1st place at Underscore 01. Many ex-Tequila dudes are now members of Rebels to keep up the chip tradition. Former members of the Amiga section such as Oyise (gfx) and Jerry (music) are now also working for the PC releases.
SAC: Artpack #22
Superior Art Creations released their 21st and 22nd artpacks including asciis, pixel graphics, music and intros.
Scenery64 encyclopaedia
There is a new version of Scenery, the scene history books for c64 and Amiga.
Scenic: GFX-only group
A new group called Scenic has been founded. Scenic is a small gfx-group that focuses on providing graphics and design for other demogroups for Amiga and PC. Small gfxpacks and slideshows are planned, too. The founding members are caro, critikill, java, fusko, orome, and pix. Graphicians capable of drawing quality logos, texture and design material are invited to join Scenic; contact fusko.
Scienide: Oldskool intro
Scienide's musician Exodus coded a cool oldskool intro in Java. Check out their very well designed website for info on upcoming demo and games projects.
Scoopex: New homepage
The new Scoopex homepage, designed by ReeBok aka The MegaBrain, is online. Scoopex don't want to reveal any information on their upcoming projects in order not to get under pressure. So the only news I may report apart from the opening of the new website is that Quaternion, Antibyte/Scoopex's music project, did a live performance at Hellrave.
Seenpoint
Fishwave reported a "major update" of the Seenpoint website. This just means that all past issues (for Amiga) can now be downloaded.
The CoExistence
The final version of the 4k that won Mekka 2001, "Juggler 2001", is now available (scene.org).
The Lost Souls: Game w/ source
The Lost Souls released the final version of their first person, realtime 3D, multiplayer snake game Snok. It's based on a 3D engine that had been previously used in several demos of the group. Both the executables and the full sources as well as the unpacked data are now available at the Snok site.
theMake #1: First Macintosh Scene Diskmag
The first Macintosh scene diskmag is out now. theMake, edited by Qirb, features "web promotion, programming tutorials, entertainment & even more", enhanced with music. You can download it at thinkmac.de. (Note: The site was not available at the time of writing.)
Toyko2051.org
Prymer reported at Orange Juice: "The deephouse netlabel tokyo2051.org is now back online with a new design from db/boompje.com + many new tunes (feat. artists such as metal, karl baxter, dalminjo/o.r.g., dockdrumming, joe cool, opiate etc) + some extra goodies.."
TRSI: CoaXCable reports...
CoaXCable was asked to leave TRSI. "Not of all trsi like the demo pop-rock style as some leaders say and the chips I made aren't their style either," he explains. Before that he had released a couple of intros under the TRSI label, coproduced with Factory. Now CoaXCable is mainly focusing on his own group, Coolphat.
VirtualExp: Java3D applets
Eyvind Almquist of Tietoenator Consulting has sent us a few words on an interesting site: "The new website VirtualExp has the biggest collection of Java3D-applets on the web. It contains virtual 3D worlds,3D-rides, space-journeys and dynamic graphics. Check it out if you want to see the latest in virtual reality."
WildMag #4 released
Issue 4 of the fine German language diskmag WildMag has been released, featuring 500 kb of articles. Only one article is in English: it's the interview with NdK/GFXZone.