The Newscorner
Article on Diskmags.
A Finnish computer magazine has published an article about diskmags. You can read it online at colin.pp.htv.fi, provided you understand Finnish, of course.
ASD: Cadence and Cascade
ASD are very proud of their demo Cadence and Cascade, with which they won Digital Nexus 2001 in Athens, Greece. They would be interested in your comments. The demo is available from pouet.net.
Bomb: Skal becomes a dad
In September, a son was born to Skal/Bomb. Congratulations to Skal and his wife Melanie! May the boy lead a happy and productive life.
Cheese Diskmag returns
A new volume of Cheese will be started in January or February 2002. It will be a bi-monthly diskmag released by the group TKB. Editors involved are Shifter, Multiplex, Pozor, Gaia, Ile, and L.E.D. The diskmag engine is being coded by Plek of Solar and Damage, musics and graphics will probably come from Harlekin of Success and Bizk/Damage. Shifter has revealed to Hugi that besides to the Windows version, there might be a port to the Playstation 2, too. "Content-wise, Cheese will be full of rage, bile and mayhem slightly slanted towards the scene like it was in the old days. Rants, vendettas and pure insanity are welcome to nest in our loins." For more info: cheese.scene.nl
CoolPHaT: 1st musicdisk
CoolPHaT's first musicdisk was released on October 12, 2001. It is available from netti.nic.fi.
Core 2001 releases.
Core 2001 was a small party held in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary (see the party report in this issue). All releases can be found at core.kign.org.
Dataserve.cc: Scene company
Another entirely scene-based IT company has launched. It's called dataserve.cc and it's dealing with web-hosting and web-design. The company is Austrian-based, one of its employees is Nuke of Fairlight Design. The design of the page is a bit scenish, so it may be worth a quick glance.
Doomsday: Demos ported to Win
Doomsday ported many of their DOS demos to Windows, among others legendary artworks such as I wish I was a skijumper and Boost. Available at scene.org.
Erratum.
In the Hugi 23 newscorner it was erroneously stated that 003 were a demo by Surprise!Productions. In reality it is a 64k intro by foobug & Scoopex. Sorry for the misinformation!
eva: 1st Portuguese diskmag
The demogroups Airbag and uva are working on the first Portuguese diskmag. It will probably be called eva (short for evolution chamber). The main editor will be kript0n of razor1911 and uva. There will also be contributions from the "all-round-known" ps/cd^tpolm. It is not clear yet when the first issue will be released; due to the small size of the Portuguese scene, it's hard to get contributions. However, the magazine will be in English language. It will focus on providing tutorials for beginning coders, trackers and graphic artists. For more info: void.box.sk/eva
FMOD: New versions.
Firelight reported at Ojuice: "FMOD 3.4 is out, the popular audio library for games and demos. The new version includes DirectX 8 DMO effects (such as flange, chorus, i3dl2 reverb, distortion and more), spectrum analysis, 5.1 digital output support, new DSP features, 2d hardware support, more accurate streaming, and fixed A3D 3.0 support. FMOD for Windows CE has also been released. This means you can use FMOD in your handheld, PocketPC productions. This means support for PDA's such as ipaq, jornada, casio EM and more!" www.fmod.org.
Four: A new group
dGM asked me to put this into Hugi:
"#Four# is a new
french demo,
games & tools
group, based in
Paris. Actually
the team is
formed by dGM
(2D & 3D
graphics) &
Minschk
(developer).
The first demo will be released at The Party 2001.
Some tools will be released before."
four.planet-d.net
Gods release new GAudio lib
GAudio 2.0.2 has been released. New features include an improved kernel reliability, several bugfixes and a DLL size reduction. Download: www.obrazstudio.com
Haujobb on TV.
Various members of Haujobb such as XXX, Acryl and Hellfire were interviewed several times by GIGA. GIGA is a German TV channel that is owned by MSNBC. Every Tuesday it broadcasts a programme about demos. See www.giga.de.
Hugi: Presentation at art congress
Hugi was presented at the first ncc48 netart community congress, which took place in Graz/Austria on October 25-27. This event was organized by the local
cultural association mur.at and sponsored by several major institutions such as universities and the Austrian chancellor's office. Adok explained the diskmag concept and demonstrated its
potential for multimedial presentation of literature by
means of screenshots and working examples. In order to explain the cultural context, he also gave
a quick introduction to the demoscene.
Thanks to Martin Krusche of unplugged.at, organizer of the
section of the event on net-literature, for the invitation to speak at
the congress. For more information: ncc.mur.at.
Another news: The historical issue, Hugi 11 (the one that made Hugi an international magazine), has been re-released for Windows. The new version is based on Street Raider's engine from Hugi 17. If you feel some nostalgy or just want to enhance your Hugi collection: hugi11 page at www.hugi.de.
There's also a new version of the Linux reader coded by Bonz. It now supports 16 bit graphics modes. You need libggi 2.x and libmikmod to run it. Get it from the alternative interfaces page at www.hugi.de.
IDGA Demoscene SIG
A Special Interest Group (SIG) for the demoscene has been formed at the website of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA). The moderator is Pheon (Aaron Foo) of the Demoscene Outreach Group. It's one of 14 SIGs in total. See www.igda.org.
Jurassic Pack 8 released
Ghandy and Zito revived Jurassic Pack - The Lost Mag ;) and kicked out the 8th issue. It is an Amiga magazine based on the engine of Devotion; it's possible to read it using WinUAE. Available at Scenet.
Makke: New homepage
Former Hugi co-editor Makke of Confine has a new homepage. Here you'll find his diskmag articles, music and rants. Check it out here.
Marshals: Oange Comes
The Czech demogroup Marshals is proud of their second place at the French party Jff Convention 2. They'd like to hear your opinion - fetch the demo from pouet.
Medieval: Paradise final
Ector of medieval released the final version of his 64k Paradise, which was originally released at Underscore 2001 in May. "It's the world's first intro with full charachter animation, with wonderful music by Zalza and some gfx by A_Lee_N", the coder praises his work. Available at telia.com.
Microsoft might alter Flight Simulator
Rumour has it that the World Trade Center will indeed be removed from Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002, and that MS is considering the possibility of issuing a patch to remove the twin towers from current versions of the sim as well.
Nextempire back to life
KEMIKS writes: "We are now awake from our dormant phase and back to demomaking. It has been some time, but now we are back and just as determined as ever. We are also looking for pixeller(s), so mail to kemiks@hotmail.com if you are interested."
Noice: Destination Goatland (Win)
Noice released the Windows version of Destination Goatland. It was the demo that won Remedy 1998, when Byterapers ended up 2nd with Hyperventilation. Get it from noice.org.
Pain: 50th issue soon...
The Pain magazine is going to celebrate its 50-issue-anniversary soon. The staff has promised some surprises on this occasion. Let's wait and see. pain.planet-d.net
Rebels: First PC chipdisk
Rebels have released their first chipdisk on PC, featuring 30 chiptunes by Beek, Chromag, Dawn, Edzes, Jerry, Kenet, Nagz, Zalza, Virt and several guest musicians. The tunes are wrapped out in a Windows interface coded by Seffren. Available from pouet.
Romanian demoscene community
Benny of Virtual Eagle reported at Ojuice: "The official Romanian Demoscene Community web site has just been finished. Built on a templated php engine, it features news posting, tutorials posting, forum, user registration, onliner (ojuice alike :) ), productions upload, inspiration links and many more things." benny.kappa.ro
SandS: Anniversary musicdisk
On the occasion of their 7th anniversary, the Russian music group SandS have released a new music disk. This is a good piece to get introduced into Russian scene music. It features songs by artists such as Manwe and Tangerine. Download it from scene.org or check out the SandS website.
SceneBiz mailinglist
The demogroup Padua have installed a new mailinglist for sceners who have made their hobby their profession. "This list is meant for networking of sceners and ex-sceners about business related issues. It is open to everyone working in the IT / Multimedia / Internet / Games fields. You can subscribe by sending an empty email to biz-subscribe@scenelists.com.
Scenet: Last issue released
Scenet 38 will probably be the last update of Scenet, the scene's email and URL database, as its maintainers Dire and Ghandy have finally separated due to personal disharmonies. Ghandy has now registered the site diskmag.de. At present date, it is still unclear what he plans to do with it. Dire continues running www.scenet.de
Sceners mugged in Estonia.
Arcane of Haujobb reported at Ojuice that on their way back home from Assembly01, "Pyromaniac/Beyond and Arcane/Haujobb travelled through the Baltic (ex-Soviet) countries and were mugged by 7-8 Estonian hooligans. They ended up with a few minor wounds, lost their wallets and all essential credit cards. The staff is proud to bring you the good news that they are now safe and sound at Qla/Quartex's place in Gdansk, Poland."
SIGGRAPH 2002: Demo 'mega mix' video
From Pheon: "Anyone who has the time and resources for creating a Demo 'mega mix' video for SIGGRAPH 2002 please email foo@nospam.ieee.org. Requirements are video/audio mixing experience and software. High quality demo footage, in digital form can be supplied."
Sol releases textmode library.
Sol's coding page, which stores a lots of sources, was updated. One new file is the fourth revision of the TextFX textmode graphics library. Sol describes it as: "Majorly rewritten c++ version of my old textfx routines. Includes two separate rendering methods: the old blocky color mode, and new ascii art mode. Both methods are used through the same interface. Mainly targeted towards WinNT console, but the core of the code should compile as-is under DOS as well, if anyone really needs that anymore. Also includes c++ version of my fli/flc player."
For people who prefer using over coding, Sol has also made a Textmode windows media player. It's "a DirectShow application that outputs video into NT console. Supports almost everything windows media player does, eg. avis, mpegs, vmw's, etc. Also plays sound." Try watching a cinema movie with that program, it's quite interesting.
In this context: Taat are organizing another Textmode Demo Competition. Check out taat.fi.
Spectrum Scene now in English.
The website of the Russian Spectrum Scene is now available in English. It was translated by Hugi's co-editor iliks. See pos.izhnet.ru.
Sunflower URL changed...
The Sunflower site is now located exclusively at Antony's server www.squizzato.com as the account at opengl.org has ceased to work.
Synthetic: Win32 j'n'r game
Synthetic Crew ported the Rick Dangerous clone X-Rick, known from Linux, to Window. You can download it from www.syntheticsoft.com.
Threepixels release sourcecodes
Threepixels released the source code for their demo Nature v2.0 and a snapshot of the demosystem source. "Hope you enjoy!" wishes Mac. The requirement for enjoyment is, of course, a visit to www.threepixels.org.
Trebel has launched.
Until a couple of months ago, nobody would have believed that Trbel would ever see the light. But the reality looks brighter: After two years of silence, Trebel has finally launched. It's rather different from the original concept. Instead of serving as an archive, it's more like a portal with some elements of an online magazine. An interesting feature is the Demo Effect Dictionary. Check it out: trebel.org. (At the moment of typing this news Trebel appears to be down - or has it disappeared for ever again?)
Unseen voice: graphics
Tatlin has sent me a very brief mail. It says that "something new has happened". It seems like he wanted to point me to graphics from unseen voice at www.tatlin.net. Unseen voice has also released some desktops.
Video Documentary.
Kemical of Razor 1911 reported at Ojuice: "For my fundamentals of video class, I'm working on a small documentary on the artscene side of the demoscene. It would be VERY helpful, if you could record a very short (30-60 sec or less) testimony in wav or mp3, of how you got involved in this style of artwork, why you enjoy it & about your artwork etc. If you can take the 5mins to do this, and email it to me along with your handle & groupname, it would be highly appreciated. ALSO if you want to do it in your own language, that is excellent, please just include a typed translation of what you say :) Thank you!" kemical@telocity.com
WildMag 5 has been released
The fifth issue of WildMag is out. It's another good issue. Go learn German in order to read it. www.wildmag.de
