The News Corner
As always, mind that most of the demo and intro releases are usually NOT mentioned in this newscorner (except if "final" versions of them have been released) as they happen at parties and there are just too many of them to cover all of them here. Just check out the party calendar. There you find links where to obtain the results & releases.
256 byte demo page
Justin Walemark aka Insomniac of Matrix-1995 recently put up a new page entirely dedicated to 256 byte demos. It's a fine catalogue with relatively long descriptions and even screenshots of most of the intros. The URL is www.256b.com.
3DS Max 4 out now!
And for the 3d gfx freaks: Discreet has shipped 3D Studio Max 4. Here is a snip from the press release: "3ds max 4 delivers a new and extensible character animation architecture, advanced game development tools, and extensive rendering productivity with ActiveShade, Render Elements and unparalleled support for new Direct 3D technology. These advancements give animators a flexible and realistic working environment for rich media content creation - whether for motion picture special effects, 3D Web production, or next-generation game development for PC game titles or gaming consoles such as Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation 2 or Nintendo Gamecube."
7Gods: New demo
The Slovak demogroup 7 Gods has announced their new demo called MODE. "It is a very artoze-psychoze piece of demo art *grin*, with a cool soundtrack", says Pavuk. Get it at the 7Gods site (2.9 mb).
Area 51: New tunes
New tunes by Converse of A51 are located at the Area-51 website.
Access Denied: Working on Scenial #5
Scenial is not dead: The fifth issue, which is currently in development, is supposed to already contain more than 140 articles, embedded in a new interface coded by Spectre.
Action Memorial
The homepage in memory of the old demogroup Action was revised. If you're an oldskool scener, check it out to find some old pals or facts about the scene. The maintainers are also looking for people who once were members of Action as they no longer have contact to all of them.
Acumen: New music
Wishing his fans & friends a happy new year 2001, Acumen released Millennium of the Moonbears (4.4Mb MP3). He describes it as "a mixture of New Age and Synthpop". More at Acumen's homepage. Acumen is also happy to see that his music got played on a Finnish radio station called Radiomafia on an evening program called "Dancemob Lite".
Addict: Planet #2 is out
The demogroup Addict released the second issue of their "world chartsmag" Planet. More than 100 voters (mostly from Poland but also from other countries), a big variety of categories, and great design & music are waiting for you at the Addict website or scene.org. Planet #3 is scheduled for Mekka (April 13), vote for it online at Orange Juice!
All your base are belong to us
If you wonder where this quote that has recently become popular comes from: It appeared first in the intro of the European version of the game Zero Wing for Sega Mega Drive, released in the early 90ies. Obviously the Japanese producing company had some really bad translator. Read more in a FAQ on the game, and also check out this funny parody involving Saddam Hussein and G.W. Bush.
Analogik: New tunes
Various new chiptunes have been released by Analogik, just check them out at their website. The group has recently been joined by Edzes and Bacter (remember the first song of Hugi #16?), and Edzee has also already released a huge oldschool millennium-chip for Analogik.
Array: Kowboy joined
Kowboy: "I left Nextempire due to some conflicts concerning why I (we) do demos and such. All in all it led to me leaving Nextempire and joining up with Array." Kowboy also created a new website for himself. By the way: Array is going to release a "very original" and "really kool" 64k at Mekka.
BAFH: First artpack
The Bastard Artists from Hell (cool name, does anyone remember the shortstory "Bastard Operator from Hell"?) released BAFH Art Pack #1. It contains over 90 items in four categories: ASCII art, GFX, tracked music and code. A front-end for Windows has been included to simplify browsing and viewing the package. Comrade of BAFH recommends to check it out and promises that "it's got some nice stuff". You can download it at the BAFH site (4.8 mb). The second pack is planned still for April.
Calodox: Genox' homepage
On a sunny day, spring was slowly coming back into Genox' venes and that was why he updated his homepage again. Featuring a new layout and new MP3s.
Chemical Reaction: Hot artpack
"Chemical Reaction comes out with a new candy", radiators reports in Scenet. "You are about to enter a world of high resolution. Put on your eyes and enjoy the ride." creaction.org (6.9 mb)
Chilproductions: Musicdisk
From Orange Juice: "'A day in the desert', the long awaited musicdisk with co-op's between matrix cubed (now known as mantis) and vildauget, is finally available to the public. Includes experiments by o-matic and a sneaking intro by quasimojo." As so often, this is available at the related website.
CNCD: Digipack CD
The ex-scene musicians (Dizzy, Groo, Dean, Prime Premium) are back with an ambient-experimental digipack CD, Grey Zone. It's distributed worldwide by Suojain Records.
Concept: Cracktro & Windows intros
Naif posted to Orange Juice: "Oh no!! Some perverted crackers damaged our brand new domain www.wearevastlysuperior.com. They left out a cracktro and windows versions of our intros :)"
Cracktros
Scenet announced a new site focusing with the world of cracktros of the recent console scene: cracktro.de.
Damones: ReeBoK's new homepage
Damones' job offer from Orange Juice is fun enough to be included here as well: "Open job in Damones Alcohol-Media. We are looking for a gfx-artist (2/3-d) to join our derelict forces. We can offer an unhealthy environment filled with all kind of beverages. We hope you live in Finland, but also ppl from other countries can try us out as well. Damones have drinking tradition since -91 from Amigascene to PC. If you think you can handle at least 2dl of 96% per day, You're our Man! From a Finnish member active party presence is required. Alcohol problem is advantageous." Damones.net for more.
By the way, since the beginning of 2001 a.d. ReeBoK is having a new homepage. Visit it at the main location or the mirror scenelyrics.org.
Dappa: Gameboy tile & sprite util
Dappa's updated site contains working updates of his Advanced Gameboy tile and sprite utility. It's aimed more towards the games industry, but sceners are always welcome to use it!
Demo exhibition in Vienna?
Rumour has it that there is going to be an exhibition covering demos in Vienna/Austria. Organized by a team called [d]vision, it is going to be called "Electronic Kindergarten" and take place at WUK Vienna from May 18th to May 27th. The focus of this exhibition will be the computer technologies of the 80ies in comparison with contemporary tendencies in media culture. That is why demos and games are also going to be presented and discussed in a conference. I have not found an official announcement on the WWW so far, but keep an eye on the sites of [d]vision and WUK Vienna.
Details: GFX-only group
A new graphician-only group called "details" is looking for more members - newbies and experienced ones, just for fun. It was founded in February 2001, and it currently consists of ava, zeroic and piriste - ava, by the way, being one of the rare female graphicians in the scene! They're dreaming of releasing an artpack in fall (October-December) and before that, they might pull some small package together at Assembly. Contact information available at the Details website.
By the way, the Mekanisaatio party that was organized by zeroic will be back in 2002, thanks to all who took part this year!
Dev-C++ 4.0: Patch
A patch for Dev-C++ 4.0 is out, upgrading it to 4.01. You can also grab the sources (in Delphi) at CFXweb or Simtel.Net. If you don't know what Dev-C++ is: "Dev-C++ is a full-featured integrated development environment (IDE), which is able to create Windows or console-based C/C++ programs using the Mingw compiler system (version MSCVRT 2.95.2-1 included with this package), or the Cygwin compiler."
Director demo competition
setPixel.com is supposed to be organizing the first demo competition using Macromedia Director / Shockwave only. Toxi's entry Liberation is now up, other entries will be following soon.
Eternal Dreams: Now online
Cloaked Alien's BBS Eternal Dreams (remember previous Hugi's newscorner?) is now finally available over the Internet.
Exceed: Inferno & intro for Assembly
Inferno's new online portfolio page, where you can find the most important information about him, is now online. According to d-lee, Exceed will skip Mekka, but release a lot of prods at Assembly, among them a hardware-accelerated intro. Besides, Enok and Net joined from Chrome.
Fairlight: Chip pack
For all chiptune lovers, Loonie, Norfair, Andromeda, Xerxes, Mick Rippon & Smash put together a little christmas chip pack. Fetch it at the Fairlight site! Also new is an idm/ambient tune by Andromeda, with only 25 kb in size for a change.
In January 2001 Fairlight reported at Orange Juice that they were looking for new members to work on their upcoming demos and projects. "2D artists, 3D artists/modellers capable of both high and low poly modelling, and Coders are all required (please, no more musicians). Those interested in joining our team should contact Graffik."
Farbrausch: .the .product final
Farbrausch released the final version of .the .product, the stunning 64k DEMO first presented at TP2k. Many compatibility issues were fixed, many more camera movements were included, and a hidden part was added. And yet, the size of the final .exe is only 63.5 - 512 bytes smaller than the party version. Get it & technical background information at the site especially created for this demo, theproduct.de.
By the way, there are several parodies to .the .product. One of them was released at Synthesis Party. It's called [IN-OFFICIAL] FR-09. From a review at the Calodox Demolinks Exchange: "Wow, this probably the best waste of space I've seen in years, especially since I have isdn. (Wer das Demo nicht groß macht, has es nicht kapiert - or something like that, I'm really not good at German.) I'm not expecting a final version, since this was perfect, with a compression ratio like 1:30000. The part I liked the most, was the music (an mp3 that took up 95% of the size, and only 3/5 of it was played). Actually this reminds me of a really shitty demo realeased at tp99, crappy music, lame flyby's of static scenes. But needless to say it won 1st place. P.S. Are the rumors about Elitegroup drinking 'Pepsi Max(tm)' for real?" Another one was made by the Australian demogroup i2pi. It's called "the crepes". Featuring a wicked end-scrolly You can get it from i2pi.com (38 kb). (BTW: Wicked webdesign!)
And some hidden keys, posted to CDE by Marconelly: "Press the 'F' key for fast-forward, 'R' to restart, 'A' to restart the current scene." There may be yet more keys.
Apart from all this, a new release of farbrausch's, the inofficial Mekka & Symposium invitation intro, is also worth a mention. Available at farb-rausch.com.
Foxfiber: Moving
Foxfiber moved to a new server. As a consequence of this 3dica ("the great 3D tutorial" that used to be hosted by Foxfiber) got its own domain. The addresses of the homepages of Malc, Frenzy and Factory also changed.
Fuzzion: ofFlimits musicdisk
Sml of Fuzzion announced at Orange Juice: "ofFlimitS is a compilation of the most famous Spanish intro64k modules including some info and a nice interface." You can download the Win or the Linux version at the Fuzzion site (2 mb).
Globbal: A new project
Adamm wrote at Orange Juice: "This new project should combine music, gfx, texts... There will be always a theme, an idea and everyone is encouraged to submit his/her portion: thoughts, music, pictures, photos... We want to discuss serious problems through high quality art. Right about now we're searching for members of 'jury' which will pick the best of submitted entries, suggest the themes etc. and we're also setting up the page and pondering over the themes. All suggestions warmly welcomed! Contact us!"
Gods: D.I.S.C. #11 is out!! & more
After six years of silence, there's a new issue of D.I.S.C.! Music by Chromag, Curt Cool and Marc, graphics by Made, Beast, Wade, Bridgeclaw, Optic, Shade and others, texts by "many, many talented editors, too many to mention" (Ghandy), a mag engine by Cupid, an intro by tricktrax, and, most importantly, 120 articles will occupy the Amiga lover for a whole week. Also runs with WinUAE, just make sure that you create a volume called fonts pointing to the subdirectory that stores the fonts included in the D.I.S.C. package. Amigascene.org is keeping it warm for you.
Odin of Gods also released GAudio 2.0.0 SDK. New features: the MPEG part was replaced by a very fast routine that now also supports MP1 and MP2, the S3M format was added, the API structure was redesigned, a software mixer routine was added, tracker replayer bugs were fixed, DSP functionality was added, MOD playback now supports up to 16 channels, Audio CD management is also working now, 3D Sound with an EAX algorithm through DirectSound was added and there's now a better cooperative level between GAudio, Wavemapper and DirectSound. Get the lib at Odin's site.
Finally, Odin created a demo in Java you can see directly online. It uses a 3d engine especially conceived for the web called "OZOS Web", including flat shading, linear/logarithmic fog, a native Lightwave 6 parser, parental objects, morphing, inverse kinematic, etc. in less than 40 of code. The engine is also able to draw a scene of thousands of polygons with a very decent frame rate even on a 1024x768x24bpp screen browser (70 fps on a good system). This demo, with a size of 1 mb and a length of 4:20 minutes, shows some features of that engine. Also available at Odin's site.
Greenroom: New Music Collection
"Greenroom is setting up a new fantastic online music collection, destined to crush all other such collections", says Tomcat, emphasizing that the word "fantastic" and "other stuff" do not originate from him but reflect the opinion of those who saw it.
The name of this collection, which will perhaps be online before Mekka & Symposium, is MusIce. It will first feature 1000 tunes and be continuously updated. People can upload their music. The staff is also looking for raters! By the way, MusIce is an Orange Juice Partner Site.
Headcrash: DOS driver needed?
Ctulhu's new web-project to help stressed demosceners with graphics and sound in DOS-demos is www.dosdriver.de - as the name says, a collection of MS-DOS drivers for various hardware devices.
Hellven: New prominent members
Virt and Hunz/fm have joined Hellven and released some new tracks under its label. Definitely a group demomusic lovers should keep an eye on!
Hornet: No longer available
Let's pause for a minute of grief. The Hornet FTP server is no more, as its hoster Simtel.Net has dropped it, and Hornet CDs are no longer sold, either. However, the complete Hornet Archive is still available on the Scene.org FTP server.
Hugi: Hugi 20 Russian final
The final version of Hugi 20 Russian edition, with translations of almost all articles (except shortstories and poetry), is now available at the Hugi website. Another news: CFXweb is hosting the online edition of Hugi 21. In April Ghandy left Hugi and Gods in order to focus on Darkage.
Hungarian Scene Page: New domain
The Hungarian Scene Page (maintained by Trajic of Rhyme) has moved from scene-hu.com to demoscene.hu.
Hybris/Nemesis: New version of LEGO
A new version of the LEGO Basics demo (2nd place at TP2k) is available at the website of hybris/NEMESIS (2.9 mb).
Infuse Project: DemoGL v1.3
Otis reported: "DemoGL v1.3 final has been released. With new full documentation, new examples and of course full sourcecode. For more information about how this great OpenGL based demosystem for C++/Win32 can help you build better demos faster, how to create a win32 screensaver using your OpenGL effects in seconds, to download the new SDK or anything else related to DemoGL, visit demogl.com."
Iris: EC#42/Amiga out!
The Official Eurochart issue 42 for the Amiga is out. Cool articles, many of them diskmag-related (e.g. the making of D.I.S.C. and the feelings of its main editor after the release). Runs on WinUAE, but you need the xpkmaster library - download it and install it by copying it into the libs: volume using the Shell, then get the zine (consisting of two LHA files!!) from the Iris HQ (1.6 mb). The deadline for Eurochart #43 is April 31!
Kolor: Fresnel 2 final
The relaunched Kolor webpage features the final version of Fresnel 2, the 64k into whose party version placed 3rd at TP2k (120 kb). It now also comes with a non-ISSE version.
Less Music Productions: New releases
LESS Music Production's 3rd "Music Disk" was released on 29th January 2001 - with graphics & code by SoLoRiZe plus song by various artists. The total size is 11 mb. "This is the second part of LESS Music Productions Music disk 'HEXOLOGY'", writes SoLoRiZe. "HEXOLOGY is programmed in Visual Basic, HTML & Java, with music in MP3 and XM format." Available at ukscene.org (11.1 mb).
LMP also released a Flash-4 demo - DappaTro. With music by SoLoRiZe and a size of 300 kb. Also at ukscene.org (440 kb).
Regarding LMP's diskmag LEM, SoLoRiZe would like to say: "I am still in need of more music related articles for LEM2. Articles that I am looking for are music reviews, tracking tips, mp3 creation tips, the best mp3 encoders, tracking programs etc. - tracking/mp3 program news/development." For more information on LEM2 visit the Less Music Productions homepage.
Level-D: EChO has a new homepage
After a long time not updating his site, EChO created a new one, with a new address.
Lightforce: TP2k review
S0bec reports: "I have done a party review including some pictures." By now The Party 2000 has been over for more than 4 months, but if you are still interested: go to S0bec's homepage.
Linux scene: New IRC channel
The #Linuxscn channel on IRCNet is closed. Now you have to join #demoscene on OpenProject network if you want to meet Linux and opensource demo sceners. To connect to OpenProject, use the server irc.linux.org. Jylam: "Come on, talk to us about the demoscene, Linux, penguins, and sometimes what's the strongest animal living in Russia!" Also the URL of the channel website has changed: from linuxscn.org to lnxscene.org - including a new design, new site engine, and most Linux intros, demos, and tiny prods.
Macaw: "Nean der taler" Source
Macaw released the source code of the intro "nean der taler", placed second at The Party 2000. See it at Macaw's site. The funny thing about it: Had he not released the source, nobody would have detected that "nean der taler" contained a routine (the Escher knot effect) directly copied from a demo-program written by Oliver Nash, the brother of Paradox/Vivid. The discovery of this "rip" led to a debate at the Calodox Demolinks Exchange in which Macaw defended himself with the argument that the same effect was used in Amiga demos long ago and that he did not claim that it was his invention.
Merregnon: More tunes
The Merregnon website features new (free) music, e.g. by Nebularia (Tomi Jylhae-Ollila, known for his renewal of the Turrican II title). Of course the full soundtrack CD is still for sale at the same location.
Metamake: First Mac diskmag
Yes! The first diskmag for Macintosh is coming! It's name is Metamake, and it's especially focusing on the MetaL compiler, a programming tool that is only available for Mac. Its maineditor mangoform3R wants to attract beginners to the demoscene in this way. Get the preview edition at the Metamake site.
m00ziQ: Music contest
m00ziQ is an international demoscene music contest organized by the teams of demoscene.ru and Aienn. It's all about small size modules of different and "mostly experimental" styles. The first event is held to gather the interest of the scene. If the feedback is massive and positive, m00ziQ will become periodic. More at Aienn's site.
Moppi: New version of Demopaja
Memon of Moppi announces that the SDK for the OpenGL-based demo-authoring tool Demopaja and a new version of the editor are out. "Beside the stuff to code plugins the SDK also contains source/lib to play the files created using the Demopaja. There is option to compile the plugins with the player, so no-one can rip your plugins if you decide to distribute the demo." Get it at the Demopaja website.
Nah-kolor: No new mag project
Devotion is dead (as main editor Darkus has left the Amiga scene) and no longer a Nah-kolor production. The rumours spread at Scenet using Magic's name saying that Nah-kolor would be working on a new magazine are false, Magic informed me via email. Apart from that there have been a few changes in the member structure of Nah-kolor (e.g. Klod left the scene because he took over his parents' company), and the 59th issue of the Amiga packmag Speed has been released.
NAID: An American scene portal
Etienne Caron (aka Mr. Khan), organizer of NAID 95 and 96, has created a new scene portal - naid.net. "Our site concerns itself with the demoscene in general, and the North American scene in particular. You'll find cool demo reviews, quirky technology reviews, anything and everything related to the technological revolution in the Arts world. All are welcome to contribute and participate. We have forums, a news discussion system, reviews, tutorials, the works."
Nano: Stonda joins
Stonda has joined a new group, Nano. The other members of this group are Dairos (code), Teppo (ray, org) and Megamies (music). They're currently creating a demo for Escape 2001 (in .fi). More information at the Nano website.
Nextempire: New intros
In colloboration with Array, Nextempire made the invitro for Performance 2001, the party where they later won the 64k intro compo. All available at nextempire.com!
Noisetrekker: New tracking tools
Several new tracking tools are available at the Noisetrekker site. Among them are Aodix 1.0 - Advanced Tracker Workstation (Win32, VST support, advanced patch editor), and Modix (MIDI tracker by Arguru).
Orion: Final version of Purple
Better late than never: In January 2001 Orion released low & high-quality versions of their demo Purple, ranked 4th at LTP4. There's also an update patch for owners of the party-version. Get it at the Orion website. By the way, you can also check out Sear's new site.
Pain: Two new issues
The Pain staff was not lazy and released two new issues of their diskmag. News, charts, scene-ramblings, tuts, interviews, and overviews of the current state of the scene on various computer systems, ranging from Spectrum to Amiga. Get Pain 12/00 and 02/01 (actually from March 2001) at the Pain site where you can also fill in the votesheet.
Park Studios: Charity EP
Park Studios released Charity EP, featuring four tracks by Velvet, Netpoet, VAE and Nagz. The fine graphics have been done by Visualice.
PC Demo Fanclub: Hacked?
Rumour has it that the PC Demo Fanclub might have been hacked. Or how else that the site says: "v5.0 Coming in the Year 2008!!!" ;-)
Prune: No Recess' website updated
At No Recess' website you will now find the JfyeII 3D engine with its VC++ sources, which is a free Newtek LightWave 6.X scene replayer, used in the "Flower" demo from Prune, winner of the Synthesis #1 demoparty. No Recess recommends: "Have a look to understand DirectX 8 inits, LightWave 6.X file formats, etc." But don't forget: "Rippers are lamers."
Quanta: A new music group
Chimera: "Quanta has finally launched! Quanta is a new music group that is dedicated to creating and expanding upon new music techniques. Pushing the envelopes of music. Make sure you check out the website and grab the first 3 great releases."
RAW: Online database back!
The RAW database is back online: three of the last four issues of the classic Amiga diskmag are available for online reading! Definitely worth checking out if you're a scene and especially diskmag lover!
Rebels: Back to scene
Yes/OJ is happy: M:ET, Jake, Static, Vandal, Droopy, Conan, Nick, Oliver, Mogwie, Heatbeat, Zaxxan and Dragon are back to the scene! Check the Rebel site for more.
Scene.org: New Design
In February a web design competition was held - and the winner is Jokke! His new design is now used at Scene.org.
Scenery: The Scene's History Book
The fourth update of Scenery, a real history book about the Amiga scene (more than 2 mb of text - history of all important groups with members and releases, reviews,...), is available online and for download at its website. SceneryC64 and SceneryPC are also planned - please contact the author (Glenn Lunder) if you're interested in participating!
SIGGRAPH - I
Vicent Scheib (aancsiid), once of the main persons behind the initiative to get the demoscene to next Siggraph, posted an article introducing the demo scene to the game developers community to Gamasutra, called "Introduction to Demos & The Demo Scene: How they Relate to Games, and their Appearance at SIGGRAPH". Excellently written, both Civax and I think.
The deadline for demo submissions for Siggraph, by the way, was March 21 - I hope that you didn't miss it in case you planned to submit your artwork!
Current news on the Demoscene @ SIGGRAPH: siggraph.scene.org
SIGGRAPH - II
Mercator wants to inform that - apart from the current efforts to cover the demoscene at Siggraph - there is a kind of demo contest at Siggraph called Web3d Roundup.
"The web3d roundup is an event organized by the web3d consortium and is held at two conferences every year - the Siggraph and the VRML/Web3d conference.
I participated in it for the first time in 1998 with our company Geometrek. Our company started as a kind of 'demoscene-spirit' company because members (not employees) only work just for fun and are spread all over the world. We're doing all kind of web3d (mainly VRML) content and develop an own web3d multiuser server/client (check out www.geometrek.com if you want)
The reason why I tell you all that stuff is because the main goal of the web3d Roundup is to show new web3d stuff - for instance new web3d clients, new innovative content, fast rendering of big worlds or whatever.
We presented the first VRML demo there (self-running + sound). We participated in it every time since 1998.
If you're interested in participating in the Web3d Roundup, I can try to help you. I know the organizer Timothy Childs very well.
You should know that it's not easy at all to get into Siggraph!!! It's easier to get into the contest at the VRML/WEB3d conference because the quality of the entries is not that high there.
The web3d roundup is the wrong place for pure 3d demos. You must demonstrate something innovative. All demonstrators talk to the demos there - people wouldn't understand your demo if you just let it run. Most of the stuff are dull and boring business demos.
I forgot to say that the best demonstration gets a price. There are categories like 'best business demo', 'best entertainment demonstration', 'best educational demo',...."
South African scene archive
Eclipse reports that he and others are busy launching a South African demo archive "for all those with Nostalgia".
Spinning Kids: Digging in the UMine
The Underground Mine knowledge center hosted by Spinning Kids, "a little spark in the almost-dead Italian demoscene", celebrates its first 1000 hits with a simple "hitstro". Since April the site has also been available via WAP, and its maintainers would like to see more scene-related WAP sites.
Storm Studios: New Cooler issue
A new issue of the Russian-language e-mag Cooler was released: Cooler #3.5 MrS Live. It is dedicated to the MindResources demoparty. Fatcrazer, the editor, warns: "Don't take it too seriously - it has lots of jokes and fun inside." Of course Cooler has a website where you can get it.
Sunflower: Tesla demo source!
Yoghurt decided to release the full source of his demo Tesla (Gravity 2000). You can download it from Sunflower's web page. Sunflower's cute site has also been redesigned and Unreal promises that Sunflower banners, wallpapers and screensavers are coming soon. (What about demos?)
Sunset Design: GrafX2 source
The sourcecode of GrafX2 (bitmap pixelling program for DOS, supporting 60 video resolutions, oldskool touch) has been released by Sunset Design. Get it at CFXweb.
TAP: New issue & more
The fifth issue of the German-language diskmag TAP.MAG (1.2 mb packed, 160 kb text) got out in March. Get it at the TAP's home in the web. The previous issue can now also be read online.
Tatanka: Vertex final
Misha wants to spread the word about the fact that Tatanka has made a demo called Vertex that has been presented at Addict Anniversary 2001 and has won the compo. Now the final version (8.9 mb) is available at the Tatanka website.
The HaVoK free Scene radio station
dEF bASE, maintainer of The Havok BBS since 1993, has started the first information-focused scene radio. The first broadcast happened on the 12th of January 2001, and since then The Havok has been on air every second Saturday afternoon. Apart from fresh news and discussions you'll get live interviews with sceners done over the Net, and you can actively participate yourself during the broadcast using IRC & NetMeeting. The Havok can be accessed using the Internet and an audio player that supports Shoutcast. For more information check the official website.
The Lab: A New Group
Nuclear reports: "A new demogroup was formed in Greece, the group is named "the Lab" and we currently have 6 members: Optimus (code), Nuclear (Code), BadSector (Code), Axis (Code), iM (Graphics), Amigo (Music). Our first release is planned for mid/end of summer."
This is a demo
"This is a demo" is a selection of famous demo productions, similar to Demoo!. Three thumbnails are supposed to give you a good impression of the respective demo. This site is, however, not meant to be a demorelease database.
Threesome: Beef 96 (BSE-free?)
"Some of you may remember an obscure little demo called Beef 96", Miss Saigon writes to comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos. "It started at a little party (Half-Impulse) as a song made up by some Canadian guys from Force 10 about cooking steaks and drinking beer. We thought it was funny, so we made a wav of it. Then GD and Phoenix and Necros and the Canadians and pretty much everybody who was at the party started making pictures to illustrate the song. Finally, Necros filled in some gaps in the song and coded a little slideshow out of the pictures, and the original Beef 96 was born. Now, five years later, Beef 96 lives again. Out of my sense of duty to the scene (and because I had to do it for my Flash class), I give to you the 5th anniversary Flash edition of Beef 96. Even if you never saw the original, this one is worth checking out." You can view it at Miss Saigon's homepage.
TRSI: Co-op demo with Amuq
An Amuq+TRSI co-op demo was released. Music by CoaXCable, code by Amuq. DirectX 7 (or higher) and an acceleration card are required. Available at amuq.net.
T$: GUSemu32 has been released
T$ reports that his Gravis Ultrasound Emulator for Win32, GUSemu32, is available as a beta version for Win9x and Win2k. "Since this is a test and preview release, feedback of any kind is explicitely welcome. Especially compatibility tests (GUSemu32 under Win2k, GUSemu32 under Win9x and original GUS under Win9x) in order to fill the gaps in the list of supported demos/intros/... are required." Get it at the GUSemu page..
UPX v1.05 out now
There's also a new version of UPX, the excellent exe-packer - version 1.05, to be precise. A 'formal' description: "UPX is a portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks. UPX supports linux/i386, win32/pe, dos/exe, djgpp2/coff, and many more." CFXweb has it for you.
Vantage: RAR File Library
Vantage released UniquE RAR File Library v0.3.3, the free lib for Win32, Linux and SunOS that allows you to read RAR archives and costs only 6 kb of code. What's new? An Assembly-optimized i386 Linux version contributed by Johannes Winkelmann, new makefiles for Unix (SunOS, Linux), choice between pure ANSI C and ANSI C with ASM code, and a new license agreement approved by Eugene Roshal, the author of RAR. Available at UniquE's project page.
Yero: New tunes
Yero, the composer of the first tune in Hugi 21, has also been active. He created a couple of new tunes, for instance Mental Strings 2 (trance). IT versions of the songs are at Traxinspace, MP3s can be leeched from Yero's page at mp3.com. Yero also designed the homepage of a Spanish modules channel on IRC.
Web4096 compo
The 2nd web4096 competition, organized by Zden, is over, and you can see the productions & results at its website.
Wild Bits: Wilby #6 released!
On April 10 (one day before this Hugi issue) Wilby #6, the 4096 bytes diskmag, was finally released. It also took part in the 4k intro compo of the Xuventude Galicia Net Party 2001. Not much content this time, though. Get it at Spock's homepage.
WildMag: Issue 4 coming after Mekka
The fourth issue of the German-language diskmag WildMag will be released shortly after Mekka & Symposium 2001. Contrary to original plans, this issue will not be dealing with the topic "pixel graphics" as the staff did not receive enough articles on it. Instead, it will be a "Mekka 2001 Special". Mad/os and The Update are planning to do a lot of interviews and surveys at the party. There are going to be live reports and probably a lot of spontaneous ideas. All in all this issue is supposed to become more wild than its predecessors - whatever this means. Get the first three issues at the Wildmag site.
Woorlic was not bought by M$!
It was obvious that the announcement Woorlic spread on April 1st about their being bought by Microsoft was at best wishful thinking, unless it was just a rather unspectacular April fools joke. Now, however, the "almighty Joris Beltskijv makes the statement about the prank". Read about this "groundbreaking news" at woorlic.org. Right!
zt: MIDI tracker
Version 0.08 of zt, the Win32 MIDI tracker, has been released. "This version brings .mid export, midi-in slave sync, midi-in note recording, help, a config program, and much more. If you have some real gear, give it a shot", writes Zephyr at Orange Juice. For downloading purposes go to the zt page.
