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.:( In Memory of Mr Wax):.
One of the greatest legends of the Hungarian scene, Mr. Wax of Chromance, died in a car crash on 1st August 2004, near Nagykapornak, Hungary. We will keep him in memory. You can sign the guest book at the "In memoriam Balázs Bernát website".
(Tomcat, Adok)
.:( New Diskmags ):.
InCube #1, a new Russian language diskmag by the 7dUMP group, was released in December 2004. It features great music, gfx and design with good new ideas. The engine is for Windows.
Exilium #3 by Sliders has also been released. Spanish language, DOS and Windows engine (based on Allegro).
Another new magazine is Grapevine #3 by ESD, in English, for online reading.
Probably Alive #9 for Atari computers will be (was) released in the same week as Hugi #30. There's also an online edition.
(Dimouse, Adok)
.:( Text Mode Demos &emp; More ):.
Text Mode Demo Contest 7 results and releases are out now. Sol, the organizer of this contest, has also written new tutorials about graphics programming for beginners (pixel-based graphics programming using SDL, plus startings of a game).
Sol - graphics programming tuts
(Sol, Adok)
.:( de.scene.org ):.
Scene.org has got a mirror site in Germany hosted by Digitale Kultur e.V. in cooperation with NetCologne.
(Steeler, Adok)
.:( Hungarian Scene DVD ):.
Bery of United Force has arranged a DVD with "the best" Hungarian PC demos from 1996. It's available for 4 EUR plus shipping.
(Tomcat, Adok)
.:( MO3 Fileformat Petition ):.
John Marwin has started a petition to Ian Luck, asking him to release the fileformat spec for the MO3 module format. For those who may not know the format, it is a module with MP3 or OGG compressed samples, allowing for a high quality to filesize ratio.
The specs' release would allow more players and more websites to support this revolutionary format, thus allowing it to grow in popularity and become one of the "standard" module formats.
(Rikimbo)
.:( DirectX tutorials ):.
Def Base has created a DirectX tutorials site. "The aim for this site is to give complete, concise and useful tutorials at a level anyone can understand - tutorials I wish I had when I was learning." The site is based on a content management system.
(Adok)
.:( Radio Stations ):.
The ARTS: Episode 10, the first episode of the art scene radio in 2005, is online. Featured guests include Def Base, founder of Havok Radio, Sir Garbagetruck of Nectarine, and Kizzle of HackerMedia. Topics include the latest craze in netradio, podcasting, the Suprnova implosion, lamer blocking on Pouet, standards for Nectarine Demoscene Radio and the true meaning of BASS.
Another news comes from SoLoRiZe: "It is with regret that I have to inform you all that I will be closing down 'CGM UKScene Radio', broadcast and website due to personal reasons. I would like to thank all listeners and artists that have made running the station a pleasure. One bit of good news is that once I have sorted things out we WILL be back, but at the moment I do not know when this will be. Once again thanks to everyone who has been part of the station."
(RaD Man, SoLoRiZe, Adok)
.:( Orion ripped off? ):.
Weyland Yutani discovered a website (not related to the demo scene) which is a rip from one of Orion's demos. Quoting Willbe/Orion: "Indeed the beginning of the flash is a pure rip of Orion's demo Purple, the scene where you see planets everywhere with precisely the same soundtrack part (from Chaosnet/Orion &emp; me)."
(Adok)
.:( EP vs. Dipswitch ):.
Dipswitch wrote a reply article to EP's article "How To Save The Demo Scene" from Hugi 29. As a reaction, EP created a web-page about Dipswitch. The page will be (was) deleted 15 days after the release of Hugi 30.
(EP, Adok)
.:( Wade is a member of Fearmoths ):.
Wade has finally outed himself as a member of Fearmoths, the fun group founded by notorious Shane (the wolf the dog). He has created graphics for several of Fearmoths' releases. This has come as a surprise to many people who have known Wade for being an extremely serious and strict person.
(Adok)
.:( Freax book project status ):.
The first volume of Freax is finished. It deals with the C64 scene. Its size is 300 to 350 pages. Now Tomcat is trying to raise funds for printing the book.
(Adok)
.:( Demo Science ):.
There's a new website listing all the books and articles about the demoscene that its creators were able to find.
(Adok)
.:( Ciccilleju! ):.
Ciccilleju!, whose music is sometimes used in Hugi, has released a couple new songs.
(Ciccilleju!, Adok)
.:( Purple Motion ):.
Purple Motion released a (commercial) CD called "music disk" in September 2004.
(Adok)
.:( Blue Logic ):.
Chris Dragan's group Blue Logic has released a new demo called Symbiosis. "This is the result of our two day marathon. We actually made half of the demo during the party."
(Adok)
.:( EP t-shirt contest ):.
EP has grown so popular that Tomcat has had the idea to start an EP t-shirt contest. "Design a t-shirt about our wise friend ep. Express your feelings, hate or love. I'll make a few of the best one for Breakpoint. The rules: black background, only 1 color, max. 20 x 25 cm." The template is available in the pouet BBS.
(Adok)
.:( Art Scene News ):.
SAC art pack has been delayed for a long time but valentines day might be its releasing date.
Coolphat has released its art pack 15 a few weeks ago and in the beginning of february 2005 it will release the mp3 pack number 3, and soon after that their disk number 6 (an oldskool MusicDisk with chiptunes and also some newskool mixes).
A new demo/art team called TiTAN has been up for a few weeks now. It is composed of ex-Bafh people, ex-ArtCore members and other new comers to the scene as well as some coders or programmers from some scene. It hasn't released anything yet, but rumour has it that they are planning to release their 1st art pack, some cracktro and a music disk.
DualTrax of CRO is also planning a music disk of his own with new old tunes by him and guest releasers. The work process goes slowöy but it is in a progress. Dfs.art and other art teams like TiTAN are in lack of ASCII Artists, many of them have joined CRO and SAC... or quit the scene totally.
(CoaXCable, Adok)
.:( Israeli Scene ):.
Will the Israeli scene revivial happen? That's a big question. Lately some of the former and the few currently productive people of the local Israeli demo/artscenes have met on the Internet and have been talking about seeing each other. But it might be a long way to rebuild the scene, so now it is all about talking, but something might happen in the next few months... They're still "talking" about some meeting.
(CoaXCable, Adok)