Worldcharts

Worldcharts was the name of the diskmag released by the legendary Finnish demo group Future Crew. Only one issue is available from scene.org. Rumour has it that a second issue was released but it was very poor. Anyhow, I haven't seen it. World Charts #1 was downloaded from scene.org about 500 times. It works on a modern PC without DOSBox but it flickers at hell. DOSBox stops the flickering. The only snag about it is that some of the colours are displayed incorrectly.

Worldcharts #1

Worldcharts #1 was released in May 1993. It was coded by Psi and featured quite bad graphics, although the credits said they were made by Pixel. The music was from Purple Motion and C.C.Catch. Although the name suggests it was a charts magazine, Worldcharts #1 also featured some articles. Most of them were reports about groups such as Sonix, Cascada, TCB or Infinity. A historically rather interesting article was written by Pixel. It was about the question whether 3D Studio should be allowed for creating graphics for demos. When I read that article I was quite surprised that this was a problem as I always thought that 3D Studio was a standard tool for creating demos. But apparently it was met with some resistance at the beginning, just like later MP3 in demos and hardware acceleration in demos would be. There were also short articles about the Australian demo scene and about Creativity Demo Net. Micha of Witan, Daredevil of Renaissance and Loot of Triton were interviewed in Worldcharts #1. There were several reviews of demos and of course the charts. 54 people voted. The categories were top ten demos, groups, games, graphics artists, musicians and coders.

Worldcharts #1 had quite a lot of articles, but it wasn't too interesting all in all. It was probably a good idea that Future Crew stopped wasting times on diskmag making and focused on making their (for the time) great demos instead.

Adok/Hugi