_ _ __....__ _Úy#S$$$L j$$$S#y¿_ _Úy#S$$$$$$$$$$$$S#y¿_ 7$$$$$$$$.,,.$$$$$$$$7 ,y·,._ _.,Öy, 7$$$$$$$j$SS$$j³$$$$$7 ,y·,._ 7$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$7 ,$$$$$$? ?$$$$$$, 7$$$$$` ·._`"Ó*7 ,$$$$$$? :$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$: $$$$$$' `$$$$$$ :$$$$$L À7$$S%y¿ $$$$$$' ......$$$$$$$?^^?$$$$$$$.i$$$$$;... ;$$$$$i $$$$$$#S$$S#$$$$$$'i$$$$$7 : i$$$$$$b d$$$$$$i $$$$$$$¿,:.,Ú$$$$$$$ i$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$i $$$$$$: : $½Ù""^` `^""ÀÓ$ ?$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$? $½Ù""^````^""ÀÓ$ ?$$$$$1 : `À?j³$$$$$$$$³j?Ù` `À?j³$: : huginews issue 20 ``^""^`` `` : december 19, 1999 :.............. . . . . ..sl. :.................................: .. First Words .......................................................... : Hello. Welcome. It is very early in the morning. No, it's already 8 am. Wow, the time passes by very fast. Anyway. Why should I bother you with that? I was in the perfect mood for writing articles yesterday. I wrote three articles in a row. Now this inspiration has gone. But that's maybe because I wrote until late night and got up early. Guess I'll resume sleeping. After all, it's sunday today. Hugi #18 will be released soon. Gotta do the news corner, music selection page, editorial, Audiophonik CD review, DiskMag-Pack review, some diskmag reviews, the hidden part, online votesheet, description for the hugi w3 site, announcement - and format ALL articles for the Russian edition. The Russian edition and the international one must be released simultaneously. If I use all my spare time for this, then I might be ready in some days. Happy reading, and see you next week. - Adok (Hugi Core & Royal Family) . :........................................................................ .. News ................................................................. : News about Radwar Party 2000. The organizers are coming more and more to the ending part of the organizing for the Radwar Party 2000. They have set up some more infos on their website, for example they are holding a painting-competition for their party-poster and the flyers. They're going to print around 2000 of them to spread them at the party. The poster will be in DIN A2 format, full coloured. Posted by Markus Wiederstein, edited by Adok. Link: http://www.radwar.com/ Exploding fist. It is an IT tune by Melcom with a duration of 5:27 min covering non-released material. Now available on his scene history page. Impulse Tracker is the only possible player. Posted by Adok, based on news from Melcom. Links: http://www.melcom.cjb.net/history/ http://www.noisemusic.org/it/ Anti looking for a group. Anti writes: "Now that the CER/FAKE/kolabore 'team' broke up, I'm sitting here pretty alone. So if anyone is willing to give me a chance, I'd be happy to enlarge someone's Linux division." Posted by Anti, edited by Adok. Link: mailto:anti@webhome.nu New members wanted for Magic Dreams! The German demogroup "Magic Dreams" is searching for new members for serious and high-quality productions. If you want join, please mail to CodeX. For more infos about the group you can visit the Magic Dreams website. Posted by CodeX, edited by Adok. Link: mailto:CodeX@Magic-Dreams.de, http://www.magic-dreams.de/ Aardbei. * G-day joined. * Oyise joined us to make some gfx. Oyise loves cats and his girlfriend Emma. He lives in Sweden. * Oxygener joined us to make some music. He also lives in Sweden. * Jonas left. He does not live in Sweden. Posted by Ile, edited by Adok. Link: http://aardbei.scene.org/ Demoscena.pl has opened. Its maintainers, Cortezo and Kazik, describe demoscena.pl as "the biggest Polish DemoScene linkpage". It covers different platforms and different categories (groups, parties, zines, private, services). Posted by Adok, based on news from Cortezo. Link: http://www.demoscena.pl/ Diskmags. * Wilby #3. Another smallie for the size-optimizing fans. You can now get Wilby via a mailinglist. * Shine #6 has also been released. Posted by Adok. Links: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7116/ http://shine.scene.org/ Gfxzone has moved to http://gfxzone.planet-d.net/. . :........................................................................ .. Articles ............................................................. : OSes Suck. Written by fr3d. I am sick of playing nice. Messages suck, threads suck, and penguins suck. I want to do what I want when I want. Alas, I also like 3d cards. Am I doomed to be under Bill's or Linus' iron grip? Maybe not... I've come up with an idea for a new OS geared towards demos. What does "geared towards demos" mean? I remember back in the good old days of Hornet a time when the demoscene could code circles around the games industry. Trixter's _PC Demos Explained_ put it best: "[Demos] seemingly do things that aren't possible on the machine they were programmed on." Obviously, you can't share the processor if you're doing the impossible. So geared towards demos means something along the lines of "giving the coder complete control of the machine to create his magic." Well, what does this wonder OS do? Not very much. It'll load programs, maybe provide some console I/O routines, and perform the occasional page swap. That's it. No memory management, no process control, no file system. You get a whole big empty memory space to play with. Since there's only one process, there's not very much to control. Most (good) demos only have one or two datafiles, so why not include them in the executable? As you might have guessed, this spartan kernel doesn't have much in the way of a GUI. Or a command line for that matter. Basically, you'd copy a demo you want to run to a small partition on your hard disk, reboot your machine, and be amazed. Of course, none of this resolves the 3d hardware issue. Considering that 3Dfx has open sourced Glide, and NVidia is going to be releasing sources to the TNT/TNT2 X server soon, it shouldn't be so bad to write some drivers for this stuff. Simple drivers. Not much more than polygon drawing and texture management. (That's what pissed me off about DirectX so much... too many "features.") Of course, there'd also be sound drivers that would provide buffer playing capability. So there it is: an unobtrusive kernel that has sound and video card support built into it. Please send me your feedback so that we could get a project like this going. And just think: one day we may put these stupid OS wars behind us and get back to demo coding! -fr3d mailto:fr3d_johns0n@hotmail.com The Top Ten Clues. Part 2. Written by TAD. You know you are a 3l33t when... 1. you can write code without switching your monitor on. 2. you can type an entire program using [ALT+xxx] numbers for all 256 chars. 3. you spend hours looking at the keyboard for a new password. 4. using the entire 102 keys to be your new password. 5. you can hack the FBI computer using the just the key presses in the keyboard buffer while you wait for your PC to finish booting up. 6. you can create an .NFO file using just DW statements. 7. you can convert a 20 digit hex into decimal without needing a calculator. 8. you need to replace your keyboard twice a week. 9. you think backups are just for lamers with bad memories. 10. you use a random number generator to toggle the CAPS-LOCK state. -- TAD [ mailto:tad.uk@dtn.ntl.com ] -- . :........................................................................ .. 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