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I'm also interested in general feedback and to the stuff published in this HugiNews issue. - Adok (Hugi Core & Royal Family) . :........................................................................ .. News ................................................................. : Snog - First Person 3D Snake! * Cyberfish / TLS has posted the following message: * "We have just finished a beta/demoversion of our game Snok. It's the result of several years of hobbyprogramming and a schoolproject, ending up with a first person realtime multiplayer 3D-snake game." * And as you can see from the picture - this one is COOL! They have tested it with up to 6 players though they admit 6 makes it really confusing. From the little I played with it - stay on with 3 players. Download it (6.7 Mb) by visiting their site. * http://www.tihlde.org/~largo/hovedprosjekt/ Posted by Civax, slightly edited by Adok. The PARTY complain center with .de domain. * Trifox/Nuance has registered a .de domain for his "The PARTY complain center". Basically this is a web-based forum where you can post your thoughts about last year's edition of The Party in Aars/Denmark, and you can vote for your favourite argument why The Party "sucks". * I just want to remind in this context that the organizers of The Party are planning to make the event more attractive for the demoscene this year. * http://www.thepartysuxxx.de/ * http://www.theparty.dk/ Posted by Adok, based on news from Trifox (Orange Juice). Buenzli #9 invitation-jingle compo. * Today, at midnight, is the deadline for all who want to make an invitation-jingle for the Buenzli #9 party (to be held in Bern/Switzerland on August 11-13). So hurry up! * Here are the specs for the jingle: "Theme: invitation-jingle for Buenzli #9 Format: MP3 - must be in a zip-file with description Description: Name of composer, name of jingle Size: it doesn't matter Duration: max. 20 seconds Deadline: 18. June 00 24:00" * The jingle must be uploaded to the directory ftp://ftp.chscene.ch/incoming/bnz-jingles/. You must also write a mail including the filename and the description to compo@chscene.ch so that the organizers can contact you if you happen to belong to the lucky winners. * The first place gets a RedHat 6.1 professional package, which is what the second place gets too, and a cow (probably made of plastics or cloth, hehe), which is what the third place gets too. * http://www.buenz.li/ Posted by Adok, based on news from J-freak (comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos). About the Eichel demo group... * T.C.P. has sent me the following about his group Eichel: * "eichel demo group is still a no-namer in the ass-kicking department. two members seem to be under the living dead and have therefore been erased from the book of the honorful: cpt. eisenarsch (music) and honk (graphics). members still striving for activity are: q (design), scientoz (3d) and t.c.p. (code). thanks to our recruiting facilities new members full of bursting energy have been employed: spoon (graphics) and statler (music). don't expect any more release promises. we are the non-makers." Posted by Adok, based on news from T.C.P. (email). Meuk bugfixed. * Ritz/Revolution released a bugfixed version of his 4k intro "meuk", which placed 2nd at Mekka & Symposium 2k. * http://rvl.scene.org/meuk.com Posted by Adok, based on news from Orange Juice. Monotonik releases an EP with remixes of Super Mario World. * The musicgroup Mono has released a very interesting EP containing nine remixed tunes from the Super Nintendo games Super Mario World and Super Mario All-Stars. In total they are 24.8 megs, but they can be downloaded separately. * http://www.mono211.com/content/releases/mtkmp26.html Posted by Ghandy, extended by Adok. More Mekka^Symposium 2000 snapshots wanted? * Get the latest photos from the MS2K at: Los Endos meetings - the Faith partyposse site. Also, you can watch there the pics of the german LOS ENDOS meeting series, which are honestly CRAZY! * http://www.losendos.de/ Posted by Ghandy, slightly edited by Adok. hBG released Artpack #04. * The Russian demogroup hBG (this stands for Hellbender Group) released their 4th artpack with fourty "compositions". * http://hbg.planet-d.net/ Posted by Adok, based on news from Ice Dragon (Orange Juice). Orbital Dreams and Savage release Dark Rituals musicdisk. * According to Trace, this music disk features "speed-heavy-metal tracks" and a "cool graphic interface". * http://www.axius3.com/orbdreams/releases.html Posted by Adok, based on news from Trace (Orange Juice). 7Zone issue 1 released. * 7Zone is a new diskmag in Russian language. Its first issue contains a couple of interesting articles and interviews with people like Action and brothomStates (ex-Dune). There's also a bonus directory with an unusual special feature, namely all votesheets that have been submitted to the mag. Usually diskmag editors keep them secret for privacy reasons. * http://y2keen.narod.ru/7ZONE.RAR Posted by Adok, based on news from Action (email). Cloudcity is down. * One of the last bulletin boards in the scene world is leaving the stage: Distance has shut his BBS Cloudcity down for good after seven years of running for technical reasons. Posted by Adok, based on news from distance (IRC). Bj”r7000 Win32 version released. * The Win32 version of the hugely succesfull intro Bj”r7000 by TPOLM (placed 2nd at The Party 1997) has been released. * http://www.tpolm.com/ Posted by Adok, based on news from distance (IRC). Lackluster and others release Squadron CD. * Squadron, a compilation CD with tracks from Lackluster & Frank Bolero, md, brothomStates, salice, bauri, proswell, lexaunculpt, komp, novel 23, fizzarum, syndrone, sense, ambidextrous, machine drum has been released, and it is available from multiple places on the Net. * http://www.m3rck.net for more info. * The Lackluster website is now located at http://www.m3rck.net/lackluster/. Posted by Adok, based on news from distance (IRC). News from CFXweb. * Some of the new stuff on CFXweb: * Updated Java Demos and Sources on the Java Resources page: http://www.cfxweb.net/articles/javapps/javapps.shtml * New post on Linux demos by shadow on http://www.cfxweb.net/articles/linux/linux-ecfh.shtml * Newbie Center: first page posted. The newbie center is going to be a massive resource for anyone wanting to get into the demo scene or the game industry and create. The first page is already up, entitled "introduction to the demo scene". People are invited to add comments and contribute texts to any section they want. * Introduction to the demo Scene: http://www.cfxweb.net/articles/center/demoscene.shtml * Contributions and skeleton of the whole center: http://www.cfxweb.net/articles/center/centerdev.shtml Posted by Civax, slightly edited by Adok. Different engine: a new demo by Satori. * Satori (Zden and Loonie) released a new demo for Win32 called Different engine. * http://message.sk/zden/files/de32.zip Posted by Adok, based on news from distance (IRC). www.scene.org in new design. * The scene.org site has been redesigned. It looks more colourful and is still well structured. Now you can also search the archive directly here (and don't have to go to the Orange Juice site first). The credits on the site suggest that the scene.org staff are still planning to create a web magazine. In other words: Heavy extensions may be likely to happen in the near future. Posted by Adok. Takeover main orgo loses beard. * The main organizer of Takeover 2000 (the party that has just been held in the Netherlands), The REW, "known by many as 'Redbeard', has removed the source of his nickname. As from now, he can no longer be seen wearing his infamous red goatee. We of the organizing team were mighty surprised when we found him without any protruding facial hair at the last Takeover 2000 organizers meeting. We wish him good luck with his new appearance, and hope he will enjoy it as much as we do", writes JAL on http://www.takeover.nl/. Posted by Adok, based on news from JAL (IRC). Morph's homepage updated. * Morph has updated his homepage with a lot of new scene-articles and other scene stuff, a diary, Euro 2000 talks (the soccer competition, not the currency) and predictions and lots of other stuff. Posted by Adok, based on news from Morph (Orange Juice). IRCNet #coders homepage updated. * Well, dvb announced that http://www.coderz.cjb.net/ has been slightly changed. Moreover, it seems that they're looking for a domain for this website. Posted by Adok, based on news from dvb (IRC). Scenet #33 is out. * I guess by now I won't have to explain what Scenet is... (okay, it's a huge list of email addresses, website URLs, ICQ numbers and the like, all scene-related, maintained by Ghandy). The 33rd "issue" is now available. * http://www.scenet.de/ Posted by Adok, based on news from Ghandy (email). Fleur #5 soon. * If the world doesn't come to an end or anything unexpected happens (and this happens often in the world of diskmags), Fleur #5 will be released tomorrow. Posted by Adok, based on news from StefanM (IRC). Demo Hidden Parts. * Revision 19 is out. This document was originally maintained by Phoenix/Hornet, now it's irregularly updated by Rod/Mandula and always released a tad before every new issue of Fleur (in which it appears as well). * http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mandula/secret.txt Posted by Adok, based on news from Orange Juice. CoaXCable has teamed up with some legendary groups. * CoaXCable/WIJ Demos is proud to announce that he has "joined TRSI & RED sECTOR and also HOLY EMPIRE :>". Posted by Adok, based on news from CoaXCable (ICQ). Domainatrix: new operating system. * A new operating system for AMD/Intel x86 PCs is in progress, made by Rohit Dutta, an Indian demofreak. It is made specifically for serving the Web. If you're interested in the current state of development (there's a lot of information available to the public) or even want to join the project, check out: * http://domainatrix.freeservers.com/ Posted by Adok, based on news from Rohit (email). Melcom has a new URL. * Due to his health melcom has to take a little break, but he has got a new URL: http://www.darkrhythms.com/. His latest song, DOOM.MP3, can be downloaded at http://www.darkrhythms.com/2000.html/. Posted by Adok, based on news from melcom (email). TAP.Mag #3 released. * Get the third issue of TAP.Mag (a small but cool, funny, refreshing diskmag in German language) at a new domain: * http://www.tap-home.de/ Posted by Adok, based on news from Tomaes (email). Planet-d offline. * Planet-d, a major webspace provider for the scene maintained by Gandalf/ex-Pulse, is suffering from a faulty hard drive. The problem is being fixed this weekend, which is why the site is currently down. Posted by Adok, based on news from Orange Juice. C=64 Tribute Page. * MWS announces a new C=64 Tribute Page organized by Radwar, Haujobb, Avancada and The Wanderer Group. They still need people to support the site. * http://www.zevi.org/ Posted by Adok, based on news from MWS (email). Radwar report soon available. * The Radwar guys opened a site called http://www.partyevent2000.de/ where you'll soon be able to find pictures and a report. Posted by Adok, based on news from MWS (email). Ciccilleju! releases Symbolum 2000. * VkM78 and Ciccilleju! present Symbolum 2000, the soundtrack for http://members.xoom.it/a_design/invitro_v1.zip, the official intro of the Italian Workshop on Videogames. * http://www.traxinspace.com/Music/Songs/Download.asp?SongID=34765 Posted by Adok, based on news from Ciccilleju! (email). Tempo releases a new musicdisk. * There are new releases by Tempo, especially worth checking out is the musicdisk by Mr. Blue (10 mbytes to download though). * http://tempomusic.cjb.net/ Posted by Adok, based on news from Keskitalo (email). 100%. * They've launched a new homepage with an own domain at http://www.1oo-percent.de/. * There you can get their asciis and mods. Posted by Ghandy, slightly extended by Adok. Area51. * The new AREA51 website is now online! If you want to browse there, jump to: http://www.a51krew.demon.co.uk * Any BEYOND THE FRONTIER infomation (diskmag) will now be available at the main A51 site. Posted by Ghandy. Lizardking. * The homepage of the wellknown oldskool musician LIZARDKING was heavily updated. Watch the changes at: http://www.itv.se/~a1055/ * Also, the homepage of his band project together with D-LUXE, Fashion8 is under way. http://www.fashion8.scene.org Posted by Ghandy, slightly edited by Adok. . :........................................................................ .. Announcement ......................................................... : After 3 months of coding, the long awaited 3rd Music Disk by LESS Music Productions "HEXOLOGY" is finally released.. . Late nights, red eyes and headaches have been endured to finally bring you the first installment of our latest MusicDisk. Both volumes bring together our various international artists' tracking & music skills, to give you an aural ride through our minds! The second volume of HEXOLOGY will be relased later on this year. but for now atleast you have access to the first volume. !nfo =--- Coded in Visual Basic, HTML and Java Features: ==--------- # New GUI Interface. # BASS Engine now used. # Artist/Song info screen # Artist ICQ alert. # Java effects to enhance apperance. # CPU usage indicator # Config Screen # Volume Control DownLoad: :::-------+ http://www.ukscene.org/lmp/programs/disks/lmp-hex_1.exe +--_or visit LMP's Website_--+ http://listen.to/l.m.p -SoLoRiZe/LMP Main Organiser/Co-Founder . :........................................................................ .. Articles ............................................................. : The Present of the Scene Keskitalo / tempo.pkbrp We're all in the Internet now. We live with our (mostly) right hand pleasantly resting over our mouse, which we delicately move around inside a little range and cheerfully click a button every now and then. Even sometimes, we might (reluctantly) resort to our nearly forgotten keyboard (hey you can write with it? I thought it was a game controller!), perhaps typing in some configuration or something equally boring and troublesome.. or we might curse as we want to check out a site which we've forgotten to add on our hotlists or to which we can find no link from anywhere thinkable. We log on our favourite portal and the flow of information fills our heads. And we wave our mice. If someone asked (well (s)he doesn't) why Adok's editorials in Huginews issues #24, #25 and #26 don't yield any public concern or feedback, I certainly wouldn't have a straight answer. I, for a chance, stumbled across an open issue of Hugi #11, where Adok discussed the same topics as in these Huginews editorials: sense of making demos or having demoscenes, and the point of producing writings to a well-receiving but non-responding audience. For the latter, I only have some thoughts which I'm in trouble trying to find words for. It might be, that a regular newsletter, for instance, is not personal enough to motivate into responding (although even a little respond is good. This mail, by the way, started as such little response but seems I've got carried far away), although diskmags spreading through mailswapping is a completely different matter.. I haven't been there swapping, I couldn't really know so I'm just making a guess. Also, the Internet gives as a near real-time scene, which in its easiness might result in something like described in the first lines of this mail. Newsletters and diskmags are mostly a product to their consumers, and this is the attitude of the consumers, it seems.. The other topic. I understand what Adok is talking about and I find it interesting, that someone not into scene has been working so hard to produce something for it to consume. Fascination towards e-mags I too share, and since there are strong traditions in demoscene for them it fits to cover it's issues since of all its potential. Anyway, what I'm interested in, is what subjects would Adok like to cover in Hugi, whether Hugi would have a new demoscene/Huginews main editor and these sort of things. Something completely new coming up in horizon? Well, live long and prosper. Keskitalo / tempo.pkbrp Looking back on the PC Diskmags Scene (A kind of an answer.) The diskmag scene on the PC is undergoing very positive developments. Tons of new mags have been released recently: for example, OurPlace, a music e-mag with a Visual Basic based engine, 7Zone, a mag from the Commonwealth of Independent Nations, of course in Russian language, and Planet, a Polish chartsmag with an editorial in English language. In Planet, Hugi is on the 5th place. The first four places are held by local Polish zines, in Polish language, made by Polish people for their fellow countrymen. So I conclude that the local diskmag scene is still flourishing in some countries. Ah, how I love writing such articles! I've done this many times, perhaps too often. I always spread propaganda about the glory of the diskmag scene to motivate people to write articles for Hugi and to support other mags as well or create new ones, simply for me to have something to read. Someone I know recently told me that in his opinion, we often you create things just to be able to consume things that are not created by anyone else. Maybe it was for this reason that I persisted in making Hugi: I loved diskmags, but there were only a handful, and the ones that came out more or less regularly had little and not overly exciting contents. I wanted to re-establish the glory of the diskmag scene at the time of Imphobia, or go even further: to create a magazine culture in the PC scene that had never been seen before. It was never on my mind to rule the PC diskmag scene with Hugi as a monopolist; I simply wanted to motivate other people to produce what I - and certainly others, too - enjoyed so much: diskmags. Now I have a different view on this issue. The quality of diskmags in general has improved, especially technically, but I'm no longer really fascinated by them. They are pervaded by constant, monotonous topics, such as "Is the scene dead?", OS warfares, mag-wars. Sure, there are also mags like Shine that try to bring some new ideas into the article business, by dealing with more interesting themes like movies and ducks, but frankly I find that they are dealt with in a rather trivial way. In fact I'm not really interested in movies at all. Only an in-depth making-of of a technically outstanding movie might catch my attention. The ducks were dealt with in a humoristic way in Shine, which one could perhaps find entertaining if one has nothing else to do. But still, I find the stories in professional paper magazines more fascinating; they are both interesting and fun to read, with the chance of learning something new. Their quality is simply so high that hardly any article in a diskmag can compete with them. Regarding the scene, portal sites such as Orange Juice and CFXweb are now my major source of information. They do not contain long, well written articles, but lots of news snippets and open letters, updated daily, if not more often. Browsing these sites once a day is more than enough to keep me informed on what's new and hot in the scene. Especially Orange Juice really deserves its attribute "the demoscene information center" now, and it even has a pleasant design. Sure, you won't get all information this way either. Some of the most interesting news can still be derived only straight from the horse's mouth - by talking to the people. But the news corners in diskmags have finally lost their importance due to the recent rise in quality of the scene-related websites. So what else should diskmags offer? Discussions are unsuitable: newsgroups are continuously accessibile and thus easily superior to any diskmag-based approach. Most of the discussions held in diskmags are, in fact, regarded as slow and stringy by the readers. As TAD put it, it's like playing chess with three moves per month. No news, no discussions - fine. What are diskmags for then? Long reports about groups, their productions, parties, and especially interesting cases (like the Jay Newingham and the DJ Isabelle rips), where a lot of research is required. In other words: for journalistic efforts. The advantages of diskmags are their abundance of space and off-line access, which saves phone costs. Moreover, diskmags can contain tutorials with examples, in the areas of coding, graphics, music, but also on any other subject. There are also good, structured and cataloged sites for these things, like flipcode.com, which are definitely more useful if you are looking for an answer to a certain question. Still, it's a nice goody to have tutorials in a diskmag, especially such which deal with new, unprecedented matters, in other words: not something the reader would be looking for, but something that he would be pleased with when accidentially stumbled across accidentially. An example of such a "goody" is the article in Imphobia 12 about how to display high-res black-and-white graphics in text mode by manipulating some VGA registers. This isn't something you'd be looking for, because there are far easier methods to display high-res graphics. But still, this article caught my attention, and I found it interesting and worth experimenting with the ideas back in 1996. Non-scene articles would also be a really nice addition. Sure, I know that political articles in a diskmag will never have the quality of a commercial magazine, unless a professional journalist happened to decide that contributing to a diskmag in his spare time would be fun. But still it is interesting to read other people's opinion on topics such as genetic engeneering, water shortages, overpopulation and the danger of China's ambitions to become a superpower. You may say: "Go to a newsgroup!", but this is not quite the same, because an article in a diskmag requires (or should require) longer thinking and more careful selection of words than posting a short thought to a forum (unless you are experienced enough to write as spontaneously as I'm doing now and your text still doesn't end up in a mess - okay, I should not have written this, as certain people now have another reason to call me narcistic *laugh*). I'd also be interested in learning what else bothers sceners apart from their hobby, which knowledge they have, which fears, which dreams. This all could be covered in a diskmag, and this is what a diskmag is most suitable for. I reckon these were the most important thoughts I finally wanted to reveal to the public in an article. Enjoy reading the others! Adok/Hugi - 13 Jun 2000 . :........................................................................ .. 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