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!: editorial :
So here we are. First issue of Demojournal when PS is
taking a vacation. Of course I had all these cool ideas
what I could do during these few weeks when Im at charge
but now its already late Saturday evening and I have to
admit I havent done anything. : So I leave the promised
Dreamhack party report for the next issue but we still have
unofficial results and a couple of reviews of the Dreamhack
prods. Okay, enough talking - enjoy.
melwyn
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!: demonews :
Sunray 1999 will be released on Solstice day 22nd december
It is planned to contain small reviews of almost all productions of
all demoparties of 1999 plus all of 99 released music at all major
scene music labels.
This is not a We need your help to do it message, this is a We ARE
doing it, do You want to contribute or help in any way?
Any 1999 demoparty reports are welcome
Any 1999 production review+0/20 ratings are welcome
Your votes at http://sunray.planet-d.net are welcome
I hope everyone active on 99 will vote
This is not a diskmag, this is a review mag of all 1999 demoscene
productions.
ps
Slyde from Blasphemy has joined Sunflower.
Sunflower has now also a website, designed by Antony/Periscope.
Visit the site at: http://sunflower.opengl.org.pl
Theres still some to submit votes for next issue of Pain.
Please vote at http://pain.planet-d.net/vote/vote.php3
And if youre not done with voting, Doose charts are back
online at http://www.doose.dk. First charts will be
released after 100 people have voted.
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!: party on! :
starts !! ends !! location !! name !! contact !
Nov 04 - Nov 07, 1999 Sweden Dreamhack 99 http://www.dreamhack.org
Nov 05 - Nov 07, 1999 Argentina The Flash 99 http://www.theflashparty.com.ar/
Nov 13 - Nov 15, 1999 Hungary Conference 3000 http://hp.pardey.org/c3000
Nov 19 - Nov 21, 1999 Germany Breed 99 http://www.alienpub.com/breed/99
Nov ?? - Nov ??, 1999 Germany Cologne Conf. 99 http://www.academicus.de/cc98
! present time !
Dec 11 - Dec 12, 1999 Slovenia Abort 99 http://www.stjost.org/abort99
Dec 27 - Dec 28, 1999 Romania Dracula 99
Dec 27 - Dec 30, 1999 Denmark The Party 9 http://www.theparty.dk
Jan 21 - Jan 23, 2000 Finland Elevator 3 http://www.elevator.labra.com
Mar 10 - Mar 12, 2000 Holland Ambience 2000 http://www.ambience.nl
Mar 31 - Apr 02, 2000 Finland Rendezvous 01 http://rendezvous.stc.cx
Apr 19 - Apr 23, 2000 Norway The Gathering 1900 http://www.gathering.org
May 06 - May 07, 2000 Russia Parodox 2000 http://eltes.info-don.ru/kirr
May 26 - May 28, 2000 Germany Radwar Party 2000 http://www.radwar.com
May ?? - May ??, 2000 Germany Dialogos 2000 http://www.dialogos.cc/
Jul 14 - Jul 16, 2000 Belgium Inscene 2000 http://www.inscene.org
Aug ?? - Aug ??, 2000 Poland Gravity 2000 neuroup@agravedict.art.pl
Nov ?? - Nov ??, 2000 France Millenium Party 2K
??? ?? - ??? ??, 2000 USA Bang! 2000 http://www.scene.org/bang!
??? ?? - ??? ??, 2000 Australia Coven 2000 http://www.coven2000.org
Dec 13 - Dec 15, 2000 Holland ST News ICCC 2000 http://www.scriba.org/stnicc2000
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!: weekly :
This week! Ive been too lazy to do just about anything.
! interview !
*** Now talking in demojournal
*** virne has joined demojournal
melwyn okay. so first of all. tell us about yourself.
virne i am still jani of lainesalo. also known as virne of koma.
22 years old student of mediastuffshit in finland.
coder, designer, graphician, video editor, all that.
melwyn so we could start from the history.. when coma was born,
where you with from the beginning?
virne nope..
my friends had nice little crack/cheat/trainer/demo
group called Dante in 93.
melwyn and...?
virne i joined them because i was only one who had Gravis
Ultrasound card.. so ofcourse i could do a Gravis Ultrasound
card.. so ofcourse i could do a modplayer for them.
melwyn hehehe. sounds like a good reason to me. :
virne but Dante died and boys formed C.O.M.A.
i hated name C.O.M.A. and they had no good ideas and no one
who did something
melwyn so what does C.O.M.A actually stand for?
virne talented people but nobody did do anything final
Community Of Moral Advancement
Summer 94 we had meeting and i was there too.. not as
a member but a fan of Afri Cola.. our favourite cola.
melwyn haha. :
virne they wanted somebody to do a meeting intro to them and
i said yes
and i did
it is still damn good product
melwyn so meeting intro was your first prod for coma?
virne youngsters should learn
true.. and that was also first coma product.. not counting
trainers etc. actually it was Koma.. we had that K fashion
before Komplex or other K wannabies : editor: i thought
you started to use koma with k not until tg98.
melwyn okay. so when did coma really reached for the all peoples
consciousnessess first time? was it stikmans world?
virne in finland we were famous because we were on many parties
and we knew people that was something i didnt know.
our first bigger hit was actually Rauha Teille demo
with religious thoughts and ideas.. and with bad music.
that made us famous in finland and outside too..
but ofcourse Stickmans World was final breakthrough
melwyn yes, i can surely imagine this assembly people watching
the intro compo hell, i was there, too and seeing all
those toruses and after that suddenly this sticky dancing man
pops up on the screen and takes a beer from the fridge. :
virne yep. that McGurk got that brainstorm of vector figure with
movements from videotape
melwyn but after that came paimen - perhaps still your best known
demo all around the world...
virne there was few nice nice nice demos inbetween but paimen was
a chart hit. all demos very different but still same kooma..
you wanna know the secret why paimen is so good ? secret is
Juhla Pi party was delayed for a week so i got week extra to
tweak everything.. and still made it ready at the party place.
melwyn so what do you mean by chart hit? did it appeal to those
normal demoscene people as well? all i do remember from 96s
it was quite a time for those brave cool new 3d worlds
well, caero was released at tp5 and so on..
virne people liked it.. it was on some charts at the time and
i got fan mail all over the world.
melwyn cool.
virne people liked it because it was so musicvideolike
melwyn and what is the secret behind this you lost by one point
the juhla 3.14 to halcyon thing? :
virne yes because one of our members was too drunk to vote and
halcyonies stole votesheets.. we didnt ofcourse not.. never.
melwyn hehe. i just wonder if they stole our votesheets which
were indeed stolen.
virne it might be us too. stealing of votesheets is great hobby
and part of demoscene culture. when everybody is doing
that its not a problem.
melwyn unfortunately they dont use votedisks and sheets much
anymore at parties..
virne no we just have to steal votekeys and threaten lamers
melwyn okay. many people have claimed that coma demos are not
demos at all but pure video crap. how do you think
about this subject?
virne there we come to the idea of demo
melwyn what is so wrong to make demos with video images included?
virne thats same question that some people dont like lyrics in
demomusic
melwyn hehe. but i think people liked etc. 303 quite much.
virne if idea of demo is to show some new technologies and to
make a good show in given limits then it is totally ok to
use video or whatever in demo if it just fit the limits.
virne 303 wasnt bad but Mina Omistan by Movement and Groos
band rocks more : even though axel had no own videofootage
but thats a different thing
melwyn i have to admit ive never seen mina omistan, or at least
i dont remember anything of it. editor: but the song
rocks, every should have it!
so now we come actually to your favourite demos and stuff..
you like old melon demos much?
virne mina omistan is one of my favorite demos along with 242
by Virtual Dreams/Fairlight :P
melwyn its not too hard to imagine why is that. :
virne well melon stuff.. melon stuff was ok. ninja etc.. but
actually melon was never a big favourite.
melwyn so what was?
virne and 242 was a mainly a joke and ripoff but who cares
Polka Brothers.. that is. and some Complex stuff
ofcourse Spaceballs with State of Art and 9 fingers
melwyn nothing good on pc? oh, thats harsh.
virne Nooon and Orange stuff was good
melwyn i was hoping something like deep psilocybin mix by
cncd but...:
virne ofcourse CNCD .. forgot
psilocybin mix YES.. Closer YEEEES.. Killer.. good
and suprisingly Tint by The Black Lotus.. damn long and
too colorful demo but it somehow rocks.
melwyn okay. not too big deal, who wouldnt forgot the mammoths..
it seems like tint is almost everybodys favourite..
virne CNCD - cemetary of the mammoths.. that was a sign at Groos door
melwyn i think it was their slogan once, too?
virne yep
melwyn okay, enough talk about favourite amiga demos. what about
coders/gfx/musicians. do you have any favourites?
virne coders.. well.. jmagic, saviour, case and juliet, karl..
other old gurus.. i know what coding is so i dont have
that much favourite coders. graphicians.. der piipo atleast,
antony and those. musicians.. groo and other cncd musicians
ofcourse, dune, yolk, moby and so on.
melwyn so it seems like all your heros are from early/mid 90s.
are there no good ones left anymore?
virne there are.. but somehow they seem not that good anymore..
quality is not that high it should be.
gimme some names so i can give striking comment about
melwyn okay. so what do you think about sunflower?
virne group or demo? havent seen demo at all.
melwyn well i mean zilog and wonder by sunflower.
virne zilog was nice.. havent seen wonder. but is that very far
from example Closer ? zilog is very good, but it is just
a demo.. nothing more. stuff people did 4-5 years is mainly
the same we do now.. just more faces and bigger resolution.
melwyn well i dont have tnt either so i cant see wonder at home
ive seen it just once but its like reeeeeally beautiful
morphing 3d stuff and beaaaaautiful pictures by visualize
and looks so damn nice.
melwyn beautiful yes - and im not the right person to say what
if a demo has good plot or design or not.
virne for just looking nice is not enough. visualize forgot to
mention as my favourite graphician is damn good but he
sometimes lack ideas.. just making damn nice pictures.
he was offering me those same old eyes and woman heads when
we had our Jamm R. project.. damn.
melwyn hehe. that must have been dull. :
virne plot is not needed.. or design as people think of design..
i mean there must be some meaning or idea to make it art
and longer lasting than just few times on monitor.
i have problems with that too so i dont blame people
how many demosceners can say that they have had their demos
on art exhibition.. i can. editor: how about katastro.fi?
people outside demoscene cant see anything else in demo that
it is nicelooking.. they forget it after that.
melwyn yes - do like i say - not like i do it by myself... isnt
that a christian philosophy? which reminds me you have used
quite much at least on youre earlier demos like paimen
religious text..
virne not that much as people think.. i still consider myself
as a christian. maybe demos after control came more personal
than just shouting against society. and after that just void..
not much ideas for text. too happy life.
melwyn yes. it has almost became like trademark for coma. you have
weird video stuff and weird texts and thats at least the
thing that people seems to expect from you nowadays...
virne i think people have get bored to it.. me too. though i am
more bored to traditional demos. :
melwyn i can agree with that one. people have got bored with every
kind of demos. nothing is fresh no more.
virne i try make different things.. like you can see from comas
demolist.. stikmans world, 60brw, W45, paimen, virne etc..
i am quite out of ideas to make really different demo..
i have some ideas but i always lack time.
melwyn so is the others copying your style or you merging to
the mainstream which causes this that you havent released
anything really differend lately? or am i talking bullshit now?
virne maybe both and bullshit
melwyn and some people do still differend demos. like moral hard
candy was quite fresh one. though now it seems like
everybodys copying now them aswell.
virne i have seen people using exactly the things i have made
years before.. and not only in demos.. sometimes in tv
i can some stuff thats like straightly from my demos. :P
melwyn horrific. :
virne or then i go just my way too far away from others so people
cant see that i am actually doing different things all the time.
melwyn okay. i think weve talked enough about demos.
virne lets talk about beer and women
melwyn at this point its time for demojournal quiz. :
virne doh
melwyn we can talk about that later
1. so the legendary question which reveals have you read past
articles of demojournal. what is the capital of madagascar?
virne uganda
melwyn no, thats another country. :
virne turenki
melwyn okay. it seems like you should read some more old
demojournals...
virne i never read interviews to this point :
melwyn question 2. what is best party ever youve attended?
virne So many nice but so different parties.. Lets say Juhla 3.14 ..
traditional good nice small party with everything we need.
melwyn sounds nice enough to me,.
3. whats youre favourite colour?
virne forest green
melwyn hmm. yoy wouldnt happen to like typeonegative?
consider this as question 4..
virne not a great fan but they have correct music style
melwyn just becouse they seem to like forest green, too.
blah. enough these stupid questions aswell.
you mentioned early in this interview youve been in
demoscene since 93? what was your first demoparty actually?
virne Aggressive/Depressive autumn 93
i had no money to go to assembly93.. not a reason nowadays
then straight to TheParty93 bustrip
melwyn damn. you were at the first aggressive? now im jealous.
virne yep. you should be
melwyn youve been at tp quite many times, too?
virne dante released their first and last dentro there
melwyn :
virne every year since 93.. i think that makes me finn that holds
record for being at theparty.
melwyn well, since now its 7th time in the row, its quite hard
to break that record..
virne and i am proud of it
The Party is the very best big party in the world.
dont know about the bigger parties in central europe..
but the party is BIG.
melwyn though there has been quite much critism about the party
and their rules..
virne like rule that child porn is not allowed ? evil organizers
indeed.
melwyn like this win/dos/linux democompo division sucks etc.
virne well. rules are rules. they have their rules. and for me
they are not bad rules. but i mean feeling..
they have right attitude
melwyn yep. i think i know what you mean.
but i think this interview is coming to its end. do you
have anything you would like to say yourself?
virne i love myself
melwyn anything else? :
virne lets drink at the party
melwyn now were talking about the real thing!
virne forgot to talk about beer and women.. :
melwyn ok. lets do it shortly.
whats your favourite beer?
virne karhu is alltime favourite
melwyn and yes, we can forget the girls this time.
virne damn girls
melwyn so perhaps its really time to quit this interview.
virne so we can drink beer and talk about girls at the party
this was long and i had still soooo much to say.
melwyn nice talkin to you. i hope someone will get something
about this. :
virne maybe i will tell all about everything in my own website
soon.
melwyn yes, so if you want to see virne live and talk about women
and beer, perhaps come to tp9 and meet him there!
were off now. bye!
virne bye
*** virne has left demojournal virne
! demo !
Could be you by Acid Rain party-version
Found at www.scene.org, in the incoming/Dreamhack directory. By the
time you read this there will probably be a normal directory.
The filename is crime.zip.
3rd place at Dreamhack99 non-accelerated
System requirements:
Fast pentium + MMX, 32 MB ram, 9 MB HD, Vesa 320*200*32, Midas-supported
soundcard. And if youre one of those dinosaurs that do not load a
diskcache when booting under DOS like me, you better start smartdrv.
Otherwise the loading will be awfully slow.
The demo:
Could be you. Not the name of a cheesy love-song yeah my brain makes
strange associations :, but the name of a dark story-demo that handles
about crime, robbery and murder. We watch an intelligent police-database
thats trying to solve a crime by analyzing lots of full-screen video-
fragments that explains the 9MB size. Between those, it shows some
output in the typical way that we are used to see in hi-tech movies:
in little boxes with moving stripe-edges, and letters that appear so
slowly you can follow reading them even when the system can handle
full-screen video :. 2D-effects are sparingly, mostly for transitions:
a dive-into-a-repeating-texture its at the start, if you dont know
what I talk about :, a water+bump effect, TV-snow/lines, horizontal
fades,... Polygon-based 3D is even rarer, but the particle-city looks
great and the voxel-pilar at the end is one of the best Ive seen.
Regarding still pictures, theres a nice AR logo at the start, but the
rest are photos that are barely visible due all the effects on top of
them. The joys of alpha blending grin.
The music is a dark tune that varies a lot, because it follows the
action so well: slow when the system initializes, fast drums when
searching through lots of data, dramatic synths when searching the
killer... Its more a soundtrack than a independent tune, with
soundeffects like cameras zooming and such.
Worth the download ?
Ive a feeling that some people will dislike this demo for two points:
- It has a kind of story, which is a real thrill the first time you
see it, but of course less when you watch it again.
- It has lots of videos, and thats still not done for the die-hard
everything-should-be-realtime sceners.
IMO they dont hurt the demo severely. In the non-video parts, there
is so much going on at the same time that you can watch it several
times, and still notice new things. When watching it the 4th time,
I finally recognized the strange 3D-object in the background during
the DNA-search as a DNA-helix : The design rocks, with original
details like the video start-pause symbols or the greetings hidden
inside the suspects-list editor: well try to find the real hidden
greetings part , and the zipped size is only 5 MB so its not that
bad. The moral at the end doesnt add anything for me, but hey, Im
bad : Recommended for everyone who is not paranoid.
Seven
Note to the editor: Melwyn, youre in Acid Rain, right? And you are
the guy with that big knife in this demo? Yes? Oh, I was just curious,
really. That will not influence my review, of course...
editor: yep. its me. but they never caught me - so beware...
! intro !
Clean by Replay
64k intro at Dreamhack 1999
Programming and Graphics: Whisker
Music: Distance
Clean is the 64kb intro by Replay from Dreamhack 1999. It goes on the
way of their previous works like Catch22 and Clinique. They went even
further in minimalism this time.
The music is a fine chiptune. It has a gloomy feeling, which dominates
the intro, too.
There is a white background throughout the whole intro.
Apart from black and white, there is basically only one color at a
time - a shade of either red or blue.
There are many parts after each other.
By using colors this way, the parts fit together well.
We can see spheres drawn in one single color, but with correct contours
according to 3d intersections a mosaic effect, a julia morpher, 2d
splines and 2d blobs. All of them look very simple, but very fine
indeed. Because of the style of the intro, this mere list of the effects
does not really tell much about the intro itself.
There are some scrolling messages.
By using only the minimal amount of effects, the focus was set on these
messages. Unfortunately, there is no connection or at least I was
unable to find any between, for example, we eat, sleep and disco
and never listen to the blind mans heart... I feel that the concept
is broken this way...
The music fits the video, and the effects are timed to it.
The code is nothing special technically, but there are no bugs or
jerking pixels. There are two versions, 320x240 and 640x480 there
are some minor differences between them, but I think that this can be
put down to the laziness of the coder : The low resolution version
looks ugly because the effects are drawn without filtering.
This type of demos and intros can not be judged objectively.
I personally like this intro, but, in my opinion, one has to be in the
right mood to enjoy it.
gekko
! music !
Around chaos
Heatseeker
www.traxinspace.com
1997
Heatseeker has been announced artist of the month, so I decided
to review a bit older track by him.
It is one of those resonating and synth full goa/trance or
whatever tracks which I use to blow my mind than Im too tired
and need to clean my mind. This one runs for 11 mins and thanks to
high amount of instruments it doesnt become too boring. Compared
to other tracks in this style is this one top production.
That was shitty review! :
childhood friend
tiger
milk.sgic.fi - 48
Tiger is master of ambient music and this track presents it
perfectly. Ethnical influences are mixed into modern music and
form a perfect composition. It could be better, but it is best
ambient track Ive heard during last month. So listen to guitars,
voices and other sounds and float away.
la noche verde
ressu
milk.sgic.fi - 68
One of the best songs ever released under milk label. It has
signs of modern repetitive and minimalistic music mixed with music
ambient. In it is played normal song in french style and changes
impression of it significantly.
This is how should look experimental track - it is still very
enjoyable track and it is also new. It impressed me.
Lull
Serkul
www.mono211.com - Monotonik - 30
A very interesting techno track. You can hear in it influence
from Underworld and Necros and all this is put in a brand new
habit. Even when it is defined as a techno, dont expect that
stupid german kind of drumline, this one is much better. If you
have nothing to do, check this one out.
tryhuk
! question !
question of the week:
why doesnt everyone help you when you need help the most?
Because the attitude and answer is:
Because you ask the wrong question at the wrong time
and about the wrong thing in the wrong place.
And Besides, one is enough? Why Everyone?
- cruxis
because sceners are selfish.
- fred
Because itd mean investing into a dead project. Would you buy shares
of a company that goes bankrupt? Free-market economy is based on the
people you criticize with this question.
- malte
It is just the laws of Murphy! If there is going something bad to
happen, it will happen the worse time!
- optimus/dirty minds
Unability is the case.
- puolikuu
Because all sceners are ugly greasy nerds and stupid
egocentric stupido bastards...and those are only GOOD
qualities.
- jean9
because when you need help the most, can they really tell?
or perhaps they just havent got the answer,or the means to help.
- nogsf
murphys law.
- t.c.p.
! quote !
Nothing but sisterlove at pixel...
lluvia lovely Johanne :
nogsf beautiful anne sister :
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! homepages !
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3g Design..............................http://3gdesign.cjb.net
* Acid Rain..............................http://surf.to/acidrain
Anakata..............................http://www.anakata.art.pl
Astral..............................http://astral.scene-hu.com
Astroidea........................http://astroidea.scene-hu.com
AtomiK....................................http://atomik.ini.hu
Bomb..................................http://bomb.planet-d.net
BlaBla..............................http://blabla.planet-d.net
Blasphemy..............................http://www.blasphemy.dk
Byterapers.....................http://www.byterapers.scene.org
* Calodox.................................http://www.calodox.org
Chrome..............................http://chrome.scene-hu.com
Defacto 2..............................http://www.defacto2.net
Dolops......................... ........http://dolOps.scene.hu
Exceed...........................http://www.inf.bme.hu/exceed
Fobia Design...........................http://www.fd.scene.org
GODS...................................http://www.idf.net/gods
Green.....................................http://green.dyns.cx
Grif........................http://arrabonet.gyor.hu/rattgrif
Haujobb......................................http://haujobb.de
Hellcore............................http://www.hellcore.art.pl
IJSKAST.............................http://www.ijskast.cjb.net
Immortals..............................http://imrt.home.ml.org
Infuse...................................http://www.infuse.org
Just For Fun...........................http://jff.planet-d.net
Kilobite...............................http://kilobite.cjb.net
Kolor................................http://www.kaoz.org/kolor
Kooma.....................................http://www.kooma.com
Label zero.........................http://labelzero.pganet.com
Mandula.........................http://www.inf.bme.hu/mandula
Monar................ftp://amber.bti.pl/pub/scene/distro/monar
Noice.....................................http://www.noice.org
Orion..............................http://orion.arfstudios.org
Quad........................................http://www.quad.nl
Rage........................................http://www.rage.nu
Replay.......................http://www.shine.scene.org/replay
Rhyme................................http://rhyme.scene-hu.com
Skytech team............................http://www.skytech.org
* Sunflower.......................http://sunflower.opengl.org.pl
Suspend......................http://www.optimus.wroc.pl/rappid
Tehdas...................................http://come.to/tehdas
Tesko..........................http://www.scentral.demon.co.uk
The Black Lotus.............................http://www.tbl.org
The Digital Artists Wired Nation.http://digitalartists.cjb.net
The Lost Souls...............................http://www.tls.no
TPOLM.....................................http://www.tpolm.com
Trauma.................................http://sauna.net/trauma
T-Rex.....................................http://www.t-rex.org
Universe..........................http://universe.planet-d.net
Vantage.........................http://www.profzone.ch/vantage
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Aisth.....................................http://www.aisth.com
Blacktron Music Production...........http://www.d-zign.com/bmp
Chill..........................http://www.bentdesign.com/chill
Chiptune...............................http://www.chiptune.com
Da Jormas................................http://www.jormas.com
Five Musicians.........................http://www.fm.scene.org
Fridge...........................http://www.ssmedion.de/fridge
Ignorance.............................http://www.ignorance.org
Intense...........................http://intense.ignorance.org
Jecoute.................................http://jecoute.cjb.net
Kosmic Free Music Foundation.............http://www.kosmic.org
Level-d.................................http://www.level-d.com
Milk.......................................http://milk.sgic.fi
Mah Music.............................http://come.to/mah.music
Maniacs of noise...............http://home.worldonline.nl/mon
MAZs Sound homepage.............http://www.th-zwickau.de/maz
Moplayaz..........................http://ssmedion.de/moplayaz
Mono211.................................http://www.mono211.com
Morbid Minds..............http://www.raveordie.com/morbidminds
Noise................................http://www.noisemusic.org
One Touch Records......................http://otr.planet-d.net
Radical Rhythms.....http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/merrelli/rr
RBi Music.............................htpp://www.rbi-music.com
Ruff Engine................http://members.xoom.com/ruffengine
Sound Devotion................http://sugarbomb.x2o.net/soundev
Soundstate.........................http://listen.to/soundstate
Sunlikamelo-D...........http://www.error-404.com/sunlikamelo-d
Suspect Records........................http://www.tande.com/sr
Tequila........................http://www.defacto2.net/tequila
Tempo................................http://tempomusic.cjb.net
Theralite...........................http://theralite.avalon.hr
Tokyo Dawn Records........................http://tdr.scene.org
UltraBeat.........................http://www.innerverse.com/ub
Vibrants................................http://www.vibrants.dk
People:
3d addict...................http://users.cybercity.dk/bcc5877
Anders Akerheden...............http://hem.passagen.se/andersak
Ari..............................http://www.primenet.com/arie
Attack..............................http://attack.planet-d.net
Balrog.........................http://www.mds.mdh.se/mek98adl
Carlos..............................http://www.nexus.hu/carlos
!Cube......................http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/tlonnber
Dave.............................http://www.come.to/davecorner
DaVinci.................................http://davinci.ice.org
Echo................................http://www.kki.net.pl/echo
Exocet..........................http://jff.planet-d.net/exocet
Flan.............................http://www.error-404.com/flan
Gardner................................http://www.gardner.z.pl
Grabule........................http://members.xoom.com/grabule
Hunz............................http://www.globec.com.au/hunz
HP........................................http://hp.pardey.org
Inferno............................http://inferno.planet-d.net
Jean Nine....................................http://j9.cjb.net
Jimsendu............................http://home.sol.no/ojakobs
Jupiter....................http://members.xoom.com/JupiterCode
Leviathan....................http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/ajcarlso
Los........................http://www.angelfire.com/in/miku305
Mephisto.............................http://www.chez.com/shiva
Mystical................................http://www.mystical.dk
Nekrite.....................................http://move.to/ap0
Nico....................................http://geecs.org/nico
Nino...................http://www.saunalahti.fi/kuusnie/tapsa
Nogsf..............................http://www.saers.com/nogsf
Pow.................................http://home.sol.no/tskara
Rents................................http://newdigital.tsx.org
Rez.................................http://reeeeez.citeweb.net
Rod.................................http://www.inf.bme.hu/rod
Scorpik............................http://scorpik.planet-d.net
Shodan...............................http://shodan.skytech.org
Skal..................................http://skal.planet-d.net
Skaven..........................http://isis.yok.utu.fi/skaven
Sol..................................http://www.icon.fi/solar
Spell.........................http://www.ThePentagon.com/Spell
Splif..............................http://splif.aegis-corp.org
Szoke......................................http://szoke.ini.hu
TheREW..............................http://home.wxs.nl/therew
Traven..............................http://traven.planet-d.net
TS................................http://www2.hawaii.edu/myee
Tuo.....................................http://tuo.skytech.org
Unlock...........................http://www.profzone.ch/unlock
Vivid..................................http://vivid.kosmic.org
Wain.............http://zevs.ifi.ntnu.no/frankwer/gfx/gfx.htm
Warder...............................http://www.dlc.fi/warder
Willbe...................................http://willbe.cjb.net
Yannis...........................http://www.zip.com.au/yannis
Zden....................................http://message.sk/zden
Others:
Arf!Studios..........................http://www.arfstudios.org
Calodox demolinks exchange.....http://calodox.planet-d.net/cde
coders..................................http://coderz.cjb.net
Comic Pirates.........................http://scene-central.com
Demo fanclub........................http://jerware.org/fanclub
Digital Undergrounds.....................http://dug.iscool.net
Doose charts...............................http://www.doose.dk
Dreams2 CD.........................http://nl.scene.org/dreams2
Freax...................http://freax.scene-hu.com/mainmenu.htm
GfxZone.................................http://www.gfxzone.org
Hugi size-compo...............http://home.pages.de/hugi-compo
Orange Juice.........................http://ojuice.citeweb.net
PC-demos explained.....http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained
Pixel...................................http://pixel.scene.org
Scenet....................................http://www.scenet.de
Swiss......................http://www.profzone.ch/vantage/list
TakeOver................................http://www.takeover.nl
Textmode Demo Archive.................http://tmda.planet-d.net
Hungarian scene page...................http://www.scene-hu.com
Trebel...................................http://www.trebel.org
Zen of Tracking.........................http://surf.to/the-imm
Diskmags:
Amber...............................http://amber.bti.pl/dimag
Amnesia...............http://amnesia-dist.future.easyspace.com
Demojournal....................http://demojournal.planet-d.net
Fleur................................http://fleur.scene-hu.com
Heroin...................................http://www.heroin.net
Hugi........................http://home.pages.de/hugidownload
Pain........................,,,,,,....http://pain.planet-d.net
Static Line......................http://www.ic.l7.net/statline
* Sunray..............................http://sunray.planet-d.net
Total Disaster...................http://www.totaldisaster.w.pl
TUHB.......................................http://www.tuhb.org
Ftps:
Amber.......................................ftp://amber.bti.pl
Cyberbox.....................................ftp://cyberbox.de
Flerp............new files listed.......ftp://flerp.scene.hu
Scene.org........new files listed........ftp://ftp.scene.org
Skynet archive.................ftp://acid2.stack.nl/pub/skynet
ACiD2 Archive.............................ftp://acid2.stack.nl
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!: articles :
UnOfficial Dreamhack 99 results
Saying once again that Dreamhack organizing is lame wont hurt them.
Its about two weeks since the party was held and no results or
anything! Damn, all those prods. at Scene Org. are uploaded by
sceners themselves. Since many of you dont know anything about
the results, heres the top 3 from the main compos as I remember
it. Oh, and did I already say that results suck, too? :
Thanks to Steffo for covering some gaps in the results.
Non-accelerated demo
1. Razor 1911: Mindstammer
2. Alpha Millenium Crew
3. Acid Rain: Could Be You
?. Retro AC: Superstar DJ
Accelerated demo
1. ? the winner was a man on whose computer Virne coded Koma demo...
2. Replay: Dun
3. Koma: Ignorence
64k intro
1. Mofo
2. Noice
3. Woorlic: Barbadence Day
?. Aardbei: Cashcow
?. Replay: Clean
Music Wild
1. Steffo
2. ?
3. ?
Music trackered
1. Perra: Elajt
2. ?
3. pUs: Vi brjade hata
GFX pixeled
1. Java
2. Adam
3. ? a lame scan scan scan of a boring woman figure!
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!: end :
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Mirror.............................http://demojournal.scene.hu
Webmaster......Sweeper......................sweeper@horus.ch
Demo-reviewer..Seven.......Stefaan.VanNieuwenhuyze@rug.ac.be
Intro-reviewer.Gekko..........................gekko@scene.hu
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Editor.........Melwyn..........................melwyn@dlc.fi
Ex-editor......Psychic Symphony.....psychicsymphony@clix.pt
!: 66 :: 20 nov 1999 :
editorial
demonews
party on!
weekly
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!: editorial :
So here we are. First issue of Demojournal when PS is
taking a vacation. Of course I had all these cool ideas
what I could do during these few weeks when Im at charge
but now its already late Saturday evening and I have to
admit I havent done anything. : So I leave the promised
Dreamhack party report for the next issue but we still have
unofficial results and a couple of reviews of the Dreamhack
prods. Okay, enough talking - enjoy.
melwyn
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!: demonews :
Sunray 1999 will be released on Solstice day 22nd december
It is planned to contain small reviews of almost all productions of
all demoparties of 1999 plus all of 99 released music at all major
scene music labels.
This is not a We need your help to do it message, this is a We ARE
doing it, do You want to contribute or help in any way?
Any 1999 demoparty reports are welcome
Any 1999 production review+0/20 ratings are welcome
Your votes at http://sunray.planet-d.net are welcome
I hope everyone active on 99 will vote
This is not a diskmag, this is a review mag of all 1999 demoscene
productions.
ps
Slyde from Blasphemy has joined Sunflower.
Sunflower has now also a website, designed by Antony/Periscope.
Visit the site at: http://sunflower.opengl.org.pl
Theres still some to submit votes for next issue of Pain.
Please vote at http://pain.planet-d.net/vote/vote.php3
And if youre not done with voting, Doose charts are back
online at http://www.doose.dk. First charts will be
released after 100 people have voted.
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!: party on! :
starts !! ends !! location !! name !! contact !
Nov 04 - Nov 07, 1999 Sweden Dreamhack 99 http://www.dreamhack.org
Nov 05 - Nov 07, 1999 Argentina The Flash 99 http://www.theflashparty.com.ar/
Nov 13 - Nov 15, 1999 Hungary Conference 3000 http://hp.pardey.org/c3000
Nov 19 - Nov 21, 1999 Germany Breed 99 http://www.alienpub.com/breed/99
Nov ?? - Nov ??, 1999 Germany Cologne Conf. 99 http://www.academicus.de/cc98
! present time !
Dec 11 - Dec 12, 1999 Slovenia Abort 99 http://www.stjost.org/abort99
Dec 27 - Dec 28, 1999 Romania Dracula 99
Dec 27 - Dec 30, 1999 Denmark The Party 9 http://www.theparty.dk
Jan 21 - Jan 23, 2000 Finland Elevator 3 http://www.elevator.labra.com
Mar 10 - Mar 12, 2000 Holland Ambience 2000 http://www.ambience.nl
Mar 31 - Apr 02, 2000 Finland Rendezvous 01 http://rendezvous.stc.cx
Apr 19 - Apr 23, 2000 Norway The Gathering 1900 http://www.gathering.org
May 06 - May 07, 2000 Russia Parodox 2000 http://eltes.info-don.ru/kirr
May 26 - May 28, 2000 Germany Radwar Party 2000 http://www.radwar.com
May ?? - May ??, 2000 Germany Dialogos 2000 http://www.dialogos.cc/
Jul 14 - Jul 16, 2000 Belgium Inscene 2000 http://www.inscene.org
Aug ?? - Aug ??, 2000 Poland Gravity 2000 neuroup@agravedict.art.pl
Nov ?? - Nov ??, 2000 France Millenium Party 2K
??? ?? - ??? ??, 2000 USA Bang! 2000 http://www.scene.org/bang!
??? ?? - ??? ??, 2000 Australia Coven 2000 http://www.coven2000.org
Dec 13 - Dec 15, 2000 Holland ST News ICCC 2000 http://www.scriba.org/stnicc2000
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!: weekly :
This week! Ive been too lazy to do just about anything.
! interview !
*** Now talking in demojournal
*** virne has joined demojournal
melwyn okay. so first of all. tell us about yourself.
virne i am still jani of lainesalo. also known as virne of koma.
22 years old student of mediastuffshit in finland.
coder, designer, graphician, video editor, all that.
melwyn so we could start from the history.. when coma was born,
where you with from the beginning?
virne nope..
my friends had nice little crack/cheat/trainer/demo
group called Dante in 93.
melwyn and...?
virne i joined them because i was only one who had Gravis
Ultrasound card.. so ofcourse i could do a Gravis Ultrasound
card.. so ofcourse i could do a modplayer for them.
melwyn hehehe. sounds like a good reason to me. :
virne but Dante died and boys formed C.O.M.A.
i hated name C.O.M.A. and they had no good ideas and no one
who did something
melwyn so what does C.O.M.A actually stand for?
virne talented people but nobody did do anything final
Community Of Moral Advancement
Summer 94 we had meeting and i was there too.. not as
a member but a fan of Afri Cola.. our favourite cola.
melwyn haha. :
virne they wanted somebody to do a meeting intro to them and
i said yes
and i did
it is still damn good product
melwyn so meeting intro was your first prod for coma?
virne youngsters should learn
true.. and that was also first coma product.. not counting
trainers etc. actually it was Koma.. we had that K fashion
before Komplex or other K wannabies : editor: i thought
you started to use koma with k not until tg98.
melwyn okay. so when did coma really reached for the all peoples
consciousnessess first time? was it stikmans world?
virne in finland we were famous because we were on many parties
and we knew people that was something i didnt know.
our first bigger hit was actually Rauha Teille demo
with religious thoughts and ideas.. and with bad music.
that made us famous in finland and outside too..
but ofcourse Stickmans World was final breakthrough
melwyn yes, i can surely imagine this assembly people watching
the intro compo hell, i was there, too and seeing all
those toruses and after that suddenly this sticky dancing man
pops up on the screen and takes a beer from the fridge. :
virne yep. that McGurk got that brainstorm of vector figure with
movements from videotape
melwyn but after that came paimen - perhaps still your best known
demo all around the world...
virne there was few nice nice nice demos inbetween but paimen was
a chart hit. all demos very different but still same kooma..
you wanna know the secret why paimen is so good ? secret is
Juhla Pi party was delayed for a week so i got week extra to
tweak everything.. and still made it ready at the party place.
melwyn so what do you mean by chart hit? did it appeal to those
normal demoscene people as well? all i do remember from 96s
it was quite a time for those brave cool new 3d worlds
well, caero was released at tp5 and so on..
virne people liked it.. it was on some charts at the time and
i got fan mail all over the world.
melwyn cool.
virne people liked it because it was so musicvideolike
melwyn and what is the secret behind this you lost by one point
the juhla 3.14 to halcyon thing? :
virne yes because one of our members was too drunk to vote and
halcyonies stole votesheets.. we didnt ofcourse not.. never.
melwyn hehe. i just wonder if they stole our votesheets which
were indeed stolen.
virne it might be us too. stealing of votesheets is great hobby
and part of demoscene culture. when everybody is doing
that its not a problem.
melwyn unfortunately they dont use votedisks and sheets much
anymore at parties..
virne no we just have to steal votekeys and threaten lamers
melwyn okay. many people have claimed that coma demos are not
demos at all but pure video crap. how do you think
about this subject?
virne there we come to the idea of demo
melwyn what is so wrong to make demos with video images included?
virne thats same question that some people dont like lyrics in
demomusic
melwyn hehe. but i think people liked etc. 303 quite much.
virne if idea of demo is to show some new technologies and to
make a good show in given limits then it is totally ok to
use video or whatever in demo if it just fit the limits.
virne 303 wasnt bad but Mina Omistan by Movement and Groos
band rocks more : even though axel had no own videofootage
but thats a different thing
melwyn i have to admit ive never seen mina omistan, or at least
i dont remember anything of it. editor: but the song
rocks, every should have it!
so now we come actually to your favourite demos and stuff..
you like old melon demos much?
virne mina omistan is one of my favorite demos along with 242
by Virtual Dreams/Fairlight :P
melwyn its not too hard to imagine why is that. :
virne well melon stuff.. melon stuff was ok. ninja etc.. but
actually melon was never a big favourite.
melwyn so what was?
virne and 242 was a mainly a joke and ripoff but who cares
Polka Brothers.. that is. and some Complex stuff
ofcourse Spaceballs with State of Art and 9 fingers
melwyn nothing good on pc? oh, thats harsh.
virne Nooon and Orange stuff was good
melwyn i was hoping something like deep psilocybin mix by
cncd but...:
virne ofcourse CNCD .. forgot
psilocybin mix YES.. Closer YEEEES.. Killer.. good
and suprisingly Tint by The Black Lotus.. damn long and
too colorful demo but it somehow rocks.
melwyn okay. not too big deal, who wouldnt forgot the mammoths..
it seems like tint is almost everybodys favourite..
virne CNCD - cemetary of the mammoths.. that was a sign at Groos door
melwyn i think it was their slogan once, too?
virne yep
melwyn okay, enough talk about favourite amiga demos. what about
coders/gfx/musicians. do you have any favourites?
virne coders.. well.. jmagic, saviour, case and juliet, karl..
other old gurus.. i know what coding is so i dont have
that much favourite coders. graphicians.. der piipo atleast,
antony and those. musicians.. groo and other cncd musicians
ofcourse, dune, yolk, moby and so on.
melwyn so it seems like all your heros are from early/mid 90s.
are there no good ones left anymore?
virne there are.. but somehow they seem not that good anymore..
quality is not that high it should be.
gimme some names so i can give striking comment about
melwyn okay. so what do you think about sunflower?
virne group or demo? havent seen demo at all.
melwyn well i mean zilog and wonder by sunflower.
virne zilog was nice.. havent seen wonder. but is that very far
from example Closer ? zilog is very good, but it is just
a demo.. nothing more. stuff people did 4-5 years is mainly
the same we do now.. just more faces and bigger resolution.
melwyn well i dont have tnt either so i cant see wonder at home
ive seen it just once but its like reeeeeally beautiful
morphing 3d stuff and beaaaaautiful pictures by visualize
and looks so damn nice.
melwyn beautiful yes - and im not the right person to say what
if a demo has good plot or design or not.
virne for just looking nice is not enough. visualize forgot to
mention as my favourite graphician is damn good but he
sometimes lack ideas.. just making damn nice pictures.
he was offering me those same old eyes and woman heads when
we had our Jamm R. project.. damn.
melwyn hehe. that must have been dull. :
virne plot is not needed.. or design as people think of design..
i mean there must be some meaning or idea to make it art
and longer lasting than just few times on monitor.
i have problems with that too so i dont blame people
how many demosceners can say that they have had their demos
on art exhibition.. i can. editor: how about katastro.fi?
people outside demoscene cant see anything else in demo that
it is nicelooking.. they forget it after that.
melwyn yes - do like i say - not like i do it by myself... isnt
that a christian philosophy? which reminds me you have used
quite much at least on youre earlier demos like paimen
religious text..
virne not that much as people think.. i still consider myself
as a christian. maybe demos after control came more personal
than just shouting against society. and after that just void..
not much ideas for text. too happy life.
melwyn yes. it has almost became like trademark for coma. you have
weird video stuff and weird texts and thats at least the
thing that people seems to expect from you nowadays...
virne i think people have get bored to it.. me too. though i am
more bored to traditional demos. :
melwyn i can agree with that one. people have got bored with every
kind of demos. nothing is fresh no more.
virne i try make different things.. like you can see from comas
demolist.. stikmans world, 60brw, W45, paimen, virne etc..
i am quite out of ideas to make really different demo..
i have some ideas but i always lack time.
melwyn so is the others copying your style or you merging to
the mainstream which causes this that you havent released
anything really differend lately? or am i talking bullshit now?
virne maybe both and bullshit
melwyn and some people do still differend demos. like moral hard
candy was quite fresh one. though now it seems like
everybodys copying now them aswell.
virne i have seen people using exactly the things i have made
years before.. and not only in demos.. sometimes in tv
i can some stuff thats like straightly from my demos. :P
melwyn horrific. :
virne or then i go just my way too far away from others so people
cant see that i am actually doing different things all the time.
melwyn okay. i think weve talked enough about demos.
virne lets talk about beer and women
melwyn at this point its time for demojournal quiz. :
virne doh
melwyn we can talk about that later
1. so the legendary question which reveals have you read past
articles of demojournal. what is the capital of madagascar?
virne uganda
melwyn no, thats another country. :
virne turenki
melwyn okay. it seems like you should read some more old
demojournals...
virne i never read interviews to this point :
melwyn question 2. what is best party ever youve attended?
virne So many nice but so different parties.. Lets say Juhla 3.14 ..
traditional good nice small party with everything we need.
melwyn sounds nice enough to me,.
3. whats youre favourite colour?
virne forest green
melwyn hmm. yoy wouldnt happen to like typeonegative?
consider this as question 4..
virne not a great fan but they have correct music style
melwyn just becouse they seem to like forest green, too.
blah. enough these stupid questions aswell.
you mentioned early in this interview youve been in
demoscene since 93? what was your first demoparty actually?
virne Aggressive/Depressive autumn 93
i had no money to go to assembly93.. not a reason nowadays
then straight to TheParty93 bustrip
melwyn damn. you were at the first aggressive? now im jealous.
virne yep. you should be
melwyn youve been at tp quite many times, too?
virne dante released their first and last dentro there
melwyn :
virne every year since 93.. i think that makes me finn that holds
record for being at theparty.
melwyn well, since now its 7th time in the row, its quite hard
to break that record..
virne and i am proud of it
The Party is the very best big party in the world.
dont know about the bigger parties in central europe..
but the party is BIG.
melwyn though there has been quite much critism about the party
and their rules..
virne like rule that child porn is not allowed ? evil organizers
indeed.
melwyn like this win/dos/linux democompo division sucks etc.
virne well. rules are rules. they have their rules. and for me
they are not bad rules. but i mean feeling..
they have right attitude
melwyn yep. i think i know what you mean.
but i think this interview is coming to its end. do you
have anything you would like to say yourself?
virne i love myself
melwyn anything else? :
virne lets drink at the party
melwyn now were talking about the real thing!
virne forgot to talk about beer and women.. :
melwyn ok. lets do it shortly.
whats your favourite beer?
virne karhu is alltime favourite
melwyn and yes, we can forget the girls this time.
virne damn girls
melwyn so perhaps its really time to quit this interview.
virne so we can drink beer and talk about girls at the party
this was long and i had still soooo much to say.
melwyn nice talkin to you. i hope someone will get something
about this. :
virne maybe i will tell all about everything in my own website
soon.
melwyn yes, so if you want to see virne live and talk about women
and beer, perhaps come to tp9 and meet him there!
were off now. bye!
virne bye
*** virne has left demojournal virne
! demo !
Could be you by Acid Rain party-version
Found at www.scene.org, in the incoming/Dreamhack directory. By the
time you read this there will probably be a normal directory.
The filename is crime.zip.
3rd place at Dreamhack99 non-accelerated
System requirements:
Fast pentium + MMX, 32 MB ram, 9 MB HD, Vesa 320*200*32, Midas-supported
soundcard. And if youre one of those dinosaurs that do not load a
diskcache when booting under DOS like me, you better start smartdrv.
Otherwise the loading will be awfully slow.
The demo:
Could be you. Not the name of a cheesy love-song yeah my brain makes
strange associations :, but the name of a dark story-demo that handles
about crime, robbery and murder. We watch an intelligent police-database
thats trying to solve a crime by analyzing lots of full-screen video-
fragments that explains the 9MB size. Between those, it shows some
output in the typical way that we are used to see in hi-tech movies:
in little boxes with moving stripe-edges, and letters that appear so
slowly you can follow reading them even when the system can handle
full-screen video :. 2D-effects are sparingly, mostly for transitions:
a dive-into-a-repeating-texture its at the start, if you dont know
what I talk about :, a water+bump effect, TV-snow/lines, horizontal
fades,... Polygon-based 3D is even rarer, but the particle-city looks
great and the voxel-pilar at the end is one of the best Ive seen.
Regarding still pictures, theres a nice AR logo at the start, but the
rest are photos that are barely visible due all the effects on top of
them. The joys of alpha blending grin.
The music is a dark tune that varies a lot, because it follows the
action so well: slow when the system initializes, fast drums when
searching through lots of data, dramatic synths when searching the
killer... Its more a soundtrack than a independent tune, with
soundeffects like cameras zooming and such.
Worth the download ?
Ive a feeling that some people will dislike this demo for two points:
- It has a kind of story, which is a real thrill the first time you
see it, but of course less when you watch it again.
- It has lots of videos, and thats still not done for the die-hard
everything-should-be-realtime sceners.
IMO they dont hurt the demo severely. In the non-video parts, there
is so much going on at the same time that you can watch it several
times, and still notice new things. When watching it the 4th time,
I finally recognized the strange 3D-object in the background during
the DNA-search as a DNA-helix : The design rocks, with original
details like the video start-pause symbols or the greetings hidden
inside the suspects-list editor: well try to find the real hidden
greetings part , and the zipped size is only 5 MB so its not that
bad. The moral at the end doesnt add anything for me, but hey, Im
bad : Recommended for everyone who is not paranoid.
Seven
Note to the editor: Melwyn, youre in Acid Rain, right? And you are
the guy with that big knife in this demo? Yes? Oh, I was just curious,
really. That will not influence my review, of course...
editor: yep. its me. but they never caught me - so beware...
! intro !
Clean by Replay
64k intro at Dreamhack 1999
Programming and Graphics: Whisker
Music: Distance
Clean is the 64kb intro by Replay from Dreamhack 1999. It goes on the
way of their previous works like Catch22 and Clinique. They went even
further in minimalism this time.
The music is a fine chiptune. It has a gloomy feeling, which dominates
the intro, too.
There is a white background throughout the whole intro.
Apart from black and white, there is basically only one color at a
time - a shade of either red or blue.
There are many parts after each other.
By using colors this way, the parts fit together well.
We can see spheres drawn in one single color, but with correct contours
according to 3d intersections a mosaic effect, a julia morpher, 2d
splines and 2d blobs. All of them look very simple, but very fine
indeed. Because of the style of the intro, this mere list of the effects
does not really tell much about the intro itself.
There are some scrolling messages.
By using only the minimal amount of effects, the focus was set on these
messages. Unfortunately, there is no connection or at least I was
unable to find any between, for example, we eat, sleep and disco
and never listen to the blind mans heart... I feel that the concept
is broken this way...
The music fits the video, and the effects are timed to it.
The code is nothing special technically, but there are no bugs or
jerking pixels. There are two versions, 320x240 and 640x480 there
are some minor differences between them, but I think that this can be
put down to the laziness of the coder : The low resolution version
looks ugly because the effects are drawn without filtering.
This type of demos and intros can not be judged objectively.
I personally like this intro, but, in my opinion, one has to be in the
right mood to enjoy it.
gekko
! music !
Around chaos
Heatseeker
www.traxinspace.com
1997
Heatseeker has been announced artist of the month, so I decided
to review a bit older track by him.
It is one of those resonating and synth full goa/trance or
whatever tracks which I use to blow my mind than Im too tired
and need to clean my mind. This one runs for 11 mins and thanks to
high amount of instruments it doesnt become too boring. Compared
to other tracks in this style is this one top production.
That was shitty review! :
childhood friend
tiger
milk.sgic.fi - 48
Tiger is master of ambient music and this track presents it
perfectly. Ethnical influences are mixed into modern music and
form a perfect composition. It could be better, but it is best
ambient track Ive heard during last month. So listen to guitars,
voices and other sounds and float away.
la noche verde
ressu
milk.sgic.fi - 68
One of the best songs ever released under milk label. It has
signs of modern repetitive and minimalistic music mixed with music
ambient. In it is played normal song in french style and changes
impression of it significantly.
This is how should look experimental track - it is still very
enjoyable track and it is also new. It impressed me.
Lull
Serkul
www.mono211.com - Monotonik - 30
A very interesting techno track. You can hear in it influence
from Underworld and Necros and all this is put in a brand new
habit. Even when it is defined as a techno, dont expect that
stupid german kind of drumline, this one is much better. If you
have nothing to do, check this one out.
tryhuk
! question !
question of the week:
why doesnt everyone help you when you need help the most?
Because the attitude and answer is:
Because you ask the wrong question at the wrong time
and about the wrong thing in the wrong place.
And Besides, one is enough? Why Everyone?
- cruxis
because sceners are selfish.
- fred
Because itd mean investing into a dead project. Would you buy shares
of a company that goes bankrupt? Free-market economy is based on the
people you criticize with this question.
- malte
It is just the laws of Murphy! If there is going something bad to
happen, it will happen the worse time!
- optimus/dirty minds
Unability is the case.
- puolikuu
Because all sceners are ugly greasy nerds and stupid
egocentric stupido bastards...and those are only GOOD
qualities.
- jean9
because when you need help the most, can they really tell?
or perhaps they just havent got the answer,or the means to help.
- nogsf
murphys law.
- t.c.p.
! quote !
Nothing but sisterlove at pixel...
lluvia lovely Johanne :
nogsf beautiful anne sister :
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! homepages !
Groups:
3g Design..............................http://3gdesign.cjb.net
* Acid Rain..............................http://surf.to/acidrain
Anakata..............................http://www.anakata.art.pl
Astral..............................http://astral.scene-hu.com
Astroidea........................http://astroidea.scene-hu.com
AtomiK....................................http://atomik.ini.hu
Bomb..................................http://bomb.planet-d.net
BlaBla..............................http://blabla.planet-d.net
Blasphemy..............................http://www.blasphemy.dk
Byterapers.....................http://www.byterapers.scene.org
* Calodox.................................http://www.calodox.org
Chrome..............................http://chrome.scene-hu.com
Defacto 2..............................http://www.defacto2.net
Dolops......................... ........http://dolOps.scene.hu
Exceed...........................http://www.inf.bme.hu/exceed
Fobia Design...........................http://www.fd.scene.org
GODS...................................http://www.idf.net/gods
Green.....................................http://green.dyns.cx
Grif........................http://arrabonet.gyor.hu/rattgrif
Haujobb......................................http://haujobb.de
Hellcore............................http://www.hellcore.art.pl
IJSKAST.............................http://www.ijskast.cjb.net
Immortals..............................http://imrt.home.ml.org
Infuse...................................http://www.infuse.org
Just For Fun...........................http://jff.planet-d.net
Kilobite...............................http://kilobite.cjb.net
Kolor................................http://www.kaoz.org/kolor
Kooma.....................................http://www.kooma.com
Label zero.........................http://labelzero.pganet.com
Mandula.........................http://www.inf.bme.hu/mandula
Monar................ftp://amber.bti.pl/pub/scene/distro/monar
Noice.....................................http://www.noice.org
Orion..............................http://orion.arfstudios.org
Quad........................................http://www.quad.nl
Rage........................................http://www.rage.nu
Replay.......................http://www.shine.scene.org/replay
Rhyme................................http://rhyme.scene-hu.com
Skytech team............................http://www.skytech.org
* Sunflower.......................http://sunflower.opengl.org.pl
Suspend......................http://www.optimus.wroc.pl/rappid
Tehdas...................................http://come.to/tehdas
Tesko..........................http://www.scentral.demon.co.uk
The Black Lotus.............................http://www.tbl.org
The Digital Artists Wired Nation.http://digitalartists.cjb.net
The Lost Souls...............................http://www.tls.no
TPOLM.....................................http://www.tpolm.com
Trauma.................................http://sauna.net/trauma
T-Rex.....................................http://www.t-rex.org
Universe..........................http://universe.planet-d.net
Vantage.........................http://www.profzone.ch/vantage
Music:
Aisth.....................................http://www.aisth.com
Blacktron Music Production...........http://www.d-zign.com/bmp
Chill..........................http://www.bentdesign.com/chill
Chiptune...............................http://www.chiptune.com
Da Jormas................................http://www.jormas.com
Five Musicians.........................http://www.fm.scene.org
Fridge...........................http://www.ssmedion.de/fridge
Ignorance.............................http://www.ignorance.org
Intense...........................http://intense.ignorance.org
Jecoute.................................http://jecoute.cjb.net
Kosmic Free Music Foundation.............http://www.kosmic.org
Level-d.................................http://www.level-d.com
Milk.......................................http://milk.sgic.fi
Mah Music.............................http://come.to/mah.music
Maniacs of noise...............http://home.worldonline.nl/mon
MAZs Sound homepage.............http://www.th-zwickau.de/maz
Moplayaz..........................http://ssmedion.de/moplayaz
Mono211.................................http://www.mono211.com
Morbid Minds..............http://www.raveordie.com/morbidminds
Noise................................http://www.noisemusic.org
One Touch Records......................http://otr.planet-d.net
Radical Rhythms.....http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/merrelli/rr
RBi Music.............................htpp://www.rbi-music.com
Ruff Engine................http://members.xoom.com/ruffengine
Sound Devotion................http://sugarbomb.x2o.net/soundev
Soundstate.........................http://listen.to/soundstate
Sunlikamelo-D...........http://www.error-404.com/sunlikamelo-d
Suspect Records........................http://www.tande.com/sr
Tequila........................http://www.defacto2.net/tequila
Tempo................................http://tempomusic.cjb.net
Theralite...........................http://theralite.avalon.hr
Tokyo Dawn Records........................http://tdr.scene.org
UltraBeat.........................http://www.innerverse.com/ub
Vibrants................................http://www.vibrants.dk
People:
3d addict...................http://users.cybercity.dk/bcc5877
Anders Akerheden...............http://hem.passagen.se/andersak
Ari..............................http://www.primenet.com/arie
Attack..............................http://attack.planet-d.net
Balrog.........................http://www.mds.mdh.se/mek98adl
Carlos..............................http://www.nexus.hu/carlos
!Cube......................http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/tlonnber
Dave.............................http://www.come.to/davecorner
DaVinci.................................http://davinci.ice.org
Echo................................http://www.kki.net.pl/echo
Exocet..........................http://jff.planet-d.net/exocet
Flan.............................http://www.error-404.com/flan
Gardner................................http://www.gardner.z.pl
Grabule........................http://members.xoom.com/grabule
Hunz............................http://www.globec.com.au/hunz
HP........................................http://hp.pardey.org
Inferno............................http://inferno.planet-d.net
Jean Nine....................................http://j9.cjb.net
Jimsendu............................http://home.sol.no/ojakobs
Jupiter....................http://members.xoom.com/JupiterCode
Leviathan....................http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/ajcarlso
Los........................http://www.angelfire.com/in/miku305
Mephisto.............................http://www.chez.com/shiva
Mystical................................http://www.mystical.dk
Nekrite.....................................http://move.to/ap0
Nico....................................http://geecs.org/nico
Nino...................http://www.saunalahti.fi/kuusnie/tapsa
Nogsf..............................http://www.saers.com/nogsf
Pow.................................http://home.sol.no/tskara
Rents................................http://newdigital.tsx.org
Rez.................................http://reeeeez.citeweb.net
Rod.................................http://www.inf.bme.hu/rod
Scorpik............................http://scorpik.planet-d.net
Shodan...............................http://shodan.skytech.org
Skal..................................http://skal.planet-d.net
Skaven..........................http://isis.yok.utu.fi/skaven
Sol..................................http://www.icon.fi/solar
Spell.........................http://www.ThePentagon.com/Spell
Splif..............................http://splif.aegis-corp.org
Szoke......................................http://szoke.ini.hu
TheREW..............................http://home.wxs.nl/therew
Traven..............................http://traven.planet-d.net
TS................................http://www2.hawaii.edu/myee
Tuo.....................................http://tuo.skytech.org
Unlock...........................http://www.profzone.ch/unlock
Vivid..................................http://vivid.kosmic.org
Wain.............http://zevs.ifi.ntnu.no/frankwer/gfx/gfx.htm
Warder...............................http://www.dlc.fi/warder
Willbe...................................http://willbe.cjb.net
Yannis...........................http://www.zip.com.au/yannis
Zden....................................http://message.sk/zden
Others:
Arf!Studios..........................http://www.arfstudios.org
Calodox demolinks exchange.....http://calodox.planet-d.net/cde
coders..................................http://coderz.cjb.net
Comic Pirates.........................http://scene-central.com
Demo fanclub........................http://jerware.org/fanclub
Digital Undergrounds.....................http://dug.iscool.net
Doose charts...............................http://www.doose.dk
Dreams2 CD.........................http://nl.scene.org/dreams2
Freax...................http://freax.scene-hu.com/mainmenu.htm
GfxZone.................................http://www.gfxzone.org
Hugi size-compo...............http://home.pages.de/hugi-compo
Orange Juice.........................http://ojuice.citeweb.net
PC-demos explained.....http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained
Pixel...................................http://pixel.scene.org
Scenet....................................http://www.scenet.de
Swiss......................http://www.profzone.ch/vantage/list
TakeOver................................http://www.takeover.nl
Textmode Demo Archive.................http://tmda.planet-d.net
Hungarian scene page...................http://www.scene-hu.com
Trebel...................................http://www.trebel.org
Zen of Tracking.........................http://surf.to/the-imm
Diskmags:
Amber...............................http://amber.bti.pl/dimag
Amnesia...............http://amnesia-dist.future.easyspace.com
Demojournal....................http://demojournal.planet-d.net
Fleur................................http://fleur.scene-hu.com
Heroin...................................http://www.heroin.net
Hugi........................http://home.pages.de/hugidownload
Pain........................,,,,,,....http://pain.planet-d.net
Static Line......................http://www.ic.l7.net/statline
* Sunray..............................http://sunray.planet-d.net
Total Disaster...................http://www.totaldisaster.w.pl
TUHB.......................................http://www.tuhb.org
Ftps:
Amber.......................................ftp://amber.bti.pl
Cyberbox.....................................ftp://cyberbox.de
Flerp............new files listed.......ftp://flerp.scene.hu
Scene.org........new files listed........ftp://ftp.scene.org
Skynet archive.................ftp://acid2.stack.nl/pub/skynet
ACiD2 Archive.............................ftp://acid2.stack.nl
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!: articles :
UnOfficial Dreamhack 99 results
Saying once again that Dreamhack organizing is lame wont hurt them.
Its about two weeks since the party was held and no results or
anything! Damn, all those prods. at Scene Org. are uploaded by
sceners themselves. Since many of you dont know anything about
the results, heres the top 3 from the main compos as I remember
it. Oh, and did I already say that results suck, too? :
Thanks to Steffo for covering some gaps in the results.
Non-accelerated demo
1. Razor 1911: Mindstammer
2. Alpha Millenium Crew
3. Acid Rain: Could Be You
?. Retro AC: Superstar DJ
Accelerated demo
1. ? the winner was a man on whose computer Virne coded Koma demo...
2. Replay: Dun
3. Koma: Ignorence
64k intro
1. Mofo
2. Noice
3. Woorlic: Barbadence Day
?. Aardbei: Cashcow
?. Replay: Clean
Music Wild
1. Steffo
2. ?
3. ?
Music trackered
1. Perra: Elajt
2. ?
3. pUs: Vi brjade hata
GFX pixeled
1. Java
2. Adam
3. ? a lame scan scan scan of a boring woman figure!
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