¦ ________\__________| ._____ ________ _ _ \ ._ \ ._ /|____| / \ / // / ./ |/ / |/ _/_| \. \/ \. |________/_______\__| \_/____|_________| _|____| | ____(_| ________ ______| _______ ______ _____ ______. _ _ ___\_ | \ / ____\ |___\_ /_____.\ /__\_ \\ | \ \\ \ \ | \/ \.\ / | _/ /. |/ \ _/ | | /________|_________|__________| \_____|___|\______/__\_____|_____| | |____| ¦ | : : . ?------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - !====:] #55 [:=========================================:] 05 sep 1999 [:======= :---------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - editorial demonews party on! weekly interview - bring it back! demo - intro - sing it back! music - quote - commercial break homepages articles about virhe / mature furk (asm99) - end subscribers 276 - ?------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - !====:] editorial [:=========================================================== :---------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - Oh dear, so many stuff to do and so little will and patience. Maybe next week ill sort things up and start working for a change. ?------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - !====:] demonews [:============================================================ :---------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - Artist of the month August on Trax in Space is Willbe. theralite release #100 - musicdisk by smash featuring code by whizzter/razor1911 graphics by inferno, tmk, argus, markus, xhale, filter, orome, flood. 8 acidjazz/funk/jazz tracks. available now from http://theralite.avalon.hr or ftp.scene.org/pub/music/groups/theralite/1999/tlt_100.zip ftp://pigforce.warande.net/pub/theralite/1999/tlt_100.zip ftp://passion.gimmie.tudelft.net/pub/theralite/1999/tlt_100.zip ftp://flerp.scene.hu/groups/theralite/1999/tlt_100.zip Subject: TLT#101 [ allready :) ] hehe... after the big delay we're back in full effect. so a new release is here allready and also a big one. so no other alternative but to download it. some groovin' disco house from meanwhile uptown (also known to some as mortimer twang) - 8megs in size ftp://pigforce.warande.net/pub/theralite/1999/tlt_101.zip ftp://passiongimmie.tudelft.nl/pub/theralite/1999/tlt_101.zip ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/groups/theralite/1999/tlt_101.zip and a quick realaudio preview for the indecisive ones: http://theralite.avalon.hr/audio/mu-sweet.ram Prob. + Mirko - "Body Rock" [02.35 - 2434k] (mono211.mp3.rel.11) - released on 22/08/99. .supaoldskool.electro.piece.of.vocoded.fun. ftp://ftp.support.nl/pub/mono/mp3/pr-body.mp3 ftp://pigforce.warande.net/pub/mono/mp3/pr-body.mp3 3818919/w - "Nachos Supreme EP" [4 tracks, 15.40, 14.3 meg] (monotonik.mp3.rel.8) - released on 15/08/99. .metamorphosing.quirky.idm.with.soda. "Nachos Supreme" (ep.track1) ftp://ftp.support.nl/pub/mono/mp3/381-nac.mp3 ftp://pigforce.warande.net/pub/mono/mp3/381-nac.mp3 "Ages" (ep.track2) ftp://ftp.support.nl/pub/mono/mp3/381-ages.mp3 ftp://pigforce.warande.net/pub/mono/mp3/381-ages.mp3 "Shift-Break" (ep.track3) ftp://ftp.support.nl/pub/mono/mp3/381-shi.mp3 ftp://pigforce.warande.net/pub/mono/mp3/381-shi.mp3 "Cheshire" (ep.track4) ftp://ftp.support.nl/pub/mono/mp3/381-che.mp3 ftp://pigforce.warande.net/pub/mono/mp3/381-che.mp3 You can find the final of the 1st placed demo at LTP3 Nightfall/Orion at orions site [ed: it requires a 3dcard..] Ladies and Gentlemen! After only a month, another Hugi issue hits the road. Hugi #17 features 1.4 MByte of articles, graphics by Raven/Defacto 2 and Hellfire/Haujobb, and music by Avalanche/Trinity, P-rat and Spin. Among other things, we have a special corner about Assembly '99, a complete Windows coding tutorial and a new digital art/gfx section in this issue. Now available at http://www.hugi.de/ Rumours say Gardner of Anakata is taking over the self proclaimed dead diskmag TRiP! Vantage are organizing a bustrip to Dialogos 99 demoparty. They will pick up people from all over their travel route which starts in Switzerland (Zuerich, Aarau, Bern, Basel) going through France (Mulhouse) to Germany (Karlsruhe, Frankfurt) to Jena. http://www.profzone.ch/vantage/bustrip/ TDR release #121 is out Tokyo Dawn mix 2 / towerx www.tdr.scene.org ?------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - !====:] party on! [:=========================================================== :---------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - starts !=! ends !===! location !===! name !=========! contact !================ Aug 06 - Aug 08, 1999 Finland Assembly '99 http://www.assembly.org Aug 08 1999 Romania Reunion '99 Aug 20 - Aug 22, 1999 Hungary AntIQ'99 http://antiq.scene-hu.com Aug 20 - Aug 22, 1999 Germany Evoke '99 http://kaoz.org/evoke/99/ Aug 21 - Aug 22, 1999 Czech Rep Fiasko '99 http://vyhen.site.cz/fiasko99/ Aug 21 - Aug 24, 1999 France Slach 2 http://www.mygale.org/~myke666 Aug 27 - Aug 29, 1999 France LTP 3 http://ltp.planet-d.net Aug 27 - Aug 29, 1999 Poland Gravity#4 http://www.anadune.optimus.wroc.pl/gravity Sep 03 - Sep 05, 1999 France RTS Party 2000-1 http://RTS-PartY.imag.fr Sep 03 - Sep 05, 1999 Holland Bizzare '99 http://bizzare.nl Sep 05 - Sep 07, 1999 Sweden The Demoparty '99 http://www.demoparty.com =========! present time !====================================================== Sep 16 - Sep 18, 1999 Hungary Rage-Scenest '99 http://scenest.scene-hu.com Sep 30 - Oct 03, 1999 Norway Distance '99 http://www.neutralzone.org/distance/ Sep ?? - Sep ??, 1999 France Central party '99 http://www.chez.com/centralparty/ Oct 01 - Oct 03, 1999 Germany Dialogos '99 http://www.dialogos.cc Oct 09 - Oct 11, 1999 Spain Arroutada Party 7 http://www.arroutada.ddns.org/ Nov 04 - Nov 07, 1999 Sweden Dreamhack '99 http://www.dreamhack.org Nov 05 - Nov 07, 1999 Hungary Conference 3000 Nov ?? - Nov ??, 1999 Germany Cologne Conf. '99 http://www.academicus.de/cc98 ??? ?? - ??? ??, 1999 YugoslaviaScene Strike 4 May 26 - May 28, 2000 Germany Radwar Party 2000 http://www.radwar.com ??? ?? - ??? ??, 2000 USA Bang! 2000 www.scene.org/bang!/ ?------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - !====:] weekly [:============================================================== :---------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - This week! I have been mostly eating... blanche beer =====! interview !============================================================= *strike* I'm just too tired and lazy right now... I'll have a surprise for you next week. =====! demo !================================================================== Myth of Orion by Anaconda (Party-version) Found at www.scene.org 1st place at the Euskal 7 party System requirements: Aha: some info in the file_id.diz: MMX, DOS, no emm386 (XMS is OK), SMARTDRV (did crash without), vesa2.0, SoundBlaster. When you quit with ESC, the player goes crazy sometimes. Further 5.7 MB HD, and (wild guess) a PII with 32 or maybe 64 MB RAM. Yes, heavy, but worth it. The demo: Actually ps has already a review at the moment for the next DJ, but after seeing Myth of Orion, I started reviewing right away. One word: WOW! This, ladies and gentlemen, is a Good Demo. We can even say a Very Good Demo. To start with, my coder-heart rejoices heavily at the sight of the raytracing. No! Not simple spheres and pillars and planes! There are actually Scenes With A Meaning: an oasis in the desert, with trees reflecting in the water, 3 rooms with strange alien machines, ... There are even parts with a clever combination of normal, sharp 3D and shadows calculated with raytracing! Trying to be objective, I must say it is very unsharp raytracing (1 ray for 4*4 pixels) with blur. Still, it's damn impressive. Normal 3D worlds are plenty, with spaceships, spider-like robots, pyramids, the good old face emerging from a wall, and of course those fabulous birds... Not everything is "normal" though, take a look at the flames from the spaceship and the pyramids, or wonder how they made the alien humanoid so smooth (I bet it's some kind of metaball). And yes, as you might have guessed, there IS a theme, that is followed for most of the 8 (yes, eight) minutes the demo takes. I like long demos :) It's not a 3D-only demo, though: some very cool 2D-transitions link the 3D-parts together. Between the space-portal and the destination f.e., there are some WinAmp-like effects, further there is TV-snow, water, interlaced video, little squares eating away one effect and showing another, and an original "sand being blown away"-effect, slowly revealing a picture. Beside the countless textures, there are 5 pictures, most of them hand-drawn. They are fairly good, and hand-drawn pictures are a rarity nowadays, but I think the skulls and the woman-picture doesn't really fit with the theme. At the end, a short video of Anaconda at the party-place is show. Low-quality, but what do you expect of clips in demos ? :) The music: Eight minutes of music, that means either several styles, or a serious boredom-risk. Luckily, it's the first thing here. There is a sample with the name "vangelis.xi", and indeed, in the intro and several slower parts, the music has something vangelis-like: epic, slow melody, impressive percussion going crescendo. At other parts, f.e. in the space-portal, more techno- and rock-samples are used, faster beats and more synthesized leads. But through the variation and different styles, there are two constants: the powerful beats, and a vivid, happy melody (I'm not very happy with the word "happy", but I don't know a better word). I like this a lot. Syncing is at the demo-part level, as usual. There is one thing I'd like to see more in both this and other demos: sound-effects that follow the visuals. It happens only once here: static noise at a TV-snow effect. Imagine a demo with a splash sound at water-effects, roaring engines when a spaceship takes off, the sound of opening and closing doors, etc, just like games have music and sound-effects. But this would probably double the size of the module... Hmm, this is getting off topic. Back to the demo! Worth the download ? Do you dare to ask ? Ok, I'll try to summarize: Myth of Orion is a Very Good "classic" demo: low-res, high-color, much 3D, some 2D, cool transitions, a theme, good code, great music, and enough fresh ideas to make every second of the 8 minutes worthwhile. It's not perfect, it does have some design-errors (like unreadable credits) or effects that are below par (like a tunnel without mipmapping), but everyone who has the hardware should see it at least once. Too bad I have already sent in my votesheet for Hugi 17, or I would radically change a thing or two :) Seven =====! intro !================================================================= *strike* humm... maybe i should plug in my new bought gus and have a go at some old intros.. =====! music !================================================================= Linking worlds Looza www.trd.scene.org #120 This release is really large - 8:20 in 10MB file. Looza introduces this track with ambient sound and during the time changes the style of the tune many times. It moves between ambient, triphop, various styles of dnb and even jazz. For a while I was thinking if I should not call it more tracks in one file - so much it is varying. But all parts are so good connected, that it wouldn't be truth. It's definitely one of the best tdr releases and I was excited when I've heard it for the first time. If you're a fan of this group, it's "must have". For other releases by Looza visit www.hgb-leipzig.de/~ajoscht. Scabrous skivvy scrapings Caitiff scene.org or http://vyhen.site.cz/fiasko99/ Fiasko 99 module section winner When the track started to play, I was thinking "it's like from Mentz". The style is really very similar, the tune is chiefly made of the dark atmospheric background and drums. There is also some melody in the foreground, which is also very good. There was nothing that I would be against in this tune - only one thing. It's that author of the tune hasn't showed more unique and original style. I recommend it to all people who haven't still enough of atmospheric music with lots of drums. -------------------------------------- Here's a small add. to the Assembly music reviews I did for Hugi#17. These two reviewed pieces are place 2 and 3 from MP3 compo. 2. 1697pt. Lätkäjätkät vie mun naiset by Wode Behind this strange name hides a very good guitar tune. It sounds like one of the folk-style guitar tunes with great texts, but here's also the biggest problem. This style of the music often stands on the text - and if you don't understand like I did, it loses a lot of it's atmosphere. Good music, but I would recommend it mainly to the Finnish people (I hope it's Finnish :). 3. 1547pt. box by jugi Even when the selected Genre in ID is Drum & Bass, I would rather call it pop. The drumline is distinct, same with bassline, but above all you'll hear the piano and a very nice woman vocal, which break out of the Drum&Bass genre more to pop. In my opinion are some parts of the tune a bit tense, but overall feeling of this tune is good, mostly because of the piano and the vocals which are really good. Seems like it's 3rd place is rightful. tryhuk =====! quote !================================================================= "a toast to ltp3 afterparty 5!" ?------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - !====:] commercial break! [:=================================================== :---------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - =====! homepages !============================================================= Groups: 3g Design..............................http://3gdesign.cjb.net Anakata..............................http://www.anakata.art.pl Astral..............................http://astral.scene-hu.com Astroidea........................http://astroidea.scene-hu.com AtomiK..............................http://www.extra.hu/atomik 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://calodox.planet-d.net Chrome..............................http://chrome.scene-hu.com Exceed...........................http://www.inf.bme.hu/~exceed 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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 Spell.........................http://www.ThePentagon.com/Spell Splif..............................http://splif.aegis-corp.org Tehdas...................................http://come.to/tehdas TheREW..............................http://home.wxs.nl/~therew Traven..............................http://traven.planet-d.net T-Rex..................................http://www.t-rex.org.ru TS................................http://www2.hawaii.edu/~myee Tuo.....................................http://tuo.skytech.org Vivid..................................http://vivid.kosmic.org Wain.............http://zevs.ifi.ntnu.no/~frankwer/gfx/gfx.htm Willbe...................................http://willbe.cjb.net Others: Amnesia...............http://amnesia-dist.future.easyspace.com Arf!Studios..........................http://www.arfstudios.org Calodox demoscene education....http://calodox.planet-d.net/cde Chiptune...............................http://www.chiptune.com #coders..................................http://coderz.cjb.net Comic Pirates.........................http://scene-central.com Demo fanclub........................http://jerware.org/fanclub Digital Undergrounds.....................http://dug.iscool.net 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.hackerland.de/scenet <*> Soundstate..............http://pigforce.warande.net/soundstate 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 diskmag.......................http://amber.bti.pl/di_mag Demojournal....................http://demojournal.planet-d.net Fleur diskmag........................http://fleur.scene-hu.com Heroin...................................http://www.heroin.net Hugi diskmag................http://home.pages.de/~hugidownload Pain............................http://www.space.ch/scene/pain Total Disaster...................http://www.totaldisaster.w.pl TUHB.......................................http://www.tuhb.org Ftps: Amber.......................................ftp://amber.bti.pl Cyberbox.....................................ftp://cyberbox.de Flerp...................ftp://flerp.scene.hu Pigforce...........ftp://pigforce.warande.net Scene.org................ftp://ftp.scene.org Skynet archive.................ftp://acid2.stack.nl/pub/skynet ACiD2 Archive.............................ftp://acid2.stack.nl ?------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - !====:] articles [:============================================================ :---------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - Subject: [Fwd: virhe / mature furk (asm99)] Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos hiya. some people seem to have a gotten a wrong impression so i'll clear a few things up. it was not done 'at work' and it uses no remedy/futuremark technology. we got the idea in a bar wed-thu night, took 2 days off, holed up at petri's, dug up his old glide engine and made the demo from scratch. eetu. 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