_ ________\ .\\ \__________ | //. | | _____________ _____ : ________ _____ | _\_____ // _/____\ _ \_ / _ \: _\ |/ /· _/ \\// /· / \_ /____________/____\_______\/________________/[ h7 ] ._______ ____ _____ _______ _________ .______ ________ | | _\_ /_./ _ \\ /______ _\__ /____| _/_\__. /_| | .\ // | / \_ /) _/ _/ / _ \ \ \| \_ |_ | |________/_________)____\_____\____\ \____|______/______/ _| | . .\______/ \_______| . : : | [ dEMOJOURNAL ] | | | _ | |________\ ________| \__) ?------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - !====:] #71 [:=========================================:] 25 dec 1999 [:======= :---------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - editorial demonews party on! weekly interview - demo - intro - music - question - quote - commercial break homepages end subscribers 334 - ?------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - !====:] editorial [:=========================================================== :---------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - Hello and goodbye. This is now the last issue of Demojournal edited by me. I sure would have wanted to make something nice for this issue, too. But then I travelled home to my family and who would like to spend his xmas in front of the computer? So now the only thing I have, is a demo review from Seven. Anyways it was nice to be an editor for these few issues I had to do. Though Demojournal is not a real diskmag, in a way it's more challenging to make small newsletter when you know you have to be ready every weekend despite how much time or lust you have for editing. So respect to all you diskmag editors from me, I never realized before how big pain in arse this job can be. :) In case anyone of you are coming to TP9, it would be nice to see you. I don't have any reserved place there, but you can most likely meet outside the partyplace. Just seek for Finnish people drinking beer and ask if I'm there. Happy new year, I'm off now! Melwyn ?------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - !====:] demonews [:============================================================ :---------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - Some words from Pyro: A GameBoy music disk has been released. It features music from Mystical, Beek, Reptile and code/art from members of the US demo group Beyond. Check it out at http://www.paragon5.com even if you don't have Gameboy, you can play the music disk also with your PC using (don't-remember-the-name) Gameboy emulator. News according to Zden: We just started a gallery & competition on our ( message ) site. You task is to make minimalistic web art in just 4096 bytes! So it's something like 4k-intros but in html. :-) More info you can find here http://message.sk/web4096 Echo from Silicon Plant tells: Silicon Plant - a new group formed by Forsaken and EChO. The main idea is to promote young and talented sceners, who are the future of demoscene. We have now 3 members: forsaken - msx, organize echo - msx fain - 2d gfx Wanna join? You must be above 16! Write on: forsaken@polbox.com More info and our plans soon... ?------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - !====:] party on! [:=========================================================== :---------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - starts !=! ends !===! location !===! name !=========! contact !================ 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 Dec 11 - Dec 12, 1999 Slovenia Abort '99 http://www.stjost.org/abort99 =========! present time !====================================================== 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 ?------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - !====:] weekly [:============================================================== :---------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - This week! I've been eating ham, salmon and other naminami christmas food. =====! interview !============================================================= *strike* =====! demo !================================================================== Cyboman 2 by Komplex (final-version) Found at www.scene.org 2nd place at the Assembly'99 Java Compo. System requirements: a Java Virtual Machine (Ask for it at your local hardware-store :)) 1.7 MB HD The demo: Ok, in search for (not necessarily recent) demos to review, Melwyn suggested Cyboman 2/Komplex. Oh my god, a Java demo! Isn't that awfully slow, asks the coder in me? I can't really answer, because Cyboman 2 does not feature any recent (= CPU-heavy) effects. As a matter of fact, it's a remake of their 64K intro that placed first at The Party in 1994, so the effects are 3D-only. There are lots of phong-shaded torusses, which was considered a difficult effect back then. The next years almost every demo had toruses, and people really tired of them :). Other objects include a few human faces, the Complex-logo (Yep, back then it was "C", not "K"), and the mysterious things that live inside torusses :). Everything is in 640*480 hi-res which makes the demo look more crisp, but it has a few side effects: the gouraud-shaded inside of the torus doesn't look very smooth, and the background texture is repeated more often. The best thing about the remake is of course that also non-GUS owners can enjoy the music, a really funky demo-tune by Jugi. It's also the biggest part of the demo: 1.5 MB, the code and GFX take only 200K. It seems to be one big audio-file, apparently there are no tracker-based music systems for Java. And the messages are stored as complete JPG-screens, not as a font plus texts :-/ But I can understand that remaking a demo is less exciting then making a new one, so you don't want to spend as much time coding it... Worth the download ? If you've a GUS, you can stick with the original intro: the differences are rather minimal, and it's not always an improvement. For example, the nice morphing heads/cubes are now boring static heads. For the SB-owners, this is your chance to fully appreciate an intro that was extremely popular in 94-95 (just check out the Imphobia 9, 10 & 11 intro charts). Also Mac/Linux/whatever users can check it out, just click on cyboman.htm in your favorite browser... Seven =====! intro !================================================================= *strike* Well, I can only say that download some intros from TP9 as soon as they are available. There should be at least something from Sunflower and Haujobb, if the rumours are correct. Melwyn =====! music !================================================================= *strike* =====! question !============================================================== question of the week: do you believe in santa claus? ofcourse, and don't believe that evil article in shine#6! :) - whisker Sure, it's my mother. I've seen it with my own eyes. - teo . kangooroo ^ exceed who, sa...mantha fox? - luNix of course! merry christmas to all of you and check out the chippendales special christmaspresent that will be released 24.12 on www.sunpoint.net/~cnd - chavez / funktion no - ps i don't believe in christmas - esaTPOLM yes, but seems like i've been a naughty boy lately, since the last time i saw santa was when i was about 4 years old. - jarno leikas Ofkoz not ;-))). - RadXcell not since the idiot mooned me a while ago. that's pretty fucked up right there, I tell you! - Roy Jacobs of course i do ;) (i have to say that, 'coz if i don't he won't give me anything ;)) - Echo / Silicon Plant Do you believe in "7800 polys"? - Malte YES!!! - DJefke no. i do love him though. i prefer him over the dutch myth of "sinterklaas" of which the tale of "santa claus" is derived. - g-day / quad / aardbei / scene.org yes, hohohoho :) - Unlock santa's existence is an everlasting mystery, but at least he haves more gifts than what i do. - jean nine ?------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - !====:] commercial break! [:=================================================== :---------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - Here's some news from TRSI Recordz (taken from a email forwarded by Distance, thanks) - First of all... the Muffler CD will see the light finally in january. We were a bit too late for x-mas, so what ... now it will be first in the row of an even better decade then the last ... Preorders can still be done on http://www.kentlex.com/label/index.html , but we are proud to announce you that from next year on our distribution will be done through www.sazuma.com . Yes, your dvd-specialist opens its gates for scene items. Here you will also be able to purchase e.g. TRSI&Fairlight Recordz, Paradox or TRSi-merchandise, music, demo-cds ... Furthermore Sazuma Productions will continue bringing you quality movies as world first on DVD so watch out! - News from Bjorn Lynne! The workaholic now brings you his first full length orchestral album... have a look at http://www.us.lynnemusic.com/lynne/phoenix.html to see more of it... - Shorten the time you have to wait for the next Cyberlogik and have a look at a great scene-cd called Audiophonik done by the brave guys in Imphobia and Fusecon... www.fusecon.com . The CD features some great musicians like Moby, Bjorn Lynne or Scorpik so it's absolutely worth a look... - The Oddspot ( http://www.nogacity.de/oddspot ) is the brand-new homepage of Volker Tripp aka (ex) Jester / Sanity. Find out what happened to Jester after his time on the Amiga scene, download some mods and mp3s or order an audio CD with instrumental non-Amiga music by Volker Tripp! - Remember the great WOTW? When you want to know what this guy is doing nowadays then click this: www.shokoy.de ! - Talking about scene... the biggest and longest awaited scene event next for sure is the Radwar2k party, maybe the only one that can unite yesterday's and today's scene! It will take place in Germany, near the dutch border at the 27.5.2000. Check more details on the relaunched www.radwar.com . This event gets supported by most sceners. Await another invitation intro done by TRSi and have a look at the site for the cool Radwar-gfx-contest! The winner's design will be printed on 1000 kingsize-posters. - Check out the news at our beloved partners at www.journees.com . Just to name a few... our dear Muffler will appear on the lately founded Shotcallers Drum & Bass sublabel. Eric 'DJ Liquid' Lee will rock Germany on the 8th of January 2000 again to be heard on the famous HR3 clubnight radio show.... tune in, drop out :) - And last but not least we in TRSi & Fairlight Records want to thank all the supporters for what you did the last year for us. No names, you know who you are. We are again searching for talented musicians, partners, resellers, designers and coders so dont hesitate to contact us at office@kentlex.com . And by the way... we have absolutely NOTHING to do with these [censored] from germany naming themselves Fairlight Records . Strange that they use not only the Fairlight name but also try to participate on the fame of names like Scoopex or Lightforce... sad but true. Better have a peak at the real Scoopex: http://www.amigascne.org/scoopex/ ! Have a merry x-mas and a happy new year! Stay strong and all the best from the team! Lars Overberg TRSi&Fairlight Recordz Kentlex Trade Group AG Sazuma Productions =====! homepages !============================================================= Groups: 3g Design..............................http://3gdesign.cjb.net <*> Aardbei...............................http://aardbei.scene.org 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 CoPro.....................................http://www.copro.org 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 Retro A.C...........................http://www.retroac.cjb.net 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.vantage.ch 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 MAZ's Sound homepage.............http://www.th-zwickau.de/~maz Mo'playaz..........................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/ruff_engine SHR8M......................................http://1st.to/shr8m 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 <*> Wiremaniacs.........................http://www.wiremaniacs.com 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 Cyclone..................................http://zap.to/cyclone 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 Lazur....................................http://lazur.punkt.pl 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 Velikani.............................http://ltk.hut.fi/~akiuru 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://gfxzone.planet-d.net 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 Sunray..............................http://sunray.planet-d.net <*> Swiss List.................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/di_mag 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 Total Disaster...................http://www.totaldisaster.w.pl TUHB.......................................http://www.tuhb.org WildMag...........................http://www.wildmag.notrix.de Ftps: Amber.......................................ftp://amber.bti.pl Cyberbox.....................................ftp://cyberbox.de 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