Demojournal
issue: 2
date: 29/august/1998
subscribers: more then 10! forgot to count! :
Hommage to demonews special issue!
1.Editorial - blablabla
2.Credits - get in touch with us and feel better
3.Demonews - latest news and stuff
4.Demonewz - Psychic vs world Read all about it!
5.Party on! - party schedules
6.Interview of the week - Psychic tortures skrig/PRONE
7.Demo o the week - Psychic says: This one rules!
8.MOD o the week - Assign says: go get this one now!
9.Commercial break - got nothing to do? check this board...
10.Charts - weirdest charts ever!
11.Comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos- yep! a weekly newsgroup
12.Articles: - yep! articles section. send yours in!
Hommage to demonews - Psychic Symphony had little to do
13.END - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
1.Editorial
This is a .txt file supposed to be read with the aid of some
musical output while offline so if your online or at the work or
something similar... STOP READING! TAKE THIS FILE HOME, PUT ON A CD
OR SOME MODs PLAYING AND RESTART READING!
Issue 1 was better acclaimed then i predicted! Good! :
Due to some feedback i changed the structure a bit like the
over 80 char per line bug! sorry! Wont happen again!
Also, i asked assign/ethos9tdr to take care of trax corner so
now MOD o the week is his responsibility! Blame him for iminent
armaggeddon and all other hazards that might arose on us!
Anyways... This is a special issue dedicated to Snowman,
Trixter, GD and Hornet in general... A special hommage to demonews!
Read on and snif a little for nostalgia sake!
2.Credits
Psychic Symphony - big nick guy - ec97104@crazy.fe.up.pt
Assign - trax keeper - assign@usa.net
3.Demonews
Mefis left the scene! : Sadly enough mefis stopped doing
music for Tokyo Dawn Records and Funk! all together and has left our
beloved scene. Read all about it on tokyo-60.zip! www.tdr.scene.org
First portuguese demoparty might be coming soon... Although
there aint been many enthusiasm around it, lots of people are still
on holiday so, who knows? Maybe this december we can have the first
ever portuguese PC demoparty and round up the little demosceners we
got left! Foreign country sceners are welcome to drop by although i
predict no one would want to... :
Hum... cremax/nothing emailed me and i quote:
Idea: MAKE A DAMN FUCKIN PARTY IN PORTUGAL... Im still trying to
grasp the contents but i guess he just wants me to post around here
somewhere that he wants me to make a damn fucking party in portugal.
Well... OK then... Ill organize it!
Topic of pixel on friday afternoon:
Its happy birthday for Acryl: send presents to acrylo@hotmail.com
Go ahead... Make his day!
Bizzare 98 and Deja Vu are taking place as i write so dont
forget to check cdrom.com, hornet.org or scene.org for some entries!
Hope them both were cool partys to attend!
4.Demonewz
DISCLAIMER: THE FOLLOWING LINES ARE THOUGH TO BE NOTHING MORE THAN
GOSSIP! WE ADVERT ALL READERS AND PERSONNEL FEATURED ON THE FOLLOWING
TEXT THAT I DO NOT INTEND TO PREJUDICE ANYONE BY THESE CLAIMS AND THAT
I WRITE WHAT I WRITE WITH A PROFOUND ADMIRATION FOR WHAT THESE PEOPLE
DO! I AM NEVER THE LESS SORRY TO FEEL FORCED TO USE THEIR NAMES AS
LAUGHING STOCK! READ ON!
IRC channel coders will be renamed to demoau!
The renaming will occur with some bots help. When someone from .au
enters the channel they will automaticaly be kicked out and invited
to join demoau! This will on the other hand split up our beloved
scene which is already scattered into so many channels... :
Oh well... Anything to get rid of those pests from kangaroo land!
Sources indicate that Goblin/Xtatic never consulted a
dictionary on his life! Quotes follow:
Goblin I usually come up with bizarre names
Goblin Primal Penile Implant
Goblin :
Now you know... Whenever your looking for a name for things instead of
using dunno069 use goblins technique: penis069 :P Goblin: Hope your
girlfriend is better coming up with names when you two get a baby.
Psychic has declared war against the world... This means he
will salute, talk and even wave goodbye to all enemies spread worldwide.
If you are an enemy... Prepare to be bombarded with further issues
of demojournal and a possible greet at a demo! If you are nothing more
then an innocent standby... Be warned: You can still be attacked with
issues of demojournal and respects at a demo! Innocents can point the
finger at gooroo/kfmf, thor/TPOLM, electric and Fear/TBL. Since they
forced Psychic to a strategical retreat in the look out for a better
opportunity to strike back! Counter messures against Psychics attacks
can be in the form of sending him stuff for both demojournal and his
viewing torture! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! FEEL THREATNED!
Gooroo: Im coming to get you! I dont care how old you are... Youre
going down! btw: still looking for a new demogroup to join?
Fear: Start trembling... Its your time to run and you know what they
say you can run but you cannot hide! AHAHAH!
electric: Your coffee machine throw makes me laugh: AHAHAH! Tremble
at each release of a new issue of demojournal!
Thor: OK... Your an innocent standby... You still said no! to issue1
so i have to put you on the black list. What would others think?
That you could say no! and get away with it? You must pay for
your sins!
OK, so gooroo is a nice guy and thor and electric were just
having fun, as for fear... Well... fear is from TBL!
But i wrote this text anyways so i might aswell spread it no?
5.Party on!
Name: Starts: Finishes: Country:
Bizzare 98 28/aug 30/aug Netherlands
Deja Vu 28/aug UK
* -- you are here Demonews resemblance?
RTS 05/sep 07/sep France
site: http://rts-party.imag.fr/
Evoke 98 11/sep 13/sep Germany
site: kaoz.org/evoke/98
X98 11/sep 13/sep Netherlands
Compusphere X 28/oct 31/oct Sweden
Dreamhack 98 29/oct 01/nov Sweden
site: www.dreamhack.org
Dracula 98 19/dec 20/dec Romania
.pt.party 98 19/dec 20/dec Portugal :
cont: ec97104@crazy.fe.up.pt
Any organizer that wishes to post his demoparty on the board
is welcome to do so! Also, i would like to ask these events organizers
to send me their homepage or email contact if they read this text so
that readers can get in touch and actually go there! :
Small info and ideas on party stuff are welcome, aswell has
party reports and the entrys release sites.
6.Interview of the week
Interview via e-mail with skrig/PRONE by Psychic Symphony
This is my first interview ever besides irc harassing so dont
be surprissed if i make stupid question like about aliens and stuff...
Anyway... Me torturing skrig follows:
psychic tell us about yourself: name, age, shoe size, alien origins...
that sort of thing...
skrig My name is Simon Jensen, people know me as skrig from prone
and i work for a danish game development company called
InterActiVision.
skrig Im not so tall, dont weigh so much and dont wear shoes. Im not
an alien. I think. Im just a really boring person.
psychic what exactly do you do again?
skrig Im a graphician in a danish game company. Scene-wise i like to
work with alot of different people, but im only a member of the
danish group prone. Beside being a member of prone, i have
formed a design group with aap from acme. I worked with blasphemy
on their Summer Encounter demo louis lane, where i did design
like things with an encyclopedia, a program and some mechanic
device.
psychic what do you think about what happened with demonews? did
hornet guys do the right thing?
skrig Well.. i really liked the final issue of demonews, but i had
stopped reading it for some time before... I guess it was good
to make one good final issue.
psychic about the scene... for how long are you around?
skrig Well... let me see now :- I started making some
graphics-like things back in 95 i think... then i formed prone
with my brother kvark. We got some new members, 2 actually,
mindwave and lonestar which we met at Summer Encounter 96. Then
we made some productions and did it again. And here we are.
psychic do you still feel the connection between the old days and the
new?
skrig In my world the word oldschool is a negative one. I still
remember and like old demos, but we have to move on. The most
ironic thing is that Second Reality is still on some charts, and
that is the biggest joke.
psychic i think nowdays the scene has evolved into a new bread... a
new scene with its background and history. you share my opinion?
skrig Well.. I think the scene is abit split at the moment. The
rising number of pure 3D demos with only camera scenes is for me
not good for the scene, as these things have turned more and more
into a would-be game intro. This is not good if the scene should
continue being a forum of creativity and innovation, experimenting
with different styles and shapes of demos.
psychic changing subject... are you really an alien?
skrig Im not sure.
psychic tell us some of your best demoscene memories
skrig TP5, the first party i was attending. Early orange demos.
psychic what about newbies? you are one of those who think all
newbies are lamers or have you passed by that phase?
skrig I really like to see new groups especially danish groups
appear and trying out some ideas. I really want to see the danish
scene evolving.
psychic time for think fast...
psychic first demo
skrig panic/futurecrew
psychic best demo
skrig square/pulse
psychic 3D
skrig 3D studio max
psychic windows
skrig necessary
psychic DOS
skrig XT 8086
psychic Linux
skrig fanatics
psychic oldskool
skrig move on
psychic new bread
skrig nyt brd?
psychic lamers
skrig strange word
psychic elite
skrig old game
psychic leaving the scene
skrig Getting old
psychic best demo party
skrig Summer Encounter 98
psychic almost done... want to say hi to some guy or girl in
particular? if so... shoot! :
skrig well... hi to danish guys, tpolm and acme
psychic one final question: why are you still with the demoscene?
skrig im in it for the money
psychic thanks for your time and feel free to take a few more lines
to say whatever you feel like saying!
skrig Everyone should attend the Summer Encounter party next year.
Its a blast. really.
7.Demo of the week
Dope by Complex
Code by Jmagic
Music by Jugi
Graphics by Jugi and Reward
As this is a special tribute to demonews issue i decided to
choose snowmans favorite demo: dope If you dont understand go read
demonews! Apart from that, the demo has nice, optimized effects with
the first glimpses of 3D slideshows and a try at Vesa2.0. Also an
excelent musical score by Jugi which uses 28 channels to create an
awesome atmosphere! I myself dont own a GUS : Although i recall
listening to the music and trying to guess which part of the demo would
be displaying at the moment... : One of the first real quality .mods
i delighted myself with! The graphics are also of high quality and
quantity here and there. Nothing extravagant. Just simple yet polished
graphical backgrounds! The starting logo is impressing to say the least!
Anyway... Dim the lights, turn up your speakers and galore
yourself with a wonderfull piece of art that is Dope!
8.MOD of the week
bastardz by chaos/ruff engine
re-004.zip ruff.home.ml.org
russian drumnbass, who would have expected that.. drums from
roni size, other samples from photek, spooky strings, selfspoken vocals
uhh, too bad i cant speak any russian : and a hard and funky
bassline.. not the best technique, but the formula used definitely
works ! im definitely going to look out for more from this guy - the
best ruff engine track so far imho!
Assign from TDR and Ethos9 has spoken and will from here on
take care of this section... Actually this is the last time ill
write a line on this forsaken place! Im out of here! Blame him for
all traumatizing experiences you might encounter by going after any of
his recomended tunes!
9.Commercial break!
Post your site here! Send the url to: ec97104@crazy.fe.up.pt
Hornet Demo Archive: www.hornet.org
Tokyo Dawn Records: www.tdr.scene.org
http://geecs.org/nico --- for a complete mental experience
10.Charts
This is probably the weirdest chart system you will ever
encounter: Every time i review it i will withdrawn 1 point from each
votee and add this weeks votes! Votes are gathered from anywhere: if
you have 1 line stating the best group,demo,coder,tracker and
graphician of the moment just let me know so i can put it here... Use
email or irc, i dont care how just get it to me... You can vote on
whomever you want as long as they/it exists! The point of this method
is to get ride of innactive people and have a chart with the current
best of the demoscene... Of course this is only possible if i get more
votes... : So make sure you vote for issue3!
Group: Cryonics1
COMA 1
Cocoon 1
Demo: Tired of Techno by Dawn3 johnnyw.zip 1
Square by Pulse plssqr.zip 1
Shad by Cocoon+Syndrome shad.zip 1
Code: Slyde 1
Statix 1
Echo 1
Music: Mefis 1
Groo 1
Smash 1
Graphics: Acryl 1
Made 1
Sunday 1
11.comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos
This functions like a newsgroup... Just send small messages
to me and ill post them in here.
For next issue ill gather some messages and replys posted
on comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos if i find them relevant.
Idea: MAKE A DAMN FUCKIN PARTY IN PORTUGAL
Demonews: See...Wait...Who cares?... Nothing -
Cremax/Nothing
Idea: MAKE A DAMN FUCKIN PARTY IN PORTUGAL
I herby summon thee to come to .pt.party 98 taking place on
porto/portugal on mid-december! Dont start with excuses!
Psychic Symphony/Label
12.Articles
Hommage to demonews! by Psychic Symphony
I finished reading the final issue of demonews a couple of
minutes ago! It was the very first time i read ANY issue of demonews!
There where stuff i had been told about but nothing like seeing it
for yourself! I had the idea of this demojournal without any awareness
of demonews whatsoever! There are lots of things i have learned with
reading just that one final issue. I have learned about the ways of the
past and that the future holds nothing more then certain oblivion! I
guess that is why imphobia stopped beeing released aswell! I understand
now. I have become wiser since a couple minutes ago!
Its so weird... You always think you know too much and yet
you are always learning there is so much still to learn... I dont
feel like writing. I feel like looking outside. Just looking at an
whole space full of weeds and rotting buildings! Looking at our decay!
Looking at those 2 dots on the sky supposed to be stars... One is
Jupiter! The brightest star... The brightest one... is not a star...
Its a planet! Its Jupiter.
So many times have i been hearing music looking at that sky
with the same weeds on the land, with the same buildings as a skyline...
So many times have i looked outside looking for inspiration. Today
i have to write instead of looking outside! I can hear the crickets
whistling due to the heat! Its hot today! It went up to 32 degrees
and the crickets always start whistling when its hot... The hotter
it gets, the louder they whistle!
Why do i keep writing this? On demonews they said the scene
was dying... That the new generation only cares on windows capabilities
and 3D accelarations! Its not true! They say the true demoscene
spirit lies within the 64k intros! Its not true! You want to know
what true demoscene spirit is? Is 3 people who will never see each
other, who live separated by sea, on the other side of the world,
who dont even breath the same air come together and debate a name
for their group! It sounds bad... Poor shock over there on australia
by this time he must be waking up to go for the university! Its
1:09 in portugal! And poor idiotboy. Restrained in the land of
oportunities without anyone to give him a hand... Poor me... Over
here with whisteling crickets and hardly no demoscene at all!
Who cares? Nobody cares... Nobody gives a damn and you know why?
We are 3 guys in 1 world... 1 world in an entire galaxy
and we waste the little time we have left looking at a monitor,
debating a name... We cant get a name for our group! The entire human
race can seize to exist in a second and we are debating a name for
a multicontinential group of 3 teenagers who will most probably spend
the rest of their lifes tagged with their computer memories for ever!
And what memories are those? Events we wanted to go that we couldnt.
Demos assembled by other people who will be haunted by their computer
memories until oblivion aswell. Music tracked by minds we wish to
unravel... So many things to learn about the past and the future, yet
we talk to a stranger to the scene and they think we are empty of
knowledge! They think we are computer nerds... How i laugh at them.
How i wish i could explain to them about our community... They wouldnt
understand. And frankly, they wouldnt care!
Demonews is right! The scene is dying! Nobody cares...
People get old and forget about the little details in life such as that
once they formed a group with some guys they didnt knew very well
and made things happen on a monitor! Nobody cares! I said it before
and ill write it again: life sukz and then you die! ITS TRUE!
Face it! You are here to let the human race live... You think anyone
cares what einstein did on his free time? Or what Pascal inspired
himself with? They dont care... They just want our race to prosper!
The very notion of appocalipse states that mankind must seize to
exist. At least in a material form! Like all species we must evolve!
The demoscene has also evolved!
Demonews and imphobia are a part of an old race: The younger
demoscene! Nowdays we have internet with ftps and ircs... Newer
diskmags. Diskmags that ask for vesa2.0! Music with ressonance filters!
Graphics with 32bit colours! Just because the scene is turning
different doesnt mean its no longer the demoscene... I wish i could
have been through the good old days advancing to C64 then amiga and
with 386 PC... But it didnt happen! I had a games console! I had
a 486dx2. Shit happens! Or to put it another way:
Life sukz and then you die!
Today i pay an hommage to demonews with this issue of
demojournal! Respect to you! You helped the demoscene prosper and then
you died! The newbie doesnt care if he is playing with windows or DOS,
just like a baby doesnt care if he is playing with a ball or a grenade.
He isnt aware of what all the fuss is about... All he wants is to play!
And when some years later he realizes he did a terrible mistake he looks
back ashamed and respects those who tried to take his toy away! Let us
play... We will respect you later. For that you can be sure of! You
already have my respect! Others will follow...
Psychic Symphony
13.END
This is it... End of issue 2 of demojournal... Subscriptions
askings are starting to come in... Still lacking lots of stuff but this
is only issue2 so i cant blame people! Hope that next issue will
have some more support, not only spreading but also sending stuff!
Special thanks to Magnesium, Gyr, Programmed, Salami, Assign, adok,
Cremax, shock, asphyx and cyg for their ideas, support, some votes and
very positive and constructive reactions on the first issue! Also
thanks to skrig for helping me take care of the interview of the week!
I would greet some more contacts i have but they already know
i say hi because i keep on bothering them all the time. :P Still
trying to get a contact on each country in the world so might as well
send me an email saying hi! :
Send anything you might think to be usefull like your votes,
articles, comments, subscription askings, party invitations,
coding tips, party reports, contacts, ansi logos and stuff like that.
Its not that hard... Just one email saying who kicks ass right
now with best group/demo/code/gfx/music, some words, an article if
youre inspired, some info on some party your thinking of attending,
a small message to the scene and an addy if you wish to make yourself
known to the world! If you just had the time of your life at some
demoparty... Let us now how it was... Even if it was crap, warn us!
Its our demoscene! Lets make things happen...
Psychic Symphony - ec97104@crazy.fe.up.pt
issue: 2
date: 29/august/1998
subscribers: more then 10! forgot to count! :
Hommage to demonews special issue!
1.Editorial - blablabla
2.Credits - get in touch with us and feel better
3.Demonews - latest news and stuff
4.Demonewz - Psychic vs world Read all about it!
5.Party on! - party schedules
6.Interview of the week - Psychic tortures skrig/PRONE
7.Demo o the week - Psychic says: This one rules!
8.MOD o the week - Assign says: go get this one now!
9.Commercial break - got nothing to do? check this board...
10.Charts - weirdest charts ever!
11.Comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos- yep! a weekly newsgroup
12.Articles: - yep! articles section. send yours in!
Hommage to demonews - Psychic Symphony had little to do
13.END - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
1.Editorial
This is a .txt file supposed to be read with the aid of some
musical output while offline so if your online or at the work or
something similar... STOP READING! TAKE THIS FILE HOME, PUT ON A CD
OR SOME MODs PLAYING AND RESTART READING!
Issue 1 was better acclaimed then i predicted! Good! :
Due to some feedback i changed the structure a bit like the
over 80 char per line bug! sorry! Wont happen again!
Also, i asked assign/ethos9tdr to take care of trax corner so
now MOD o the week is his responsibility! Blame him for iminent
armaggeddon and all other hazards that might arose on us!
Anyways... This is a special issue dedicated to Snowman,
Trixter, GD and Hornet in general... A special hommage to demonews!
Read on and snif a little for nostalgia sake!
2.Credits
Psychic Symphony - big nick guy - ec97104@crazy.fe.up.pt
Assign - trax keeper - assign@usa.net
3.Demonews
Mefis left the scene! : Sadly enough mefis stopped doing
music for Tokyo Dawn Records and Funk! all together and has left our
beloved scene. Read all about it on tokyo-60.zip! www.tdr.scene.org
First portuguese demoparty might be coming soon... Although
there aint been many enthusiasm around it, lots of people are still
on holiday so, who knows? Maybe this december we can have the first
ever portuguese PC demoparty and round up the little demosceners we
got left! Foreign country sceners are welcome to drop by although i
predict no one would want to... :
Hum... cremax/nothing emailed me and i quote:
Idea: MAKE A DAMN FUCKIN PARTY IN PORTUGAL... Im still trying to
grasp the contents but i guess he just wants me to post around here
somewhere that he wants me to make a damn fucking party in portugal.
Well... OK then... Ill organize it!
Topic of pixel on friday afternoon:
Its happy birthday for Acryl: send presents to acrylo@hotmail.com
Go ahead... Make his day!
Bizzare 98 and Deja Vu are taking place as i write so dont
forget to check cdrom.com, hornet.org or scene.org for some entries!
Hope them both were cool partys to attend!
4.Demonewz
DISCLAIMER: THE FOLLOWING LINES ARE THOUGH TO BE NOTHING MORE THAN
GOSSIP! WE ADVERT ALL READERS AND PERSONNEL FEATURED ON THE FOLLOWING
TEXT THAT I DO NOT INTEND TO PREJUDICE ANYONE BY THESE CLAIMS AND THAT
I WRITE WHAT I WRITE WITH A PROFOUND ADMIRATION FOR WHAT THESE PEOPLE
DO! I AM NEVER THE LESS SORRY TO FEEL FORCED TO USE THEIR NAMES AS
LAUGHING STOCK! READ ON!
IRC channel coders will be renamed to demoau!
The renaming will occur with some bots help. When someone from .au
enters the channel they will automaticaly be kicked out and invited
to join demoau! This will on the other hand split up our beloved
scene which is already scattered into so many channels... :
Oh well... Anything to get rid of those pests from kangaroo land!
Sources indicate that Goblin/Xtatic never consulted a
dictionary on his life! Quotes follow:
Goblin I usually come up with bizarre names
Goblin Primal Penile Implant
Goblin :
Now you know... Whenever your looking for a name for things instead of
using dunno069 use goblins technique: penis069 :P Goblin: Hope your
girlfriend is better coming up with names when you two get a baby.
Psychic has declared war against the world... This means he
will salute, talk and even wave goodbye to all enemies spread worldwide.
If you are an enemy... Prepare to be bombarded with further issues
of demojournal and a possible greet at a demo! If you are nothing more
then an innocent standby... Be warned: You can still be attacked with
issues of demojournal and respects at a demo! Innocents can point the
finger at gooroo/kfmf, thor/TPOLM, electric and Fear/TBL. Since they
forced Psychic to a strategical retreat in the look out for a better
opportunity to strike back! Counter messures against Psychics attacks
can be in the form of sending him stuff for both demojournal and his
viewing torture! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! FEEL THREATNED!
Gooroo: Im coming to get you! I dont care how old you are... Youre
going down! btw: still looking for a new demogroup to join?
Fear: Start trembling... Its your time to run and you know what they
say you can run but you cannot hide! AHAHAH!
electric: Your coffee machine throw makes me laugh: AHAHAH! Tremble
at each release of a new issue of demojournal!
Thor: OK... Your an innocent standby... You still said no! to issue1
so i have to put you on the black list. What would others think?
That you could say no! and get away with it? You must pay for
your sins!
OK, so gooroo is a nice guy and thor and electric were just
having fun, as for fear... Well... fear is from TBL!
But i wrote this text anyways so i might aswell spread it no?
5.Party on!
Name: Starts: Finishes: Country:
Bizzare 98 28/aug 30/aug Netherlands
Deja Vu 28/aug UK
* -- you are here Demonews resemblance?
RTS 05/sep 07/sep France
site: http://rts-party.imag.fr/
Evoke 98 11/sep 13/sep Germany
site: kaoz.org/evoke/98
X98 11/sep 13/sep Netherlands
Compusphere X 28/oct 31/oct Sweden
Dreamhack 98 29/oct 01/nov Sweden
site: www.dreamhack.org
Dracula 98 19/dec 20/dec Romania
.pt.party 98 19/dec 20/dec Portugal :
cont: ec97104@crazy.fe.up.pt
Any organizer that wishes to post his demoparty on the board
is welcome to do so! Also, i would like to ask these events organizers
to send me their homepage or email contact if they read this text so
that readers can get in touch and actually go there! :
Small info and ideas on party stuff are welcome, aswell has
party reports and the entrys release sites.
6.Interview of the week
Interview via e-mail with skrig/PRONE by Psychic Symphony
This is my first interview ever besides irc harassing so dont
be surprissed if i make stupid question like about aliens and stuff...
Anyway... Me torturing skrig follows:
psychic tell us about yourself: name, age, shoe size, alien origins...
that sort of thing...
skrig My name is Simon Jensen, people know me as skrig from prone
and i work for a danish game development company called
InterActiVision.
skrig Im not so tall, dont weigh so much and dont wear shoes. Im not
an alien. I think. Im just a really boring person.
psychic what exactly do you do again?
skrig Im a graphician in a danish game company. Scene-wise i like to
work with alot of different people, but im only a member of the
danish group prone. Beside being a member of prone, i have
formed a design group with aap from acme. I worked with blasphemy
on their Summer Encounter demo louis lane, where i did design
like things with an encyclopedia, a program and some mechanic
device.
psychic what do you think about what happened with demonews? did
hornet guys do the right thing?
skrig Well.. i really liked the final issue of demonews, but i had
stopped reading it for some time before... I guess it was good
to make one good final issue.
psychic about the scene... for how long are you around?
skrig Well... let me see now :- I started making some
graphics-like things back in 95 i think... then i formed prone
with my brother kvark. We got some new members, 2 actually,
mindwave and lonestar which we met at Summer Encounter 96. Then
we made some productions and did it again. And here we are.
psychic do you still feel the connection between the old days and the
new?
skrig In my world the word oldschool is a negative one. I still
remember and like old demos, but we have to move on. The most
ironic thing is that Second Reality is still on some charts, and
that is the biggest joke.
psychic i think nowdays the scene has evolved into a new bread... a
new scene with its background and history. you share my opinion?
skrig Well.. I think the scene is abit split at the moment. The
rising number of pure 3D demos with only camera scenes is for me
not good for the scene, as these things have turned more and more
into a would-be game intro. This is not good if the scene should
continue being a forum of creativity and innovation, experimenting
with different styles and shapes of demos.
psychic changing subject... are you really an alien?
skrig Im not sure.
psychic tell us some of your best demoscene memories
skrig TP5, the first party i was attending. Early orange demos.
psychic what about newbies? you are one of those who think all
newbies are lamers or have you passed by that phase?
skrig I really like to see new groups especially danish groups
appear and trying out some ideas. I really want to see the danish
scene evolving.
psychic time for think fast...
psychic first demo
skrig panic/futurecrew
psychic best demo
skrig square/pulse
psychic 3D
skrig 3D studio max
psychic windows
skrig necessary
psychic DOS
skrig XT 8086
psychic Linux
skrig fanatics
psychic oldskool
skrig move on
psychic new bread
skrig nyt brd?
psychic lamers
skrig strange word
psychic elite
skrig old game
psychic leaving the scene
skrig Getting old
psychic best demo party
skrig Summer Encounter 98
psychic almost done... want to say hi to some guy or girl in
particular? if so... shoot! :
skrig well... hi to danish guys, tpolm and acme
psychic one final question: why are you still with the demoscene?
skrig im in it for the money
psychic thanks for your time and feel free to take a few more lines
to say whatever you feel like saying!
skrig Everyone should attend the Summer Encounter party next year.
Its a blast. really.
7.Demo of the week
Dope by Complex
Code by Jmagic
Music by Jugi
Graphics by Jugi and Reward
As this is a special tribute to demonews issue i decided to
choose snowmans favorite demo: dope If you dont understand go read
demonews! Apart from that, the demo has nice, optimized effects with
the first glimpses of 3D slideshows and a try at Vesa2.0. Also an
excelent musical score by Jugi which uses 28 channels to create an
awesome atmosphere! I myself dont own a GUS : Although i recall
listening to the music and trying to guess which part of the demo would
be displaying at the moment... : One of the first real quality .mods
i delighted myself with! The graphics are also of high quality and
quantity here and there. Nothing extravagant. Just simple yet polished
graphical backgrounds! The starting logo is impressing to say the least!
Anyway... Dim the lights, turn up your speakers and galore
yourself with a wonderfull piece of art that is Dope!
8.MOD of the week
bastardz by chaos/ruff engine
re-004.zip ruff.home.ml.org
russian drumnbass, who would have expected that.. drums from
roni size, other samples from photek, spooky strings, selfspoken vocals
uhh, too bad i cant speak any russian : and a hard and funky
bassline.. not the best technique, but the formula used definitely
works ! im definitely going to look out for more from this guy - the
best ruff engine track so far imho!
Assign from TDR and Ethos9 has spoken and will from here on
take care of this section... Actually this is the last time ill
write a line on this forsaken place! Im out of here! Blame him for
all traumatizing experiences you might encounter by going after any of
his recomended tunes!
9.Commercial break!
Post your site here! Send the url to: ec97104@crazy.fe.up.pt
Hornet Demo Archive: www.hornet.org
Tokyo Dawn Records: www.tdr.scene.org
http://geecs.org/nico --- for a complete mental experience
10.Charts
This is probably the weirdest chart system you will ever
encounter: Every time i review it i will withdrawn 1 point from each
votee and add this weeks votes! Votes are gathered from anywhere: if
you have 1 line stating the best group,demo,coder,tracker and
graphician of the moment just let me know so i can put it here... Use
email or irc, i dont care how just get it to me... You can vote on
whomever you want as long as they/it exists! The point of this method
is to get ride of innactive people and have a chart with the current
best of the demoscene... Of course this is only possible if i get more
votes... : So make sure you vote for issue3!
Group: Cryonics1
COMA 1
Cocoon 1
Demo: Tired of Techno by Dawn3 johnnyw.zip 1
Square by Pulse plssqr.zip 1
Shad by Cocoon+Syndrome shad.zip 1
Code: Slyde 1
Statix 1
Echo 1
Music: Mefis 1
Groo 1
Smash 1
Graphics: Acryl 1
Made 1
Sunday 1
11.comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos
This functions like a newsgroup... Just send small messages
to me and ill post them in here.
For next issue ill gather some messages and replys posted
on comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos if i find them relevant.
Idea: MAKE A DAMN FUCKIN PARTY IN PORTUGAL
Demonews: See...Wait...Who cares?... Nothing -
Cremax/Nothing
Idea: MAKE A DAMN FUCKIN PARTY IN PORTUGAL
I herby summon thee to come to .pt.party 98 taking place on
porto/portugal on mid-december! Dont start with excuses!
Psychic Symphony/Label
12.Articles
Hommage to demonews! by Psychic Symphony
I finished reading the final issue of demonews a couple of
minutes ago! It was the very first time i read ANY issue of demonews!
There where stuff i had been told about but nothing like seeing it
for yourself! I had the idea of this demojournal without any awareness
of demonews whatsoever! There are lots of things i have learned with
reading just that one final issue. I have learned about the ways of the
past and that the future holds nothing more then certain oblivion! I
guess that is why imphobia stopped beeing released aswell! I understand
now. I have become wiser since a couple minutes ago!
Its so weird... You always think you know too much and yet
you are always learning there is so much still to learn... I dont
feel like writing. I feel like looking outside. Just looking at an
whole space full of weeds and rotting buildings! Looking at our decay!
Looking at those 2 dots on the sky supposed to be stars... One is
Jupiter! The brightest star... The brightest one... is not a star...
Its a planet! Its Jupiter.
So many times have i been hearing music looking at that sky
with the same weeds on the land, with the same buildings as a skyline...
So many times have i looked outside looking for inspiration. Today
i have to write instead of looking outside! I can hear the crickets
whistling due to the heat! Its hot today! It went up to 32 degrees
and the crickets always start whistling when its hot... The hotter
it gets, the louder they whistle!
Why do i keep writing this? On demonews they said the scene
was dying... That the new generation only cares on windows capabilities
and 3D accelarations! Its not true! They say the true demoscene
spirit lies within the 64k intros! Its not true! You want to know
what true demoscene spirit is? Is 3 people who will never see each
other, who live separated by sea, on the other side of the world,
who dont even breath the same air come together and debate a name
for their group! It sounds bad... Poor shock over there on australia
by this time he must be waking up to go for the university! Its
1:09 in portugal! And poor idiotboy. Restrained in the land of
oportunities without anyone to give him a hand... Poor me... Over
here with whisteling crickets and hardly no demoscene at all!
Who cares? Nobody cares... Nobody gives a damn and you know why?
We are 3 guys in 1 world... 1 world in an entire galaxy
and we waste the little time we have left looking at a monitor,
debating a name... We cant get a name for our group! The entire human
race can seize to exist in a second and we are debating a name for
a multicontinential group of 3 teenagers who will most probably spend
the rest of their lifes tagged with their computer memories for ever!
And what memories are those? Events we wanted to go that we couldnt.
Demos assembled by other people who will be haunted by their computer
memories until oblivion aswell. Music tracked by minds we wish to
unravel... So many things to learn about the past and the future, yet
we talk to a stranger to the scene and they think we are empty of
knowledge! They think we are computer nerds... How i laugh at them.
How i wish i could explain to them about our community... They wouldnt
understand. And frankly, they wouldnt care!
Demonews is right! The scene is dying! Nobody cares...
People get old and forget about the little details in life such as that
once they formed a group with some guys they didnt knew very well
and made things happen on a monitor! Nobody cares! I said it before
and ill write it again: life sukz and then you die! ITS TRUE!
Face it! You are here to let the human race live... You think anyone
cares what einstein did on his free time? Or what Pascal inspired
himself with? They dont care... They just want our race to prosper!
The very notion of appocalipse states that mankind must seize to
exist. At least in a material form! Like all species we must evolve!
The demoscene has also evolved!
Demonews and imphobia are a part of an old race: The younger
demoscene! Nowdays we have internet with ftps and ircs... Newer
diskmags. Diskmags that ask for vesa2.0! Music with ressonance filters!
Graphics with 32bit colours! Just because the scene is turning
different doesnt mean its no longer the demoscene... I wish i could
have been through the good old days advancing to C64 then amiga and
with 386 PC... But it didnt happen! I had a games console! I had
a 486dx2. Shit happens! Or to put it another way:
Life sukz and then you die!
Today i pay an hommage to demonews with this issue of
demojournal! Respect to you! You helped the demoscene prosper and then
you died! The newbie doesnt care if he is playing with windows or DOS,
just like a baby doesnt care if he is playing with a ball or a grenade.
He isnt aware of what all the fuss is about... All he wants is to play!
And when some years later he realizes he did a terrible mistake he looks
back ashamed and respects those who tried to take his toy away! Let us
play... We will respect you later. For that you can be sure of! You
already have my respect! Others will follow...
Psychic Symphony
13.END
This is it... End of issue 2 of demojournal... Subscriptions
askings are starting to come in... Still lacking lots of stuff but this
is only issue2 so i cant blame people! Hope that next issue will
have some more support, not only spreading but also sending stuff!
Special thanks to Magnesium, Gyr, Programmed, Salami, Assign, adok,
Cremax, shock, asphyx and cyg for their ideas, support, some votes and
very positive and constructive reactions on the first issue! Also
thanks to skrig for helping me take care of the interview of the week!
I would greet some more contacts i have but they already know
i say hi because i keep on bothering them all the time. :P Still
trying to get a contact on each country in the world so might as well
send me an email saying hi! :
Send anything you might think to be usefull like your votes,
articles, comments, subscription askings, party invitations,
coding tips, party reports, contacts, ansi logos and stuff like that.
Its not that hard... Just one email saying who kicks ass right
now with best group/demo/code/gfx/music, some words, an article if
youre inspired, some info on some party your thinking of attending,
a small message to the scene and an addy if you wish to make yourself
known to the world! If you just had the time of your life at some
demoparty... Let us now how it was... Even if it was crap, warn us!
Its our demoscene! Lets make things happen...
Psychic Symphony - ec97104@crazy.fe.up.pt
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