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[:=========================================================== :---------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - starts !=! ends !===! location !===! name !=========! contact !================ Aug 27 - Aug 29, 1999 France LTP 3 http://ltp.planet-d.net Sep 03 - Sep 05, 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 Sep 10 - Sep 12, 1999 Sweden Regal '99 http://regal.amphibic.com Sep 24 - Sep 26, 1999 Poland Horizon '99 http://www.horizon.siec.pl Sep 25 - Sep 26, 1999 Portugal Mira Amiga '99 http://www.surf.to/paug Sep 26 - Sep 28, 1999 Hungary Rage-Scenest '99 http://scenest.scene-hu.com Sep 30 - Oct 03, 1999 Norway Distance '99 http://www.neutralzone.org/distance Oct 01 - Oct 03, 1999 Germany Dialogos '99 http://www.dialogos.cc Oct 08 - Oct 10, 1999 Sweden The Feeling '99 http://www.thefeeling.net Oct 09 - Oct 11, 1999 Spain Arroutada Party 7 http://www.arroutada.ddns.org Oct 14 - Oct 17, 1999 Norway Norvegia '99 http://www.neutralzone.org/norvegia/norvegia99 =========! present time !====================================================== Oct 30 - Nov 01, 1999 France Central Party '99 http://www.chez.com/centralparty 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. 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I have been mostly eating... aristoff =====! interview !============================================================= Session Start: Mon Oct 18 22:15:15 1999 *** zden has joined #demojournal <|ps|> hello! :) so who are you? :) oh, well, i am digital alchymist =) <|ps|> digital alchimist hei? have you managed to turn sand into gold yet? hard to say exactly what i want to do with that, i think i would like to find happyness and make others happy too usually i am failing, by from time to time i am successfull, so i am keep on tring.. <|ps|> i see, so how old are you, where are you from and what do you do on real life? :) i am 24, from the capital city of slovakia, bratislava i am already not studing, i am graduated computer science engineer now i am tring to establish my own company with my friend producing quality video clips and animations (webs etc.) i am already too bored from programming and all that engineering stuff, so i am more into graphics <|ps|> any luck so far? well, our company is 1 month old, so hard to speak about some luck now :) <|ps|> :) and what do you do on this thing we call scene? well, i was for a long time 'free-lance coder', designing my demos, doing some small gfx, and waiting for other to give me some special track get music track for demos = always hardest thing for me :) <|ps|> go on.. ok... well, maybe i can say why i was freelance for a long time and not a member of some group... <|ps|> why were you freelance and not a member of some group? :) hard to say, maybe i had a need of quite 'personal message' and it was very difficul to make some compromises but now more and more i feel, it's important to coop with more people :) it's very hard to keep the track with the rest of the scene, if you are just lonely, you can't be perfect in all fields (code, gfx, 3d, design) now i am more looking for a true friends to cooperate on some projects, and now i am not talking about demos anymore <|ps|> ok, but lets talk demos, tao seemed to be your big break! 4th at tp8 wasnt it? :) it was 5th, yes and my friends was laughing at me again 5th, 4th, etc. :) never something "higher" on major demo parties it was a break, i was working on tao for over one year i was not working hard, but quite constantly, i had difficulties to have a music track for that demo unreal recommended me scorpik, then he got busy and told me about loonie <|ps|> let start from scratch, when did you first got a computer? my first computer was a zx spectrum, i was 12 year old, on the high school i got XT computer and then ... you know all <|ps|> when were you first interested in coding? well, of course on zx, my dad learned me some starts in basic, then i tried a little bit zx80 assembler on PC i learned, pascal, then asm and finally c <|ps|> and when did you became really into graphical coding? when i saw for the first time 'unreal' demo by FC i though to myself 'i whould be never able to make things like that' but later i realised, i can do that :) <|ps|> and look at you go nowdays :P you say you are from slovekia, how is the scene there? well, scene here is much worse like 2 years ago <|ps|> how come? in that time, mist was active, i was active, sceners were gathering but now it seems, not so much ppl in slovakia is coding something great... <|ps|> no parties anymore? well, it's very HARD to make a party in slovakia we organized a demobit98 party last year, about 300 sceners came from slovakia & czech republic and because everything was so expensive, also an entrace fee was high, so maybe that's why not so much ppl came <|ps|> 300 sceners is not bad at all.. well, you know how is that, get 10% of 300 and you got a real number of sceners most of ppl were gaming, as usually but this time, 'peon' did a great demo for fiasko, well, technically great from my point of view so it seems, there is not everything lost :) we are still much better in scene stuff like for example czech republic, but in comparisom to poland or hungary we are scene-nothing :) <|ps|> ok, you also got a 5th on fiasko didnt you? oh yes, i made a demo in 4 days and i was not expecting a great placing :) i was on a long trip around EU in the summer but i could not stand to visit our local party without any production :) <|ps|> where did you go? i was travelling with my GF Lucia to Croatia and then we went to Sweden (very very positive country for me) and to Amsterdam we were 3.5 weeks no journey, and i was very horny for coding when i got back :-) so i did 'singularity' <|ps|> what is so great about sweden? nature <|ps|> nature? we were camping near that big lake (forgot the name) near Amal town, it was very nice & those woods were quite mystical mushrooms, trees, rocks, water - just nature :) <|ps|> nice :) ok, time for top quiz show contest! you ready? i hope so... <|ps|> 1. whats your favorite color? this time: orange <|ps|> 2. name 5 animals started with letter p pes, papagaj, panda, pomaranc, paprika ;) <|ps|> 3. what are the best movie/book you ever seen/read? lost highway / none but from recent reading material, articles by Terrence McKenna were very interesting for me <|ps|> 4. what was the most bizarre thing that you ever witnessed? the end of physical reality :) <|ps|> 5. what was the most interesting cliche you ever read? lord of the rings :-) <|ps|> do you have a pet? no and the cactus i got from a friend died sorry, dried ;) <|ps|> did your cactus had a name? surely not, even i had a problem to find a name for my computer :-) <|ps|> ok, lets talk parties, what parties did you went to and which ones do you have best memory of? i was usally sending productions via another person to the party, i was on wired96 and scenest97, then our local parties, wired was best, because a large slovak scene group was there <|ps|> wired96 wasnt that the one with paper intro? yes yes! and with slovak demos xaos and (e), those were ready for demobit96, but it was canceled, so we visited wired wired was a big start for statix =) <|ps|> what is your favorite coder? slyde <|ps|> what about graphicians and musicians? no favorite gfx artist and now i like raiden's tunes best <|ps|> ok, lets try harder questions, what are your favorite demos?:) saint, paimen, stv, megablast... <|ps|> i see we have a suomiscene fan here :) :) <|ps|> what is it about finland demos that makes them that extra special? i am not sure there are somehow special, i just like those and many many more, usually i like 2d bitmap demos with experimental electronic music, design and good musical synchronization <|ps|> what do you think about big 3d world walkthroughs? majority of ppl like them, as majority of ppl now likes 3d games, so also majority of ppl tring to make 3d demos... <|ps|> but what do you think about them? i can't do them, i never will and i don't watch them they are nice, but they are boring for me demos for me are not about pushing possibility limits i whould prefer nice small designed cute demo instead of big perfect 3d <|ps|> :) tell us about your art visions oh well, usually it's about abstract it's quite hard for me to express my inner feelings by words (as you can judge in this interview) it's much more suitable for me, to make a photo, picture of effect so my way to express is in pictures or moving pictures <|ps|> do you have any galleries? ppl can see my pictures and photo collection at http://message.sk/zden we are running here a small cyber-art server at http://message.sk there are also my creations so about vision, more and more i can see my inner story behind demos, there not just a pure effect slide show, but it's on everyone to find something for him from my prods. <|ps|> you go deep man. so any wise words for your fans out there? "let's start to cooperate on something great" :) <|ps|> nice.. thank you alot for your time zdenko :) this ends our transmission :) yes i am tired Session Close: Mon Oct 18 23:56:08 1999 =====! demo !================================================================== Powertrip by Kamelite (party-version) Found at www.scene.org 1st place at Distance'99 System requirements: 3.5 MB HD, Vesa2.0, Midas-friendly soundcard Does not work in a dos-box, use real DOS! The demo: Powertrip is a nice standard demo: no stories, no design, just a good mix of 2D and 3D effects. It has some original ideas, but also quite some small errors. My favorite parts are the Kamelite-title (you know the effect where spotlights move behind a title, showing only the rays? Imagine that with the rays on fire), and the ball/torus surrounded by cubes that are textured with rotozoomers, and subliminal messages on top of that. It looks quite psychedelic, actually :). Some other effects are: the 3D-rings following the movements of the innermost ring, the "rubber" 3D-diamond-objects, and the zoom-in-while-blurring effect (ugly name, but I couldn't find the real one in the dictionary :)). Not new, but long time no see, so it's OK. I'm less happy about the colors. Most scenes use very few of them, or only shades of one hue, and this gives the demo a 256-color look. Other parts are too dark, like the globe that opens to reveal some text, and a fire-palette from pure black->red->yellow->white is sooooo overdone... There's one pixeled image (hi-res hi-color), showing two faces and a claw-finger, that's certainly good enough to justify the mode-switches used to show it. But it makes the low-res 3D-letters that move over it very slow :( The music starts slow & epic, then moves to techno demo-music. It's a bit repetitive, but I like most of it. The speed of the tune fits with the speed of the demo, but syncing is almost non-existent. Parts hardly follow musical changes, probably because there are few changes in the tune, but some objects/effects could have followed the beat... Worth the download ? I liked Powertrip: the music is cool, the overall feel is good, there are just some highly visible bugs, like the blur-routine flipping some pixels, or some background-textures with big ugly pixels, and some smaller things... Maybe I look too much at the details. Feel free to check it out. Seven =====! intro !================================================================= *strike* =====! music !================================================================= Dialogos99 scene.org Kritix has won multichannel competition with his song "Votecheat". It's style something between usual tdr production and Simon V and Kritix proves by it that he can do music in various styles. Even with this similarity it is still original enough and I think Kritix can become one of the top scene musicians one day. "Tihany express" by Velvet & manka placed 2nd with a guitar tune with soft trumpets. It's a fine music that can be done by only few people in the scene. 4chnl compo won Velvet & A-move with song "Downtown" and this one was actually reason why I've started downloading music from dialogos. They play again a guitar tune with great bassline, perfect percussion and melody that makes you easy. I'm sorry that I didn't have time to get more music from dialogos but this 3 songs should be enough, because they are all worth downloading. tryhuk =====! question !============================================================== > question of the week: what is THE scene country? scenecountry is denmark. fudge blasphemy purple. -distance.fi The one and the only, Finland. -bca.fi must be trinidad for sure. -tmk.no.jp finland, of course. -frodo.fi finland -knos.fr nowadays maybe germany.. -dfj.hu after all it must be france. -melwyn.fi Madagascar -adok.at Not Portugal for sure. -attack.pt Finland, I suppose. Although Portugal is becoming a threat... and even Belgium (cough, cough) :) -seven.be I guess 'Belgium' isn't the right answer ;-) Well let me think. a couple years ago I would have said Finland, but at this moment I don't think there is no such thing as 'THE scene-country' But I gonna make a try: GERMANY (It's quite central and there are a lot of parties lately and parties is where all the fun is, isn't it? -djefke.be Tanzania...or Finland maybe -exocet.fr =====! quote !================================================================= Los changes #pixel topic to 'Channel of the Martijn and the Jenny' ?------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - !====:] 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://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://calodox.planet-d.net Chrome..............................http://chrome.scene-hu.com Defacto 2..............................http://www.defacto2.net 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 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 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 Chiptune...............................http://www.chiptune.com Fridge...........................http://www.ssmedion.de/fridge Ignorance.............................http://www.ignorance.org Intense...........................http://intense.ignorance.org Jecoute.................................http://jecoute.cjb.net Level-d.................................http://www.level-d.com Milk.......................................http://milk.sgic.fi <*> 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 Noise................................http://www.noisemusic.org One Touch Records......................http://otr.planet-d.net Radical Rhythms.....http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/merrelli/rr Ruff Engine................http://members.xoom.com/ruff_engine Sound Devotion................http://sugarbomb.x2o.net/soundev Soundstate.........................http://listen.to/soundstate 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 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 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 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/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 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Cologne Conference 1999 In Cologne (Köln)/Germany on 13th November during the fair Home Electronics World . . ------+----------------------------------------!------ o1 ---[ Introduction Time Table ]--- o6 o2 ---[ Where & When Food & Beverages ]--- o7 o3 ---[ How to Get tHere General rules ]--- o8 o4 ---[ Entrance Fee Orga-Staff ]--- o9 o5 ---[ Features & Compos Contact ]--- 1o ------+----------------------------------------!------ ---+--------------+----------------------------------------------------+--- ---[ iNTRODUCTION ]----------------------------------------------------[ o1 ---+--------------+----------------------------------------------------+--- Last year we introduced the Cologne Conference to the scene and it was a great success. It was one of the non-computer party events to be held yearly during the traditional computer fair known as the WOC (World Of Commodore) in Cologne, Germany. This year, its name is Home Electronics World, and we are awaiting Sceners from all over the world. For us, this saturday evening is an occasion to drink some beer, meet scenish friends and it is a place to feel comfortable after a long days effort at the fair. Once again, you'll have a good reason to come to Cologne this year: Meet your scenish friends, party with us, and again, feel good at the Cologne Conference in 1999... Expect the following features: ----[ bigger and longer, 16 hours of pure fun ----[ big lottery with great valuable prices ----[ happy "Golden Beer" winners ----[ helpful organizing staff including local information ----[ low prices for entry, meals, and drinks ----[ extraordinary scenish fun competitions ----[ including Gravenreuth dart (knife) competition :) ---+--------------+----------------------------------------------------+--- ---[ Where & When ]----------------------------------------------------[ o2 ---+--------------+----------------------------------------------------+--- Cologne Conference 99 will be held from November 13th to 14th, 1999. As usually this party runs parallel to the tradional WOC fair called "Home Electronics World", the official world's biggest Amiga fair. The Party is very close to the fair - only 2km from the "Home Electronics World" main entry. Address: Rheinländer Auenweg 173 Köln (Mülheim) Germany Party service lines - 24h from dusk till down: 0179 / 493 291 3 0179 / 693 777 1 Admittance is at 18:00 cet, Saturday, 13th November 1999 -------------------------------------------------------- ---+------------------+------------------------------------------------+--- ---[ How to get there ]------------------------------------------------[ o3 ---+------------------+------------------------------------------------+--- How to get from the fair to the party ------------------------------------- on foot: ~~~~~~~~ The party place is only 15 minutes away from the fair if you walk. After going out of the party-place you should look for some party signs. If you don't see anything, ask for the Auenweg. Once you are on this street, walk on the left site for about 2km. The "Rheinlander" is on your left - you can't miss it. by car: ~~~~~~~ We recommend you not to drive there, if you can walk. It takes longer to get there by car, because of the high fair traffic (remember: there is also the ART COLOGNE at the same time). But if you want to take your car with you, drive along the street in front of the main entrance of the fair. After the bridge (100 meters after the main entry) take a right. You will be on Auenweg. Go straight down for about 2km and you'll see the "Rheinlander" on your left. Park your car on your right at the big parking place with no costs - hardly not to see. map: ~~~~ For a detailed map, have a look at www.scenet.de/cc. ---+--------------+----------------------------------------------------+--- ---[ Entrance Fee ]----------------------------------------------------[ o4 ---+--------------+----------------------------------------------------+--- We figured out the entrance fee and maked it again as low as possible for you. With this price we can only cover the costs for the organizing and rent of the place. Comparing to other traditional fair-parties, the entry fee is still the lowest ever. Entrance fee is 15,00 DM ------------------------ !* FREE ENTRY FOR GIRLS *! ---+-------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--- ---[ Features & Compos ]-----------------------------------------------[ o5 ---+-------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--- The Golden Beer: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As always, all winners of the competitions will be rewarded with valuable prices and our special highlight, "The Golden Beer". Fun Competitions: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Again, we have some extraordinary competitions waiting for you on that night. You sure will be amused and have a lot of fun. They will be crazy and marvellous. There also will be a lot of prizes for the competitors, and lastly some very interesting special CC-prizes, we prepared for the saturday night show... Everyone will have the chance to catch one of the prizes...! Sensible Soccer Competition ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Last year announced, this year held - will you be the football star to fight down your opponents? The SWOS-compo will be presented to you by Dire/Eremation. You may bring your own joysticks. There will be also some other compos. Get prepared for some surprises. ---+------------+------------------------------------------------------+--- ---[ Time Table ]------------------------------------------------------[ o6 ---+------------+------------------------------------------------------+--- The party will begin at 18:00 cet and end at 05:00 cet Fun competition times: 21:00-3:00 cet There will be also a big lottery after the competitions. We'll make announcements during the party. ---+------------------+------------------------------------------------+--- ---[ Food & Beverages ]------------------------------------------------[ o7 ---+------------------+------------------------------------------------+--- We'll sell sandwiches, chips, and beverages all the time at low prices. Yes, we'll have a lot of beer... ---+---------------+---------------------------------------------------+--- ---[ General rules ]---------------------------------------------------[ o8 ---+---------------+---------------------------------------------------+--- * The party is ment to be a scene-party without computers! There will be no possibility to put your computer anywhere - so don't bring your computers to the party. * We are not responsible for any stolen stuff at the party place. If you have some articles of value you bought from the fair or something else, contact the organizers and let them save it for you. * Don't scribble around or put any stickers to anywhere at the party. We will call the police and sue anybody, who damages any property of the party place. We don't have the money to pay for any damages you cause. * It's not allowed to bring your own beverages into the party place. * We hate to say this, but we have an uninvited list this year. Those one "Scener" thrown out last year is not allowed to get into the party place again. ---+--------------+----------------------------------------------------+--- ---[ iNTRODUCTION ]----------------------------------------------------[ o9 ---+--------------+----------------------------------------------------+--- Main organizing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dire/Eremation Evrimsson/Nuance Ghandy/Gods Merlin-M!/Nuance ...and lots of helping hands. ---+---------+---------------------------------------------------------+--- ---[ Contact ]---------------------------------------------------------[ 1o ---+---------+---------------------------------------------------------+--- Webpage www.scenet.de/cc Snail Nico Barbat (Dire) Rheinaustr. 37, 51149 Köln Evrim Sen (eVRIMSSON) Merkensstr. 1, 50825 Köln Phone 02203 / 13 751 (Nico Barbat) 0179 / 493 291 3 0179 / 693 777 1 (Evrim Sen) Fax 089 / 66617-56741 Email evrimsson@teucom.xnc.com (eVRIMSSON) ghandy@mail.isis.de (Ghandy) nico@barbat.de (Dire) merlin@teucom.xnc.com (Merlin-M!) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mo3 - format of tomorrow ? downloads: http://www.icl.ndirect.co.uk/music/ - Bass sound system http://www.iis.fhg.de/amm/download/mp3enc/index.html - mp3enc Ian Luck has released Bass 0.7 which introduces new mo3 format, which uses mp3 compression on tracked music. Let's see what he says to it: "MO3s are treated and used in exactly the same way as normal MOD musics. The advantage of MO3s is that they can be a lot smaller with virtually identical quality. Playing a MO3 does not use any more CPU power than playing the original MOD version does. The only difference is a longer load time as the samples are being decoded." ... "Some sounds do not like MP3 compression, so MO3 also provides a lossless compression that will on average reduce samples to around 50% of their size. The rest of the MOD structure is also compressed. This all means that you can greatly reduce the size of MOD musics without even using any MP3 compression." Ian Luck also writes that MP3 compression supports 16bit samples only (so 8-bit are converted to 16-bit first) and also "MP3 does not maintain the sample shape exactly (some encoders more than others), so a loop that normally sounds correct may produce a "click" or have a gap in the MP3 version." It's clear that this format is usable only for releasing, because saving samples in mp3 format would take too much time and it would destroy them pretty nice. But that's exactly what scene needs - a new format that would keep high quality in combination with small size of files. So if you want to see what it can do, get bass 0.7. Archive contains dll, interface to include in your project, and of course a program for creating mo3 files (for mp3 comression is used external command-line program of your choice - I've used mp3enc). 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