        
        Demojournal
        issue: #4
        date: 11/september/1998
        subscribers: 29

        special tribute to the danish demoscene!
        
        1.Editorial             - i 
        2.Demonews              -  wonder
        3.Thought of the week   -   why 
        4.Party on!             -    do 
        5.Interview of the week -     i
        6.Demo of the week      -      always
        7.Intro of the week     -       write
        8.MOD of the week       -        some
        9.Commercial break      -         worthless
        10.Charts               -          stuff
        11.Demosceners (A-Z)    -           in 
        12.Articles:            -            here.
           Another night        -              No
           Gravity 98 report    -               one
        13.Credits              -                 reads
        14.END                  -                  anyway!

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	1.Editorial

	This is a .txt file supposed to be read with the aid of some
musical output while offline so if you're online or at the work or 
something similar... STOP READING! TAKE THIS FILE HOME, PUT ON A CD
OR SOME MOD's PLAYING AND RESTART READING!
	I'm getting tired of having to do all stuff by myself! If you like
what i'm doing (and i know most people do!) please help me! I can only do
so many things right now because i haven't started university yet! In about
2 weeks i'll have classes and i won't have so much time to go around and ask
everybody to please vote and if you want to subscribe or stuff like that...
And the news and releases should be delivered to me, not me searching whole
irc for them! Cammon people... Help me out here!
	Thank you to all people who already said they would email me with
the latest news and stuff on thursday! That's all i ask.
        Ran out of gossip to post so i turned section 3 into the thought of
the week! BTW: I'm looking for a volunteer on sending me each week the
INTRO of the week text since i'm more into demos then intros and am not that
much interested on new intro releases!
        This is a special tribute to danish demoscene because:
        1. I got 2 purple guys interviewed at once
        2. SE98 releases ruled!
        3. Demo of the week is winner of SE98
        I was wondering if i should post the article i wrote 'another night'
But since it's my demojournal i decided to post what i felt like writing!
If you don't like it, sue me! Or even better, send your own article to me!
        New releases section disapeared! I didn't got in touch with any ftp
supervisor and of about 7 emails i sent out to some musical labels only 1
did reply and it was for telling me that things are a little slow nowdays on
their label! :( If i get some more time and effort to get things going i'll
restart the section, until then, read the demonews part!
        Just one last thing... I see that more portuguese guys are
subscribing to demojournal... I hardly distributed demojournal on portugal!
I hardly KNOW portuguese demosceners! There hardly ARE portuguese demosceners!
Anyway... Just want to say hello to the 5 portuguese guys who have subscribed!
        Bigger, better, more! Read on!

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	2.Demonews

        Psychic:

        topic on #pixel on monday afternoon: 'Thor cut his hair!'
        *No comments*
        Portuguese demoscene report:
        #coders on ptnet is moving to a more stable url on .ua.pt soon!
        Small gathering on mid-december is being better planed.
        Maybe we'll get the 1st .pt demoparty on summer 1999!

        Label is dead! I made the selfish decision of killing label.
        It was the group i founded... I don't care... I am sorry:
        Razer, is out of computer for a while!
        Programmed formed a new group and is planning some big moves soon!
Best of luck to you!
        Majestic Dawning still doesn't know it's over but i guess he'll form
that group with mc-viper they were planning to!
        Iceball was delighted to finaly get away from the group...
        Sulphurik was dragged by me into 'evolve' since i kind of felt
responsible for him!
        Superior won't notice the group is dead until about 4 months from now.
He never gets in touch anyway!

        Psychofox asked me to organize the demoscene section of his group
so what i did was merge this idea with my other group 'Evolve' (shock+idiotboy)
And know we are all happy! I think... I don't feel happy but... WTF!
Nephoo asked me to join so... We are now one big happy family of coders and
wannabe coders releasing demos with an extra file (psychofox's) attached! :)

        Hugi#12 is out! Go get it! (http://home.pages.de/~hugidownload/)

        Evoke'98 and X'98 are being held as i write this stuff down!

-/-

        Dave:

        First, I'll start with the nice and interesting part:
the PhyMosys Magazine issue 8. This is an emag that me and the other members
of PhyMosys are making. We hope this will be released on the middle of
september. The only bad point you will find in this emag is that the 99% of
the articles are written in plain Spanish ( now, I see a lot of people
complained with me :(((  ) but don't worry at all... coz, at least, you
can take a look at the code we put with almost every article. I promise
HERE that every article I write now, I'll translate to english. :)

Contents: coding(asm,c,pascal), optimizations, effects in demoscene,
          virus section, image processing, opinion,
          Internet (recopilation and full descriptions of the best sites)
          ...

About Euskal Party? heck! Hugi #12 will include the results of the
party so you can take a look in. What was there? well, Pc Demo, Amiga demo,
Windows-Demo, 64kb intro & 4kb intro (both on PC and Amiga),
GFX (2d & 3d), Mods( 4chn & multichannel), Fast 2d, Fast Music,
the Human Demo (really one of da cool things there... ;) ), Animations...
... and also some weird & wild compos breaking disks !!! ;D

Also, my friend Aktiv is organizing a game compo, you can visit
his page for rules if you're interested in making games:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/4377/index.html

Well, that was all from Spain... :D

-/-

	Binar:

-Adek has joined Kuznia Prods as swapper.
-Adek has left Krotkie Zwarcie Staff
-Insect has joined Scream! and Suspend as swapper
-Snap/Ind. ansi/azki maker is looking for a group to join
-Nemus has left Melancholy
-Rec changed his nickname to Crash
-Banshik/Byteway has joined Apatya as coder
-New art group called CHLORIDE was founded. We looking for musicians,
 graphicians, raytracers and ascii makers. We don't need coder, because
 we want to realesed art packs (pure art=no code). If you are interested
 in joined write to BINAR@KKI.NET.PL Everyone is welcome!

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        3.Thought of the week

        Life sukz and then you die!

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	4.Party on!

	Name:		Starts: Finishes:	Country:
      .......................................................
      . Evoke 98        11/sep  13/sep          Germany     .
      .         site:   kaoz.org/evoke/98                   .
      .......................................................
      . X98             11/sep  13/sep          Netherlands .
      .......................................................
      .                 * <-- YOU ARE HERE!                 .
      .......................................................	
      . Compusphere X   28/oct  31/oct          Sweden      .
      .         site:   http://www.compusphere.org/         .
      .......................................................
      . Dreamhack 98    29/oct  01/nov          Sweden      .
      .         site:   www.dreamhack.org                   .
      .......................................................
      . Satellite 98    07/nov  09/nov          Poland      .
      .         madbart@jormas.com            Madbart/Apx   .
      .         superfml@opnt.optimus.wroc.pl SuperFML/Apx  .
      .......................................................
      . Dracula 98      19/dec  20/dec          Romania     .
      .......................................................
      . .pt.party 98    19/dec  20/dec          Portugal    .
      . ec97104@crazy.fe.up.pt (more of a small gathering!) .
      .......................................................

        THE DEMOPARTYS LISTED IN HERE DID NOT COME TO MY KNOWLEDGE BY
THEIR ORGANIZERS HANDS! IT'S STUPID! IF YOU ARE ORGANIZING A DEMOPARTY,
AT LEAST LET OTHERS KNOW! Organizers: Hope you got the message i wanted
to give out!
        Thanks to steffo/cryonics, nephoo and magnesium for the information
they shared with me. The rest i read about it on Hugi#11.

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        5.Interview of the week (Psychic)

        OK! So this is what happened... I wanted to interview thorsten
to start with, only he was busy. I saw barbecue exiting #coders and talked
with him asking for an interview! He says: 'sure! But by email please!'
So i email him the questions... Later on that day thorsten comes to me and
states that he has some free time so... Here we go! I almost asked the very
same questions to both so you might call it:

        thorsten vs barbecue: purple to the bone

<Psychic_S> first up: introduce yourself to us all common mortals
<th^purple> ok. My real name is Thorsten rts, i live in rhus, the second
  biggest city in Denmark. I am 21 years old.
<th^purple> should i write more?
<Psychic_S> whatever you feel like we should know
<th^purple> ok.
<Psychic_S> alien origins... (i wonder why do i always ask about aliens...)
<Psychic_S> shoe size...
<th^purple> shoe size is 43 :)
<Psychic_S> 43?
<th^purple> I am definetely no alien
<Psychic_S> arent you a little oversized? or am i just confusing measurements
  in here?
<th^purple> hmm.. don't know what that is in european standards..
<th^purple> but there are like 10 different european standards anyway :)
<th^purple> the size of my feet is pretty average :)
<Psychic_S> oh well... cant all be good life... what do you do on the scene?
<th^purple> I do graphics, and a some music every now and then
<th^purple> and some music, even
<Psychic_S> is that good?
<th^purple> i guess it's good.. do you mean good quality, or if i feel good
  doing it?
<Psychic_S> er... both...
<Psychic_S> but since you won se98 demo with 'plastik' i guess the first is
  answered! :)
<th^intrvw> ok.. well, i like doing it, ofcause. About the quality i don't
  know. I'll leave the judging of my works to others, but i like it myself.
<Psychic_S> lol, are you a little shy to say you rule or something? :P
<th^intrvw> i am kinda shy yes.
<Psychic_S> what about the future?
<Psychic_S> what do you have in mind?
<th^intrvw> well, we're working with blasphemy on a demo for tp8, and i'm
  saving up to buy some music equipment, so i can do some more
  trance, with a decent soundquality.
<Psychic_S> hum... thats good! are you planning to win tp98 then?
<th^intrvw> hmm.. i think the competition at tp8 will be real tough, and i
  really hope so too. The stuff from assembly was really
  dissapointing in my opinion.
<th^intrvw> and i never plan to win anything, but i often hope to :)
<Psychic_S> what about your own life? what do you do for a living?
<th^intrvw> Right now i do webdesign, but i'd like to do some videographics
  later on.
<th^intrvw> i work in a small company, slyde/blasphemy works as a javacoder
  in the same company
<Psychic_S> ah! 
<Psychic_S> tell me more on the danish demoscene
<th^intrvw> the danish scene is really cozy, and we know eachother rather
  well, at least the bigger groups do
<th^intrvw> for instance i live with vipa/purple and craft/fudge, echo used
  to live here too, but he moved in with his girlfriend
<Psychic_S> hum...
<Psychic_S> what about the new scurge? is there any?
<th^intrvw> you mean new groups?
<Psychic_S> yes
<th^intrvw> at summer encounter, alien prophets did a fairly ok demo, other
  groups are showing up too.
<th^intrvw> there are a few groups like blasm and mango that have been around
  for a while, and they are really improving. they might very well
  do some cool productions soon.
<Psychic_S> thats good! :) well... im out of questions to ask...
<Psychic_S> want to talk about some weird topic or smtg?
<th^intrvw> hmm.. sure

(* crazy talk on some weird topic! actually, no! just one big
   missunderstanding that i dont want to see published :) *)

<Psychic_S> think fast:
<Psychic_S> first demo
<th^intrvw> our first demo was 'skumle planer' it won the first summer
  encounter, to much surprise, as xtacy competed with thair killer
  demo 'mighty' but 'skumle planer' featured an irresistebly charming,
  singing goldfish. apparently people loved it :)
<Psychic_S> best demo
<th^intrvw> well, our latest demo was plastik. we've gotten absoluty amazing
  response on it, though imho it has a lot of flaws, but i guess that's
  because i know what i wanted it to be like. others see it more objectively.
<Psychic_S> lol
<Psychic_S> well... want to say hi to some ppl so i can close this interview?
<th^intrvw> well, there are so many people i've talked with, and we always
  forget half of them in the greetings. sorry, we love you all equally :)
<Psychic_S> thats a very simple way to wrap things up!
<Psychic_S> thx for your time!
<Psychic_S> :)
<th^intrvw> np

-/-

> 1.tell us a little on yourself... who are you, what do you do, your alien
> origins, whats your favorite fruit... stuff like that!

I'm Henrik Thygesen, im 22, studying computer science at Roskilde
University dk. I've coded demos for the last 6 years, 5 years in purple... 
or so...
 
> 2.i see purple won se98 with 'plastik' and some guys are saying it's one
> of the best demos ever... how do you plea?

Im quite surprised it turned out that well... I think some of the success
is because of the choice of using hires instead of the usual 320x200. It
improved picture quality alot. 

I'd like to use the oportunity to shout out: Please do code Win32 versions
of your demo's! Thats the way you get newcommers to the scene .. I think..
:)
 
> 3.tell us a little on the danish scene! hows it going?
 
It's going better than ever.. Many good groups .. the problem is lack of
newcomers.. But thats a general problem with the scene I think.

> 4.what about future purple plans?

We hope to release a new demo at The Party 98.. a cooperation with Blasphemy..
 
> 5.time for quick thinking:
> first demo
A cracker - intro for a game .. cronologia by cascada .. etc..

> best demo
Tribes and Square

> computers
I am gonna get a dual celeron 450Mhz !!! :)

> 3d
Voodoo2 rocks.

> aliens
Great movies.

> scene
hmmm..

> dirty socks
dislikes.

> 6. cant think of any decent questions to pose so just say whatever you
> feel like saying and lets all live happy! :)

Vote at doose-chart! (http://vote.ruc.dk)

> 7. wanna say hi to mom and dad and the rest? shoot!

Hi!

> 8. thats it! thx for your time and sorry if i dont feel like posing lots
> of questions... im shitty today!

hmm.. nothing else to do right now...

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        6.Demo of the week (Psychic)

        'Plastik' by Purple
	Code: vipa and barbecue
	Graphics: thorsten and mads
	Music: mystical
	Winner of Summer Encounter '98 demoparty! Very nice SVGA graphics,
excellent design, nice music you even start chanting at the end of the
demo! 'System overide!' You really have to see it to understand! Mention
to second place 'Louis Lane' by Blasphemy which was also very good! Nice
battle for first position between those two! Size is 2.410kb which is
acceptable nowdays! IMHO this demo has the best tunnel effect ever made;
The texture and the flow of it are just awesome!
        If you don't know what design is, go download some summer encounter
releases!

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        7.Intro of the week (Psychic)

        'Shale' by Chalice
        Quartz, Aragorn and DiXen are responsible!
        Very good feeling around it! Nice effects, keeping it clean with
a nice tune playing... Very good splines and kaleidoscope effects! The whole
intro is just very nice! (chl_shl.zip) go get it!

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        8.MOD of the week (Psychic)

        'Chiba City Lights 96' by Chuck Biscuits and Basehead
        Assign didn't do his homework this week! ;) Maybe he was busy
with evoke98... Either way: This is one of my favourite tunes of all times!
A house remix of basehead's 'chiba city lights'. The leads in there are
awesome! I specially love the break it takes on the middle of the tune,
the whole drums wrap up and you just get blown away by those brilliant leads
while the background mood is just overwhelming! This was one of the first
tunes i ever heard and i still love it!
        Just put this one playing, turn off your monitor, grab some beverage
and some cookies and wonder on your life! :) Don't forget to check the
unreleased extra remix at the later patterns!

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        10.Charts

        I add up all votes i got around and only at the end of the month
do i deduct 1 point from each votee! That should help the charts rise up
a little for starters! What i'm trying to do is to get fresh work on the
charts. Please vote! But vote according to what you have seen lately!
Intro's votes are also appreciated since i forgot about them on issue#1
and kind of never occured i was missing a category on the charts! :(
        There are also diskmags but i don't believe diskmags should be on
this chart simply because there aren't many of them out! I'll make a remark
on the latest diskmags as they are released. Check out the demonews section!

	Group: 		COMA    (1)
			Purple  (1)			
			Pulse   (1)

        Demo:           'Sexadelic' by Byterapers   (1)
                        'Plastik' by Purple         (1)

        Intro:          'Clone Meets Clone' by ACME (1)
                        'Pager 11' by Fudge         (1)

        Code:           Echo/Fudge          (2)
                        Statix              (1)

        Music:          Lebeau              (1)      
                        Jax/Korozone        (1)
                        Mindwalker/Suburban (1)
			
        Graphics:       Made    (1)
                        Acryl   (1)
			Ra	(1)

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        11.Demoscener

        See anything missing or wrong? Warn me!
                                                
Name:            Country:       What:           Group:
                                                        
216..............fi.............Code............MFX
Aap..............nl.............Gfx.............ACME
Access...........be.............................Ketchup Killers
Acryl...........................Gfx.............Scoopex
Action..........................Code............Virtual Visions
Adok.............at.............Editor..........Hugi
Antony...........fr.............Gfx.............Pulse
Aragorn.........................Code............Chalice
Asavarius.......................................
Asphyx...........fr.............Gfx.............
Assassin.........fi.............Swapper.........Trauma
Assign...........de.............Music...........Ethos9^Tokyo Dawn
Atom.............pl.............Swapper.........Platoon
Aurelius.........de.............Code............Matrix
Azure............sl.............Gfx.............Dilemma^Byteway
A-Move...........de.............Music...........Amable^Tokyo Dawn
Baloo............sw.............Gfx.............Blocc
Banshik..........pl.............Coder...........Byteway
Barbecue.........dk.............Coder...........Purple
Binar............pl.............Swapper^Ascii...Korozone^Chloride^VP
Blade............sp.............................
Bonnie...........fr.............Gfx.............HCL
Brain Power......pt.............Coder...........Dawn 3
Brainsaw.........nl.............................SuccesS
Carebear.........fi.............Music...........Orange
Carlos..........................Music...........Breeze
Clef.............au.............................
Clifford M......................Gfx.............ExMortis^MFX
CpC..............gr.............Code............Demaniacs
Cremax...........pt.............Code............Nothing
Croaker..........fi.............Code............TPOLM
Crossbone........de.............Code............Suburban Creations
!Cube............fi.............Music^Gfx^Code..Trauma
Cyberfish........no.............Code............The Lost Souls
Cyclops.........................Gfx.............Fuel
Cyg..............fr.............Code............BlaBla
Dake.............ch.............Code............Calodox
Damaq............fi.............Gfx.............Doomsday
Damien...........be.............................Imphobia
Danube...........fr.............Gfx.............HCL
Darkness.........be.............Editor..........Imphobia
Dave.............sp.............Code............Phymosys
Dave.............pl.............Music...........Haujobb
Death............fr.............................                     
Diabolo..........fr.............Code............HCL
Digisnap.........de.............Code............Matrix
Distance.........fi.............Music...........TPOLM^monotonik^lackluster
                                esaruoho@dlc.fi
Dixan............fi.............Music...........Chalice
Djamm............fr.............Music...........Ribbon
DreamDancer......de.............Gfx^Swapper.....Nwo Wolfpack^Role
Dune.............fi.............Music...........Orange
Echo.............dk.............Code............Fudge
Echo.............pl.............Music...........Diffusion
Eclipse..........fr.............Coder...........Knights^Lichty's Concept
Ellyn...........................Code............Ex-Mortis^MFX
Excel............fi.............Gfx.............Trauma
Ez...............it.............Music...........Deathstar
Ezah.............hu.............Gfx^Editor......Dilemma
Fear.............fi.............Code............The Black Lotus
Filozof..........pl.............Ascii...........Konzept
Fitzroy..........pl.............Ascii...........IPC^Enenzi
Flan.............fr.............Gfx.............
Flex.............sw.............Code............Blocc
Fndr.............sw.............Gfx^Code........
Frame............sw.............Gfx.............C-lous
Fred.............ch.............Editor..........Calodox
Gandalf..........fr.............................Pulse
Ganja Man........uk.............Music...........Lords of Kaos
Goblin...........au.............Code............Xtatic
Goofy............sw.............Editor..........
Gooroo...........ca.............Code............KFMF
Greenpix7........ru.............Gfx.............Universe
Guille...........fr.............Code............Cocoon
Gyr..............au.............Code............
Hager............hu.............Swapper.........Profuse
Harlequin........nl.............Gfx^Music.......SuccesS
Hate.............pl.............Swapper^Editor..Prism^Core^Scream
Hoplite..........fi.............Code............Orange
Hunz.............au.............Music...........Five Musicians
Hyp-X...........................Code............Mandula
Idiotboy.........us.............Code............Plastik Productions
Incubus..........pl.............Code............Prism
Infinite Reboot.................Code............Fuel
Jace............................Code............The Black Lotus
Java.............sw.............Gfx.............Cryonics
Jax..............pl.............Music...........Korozone
Jim Goer.........pl.............Code............Grinders
Kal-Min-Do.......fr.............Music...........HCL
Keith303.........de.............Code............Radical Rhythms^Tokyo Dawn
KeyG.............pl.............Music...........Pulse
Kneebitter.......us.............Code............Threesome
Kombat...........il.............Code............Immortals
Lando............pl.............Swapper.........Konzept
Lebeau/Legend....fi.............Music...........CNCD
Legend...........au.............Music...........The Vault
Lexus............pl.............Editor..........Enenzi
Liam The Lemming.uk.............Music...........
Made.............fr.............Gfx.............Bomb
Mandrixx.........fr.............................
Masterboy........il.............Code............
Mellow-D........................Music...........TPOLM
Melwyn...........fi.............Music...........Acid Rain
Mercure..........fr.............................
Micron...........fi.............................Byterapers Inc.
Mike.............fi.............Gfx.............Byterapers Inc.
Mindwalker.......pt.............Music...........Suburban Creations
Miss Saigon.....................Music...........Threesome
Mosh.............fi.............Music...........Forsaken
Mov..............fi.............................Radio
MRI..............fi.............Code............Doomsday
Mr.Sex...........fi.............Code............Byterapers Inc.
Marquis..........de.............Music^Swapper...Platoon
NamNam...........sw.............Gfx.............Blocc
Neek.............gr.............Code............Demaniacs
Nemesulku........fi.............Gfx.............Acid Rain
Nephoo...........pl.............Code............Korozone
Nero.............de.............Gfx.............Matrix
Nitro............fi.............Music...........Trauma
Nix.............................Code............The Black Lotus
Nytrik...........fr.............Gfx.............Cocoon
Optic............no.............Music...........Tokyo Dawn
Orome...........................Gfx.............Astroidea
Pancho...........pl.............Gfx.............Platoon^IPC
Paniq...........................Music...........Tokyo Dawn
Patapom..........fr.............Code............Bomb
Pitbull..........de.............................Imphobia
PL...............be.............Gfx.............Imphobia
Programmed.......pt.............Code............
Programmer.......ru.............Code^Editor.....Universe                               
Psychic Symphony.pt.............Code............The Utopians^Evolve
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Quartz..........................Code............Chalice
Rents............pt.............Gfx.............Dawn 3
Reptile..........hu.............Music...........Astroidea
Rod..............hu.............Code............Mandula
Rommel...........no.............Swapper.........Revelation
Sagacity........................................Quad
SamSam..........................................Quad
Sarix...........................................Quad
Scorpik..........pl.............Music...........Pulse
Screamager......................Music...........KFMF
Shade............hu.............Music...........Dilemma
Sharon...........de.............Code............Matrix
Shiva...........................Code............Kolor
Shock............au.............Code............Xtatic^Dimension^Ramjam
Skal.............fr.............Code............Bomb
Skrig............dk.............Gfx.............Prone
Skyphos..........de.............Music...........Matrix
Simon King!......pl.............Ascii...........Procreation^Fuse
Sly Spy..........hu.............................Capana
Slyde............dk.............Code............Blasphemy
Snowman..........us.............................Hornet
Smash............uk.............Music...........Nothing
Sol..............fi.............Code............Trauma
Soulless.........pl.............Gfx.............Norferin
Spansh...........uk.............................
Spector..........fi.............Code............Trauma
Spectre..........turkey.........Code............Flare
Steffo...........sw.............Music...........Cryonics
Sulphurik........pt.............Code............
Szum.............pl.............Editor..........Cryogen
Tapeworm.........fi.............Code............Acid Rain
Tbf..............fr.............Swapper.........HCL
Teque............fi.............Music...........Trauma
Thor.............sw.............Gfx.............TPOLM
Thorsten.........dk.............Gfx^Music.......Purple
TJ...............sw.............................Cryonics
Tmk..............nw^jp..........Gfx^Code........INF^Dolphin
Tonic............fi.............Gfx^Code........Trauma
Tremor...........fi.............Code............Trauma
Trixter..........us.............Code............Hornet
TSC..............hu.............Code............Astroidea
TuO..............fr.............Code............Skytech
Ubbe.............sw.............Code............Cryonics
Unreal...........pl.............Code............Pulse^CNCD
Vain.............sw.............Code............Cryonics
Vastator.........us.............Code............NetGeneration
Vector...........us.............Code............Vertigo
Vic.............................Music...........ACME
Vim!.............uk.............Music...........Mono
Vipa.............dk.............Code............Purple
Virne............fi.............Code............COMA
Void.............fi.............Code............Trauma
Wave.............nl.............Music...........Maniacs of Noise
Willbe...........fr.............Music^Gfx.......
Wizard...........be.............Code............Imphobia
Workbench........ch.............Music...........Calodox^Level-D
Yolque...........fi.............Music...........CNCD
Zippy...........................Code............Utopia
Zorlim...........fi.............Code............NetGeneration

Thanks to the following people for some gaps filled out since last issue:
Adok, distace, nephoo, tmk, binar and melwyn.

Also: I apologise to cute-nick because i'm not sure that's his nick! :P
      I read his email 2 seconds before i left university! I recall the
      group name is tatanka but i'm not sure on the handle, i know it's
      something with nick and that it has a - but...

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        12.Articles

        Another night by Psychic Symphony

        Here we go again... 2am, can't sleep, eating some chocolate thingies
and drinking coke! Playing Underworld at the lowest earing level possible
and looking at the full moon, the stars and those bloody old buildings.
        'Born slippy' ends! I like 'Rez' better so... What the hell to do?
I could test that crossfading... Nah! I don't feel like coding... Need some
music at normal level! Damn, already finished whole 6 chocolate thingies.
Coke is almost ending too... Damn, what the hell am i supposed to do? I
finished 'shining in the darkness' yesterday at 4am! Seinfled... Shit. It was
at 1am... I could go over the demojournal... Nah! And then again... Nah!
        What the hell to do... Better go code those tweaked crossfadings...
I would have to draw 2 pics with the same pal. Too much trouble! I'm lazy!
I should try to make putpixel work on C. It compiles... It goes to mode13h,
why the hell won't it pixel? It always crashes! And i would have to reboot.
I don't want to reboot...
        Why the hell am i writing this shit? Oh yeah... i recall... Nothing
to do! TumTiTum... Blip Blip Bleep Blip Blip... 'Rez' rules!
        I better go and do something now... 'Rez' is over anyways... Changing
CD... Let me see...
        We got FSOL's 'Dead Cities'... Nah! I would have to higher the volume!
        We got @440... The new single really rocks! But i don't feel like it!
        We got Trainspotting's soundtracks... NAH!
        We got Prodigy...
        We got old music... Hey! Mike and the mechanics! 'Over my shoulder'
is cool... Looking back... Over my shoulder... I can see that look in your
eyes... ( Better get a girlfriend fast! :( )
        What else is here while 'Over my shoulder' plays? Er... Pulp Fiction!
        Hey! I got some tapes aswell! 7, saw it last week. Pulp Fiction,
already know it by heart... Trainspotting, the tape was a rent-a-video copy
and looks shit! I got some old clips and Monthy Python aswell! But i taped
that one 3 days ago! 'The knights that say NI!' LOL. Why did i wrote LOL?
Hum... 'Over my shoulder' is ending... Quick... Something... Er...
        Orblivion NO, Wipeout NO, Savage Garden? Whats this thing doing here?
Must have been in a very low level at the record store! ICK! I got some CD's
with some actual lyrics on the leaflet! My first CD... '100% Dance' good old
days with nothing better to do... WTF is that i am hearing? Changing CD...
        Ah! Nothing like sweet Chemical Brothers music... What's this track?
Let me check... 'One too many mornings' This tune rules! Those lyrics are
just drifting... 'NA NI NAIA...'
        Hum... :) I like this... This is good! I feel better already! I think
i'm gonna code a little...
        I'm back! I was right... The crossfading is slow like hell! It takes
near 10 seconds to update just 1 screen! But we must think positive: I'm not
using any assembly which would speed up major and i'm not using the ytable
so... Who knows... Oh goodie! I love it when i know how to make those weird
effects and can't apply them! :( I feel so much better now! Let me just pass
straigt into the last music: 'Alive alone' OH GOODIE! The story of my life
on a 5 minutes music!
        Hopefully it's already 3:30... maybe i can fall asleep straight away
and not wonder on stupid things like on why am i in the second year of
civil engeneering! Or why is the only girl who says she loves me living in
australia! Fuck it! Life sukz and then you die! Whatever is in between is
just a bonus... Guess i didn't hit the jackpot...
        I hate these nights!         
                                Psyinshit Symphony

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		     Nephoos's Gravity 3 short report.

     Hi! Nephoo here. I want to write a few words about another scene meeting
in Poland which was held on the last 3 days of August in Turawa near Opole.
Party was called Gravity'98 or Gravity 3. I said "another", because this was
the third party on that month (after Quast'98 and Intel Outside 5). When I
was planning to go there I hoped that this party would be cool and that the
organizers wouldnt disapoint me. After such shitty parties like Quast and
IO there finally was good scene atmosphere. The Party place was in a small
tourist village near a beautyfull lake, on one of those tourist building
complexs. Ticket prizes were low comparing to other parties. (only 20PLN) 
The party organizers thought that there would be less people coming so the
main hall could only take around 200 people. But there was more than one
room. In another room, there was TECHNO being played 24h/per day. Some more
rooms were reserved by organizers, there was a MANGA and two sleeping rooms.
Although the rooms were still very small for the around 500 ppl that arrived!
But who cares? Weather was good and everyone was outside the party buildings. 
     On the first day there werent any serious competitions, only a few crazy
compos, like volleyball tournament (I only saw two teams, but they were the
best, especially Lenin ;)). In the evening there was a camp fire, but I dont
remember too much from this evening... ;).
     Next day: Arghh... some ppl said to me that on the previous evening
they were showing on the big screen a film from Pamela Anderson's honeymoon.;)
Uhh... why was i so drunk? :( Whole normal competitions where held on the
second day. Music compo (4chn and multi on the same category) was fine, there
were some good and some bad modules. I was happy that selectors didn't chose
pure TECHNO musics only. In 4k intros started age of sound, more than 3 amiga
and pc intros had sound support. But only a few intros were cool. A great
shock for all was this amiga intro (I dont remember the title) which was
playing on 4k intro compo but it was 64k big. Before organizers found out,
ppl had already enjoyed themselves... ;). On 64k competitions there was
nothing special. Only a few productions on both platforms.
     VHS competition was the best ;). Especially the two last videos.
Generally this  competition in Poland reachs very high standards. You have to
get some of this videos. Main show: demo compo. On amiga - one demo needed
PPC (Power PC) but wasnt so cool as I thought it would be before seeing it.
It was boring, no design, only complex scenes with thousands of faces. Blah.
Rise/TRSI^MellowChips didnt need PPC and was much more better. PC demos.
Chmm... I was very dissapointed that Yoghurt and SPy from Pulse didnt release
anything on the last minute but another Pulse demo by Unreal was cool. Some
other prods were very good too. Generally, ray-tracing dominated the most of
these demos. PPL voted very strange and Pulse demo was 5th.
     Ending words: Gravity was a good party, in next year I'll try not to
miss-out this meeting. There werent so much Quake maniacs (like on Quast) and
the party atmosphere wasnt so ANTI-PC (like on IO5). PPL were happy after
this party and this is the best reward for us sceners after so boring and
lame summer parties like QUAST and IO5. Great thanks to Anadune and Amnesty.
Good work. Bye.

( psychic - i had to rephrase almost half of the text so apologies to
            nephoo if i missunderstood something and rephrased it wrong! )

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        13.Credits (in order of appearance!)

        Psychic Symphony - bad ass editor - ec97104@crazy.fe.up.pt
        Magnesium        - ideas n help   - mgoddard@alphalink.com.au
        Distace          - moral support  - esaruoho@dlc.fi
        Assign           - #trax contact  - assign@usa.net
        Nephoo           - .pl demonews   - nephoo@kki.net.pl
        Dave             - .sp demonews   - dave@bglinks.com
        Binar            - .pl demonews   - binar@kki.net.pl

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        14.END

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        Even if you don't have anything to send, email anyway!
        Just email me! I get around 10 mails per day and still i feel lonely!
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