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                              newsletter _ 1o.98


    --=[ FOREWORD ]=-------------------------------------------------------

    Yeeha!  Finally  there  is  a new  newsletter  about  our  beloved HUGI
    diskmag.  In  the  previous  newsletter I  promised  to  release  a new
    newsletter  in every month without a new  Hugi issue. And as you see, I
    have  kept this promise. Okay, October is  almost over, but anyway - it
    IS still October. :)

    As  all  of you know, or at least  as  I hope, Hugi #12 was released on
    September  11th, 1998. If you have not read it yet: This issue featured
    1.8  mbyte of articles, a new interface for DOS and for Win32 by Street
    Raider  of DDT Entertainment, of course new  gfx, this time by Will Be,
    Hellfire,  and Mr. SEQ, and new music  by Makke of Comic Pirates. Check
    out http://home.pages.de/~hugidownload/ for the exact table of contents
    and a download possibility (bugfixed version!).

    I have got a lot of feedback to Hugi #12, and well, as you can imagine,
    it was positive enough to keep me motivated to do another issue. :) No,
    seriously,  I am open for criticism, too, and suggestions about what to
    change  in  Hugi.  Without  this kind  of  feedback,  there would be no
    progress, as the Hugi staff would not know what has to be changed.

    Well,  well,  well, we got a  diverse  response to Hugi #12, especially
    from  Germany, as the German section in the mag was quite controversial
    this  time. Not everbody liked the  attempt to create this section more
    familiar.  But, as kb/Purge/TOM/SDs said on news.scene.org: "After all,
    this  mag  gets the scene going." And  a lot of people were entertained
    indeed.  To those people who misunderstood  the German section and felt
    offended, I want to send my apologies again. Take it easy!

    Yep...  What is the Hugi Crew doing  right now? Working on Hugi #13, of
    course.  We feel responsible for the destiny of the diskmag scene. Yes.
    And that is why we want to create the best of our mag.


    --=[ NEW DISTSITE ]=---------------------------------------------------

    The  Austrian  BBS  "AMB"  has  become  HUGI  distsite. +43-316-696763,
    v.34/isdn, 24h online, fido 2:316/150. SysOp is Dr. Delta.


    --=[ ACTION IN THE HUGI CREW ]=----------------------------------------

    Zippy  /The  Utopians^Utopia  has  joined the  Hugi  Crew  as a writer,
    spreader  and coder. He comes from Norway  and is also the president of
    the   "keep-the-scene-alive"-organisation  The   Utopians.  His  e-mail
    address is

                demoscener@hotmail.com

    Homepage of The Utopians:

                http://bigfoot.stones.com/~zippy/

    Currently he is working on several articles for Hugi #13.

    Current member status:

    /-name----------/-function in group-/-email address------------/
      Adok          . orga/edit/text    . hugi@netway.at
      Mr. SEQ       . gfx/music         . daniel.tuecks@t-online.de
      Mr. M!ke      . text (german)     . mrmike@forfree.at
      Zippy         . text/code         . demoscener@hotmail.com
    /--------------------------------------------------------------/

    We  are still looking for more  members. Don't hesitate to contact Adok
    if you want to join! And don't be shy!


    --=[ HUGI LOGO COMPETITION ]=------------------------------------------

    The IRC channel #pixel is organizing a Hugi Logo Competition. Your task
    is to draw either a title or a closing picture for Hugi. The winner and
    perhaps also the second place will be used in Hugi #14. Deadline is the
    1st of November. If you hurry up, you can still participate! :)

    More infos:

                http://www.pixel.scene.org


    --=[ HUGI COMPO #4 IS OVER ]=------------------------------------------

    Again,  a size coding compo has ended.  This time it was the expression
    evaluator  compo. For the first time in the (short) history of the Hugi
    Size  Coding  Compo Series, two people  got  the first place: INT-E and
    st0ne. Get the results and the source-pack at:

                http://home.pages.de/~hugi-compo/


    --=[ LINUX INTERFACE ]=------------------------------------------------

    Tronical/Colorfast  is working on a  Unix/Linux interface running under
    the  K Desktop Environment (http://www.kde.org/). KHugi (that's what it
    will be called) will feature:
    . complete HTML-Export of a whole Hugi issue
    . inline image support
    . reads Hugi issue #12 and #13 (plus upcoming issues)
    . URL  support, click on any URL and your favourite Mailer/Browser will
      show up
    . highly configurable

    KHugi  will  be released after the  official  KDE 1.1 release (since it
    depends on KDE 1.1 features like configurable key/mouse-bindings).

    As  soon  as  it's out, you will be  able  to download it from the Hugi
    Homepage  at  http://home.pages.de/~hugidownload/ as  well  as from the
    KHugi  Homepage  at  http://ihpled.ml.org/~tronical/khugi/  (or  for  a
    direct download at ftp://ihpled.ml.org/users/tronical/khugi/).


    --=[ HUGI #13 IN PROGRESS ]=-------------------------------------------

    Now let's come to the most interesting part in this newsletter!

    Hugi #13... hm, hm, hmmmm. Quick summarization:
    . GFX is finished. Artist: Cereal / Ooze Labs
    . Music is finished. Composers: MasterBoy and CoaX Cable / WIJ.
    . We might also use a second tune this time. Probably it will come from
      Steffo / Cryonics.
    . 550 kbyte of articles so far.
    . ESTIMATED  RELEASEDATE:  November or  December. The exact releasedate
      has  not been fixed yet. It depends on the NUMBER OF ARTICLES we will
      get within a SHORT TIME (and of course the quality of articles, too).
      So if you want Hugi to be released soon - you know what to do!

    We  ALREADY HAVE about 20 forum  articles deadling with topics like the
    status  of  the scene, Hornet's closing,  or  Internet vs. Scene, a few
    interviews, some party reports, many results, and reviews (party stuff,
    diskmags).

    We are still LOOKING FOR articles. The articles we are looking most for
    are:
    . Coding  articles  (all topics -  graphic programming, effects, system
      programming,  programming  techniques,  algorithms, e.g. compression,
      hints, optimization, tech details,...)
    . More interviews
    . More "forum" articles
    . Poetry and Literature in general
    . Articles  for the planned Music  Corner (techniques, composing hints,
      reviews, texts about the music scene,...)

    Write and become famous! :)

    Greetings  go to Psychic Symphony, editor  of demojournal, who has sent
    me  [adok] 150 KByte of articles  as a birthday present. Unfortunately,
    he  had already sent them to another diskmag, which needs articles more
    urgently. THANKS anyway!!

    May this be a good example for you other dudes. :)

    (BTW:  If  you  want to get  more  information about demojournal, a new
    weekly   newsletter   about   the   demoscene,   contact   Psychic   at
    ec97104@crazy.fe.up.pt.)


    --=[ CLOSING WORDS ]=--------------------------------------------------

    This  is  the third volume of the  Hugi newsletter. I hope it motivated
    you to get active for Hugi (again). :)

    Quick summarization:

    Estimated RELEASEDATE of HUGI #13: November or December 1998

    The  exact  release date depends on how  many  articles we get within a
    short time, so if you want Hugi to come out soon, you know what to do!

                                          - adok^hugi, Oct. 29th, 1998
                                            hugi@netway.at

                                            Thanks to gyr/food
                                            for proofreading.

    Download HUGI at
                          http://home.pages.de/~hugidownload/

    Subscribe to the HUGI mailinglist by sending a mail to

                          hugi-subscribe@egroups.com

    BTW:  Final Hornet Charts  - http://www.hornet.org/ha/pages/hc/ - Guess
    what mag is at the 2nd place of the Top 20 Demoscene Publications... :)
