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DemoNews Issue #84
February 19, 1995 - February 25, 1995
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DemoNews is a weekly publication for the demo scene. It is produced at the
Internet FTP site ftp.eng.ufl.edu (HORNET). This newsletter focuses on
many aspects of demos and demo making. Everyone is welcomed to contribute
articles, rumors, and advertisements.
Information about HORNET and DemoNews can be found under /demos/README
-Christopher G. Mann (Snowman)-
[email protected]
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New Uploads Files recieved at HORNET
Reviews Imphobia 9
Infused Bytes #2 (diskmag)
HORNET News Music Contest ]I[
DemoNews for DOS Plus
Genesis (HORNET's Demo)
HORNET at NAID
General Articles Imphobia 9 (Bogus Bug Fix)
Changes
Mail Room Time for Reviews
Necros is 'Da Man
I Used to Be a Subscriber
Where's the ROMs?
Where's the Parties?
What /groups?
Code Denthor Uncovers a Secret Plot
Advertising Musicians Needed
Back Issues How to Get 'em, Descriptions
Closing Comments DemoNews Top 10 LIst
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NOTE: All locations start with /demos and then their respective sub-
directory. Please note however that the actual base directories
(like /pub/msdos/demos) may differ from mirror to mirror.
Location Filename.Ext Size Description
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/demos
/alpha/NEW 4ge-xmas.zip 4 Xmas '94 Intro
babytro .arj 557 The Babytro by Nostalgia
idh-anim.zip 350 Demo Slide Show
liberfix.zip 11 Patch for Force 2's "Liberation" demo
omc-atom.zip 1134 Atomic Energy by Omicron
tfa-love.zip 88 Valentine Intro by Ground Zero
/parties x95intro.zip 177 X'95 Party Invitation Intro
/diskmags cnbugfix.zip 147 Purple Presents Contact Issue #1
ibytes02.zip 929 Infused Bytes Diskmag #2
imphob#9.zip 1391 IMPHOBIA 9! Get it now.
/music
/disks ridersmd.zip 513 StrangeStyleMusicDisk by Riders
rebirth1.zip 1059 Mazurka Rebirth disk 1/2
rebirth2.zip 1084 Mazurka Rebirth disk 2/2
/programs/frontendghsc105a.zip 35 Grafik HSC Player v1.05a (simple shell)
/programs/misc modzip11.zip 26 Automatically makes your song's .zip
/programs/players cmod220 .zip 68 CapaMod v2.20 (Snowman's personal fav.)
cp095 .arj 674 Cubic Player v.095 (SB/GUS,XM/S3M,etc)
starp202.zip 22 Star Player v2.02 (GUS, S3M/MOD)
/songs/mod se-phunm.zip 58 Phunk by Sonic Enigma (MOD version)
you15 .zip 192 You 15 posted by STrix
/songs/s3m b13-0002.zip 160 Bureau 13 #2 (Looking Glass) by Lankhmar
b13-0003.zip 178 Bureau 13 #3 (Popul Vuh) by Lankhmar
bj-1st .zip 89 First Escape by Big Jim / Valhalla
cy_anlg .arj 62 Analog Deathwish by Cyclone
cy_lstch.arj 220 Last Chance to See by Cyclone
fina-67 .zip 104 Job 67 from FinaDisk 1995 by Bolleke
fina-81 .zip 146 Job 81 from FinaDisk 1995 by Bolleke
getout! .arj 116 GetTheHellOut!! by Hector
jjj-angl.zip 467 Call me an Angel by Oxygen and ENiGMA
jjj-dick.zip 202 Short Dick Man by Oxygen and ENiGMA
jjj-love.zip 260 Burning Love by Oxygen and ENiGMA
k-celest.zip 334 Celestial Lullabye by Basehead
k-wsands.zip 487 White Sands by Mental Floss
mrvain .zip 64 Mr Vain (Extract) by Melvin Chia
mrvain2 .zip 64 Mr Vain (Extract) v.2 by Melvin Chia
nk-pp .zip 54 Preludio & Pinote by Obi Wan Cannabis
nonsense.zip 80 Nonsense by Rider
rapdream.zip 93 Rapadreaming by Rider
sky_ethr.zip 491 Ethereal by Skyjump
sky_saba.zip 217 El Sabado de Fuego by Skyjump
tlgrae .zip 303 3rd in the Land series by Lord Blanka
vibes .zip 115 Feel the Vibes! by Avalance
wk-look .zip 161 Look by Ron Labao
wk-spin .zip 132 Spin by 'Wolfgang', Ron Labao
/songs/xm 1t .arj 170 My First Try by Lole
2t .arj 347 My Second Try (Tekkno-song) by Lole
c_pak01 .zip 319 ClaimPak 01 Dreams of Hurt (4 .XMs)
chechen .zip 1113 Chechen by The Kraken
crimea1 .zip 814 Crimea 1 (goes with Cubic Player)
ida-trwh.zip 363 Trance of Whale by Idaho
koningin.zip 275 De Koningin van Lombardije by Dynamix
mld-guid.zip 246 The Guide by Mellow-D
newhouse.arj 502 House Remix
polizei .arj 259 Eins, zwei, polizei ...
se-phunx.zip 60 Phunk by Sonic Enigma (XM version)
seraph_ .zip 173 The Seraph by Nathan D. Bowen
/graphics
/pictures amourfou.zip 434 Demo slide show of a real horror story
evasion .zip 107 Evasion (preview) 2 .gif of 3DS anim.
/utils dpx11 .zip 15 DP/X Path v1.1 Run Delux Paint dif. mode
/utils/spriter spriv103.zip 24 Spriter v1.03 (tool for sprites, icons)
/code
/demosrc chaos4k1.zip 14 Source from 4kb ASM94 intro called chaos
/graph/fade fade2 .zip 3 Fade code in Turbo Pascal
/graph/tutor tut10new.zip 45 Snowman's converted Denthor code in C++
/pmode pmw116 .zip 73 PMODE/W v1.16 DOS Extender
/sound gusrev02.zip 13 GUS revision tester
sblast09.zip 502 SB Programming Information v0.90
/utils et-con14.zip 32 Exotic Text Converter v1.4
ll_kbd .zip 52 32-bit Watcom source for 8042 keyboard
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By popular demand, we present some reviews of uploads on HORNET. This
section should grow as future issues of DemoNews come out.
Look for more new upload reviews in the future! Unless I'm busy studying,
programming, composing, etc..
The rating scale:
* Not worth downloading.
** It will leave you bland.
*** A worthy effort.
**** Hope these guys show up at NAID/ASM'95..
***** Required for your demo/music collection.
Andrew Voss - Phoenix [KFMF] -
[email protected]
_____Imphobia #9
/demos/diskmags/imphob#9.zip (1391k)
Rating: ****+ (4.5 of 5)
The Imphobia Diskmag crew has released another issue of their world-
famous demo-mag as promised, and it's bigger than ever before! Bigger to
the tune of 2.8 Mb! Although most of the graphics the make up the mag
are identical to issue #8, there are many more articles than the previous
issue.
- What's New?
This issue covers the last few parties like The Party IV, Juhla '95,
and Wired '94, all in Europe. The Party '94 articles are thorough,
but then again, so were those in DemoNews :). They're worth reading
anyway. A "Music Corner" section has been added to the articles, in
light of the booming music scene. It features articles like
Scream Tracker 3 vs. FastTracker 2, tips and tricks, and reviews of
TP94 music, MC2, and the Epidemic musicdisk.
The music selections in the mag are excellent as always. Artists
included are Basehead of KFMF/ImpCda, Zodiak of ImpCda, and Scorpik
of S!P. Two of the tracks are eight channels, a first in this issue,
but they can only be heard if you have a GUS.
- What's Old?
For those of you who have not seen any issues of the Imphobia
Diskmag, this is what you are missing. The mag is basically split up
into five parts: editorial, charts, interviews, articles, and
credits. The first and last are self-explanatory; the other three go
as follows:
Charts: Top 15 Groups, Demos, Intros, Coders, Artists, Musicians,
Music- Disks (Egg 2 made it, woohoo!), and Overall. The voting is
conducted through anyone who submits a voting form.
Interviews: one-on-one's with various members of demo groups, mainly
from Europe.
Articles: The articles are almost countless. Categories include:
Front News, Coding/Graphics/Music Corner, Partyline, Weird Stories,
Poetry, Messages, and Advertisements.
- What's Wrong?
I have but two peeves about the mag: One, I can't play the 8-channel
music due to my "lame" SB-Pro, and two, when you scroll forward
through the articles, they will sometimes scroll back! I hope this
gets fixed, it gets annoying.
- Overall Rating
If there's one diskmag you have to get until NAID or ASM '95, let it
be this one. Although it caters more to the European demo scene than
the American, it offers a wealth of information to anyone interested
in demos.
_____Infused Bytes #2
/demos/diskmags/ibytes02.zip (929k)
Rating: ** (2 of 5)
A few days after the release of Imphobia 9, this diskmag comes out. It
was put together by a group from _Russia_. The English is choppy, but
it's understandable. The mag covers the "demo and hacker scenes" in
Russia and the rest of the world, for the IBM, Amiga, and (gasp) C-64.
Included are articles, charts, a couple interviews (one with Daredevil/
Ren), _lots_ of rumors/opinions, and some pictures. Infused Bytes uses
VGA (320x400) and DSMI, which means if DMP works with your sounds card,
this will too.
- What's New?
New to this issue are graphics and sound. Apparently it is a big
improvement over issue #1.
- What's Old?
Everything. Start reading the articles and you'll swear it's 1993
again. All the reviews and charts are outdated (Maelcum made top 10
musicians, though!). The newest articles cover ST3.01 and ASM94.
- What's Wrong?
I got the mag to run with no problems on my 486/TS4000/SBPro. So I
have no complaints about bugs or getting the diskmag to work, just
the lack of effort involved in filling it.
- Overall Rating
If you want more up-to-date information on demos and such, download
Imphobia # 7 (not a typo (: ). The Russian scene at present seems like
the American scene pre-Renaissance (group, not era), which wasn't pretty.
Unless you are curious about demo-life in the former Soviet Union, there
are better ways to use 1.6 megs diskspace.
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This week, without a doubt, has been the busiest for me in months.
Academics and work aside, HORNET was aglow with activity.
_____Music Contest ]I[ (general)
You probably didn't enter Music Contest I. Mabey you entered Music Contest
][. Well, Music Contest ]I[ is something you definitely _will not_ want to
miss.
By tradition, the Music Contests are international music competitions that
are not held at any specific location (like a demo party is). Instead,
musicians track their tunes, then upload them to HORNET. From there, a
large group of judges rate the songs and the results are posted indicating
the winners.
This week, I completed the alpha version of the text for MC3. At this
point, no information will be given about specifics of the contest until I
get some feedback from others. Before you ask, the contest will be
officially announced at the NAID demo party on April 15, 1995.
_____Music Contest ]I[ (Intro)
Jason Nunn, Stony, myself, and a few others are working very hard to
produce a respectable invitation "intro" to announce this contest.
!!WE NEED YOUR HELP!!
Jason is our main coder for this intro, and he lives in Australia. This is
long way from the United States of America (where I reside). Jason has
only limited 'net access, and we are desperately seeking an Australian
courier to help us get files to each other.
If you know _anyone_ who can help with this, please write me at
[email protected]. I can not stress enough how much we need a
courier. By the way, we _really_ need a courier. Did I mention we need a
courier? The point is, if we can't find someone, then the invitation (and
possibly Music Contest ]I[) will be delayed.
Jason is also looking for some public source code for .lzh compression
routines. If you know of any, please write me about it.
_____Music Contest ]I[ (Player)
The HORNET staff is working on a player program for judging the MC3
entries. This is being coded by MikMak/Hardcode and the interface is being
done by Rao and Air Richter. This player supports XM, S3M, and MOD formats
on both GUS and the Sound Blaster family of cards.
To my knowledge, this will be the first player to fully and accurately
support the XM (Fast Tracker ][) format. Trust me, I use this player
instead of FT2 to listen to all the XMs I have here.
After MC3 is over, this player's interface will probably be changed
slightly and it will become a wonderful stand alone player just like DMP,
CapaMod, or Inertia Player. From my personal listening, it already whomps
all three of those in raw sound quality!
_____Music Contest ]I[ (Free Disks!)
I have about 100 low and high density disks lying around here that are
doing nothing but collect dust. Recently, I thought of a good way to put
these to use.
A local company (Kinkos) produces nice color disk labels at low prices.
If possible, I will be putting the MC3 Intro and Player on these disks,
slapping on a nice label, and _giving_ them away for _free_ at the NAID
demo party.
_____DemoNews for DOS Plus
The staff at HORNET is going to tackle a new project. DemoNews for DOS
Plus (DNDP) is destined to be a fantastic disk magazine complete with
graphics and music.
Three issues are currently being planned:
Issue #1 : The Best of DemoNews (interviews, editorials, articles, etc.)
Issue #2 : The NAID Party Report (reviews, on-site reports, etc.)
Issue #3 : The Music Contest ]I[ Report (clips of music and reviews)
I am still waiting on a beta version of this from our developers, but stay
tuned for more details.
These diskmags will be a wonderful complement for every faithful DemoNews
reader!
_____Genesis (HORNET's first demo)
HORNET is putting together a demo for the NAID demo party to be held this
April 15th in Quebec, Canada. Tom V., Stony, and myself are working full
steam to make this demo one that will guarantee HORNET a spot in the demo
scene (i.e. you better greet us in all your demos from now on). :)
Tom will probably be upset with me for promoting the demo in here (he isn't
quite as confident as I am that it will turn out great). Regardless, I
just thought I'd let you all know that it is coming, and it will be good.
_____HORNET at NAID
Plans have been made for 3 members of the HORNET crew to attend the NAID
party. Coincidentally, Jeff/HORNET lives only a few minutes from the party
place itself. I will be arriving at his house the night before the party
begins, and will accompany Jeff to the party.
On my journey, I will have the chance to drive through New York and several
cites in the US that I've never seen before. If all goes as planned, this
will be a real exciting time for me and the staff of HORNET.
Ryan Cramer will also be attending (last I heard) but I do not know how or
when he will be getting there.
_____In Summary
As you might have picked up from all of this, HORNET is a little busy at
the moment.
With my trusty coffee in one hand, my pack of cigars in the other, and a
bowl of macaroni and cheese in the other, I will do my best to have all of
these projects done _on time_ and done _well_. (hey wait a second, that's
three hands I have things in!) Well, how do you think I type so fast? :)
For those of you attending NAID, I'll be the guy in the corner of the room
with a shaky hand holding a cigar, pulling out my hair, muttering the words
"I can't believe we got it done" over and over and over...
By the way, did I mention that I'm not really human? I'm actually a very
advanced and automated script file on some computer in Akron Ohio. You
don't honestly think that its humanly possible for one person to tackle
this much do you?
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_____Imphobia 9 (Bogus Bug Fix)
Hi there...
Well, we don't like to make such reports, but I guess this time it had to
be done. Two days after the recent release of the Imphobia #9 diskmag, a
file called IMP9BFIX.ZIP was released by a certain group called TEMPLAR.
This file has been found at that Pointbreak BBS. As stated in the
file_id.diz, this file is supposed to be a fix for Imphobia #9 pretending
to correct some errors with the cursors and IRQs.
Well, let's makes some things clear. This 'fix' doesn't fix anything (and
we don't know about any cursor/IRQ errors in the mag). The only things it
does is changing some stupid things like renaming our coder's name "WIZARD"
into "LIZARD" and some other craps like that. It might also change some
other things in the code and maybe some virus or trojans might have been
put in there: who knows what those loosers might have invented. So we
encourage you all _not_ to run that modified version and encourage all
sysops to DELETE that file from their BBS file base.
Our first intention was just to write a little text about this in the next
issue of the Imphobia diskmag. But, as we don't know what those people
might have included in that .exe and want to prevent our readers from any
damages or problems this file might bring, we decided to release this
little text to the public.
A modified version of ZEBIG/SPEED's Imphobia #9 cover picture was also
included with that pseudo fix. It's really evident that those people just
want to bring some shit in the scene by releasing that kind of thing. It's
really sad that those kind of things appear in the scene.
Well, I guess some people do not yet understand the real meaning of the
word 'scene'.
Regards, Darkness [Imphobia]
In the name of the whole Imphobia team.
_____Changes
Hello, everyone! Here we are, another week has come to an end, and another
DemoNews is out. What you are reading now is just a general "What's going on"
statement.
First, I made a mistake in DemoNews 82 when I announced that Necros would
not be at NAID. He is going, and he sent email to Snowman (which was later
forwarded to me) to confirm this. At the time of writing that article, I had
heard that he was not going, but this has changed. So, apologies to Necros,
and the rest of you be cautious if you intend to enter the music compo! =)
Next, the new "Help Wanted" section has some bulletins in it from people who
might be looking for people like you, so be sure to check that out. If you
are interested in posting a bulletin to the "Help Wanted" section, please
refer to DemoNews 83 for complete details.
Starting this week, myself, Phoenix, and PeriSoft will be writing reviews on
uploaded material to HORNET. PeriSoft and myself will be reviewing the new
music (in the form of individual releases, mostly), and Phoenix will provide
reviews of Mags, MusicDisks, and Demos. This is in response to reader demand,
so we hope it will be beneficial to you, and will encourage downloading from
HORNET (or its _faster_ mirror: ftp.cdrom.com /demos) We may not be able to
review everything that is uploaded, but we will try to provide you with as
much information as time will allow for us to do.
I got a response to my "What's in/What's out" feature in DemoNews 83, and
the person wrote that he disagreed with some of the opinions presented. I
appreciate any response I get to my articles, good or bad, and I would like
to ask all of you to write me if you have a strong opinion of anything that
I write. It is important that there is communication between the writers and
the readers, for many reasons. I need to know how I am doing, and what I
should change about what I do.
I'm open to any type of criticism, of course, as long as you will defend your
opinion. I am willing to adapt to any changes that you may suggest, and would
like to know what you would like to read about in future DemoNews issues. It
is my hopes that I can continue to write articles for this newsletter which
are of interest to you, the readers. Your comments and ideas would be very
helpful!
Thank you for those who have mailed me already, and I hope to hear from more
of you in the future!
GraveDigger [Defiance]
[email protected]
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_____Time for Reviews
> Could you put all the DIRECTLY RELATED file stuff in the beginning...
> Also, I like the file descriptions... Your recently uploaded file lists
> are cool, if you could give a short review of each one would make it
> great.
>
> Bobby
And it became SO (that's my new motto). Everyone, check out our review
section in this brand spanking new issue of DemoNews.
> These reviews wouldn't have to be too long (god knows that DemoNews is
> long enuf already:) ), just a short blurb on new demos, and maybe some
> reviews of what you guys think of as "classic demos" like demos from
> years gone by that you think people maybe haven't seen, but should take a
> look at.
>
> Nettwerk
This sounds like a good idea for when things get slow around here (not
likely until after NAID). Also, we _are_ making attempts to keep DemoNews
smaller. :)
_____Necros is 'Da Man
> Do me like a favor. In the next demonews tell people that I _am_ going
> to NAID unlike the rumors section you printed in DemoNews #80 :>
>
> Necros
OK DemoNews people, Necros _is_ going to NAID. GraveDigger, you're gonna
get it now for feeding me false information.
_____I Used to Be a Subscriber
> Weren't there *three* huge messages last issue? In my experience on
> mailing lists you start seeing people drop out every time there's a
> period where a lot of mail starts hitting the list.
>
> Denis Papp
If at all possible, we will keep the size of DemoNews down in the future.
_____Where's the ROMs?
> I am writing today because I recently bought a CD-ROM (especially for
> Cthugha, a great, great program) and would like to know about any CDs out
> there that are filled with demos and music. I find that demos, even
> compressed, take up a LOT of room on the old HD or even backup disks.
>
> So if you know of anyone that has/is selling CD products, I would dig
> their info, or just an E-mail address. And if you know it is not a scam,
> it would be great if you included that information as well. Save me from
> throwing away money in to someone's POBox.
>
> Matt Craig
Anyone with information should contact
[email protected]
_____Where's the Parties?
> I'm going to europe this summer, and would like to get to a few parties,
> but living in williams lk. BC canada, i get very little info without long
> distance charges, and it often too late. could you direct me 2 some, in
> the end of july, beginning of august?
>
> Brian .\\arshall
Anyone with information should contact
[email protected]
_____What /groups?
> I've been trying to get some files from that node, and I couldn't get
> /demos/groups/asphyxia/texter5.zip and some others. What can I do?
> Another question is how can I have a dir in that node? Is possible ?
>
> Jmc
The /groups directory contains many invalid links to files. This problem
will become more pronounced in the coming months. I am still unable to
devise a plan to handle changes to this directory quickly and accurately.
Unless someone sends me a really good suggestion on this, the entire
directory will probably deleted inside of a month.
This also means that no more /groups directories will be given out until
the situtation is resolved or removed.
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_____Denthor Uncovers a Secret Plot
Well, here I am for another Demuan article.
I am going to do something different today. Last week Snowman wrote that
article saying that we seem to be straying a bit from focusing on demo type
stuff. I don't want to get Snowman angry, he alters my tuts before
releasing them (just see tut10new to see what I mean).
So, just to show you that I actually _do_ code, and there is a reason I am
here in the code section, I will give you a tip.
When you declare a variable as a constant in a Borland compiler, it puts
that variable on the stack.
So...
CONST bob : word = 50;
mov ax,bob
is actually
mov ax,ss:[bob]
What does this mean? It means that if you really really need an extra
register, you can forgo local variables, make all your locals constants and
use BP, also you can access globals while DS is pointing to something else.
Cool huh?
Whew, that should get me off the coding hook for a while.
I am beginning to wonder if the internet actually exists. I think it may
just be one big coverup, and all the people I think I am talking to are
just typed in by Snowman. I must admit, he sure is a fast typist. Every
time there is a net split on IRC, he has just decided that he doesn't feel
like keeping up so many conversations with himself (and me!)
I must admit though, he is thorough. He must write all those programs and
stuff for the "hornet" incoming directory. He probably only does stuff for
half of them though, knowing that I will never ftp some of the rubbish that
is put there.
How did I find out about his evil scheme? Easy. comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos .
Nothing so utterly awful, so devoid of intelligence yet having such a large
quantity, could be the product of a normal society. He must have written a
little "GUS vs SB" macro, which he alters slightly whenever either company
releases a new soundcard. He is clever though! Every now and then he writes
something with a really cool header, such as "Trying to optimize gouraud
code", but the body is always "Give me your optimized gouraud code, I don't
know how."
And here we have found the reason for his intricate plot. He wants all my
source. Hahaha Snowman, you didn't think I would figure it out, did you!
But I'm too clever, yes too clever, it's mine, mine you hear! nyahahaha!
Wait. I have just figured out another thing. If the internet is a massive
Snowman-hoax type thing, then only Snowman will read this article! I'm on
to you, Snowman! I'll bet this whole "America" thing is just a product of
your twisted imagination too. You almost had me there. You never convinced
anyone with that "MTV" thing though.
Wow, deducting is hard work. So long Snowman, see you next week! I'm off to
buy another barrel of Jelly Tots.
Byeeeee... - Denthor
PS. Snowman, tell me truthfully, does the GUS exist? It doesn't, does it.
That's why no one (you!) has sent me one.
_____Snowman's Response
As I stated in the "HORNET News" section, I am not actually human. I am
an automated script file. However, this requires a bit of clarification.
Denthor, not only is there no one else in the demo scene besides you and
me, but you are the _only_ person subscribed to DemoNews. All that stuff
about 1250+ readers is pure garbage. Since I'm a script file, it only
takes me about 3.5 minutes to create an issue of DemoNews (not much work).
My creator decided that it would be great fun to waste several years of
your life on this fantasy called "the demo scene".
However, you have now uncovered my secret plan. :( I guess I better come
clean about that little World War ][ hoax too...
And BTW: The GUS does not actually exist. It is a front by Gravis/Forte
because they wanted some attention. All of the coders who claim to support
the GUS are just making up code because they are embarrassed to admit that
they have never seen a GUS.
(It sure feels good to be honest every once in a while)
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<<Advertising>>
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_____Control Looking for Musicians
A group named CONTROL, based in Toronto, is seeking musicians. The group
currently has a coder, and an ANSI artist. They are seeking no more than
four "pretty good composers" for their group. They have coded their own
music player, and seek to release a musicdisk. Any interested musicians
should send a sample of their music to this ftp site/directory:
compulink.com /control/applicants_work
[ed: You should also include a text file with your song containing your
email address, so they can contact you]
_____Musician Needed
We really need a good mod-composer for our demo productions. But we don't
want the ordinary techno/disco music! IT'S BORING!!!!
The best would be a musician that's inspired by Sisters of Mercy!
Who are we?? Well, the Swedish demogroup DPS of course.
[ed: the group did not give any contact info]
_____In Summary
I'm glad to see that this area is receiving some bulletins. I hope this new
feature is helpful to everyone, and would like to hear your comments on it.
Send articles to the email address at the end of this article. Please write
"DemoNews Help Wanted" as the subject of your message.
For a complete reference to the guidelines for submitting to this section,
refer to DemoNews 83.
Please, when submitting an article for the "Help Wanted" section, include
your email address in the BODY of the message. This would be a great help
to both of us. Thanks!
- GraveDigger [Defiance]
[email protected]
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<<Back Issues>>
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_____How to Get 'em
After reading this issue of DemoNews, you may be wondering how you can get
previous ones. Well fear not! There are two different ways to do so:
1: FTP to hornet.eng.ufl.edu and go to /pub/msdos/demos/news/OLD_NEWS and
start downloading anything you see.
2: Now you can request back issues of DemoNews via e-mail. Start a letter
to
[email protected] (any subject line) and in the body of the
letter include "get demuan-list <index>" where INDEX refers to the
index number of the issue.
For example: get demuan-list 55
This would retrieve DemoNews #80
For more recent issues that are split into multiple parts, you must send
an individual request for each index number.
_____Descriptions
Issue Index Date Size Description
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78 47-49 01/08/95 111185 The Party 1994: Results and Reviews, Report
by Stony and Friends, What happened to PC-
Demo competition. Editorial: TP94 = ASM94
part 2. Egg2: Trancescrambled Review, More
on Fast Tracker 2.03. General Rambling by
Denthor.
79 51 01/15/95 41832 A Day in the Life of Snowman, Ambient Sample
CD 1, Where's the Sound Blaster, TP94
Graphics review.
80 55 01/22/95 27028 DemoNews/HTML, Traffic Jam, CodeThink(School);
The Solo Sample CD
81 58,59 01/29/95 53434 NAID Survival Guide, General Protection
Relationships, Ctrl-Alt-Delete, Now Its a
Game!, Assembly Part 3 (It ain't no party),
BSP Trees
82 64-66 02/05/95 81428 Setag and Notron News (A New Format), NAID
FAQ, Interview with Maelcum/KFMF, Optimizing
Vector Transformations on a Pentium, The
Perfect Body, Top 10 Mistakes of Beginning
Assembly Language Coders
83 67 02/12/95 22584 Reader Response?, What's In What's Out,
Bizarre, Virus in Inertia Player, Introducing
GraveDigger.
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<<Closing Comments>>
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Just today, two interesting things happened:
A very nice woman that I was studying with got a flat tire and I spent a
couple of hours trying to get her home. This time could probably have been
cut in half, but I wasn't in any particular hurry. :)
Ulrik Henriksen sent me three CD-ROMs, including the Assembly 94' party
CD. I'll review this one for the next issue of DemoNews.
You thought that we had a lot of projects going on here at HORNET? Well,
next week I will announce the biggest project HORNET has undertaken in
months. Its going to be big, its going to be important, and you are going
to be impressed! (you might even wet your cyber-pants)
Remember, we _need_ an Australian courier for Jason Nunn! Please help.
See you in CyberSpace,
-Christopher G. Mann (Snowman)-
[email protected]
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