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          Here i am back from Arf!party releasing another issue of
        demojournal. Made a quick interview with tmk and that was it! :)
        Hope you enjoy this issue as much as i enjoyed Arf!Party.

        "C'est dla BOMB ‡a!"
                                                                           ps


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        <Dlee> Astroidea has now only 2 members:
               Reptile (musician-coder) and Melan (organiser-designer)
               (Maybe more) Info at: astroidea.scene-hu.com

        <Dlee> Picard joined Exceed, he is one of the dopest 3d engine coder.

        <iQuiTo> just wanted to note that pain was released almost 3 weeks
                 ago :) as nobody seems to notice, you could maybe drop a
                 little note in next demojournal :) [www.space.ch/scene/pain]

        [editor: as you wish!]

        <Seven> Some Assembly rules are changed, look at
                http://www.assembly.org

        <Seven> Even party websites are not Y2K-compliant :) For a laugh,
                check out The Gathering 1900 at www.gathering.org.

        <Seven> Equinox, an oldskool Atari ST group, have released a Virtual
                Escape,a demo for nostalgic people. They started working on
                it in 1992, but the loader never got finished. Now they
                finally made one and released it. Look at
                equinox.planet-d.net

        <Seven> Inopia has left Quad
                Silence (former Inside-member) joins TUHB as a musician.
                (from: www.quad98.net)

        <Melwyn> http://kameli.arabuusimiehet.com/tg99/ There are couple
                 of photographs from our TG99 trip.

        [editor: the link didnt worked for me but give it a try, it might be
                 my connection that is fucked up!]


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starts !=! ends !===! location !===! name !=========! contact !================


Mar 31 - Apr 04, 1999 Norway    The Gathering '99
Apr 02 - Apr 05, 1999 Germany   Mekka & Symp. 2k-1  http://ms.demo.org
Apr 02 - Apr 04, 1999 America   Spring Break'99     http://skaro.scene.org/sb99
Apr 02 - Apr 04, 1999 Sweden    Birdie '99          http://www.birdie.org
Apr 03 - Apr 05, 1999 France    The Meeting 1999    http://www.fil.univ-lille1.fr/EVENEMENTS/coding/
Apr 16 - Apr 18, 1999 France    Arf!Party           http://arfparty.citeweb.net


=========! present time !======================================================


May 07 - May 09, 1999 France    Keyboard '99
May 16 - May 17, 1999 Sweden    Icing'99            http://www.icing.net
  <canceled>   , 1999 Germany   Neithernor'99       http://neithernor.demo.org
May 21 - May 23, 1999 Sweden    Pool Position '99   www.pool-position.pp.se
May ?? - ??? ??, 1999 Poland    Rush Hours'99       amber.bti.pl/rh99
May 29 - ??? ??, 1999 France    Servo '99           info@mars-eyes.org

Jun 04 - Jun 06, 1999 Holland   Takeover '99        http://www.takeover.nl
Jun 17 - Jun 20, 1999 Sweden    Remedy '99          http://www.remedy.nu

Jul 09 - Jul 11, 1999 Belgium   Inscene '99         www.analogica.com/inscene
Jul 09 - Jul 10, 1999 UK        Dejavu '99          http://www.dejavu.org.uk
Jul 09 - Jul 11, 1999 Swiss     Buenzli#8           http://swiss.scene.org/buenzli
Jul 19 - Jul 23, 1999 ?         Density '99         www.gathering.org/kandu/
Jul 22 - Jul 24, 1999 Spain     Euskal 7            http://www.euskalparty.org
Jul ?? - Jul ??, 1999 Denmark   Summer Encounter 99
Jul ?? - Jul ??, 1999 Hungary   Rage-Scenest '99

Aug 06 - Aug 08, 1999 Finland   Assembly '99        http://www.assembly.org
Aug 20 - Aug 22, 1999 Hungary   AntIQ'99
Aug 20 - Aug 22, 1999 Germany   Evoke '99           http://kaoz.org/evoke/99/
Aug 21 - Aug 24, 1999 France    Slach 2             www.mygale.org/~myke666

Sep 03 - Sep 05, 1999 France    RTS Party 2000-1    http://RTS-PartY.imag.fr
Sep ?? - Sep ??, 1999 Sweden    The Demoparty '99   http://www.demoparty.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

??? ?? - ??? ??, 1999 YugoslaviaScene Strike 4
??? ?? - ??? ??, 1999 France    Slach 2             www.mygale.org/~myke666

Nov ?? - Nov ??, 1999 Germany   Cologne Conf. '99   www.academicus.de/cc98

??? ?? - ??? ??, 2000 USA       Bang! 2000          www.scene.org/bang!/


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        This week! I have been mostly eating... aspirins


=====! interview !=============================================================

        Session Start: Tue Apr 20 00:04:53 1999

        *** tmk has joined #demojournal

        <|ps|> who are you? :)

        <tmk> uh, dunno. u should know since u want to interview me.

        <|ps|> you are tom moyatoshi smtg but please help me!!!
               ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
               ppppppppplllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaassssssssssseeeeeeeeeee
               help me

        <tmk> oh alright then. my name in the brave real world is tom
              motoyoshi kalland. 1977 edition, makes me about 21 years right
              now. nothing much to say otherwise, except that im a student
              (or so they tell me) do some work (yeah rite... hahaha), etc.

        <|ps|> what do you study and where do you work?

        <tmk> on the scene im "known" (among those i know at least) as tmk. i
              tend to do graphics and such on the scene as well as whining on
              irc where i go under the names tmk, toshi, gohan, etc. alot of
              crap. stop whining, im trying to chat with other ppl as well as
              coding here! :)

        <|ps|> okokokok but answer the question! :)

        <tmk> im studying japanese and computer science at the university of
              oslo. its my third year now.. not that i really feel i get
              anywhere. i work as a programmer beside my studies. its even
              more boring. :)
              where i work? in norway.

        <|ps|> whats all this with the asian stuff? why do you have a jap
               name and all that?

        <tmk> its all a big mystery and all, but ive heard rumours that my
              name might have something to do with the fact that im half
              japanese having a japanese mother and stuff. i guess this
              doesnt explain why im drawing asian stuff all the time tho,
              but im not sure its relevant for the question as ure being
              difficult ;)

        <|ps|> oh yes! it all comes back to me :P why do you draw only
               japanese cuties? :)

        <tmk> amazing isnt it? :) actually, i did draw western cuties back
              in the good ol' days, but as noone noticed me i figured that i
              had to draw something different. as im not the most inovative
              person on face of this earth i didnt go for any fancy style, i
              just switched from drawing western gals to asian gals. since
              things went better then, i decided to stick to it. despite what
              the sprite advertisement says about "image is nothing", it
              seems like image is everything on the demo scene. i might draw
              some korean cuties, not just japanese cuties, but u would never
              know would u? :P

        <|ps|> hehe, is there a diference?

        <tmk> well, japanese cuties tend to live in japan, while korean
              cuties tend to live in korea. its quite fundamental as if u go
              to korea to meet japanese cuties u wont get anywhere.

        <|ps|> i mean visually! :P

        <tmk> well, u cant see all the way from korea to japan nor the other
              way around.

        <|ps|> er... u can?

        <tmk> anyways, i like to think of the stuff i draw as japanese as it
              seems.. dunno. more natural. i guess im getting old and
              starting to get into this "i have to find my roots before i
              die"-phenomena. besides, i prefer girls that can make me some
              decent sushi. :) sushi is neat. u may argue that for instans
              yaku niku might originally be from korea, but i bet the
              japanese yaku niku tastes better anyway. and while we're
              talking about food, i could of course draw chinese chicks, but
              thats not really the same. i cant stand chinese food for more
              than a week before i flip out.

        <|ps|> what does yaku niku mean?

        <tmk> yakuniku is a japanese meal where u fry some beef on a special
              frypan thingy on the table while u eat. niku means meat, so i
              guess u can guess what yaku means.

        <|ps|> hehe so when did you found out about the demoscene?

        <tmk> hm... i was quite late actually. i stumbled across some demos
              back in 94 together with some friends. we figured demos were
              nice, but didnt really know anything about it. then we attended
              tg94 and formed INF. we were without doubt the lamest group
              around, but we had fun. i only did code back then tho, it was
              in 95 or so i had to do some graphics as noone else did it and
              then it developed from there.

        <|ps|> so that was your first party? how was it like?

        <tmk> my first party was tg94. how it was? erh.. im not really sure,
              but i remember it as great. i didnt have anything to compare it
              with and i made alot of new friends there so it was nice. of
              course, if i think about the level of the compos etc. later i
              guess it wasnt anything special tho. :)

        <|ps|> and what was your latest party then?

        <tmk> my latest so far is tg99.

        <|ps|> how was it comparing to tg94?

        <tmk> compared to 94? hehe... well, since 94 party networks have
              become common u know ;) the network actually worked this year.
              except from that i dont have much nice things to say about it.
              the party really sucked from a sceners point of view. the main
              issue was to get the party as big as possible. it was big
              alright, but it was also very very boring. great place to be if
              halflife and leeching porn is ur hobbies, otherwise.. nah.

        <|ps|> you got 1st place at demo and gfx compo. care to share your
               secrets? :)

        <tmk> yeah, be cynical and vote on urself. erh.. im not really sure.
              voters are strange ppl.

        <|ps|> hehe :) so THIS is the result of 5 years of scenering! how do
               you feel? :P did you do any big mistakes on the evolution
               process?

        <tmk> not sure. hehe.. wasted time perhaps. mistakes.. hm. i should
              have done less graphics and tried to do some scene related
              coding. i didnt do that. that was stupid. i guess i could have
              moved to photoshop earlier as well as i feel im abit behind
              when it comes to 24bit. bla bla... i should have focused less
              on the scene more on school.. bla bla bla... whatever. :P

        <|ps|> what do you mean you are behind? yours pics rule!!!!!!!!!

        <tmk> hehe.. thx. i mean that if i had started using 24bit earlier i
              would have more control in photoshop than now. but that will
              come eventually anyways, and if i had done that i would be
              worse in 8bit than im not. im just trying to come up with
              something ive done wrong to make ur interview interesting, but
              as im such a clever guy i cant really come up with any good
              ones. :)

        <|ps|> hehe! there we go! :) so whats up on norway? hows the scene
               going?

        <tmk> the scene isnt going anywhere. its quite dead. its too few ppl
              actually doing anything, most of them just pretend they are
              very elite and thats about it. its like, if uve seen a demo u
              call urself a scener. otherwise norway is.. hm.. the food here
              is awfull. this is THE bread and potato country. cute gals and
              things like that around tho. the snow is melting now, nice.

        <|ps|> well, ive been told norway is very beautifull too many times
               care to reply?

        * tmk looks at his writing and starts to wonder about the
              'toefl'-test he is supposed to have on thursday :/

        <tmk> care to reply on what? if norway is beautifull or not?
              guess its kinda nice if u like snow, mountains, and fjords.

        <|ps|> hehehe are you that bored of them? :)

        <tmk> r u running out of clever questions? ;) ive never been too
              found of snow. if i leave i would probably miss it, but right
              now i like to be somewhere else. :)

        <|ps|> ok, let me give you some work then, how do you say
               "Fucking rules" on norwegian?

        <tmk> just when i thought norwegian potatos were the most boring
              thing around u showed up. ;)

        <|ps|> whats wrong with norwegian potatos?

        <tmk> i guess u cant really translate that sentence to propper
              norwegain without making a totally different sentence. :)

        <|ps|> then make a totally diferent sentence. its the meaning that
               counts! :D

        <tmk> its not the potatos that is the problem, its the fact that ppl
              here eat them every day. its totally insane.

        <|ps|> bahaha no rice on norway? or your too used of eating it
               everyday like on japan?

        <tmk> u can get rice here, im just talking about what the average
              person here eats. rice is nice. :)

        <|ps|> so you prefer rice over potatos then? is that what you are
               trying to say?

        <tmk> something like that. im not really trying to say anything, im
              just trying to keep up writing nothing just like u. :)

        <|ps|> but this is important. i want to know what do i need to eat
               to be able to draw realistic cute girls on my computer!!!
               oh cammon... please tell me...

        <tmk> first u grab hold of the first and cutest girl u can find and
              make her make u some decent food that doesnt contain potatos.
              sushi for instance. skip the bread and eat noodles. i was
              supposed to do a research on graphicians eating habits but i
              never finished that. danny for instans drinks tea all the time,
              that might help too.

        * |ps| writes down... tea=good

        <|ps|> thank you! :) so why do you draw girls all the time? are you
               some sort of demented pervert who cant get none?

        <tmk> yeah, im hanibal lector jr... :) seriously tho, im doing fine.
              its just that when ure going to draw something ure supposed to
              stair at the stupid drawing for hours. its not very inspiring
              stairing at a fat aged man for instans. beside, if u spend so
              much time on a drawing, u want it to look nice when its
              completed, and girls tend to look nicer than most (all?)
              things. :)

        <|ps|> uuuuuuuhhhhhhh arent philosofical today? :) i guess you use
               that sentence alot to pick up girls no? :P

        <tmk> no, usually just "hi, im tom" does the trick. :)

        <|ps|> i should use that! thx for the tip! "hi, im tom" sounds cool!
               :) although i would be lying! :P does that matter?

        <tmk> no idea. girls like to say they want u to be honest and stuff.

        <|ps|> humm...

        * |ps| notes down: be honest!

        <|ps|> hei! thx!! your beeing quiet usefull!!! :)

        <tmk> write down this to "look like tom" and "be like tom" etc.

        <|ps|> so whats planned for the future on the demoscene? you already
               won 2 gfx compos! what now? some more?

        <tmk> ive won 2? i thought i had won 8 or so. oh well. i havent
              planned much, i think ill quit it in the near future. im going
              to tokyo to study from august, and there isnt really any demo
              scene in japan which makes it less interesting to keep on being
              active. ive told ppl that im going to quit many times before
              tho, lets see if i can manage this time. :)

        [editor: by 2 i meant the last 2 he participated tp8 and tg99 but...]

        <|ps|> i read it somewhere (csipd i think) that the ppl who are
               thinking of leaving the scene normally say the scene is dying
               as an excuse

        <tmk> isnt that natural? it sounds very cool to say such, much
              better than "i feel too lazy and i simple cant keep up with
              the rest anymore" etc.

        <|ps|> yeah, sounds like that to me. i didnt knew you were leaving
               for japan! do you plan to come back?

        <tmk> yeah, im planning to come back. im just trying to find a
              really good excuse to quit the scene.

        <|ps|> no, i mean to japan! not the scene

        <tmk> okah, lets do this again: yes, i plan to come back from japan
              again. im just trying to find a good excuse for quitting the
              scene.

        [editor: i was a little slow... :P]

        <|ps|> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
               when will you come back? 1 year? 2?

        [editor: im speeding up now! :P]

        <tmk> ive only planned 1 year so far. then we'll see. is it just me,
              or is this truly boring?

        <|ps|> no its not. now you shocked me! i didnt knew you were going
               to japan!

        <tmk> got this feeling that beside u noone would find this amusing.
              i didnt mean that, i ment the whole conversation. :)
              perhaps ill start drawing blonde scandinavian chicks when i
              get there.

        <|ps|> i know i know... who gives a shit about what ppl think of the
               interview!
               hehe :)
               ok, so lets get technical so ppl really find this boring!

        <tmk> uh-huh technical? what topic?

        <|ps|> whats the really big diference between 8bit and 24bit pics?
               i mean drawing them..

        <tmk> pal bla bla bla etc

        <|ps|> oh cammon... if you want to do an 8bit do you do the same
               thing as in 24bit except for the fact that in one you use
               paintbrushes and on the other you go fix the pixels one at a
               time?

        <tmk> ure clever. thats the difference. and i dont have to fight a
              never ending battle with the pallette when i do 24bit.

        <|ps|> bahaha, does that mean 8bit suck? :)

        <tmk> no way. i prefere 8bit. its more charm to it.

        <|ps|> more charm? [ed: slow again..]

        <tmk> yeah.

        <|ps|> interesting choice of words. care to unravel the secret
               meaning?

        <tmk> try drawing a 24bit and an 8bit and ull get my point.

        <|ps|> its more rewarding to see the final result?

        * tmk lacks vocabulary

        <|ps|> lacking is not good! :)

        <tmk> its more human kinda. not sure how to explain this.
              i know

        <|ps|> sounds more like you made it and not some resource? :)

        <tmk> whatever u say. i wont agree, but im too tired to argue about
              this. [ed: you seem tired! lacking words to describe the
              diference between doing an 8bit and a 24bit!]

        <|ps|> what have you been doing to feel so tired? yeah, lets have a
               24h with tmk thing! :P

        <tmk> its 2:50am mister.

        <|ps|> so what?

        <tmk> cant, i got studies u know.

        <|ps|> i mean, tell us about your last 24h! :)

        <tmk> woke up at some chicks place - ate breakfast - went to school -
              had lectures - finished an assignment - ate lunch with someone
              - went home - ate dinner - coded abit - watched some tv - irc.

        <|ps|> sounds like fun to me [ed: waking up at your mothers house
               doesnt count!!!]

        <tmk> why dont u include ur autoexec.bat or something in demojournal
              isntead? this will bore ppl.

        <|ps|> my autoexec.bat is confidential. shut up and tell us what are
               your favorite coder/gfx/musician so we can end the interview
               today

        <tmk> its confidential too. its not really something im able to
              evaluate.

        <|ps|> just shoot some names that pop on your head

        <tmk> names other than names of cute jpop stars dont tend to pop on
              my head.

        <|ps|> your really tired man! :) drop some urls and/or emails and go
               to bed. this interview is over! :)

        <tmk> emails and stuff.. sure.. amusing ppl can contact me at
              tmk@earthling.net
              nite

        <|ps|> bye and thx tomka! you rule! :)

        <tmk> np, as for the rule part, im too tired to disagree. ;)

        <|ps|> bahahah

        [editor: damn he was tired!]

        Session Close: Tue Apr 20 01:57:44 1999


=====! demo !==================================================================

        Fabula by Function (party-version)

        Found at ftp://demo.cat.hu
        ???th place at Elevator'99

        System requirements:
        2.5 MB HD, a Midas-compatible soundcard,
          a VGA-card that supports mode 13H (320*200*256, this might be a
        problem :))
        No memory-requirements listed, but I doubt it's above 16MB.

        The Demo:
          This is the second demo from Function, and it has a kind of
        oldskool feeling. It starts with a logo with TV-static, then the
        credits are shown with photo's, really cool: we see the members
        walking towards the camera at night in a dark street. Now lots of
        full-screen 2D-effects are shown, nothing very new or original, but
        at an OK speed. They made very good use of the palette, fast changes,
        I first thought I was looking at an Vesa2 demo. The bad side of this
        is they use far too much white flashes, and every transition to a new
        effect is either a fade to black or a flash. I know this is easy in
        mode 13H, but try to be more original! Almost no 3D, only a
        wire-framed star (with hidden surface removal) at the end. There are
        few pictures, some logos, some faces, with the standard nice girl.
        I've seen worse, but I've also seen better ones. The pictures are
        the only way to see its a low-color mode, as some of them are
        dithered.

        The music:
          There's only one tune, it starts with a soft guitar, then changes
        into some kind of rock-tune which sounds a lot like Nirvana,
        especially during the title screen. It doesn't change very much,
        only a slower part during the pictures, but I like it anyways. It's
        a nice change from the usual techno/ambient most of the demos use
        nowadays.

        Worth the download?
          Function are rather new, and we can see that: no revolutionary
        effects, no own library system (all graphics are in a subdirectory
        in PCX-format, yuck!), no complex 3D,... But they have some original
        ideas, and looking at the credit-photos, most members are fairly
        young, so they have lots of time to improve. Download this if you
        like to check out new groups, or if you like Nirvana-style music.
        After all, it's only 1.4 MB zipped.
                                                                        Seven


=====! intro !=================================================================

        Purple - Public Demand 1st at The Gathering '99

          Last year they couldn't reach the 1st place at the podium, but
        now! The intro is really nice, shows some effects in a new sight,
        like metaballing with toruses and not spheres, with the usual
        halftone as background. Funny is the particling part what is
        inspirated by a WinAmp plugin called Geiss.
        (http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~geiss/geiss.html) The power-field
        (or what is it's name) effect what i have seen in Jizz first time is
        here used as layer, and the background is rotating and blured,
        Awesome! Some greetings is comming between two big spheres, with
        flares. So all what i can say it is worth to download, but the truth
        is that Photon impressed me last year much more...
                                                                         dlee


=====! music !=================================================================

        "Chernobyl flowers" by Rez/TPOLM

          It's another chip tune from the master rez. It starts with a very
        happy melody. lalalalalala. Then you get hit by some heavy techno
        beats from nowhere! you can imagine how the tune varies from here
        on... lalalala PUM PUM PUM lalalalalala PUM PUM PUM PUM lalala lala
        :P Very wicked! Shodan wake up at the sound of that on Arf!party.
        "If you heven't woke up at the sound of chernobyl flowers you haven't
        lived yet!!!" :)
                                                                           ps
        [editor: oh yeah, willbe put the volume at 180% on that occasion and
                 shodan was sleeping right under the speakers. :D ]        


=====! quote !=================================================================
        
          <UNR_EAL> PS: once I came to #coders, and it was boring.. I yelled
        "you can all go to hell!" and right after everybody split :D


=====! question !==============================================================

> what do you think about scene charts?


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they suck! they just suck! THEY S-U-C-K!!!!!
=)

BAM


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well, i kind of like this 'pure' style.
now that diskmags are gone, i can't but highly appreciate the editors'
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t.


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are you going to put scenecharts back to demojournal?

i guess they're ok.. but i don't follow doose..

distance


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ehrm, well, actually they dont say that much, but i think they are needed
anyway. It's the same as with music charts, some tunes that are placed high
suck because of people different thoughts (as Dr. Bombay and so on..). Same
with scene charts. If a demo is placed high on a chart doesnt mean it's
good, just that it is popular.
errrhm. well. anyway.

keep on boozing.

gfy/replay


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As I wrote in an article in Hugi #14, I consider charts an important
element of the demo scene. Charts say who and what productions are hot,
who is known and who is not, what newcomer has lately become famous,
what group is most active, etc. They are an important indicator of new
talents and new productions that are worth checking out.

It is really a pity that there is no charts of significance on PC at the
moment. OK, there are, for instance, the mags "Measure" and "Heroin",
both with more than hundred voters. But more than 90% of the Measure
voters come from Poland, so it's no international charts. And the charts
in Heroin #1 were already a tad, namely more than half a year, old when
the mag was released.

Actually The E-Mag Network wanted to create a new chartsmag together,
called "The Charts". This name should be taken literally. Several
diskmags around the globe, Hugi included, were supposed to collaborate
on spreading votesheets. The Charts would then be released as frequently
as possible, after getting at least 200 fresh votesheets. However, this
project has temporarily been put on ice due to the fact that the coder
is busy with university.

As a consequence, Hugi currently plans to install charts again. The next
issue, #15, which is scheduled for May 1999, is supposed to contain a
handy votesheet. The results will be published in Hugi #16, whenever
that number is going to be released. Currently we plan to host world
charts, including the same sections as in the Hugi #12 charts (demos,
intros, groups, diskmags) plus coders, graphicians and musicians.
Instead of Hugi #12 for which you could only vote for three items per
section, you will be able to list up to five items in each section. This
will ensure a greater variety of names appearing in the charts. Actually
we had planned more sections in The Charts than we will now have in the
Hugi charts, but let's keep it this way first. Future will show how our
readers will accept it. Moreover, we might consider installing local
charts as known from "Fleur", where each voter can vote for
people/productions from his own country. But this feature isn't sure
yet, as it would require a vast number of voters in each country to lead
to representative results.

I hope that installing charts in Hugi will stimulate competition and
help new talents to get known faster.

Any comments or suggestions? Contact me at hugi@netway.at.

(Adok/Hugi)


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I like charts, they give me an idea of what demos I
should check out that I haven't seen yet.


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they are cool, and they are needed! (of course those counted with more
than 100 votes...)

Garfield/IPC^Pengo^Lo 2+7


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they're mostly fucked, and in most cases aren't representative enough to be
shown...

Szum/Cryogen


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Charts are always like that: Pulse-Lazur-Unreal (sometimes Statix) -Falcon
(or Dune) - Tribes/Sunflower/73MS ... This isn't bad, becouse these guys are
really made dope, but sometimes boring are these results.

Some not_so_well_ known people could be presented too in this charts, like
Thor/Tpolm or Optic/TRSI. I have never seen them...

And if you are always on top: 1. you think you are elite. 2. your work will
be flamed a lot...

I still don't know - We need charts? Maybe yes.

dlee


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