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          Hei, recall that nice fellow jay who was STEALING scene music..
        Here is his story, for the fans.. Spread the url will you? =)
        http://www.angelfire.com/band/jay/


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Feb 26 - Feb 27, 2000 Slovakia  Demobit 2000        http://www.demobit.sk
Feb 26 - Mar 02, 2000 Norway    Trax00              http://traxparty.cjb.net

Mar 10 - Mar 12, 2000 Holland   Ambience 2000       http://www.ambience.nl
Mar ?? - Mar ??, 2000 Poland    Astrosyn
Mar 31 - Apr 02, 2000 Finland   Rendezvous 01       http://rendezvous.stc.cx

Apr 14 - Apr 16, 2000 France    Arf!Party00         http://arfparty.planet-d.net
Apr 19 - Apr 23, 2000 Norway    The Gathering 1900  http://www.gathering.org
Apr 21 - Apr 24, 2000 Germany   Mekka Symposium 2k  http://ms.demo.org

May 06 - May 07, 2000 Russia    Parodox 2000        http://eltes.info-don.ru/kirr
May 26 - May 28, 2000 Germany   Radwar Party 2000   http://www.radwar.com
May ?? - May ??, 2000 Germany   Dialogos 2000       http://www.dialogos.cc

Jul 07 - Jul 09, 2000 France    VIP 2               http://popsyteam.rtel.fr/VIP
Jul 07 - Jul 09, 2000 Belgium   2-THOUSAND          http://www.multimania.com/tthousand
Jul 14 - Jul 16, 2000 Belgium   Inscene 2000        http://www.inscene.org

Aug 11 - Aug 13, 2000 Swiss     Buenzli #9          http://www.buenz.li
Aug 31 - Sep 03, 2000 France    aRTS Y2K            http://www.rtsy.org
Aug ?? - Aug ??, 2000 Poland    Gravity 2000        neuroup@agravedict.art.pl

Nov 01 - Nov 01, 2000 France    Millenium Party 2K  http://Party2k.citeweb.net

??? ?? - ??? ??, 2000 France    LTP 4               http://ltp.planet-d.net

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        This week! I've been mostly eating... anxiety


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


        Session Start: Tue Feb 01 21:50:41 2000

        *** _mirage_ has joined #demojournal

        <_mirage_> cozy

        <|ps|> so who are you? =)

        <_mirage_> erhmm... is this part of the interview? [ed: DUH]

        <|ps|> yeah =)

        <_mirage_> so, that was supposed to be:
                   Question 1: so who are you? :)
                   sorry, fooling around i'll try to do my best :)
                   erhmm... my real name is Lars Verhoeff

        <|ps|> ah, and what do you do on life lars? =)

        <_mirage_> i'm currently working at karma-studios
                   (http://www.karma-studios.com :)
                   doing graphics and a little bit of coding on
                   color gameboy games
                   i start at about 13.00 pm and after our daily game of
                   starcraft at night and the occasional beer i go home
                   again :)

        <|ps|> how old are you and where are you from?

        <_mirage_> i'm 26 years old (yeah, what am i still doing
                   in a demo-scene) born and raised in holland

        <|ps|> hehe =) what kind of work do you do on karma?
               besides the starcraft playing ;)

        <_mirage_> actually, i was first employed to do sketch-art for
                   console games but we needed some quick money first,
                   so i'm currently doing bitmap graphics for our
                   gameboy games

        <|ps|> any games we mear mortals might have played? =)

        <_mirage_> nope we finished 5 games and are working on 5 more
                   but we're having troubles finding publishers that
                   are willing to distribute our games worldwide
                   you can download graphics and music from our site,
                   and see what you have to wait for :)
                   [ed: very nice site too btw]

        <|ps|> :( lets talk about you then, when did you first started
               into computer and computer graphics?

        <_mirage_> oh, i go waaaaay back
                   I started on a spectrum ZX81, with 16kb of ram
                   later came my first c-64

        <|ps|> ah the speccie

        <_mirage_> not the spectrum you know, probably
                   mine had black-and-white graphics
                   looked more like an advanced calculator
                   it was the predecessor of the color-spectrum

        <|ps|> uhh =) go on about c64 then.. =)

        <_mirage_> ahyeah i started coding on that thing
                   it was only after a year or two that i started
                   doing graphics
                   let's see if i can remember the groups i used to be in...
                   it started with delight then came culture, sphinx,
                   censor design, legend and finally focus
                   that's about it :)

        <|ps|> what year did you first started doing gfx?

        <_mirage_> that would be two years after 1984, when i got my c-64
                   '86-ish, i would guess

        <|ps|> how old were you then? 13?

        <_mirage_> fast calculating :) yeah, 13

        <|ps|> uhh.. thats really long ago =)

        <_mirage_> i know :) told you i was old :)
                   next question, please :)

        <|ps|> what do you remember of starting computer gfx?
               any good memories? =)

        <_mirage_> what i remember most was that i had to do all my
                   graphics with a joystick
                   no luxuries of wacom tablets those days :)

        <|ps|> joysticks are told to be a pain to pixel in.. :P

        <_mirage_> nah, i got the hang of it pretty quickly
                   it just takes some getting used to

        <|ps|> what did you first draw? what were your inspirations
               back then and did they evolved till nowdays? =)

        <_mirage_> i started doing logos, like everybody those days
                   hardly to be called inspirational graphics
                   later on came a technique called FLI,
                   flexible line interpolation
                   which made making graphics more flexible that paved
                   the road for more inspirational fullscreen graphics

        <_ps_> well.. you didnt answer the question much.. what were
               your inspirations and how did they change across the times? =)

        <_mirage_> well... boris valejo was a great inspiration duh! :)
                   they changed, since i know now how to draw on
                   paper myself :) i graduated from highschool
                   with the highest grade possible for sketching/painting

        <_ps_> you the typical boris pics redraw type? =)

        <_mirage_> i _was_ like almost everybody else from that period
                   did that answer your question?

        <_ps_> hehe, no! but never mind
               ok, so lets start having some organizing on this interview ;)
               you said your last group was focus..? how did you get to gaia?

        <_mirage_> okay finishing after my c-64 period i bought myself an
                   amiga because i was asked to do graphics for an
                   amiga-game i did the intro-graphics for disposable hero
                   and then sold my amiga again

        <|ps|> that was fast =)

        <_mirage_> after that i got a 486 and joined bonzai, who just went
                   from c-64 to pc just like me
                   after that we made a PC department for focus

        <|ps|> and where is analogue on that? =)

        <_mirage_> and we merged with abstract concepts to form analogue
                   analogue still exists nowadays, and i'm still in it...
                   we've just taken a short break from making demos
                   that's why i joined superstition for a short while
                   they were just a tad bit more productive
                   so i could lose my graphics the easy way :)

        * |ps| waits for the part about gaia =)

        <_mirage_> after superstition broke up, a lot of things happened
                   too dificult to explain so i started a demogroup called
                   gaia together with two friends they both kinda left the
                   scene, so gaia is just me at the moment :)

        <|ps|> :P nothing like a happy ending :P
               you still active on the scene nowdays?
               or are you more focusing on work?

        <_mirage_> actually, work is taking up a lot of my time
                   i used to study for about 6 years
                   in that time i had a lot of spare time :)
                   i'm actually still active in the scene
                   i attend the occasional party now and then
                   the last picture i released ended up number one
                   that was at bizarre99
                   and i'm busy programming aswell, so i can release a demo
                   somewhere in the near future since none of the people i
                   know is willing to program for me :)

        <|ps|> =) thats cool to hear.. humm.. what is more expressive way
               of computer art? coding or pixeling?

        <_mirage_> expressive? pixeling, obviously
                   but i find coding tends to order my mind
                   thus, compensating for the expressive part of my brain
                   that handles the chaotic process of pixeling

        <|ps|> lets talk about graphics then, you both pixel and do
               photoshop works.. which one is more rewarding?

        <_mirage_> i don't see why anybody can call pixeling expressive
                   when i work in photoshop i get (almost) full control
                   of my works
                   pixeling is a completely different process...
                   the expressive part comes before the pixeling
                   then i have to decide on the colours i'm going to use
                   in my palette after that, everything is a tightly
                   scheduled process, nothing expressive about it

        <|ps|> so why do you still pixel and not do only photoshop work?

        <_mirage_> pixeling is my job, since the platform i'm painting for
                   is the colorgameboy, with tiles and 4color palettes for
                   every 8x8 pixels as a hobby, i use photoshop
                   when we start working on our nextgen titles i get to use
                   photoshop during my working hours maybe i'll turn back to
                   pixeling in my spare-time then :)

        <|ps|> how does work and hobby computer graphics differ?
               does it show its work and not just for fun?

        <_mirage_> work-graphics are usually constraint by the rules
                   that are layed out, since every game needs specific
                   graphics e.g. when we're working on a racing game i
                   get to draw roads when i'm not in the mood of drawing
                   roads or cars i still don't have a choice

        Session Close: Tue Feb 01 22:52:30 2000

        Session Start: Mon Feb 14 22:13:18 2000

        <|ps|> so are you ready for the death defying
               demojournal top quiz show contest?

        <_mirage_> ready when you are

        <|ps|> 1. whats your favorite color?

        <_mirage_> deep blue

        <|ps|> 2. whats the capital of madagascar

        <_mirage_> oh, wait... i know this one

        <|ps|> no cheating!!!

        <_mirage_> can i pass this on to my think-tank? next Q :)

        <|ps|> 3. what is the meaning of life?

        <_mirage_> 42 easy ones... when do we get to the hard ones?

        <|ps|> 4. what is the most interesting book/movie you ever read/seen?

        <_mirage_> that would be 'eerst grijs, dan wit dan blauw',
                   but that's a dutch book, so most of you don't understand
                   what i'm talking about

        <|ps|> and what about movie?

        <_mirage_> hmm... i guess 'cube' would be my most interesting movie

        <|ps|> 5. do you think there is life beyond our planet?

        <_mirage_> definately, and i hope they have better ways of
                   interviewing then through irc

        <|ps|> =) do you have a pet?

        <_mirage_> what happened to the graphics-and-coding related questions?
                   no, i don't have a pet

        <|ps|> hei! who id doing the interview? me or you? =)
               you dont have a pet? how come?

        <_mirage_> i'm doing the interview
                   if i wasn't answering you wouldn't have your interview
                   i'm way too busy with work to take care of one

        <|ps|> no, you just sit there and answer silly questions =)
               not even a wabbit or a kitten or a little puppy?
               ok, now tell us what are your favorite demos/intros
               of all times and shutup =)

        <_mirage_> okay, i'll shutup then

        <|ps|> no.. answer the questions :P

        <_mirage_> favourite demo would be erhmm... fulcrum from matrix
                   intro... hmm... tough one... i probably haven't seen
                   all of them, since most of them need some dos protected
                   mode extender, and i hate rebooting my computer just to
                   see an intro so i'll stay away from answering that
                   question if you don't mind, that is :)

        <|ps|> =) oki, you have been around for quite a while..
               what is the main diference between old demoparties
               and these recent ones?

        <_mirage_> for me personally? or what i think changed for most people?

        <|ps|> both =)

        <_mirage_> personally, i used to look up to certain people...
                   now i'm old enough to know they're just as normal as me

        <|ps|> sounds like the story of a disapointed young boy :(

        <_mirage_> i was a young boy, don't blame me

        <|ps|> =) well.. what were the main big changes you seen
               on parties then? =) like tell us how things were back then =)

        <_mirage_> party-places used to be more 'cozy' less sponsored
                   more fun, less competition
                   in a nutshell, less 'commercial'

        <|ps|> were they better?

        <_mirage_> definately but maybe my perception of that changed

        <|ps|> why are there so many new ppl getting interested on demoscene?
               you have any theory to explain that phenomenom?

        <_mirage_> more people have computers as easy as that

        <|ps|> humm.. hehe.. i meant ARENT not are hehehe.. my bad :P

        <_mirage_> then you're wrong... more people are getting interested,
                   not less :) that's why party-places are getting bigger :)

        <|ps|> no, party places are getting bigger because they are full of
               quakers and porno leechers :P not because of demosceners
               check number of ppl / number of productions
               a secret admire wants to know how can you manage to buy beer
               every night without seeming like a sad person to the shop-owner

        <_mirage_> practice makes perfect :)

        <|ps|> hehe. so tell us what are your inspirations for pixelling
               (i dont remember if i asked this already or not)

        <_mirage_> actually... there's only one real person, and that's
                   edward munk

        <|ps|> whois edward munk then?

        <_mirage_> his most famous painting was 'scream'...
                   you must know that one

        <|ps|> humm.. describe it..

        <_mirage_> pfff... look it up :) on computer it's hein holt
                   and danny, ofcourse although i don't quite agree with
                   his point of view of getting inspired by other artists

        <|ps|> now a more then logical question.. why the hell do you mainly
               paint/pixel women? :P

        <_mirage_> what can i say, i'm frustrated, and so are most other
                   sceners, thus making it most likely they will vote for
                   me in gfx-compos :)

        <|ps|> =) whats your favorite simpsons character?

        <_mirage_> Mr. burns, without any doubt
                   and stop copy-and-pasting from #pixel
                   to get new questions :)

        <|ps|> whats your favorite icecream flavour?

        <_mirage_> lemon that's the only icecream that's being kept in a
                   seperate cooler freezer

        <|ps|> whats your favorite beer brand?

        <_mirage_> beer brand? kylian. now get off that topic too

        <|ps|> ok.. you leave me without any topics to persue
               what do you usually listen to?

        <_mirage_> to whatever my boss has on, from his mp3-list :)
                   no, really i like jamiroquai, bjork, prodigy
                   and recently anouk but that's a dutch thing again :)

        <|ps|> now there is one thing i dont get about bjork, maybe you can
               help me out understanding

        <_mirage_> shoot

        <|ps|> how can a person who cant speak english properly write such
               deep thoughts and poems in english? i dont get it.. how can
               you know and understand a language fully and cant be able to
               speak it without an accent?

        <_mirage_> maybe she's got someone to look over her lyrics before
                   she sings them?

        <|ps|> nopes, the poems are hers.. she just talks english with a
               real hard scandinavian accent

        <_mirage_> you got me there maybe she's so intellectual she get's
                   everything write when she writes it down

        <|ps|> =) ok, lets end this interview already =)
               anything you would like to say before i chop your head off?

        <_mirage_> yeah, danny should get over his moral thoughts and return
                   to the scene that's it

        <|ps|> oki, do some advert to your homepages and stuff and then drop
               your email so your fans can flood you with "i love yous"

        <_mirage_> http://www.karma-studios.com and lars@karma-studios.com
                   finally, we got this damn thing finished :)

        Session Close: Mon Feb 14 23:13:32 2000



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	Indigo
	The alpha conspiracy
	mp3.com/alphaconspiracy or www.alphaconspiracy.com

	  As you've maybe noticed, behind this weird name hides a guy who 
	used to call himself Necros and who became one of the best scene 
	musicians. Now, after a long time, he has released 4 new tracks 
	and let's see what he has to offer.
  	  By his musicdisk "System" he has shown that he is moving more
	towards electronical music. If you've heard track "Pulse" from 
	Audiophonik, you know whereto he did get and you could also read 
	that he is working on more tracks using IT and Buzz. His new 
	releases are similar to the mentioned track from audiophonik. 
	Classical samples, like guitar strings, are played through misc.
	filters and effects which give them brand new sound, drumlines 
	are softer, but still very complicated and interesting, especially
	with great bassline, which gives depth to the hits without hurting
	man's ears. In this deep jungle	hide leads with intelligent 
	melodies, but they're not that much on top as they used to be, so
	you have to listen to the tune more times to find them all.
	  I should warn here people who loved his very old releases like 
	December or Mysticism, because Necros has changed a lot. His music
	isn't that opened, you have to listen to it more times to get in 
	it and to fully enjoy it. It also isn't orchestral or jazzy. It's
	sad but true. But if you stay and adapt to it, you'll find good 
	old necros in good form. And no, it has nothing to do with the
	track by Basehead.
	
	- Retro -

  	  And here we are. For the second time with retro and because we
	have here today a release from Necros, we'll take a look at his 
	great musicdisk "Progression".
	  This wonderful musicdisk was released in 1995 under FM label. 
	It was actually first FM musicdisk with new releases and it 
	opened a new era, where membership in Five Musicians will mean 
	being the best.
	  Music moves here among many styles and Andy handles each style 
	with skill. Opening and closing tracks are jazzy, but you'll be 
	surprised how different they are (especially "The Grey Note" with
	it's live club feeling). Other two tracks are very good guitar 
	tunes, where one of them is his entry to mc3 compo (placed 2nd).
	Last two tracks are special - first one, "Point of departure" is 
	a "decent drum track inspired by trains" (this says andy and in 
	my opinion i don't have to comment it in any way, because it 
	describes this track perfectly) and second one is "Isotoxin",
	a very interesting futurous track which has been recently used in
	game Unreal and can't be compared to any track in scene. I would
	describe it as industrial track with synth samples combined with
	intelligent techno, but actually it is more than that - you have
	to hear it. It is a bit similar to Mechanism eight, which is still
	one of the best scene tracks ever. Necros did also coding for the
	interface - what more I have to say?
	  When I wrote this review, I've listened to this musicdisk and I
	was surprised how much it still works on me and if you haven't 
	heard it or you feel for a bit of nostalgia, go on and give your
	soundcard a chance to present you this excellent piece of music.
	It can be found at ftp.scene.org in fm directory.
                                                                       tryhuk


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


        > question of the week:
        > should the current voting systems still be used?

        absolutely not.
        usual gamer/porno crowd knows nothing.
        -distance

          Depends on what, where and when are you voting for. :)
        In overall it seems like usual voting at parties causes
        so much cheating (collecting votekeys/sheets/whatever)
        and voting for just for only the own prods, not the "best"
        ones - so is this really what we want? And on the bigger
        parties the majority of the people who have the right to vote
        are non-sceners with no interest in nothing else than playing
        Quake and watching porno...
          Okay, I'm getting out of the subject now, so back to the point:
        I wouldn't mind at all if there would be some kind of jury of well
        known scene people or even the real outsiders who still find
        computer art interesting who'd rate the competitions. Even
        50% jury - 50% visitors would be better than the situation
        is often nowadays.
          At least at Juhla 5 jury voting worked quite well.. ;)
        -melw, who is too tired to vote anymore.

          no. every played production should be given a mark from 1-10
        for instance. and non-player entries should be disqualified so
        that the creators can still enter it on another party or release
        it at a group's page (when talking about zik) without it being
        given a possible unfair low rating. disqualification isn't always
        bad for the author.
        -eggbird

          this is a very good question, but i think that the better
        question is: "is there any place for charts left?"
        yes, that's a big problem for any chartsmag and ppl who are
        collecting votes for this mags. there are only few peoples,
        who are filling the votes without any reminders. people are
        lazy and they don't want to do anything which is not usefull
        for them. they want to be on charts, but they don't want to
        vote at other sceners!
        -goro

        no. they're stupid.
        -unlock

        no if you won't have enough voters - shine does it better way
        -tryhuk

        i hate every voting-systems !!
        votings , charts etc. = sucks !!
        -p-rat

          I think it`s a bigger problem for the PC Scene that there are so
        many groups and so many productions that it`s hard to know who to
        vote for. Online voting is the best .. it`s easy and fast! Nobody`s
        spreading papervotesheets these days...
        -Ghandy

          I'd prefer a system where I can distribute a given amount of
        points as I want to. Lets say everyone has 10 points for the demo
        compo. You liked the 4th demo most, more than all the others
        together, so you can give 6 points to it. Number 2 was quite
        well done, too, so it gets 2 points, and the last two are given to
        the 3rd and 6th place because you liked them a bit. That's imho much
        better than the current system since it allows votes that almost
        equal your opinion. Ok, perhaps it'd be a lot of work for the
        organizers if you allow paper voting, but if it's all online,
        there shouldn't be any problems.
        -Malte (The Update)


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      Rhyme................................http://rhyme.scene-hu.com
      Skytech team............................http://www.skytech.org
      Sunflower.......................http://sunflower.opengl.org.pl
      Suspend......................http://www.optimus.wroc.pl/rappid
      Tehdas...................................http://come.to/tehdas
      Tesko..........................http://www.scentral.demon.co.uk
      The Black Lotus.............................http://www.tbl.org
      The Digital Artists Wired Nation.http://digitalartists.cjb.net
      The Lost Souls...............................http://www.tls.no
      TPOLM.....................................http://www.tpolm.com
      Trauma.................................http://sauna.net/trauma
      T-Rex.....................................http://www.t-rex.org
      Unik.....................................http://www.unik.ca.tc
      Universe..........................http://universe.planet-d.net
      Vantage..................................http://www.vantage.ch

      Music:

      Aisth.....................................http://www.aisth.com
 <*>  Aural planet........................http://www.auralplanet.com
      Blacktron Music Production...........http://www.d-zign.com/bmp
      Chill..........................http://www.bentdesign.com/chill
      Chippendales......................http://www.sunpoint.net/~cnd
      Chiptune...............................http://www.chiptune.com
      Da Jormas................................http://www.jormas.com
      Five Musicians.........................http://www.fm.scene.org
      Fridge...........................http://www.ssmedion.de/fridge
      Goodstuff..........................http://artloop.de/goodstuff
      Ignorance.............................http://www.ignorance.org
      Intense...........................http://intense.ignorance.org
      Jecoute.................................http://jecoute.cjb.net
      Kosmic Free Music Foundation.............http://www.kosmic.org
      Level-d.................................http://www.level-d.com
      Miasmah.............................http://www.miasmah.cjb.net
      Milk.......................................http://milk.sgic.fi
      Mah Music.............................http://come.to/mah.music
      Maniacs of noise...............http://home.worldonline.nl/~mon
      MAZ's Sound homepage.............http://www.th-zwickau.de/~maz
      Mo'playaz..........................http://ssmedion.de/moplayaz
      Mono211.................................http://www.mono211.com
      Morbid Minds..............http://www.raveordie.com/morbidminds
      Noise................................http://www.noisemusic.org
      One Touch Records......................http://otr.planet-d.net
      Park..................................http://park.planet-d.net
      Radical Rhythms.....http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/merrelli/rr
      RBi Music.............................htpp://www.rbi-music.com
      Ruff Engine................http://members.xoom.com/ruff_engine
      SHR8M......................................http://1st.to/shr8m
      Sound Devotion................http://sugarbomb.x2o.net/soundev
      Soundstate.........................http://listen.to/soundstate
      Sunlikamelo-D...........http://www.error-404.com/sunlikamelo-d
      Suspect Records........................http://www.tande.com/sr
      Tequila........................http://www.defacto2.net/tequila
      Tempo................................http://tempomusic.cjb.net
      Theralite...........................http://theralite.avalon.hr
      Tokyo Dawn Records........................http://tdr.scene.org
      UltraBeat.........................http://www.innerverse.com/ub
      Vibrants................................http://www.vibrants.dk
      Wiremaniacs.........................http://www.wiremaniacs.com

      People:

      3d addict...................http://users.cybercity.dk/~bcc5877
      Anders Akerheden...............http://hem.passagen.se/andersak
      Ari..............................http://www.primenet.com/~arie
      Attack..............................http://attack.planet-d.net
      Balrog.........................http://www.mds.mdh.se/~mek98adl
      Carlos..............................http://www.nexus.hu/carlos
      !Cube......................http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~tlonnber
      Cyclone..................................http://zap.to/cyclone
      Dave.............................http://www.come.to/davecorner
      DaVinci.................................http://davinci.ice.org
      Echo................................http://www.kki.net.pl/echo
      Exocet..........................http://jff.planet-d.net/exocet
      Flan.............................http://www.error-404.com/flan
      Gardner................................http://www.gardner.z.pl
      Grabule........................http://members.xoom.com/grabule
      Hunz............................http://www.globec.com.au/~hunz
      HP........................................http://hp.pardey.org
      Immortal Rat................................http://ir.scene.hu
      Inferno............................http://inferno.planet-d.net
      Jean Nine....................................http://j9.cjb.net
      Jimsendu............................http://home.sol.no/ojakobs
      Jupiter....................http://members.xoom.com/JupiterCode
      Lazur....................................http://lazur.punkt.pl
      Leviathan....................http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~ajcarlso
      Los........................http://www.angelfire.com/in/miku305
      Mephisto.............................http://www.chez.com/shiva
      Mystical................................http://www.mystical.dk
      Nekrite.....................................http://move.to/ap0
      Nico....................................http://geecs.org/~nico
      Nino...................http://www.saunalahti.fi/~kuusnie/tapsa
      Nitro...................ftp://ftp.scene.hu/Artists/music/Nitro
      Nogsf..............................http://www.saers.com/~nogsf
      Pow.................................http://home.sol.no/~tskara
 <*>  P-rat...................................http://www.subphase.de
      Rents................................http://newdigital.tsx.org
      Rez.................................http://reeeeez.citeweb.net
      Rod.................................http://www.inf.bme.hu/~rod
      Scorpik............................http://scorpik.planet-d.net
      Shodan...............................http://shodan.skytech.org
      Skal..................................http://skal.planet-d.net
      Skaven..........................http://isis.yok.utu.fi/~skaven
      Smash.............................http://jecoute.cjb.net/smash
      Sol..................................http://www.icon.fi/~solar
      Spell.........................http://www.ThePentagon.com/Spell
      Splif..............................http://splif.aegis-corp.org
      Szoke......................................http://szoke.ini.hu
      TheREW..............................http://home.wxs.nl/~therew
      Traven..............................http://traven.planet-d.net
      TS................................http://www2.hawaii.edu/~myee
      Tuo.....................................http://tuo.skytech.org
      Unlock...........................http://www.profzone.ch/unlock
      Velikani.............................http://ltk.hut.fi/~akiuru
      Vivid..................................http://vivid.kosmic.org
      Wain.............http://zevs.ifi.ntnu.no/~frankwer/gfx/gfx.htm
      Warder...............................http://www.dlc.fi/~warder
      Willbe...................................http://willbe.cjb.net
      Xcene...................................http://xcene.flipp.net
      Yannis...........................http://www.zip.com.au/~yannis
      Zden....................................http://message.sk/zden

      Others:

      Arf!Studios..........................http://www.arfstudios.org
      Calodox demolinks exchange.....http://calodox.planet-d.net/cde
      #coders..................................http://coderz.cjb.net
      Comic Pirates.........................http://scene-central.com
      Demo fanclub........................http://jerware.org/fanclub
 <*>  Demoscene.org news forum..............http://www.demoscene.org
      Digital Undergrounds.....................http://dug.iscool.net
      Doose charts...............................http://www.doose.dk
      Dreams2 CD.........................http://nl.scene.org/dreams2
      Freax...................http://freax.scene-hu.com/mainmenu.htm
      GfxZone............................http://gfxzone.planet-d.net
      Hugi size-compo...............http://home.pages.de/~hugi-compo
      Orange Juice.........................http://ojuice.citeweb.net
      PC-demos explained.....http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained
      Pixel...................................http://pixel.scene.org
      Scenet....................................http://www.scenet.de
      Sunray..............................http://sunray.planet-d.net
      Swiss List.................http://www.profzone.ch/vantage/list
      Swiss Scene Server.......................http://www.chscene.ch
      TakeOver................................http://www.takeover.nl
      Textmode Demo Archive.................http://tmda.planet-d.net
      Hungarian scene page...................http://www.scene-hu.com
      Trebel...................................http://www.trebel.org
      Zen of Tracking.........................http://surf.to/the-imm

      Diskmags:

      Amber...............................http://amber.bti.pl/di_mag
      Amnesia...............http://amnesia-dist.future.easyspace.com
      Demojournal....................http://demojournal.planet-d.net
      Dragon......................http://www.wasp.w3.pl/pages/dragon
      Fleur................................http://fleur.scene-hu.com
      Heroin...................................http://www.heroin.net
      Hugi........................http://home.pages.de/~hugidownload
      Pain..................................http://pain.planet-d.net
 <*>  Scenial...........................http://www.scenial.scene.org
      Static Line......................http://www.ic.l7.net/statline
      Total Disaster...................http://www.totaldisaster.w.pl
      TUHB.......................................http://www.tuhb.org
      WildMag...........................http://www.wildmag.notrix.de

      Ftps:

      Amber.......................................ftp://amber.bti.pl
      Cyberbox.....................................ftp://cyberbox.de
      Flerp.....................................ftp://flerp.scene.hu
      Scene.org..................................ftp://ftp.scene.org
      Skynet archive.................ftp://acid2.stack.nl/pub/skynet
      ACiD2 Archive.............................ftp://acid2.stack.nl


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These are the Coven 2000 Official Results.



The voting system was quite convoluted, and hence I won't be putting in 

actual scores/votes/whatever...  Suffice to say that these placings ARE

quite accurate. :)



Demo Catagory:



1st - Jinx / Ex Inferis

2nd - Whiskey Stained Brain / Disaster Area

3rd - Dust / Food



256k Catagory:



1st - Hellow World / Error64

2nd - 3DFire / Jinx



8k Catagory:



1st - NiL / Factory

2nd - Pipes / NOR



MP3 Catagory:



1st - RuckSeite / Chimera

2nd - Get it On / Jinx



Trakker Music Catagory:



1st - Directions / Griffin

2nd - Gadget / Phorte

3rd - Stretch / Chimera 

4th - Fezd / Disaster Area



Open Art Catagory:



1st - Thine lips Kissed / Euphoria

2nd - Meat / Resistance

3rd - Me So Horny / Euphoria

4th - Sirens / Euphoria



Animation Catagory:



1st - Jedi Duel / Jinx

2nd - Smoking Bee / Floop-e



Blitz Coding Catagory (theme: Clef the quaking, warezing, dvding geek):



1st - Sh0ck/Tektonic

2nd - Dogdy Hack

3rd - Penfold



Blitz Trakking Catagory (sample pack by Phorte/Black_Fox):



1st - Just Kidding / Phorte

2nd - Satan's Birthday / Ript

3rd - So Happy / Hex

4th - Friends / Baldrick



Blitz Art Catagory (theme: FOOD)



1st - Floop-e

2nd - Baldrick

3rd - Euphoria

4th - Resistance







There were some catagories that didn't, as such, have any "winners".  These

catagories either had no entries, or just the one entry:



 - Pixel Art Compo (no entries)

 - 3D Art Compo (1 entry)



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