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Demoscene - Music, Gfx, DEMOS!

The largest computer artforms is the demo. These demos are music and gfx wrapped into a small package.

There are contests around the world called "Demo Partys" which give awards on best gfx, best music, best demos in sizes (64K,etc), 1 hour to compose tunes with a set of samples, best mp3, best Gfx, most genuine.

Many of these artists and musicians are working in the game industry or entertainment industry. Many of the older 64/apple/amiga game musicians are working for the largest game companies, creating tunes for your games you play today.

Assembly - The largest Demo party in the world
OrangeJuice - Demoscene information center
Google demo directory.
Nectarine - 100% scene music radio!
Crystal Melon - Famous cracktros (minidemos) many converted to Shockwave so people can view them. (They were on a c64 and Amiga!)

If you interested in video game, demo music, mods (4 channel) music, is like a midi with the wave files included.
Check out
Nectarine - 100% scene music radio!
Mod Archive
Google Mod directory
Aminet AmiNet mod archive.
C64: Back in Time CD Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway, Ben Daglish, Chris Hülsbeck, Peter Clarke - Music Game Gods.

Have you tried the Aminet? It's right here.

Okay, I give up !

• 2001-02-16 20:33:30 PC Engines open sources 'tinyBIOS' (articles,programming) (rejected)
• 2001-03-22 21:57:10 Serious PGP security hole discovered ! (articles,Privacy) (rejected)
• 2001-03-28 18:09:28 The desktop is IN the desk... (articles,amiga) (rejected)

Can anyone please explain me why these articles got rejected ?

Why I post it to an article that is about strange "rebuilds" of computers ?

Because my article (number 3 in the list) I posted yesterday would have fittet exactly in here.

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Hipsamtab2.jpg [51KB]
Hipsamtab3.jpg [53KB]

There is also articles on
AmigArt
and
AmigaORG

Why does such a popular OpenSource site silence down a post about an OpenSource BIOS ? I mean, yes, there has been some stuff about OpenSource BIOS. But the number of OpenSource BIOS is so small, that any news is good news.
There is much more OpenSource OS than is OpenSource BIOS, so any chance is a big chance.

Why not post the security hole in PGP ? (while advertising T-Shirts ironically saying "I read your email" huahuuahahahaha.)

I give up., I will monitor any reaction, and then I might erase my Slashdor account (have to sleep over it). I get a form letter when contacting the webmaster. I get articles rejected (look at these pics above...I mean, this is really cool ! Much more "Geek" than a lame T-Shirt saying: "You suck!" in binary digits) I get the feeling what else might be withheld from us. Not by purpose, but...

Hey, anyone ever considered putting up a site, that shows all articles being rejected by the Slashdot Heinis ? Count me in ;-)

Okay, I give up !

• 2001-02-16 20:33:30 PC Engines open sources 'tinyBIOS' (articles,programming) (rejected)
• 2001-03-22 21:57:10 Serious PGP security hole discovered ! (articles,Privacy) (rejected)
• 2001-03-28 18:09:28 The desktop is IN the desk... (articles,amiga) (rejected)

Can anyone please explain me why these articles got rejected ?

Why I post it to an article that is about strange "rebuilds" of computers ?

Because my article (number 3 in the list) I posted yesterday would have fittet exactly in here.

Hipsamtab1.jpg [50KB]
Hipsamtab2.jpg [51KB]
Hipsamtab3.jpg [53KB]

There is also articles on
AmigArt
and
AmigaORG

Why does such a popular OpenSource site silence down a post about an OpenSource BIOS ? I mean, yes, there has been some stuff about OpenSource BIOS. But the number of OpenSource BIOS is so small, that any news is good news.
There is much more OpenSource OS than is OpenSource BIOS, so any chance is a big chance.

Why not post the security hole in PGP ? (while advertising T-Shirts ironically saying "I read your email" huahuuahahahaha.)

I give up., I will monitor any reaction, and then I might erase my Slashdor account (have to sleep over it). I get a form letter when contacting the webmaster. I get articles rejected (look at these pics above...I mean, this is really cool ! Much more "Geek" than a lame T-Shirt saying: "You suck!" in binary digits) I get the feeling what else might be withheld from us. Not by purpose, but...

Hey, anyone ever considered putting up a site, that shows all articles being rejected by the Slashdot Heinis ? Count me in ;-)

Okay, I give up !

• 2001-02-16 20:33:30 PC Engines open sources 'tinyBIOS' (articles,programming) (rejected)
• 2001-03-22 21:57:10 Serious PGP security hole discovered ! (articles,Privacy) (rejected)
• 2001-03-28 18:09:28 The desktop is IN the desk... (articles,amiga) (rejected)

Can anyone please explain me why these articles got rejected ?

Why I post it to an article that is about strange "rebuilds" of computers ?

Because my article (number 3 in the list) I posted yesterday would have fittet exactly in here.

Hipsamtab1.jpg [50KB]
Hipsamtab2.jpg [51KB]
Hipsamtab3.jpg [53KB]

There is also articles on
AmigArt
and
AmigaORG

Why does such a popular OpenSource site silence down a post about an OpenSource BIOS ? I mean, yes, there has been some stuff about OpenSource BIOS. But the number of OpenSource BIOS is so small, that any news is good news.
There is much more OpenSource OS than is OpenSource BIOS, so any chance is a big chance.

Why not post the security hole in PGP ? (while advertising T-Shirts ironically saying "I read your email" huahuuahahahaha.)

I give up., I will monitor any reaction, and then I might erase my Slashdor account (have to sleep over it). I get a form letter when contacting the webmaster. I get articles rejected (look at these pics above...I mean, this is really cool ! Much more "Geek" than a lame T-Shirt saying: "You suck!" in binary digits) I get the feeling what else might be withheld from us. Not by purpose, but...

Hey, anyone ever considered putting up a site, that shows all articles being rejected by the Slashdot Heinis ? Count me in ;-)

It`s money well spend though. This OS requires very little hardware resources to give excellent performance and it isn`t bloated like nowadyas "modern" mainstream OSs. If you want to save yourself some cash then this is a nice purchase (Man do you have to have a kick ass system to get only decent performance out of Linux)

Nonsense. It's a shareware/freeware bundle dressed up as a new OS. You can get 99% of the contents for free on Aminet anyway.

Yes, there's an Amiga port of Quake, available from Clickboom - but you need a pretty souped up amiga for it.

For reference, my last Amiga before I finally gave in and migrated to x86 Linux was a 233MHz PPC box with a Permedia 2 gfx card, 6GB HD, cdrom, and 64 MByte ram. The Amiga isn't exactly dead, but it's not exactly alive either.
The "classic" Amiga is still around (and the OS is still being updated - it's now at v3.9), but the owners of the Amiga trademark are concentrating on their new language-independent virtual machine which is basically a rich multimedia library set for the tao elate embedded operating system. Technologically, it is very impressive. It's not open source or Libre Software, though, so it's not exactly grabbing developer mindshare left right + centre as fast as linux does.

A lot of the good ideas that appeared on the Amiga in the 80s and 90s are only making it across to "mainstream" platforms now, however. I really wish people would occasionally check out the aminet before starting new projects, and make sure that there isn't a ready-made wodge of amiga source code there for whatever they're doing. The GPL and BSD licenses were very popular among amiga developers too, and the entire GNU CLI tools suite was ported to AmigaOS years ago, via a shared library arrangement like cygwin on windoze, called ixemul.library (shared libraries on the amiga have a .library extension....)

Thanks to all that replied. This one, in particular, was quite informative.

Perhaps it was informative, but what's more important is that it was incorrect.

The Boing Ball comes from the "Boing" demo, which displayed a rotating red-and-white-chequered ball bouncing around in a "box", making the "boing" sound as it hit the walls of the box. It's from the very earliest days of the Amiga, I think the legend has it that Miner et al. made this demo the night before some big trade show where they would display the A1000. The boing demo is available from Aminet (.readme).

The "Juggler" demo referred to in the post you're replying to is a raytraced animation which showed off the HAM graphics mode. It features a figure standing on a green and yellow IIRC landscape juggling transparent balls (not chequered, but they refract the chequered background). You can get this demo/animation from Aminet (.readme) as well.


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Thanks to all that replied. This one, in particular, was quite informative.

Perhaps it was informative, but what's more important is that it was incorrect.

The Boing Ball comes from the "Boing" demo, which displayed a rotating red-and-white-chequered ball bouncing around in a "box", making the "boing" sound as it hit the walls of the box. It's from the very earliest days of the Amiga, I think the legend has it that Miner et al. made this demo the night before some big trade show where they would display the A1000. The boing demo is available from Aminet (.readme).

The "Juggler" demo referred to in the post you're replying to is a raytraced animation which showed off the HAM graphics mode. It features a figure standing on a green and yellow IIRC landscape juggling transparent balls (not chequered, but they refract the chequered background). You can get this demo/animation from Aminet (.readme) as well.


.-. .- -.. .. --- -....- .- -.- - .. ...- .. - .-.- - ...-.-

Thanks to all that replied. This one, in particular, was quite informative.

Perhaps it was informative, but what's more important is that it was incorrect.

The Boing Ball comes from the "Boing" demo, which displayed a rotating red-and-white-chequered ball bouncing around in a "box", making the "boing" sound as it hit the walls of the box. It's from the very earliest days of the Amiga, I think the legend has it that Miner et al. made this demo the night before some big trade show where they would display the A1000. The boing demo is available from Aminet (.readme).

The "Juggler" demo referred to in the post you're replying to is a raytraced animation which showed off the HAM graphics mode. It features a figure standing on a green and yellow IIRC landscape juggling transparent balls (not chequered, but they refract the chequered background). You can get this demo/animation from Aminet (.readme) as well.


.-. .- -.. .. --- -....- .- -.- - .. ...- .. - .-.- - ...-.-

Thanks to all that replied. This one, in particular, was quite informative.

Perhaps it was informative, but what's more important is that it was incorrect.

The Boing Ball comes from the "Boing" demo, which displayed a rotating red-and-white-chequered ball bouncing around in a "box", making the "boing" sound as it hit the walls of the box. It's from the very earliest days of the Amiga, I think the legend has it that Miner et al. made this demo the night before some big trade show where they would display the A1000. The boing demo is available from Aminet (.readme).

The "Juggler" demo referred to in the post you're replying to is a raytraced animation which showed off the HAM graphics mode. It features a figure standing on a green and yellow IIRC landscape juggling transparent balls (not chequered, but they refract the chequered background). You can get this demo/animation from Aminet (.readme) as well.


.-. .- -.. .. --- -....- .- -.- - .. ...- .. - .-.- - ...-.-