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Demoscene Articles around da World.

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The French magazine "L'Express" published a 2-page article about a Takeover party, probably in 1998 or 1999... There was a large picture of the room and of some Fuel members (with nice Fuel t-shirts). Actually the guy who wrote the article (Rachid Ouada) was the one who was responsible of the *good* demo section of the magazine Amiga Revue some years before...
and as far as I know, ST-Computer, the last German Atari magazine, still has a demo section...
added on the 2002-06-03 15:51:27 by exocet exocet
i guess most demo-groups has been featured in that japanese magazine ;-D
I decided to praise my house now :)

http://users.auth.gr/~mkargas/pcmasterdemo.htm

This is the one I wrote for PC Master computer magazine (www.pcmaster.gr), issue of 1st January of 2000, when I learned the demoscene and was desparatelly searching for any existing scener in my tiny noble homeplace...

It dragged several newbies and brought me in contact with old sceners who happened to read that too! After this, the rest is history...
added on the 2002-06-03 19:45:28 by Optimus Optimus
Uncle-x: the article can be found from Hufvudsbladets www-pages - shouldn't had been that hard for you to find yourself :)
http://195.255.83.67/cgi-bin/mediaweb?Newsp=hbl&Date=000805&Depa=inrikes&Model=ajuttusivu.html&Story=03725507.txt

Also, something like five years ago they showed a document program about demoscene in Finnish tv(don't remember which channel it was) and it was mainly
focused on interviewing members of Orange. They even showed something like three demos from them as far as I remember.
added on the 2002-06-03 22:45:24 by odex odex
"Make more megademo shock to Japanese brain!"

LOL
added on the 2002-06-04 11:24:59 by sin sin
fl: The interviewer and the photographer definitely weren't sceners...
added on the 2002-06-04 12:37:44 by DiamonDie DiamonDie
And as we are right at it....
Here's another - not that new though - scene-report dealing with last year's TakeOver Party 2k1 in Eindhoven made by C.A.P. TV.

It's a german report though...so some of you might have some understanding probs maybe...
But as there have been already japanese links here.. ;-)

Get the file from:
ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/parties/2001/takeover01/misc/C.A.P. TV - Eindhoven TakeOver 2k1_320x240.rm

Sorry for having it in RealVideo format only...

Bye,
Weasel

...note: the file might be still in scene.org's 'incoming' area during the next few hours though before the above link will become valid...when it got moved...!!
added on the 2002-06-04 21:17:59 by Weasel Weasel
Ooops...

Forgot to say that the report features an interview with party-maniac "XXX / Haujobb" as well of course...! ;-))

Bye,
Weasel
added on the 2002-06-04 21:40:29 by Weasel Weasel
Odex, that document was done somewhere back in 1996, as well. Quite funny to watch, too bad the videos they showed were quite crappy quality, taped directly from monitor with cheap audio or something.

I wonder if Orange boys really play golf or if that was just an ad trick. :)

Would anyone happen to have the document on video?
added on the 2002-06-04 23:11:29 by melw melw
I also have to mention hungarian TV channel RTL Klub, who made a really nice report about F'Yanica parties, with phrases (from so-called "experts", basically know-all lamers) like "...they often hold events called 'compos' which consist of PC's getting crashed, smashed, burnt, etc. And they really enjoy it."

Thank you, RTL Klub.
added on the 2002-06-05 17:05:59 by Gargaj Gargaj
Oh, there's a DivX version of the AVI, in hungarian, maybe we'll (probably Tomcat will, 'cos he's a nice guy :) do english subtitles...
added on the 2002-06-05 17:07:53 by Gargaj Gargaj
http://blockos.planet-d.net/mooz/article/
it's an article about cpc scene revival in 1992 or 1994 in the famous french TILT magazine (RIP).
added on the 2002-06-05 18:50:28 by MooZ MooZ
added on the 2002-06-05 19:51:53 by diver diver
hehe thanks diver :)
added on the 2002-06-05 22:43:12 by MooZ MooZ
Damn...
the filename got changed a bit when scene.org moved the file to the correct dir...

Sorry for the inconvenience...here's the corrected link now for the TakeOver 2001 C.A.P. TV report finally:
ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/parties/2001/takeover01/misc/c.a.p._tv-eindhoven_takeover_2k1_320x240.rm

Bye,
Weasel
added on the 2002-06-06 00:06:45 by Weasel Weasel
hrm.

I remember doing an interview for some stupid local newspaper at SIH'95 with a teammember, and some people still laugh at me for answering a couple of questions for some Aftenposten guy at TG'99 which resulted in a little article. I already wondered why the danes next to me declined any comment to the guy ;) anyway, there's an aticle I can't read and a hilarious pic of me here: http://ads-rdb.sol.no/html.ng/site=ap&sted=avis&kat=nyheter&subkat=nett&plass=bann_2

added on the 2002-06-06 03:10:29 by Shifter Shifter
We SK are organizing some conference on "demoscene spirit", and some more technical conferences on demo making at a huge exibition her in Italy. They gave us some space to organize night time demo shows and some scene-like competitions.
Ok, theese aren't exactly articles, but it's another way to "show" the scen to ppl, the documentation will be available soon...
added on the 2002-06-06 10:46:31 by rIO rIO
shifter: the link doesn't work.
if you haven't featured in Windows 100%, you can't call yourself a scener. fact.
added on the 2002-06-06 14:17:42 by ector ector
In the demo or porn section ? :)
added on the 2002-06-06 17:43:50 by MooZ MooZ
ector: lol
added on the 2002-06-08 05:58:54 by psenough psenough
some things i remember about demoscene article in general press :

for Slach party 3, in 2001, a french regional newspaper (Sud Ouest) writen 3 articles, one of them was a 2 central sunday pages with photos in black and white review of the party.

french month magazine PCteam written demoscene article in 2 or 1 full page, with color photos and interviews. (i dont know if it is the case now)
journalist wich write in this magazine was Vodka/Saturne , Alexkidd(AK)/Mandarine for example.
interview example in PCteam

in ancient times, Amiga Revue (demo articles writen by Rachid Ouada) and Amiga Concept (demo articles writen by Damien Bancal, old member of Psykotrope, wich now write the zataz.com online magazine) had articles about demoscene.
these revues are now dead

now dead magazine Amstrad 100% writen demoscene articles, about Logon system for example or various partys.
it had a code for demos section, with examples of source code.

in ancient times, one of our national tv (now called France3) had a tv show every week about video games, and in the end, they showed 30 seconds of a demo (lots of times Amiga) and explained 'a computer is not for playing, it's for creating' or something like that

Canal+ tv channel had 15 minutes interview at wired95 if i remember good, in a special week end show about new technologies.

we have a tv channel on the tv-cable called GameOne, it's about video game industry, i dont know if they have demoscene parts :(

=> a message to party organizers : when you organize a party, call every journalist as possible, it's good for the scene to have new blood, new ressources, new members :)
working url for the interview with shifter:
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/nett/d75668.htm

I'll translate into english if anyone is interested :)
added on the 2002-06-08 14:33:26 by lug00ber lug00ber
Zone:
GameOne is plain gaming...no scene stuff at all there! :-(
But didn't know that this channel still exists anyways... ;-)

"=> a message to party organizers : when you organize a party, call every journalist as possible, it's good for the scene to have new blood, new ressources, new member"

That's exactly one of the goals of C.A.P. TV, my company...! ;-) More info in the near future...and watch out for more nice releases of course...

You may also check the URL posted a bit above here about the TakeOver 2k1 report done by C.A.P. TV as well...there you can also see that it's surely _not_ about 'selling the scene'...or something...

Bye,
Weasel
added on the 2002-06-08 18:32:51 by Weasel Weasel

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