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moi,
just did this on the sql:

alter table prods modify type set('128b','256b','1k','4k','cracktro','demo','demopack','demotool','diskmag','game','intro','invitation','misctro','musicdisk','report','slideshow','wild');

this means there are 3 new categories available:
demopack, demotool and misctro.

demopack beeing created to host the intro-packs mentioned by zone..

demotool beeing created to host tools made by sceners which are avaliable freeware. (grfx2, fasttracker, impulse tracker, demopaja..) not for commercial crap. not for freeware nonscenerelated crap either. for free tools made by sceners for demomaking purposes.

misctro is made to rescue the intro category from all the borntros and deathtros and announcetros and craptros flooding what should priorily be a category for 40k, 64k and 128k demos.

so, this bbs topic is mainly for:
- announcing it
- collect your complaints to the changes.
- see if anyone could rape up small icons for these platforms, similar to the ones already on pouet for the other categories..
- get some people to give some urls to the misctros that should be moved from intro into misctro..

ps,

I'm pre-emptively asking for a clarification on the new "demotool" category. Would PabloDraw, a scene-related utility used for creating ANSI and ASCII art qualify as a demotool? It's not explicitly a tool for the creation of demos, but it is a scene tool made by a scene person for scene art.

Just wanted to ask up front.

And I could fudge this further by saying it utilities of this sort would be helpful in the creation of demos for TMDC. ;-)

radman: yes, add it :)

furthermore, i think code libraries and players made by sceners (like ptc and sonique) would also fit this category. i wouldnt personally add trackers and sound libs / players made by people who arent demosceners though.

for example: winamp doesnt qualify in my book, but surfsmurf's oldskool .mod plugin does.

i just think it makes sense to have some sort of generic "tools made by sceners" database/list. and pouet seems like a good place to have it.

freeware demomaking related tools that is =)

While we are at it, there should really be an Atari STE category, besides the Atari STF one (in the platform list)

Those ones were really different machines, like ECS/AGA and it makes no sense to have both STF and STE demos in the same category.

Well, say, Atari ST and Atari STE platforms.

Sorry PS, I just realized it was somewhat off topic, but not entirely though :)

happy now?

Now this was a bad idea :(

How about these for icons:
(I had to make some of them .png because I'm terrible at this)
(And I made them in ~5 minutes)

For Demopack

for Miscellaneous

for Tools?

Love the borderdots!

eek...
I take that back, they're ugly...

The borderdots are the transparency color, not set as transparency

maybe it should say "utility" instead of "demotool", altho that would attract more crap to be added.

Lets bunch everything together to "Application".

"stuff" :D

here are my tries:

(T = tools, O = misc (M was for mags), P = packs)

but is it art? :P

Why not add an category called "Stuff that Spengler will give a thumb down"?

Please add a '512b intro' category also.

these .T.O.P. categories are cool
PS i love you ! ;)
Gargaj pictures are good!

please add subcategories e.g. software or hardware for gfx

haha and who do you think would do that for 12500+ prods? :)

Of course I mean not adding the category but setting it. Sure the authors who actually care about it would do that, but that's the minority.