“The demoscene will die.” If I had a penny for everytime I’ve heard that said.. The demoscene on the C64 is still going strong, 18 or so years after the machine was introduced! Yet people say it’s dead.. The Amiga scene is of course still alive, and the new Amiga offerings due next year are going to be sooo cool! But the PC demo scene is dying is it? This rant has been prompted by a letter posted to The PC Demo FanClub. I only read the start of it, but that’s all I needed to read to grow sick […]

It’s been a while since I updated here. Since my last update my expectations of Linux as a demo platform have gone up and up. First of all, I rediscovered Quake2 on Linux. It does run better in Linux than in Win95, just so long as you have no services running in the background. 🙂 Running Megademo IV in X and even running a few small intros in dosemu windows just goes to show that X can handle all the traffic, even on my old S3 Trio64 video card. The new release of Cross-elf gets me wondering again about producing […]

Interesting day today.. Check out next years’ prospectus for my college and look at some of the pictures to find out 😉 There’s special news of an Irish Linux site coming, but it’s not quite ready IMO to be announced, *probably*. Check here again soon!

The GIMP is a great program isn’t it? Even a person of relatively little artistic skill such as myself can create fairly cool and creative logos with it! The above logo and button below were done tonight in a fit of inspiration! BTW – news of BeOS stuff in the future. Mail me if you know anything about this OS. I’m still trying to figure out why I can’t mount my DOS partitions in it.. (probably something dead easy to fix which I overlooked!) That reminds me, I’ll have to try and compile MegaDemo IV for BeOS soon.. 🙂

The random-url maker is working. It’s written in Perl, and picks 10 urls at random from a list. I’ll post the source soon. (yeah, bet ya can’t wait!)

Question for you all.. I moved my desktop machine to a position lying on its side. Is there any danger of the hard drives in it going bust because they’re lying on their side? One is a Quantum Fireball, the other a Bigfoot. Sorry.. completely off-topic 🙂 I have to go study for my graphics exam again.. Still, it is graphics. Might as well tell me to study demo coding techniques! Get and install a copy of xfstt from Freshmeat now! My page and most pages on the Internet will look much nicer with it. The DemoNix logo looks completely […]

New version of Install-sendmail. Lots of changes, including support for FreeBSD and lots more Linux distributions, .fetchmailrc creation is more flexible, and a few bugs were cleared up! Download Install-Sendmail-4.4.tar.gz

news://news.scene.org hasn’t got a feed for comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos at the moment. Can anyone suggest a news site they can feed off/post to? Mail Redhound at [email protected] if you can help! I just found out about a multi-platform demo available at http://come.to/mdiv2. I haven’t tried it yet but it compiles and runs on: Amiga (68k/PPC), BeOS (PPC/x86), Linux x86 and MSDOS. It should work on any platform with an ANSI-C compiler. Source code and binaries for the above platforms available at the above site! A big thank you to Juhapekka “Jiipee” Tolvanen who runs the “Linux Penguin Sticker Movement Official Homepage” at […]

New design! It takes a little longer to load but I think it’s nicer on the eye. Not sure about having all those links at the side. Same for the guest book. Seemed like a good idea at the time but now I’m not so sure. Use the guestbook to tell me if it sucks please! 🙂 Two more exams to go. I’ll be finished on the 10th. Due to a cock-up by my college they’ll go on longer than I thought 🙁 Once they’re over I have plans for more stuff here so make sure you come back often! […]