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And it also seems they joined the latest enigmatic messages trend… Find out how to access the content in their website!

Some funny demoscene related things I found at youtube (let's keep it short for this time, no introduction whatsoever!):

• an example of how to finish the ifparty04 invitation intro - I must recognize it's the first time I see that "we are uploading your scores" screen :D
• silenci's fast music compo at if06 - improvising some vocals for yellow rose of texas
• did you know that timescratchers released an animation at assembly 06? well now you know and it's there: unknown media by timescratchers
  
• there's also their bcnparty demo: psicoffice - I like those particles, it's all very intriguing
• sundown2006's invtro for spectrum by evilpaul - I don't know if that's a real application but it's terribly WICKED! too bad they don't greet xplsv.com… well, we'll make them learn that name!

Actually there are lots more videos but most of them are just demo captures. Just search for "demoscene" and you'll get them…

¿Dónde está? ¿A dónde se fué? ¿Porque spd.planet-d.net ya no funciona? ¿Y por qué escena.org redirecciona a untergrund.net? En respuesta a las cábalas de sergeeo:

Ya hacía unos meses que la cosa estaba petardeando de mala manera. La cosa = el servidor, es decir, planet-d. Se habló y se comentó de qué hacer y qué no hacer, pero al final no se hizo nada y finalmente este julio hizo PUM y dejó de ir en absoluto.

Tras la euskal, surgió bastante gente interesada por los foros de la euskal misma, y la verdad es que me sabía bastante mal que ninguno de los newbies supiera por donde empezar ni tuviera un punto de referencia que no fuera un foro de pouet con miles de BASS, DUNGEON HORROR y tal, así que me dije que empezaría a hacer algo, a ver si así se picaba alguno de los admins anteriores de escena.org (entre los cuales yo no estaba, por si no está claro). Esto impulsó la creación espontánea de tdsb: the demoscener savers brigade, con una primera misión claramente definida: ¡resucitar escena.org!
Pero había que conseguir una copia de la base de datos. Ahí empezó el horror, terror y pavor. La última copia que tenían era de enero, así que se habían perdido seis meses de fantásticas noticias e instructivos mensajes en el foro. ¡Esto no podía quedar así! Preguntando aquí y allí, al final hemos conseguido una copia reciente de la base de datos.

Así que lo que está ocurriendo ahora es que se está cociendo la famosa escena.org v2. Las funcionalidades básicas de V1 están casi por completo reconstruidas, sólo que con un código mucho más limpio y especialmente liviano (¡muerte a la maquetación con tablas, mal que le pese a janfri!).

Le falta aún muchísimo trabajo pero al menos parece que no está detenido y las ideas empiezan a fluir alegremente… que es lo que interesa. Ahora, fecha estimada, pues ni idea :P

¡Cuando esté acabada! O le colgamos un BETA como una casa \o/

Here's the screenshot of pouet's top of the month, right before the masses start pushing up the assembly'06 releases to the top.

There's quite a lot of spanish productions here:

• tokyo by xplsv (although I'm not really sure about labelling it as spanish, as the main code was made in USA, but the demo itself was baked near Seville, one of the paradigms of the international spanish image. So well…)
• polarfield by fuzzion
• envolvente by xplsv
• katedra by collapse and necrostudios

And if you dig into the extended toplist (click on more… and select more productions, something like this link) you could find also nocturn's NooGenesis in the 18th position, which is also quite cool for a first-time production. Or holy guadalupe! by xplsv in 30th position and die anderung 2 by spontz in the 37th.
So come in and let's keep on releasing productions which make it to the top!

Well, this is not actually live since the party finished yesterday and I am now back at home, but this way I can continue with the series somehow…

Briefly, trace made a techno demoshow before the prizegiving ceremony. He even put r08080 because I asked! amazing since he was being very strict on what could and what could not be played on that demoshow (since it had to be techno). The funny part was that the last one was kasparov/elitegroup and he just ran it and left the orgo area, and they didn't realise that it had finished so it started again from the beginning, looped. Haha!

It's a pity it was so bright inside the place, since the screen hardly had any contrast and was quite difficult to appreciate any of the dark scenes in most of the demos :-/

After that demoshow they played that superlong video of euskal3, which is 20 minutes long based in content for 4 minutes only, so imagine how boring can it be. Anyway… finally the ceremony started and I was one of the first surprised when I realised I was third in multichannel!! It's the first time ever that I've won something in a music compo since I started in the scene! Yes trust me… I have been lots of times in 4th position and even 3rd once (but they took apart the 3rd prize since there was low participation). So I was quite moved when I went to the stage for picking up the prize. Luckily they didn't make us say any word since I wouldn't have been able to grasp anything - or maybe just glups! :D

It was also funny that the portuguese posse were waving a portuguese flag each time they won something, and they gave me the flag when I went up the stage. I just followed the joke, and gave it to debi/gum when he went to stage, thus confusing terribly everybody else which didn't know us. They thought that everybody was portuguese!

The demo compo results were funny as well, since the bars just showed xplsv and xplsv so everybody was like … who is who? :D

I should have done another demo for xplsv so we could have owned completely the demo compo. MWHAHAHA!

(I hardly remember any result, otherwise I would have posted them here)

When the ceremony ended, a journalist and a photographer assaulted trace and blackpawn and tried to get the exclusive first words after the prize!! trace told them something like just let me celebrate, mkay??, since they were really urging and pushing! Meanwhile I was enjoying the situation a lot, it was quite funny from outside :P

The photographer made them sit in a gamer's pc, since they told him that everything had been packed and they weren't going to unpack it just for the picture, while I was saying the journalist that it wasn't representative. He was like "then, what is representative?" - and I couldn't stop looking at that horrible and démodé matrix screensaver that was in running in the screen. Well, he works in a more clean and empty environment…, I said.

After that we said bye quickly and started looking for a taxi to the airport. It was very funny to see many family cars parked in front of the Exhibition Center where the party was held, but there wasn't a single taxi there. I didn't had the number of the taxi's company (which we called 2 years ago for getting a taxi for trace), and I was considering even calling the yellow pages or something, since each time we asked any of the inhabitants where could we find a taxi, they just moved up their shoulders and looked at us as if we were asking them about aliens or ufo's.

Luckily, we finally found the taxi stop, a bit hidden and after a hilly street, and made it to the airport. Which I have to say that it's quite well designed and I really liked it (if I had to make a list of my favourite airports it would be like 1 Barcelona, 2 London Gatwick, 3 Bilbao… yes, something like that)
The flight was the shortest flight I have ever taken. All I can remember is sitting, fastening my belt, and being awaken by the "ding!" which sounds when you have to fasten the belt because we are going to land. And that is all!

My personal opinion about the party is that it was too empty. Empty of content, empty of sceners, empty of any kind of cohesion or anything which joined people together. Which is something that you can more or less expect in such big party. But well, I didn't really care, I just stayed around there, and chatted with people, had a good time -which was the purpose- and even won something -which wasn't really an objective but is always encouraging-.

And it was even more funny to go and have a relaxing nap just when people were asking for the demo deadline to be delayed, in contrast to other years in which those hours were pure stress agony, trying to finish the demo. Ahhh I'm getting older X-D

Lots of people have asked me if I'm going to bcnparty, tum, breakpoint, whatever. The answer by the moment is no, I'm quite tired and a bit bored of all the party things and I would like to do other things for a while. Also I have taken like six planes in one month and I'm a bit fed up by the moment! So do not ask, if I have to go you'll see me there :P