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I'm almost finished with Hugi #17; expect it to be released on September
1st. Meanwhile enjoy this little newsletter containing the most recent
news about the PC demo scene in a brief, comprehensive writing style.
                                                             /Adok

:: news ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Wire/ESM changed his nick to FirEdge and founded the group The Dark Sun
Coders (TDSC). Greedo (a coder) and a gfx man who has not handle yet
joined in.

People who want to join the bustrip to Dialogos from the Netherlands
should drop a mail at mailto:sparcus@dds.nl.

The demo review site "The Two-headed Squirrel" has moved to
http://squirrel.scene.hu/.

The Coven 2000 web-site is up. Coven is a party in South Australia.
http://www.coven2000.org/

The preview beta-version 0.7 of Giana Worlds has been officially
released to the public at the Evoke '99 demo-party held in Langerwehe.
This is a DirectX-based remake of the legendary jump'n'run game "The
Great Giana Sisters" with some additional features. This version
contains 9 fully playable levels. http://giana.home.pages.de/

Nah-kolor plan to make a demo for The Party 1999.

G-Day reports about Quad:
  "Macaw joined, and Deadline even rejoined Quad, so we have 2 more fine
coders now. Sarix changed his status to a so-called 'fun-member' (those
are his own words), but he will not be 100% idle for Quad though.
Furthermore, I have cold feet now, and I ate too much french fries
yesterday."

Spinning Kids web-site has opened. http://www.spinningkids.org/

Gardner has taken over control of the formerly Swiss diskmag "Trip!" by
Excite. Now his group, Anakata, will be releasing it.

Slash reports about CEG - Chaos Energy Group:
  Mad Lizard took 4th place in pixel graphics compo, Paradox'99, slash
was 1st and 2nd in ascii compo. Preparing for the Cafe99 party. Check
out our homepages http://ceg.da.ru/ and http://ceg.ufalug.da.ru/. We
have new members: Iz0 (pixel), V0land (render), Eiichi (photoart),
Zer0ix (ascii), Mr.Byte (ascii). Download out new artpacks at our
homepages and at http://ftp.artpacks.acid.org/ (search for "ceg").

New party in .de coming up: Breed '99. http://www.alienpub.com/breed/99/

Rumour has it that Beans will release a new issue of Scenial.

:: contact information :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Hugi Web-site:     http://www.hugi.de/
Hugi Main Editor:  mailto:adok@hugi.de
Hugi Mailinglist:  mailto:hugi-subscribe@egroups.com
Hugi Coding Compo: http://hugi.compo.home.pages.de/

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