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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

The useless drag of another day

Anyone heard (Hear Is No Why) by The Smashing Pumpkins? A great song, from the even greater (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness). It starts with the title of this blog, and carries on to tell you about how you'll forever stay in your sad machines. Classic.

Anyhow, 3 things I need to mention here:
I\ I leave for London today later this evening (still gotta go to the damn gym first. I hate gyms!). My plane to Gdansk leaves Luton airport at 08:10am, so need to be there at around 07:00 or so. Luckily, my brother lives about 15 minutes away from Luton, so that's a relief. I'm starting to worry about this trip. It's the first time I go away all alone (as in, with no one there to meet me that I know), and ofcourse my tummy is in knots cos of the small teenie weenie fact that I'm seeing Jarre play live! weather.com says that there'll be showers in gdansk on friday, but as the man himself said in London (Frogs like rain!).
The hotel I'm staying in boasts of internet access in each room. Wether it's wireless broadband or over-priced dialup is yet to be known, but I'll try to post something from the east.

II\ ICONOCLAST. This year's Assembley demo party was won by Iconoclast. A state-of-the-art demo for PC. It is an amazing product, with some brilliant middle eastern music, great gfx, and a tribute to one of the other best PC demos ever made! Old timers that'll watch it will immediately recognise the scene (and music) from the older demo. The last demo to really (blow me away) was VIP2 (Very Important Party 2) by Popy Team, although it had commercial music and some very obvious Poser models in it, it was still great to watch. This one is totally original though. Grab the demo from here.

III\ This one is for all those Amiga-lovers out there, and especially to a certain (anonymous) poster on good-delicious that I'm sure will love this to bits. Courtesy of Nile Warp who gave me this link today, check out this great web emulation of many classic Amiga demos, all coded in pure html (with a bit of java here and there). It's a beautiful tribute to the great 16bit machine. Unfortunately for mac users, it needs a fairly new version of IE. I tried it on Safari/Camino/Firefox/Omniweb/Mac IE and it doesn't function right :(
Everyone get your browsers over here and remember your spotty teenage years.

SoB OUT

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

i'm sad :( , this link reminds me with the great old days for amiga,
i'll send this link to my brother mahmoud ,who was an amiga H.A.C.K.E.R.S! Member.

thanks for the link SoB
_________
salah

SoB said...

yeah kicks ass man
I feel sad about too, mainly cos I never got to own an Amiga, and also cos it was out in 1986 rather than 1991 as Iraq led us to believe!
Did you check out Iconoclast? man it's AWESOME!

Anonymous said...

yeah, beautiful demo with weird ideas
_________
salah

Bryan Kurz Photography said...

who loves amiga?