Welcome to Vinyl's first issue! The first Southamerican magazine referred to the DEMO scene and digital artistic underground.
How did it come out:
The idea came out mainly in 1998 with Koza/Jsd, it was
to make a 'support' magazine for The Flash 1998, distributing it
the most possible to get people for the party; As always, everything went
out of time, and the project got stuck until after TF98 was held. I decided
to take the responsibility for the project. (Though, in 1997, Ambush,
the most important Argentinean group in the last times, tried to
release a Disk magazine about the scene in argentina,
but finally the project failed due to the lack of articles.)
About the interface:
For a start, we wanted to make an executable interface
(the typical disk magazine one), but nobody had the time/will to
code it. Even though, i finally decided that it was best to make
it in some format which could be read by most computers (Pc, Amiga,
Mac, etc.) and, at the same time, as it's not executable, which allowed
us to make no distinction between the different OS on PC. (Win, Linux,
etc.).
Thus, the perfect decision came out to be Ascii, which
i like a lot :) After that, Fugitivo, edited it in HTML format, to
make it online readable, and for those newbies who don't get on well
with the first format. I think, although a lot of people don't like Ascii
for a Scene Magazine, that it's the most conformable format, which
allows you to watch it with
whatever you want, without wait or compatibility problems, saving
bytes, and apart from that... it gives the whole thing that Old school
feeling. :) So, by the moment, until anybody offers to
code some CONFORMABLE interface
this will go on being released in this 2 formats.
About the general idea and purpose of Vinyl:
Well, as we have described it in the first words, themes to be
touched here will be mainly those about demo scene and art scene,
giving special importance to South America, but still taking care
about the whole World's scene.
The contents of the magazine and it's design is made, whenever
it's possible, to be read by ALL kind of people, i mean, experimented
sceners, as well as newbies and casual 'readers', because the purpose
of this magazine is that of adding new people to the scene, and to be a
link and a newsletter for those who are well planted upon it.
To those interested in contributing:
We would be thankful with anyone, (all around the World), who contributes in any way. (Code, Articles, Party Reports, Art, etc) to the magazine. Please contact us in any way you can if interested.We are also looking for editors/stable interviewers/writters and translators.
About the articles:
Those will be accepted in any of this four languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese and Esperanto. (Esperanto is a language created with the intention of being used by all world's cultures, and thus to be able of being linked by a common language.)
Articles could be about anything related to the Scene, even though they
have no direct relationship with Latin-American Scene.
We will be specially thankful if you send tutorials about coding, tracking,
graphics and Party Reports.
My opinion about Latin-American Scene:
I think, if we want to make Latin-American scene grow, apart from everyone's
collaboration in any way, and adding more people to it, we need to create
links between the different countries that belong to it. Vinyl is the first
step into that direction, the next one will be the Latin-American scene
web page.
It's necessary that EVERY scener from the different countries in Southamerica
understands that to make our scene grow we have to support each other.
With this, i mean, to support/participate/travel to the different parties
in Latin America, like Flash Party in Argentina and Internet Compos
like Overseas in Brazil, and the Patada compo in Mexico; to participate
in magazines like this one, scene.org's mailing list or channels like #scene.sa
(Efnet), etc.
- Arlequin, Vinyl Editor (pvm@pungas.zzn.com)
Ugly translation by Uctumi ;)