Hugi

Hugi is one of the most durable demoscene, computer culture and underground Disk magazines (short Diskmag ) for the IBM - PC and one of the most famous on the demo scene out of the genre.

History

The first, more purely German editions appeared in 1996 on the basis of the bookstore Hugendubel under the name " Hugendubelexpress " (HDE ). Later the embossed by the readers themselves short form " Hugi " was adopted as the official name. From issue 11, the magazine was published bilingually in German and English. With Issue 18 of the German -speaking part was cleaved off and the independent Hugi.GER arose. In addition, there were between 1998 and 2000 the weekly newsletter Hugi, who continued the series of earlier formats such as Demo News unofficially.

Content, the Hugi developed by the style of a school newspaper as one of the most successful and long digital demoscene and underground magazines. The content is contributed largely by the readers and only editorially. Thematically, the articles cover all aspects of digital art and net art. The focus is on programming and review of graphics demos, reports of demo parties and the creation of computer music. In addition, political, literary and philosophical topics, as there are for example magazines splitter, short stories, reviews and tests of other electronic magazines.

Expenditure

Until April 2012 published at irregular intervals 37 major issues, 17 of them wholly or partly in German language. Twelve issues were also translated into Russian. The scope of the expenditure is given in bytes; average of about 1 megabyte text was included. In addition, seven editions of the German offshoot Hugi.GER, 38 newsletters, and four special issues with a focus on programming, music and interviews have been published. Spending 11-37 and the special issues were republished in online in a web browser readable form.

Importance

• Hugi was one of the first diskmags, which appeared as a Windows version ( issue 12 September 1998). Six issues long, it was also a DOS and a Windows Diskmag ( spending 12 to 17 from September 1998 to August 1999 ). Both facts were then very remarkable and resulted in the Windows operating system against critical of demo scene to many debates.
• Hugi was usually more discussed than others diskmags because it is the " Underground" demo scene near brought newcomers. This was intended, as no "scene" can live without new arrivals.
• Hugi was an important medium for amateur software developers, because it promoted the exchange of algorithms, visual effects, etc. even before the widespread use of the Internet.
• Hugi was one of the best looking and most user-friendly at the same time diskmags. Several well-known ( in the demo scene) artists drew images and surface graphics for the magazine.

Authors

The editor in chief of Hugi, the Austrian Claus D. Volko, is known in the demoscene under the pseudonym " Adok ". The Hugi editorial team is in " Hugi Core" ( active members ) and divided " Royal Family" ( honorary members ). Many other people contribute to Hugi, without belonging to the editors.

The used since issue 18 December 1999 Panorama Engine was created by Polish programmer Chris Dragan for the magazine. The engine forms the basis for numerous other electronic magazines outside the demoscene.

Hugi Size Coding Competition

The Hugi editorial team also organized a series of assembly language programming and size optimization competitions named Hugi Size Coding Competition. The aim of the competition was to replicate a given program in as few bytes. This executable files created by generally much lower than one kilobyte size. From 1998 to 2009 29 competitions were held. Usually took 20 to 80 people from around the world (including North America, East Asia, South Africa, Australia) participated. After each competition, the entries were released with their source code. In a subsequent discussion, the validity of individual contributions could be questioned. Was granted such an objection, the author received penalty points. Once a year, a " world ranking " is generated with the total scores, which had reached the participants in the individual competitions.