Party Report ASSEMBLY 1992 ORGANIZED BY REBELS AND COMPLEX We Deadliners arrived at the party a bit late, but not too late to catch the action. This report may be a bit on the organizer point of view, since two of us Doc.X and I) helped around a bit, but I'll try making it as interesting as possible. The first day, nothing really happened. Everyone was coding, making music or drawing, preparing themselves for the next day, the competition day. The competitions were really a lot of fun to follow - for example, the Realtime demo competition. You would have to make the best kind of a production TOTALLY from scratch, in six hours. We gave the participants all the programs and stuff they were allowed to use - DPaint 3, a cruncher, an IFF converter, AsmOne@1, some other stuff, and, what's more (Imagine this!) ST-01SAMPLEDISK! (Yes, the one that came with SoundTracker 1.0 a loooooong time ago! :-) First, all the participants were calm, started programming and stuff. But as the last few hours approached, people started worrying they couldn't get theirs ready in time! I remember there were 6 participant groups and four got something done. These are listed below - the winner was an introdentro with code by Dweezil/Carillon and with music/gfx by Dean/Cyberiad. I sure have to say a good word about Kontra's (Dweezil & Dean) intro - the music (and the code too) was very good given the fact it was made with ST-01's samples! Editing sounds really DOES make a difference! :) As normally, after no sleep, eating sugarcubes, -RAW- coffee and some caffeinepills, we started looking a bit dead. You could have recognized me being the guy carrying a 1.5 litre Coke -bottle in my hands and walking around really like a zombie.. "No sleep" really isn't good for anyone. I'm glad THIS party wasn't 5 days long.. :) This party was the biggest (in number of persons) party ever held in Finland. It sure was a lot of fun, and my opinion is that this party was not only the biggest, but also the best party ever in Finland. There were about (maybe even more) 20 foreigners present, for example from France (Salut les deux que j'ai rencontre!), Switzerland (Alcatraz) (!!!!! NO ONE FORM ALCATRAZ SWITZERLAND WAS PRESENT ON THIS PARTY, ONLY SOME SHITTALKERS, IF YOU KNOW THESE GUYS WHO CLAIMED OUT TO BE MEMBERS OF ALCATRAZ, CONTACT US AT ONCE!!!!!) Sweden (Rebels, for example), Norway, Germany, and some other countries. This was actually the first party in Finland with more than 6 foreigners.. :----) Most of the people had now moved over to the gym to watch the competitions. This party had a Gathering'92 -type of system in deciding the winners - voting. In all competitions, some people chose which demos were to enter the compos, (if all would have been able to compete, the party would still go on.. :-) and those were then showed to the audience, they would vote for the one they like the most and the winners would be decided on these grounds. The videoprojector, used in showing the competitions, didn't have a Scart -input, and fixing the proper wires sure took it's time. The gym hall was VERY hot (it was the hottest day of the year), and we Deadliners sat RIGHT behind the videoprojector, which was blowing even hotter air towards us. We all were covered with sweat, and you can imagine the smell. The whole school actually smelled bad, which was the only thing I find bad about the party. :( Finally, the projector started working, and JHL/TRSI showed one of his intros on the big screen. Still, some things were to be adjusted in the projector. After listening to the introtune about 5 minutes, while the projector was being adjusted and people were starting to get bored, the crowd started clapping to the rhytm! It was a heck of an experience when about 600 people were all clapping to an Amiga tune! Not exactly your everyday experience, is it? :) I think the main reason for the party to be a success was that drunk people were not let in. Many parties before, atleast in Finland, have been pretty bad because of the drunk people inside the building(s). To my surprise, (this is what I know) nothing was stolen from anyone at the party. Someone took a guy's computer, but due to a special reason ( :--) 'somehow' they got it back.. That wraps this modest report, I'm sure that when I upload this file to the Alcatraz guys, I remember loads of other things, but who cares. These were atleast some great moments of a party of a lifetime! Mellow-D / Deadline Here's the results of most of the competitions that were held, check out the 77 METER WORLD RECORD in disk-throwing by a C-64 guy!! Demo 1. Reflect 2. Complex 3. Nikki Corruptions Intro 1. Vectra 2. Wizzcat 3. Vectra Gfx 1. Iridon/Shining 2. Dean/Cyberiad 3. Zei/Accession Music, sorry for no handles. 1. ? / Shining 2. ? / Black Robes 3. Stargazer / Sonic Realtime democompo 1. Dweezil/Dean 2. Alcatraz (NOT POSSIBLE) 3. Black Robes Diskthrowing compo 1. 77 meters by Extend (C64) !!!!