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SLEDGE HAMMER SPECIAL EDITION
PROLOGUE
CREDITS
PARTY REPORT
CHAT
COMPETITION
DEMO REVIEWS
LEMON. IS DEAD
LEGO IS BORN
MIXED NEWS
SHIT SPREADING
UGLY FACES
CRM'S WORDS
ENJOY THE LOGO
ABSOLUTE!
SINCE 1879...
EXIT TO DOS
A chat with an organizer
The Party '93 - not just the Party, but really with a capital T. I have just
never ever seen or heard of such a professional organizing. Excellent! No
power problems, no space problems, just no problems at all! I just couldn't
stand not to have a small chat with one of the guys running around in purple
T-Shirts calling themselves organizers.
SH: Gosh, this party is BIG! Can you tell me how many people showed up?
ORG: At this point of time... (HE IS SEARCHING FOR A PAPER)... yes, 2682
guys are present, but the party is not over yet... (WIDE SMILE)
SH: WoW! And I've seen quite a lot 'purple shirts' running around. How many
organizers are here? 100? 200?
ORG: No, not that many, but the number should be around 60. As I see we are
enough to cope with everything... (WIDER SMILE)
SH: With this amount of people I guess the party earns its own money...
ORG: Hmmmm.. Probably..
SH: Could you mention the major problems you had/have?
@
ORG: I'm just here at the Information, but I had no big problems except for
dealing with SOOO many people's SOOO many questions...
SH: Do you personally have some time to enjoy the party?
ORG: Not much, but that is not my job here anyway.
SH: What do you think about the competitions?
ORG: I have not seen any demo...
SH: OK, I see you have some other tasks than chatting with me, so bye for
now..
ORG: Ok. (SMILES)
@\@\
Demo reviews from
The Party '93
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1st place
Origin by Complex
(AGA)
Code: Gengis Music: Clawz Graphics: Mack, HoF, Titan, Alex
Not reviewed. Read "Shit spreading!" article for details of the sad event.
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2nd place
Full Moon by Virtual Dreams
(AGA)
Code: Doctor Skull Music: Heatbeat, Jogeir
Graphics: Jaco, Alien, Kerberos
@
Virtual Dreams, the new generation in the scene life, has once again approved
the hopes. They are not too strong in music and graphics, but the young
programmers code amazing things.
The first music were done by Heatbeat from CNCD. Unlike most of his modules,
this one is really a hardcore piece of music. Not too bad, nice for fans. The
second music, the endtune by Jogeir of Spaceballs is a very mellow tune. Very
cool, indeed. The demo lacks some nice pixels, but the only picture by Jaco is
a masterpiece. This picture became the official T-Shirt picture for VD.
I can say only one word for the code: amazing. So many breakthrough new
effects in one demo... Doctor Skull introduced us to lodsa original new ideas.
Twirling pictures, new glowing-fire effect, new kind of plasma, texture map
room and so on. The demo lacks design a bit, the guys should have included
some more interesting links between parts. Anyway, a very nice demo for your
collection.
Code: 8/10 points
Music: 7/10 points
Graphics: 6/10 points
Design: 6/10 points
Overall: 8/10 points
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3rd place
Arte by Sanity
Code: Mr.Pet Music: Moby Graphics: RA
Sanity has once again approved Chaos' statement: "1993 might become OUR year".
Terminal Fuckup, Interference, Boggledop and now Arte; all high class demos.
So let's see what Sanity had to add to The Party 3.
This demo was promised to be out in the summer, but as always, Sanity breaks
promises... The first thing you realize about this demo is that it has LOADS
of excellent graphics from Sanity's new French star: RA. His pixels are not
just perfectly drawn, but he has brought the scene a new style of graphics.
Quite a big thing, if you look around at the state of graphics nowadays. The
music by Moby is another guitar tune (in fact two). It is truly amazing how
the thre 'parts' (code-music-graphics) fit each other. Frankly, the first
really designed demo from Sanity, and it kicks ass. The scene begged for a
designed Sanity production; here it is, and the code is stunning as always!
The code can really stand the competition with Origin and Full Moon - without
the need of an AGA chipset! In my opinion this demo should have won the
competition. Mr.Pet (with the help of Chaos and McByte) offers us new kind of
tunnels, zooming, rotating AND twisting picture, fast vector world, and soooo
much more.
All in all, a perfectly formed and timed Sanity demo; kicks ass in every
aspect!
Code: 10/10 points
Music: 10/10 points
Graphics: 10/10 points
Design: 10/10 points
Overall: 10/10 points
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4th place
9 Fingers by Spaceballs
Code: Lone Starr Music: Travolta Graphics: TMB Designs
Finally, the sequel to last year's winner demo is here. Not much to write
about - while other groups still use Lone Starr's routine from SOTA, here is
how much the invetor developed on his routine.
The demo starts with an ugly picture by TMB. This picture looks like scanning,
but I don't believe that TMB would scan. Scan or not - quite ugly. Then the
demo starts with another techno tune by Travolta, but this time it is below the
level of Condom Corruption.
The demo itself is, well, ready to go on MTV... This time the digis are not
just outlines but (I guess) 8 color animations. They are sometimes even put on
a cube's side. Very stylish indeed, but SOTA shocked me harder. Anyway, Lone
Starr is still alone at the top of the hill of techno-demos. Rave ON!
Code: 10/10 points (idea)
Music: 6/10 points
Graphics: 4/10 points
Design: 10/10 points
Overall: 8/10 points
The HOT group:
LEGO
In the following lines we have an interview with LEGO, a new group found at the
Party 3. They have already released a 40K intro, and seem to be a nice and
funny team to look out for. Opinions and questions were quite various about
them, so let's be the first to present an interview with the guys.
SH - SH
R - Rackler (Organizer, swapper)
D - Decca (Organizer, swapper)
S - Sire (GFX, Music)
SH: Don't you think LegO is the most childish scene group name ever?
R: Well, aren't we all children? Lego is a great name in my opinion, becoz
with Lego we can make a lot of things. We have a lot of nice ideas to design
our future projects.
SH: Do you think you can be a funny group without having the letters of Melon
in your group name?
R: You really think Melon is a funny group? It's no secret that I don't like
Melon!
I liked their style in the beginning, becoz it was something new and different,
but their last productions really sucked! And I don't compare LEGO with
Melon...
SH: Have you ever been to Legoland?
R: Yeah, ofcoz! That gave me some great inspirations (NO)! I think it was
about 4 years ago, when I had summerholidays...
SH: Why did you found LEGO?
D: All of our members were in more or less nice teams before, but these teams
didnt satisfied us much, and due to the fact that we were all good friends, we
had the idea of LEGO.
SH: Don't you think that Camelot is a LOT bettern than LEGO?
D: Hm, good question. I think CAMELOT is a very known group (on the 64)
because they are very long in their scene, but LEGO is quite new, and we hadn't
much time to show our real talent. So wait and see!
R: Ofcourse Lego is alot better than Camelot (who the hell is Camelot), becoz
this group is only active on the C64, and we are on the Amiga, so we are for
sure much better...
SH: As you claim to be close friends in Germany how can Rodney of Sweden come
into the picture?
R: Simply becoz Rodney is also a good Friend of us, a talented Graphician and
he also wanted to join up with our nice little team !!! But he will be the
only (!) foreign member of Lego, becoz otherwise it would be too difficult with
organizing and cooperating between the members.
SH: Wasn't it the same in ABS!? Deja vu...
R: No! Lego is not the same like Absolute! We left that group becoz most
members live in Hungary, and we hadn't a close contact with them. I really
like Abs!, but as the cooperation wasn't that good, we decided to leave and
builing up our own team here in Germany, where we have a better cooperation,
simply becoz all members live in the same country. So Rodney will be the only
foreign guy in Lego!
D: Hey Fester, what do you think about our team and our first production?
Good Fester: Rules! Absolutely cool!
Bad Fester: About who? No you lamers don't seem to have anything to show for
us!!!
SH: What are your plans for the next couple of months?
R: Well, as the bad fester said, we lamers don't have anything to show anyway,
so we don't have any plans for the future ... ! Or ... let yourself be
surprised!
SH: Frankly, what would be your point in the scene; just friendly fooling
around, or goinig for that mighty #1 place? (Don't tell me BOTH):
D: To be honest! Here in germany are so many big and lame groups that the
real good ones are only a few groups. And as you know, we want to keep our
team small and effective, so that we can be above the average!
SH: Aren't you afraid of being compared to the other 'new' German sensation:
Essence?
D: Try to execute the new Essence 40K-Intro on an A1200! And then try it with
our 40K-Intro, it runs on both A500 and A1200! R: The German sensation??? I
think Essence are the guys which are afraid of us...(just kidding!)
@
SH: Why did you just release a 40K intro and not a bigger production, and show
that you are something special?
D: We have planned a TRACKMO, but one of the coders was forced to go to the
hospital last week, and so the best routine was missing. And so we released
this freaky 40K-Intro instead.
R: But You can be sure that the trackmo will follow soon...
SH: After seeing your 40K intro, it seems that you don't have a new unique
style (except for sick jokes). Do you oppose?
S: My dear old friend, I would like to introduce a completely new style
perhaps by letting the scroller flying some inches in front of the screen
glass! But unfortunately that is impossible, demos and their forms have their
limits (of course, when you should create a full 40k-intro from zero in less
than one week), and in the future we will surely try to break some of these
limits, and let's see how far we come!
SH: I guess we have covered almost every possible topic about this new German
team, and only time (and Rackler) will tell us how things are gonna turn out
for them.
D: Many thanx for this great and fast interview (hehe)!
S: Our hearts flew truly over of this honest interest in our future!
Perhaps you have noticed that most of these questions were quite sick/boring,
my only excuse is that it was made live at 2 in the morning of Wednesday.
Camelot thing = We were just watching the 64 demo compos and Camelot showed us
veeeeery cool things. I have heard that the 64 is going strong, but I never
imagined THIS!
Lemon. has died!
At the beginning of the Party, some rumours went around that the Danish and the
UK divison has left. At the end, things still were very confused, the only
fact was that the group is over.
As an editor I just couldn't miss the story so I went around searching for
infos, and here is what I have found out. The questions are mine, but I don't
remember which Lemon. member said what, so you won't find names. Anyway,
these infos are from Lemon. members so they should be considered as facts.
First, the facts:
- The Pride joined Movement.
- Julius will most probably join Kefrens.
- Hannibal and J.A.D,E. moved to England.
- Dan, Nuke, Paradroid, Hannibal, J.A.D,E. are working as full time game
creators.
- Facet was asked to join Spaceballs, and he is likely to join, but only if the
whole remains of Lemon. can join aswell.
- Seen/Melon Dezign is happy.
Now some questions, might be interesting for the scene:
Why did this suddenly happen to the new number one group?
The Danish and English guys have decided to leave the group, because the have
too much work at Core Design, and well, they have to make a living. After this
happened, we thought Lemon. would not be the same without these friends, so we
decided to let it die. Now we are indies, but perhaps Spaceballs will be the
group for us.
Will the planned productions be released?
I guess, you won't see a demo from Dan, Paradroid or Hannibal. But the other
planned prods will be out, but under an other label. Be ready for Lizards
musicdisk!
Some words from Melon Dezign:
Seen: We squeezed them!
Walt: Oh, we have just made peace and friendship...
Mixed news from
The Party 3
Absolute! Hazel (GFX)
------------------------------------- Jean (SH)
- The team is under serious Rack (GFX)
reorganization. Petroff (music)
T-Bozz (music)
- These people left for Lego: Viti (code)
Twilight and Doc. Holiday (music) ----------
Rackler (swap) 15 members
DSN (GFX)
Twice (code) Alcatraz
Rodney (GFX) -------------------------------------
- Here is the complete memberlist: - Their new mag, Compass by MoP,
ADT (code) Disney and Cybersonik will be out
Archie (swap) in late January.
Asti (code)
Ben (swap, SH) Andromeda
CRM (GFX, code) -------------------------------------
Edge (code) - They made a demo for the party, but
Ern0 (code,music) have missed the deadline. The demo
Fester (SH main-ed) will be out on the next big party.
Goophy (code) - Slideshow is coming in a few days.
Hamlet (raytrace)@
Essence Movement
------------------------------------- -------------------------------------
- A trackmo and CAT's slideshow will - The Pride joined from Lemon.
be released in February.
- Slam is angry because of the Offence
incompatibility of the Essence -------------------------------------
productions. - Reborn with 3 members.
Lego Razor 1911
------------------------------------- -------------------------------------
- A new team, read the interview - Reborn with members like Colorbird,
somewhere in this mag. Some1, Prime, etc. Lizardking ONLY
JOINED AT THE PARTY.
Melon Dezign - Lizardking made a tape together
------------------------------------- with Mantronix/Phenomena.
- They aren't dead, the things in RAW - Lizardking made a CD aswell.
were just rumours (although they
didn't release the intro what Lord Spaceballs
Helmet asked for). -------------------------------------
- They plan to make a demo for the - Lone Starr has quit the scene, he
Gathering '94, with code (at last!) will make games in the future.
and graphics. Seen doesn't seem to - Nick left and refound Offence.
be interested in this.
- TDK left the group.
Results from The Party '93
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Amiga demo:
1. Origin by Complex (AGA)
2. Full Moon by Virtual Dreams (AGA)
3. Arte by Sanity
4. 9 Fingers by Spaceballs
Amiga Intro:
1. Chaosland by Virtual Dreams
2. D by Essence
3. Toyzareus by Dreamdealers
4. 40K by Lego
Amiga Graphics:
1. Cougar of Sanity
2. Suny of Movement
3. Devilstar of TSL
4. Ra of Sanity
Amiga Music:
1. Moby of Sanity
2. Chorus and Sid of Razor 1911
3. Jason of Lemon.
4. Chromag of DCS
Shit spreading!
After the demo competition, one of the main occupations was copying the hords
of nice releases. Everyone was very satisfied, rested for a while, then, the
time has come for checking the stuffs again. Sanity demo - gosh! WoW!
Unbelievable! 9 Fingers - Yeah! Coool! Origin by Complex - Fuck! It doesn't
work! Ohh... Rednex demo - Bitch! An empty disk?!
Yes, it wasn't just my case, but hundreds of other freaks were fucked over with
the winner, and the Rednex demo... Seems like someone (guess not the creators)
tried to have some free new stuff by spreading these two cool demos without
having them; this was my first thought - and I was right! The guy was a local
lamer, now richer with some megs of free 'downloads'... Very nice idea, but, I
guess most of you suffer from the consequences...
Anyway, always check your important stuffs at the party to avoid some biiig
turn-offs!
The Party '93
A report by me
I won't detail the things I went through before setting off to this event,
getting money and the rest, I guess you all had the same problems.
Anyway, I was quite lucky that I could travel by plane, so I had quite a nice
trip to freezing Denmark. WW, namely Wolfman and Wreko of Balance were waiting
for me at the airport. I started to get excited, because this was the first
time I have MET with the scene. Going to Wolfman, the car fucked up, police
came, we went. After a chatty night at William, at 7AM we left off from
Copenhagen train-station together with some Balance and Parasite members. At
around 1PM wer arrived to Herning, where we took the nice partybus for 10
kroners.
There it was. A huge, modern building full of every scene guy's dream: the
scene itself! I walked towards the Information, where I very suddenly got rid
of 150 kroners, and got a pink wristband for it, what ment to be the ticket.
Nice idea.
"Lamer Fester!! Ho-ho!!" - a voice from behind. A quick turn, and I stood
face to face with HIM! Raging eyes, muscles of Hulk, brains of Einstein, body
of Tom Cruise. No, actually it was just Ben of Absolute!, but quite nice for a
start to have a friend there.
OK, in we went. A turn to the right, then a head-turn to the right (nice
kiosk-chicks), and we were into a huge hall full of guys I have never seen. I
was really shocked by the sizes of the place, but as NOW I know, it was just
the beginning.
Jean of ABS! came from the shower, asking me how I like the happening. "It's
HUGE!" - a replied. "Now come and see the BIG hall then!". I couldn't believe
to my ears.
If there is a big hall, then where am I? A quick walk to the other end of the
corridor. We went through the door and... After I was washed up from the
floor, I took a second look at the big hall and... After I was washed up from
the floor again, and after ca. 53 blinks in 5 seconds, I realized I wasn't
dreaming. (Now note: if you haven't been to a big party like this, you have
experienced only 49% of the scene life.) I went around some circles, then I
returned to our small-hall. I realized that my mouth is still open.. The
partytime was very good, I could meet a lot of nice guys, eat a lot of
expensive Danish junkfood and walk my legs off. The first and the second day
went by very fast like this. On the 2nd afternoon the climax started off with
the competitions. This was the first time I could enjoy a competition live,
and believe me, the feeling is fantastic (I couldn't beat it anyway..). Big
claps or "buuuuh"s came from every corner of the room. The display was very
big, but quite outta contrast as always. OK, some words about the
competitions:
Intro:
Some very nice intros, really high level. The winner, Virtual Dreams
definitely kicks ass. Other nice intros cam from Essence, Dreamdealers and
Balance.
Music:
Quite a flop. Lodsa bullshit techno music, some nice tunes, but not very cool
in general. Note that some assholes played their stereos on full blast, so the
sound was not too good for the ones sitting far from the speakers. Also this
year, the jury voting for the 30 mods that can compete made some lethal
mistakes. Techno vs. Jogeir, Lizardking, Lizard, etc. - 1:0!
Graphics:
Gosh, this was amazing. 50 pictures, around 45 top quality, nearly all the
famous graphicians competed. Lodsa dragons, more chicks and heroes. It's
interesting that 70% of the entries were AGA. It was almost impossible to
decide which was the best, but Cougar was lucky.
Demos:
Oh no! It's very disappointing that on an event like this only 5 out of 30
demos worth a look. The other 25 were not average, but pure shit! I wouldn't
look at them for more than 30 secs... But the 5 noticeable are very very nice.
So, after the compos the atmosphere went back to normal, the guys continued
chatting, copying, porno watching, eating and so on.
he organization was beyond perfect (read the interview with an organizer some
articles further).
All surprise compos were held, no power problems, no prize cancelling, no
drunk fascists, no carrier. OK, this was it for a quick party report, read
the other articles for a complete cover of The Party '93.
Prologue
Another party passed by this X-Mas, but not just A party, nor just a good
party, but THE PARTY. I was so fortunate to be present, so here is a little
overview for those not lucky enough to get there. Last year's party cover by
RAW wasn't very successful, perhaps because of the lack of contents.
We tried our best to present you as many details in as few days as we probably
can. A mag can't reflect the spirit of the party, that's why I strongly advice
you to visit the next party held: The Gathering. Anyway, enjoy this until
then.
Instructions: Just press the left mb on the right side of the screen to turn a
page forward, on the left for a turn backwards. Right mb gives you the
contents page. Just couldn't be simpler.
The next real Sledge Hammer will probably released in March, so please send all
your articles and various supports till then.
- Fester
Credits
Party Edition code by CRM
Jammin' music by Petroff
Graphics by CRM
Party Time! logo by Rack
Interesting words by Fester
Photos by Jean and Fester
Party Time - A Sledge Hammer Special is an Absolute! production in 1994.
You can say: "This is not the right place!"
But I (Crm) just send some messages & greetings...
I send 220volt greetings to Melon Dezign, keep on your style!
It's NICE!
I respect (Normal 9volt greetings):
All in Absolute!, FNS, Utah Saints, Muffbusters, Garfield, Stellar,
Virual Dreams, Accession, Sanity, Spaceballs, Complex...
Rack's message:
Horseface and Ratface of Lamer Crew! Keep on your great style and prepare
yourselfs for our coming product called HorseFakker!
Turn a PAGE!
And turn to hunagrian.
(nem lesznek ekezetek)
1. -Rack es en elnezest szeretnenk kerni mindazoktol akikkel taplok voltunk a
Chromance - Faces szolnoki partyjan. A sponzorunk egy picit sok sort kuldott...
2. -Codex/Creator/S!P/#+*!$5/(8)0?!/".-!2$%& -nak uzenem:
-Ha esetleg nem tudnal olvasni, azert agas a Utah intro mert nem volt idom
atcodeolni 12bit-re. Azt hiszem ketszer is beleirtam...
-Tenyleg lefagy, nem tudtam rola, valoszinu a cia idozites miatt van. Ja,
nem is tudtam, hogy ilyen lelkesen teszteled a productjainkat... Nem tudom
milyen csaladbol szarmazol, de nalunk nem szokas ugy nezni egy programot,
hogy kozben a billentyuzetre tenyerelek... Hmm...
-Igen, megengedhetjuk magunknak hogy ilyen minosegu programokat adjunk ki.
Errol az a velemenyem, ha nem tetszik egy demo akkor azt nem neked irtak.
Engem ez egyaltalan nem erdekel...
-Ja, ha van valami mondanivalod akkor lehet irni, telefonalni, faxolni,
az Absolute! whq cimere: Baja 6500 Szent Margit u.2