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assembly '92
PC compo results
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70% of Future Crew
PSI and Pixel having
a little shuteye
Sonic PC and
friends
Was it all just wasted
time?
The original party was held in Kauniainen (a
neighbouring city of Helsinki, the capital of
Finland). The place was Karakallion koulu (a
school that is).
The nick name "Was it all just WASTED
TIME?" came from the Rebel's headquarters
BBS, called Wasted Time and operated by
Storm / Rebels.
Back then, Amigas and C64s ruled the world
and Atari ST was still a competent demo
machine. But to make demos with a PC? That
was still something new and definitely so
akward that almost every amiga demoscener
laughed their asses off when seeing PC
"demos".
ASSEMBLY '92 was the first attempt to create
a big scale demoparty in Finland. Big scale
means over few hundred visitors were in the
plans. And ASM '92 was a hit with over 700
visitors.
To some ASM'92 remains as the raw essence
of demoparties. A lot of screw ups, power
failures, terrible cafeteria, no air conditioning
etc. BUT there was more than a LOT of real
spirit. The PC demo compo had four or five
entries, among them Unreal from Future Crew,
Hysteric Overload from Hysteria and a demo
from Sonic PC. Unreal got about 30 votes and
Hysteria's demo about 4. BTW, when Unreal
was showed to the Amiga people, there were
only two parts where people applauded: the
wormhole and landscape parts.
As for the Amiga part, the party was a
success with good demos featuring
completely new effects. But for the Amiga
organizer who was supposed to code a voting
system... Well, the bloke was too drunk to
code anything but pink elephants. So the
voting was done (as what become a tradition
for a while) with paper.
The main organizer back then was Meegosh /
Movement (back then from Rebels), Rebels
was the main organizing team and on the PC
Future Crew did their best to hold the
competitions (which naturally went as
smoothly as you can imagine =)). After the
party, Meegosh was some exhausted that he
promised never to again organize a party. But
we did see his return at ASM '93.
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