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Gathering 1995
Held in Stavanger 11th of April - 15th of April
Preliminary Party Report
This party report contains more than just the ordinary report.
It also contains what happened inside crew and what was the reasons
for all that happened at Gathering 1995. This text is not ment to
discredit people, it's the thruth.
Day 1: Tuesday 11th of April.
The party officially opened at 0:00. Unfortunatly no power was
available. The power was a bit delayed, and was 99% up and running
around 3:00. In the middle of the power-failure we had a non-planned
opening-ceremony. This was extremely bad, even though some of the
guys in the hall thought it was very cool. Anyway, later that day
there was announced that the vote-disks was going to cost money...
Which was as far from the truth as it could get. One member of
SHI found very convinient to get money this way, and announced it.
We thought we had problems with the funding of the arrangement.
Day 2: Wednesday 12th of April.
The party was up and running, except for some power-failures, caused
by non-ground systems in the hall. Deadlines was to be, delayed....
We had been delayed a whole lot, because of the power-failures.
When we where going to show them, we had problems again. We didn't
have all the equipment to show them. But finnally we could start the
AMIGA versions of the Animation-competition. The PC versions and
the Wild demo-compo was now delayed by 12 hours.
Day 3: Thursday 13th of April.
Starting of the day with the PC animation competition and the
Wild-Demo competition. Which actually ran pretty smooth, considering
that we still didn't have all the equipment. Deadlines for the
graphics and the two music competitions was due. Delayed by some
hours, of-course. The presentation was to be at 03:00, but because
I was asleep, it didn't start.
Day 4: Friday 14th of April.
06:00 last turn in to the competitions. I came to the party place
again at 09:00, and started on the jury selection of the multichannel
competition. When I had my jury, we started the 4 channel music compo.
And from there we went into a room and started on the Multichannel
selection. The graphics competition was started around 15:00, and
was finished some time later. The multichannel started late that
night. In the middle, on song number 11. We had a break, because
of a hacker in the hall, which was wanted by the InterPol. This
delayed us about an hour. We ran through all the multichannel with
a million problems, conserning players to use. After that, we were
delayed an hour again, before the 4Kb PC intros could be shown.
They ran pretty smoothly. Then a delay again, and the 64Kb PC intros
were to be ran. They ran pretty smoothly to. Then the shit started.
The PC demos were about to start. We started all up, with a lot of
problems. It seemed that the RGB encoder we used, the driver for
this caused 4 of the demos to be untimed and one of them lost the
last part. So I had complaints from all over, that it wasn't
correct. That's the reason three of the demos had to be tried again.
It basicly sucked. After all this crap, the AMIGA was in the spot.
Which suprisingly went pretty smooth.
Day 5: Saturday 15th of April.
The party had reached it's last day. The competitions finished up
at around 09:00. Hmm... 1 hour before prize-giving?? A little bit
late maybe.... YES. And even better, the vote-register program
wasn't finished on the AMIGA. So... The coder from Spaceballs had
to finish it up. 6 hours later it was more or less finished, without
a PC version. GoLLuM was called to do this, all SCOOP people was now
home sleeping(with a good reason...). The voting was finished later
that evening. I got the results the day after, and they were totally
wrong. All the bad productions had won, and the good ones, didn't show
up on the list. This was very strange, so at 21:00 later that night
(some hours ago...) I finished up a new vote program, and registered
all the votes. I came to these results :
PC Demo :
1st. Complex - Dope
2nd. SCOOP - Luminous
3rd. Sorrox
4th. Proxima
5th. NOD
PC 64Kb :
1st. Valhalla - Fluid Motion
2nd. Valhalla - Bibo-ergo-sum
3rd. Darkzone
4th. SCOOP - Psychadelic Mind
5th. Xenogenesis - Die Ausgeburt
PC 4Kb : Is not complete, I have not the actual list, just numbers.
1st. SCOOP - 4KbFlight
2nd. Intro number 2
3rd. Intro number 8
4th. Intro number 3
5th. Intro number 1
Multichannel/MIDI :
1st. Jogeir Liljedahl / VD / FLT / SCOOP
2nd. Twilight Zone
3rd. Geir Tjelta / SCOOP
4th. BIG JIM / Valhalla
5th. $volkraq / GoLLuM
The results above are the official PC results. The 4Kb will be fixed as
soon as possible.
For those of you who have been at the Gathering 1995, know how it went.
It wasn't excactly what you might call perfect, others have called a
disaster-area. The last one is more accurate. I admit all errors done at
the Gathering 1995, but I won't, and I mean won't admit that SCOOP did any
of them.
Thanx for showing up at the Gathering 1995, we hope to see you next year.
Adept / SCOOP
adept@login.bigblue.no