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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) !!!!