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(appeared in DemoNews issue 90, May 14 1995)
=----------------------------------------[Live from NAID]--[Multiple Authors]-=
(an undirected journal from the night of Saturday April 15th)
Its Saturday night here in Montreal and about half of the demo freaks here
at NAID are fast asleep. What you are about to read is live and edited. In
fact, I'm writing this introduction long after NAID has ended but for the
sake of argument, I'll pretend I'm writing it at the party place itself.
I'm sitting at the "Hornet Table" right now. To my left is GraveDigger. To
my right and behind me is some funny guy [who I would later learn was
PeriSoft]. The music competition has concluded and I am dead tired.
However, sleep is my enemy and as such I must focus my energies on
something... anything.
I have a feeling that many people will be contributing to this log.
Anything in []'s has been added for clarification.
Here is the roll call:
* Snowman
> GraveDigger
>> Ior
>>> Katherine Poire (Jeff's sister)
>>>> The NAID photographer
>>>>> Perisoft
Well folks, if you wanted to read something interesting, THIS IS IT!
<Start of Log>
* Hello there, this is Christopher G. Mann, writing live from the NAID
party place. With me here is GraveDigger. Say "hi" GD...
> "Hi," GD.
* Very funny. ;) Well, the two of us are just sitting here listening
to some live kewl-rad band called Public Enema.
> I don't think that DJ up there scratching the records and all, is
real. But, its a nice touch, as is all of the smoke.
* GD, I can hardly hear anything! I'm now looking at the MediaTrix
representative here in front of me. He was a judge for the music
compo. GD, who do you think will win the music compo this year and
why?
> That's a really tough call. Especially since I lost interest about
halfway through. The music really was excellent, but I just got so
tired. It was a very long compo. I liked the fact that Basehead and
Necros did some really different styles than we are used to. I guess
at this point I can't make any judgement because I really would rather
hear it all again. :)_ Just when I'm more awake and alert.
* Hmmm.... What if I told you that I was a judge for the music compo and
could tell you RIGHT NOW who the winner was going to be?
> I'd rather not know, I think. Even if it was dead obvious, I'd rather
wait. Ok, then again, we'll just wait until we get away from this
crowd and you can pass me the list. :)
* Maybe I should keep the results to myself and just publish them in 01.
That might boost the ratings! :) I'm trying right now to remember
the distinction between o1art and hnews. One serious and one
funny/informal. What kind of article titles ya' think we'll have in
the next couple of weeks for each?
> Uhh, which was which again? You confuse me. I'll just leave it up to
you like I always do. :P Maybe you *can* enlighten us on how to get a
prostitute [refer to o1fil.001]. Even still, I'm sure I don't have
enough money. Hey, didn't you rip me off in a poker game or something?
* You were drunk! How do you remember that? Boy, you look a lot
younger in person than I thought you would be... but you're still
older than that guy working on DNDM [Ior].
> Me? Drunk? You must have seen Necros and Mosaic stumbling in the first
night. Anyway, I guess it is about time to stop sucking my thumb and
carrying my blanket. Hey Snowman, where the hell did you go? Oh well,
I guess it's time for another guest...
>> Hey. This is Ior... (NOT Eeyore :) Believe it or not, I made it to yet
another demo party... And I'll admit, although this doesn't live up to
Asm '94 (it wasn't expected to), it's not a bad start for this
continent.
> I can't really say anything about past parties, but I'll take your
word for it. I heard there are some 700 people here, but the capacity
was 1100. Though I don't think I could handle any more people here.
Ah, guess what, Ior? We have _more_ guest speakers! That means more
arrow-brackets. :)
>>> Hi! Here's Katherine and I'm Jeff's sister... Christopher just left
and God knows where he is...
>>>> Hello! Here I am the photographer for Hornet, I'm R.A.D. from
Longueuil...
> Hey, you get to take pictures, that's cool. Did you happen to get any
pictures of females with exposed, well.. umm..
>>>> Not yet, but I'll try... There's plenty of them here...
> Well, that's sure good to hear. There are more than I expected. And it
seems someone is trying to take the keybosu6 n09s [???]
>>>>> Muahahaha, this keyboard has been LIBERATED by PeriSoft.. :> today,
Hornet-- tomorrow, the world!!! AAaAUAuuUAAUUAGH!! Actually, I'm just
freaking out cause all these speakers are over-driven and made my
piano samples sound like dying cats.. Oh.. SV RULEZ!!
* What the hell! This is getting out of control. I leave for a second,
and now there are like 5 people who have written stuff. I give up...
>> Good. Now that he's gone, we can get back on topic. :) There was a
little bit of controversy over the way the music compo was run, due to
the fact that the audience had to listen to every single entry... And
after a while it did get a little dull. :)
But on the the more serious competition: The Demo Compo (and here is
CCCatch pounding on the table due to his MUD withdrawal :) ... There
might be a total of 5 (count that, *5*) demos here (Hey! Stop hitting
me, Kenny! :) ... all from this continent! (Being America) Here's what
I can count so far, from rumors, and from actually seeing them with my
own eyes: 1. KFMF - Flight 2. Craw Prods. - Opticron 3. Night
Vision - Figment 4. Necros - ?????? 5. Pure Resistance - ????? I
can't wait to see any of them (even though I've already seen some of
them )
>>>>> Well, IOR has faced the facts and relinquished control of the keyboard
to me.. :) actually, I'm not so sure how they should've dealt with the
overload of music, since they obviously have to judge them all
anyway... so they might as well play 'em all. I dunno how you pick the
worst ones without hearing them.. :) unless you just take a dart board
with the names of the contestants on it and toss darts until only
those composers in Kosmic or Renaissance are left.. ;>
>> Hahahaha... it seems that way sometimes... but I think all of the
people in Ren that entered songs actually deserve to be in the finals.
Their songs are just that good... BTW, did I mention that CCCatch
actually TRACKED A SONG?!?!?!?! It's amazing! First one in... Ummm ...
A long time. Uh oh. The boss is back. :)
>>>>> Aauugh! Take cover! Grab the women and children! Take cover! Take---
(sounds of gunfire and shells exploding) aaaAuughhh..g.f,. (raising
head from the sidewalk, spilling dark blood to the ground) Hmm.. GD
has returned. damn. (head flops back down in a spray of blood)
> Well, Christopher and I were fortunate enough to witness a new and yet
unreleased tune being written by three people: Basehead, Necros, and
one other we seem to have forgotten. Sorry dude, but the tune is
killer and should be released in a short time. By the way, you guys
_really_ screwed this damn thing up :) Touche.
>> Bah. We stayed closer to the topic than you two ever would have. :)
And see! Now that you're back, we're straying again. Go away. :)
>>>>> Yeah... let's boot 'im outa here. Here we were discussing fine
concepts of music ratings, here we are talking about issues affecting
the ENTIRE DEMO WORLD (even finland! ;> ) and you just come here and
say we're off topic. Disgusting. ;) Did I say that SV rules? :)
> PS, we know that you have a Super Virus, and I think you need to see a
doctor. Damn, I know that I probably made this keyboard wire a few
feet longer. (That part was accidentally typed in all caps, but you
of course won't see that. :) Nevertheless, all watching are laughing at
my pathetic typing skills. Ok, though, I would like to ask both of you
a question regarding this competition. Now, I could ask, "Who is going
to win?" But, nevermind that. There will be a results report and all
that good stuff. But, what I want to know is, Who's going to lose? :)
>> Well... I'm assuming that you're talking about the demo compo... There
will be too many losers in the music compo. :)
>>>>> Yeah. We ALL know there are way too many losers in the music compo.
Just quit talking about me, will ya? ;)
>> Hahahaha... Okay... I haven't seen all the demos yet... Only the KFMF
demo, the Night Vision demo, and I've heard some inside comments from
the makers of Opticron, and also Necros, concerning their demos. The
KFMF demo was coded completely by GooRoo (wow. :) and has music by
Maelcum and Floss. It has some nice effects, and could end up high.
The Night Vision demo is unfortunately being put together in a hurry,
so it won't be as good as it could be... Which is too bad, since some
of their effects are nice. I especially like the beginning of it.
Opticron is supposed to have some good and hard to code effects, but I
haven't seen it. And Necros' demo is supposed to be so smooth, that it
almost appears to be animation.
Not directly related to this, of course, is Dope. We got it in about
mid-day today. It was amazing. I think it blows away all demos
currently out there, and I can be fairly certain in saying that none
of the demos from this compo will be up to par... Good job Jmagic! :)
>>>>> Yeah... GD and I waltzed in about halfway through that demo, as we'd
been observing some weird ray traced movie on all the TV monitors
scattered throughout the hallways around here, and the DEMO was
better.. :) In fact, it was so good that GD almost dropped his "Pepsi
Max" :)
Oh yeah. Question... well.. I haven't seen any of the demos yet, so I
can't really generalize about who's going to lose. And just for the
sake of argument, as far as boolean logic goes, asking who's going to
lose because we're going to have a list of who wins is not good
logic-- anyone who does not win will, by definition, lose :) and
therefore, a list of winners will explain losers as well. So there.
Pttth. :)
>> Well, about my previous comment, I realize that some people could take
offense to it, but I didn't mean it that way. I was just stating that
the coders in Europe have much more experience with demos than the
coders here in America. I think that answers GD's question, and as
expected, he's gone again. Uh oh.
That means that PS and I have free run of this document (But this will
all probably be edited out by Snowman and GD when we leave NAID :)
[Though I seriously considered doing so, I felt I should leaving the
rest of this 'document' in for sake of accuracy.]
It's about 1:30 AM right now... and as I guessed no one is sleeping.
Snowman, GD, Floss, and Trixter were all threatening to go to sleep a
while ago, but they didn't... Which is no surprise. You just DON'T go
to sleep at a demo party. Not only is it a faux pas, but also nearly
impossible by the volume of all the activities going on.
Right now we have Public Enema blasting our eardrums to smithereens,
and then we will have some sort of rave. We'll see how that turns out
(I'm not one of those heavy ravers, but PS looks like the type, so
I'll let him tell you guys all about that =)
>>>>> Hahaha, I'm afraid I can't tell ya much about raves. Oh, currently
Ior is attempting to kidnap CCCatch and make him type, but he's just
too damn quick for us. :) Must be reflexes from all his MUDs. Ooh, now
he's casting some spell on us.. ;) Well, back on topic, or this WILL
be deleted.. Hmm..
There's a guitarist over there who looks like he has a weird tropical
disease from the way he's weaving and twisting.. ooh.. poor guitar.
But anyway.. the intro compo's been delayed, I guess in order to give
some people time to write intros. :)
It appears nobody did before this time-- but now it looks like we're
going to have a "pisstro" from FUDD with music by necros--rumor has it
that all the samples are ST3.DOC, ST3.SET and ########.ST3 files.
We'll have to see how that turns out. :) In fact, I myself wrote a
little 7k text mode intro in pascal this afternoon, but owing to the
fact that more than three entrants are likely to take part, my chances
of getting some fast cash are reduced, and it isn't worth the damage
to my reputation to submit it now. :)
>> Damage to your reputation? What reput- Oh! Sorry. :) It's true. I've
seen PISSTRO ... It is hilarious. I can't wait to see it on big
screen. :) Everyone's going to die laughing. :) I couldn't confirm
anything about the samples, though. I'd have to take the 8 minute walk
down to the Kosmic/Ren room to ask Necros himself. :)
I do have one small complaint/suggestion about this party. Right now
(NIGHTTIME!) they are having the bands play, and the rave happening.
And they plan on showing the demos/intros in the DAYTIME!!!! What kind
of reasoning is this? They do have the windows covered up (some of
them) but a lot of light still gets through.
Anyone who has been to any other demo party (ahem :) could tell you
that you want to show the gfx compo, intro compo, and demo compo when
it is dark! It is just easier to see the screen! I remember that at
Asm '94, the demo compo was running a little late, and the sun started
coming up (at 3:30 AM :) and that really made watching the demos hard
to do. I wonder what the organizers are thinking. :)
>>>>> Yeah, and also we're all probably going to be half dead by that time
tomorrow.. :) amazingly enough, though, I'm still not that tired, even
though it's now now 2:00am and I got up at 6:30 am yesterday..
Actually, I must agree with Ior that the compos, especially the gfx
compo, will be somewhat hurt by the bright Montreal sun ;>
>> Pyro just reminded me! It was snowing when the party started! It was
the first snow I've seen in 13 years! After all, we don't get much
snow in "sunny" Southern California. :)
>>>>> Well, I come from wonderful upstate New York-- "Where seldom is heard,
an encouraging word, and the sky is not sunny all daaayy" -- and the
last time *I* saw snow was... last wednesday. :)
>> Well, we seem to be wandering again, but that's probably because we've
run out of things to say about NAID so far... We've only had one
compo, and that wasn't too exciting (except for music from all of the
big names on this side of the Atlantic - Oh! And Mellow-D :) ...
Right... We did have a live "coverage" (or as close as you can get) of
most of the music compo in IRC. I'm sure that someone got a screen
capture of it, and will release it later. I'll try to do the demo
compo, but the way that they have the Net terminals set up in relation
to the screen, it will make it VERY difficult to see the demo and be
on IRC at the same time. But I'll see what I can do. :) Hmm.
Well, PeriSoft had to leave for some reason. and I've run out of
things to say, and Snowman and GD will have a heart attack when they
get back from flirting with women and see how much we've typed...
So... Bye for now from NAID!
>>>>> Well, you know me, I always have to have the last word :) I actually
had to leave to get another root beer, which I believe (looks at the
can) oh damn! No caffeine! Oh well.. it's the thought that counts.
Hmm, maybe we could try here what they did in the 1890s when there
wasn't any news--yellow journalism. Hell with the facts! =) Ok, here I
go.. awww. Ior doesn't want me to do this. But that's just 'cause of
what those space aliens did to him. Hey. Well--guess I gotta go. Elvis
wants me over in the corner. Uh oh. Anyway--L8a ppl.. adioz---and
remember-- sv rules. :)
>> I wish you would tell us what this SV thing is, sometime. But not now.
:) Bye all!