SMAU Exposition 91
Party

SMAU alias Salone Milanese per l'Automazione dell'Ufficio. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 SMAU is since some years the biggest and most popular  computer  exposition  in
Italy and has become since  a  while  the  best  chance  for all groups to meet
themselves. The rendez-vous of this year was Sunday the 6th of October 1991, of
course at the  Commodore stand. In  this stand,  every year,  Commodore  offers
about 20 Amigas to play games. Usually the drives are locked, so to change disk
you need something to force the lock, but this year we found some "free" drives
so there were no  problems to show  all demos. In fact, almost  all  well-known
groups had brought a  contribution for this meeting. Of course no competitions,
but it's obvious that  all groups tried to show the best that they had produced
recently.
You can read about all  the NORMAL  things that  have been shown at the SMAU in
every NORMAL magazine. HERE,  you will  see  a complete list of all GROUPS that
were present there!

 IBB
 We met Raoul, E$G, Street Shaman, DHS,  Piratronik. All  these guys  had a very
cool T-Shirt printed  with their  name and  function, and with  IBB logo in its
back. They released a demo called MANGAD, with a very simple code but wonderful
graphics and music (the veronese duo: Street Shaman + DHS), and an utility cal-
led NASP II (by Piratronik).  This utility was  very expected by all techno and
house freaks all around.

 RAM JAM
 This group was present with ACBS, a girl whose name we can't remember, and some
other members. They released a collection with all the  old  productions and an
intro called ASSHOLE with a cool  sine-dot-scroller.  But  ACBS  brought to the
SMAU a box full of copies of all  their previous games and musicdisks, together
with the copies of the last productions. So he  has given  away  lots of disks,
but he spread his stuff like hell.  Their ASSHOLE  intro  is  surely their best
production ever.

 THE EVIL FORCES
 This really  amazing group was present with Mr.Bite, B.A.D and maybe some other
guys.  They released maybe the best-looking intro, with a fucking cool parallax
effect and the usually cool house  music. Nothing  to say,  they have style! So
look out for their soon  coming magazine called TOILET PAPER, released in co-op
with RAM JAM.

 DIVINA
 We met Storm, Romano and their coder. They were supposed to release their mega-
demo but they hadn't finished it  in time,  so  the coder started to  show some
routines...really cool!  Storm showed  a picture from their new graphician...it
was GREAT! Look for that megademo, cause it seems to be so COOOOOOLLLLLLLL...

 ZERO DEFECTS
 Only Paranoid and Dr.Sam were present. They did the right thing cause they went
there only to talk  and to have  fun and not to  show anyone that  they're  the
best. They released previously a message-box.

 GHOSTLY SPREADERS
 This group was present with almost all  members. They released an amazing mega-
demo and a musicdisk. The megademo is quite  cool, even if almost all  routines
are not new. Anyway, now they are much better than in the previous years.

 NIGHTFALL
 Also this group released a megademo,  surely  one of the  best things presented
this year. It looks really nice and also the music is good.

 Resolution 101
 Ken and Bitboy were there only to make a walk around. They were rather tired of
the confusion of the  Commodore  stand,   and in fact  we met them at the Apple
stand!

 CHRONOS
 These guys need to be  mentioned  for the best  wearings. Some jackets with the
CHRONOS logo and their codename, all with a very coloured  graffiti-style. They
haven't released anything, since, as maybe you know, they're a BBS-group.

 SIGMA, CENTURION, GRACE...
 Also these local groups  brought  some  productions. The  intro by SIGMA looked
very nice, Centurion instead released a megademo.

 THE COMMODORE "COPS"
 They were the Commodore responsables for security. Real "guards". These fucking
guys kept on  breaking  the  balls the whole day.  They didn't want that people
copy demos, we  don't  know why, since demos  are LEGAL! But it's not all: they
were very unfriendly  and stole  all copied disks they found. Maybe now they're
enjoying the stuff at their home...BASTARDS!

 All in all, it has been better  than the  previous  SMAU.  More demos have been
presented, and there was a friendly atmosphere between all  groups.  So we hope
that next time it will be even better...see you next year!
¶  Future scene?                                                    By Bacteria/Vega