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    A m e g a P a r t y R e p o r t

First some words from the invitation...

  "Come and you will be a part of
   the best Amigaparty  ever (?!)"

Held by.........Violence,Dexion,CRB,FLT
Location......Porsgrunn/southern Norway
Date...........28th - 30th of June 1991

The entrance fee:
100 NOK Norwegians      1USD = 5.85 NOK
80  NOK Swedes/Danes    1PND = 11.5 NOK
40  NOK for others      1 DM = 3.90 NOK
20  NOK extra fee per amplifier

You are NOT allowed to smoke inside
You are NOT allowed to get drunk inside
You are NOT allowed to damage furniture
(no drunk no fun no no ????)


At the Party:
 - 24hrs Cafeteria
 - On Saturday grillparty outdoors
 - Video Room for watching
 - On Sunday evening a small AFTERPARTY
   to make new contax and talk to  your
   old contacts (if present)

The Competitions:
 - Demo-Competition
 - Music-Competition
 - Graphic-Competition
 - Video-Watching-Competition
 - Gameplaying-Competition
 - Football and (or) freesbee cup
 - Eating Competition
 - Arm-Wrestling Competition
 - Beerdrinking Competition
 - Sureprise Competition

The  things  above  were  the  promises
of  the  invitation  and   I  must  say
that sounds very good, BUT....  Well,we



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bought our traintickets and I organised
our trip to  Norway..... with Amiga and
other stuff + food and drinx we started
our trip on Thursday morning at 5:00 AM
!!   At  22:00  PM we were on the ferry
from  Fredrikshavn  to  Larvik where we
met   some   cool  dudes  from  Rebels,
Silents  and  Dexion, later  Yankee  of
Addonic...  We started training for the
beerdrinking  Competition....  Well, at
about 12:00 we were at Larvik!  Then we
took  the train to Porsgrunn...  In the
invitation  also  stand that there will
be  signs everywhere which show the way
to the partyplace!  Well, I saw NOT one
sign!   NOTHING!   That  was  the first
promise  which  was  not  held!  But it
gets better...  After nearly 45 minutes
of     searching     we    found    the
partyplace!!!!    Even  the  guys  from
Dexion  who  were  also  the organisers
didn't  know where the partyplace was..
Well, here I have to say that the group
VIOLENCE  did  the  main  organising  I
heard...and I think that was a mistake!
 At the Partyplace we had to pay 20 NOK
MORE  than  on the invitation stood!!!!
This  was  the  2nd thing which was not
like  the  invitation  said!!   Poor!!!
Ok,  we  had to pay and went inside!!!!
There  were many guys hanging around...
And  now  a  list   comes with  all  (I
think)   groups   who   were   on   the
AMEGA-PARTY.....  (The  letters  behind
the  names  are  the  countries...  N =
Norway etc.....)

Abnormal(N), Absence(N,NL), Abstract(S)
Academy(N), Accept(N), Acme(S), Addonic
(N,FRG),  Adept(N), AFL(S),  Aliens(N),
Amega(N),  Amiga Freelancers(N),  Amiga
Voice(N), Amonia(N),  Anarchy(DK,S,UK),
Andromeda(N),  Artic Forces(N),  Aurora
(S),  Avatars(N), Axe(N),  Backdrop(N),
Badline(N),  Balance(DK),  Beastie Boys
(N),  Beef(N),  Black Bones(FIN), Black



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Sinus(FRG),   Brainbyte(N),  Brainstorm
(CH),  Brainwave(F),  Brothesin Arm(I),
C.O.X.(N),     Canaery(N),     Cave(N),
Cerbevus(H),    Cinefix Designs(N,ICE),
Code Light(N), CodeX(N), Coma(N), Comp.
Death(N), Concept(N),  Core(N), CPI(N),
Crazy Banana(N), Cream(-),Crusaders(N),
Crypt(N), Cult(DK), Cypex(N), D-TECT(N)
Deadline(N), Deltazone 2(UK), Devils(F)
Diffusion(N), DOS(N), E.O.C. 1999(F,N),
Elexion(N),     EON(N),    Epedemic(N),
Equinox(N,CH), Euphoria(N), Euroswap(N)
Exalt(N),      Exit(N),     Extreme(N),
Fahrenheit(S), FLT(N) (I haven't seen),
Frantic(FIN),   Fraxion(S,N),   Freemem
Inc(N), G-Force(POL),  Gemini(N),  Gods
(DK), Grace(N), Handicaps(N), Heaven(N)
Hypnosis(S),  Illusion(N), IMP 666(N) ,
Impulse(N),    Innoxient(N),   Iris(N),
IT(N),     Katharisis(POL),    Lame(N),
Loctite(N),  Lovely Milkmaids(N), Magic
Power(N,S),  Majic  12(N),  Massive(N),
Megastyle Inc(N), Mirage(NL), MON(N,S),
Motion(N),    N-Corruptions(N),   Nasty
Boys(N),  Nation  A(N), Network(N), New
Wave(N)  , Nighthawks(N), No limits(N),
Ontarion(S),  Palace(N), Paramount(N) ,
Phenomena(S),  Pirates(S),  Pondemonium
(N),  Pulse(N),  Pure  Metal Coders(N),
Radical(S,A), RAF(N), Rawhide(N), Razor
1911(N,S), Rebels(FIN,DK,S), Reflectors
(S),  Reflex(N), Sanity(FRG), Scope(N),
Shade(N),    Shades(N),   Shockwave(N),
Signetta(N),   Silents(DK,S),  Simpsons
(N), Spaceballs(N), Sparta(N), Symbosis
(FIN,N,F),  TEC(N),  Technofighters(N),
Terminators(N),  The Arc Sailor(N), The
Gang(S),  The Gulbba Boys(N), The Magic
Guild(N), The Park(N), Them(S), TNT(S),
Treacl(FRG),   Triumph(N,NL),  Twilight
Zone(YUG),  Utopia(N), Visual Image(N),
Vogue(S),    Wizzcat(N,FIN),    X-F(N),
X-TRADE(S,FRG), XITE(N), Zone 7(N,DK)

Soooo,  this  list contains 147 groups,
but  I  think there were some more.....



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altogether  there  were  about  800-900
freaks...  Well, lets continue with the
report...   The  building was a school,
quite  a  good  place for such a party.
We  build  up our equipment and started
to  explore  the school...  I wanted to
count  the  Amigas,  but  it  were  too
much!!!    Many   guys  were  painting,
makin' musics and some coded, but there
were  also  many  lame  guys  who  only
played  all the time...  I took my time
to  make  some  new friends and to talk
with  some  cool  guys......   Well, ok
many   people   and  many  Amigas  were
present,  but  there  were  many  small
things  which  were not so as mentioned
in  the  invitation...   So for example
the  big screen was shitty placed under
stairs, so there was not much place for
people watching it...  Why haven't they
put  it  on  the  stairs,  so everybody
could  have  watched  it!!!   Well, and
then  the  competitions came...and also
the 3rd thing which was not like in the
invitation...
There was NO Eating Compo as promised
There was NO Beerdrinking Compo.
There was NO Videowatching Compo.
There was NO Gameplaying Compo.
 (I haven't seen some guys competing..)
There was NO Football or Freesbee cup
(There were  some guys playing football
but NO results were spread..!!??)
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The surprise compo was I think that the
other    compos    were   not   held...
Otherwise the surprise compo was not.

Well,  what  a  great  organisation!!!!
The  Armwrestling competition was held,
but  it  took not longer than 5 minutes
and  after  those 5 minutes nobody knew
who  had won...  Well, perhaps the jury
had  to inquire which one was better...
AND:   It  was  NOT  like  that, that
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Demos, Gfx etc..  were shown on the big
screen...    The   jury   went  into  a
separate  room  to  discuss  which ones
will get which place... POOOOOORRR!!

Well,  there  also could have been more
new  productions,  coz  many groups did
not  release  anything...  What a pity!
I  also think that the voting went like
the name of the groups and not like the
quality  of  their  work...  Many other
people  thought  like  this,  too.  But
anyway   look   at   the   competition-
results....

           DEMO-COMPO
---------------------------------
       1. Thomas Landsburg
       2. Pure Metal Coders
       3. Silents
       4. Andromeda
       5. Spaceballs
       6. Anarchy

          GFX-COMPO
---------------------------------
     1. Viper      \ No Limits
     2. Color      \ Phenomena
        Wedge      \ Frantic
     4. Airbrush   \ Acme
     5. Minion     \ Grace
     6. Manta      \ X-Trade
     7. Scuba      \ X-Trade
     8. Bustman    \ Crusaders
     9. TMB Design \ Euphoria
    10. PAL        \ Razor 1911


             MUSIC-COMPO
---------------------------------------
1. Shorty\Network  "Digital Expression"
2. Heatbeat\Rebels "Anette"
3. Perro\Frantic   "Something #Samitet"
4. Walkman\CRB     "TJA"
5. Jester\Sanity   "Whisper my Thought"



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        ARM-WRESTLING-COMPO
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      1. Maniac \ Razor 1911
      2. Duty   \ Treacl
      3. Bubber \ Sanity


Well, to the Music Compo is to say, that
Dexion (they were jury in the Musiccomp)
got  82  Disx  full  with  modules!!!!
That  were  150  songs  competing  each
other!

That  were  the  most  important things
about  the AMEGA-PARTY....  I can't say
something  about  the AFTERPARTY coz we
had  to  go  on  Sunday  to  catch  our
ferry...   Well,  all  in all the party
was  funny  becoz there were enuff guys
but the organising of Violence was pure
SHIT!  50% of the  things  mentioned in
the  invitation  were  a  lie!!!  So  I
can't   say   that  it  was  the  "best
Amiga party ever held".

One is for sure:
Next  year  I  will  go on a conference
which isn't organised by Violence.

So see ya next year!
                     CIAO Scuba/X-TRADE