Anarchy Party Review!                     By Soul of Zero Page Inc. & Intuition
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                The Date...?    23rd February 1991.
                The Place..?    Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.
                The Event..?    ANARCHY Copy Party.

Yeah, this here is a small, but an in-depth, review of  the  Anarchy  party  in
England. The party took place in a sizable community hall  and  it  started  at
10:00 AM Saturday 23rd Feb. I was the first outsider there,  where me  and four
other avid Amigans made our way from London to  Yorkshire at  6:00 AM  Saturday
morning! After all it is about a 200 mile drive!
Anyway, we got there about 9:30 AM and  the  only few  people  there,  were the
Anarchy guys. They had set up the desks and chairs and were just finishing  off
the job. We looked closely at the power points available and noticed that there
were only a few sockets! Crips! (not crisps!) We all gasped  and thought  'Hey!
All we need is an asshole to pull the  plug  from  one  machine and the  others
will go down like dominos...'
So, I put up a few posters outside advertising the fact that we  had warez  you
wanted and bought in our equipment to set  up.  The fun  was  about  to  begin.
(Kickstart 2.01.....Must have been alright, we  were the only ones to have it).
We set up the Amiga and realised  that we  were  missing an  extension lead.  I
approached Mr. Big of Anarchy and he said  that  he'd get  us a  lead soon.  My
mates got pissed off with waitin' so they went out  and bought  a lead  for  10
pounds!
By now, people had started to arrive and slowly the hall was getting packed.  I
stood on the stage at the end of the community hall and was talking to  Mystik,
a gfx-er for Anarchy. We had a few good chats  about the  Amiga and the  scene.
Mystik then went  and got  me a  copy  of the new  Anarchy Demo  called 'SYSTEM
VIOLATION', which I must say is a good demo. The music is  gorgeous! Anyway,  I
was relaxed and by about 12 noon there must have been over 100 people there and
there were stil more to come....
The whole party was inside a hall, where at one end was a stage on which  there
was some people playing games and making music and  coding. There  was a  small
corridor next to the hall, where there were some coders, coding away like  mad.
I presumed they wanted to enter the demo competition.
People were swapping warez, demos, hints, contact address's and  anything  else
you can associate with the Amiga. There were also people who were coding  demos
for the demo comp, there were a few  people  making  sweet  music,  there  were
people who were making  compilation  discs,  ripping  and  pissing  about  with
graphics, and of course there were people who were playing games like KickOff2,
Speedball 2 and Lemmings! Every thing was going smoothly.
Then came the dreaded powercuts! The powercuts  were the  only  annoying  thing
about the party. Everytime some shit head did a hard  reset  on his machine, he
tripped the main switch and this meant that all the electrics  were lost.  This
happened about 6 or 7  times but after that the Anarchy guys  had it all  under
control. I just felt sorry for the coders.....

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Mystik was surprised at the amount of people that were turning up and the party
was now in over-drive. There must have been about 150-200  crazy  dudes.... All
hungry for warez and all were swapping with all! Anarchy  held  a  Kick  Off  2
competition and some others like Kareoke (I don't care how you  spell  it)  but
everybody were in such a relaxed state that I don't  think  anyone  cared  much
about the competition. There was generally a lot of  excitement in  the air  as
200+ nutters raved on and enjoyed themselves.
It was a good party which lasted until about 11 PM Saturday  night. There was a
small bar in the hall, but that only opened a little after 7:30pm,  quite  late
for all the alcoholics that were around.
Anarchy released their MADNESS 2 demo at the party, which is a good  demo  with
some neat routines! As for you lot out there who  couldn't be  there  that  day
well, I'll releive you by tellin' you the results of  the demo  comp. The first
place went to a demo called HYSTERESIS by Magnetic Fields.  Second  place  went
to Mediator of Anarchy for his SYSTEM VIOLATION demo, and the  third place  was
reserved for Anthrox, for their cute and ingenious ADVENTURES OF BOBBY THE BALL
demo. Which I personally think is very good! We should have more like those  on
the scene. After all, ingenuity is the reason we're here!
Gettin' back to the point, there were some cool dudes around, dudes  who  had a
lot of new warez and basically all of them were trading with others,  except  a
few stubborn people, who I reckon spoil parties. They didn't want to trade so I
told them they shouldn't be here. I had a good mind to tell them to FUCK OFF as
well. But why should I bother? After all I got plenty of warez myself!
Anyhow, at the end of the day I'd say there was about 200 people present for  a
wild party. The rest of the Intuition boys came down about 5:00 PM and they set
up their video player and they started  to  play a  range of  pornographic  XXX
films. You should have seen the crowd gather around to watch them......
I can write for ever about the party and tell you dudes what went on,  but  I'm
sure that the authors of this coool disk mag want me to leave them  some  space
so they can fill it up with whatever else they desire. So to  round it  up  for
you out there, here's a brief summary....
The party was very cool. However, I  think it  would have  been better if there
were some more coool dudes  around,  but as  it is  it was  a  good  laugh  and
certainly worth the 200+ miles travel to get there. I  wanna  say, to  all  the
ANARCHY guys, "Well done lads! It was a good party..."
If you are reading this and you were present at the party but you disagree with
all I've said then why not drop me a line and we'll have a chat about it!
And just remember...If it's Amiga, it's possible!
P.S Check the Ads section for a contact address...



Anarchy Party Repost                                   By HaVok and Ezy/Ecstasy
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Ok folks this is the OFFICIAL report by HaVoK & Ezy for the Anarchy party  held
on the 23-Feb-1991. We (Ezy, Havok, Slayer/Subway) first  had to  travel  about
200 miles to get to this fucking party, so we expected this  party to be  worth
the trip up (what with Anarchy being the best in the u.k and all that).... Well
we arrived at the party-place and found it to be a old hall which smelt like  a
public lavatory. The entry fee was 10p in the  slot. Oopps  sorry,  I  meant  3
english quid. Was it worth it?....FUCK NO....
We sat around outside the main hall for about 30 mins before going in bcoz,  A)
it looked fucking lame inside, and B) why the fuck should we pay?!!!  Come  one
their had to someone  who  WASN'T lame  their! So  all in  all it started in  a
pretty LAME way. And carried on in a pretty LAME way too. Naaa, but really, the
power going off every 2 minutes didn't really do much for  our enthusiasm,  and
when it DID work, every lamer was playing Lemmings or using X-Copy ALREADY  (at
about 11 a.m!)... Soooo nothing too hot so far. Now the people who  managed  to
pop upto this meeting... Well, most of Anarchy were their  of course,  Sabbath,
Magnetic Fields, Anthrox, Ecstasy, Slipstream, Quartex, Crystal, Betrayal, Ipec
and maybe some others... And here are some of the other groups that turned  up,
if anyone knows or has heard of any of these, please write to us!... BattleTech
UK ("the Ultimate in  Spreading"  (apparently)), Arena  UK ("whats  Pubic  hair
mum?"), Ex-Scoopex UK (no  comment), and  all  the other  groups that  insisted
"their demo is coming out soon".... As we went walkies around  the, erm,  room,
we decided to do some nice quiz questions.. "excuse me, do you have any calling
cards?"... reply to this stupid question?: "what? well, no, but I can lend  you
ten pee.... another  one was  "Anything  new?"..  reply:  "Well,  I've  stopped
swapping recently, but I bought, er I mean, got  Lemmings!"...  Well,  at  that
point we decided to move onto the "demo" scene of the party. And boy were their
some brilliant ones! We saw, a sine scroll, a line vector routine (with  hidden
line removal of course!), lots of bobs, and some coloured starfield effects....
Ohh dear. Their WERE some good demos though, from Mag Fields, Anarchy and  some
others, Anthox's demo should have won what there was  of the  demo-competition,
it was pretty nice. The prize for the competition was a  "simulated gold thing"
(Ezy's own wild description). Being abit fairer to the party,  their were  some
cool guys their, you could tell them because they left early. The  power  thing
was not Anarchy's fault (hmm) but having 2 plugs for the whole hall was  not  a
good idea. Slayer  brought along his  14400 modem  for  use by the  party  (for
wares)  unfortunately  no  one knew  what a  at&t card  was, and  only half  of
northern England have phones! Needless to say the party place thing didn't have
a phoneline for the parties use... Mr.Big/Anarchy did all he could  for  saving
the party from total disgrace,  I think he  was the  only person  who  actually
REALIZED something was wrong with it all, regards for  trying anyway.  Actually
the weather was shit so that might have had something to do with it. The compe-
titions were A TOTAL WASTE OF TIME. NO-ONE knew  what was  going on, a  monitor
was being used for "viewing" the entered demos, there was no  grafix  comp  (no
surprises there), the music competition was a COMPLETE fuck-up, I  think  their
were only 2 entries, and only ONE of them got listened to. And the judges? what
judges? The bar didn't open till 7p.m, anyway the drink was too  expensive,  so
we used our initiative and visited the local off-licence. (continues)

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So, generally the party wasn't too hot. What were the good points? Well, it was
nice to speak to some of the cool  people  there, but  of course  we knew  them
already from previous partys etc etc..But overall the attitude was of a  compu-
ter-club where the main aim was to copy as much stuff as possible in the  shor-
test amount of time before the power went off..However I  believe I  saw a  few
groups coding things, but they did not enter the comps far as we know. The  top
three were coded well in advance so no worries for them. Ok I know  so  far  it
seems as we have just slagged the party off. Well ok so lets look at the  facts
(no disrespect to the organisers)

        A) It was held where few elite guyz live! (The North)
        B) No adequate power supply-MAJOR FUCK UP HERE
        C) It was in a fairly small place with no signposting
        D) The demo/musak comps were a shambles, no-one knew shit..
        E) No Phone line.Ok it costs but its nice to have one!
        F) It was Xcopy Xcopy Xcopy all the time! NO events!
        G) No-one had a sense of humour AT ALL (Havok and his Hat)
        H) NO BEER!
        I) It was, to be honest, full of lamers!. Some guyz were kool.

Ok so i know it sounds like a slag off so far but thats  the way  it  happened.
But congrats must go to Mr.Big who at least tried to save the party from  total
boredom but, I'm afraid, did not quite pull it  off! Oh  well maybe  next  time
huh?.Well now onto a lighter subject... Of course i am talking about BEER.. The
best..The bar at the party did not open  till  7 p.m so  we had to  go  out  in
search of refreshment. And we found it. Lots of it.  In  bottles.  Well  for  a
short while anyway.So we drank and drank until we fell over. We were of  course
Ezy, Sabbath, and some guy we met there!. Well ok enuf of our drunken moaning.
So after the party finally ended we all went off to a hotel to try and get some
sleep... But Ezy and Havok had noooo money for a  hotel  room so  we  tried  to
sneak into a room. So with HaVok in the car outside I sneaked  in. So I got  in
the room and Slayer and some Crystal members went out again, but I had to  stay
locked up in the room.Ok i turned out all the lights  and hid in  the  wardrobe
for about 15 mins..Till i got cramp and got onto the bed.  About  10mins  later
the wanker of a manager searches all the rooms and finds a Mr.Ezy spread out on
one of his beds and, yep you guessed it, threw me  out... Wanker. So  I  looked
like i was destined to sleep in the car where havok was listining to the in-car
CD system. We were both pissed about having to sleep in a car in  the NORTH  OF
ENGLAND. Not a toilet in sight. But I think we must have seen  more  drunks  in
that night then in our whole lives. The number  of prostitutes  going  in  that
hotel was amazing. I think most of them were ordered by members of a group that
shall remain nameless (yeah Morph, I know all about it, and the straps too!) In
the morning we were woken by some wankers banging on the windows.  Wankers.  So
we woke up, went to a motor-way cafe and FUCKED OFF HOME. Overall I suppose  we
did have some fun but im afraid most of it took place while we were  zonked  or
not at the party..By the way,  nice prize for the  raffle Anarchy,  did  anyone
claim it in the end?.. OK well thats all then folks. Have fun  and come to  the
Ecstasy Copy-Party in September over the CES show.
Later's from HaVok Industries & Ezy/Ecstasy