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Party Review for Motorola Inside 1998
| found in | Type | Author | Year |
  | Diskmagazine AGA Chipset required - interviews |       DarkageAvenger - Babbage - Bytex - ... | a9/98 |
MOTOROLA PARTYREPORT
- ORGANIZERS VIEWPOINT -
written by
The Hooligan/DCS
Well, what can I say. We wanted everything to be as good as
possible, we invested money, time and a lot of effort to make this the best
Amiga party ever. I don't know, nor I'm right person to say so, but in the
end it's been a very good party indeed, except for some major fact...please
read on...
As stated in the invitationtext all the prizes were defined by a
certain per cent, raising up everytime a new visitor paid the ticket. The
party went on and on, and we watched the productions and all we had to say
that the things looked very good indeed. Some state of the art demos would
be released at MI98. Then a shock. We counted the prizemoney for each
category. Oh fuck! The prizes were ridiculously low compared to the high
standard of releases. Reason? There simply wasn't enough visitors! As
little as 20-30 more people would have made a huge difference to the
compoprizes. NOTE: ALL of the organizers WORKED ON VOLUNTERY BASIS AND
DIDN'T GET A DIME! Then I did what proved to be a god given action. I
lowered the price of food and drinks to the lowest possible rate, and we
sold everything in less than two hours, managing to get the prizes a little
bit higher. Then we started collecting empty bottles and cashed them in,
and once again we managed to raise the prizes a little bit. I personally
decided to give my own prizemoney for the demo- and introcompowinners.
The prizes weren't that small anymore, but still a lot less than were hoping
for. Although we didn't hear any comments about the prizes, we know some
people were disappointed, which is very understandable. Why there was
such small amount of Amigians at the party place...after all, we promised:
1) fun ; Oh, we had! No-one denies that, see yourself from the partyreports.
2) drinking inside allowed ; it was! The people drank beer in front of
organizers and weren't thrown out, weren't even noticed!
3) extra features ; we had soccer, c64 compos, two live performances, funny
organizers with a great sense of humour and will to help, selling of
Amiga audiocd's straight from the AMIGA INTERNATIONAL at a specialprice,
delivery of all the compoproductions on a cd-rom AT THE PARTY: in prize
of a Chickennuggets at McDonalds!
4) some people were even allowed to have sex at the party area!
5) we had the lowest ticket prices than on any other bigger party
6) voting easier than ever!
7) state of the art, power upped compomachines with RTG cards, lot's of
memory and shit like that.
What went wrong? Honestly, I don't know! We, the organizers made
everything (and believe me, more) as good as possible to provide a place for
hundreds of Amiga users to come, and celebrate the coming back of Amiga but
only a small bunch showed up. At MI97 we promised to have MI98, we learned
from last years mistakes and were determinated on our goal. We worked hard
through the year, especially the last couple of months. Just to witness a
sad fact: a party like this doesn't seem to interest the masses anymore.
the result: all this is making it hard for us to organize another Motorola
Inside ever again. Not that we don't WANT TO, but it seems like a mad mans
job to work so hard for such little amount of people.
At the time we haven't decided whether to hold another Motorola Inside. But
my feelings is that the things aren't looking too good. :-(
Incase someone blames for organizing, check out these facts:
The were delays on music compo. Just because ONE visitor asked if a Delfina
soundcard could be used for his Digibooster module. Of course we wanted to
make one more visitor a little bit happier and also offer the best
soundquality for the Amiga people, so I and Leper/O'moses installed the
Delfina. Ok, everything should work...the card is inside A4000...let the
music compo begin. Ops. Problems, due to the fact that Delfina was
affected by our videocannon, amplifiers or some other unknown reason the
sound had an unbelievable amount of hiss. Well, let's try to get it work I
said...let's delay the compo a bit more for better soundquality. We didn't
manage to find the problem so we had to forget the Delfina. Let the compo
begin! Ok...let's play the modules with Digibooster...it is Protracker
compatible see. Fuck...the songs were replayed all wrong...Digibooster
sucked big time...
There were problems with intro compo. Well, we started testing all those
intros so there would be no more delays. One worked, another
worked...another worked...but what the fuck? One intro doesn't seem to
work, it hung up...well, let's reboot and test the rest of the intros. Ops!
Volume Work: is NONDOS and DH0: is validating...seems like somebody fucked
up big time! Well, let's fix the problem and get on with the compo. We did
fix the problem eventually, but once again we were missing the schedule more
and more.
There were problems with the democompo. One of the demos didn't work at
all, one needed bizarre startups and modifications to the system partition
not to mention the fact that we LET the people to bring demos WELL over the
deadline, which left us a lot less time we had planned for setting up the
compo.
And our sorries to H&B for not showing their demo. They happened to mention
it about 15 minutes before the democompo! Well, what the heck, it's no
problem to add a demo to the list we already had. The bad news is that the
demo is 4 megabytes long, and had to be downloaded from net! Ok, we are
late anyway, so get your demo quickly and let's get the show rolling. I
waited long enough to decide to start the democompo, with or without that
demo.
The same behaviour continued in all of the deadlines. People brought their
work only minutes before the actual compo had been planned to start. We
wanted as much contributions as possible and stretched the deadlines a lot,
leaving us with less and less time to test and set up our things.
WHY SO LITTLE PEOPLE CAME AFTERALL?
Now this one amazes me! We had it all, all the good incredients to make up
the best party ever. We had the much requested c64 compos which most of the
people were eagerly waiting. The fact was that we got no releases except
for music, and we had to cancel the c64 gfx- and democompo.
We informed the people about MI98 as good as it's humanly possible. Through
mailtrading, through diskmagazines, through IRC, through internet.
The Invitationtext had been circulating for a long time, we released the
invitationintro via mail and net. We updated the webpages so always the
freshest possible information was available. We had organizer help
available through phone, email, net and mail for any questions convernin
the party. We were even promoting MI'98 in such events as Assembly and SAKU
meeting, both gathering lot's of Amigians together. What we could have done
better?
The party was still a success. The releases were great, and the spirit of
uniteness was there. Also the anti-PC mentality was rising and rising when
we showed anti-pc videos, played anti-microsoft soundfiles and had some fun
with Mr.Gates.
It would be nice to hear what we did SO wrong it wasn't worth coming to the
ONLY Amiga-only party in Finland. Now it might be too late...
Mikko Virtanen(The Hooligan/Dual Crew^Shining)
MI97/Mi98 2nd main organizer
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motorola inside 1998 - the Amiga paradise - official results
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voting procent was 46 % (this is normal procent of voting)
all prods are available at: "http://salpaus.ml.org/mi"
here were 60 payed visitors, 20 vips, 15 orgs and about 40 girls
party was different. it was great. we all had fun.
this was 1.st party in Lahti with foreign visitor. (from Norway)
thank you all. see you next year.
[[[[DEMO]]]]
pOS- nAME- aRTIST- pOINTS- eNTRY nUMBER-
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1. bangcock embassy 136 (4)
2. 84 t dajormas 52 (1)
3. boogienights spedes 23 (6)
4. cube sulpu 20 (3)
4. together sensible 20 (7)
6. ihana elamae snus 18 (5)
7. restricted rmx army of lamers 16 (8)
8. come back demo peeri/ecl sf 8 (2)
[[[[INTRO]]]]
pOS- nAME- aRTIST- pOINTS- eNTRY nUMBER-
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1. the flow phase truce 113 (8)
2. virtual pancakes artificial people 59 (1)
3. inteltoilet II t.c.w. 32 (3)
4. www.pefletti.com ? 28 (7)
5. palmusunnuntai fit 22 (5)
6. kai nurmi captures tool&tmu/rno 17 (6)
7. introtus peeri/ecl sf 9 (2)
8. unite ur dreams orchid 3 (4)
[[[[MUSIC]]]]
pOS- nAME- aRTIST- pOINTS- eNTRY nUMBER-
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1. aura [viva sol'98] subtance 57 (1)
2. interco 2 enema/(b) 49 (6)
3. miskon muffler/dcs^haujobb 28 (10)
3. recoil weirdo/network 28 (11)
5. together angel/sensible 26 (15)
6. clear tendencies roz/fit^rno 25 (8)
7. trip to goa tripper/sulpu 15 (13)
8. fusion acidhead tft/rno 13 (5)
9. spank it, babe! kure4kancer/rno^pht 12 (14)
10. burn inside chris/styrox 12 (2)
11. extacyluv zubspace & tft 10 (4)
12. desire of love rmx highfly/orchid^rvnt 9 (3)
13. db blue bypsyko/zymosis 5 (9)
13. shake it honey pekka pou/da jormas 5 (12)
15. ceuhume fagus v1.00 dark mooses/gefilus 3 (7)
[[[[GRAPHICS]]]]
pOS- nAME- aRTIST- pOINTS- eNTRY nUMBER-
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1. crystalizeed wat3rfalls dinanz 47 (2)
2. evil eye the hooligan/dcs 44 (3)
3. fidel castro sivu/byterapers 41 (5)
4. viking gurdan/byterapers 32 (12)
5. excuse me! weirdo/network 31 (4)
6. kukko substance 24 (7)
7. trippin acidhead&tft/rno 21 (11)
8. aikakoneenalex roz/fit^rno 18 (10)
9. almost an angel venturus/dmg^zymosis 10 (1)
10. juppihippipunkkari kure4kancer/rno 9 (6)
11. virtual16 nico/byterapers 6 (13)
12. poks mia/hirmu 5 (8)
13. psyykkeeni on sininen highfly/orchid^rvnt 0 (9)
14. dogidog b/dcs 0 (14)
[[[[THX-MUSIC(popcorn)]]]]
pOS- nAME- aRTIST- pOINTS- eNTRY nUMBER-
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1. popkorny ('98 rmx) kure4kancer/rno 88 (2)
2. popcorn the hooligan/dcs 64 (4)
3. bob corni roz/fit^rno 48 (1)
4. popcorn-mega tekno spoook/orchid^rvnt 24 (3)
5. pooppikorni tang/rno 0 (5)
[[[[C-64 MUSIC]]]]
pOS- aRTIST- pOINTS- eNTRY nUMBER-
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1. kuurmoottaja 89 (5)
2. dspv 55 (4)
3. aaroninkepakko 41 (6)
4. abaddon 37 (3)
5. vnt+tempest/damage 29 (1)
6. tempest/damage 13 (2)
[[[[SCENE SOCCER]]]]
gROUP- gROUP- pOINTS-
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1.st match byterapers inc. - byterapist inc. (0 - 1)
2.nd match asswipers - fc muna (2 - 1)
final byterapist - asswipers (1 - 2)
the best scene soccerers are asswipers (jaba, oder, angel, wizor)
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so, that's all folks...................................................!