Vision-Mirage X-MAS Party Report - 1
Author: Slasher/THE BASS
Saturday 22/12 we  started in my  home-
town  around  10.00 with  2 other guys:
Dirty  Harry  (coder)   and   Sampleman
(musician).  After a  trip  from  about
100km we  finally arrived at  the party
which  took  place  in a  big  hall  in
Tilburg (Holland).  When we  entered at
about 12.00 there were already  200-300
people  present.  The first thing  that
struck me was the darkness in the hall.
But this was  necessary for the  sharp-
ness  of  the  big  videoscreen   where
demos, games and some movies  (Exorcist
III, Flatliners) were shown.
We installed our equipment (1 Amiga 500
and 3 external drives) and after this I
started  walking  around,  looking  for
some contacts and  spreading our music-
disk.
There  were quite a  lot of  well-known
groups present like : Alpha Flight,
Animators, The Special Brothers, Legend
Royal Amiga Force... There were not too
many releases  but the things who  were
released were  good : Beat Dis 6 (RAF),
Sliding  (cracked & trained by Legend),
Sampleman Music Disk V (The Bass,hehe!)
and some  smaller demos  and  compacts.
Suddenly all the lights went on because
a VCR had  been stolen from  behind the
stage (I don't  know if the  organizers
have  caught  the  thief)  And  because
Pussy members  were also putting  their
stickers everywhere  (on the tables, in
the toilet, on  the  floor), they  were
given the choice:they had to remove the
stickers or the whole Pussy-crew  would
be removed from the party...
At 18.00  there would  be  a  graphics,
music and  demo competition. First I'll
say  the good  things:  unlike  on  the
Prime 90 (in august) ALL demos, gfx and
musix were shown. But the bad side  was
that there was a lot of shit shown like
some awful logos etc. The winner of the
gfx comp.  was  a  kind of  Iron Maiden



Vision-Mirage X-MAS Party Report - 2
Author: Slasher/THE BASS
picture which was  in  fact one of  the
only good  pics  which  competed.  Then
there was a  music competetion. Because
of the fact that our musician had  also
made a  tune  for  this  competition we
were very curious about it. There  were
very much tunes and also a  lot of them
were very shitty. There was also a  guy
who  had  entered  three musix  for the
competition  (and  all three tunes were
played)  so   this  wasn't  very   fair
against all  the others who  only  made
one  song.  Winner  of  this  comp  was
another   unknown   guy  with  a   very
ordinary  tune.  But  unlike  demos and
gfx,  tastes  of  music   can  be  very
different...
After  this   the   demo    competition
started. Competitors were:  The Special
Brothers (with 2 demos),  Panic, Pussy,
Vernim, Animators.  The  results :
1st Iraq demo (Animators)  (a  megademo
in the same style as Budbrain Megademo)
2nd Vernim Megademo
3rd XXX-Mess demo (Pussy)
(they became  third because the  'real'
number three (Panic)  had already  left
the party !). Altough  the  result  was
fair, there should have  been a ranking
for megademos and 'normal'  demos cause
it isn't fair to judge a megademo  with
4  parts  against  a  demo  which  only
consists of one part. After the results
(20.30) most guys left the party.  Con-
clusion : A very  well organized  party
(in the neighbourhood of a big shopping
center),  lots  of  people,  some  good
party releases and  of course no  power
problem (my Amiga has been working from
12.00  to  21.00  without  any   inter-
ruption!!!)