Party Review for Icing 1996

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             The Icing96 Partyreport by Hawk of Strange^Why
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24 of May.

12.05.. Just spoke with a old friend of mine on the phone, Orbit / Giants.
Everything is already packed except for my trustworthy Amiga of coz and I'm
dying here while waiting for the time to move faster. Wizard / Giants^Morbid^
Strange and Lillen / Independent is going with me in the car and since
I have to wait for them It's no use leaving home untill 16.45 or so.

14.25.. Changed my prefs a bit so now I'm running workbench in 32 glorious
colors with a Strangelogo in the background. To bad I 'aint got a multisynk-
monitor. T'would be nice having a flickerfree hireslace workbench.
Still a few hours left until it's time to leave, I have to come up with
something to do b4 I go mad. Leaving alone without my pal's would get me
to the party faster but then I'd probably be killed when the party is over.

21.16.. Finally here at the Icing and my computer is operational at last.
Had to stand in line in about 45 minutes before I got in and could pick a
table. But now everything is just fine, I had my first coke and some
candy to calm my nerves. The organizers have still not realised that people like
to see what's what on the keyboard. The lights are a little better then last
year but not much, the music the organizers are playing isn't as loud as
last year but on the other hand the other dewds here have brought a bit
more soundpower this year. Orbit / Giants and Wizard / Gts^Str^Mrb are still
standing in line, we arrived here 'bout 20.02. 

21.53.. Though I should go and buy a tshirt ( 4got b4 ), walked away
and almost stright back. There's still a que with 'bout 40 people standing
in line waiting to get in.

25th of May.

00.50.. Tried to do some constructive work but apart from a little more
for the game "Destroyer of Hope" and a .guide of my harddrive demos.
The music in here is simply to loud, I think I'm going to toast some
sandwitches. My stomach is reminding me that the last thing i ate was
b4 I left home. 

03.25.. Got some new modules, swapped them 4 Nemac_4+ and Prowizard.
I think I'll have to sleep a hour or two in a hour or so, I'm starting to
get tired. Must be getting older 'coz I never used to be this tired at
a party.

05.49.. Been watching four computer here and got a visit from Coma,
got some new mods and started thinking 'bout a small chippack with
his and Spin Dizzy's mods.

10.02.. Had almost forgotten about this report. Slept an hour or so in the
sleepinghall b4, some dewds were snoring ( I hope I didn't ) quite loud
and 'coz o that I had some trouble in the beginning. Perhaps it's time
to make some breakfast. I don't regret that I brought my toaster,
in just a few minutes I have a VERY tasty meal.

22.27.. Me and Orbit borrowed a cd32 and made some transfers with the
aid of a communicator. Dataworld ( 2nd at Tp5 Wildcompo is now almost
unpackeed and ready to run. 'bout 80 Mb of space is what it takes but
hey, I've got some to spare now. At the moment the bloody organizers have
allowed some jerkoff to enter the stage with something that faintly
resembles of a band. They make more noice then music and I DONT LIKE IT!
I just want to see Dataworld and then get a few hours of sleep, 
not listen to some crappy musicans. The communicator is a nice gadget
but I can't help wondering why they made it connect to the serial port
instead of PcmCia or even the old expantion slot on the a500. I never got
more then 3100 chars / Sec, I usually get 3200+ when trading so I'm
a little suprised by the lousy transfer rates.

26th of may.

05.09.. Got a few hours of sleep and have seen Dataworld, it's damn impressive
but still just a lot of raytraced animations. Darn good animations though.
Tried a cd32 joypad for the first time and now I'm convinced, when my
joystick wears out I'm going to buy a cd32 joypad. I think I want to try and
get a few more hours alseep since I'm going to drive a car tomorrow.
It might be a good idea to be awake then.

10.26.. Still here at the icing, lot's o stuff is delayed but the Amigascene
jeopardy will prob soon bee played anyway. There have been a few
brownouts but I must have slept through them. But I just cant stand all
the nerds here who don't look where they are going. The cables that supply
the power I need is constanly being stepped on and the one to the monitor
must have jumped out of the socket at least a dozen times so far.

11.29.. Musiccompo just recently, some trouble of coz but I am to tired
to really care. Coma entered with one of his works. I think he'll come
first to third with it. Anything lower is out of the question. Unpacked some
of the stuff I got from Cd's. Some good, some lousy and the bigger part
of it in between.

12.30.. Thought 'bout buying a cdromplayer, they are selling 6x ones
for 670 Sek here at the icing. Would be great but I'll wait a while
longer b4 I buy one. 

14.35.. Multichannelcompo is happening right now as I write. The Scenejeopardy
have still not taken place ( should have been finished yesterday ).
Seems like I still cannot concentrate on bizniz, I've tried to write some
articles for Gossip but my mind seems to be blank at the moment. On the
other hand I've made four battlefields to Worms, mastered Speedball2 and
spent a few minutes with Settlers again, old but great.

19.48.. The Amigascenejeopardy have just finished and Orbit is badgering me
coz he want a partyreport in Braindamage. 4ch, Multichannel and 64k intro
compos have also taken place in addition to suprisecompos such as
Robyn lookalike, Icingjingle, Icinglogo and some others.
The PeZe scene jeopardy did not take place coz the competence among the
wouldbe contenders was ZERO! ( Acctually one of the questions in the 
Amigascene jeopardy ). In the end everyone lost their points even
if I have to agree with my friend Ant / 3Le that a quote was from
The prey instead/and? Nexus7. Oh well, it was funny at least.
I can see Tbl from here, their 64k was good and I'm hoping for another
Tint in the democompo later.

20.06.. Someone turned on the lights at last, but after a few days of
almost complete darkness ( 'xept for the monitors/tv's and some weak lights )
I already hear complaining but I rather like it, perhaps people will be
able to see the cables before ripping out the one to my monitor. I can't
understand why the lights haven't been throwing their shining light over
us all the time. Perhaps the organizers think it's to expensive.

20.38.. Someone turned the lights off a few minutes after they were turned
on. A few more hours left and then it's time for the democompo. After that
one should be able to get something more then music and 64k intros. 

21.39.. Someone is looking on a tvshow with Robert Gustavsson, one of my
personal favourites in Swedish humor. A small crowd have gathered to see,
I can't really tell from here but I think the small tv has a larger crowd
then the bigscreen. Of coz there 'aint much going on on the bigscreen but
anyway. Talked to Ant / 3Le, another of my contacts, he was one of the
dewds in the AmigasceneJeopardy compo. Nobody won as I already wrote
above. Still waiting for the democompo, t'would bee nice with some fresh
demos to fill up the mail with. I brought both envelopes, my mail and
stamps so I could mail a few letters from here but I did not count with
how fucking tired I have become almost b4 I even got hold of some shit
to send. I've started taking mininaps, sleep in my chair for just a few
minutes. It acctually works, after a few hours sleep one is still tired
but after a mininap you're still able to think and act ( Almost ) coherently.
Damn but I've noticed that I've acctually started to enjoy the noice in
here, I caught myself humming and beating along on the table while thinking
of what to write next. Soon I'll prob start turning off the lights at home
and replace them with candles.

22.25.. Acctualy managed to do something for a change, I wrote a text
'bout How to organize a bad party. I felt inspired by some troubles
here at the Icing even if this certainly is a GREAT party.
I'm still at two minds about the best party I've ever been to,
The EuropeanComputerConference'93 was the first and until Icing96 the
best I've ever been to. I'm not THAT sure anymore even if I still think
ECC was better. My memory might be a little clouded by age though. When
I see nostalgic demos and old demos on bigscreen I feel older then I am.
It makes me feel like a relic from the dark ages, before aga equipped
amigas, cpu's better then 68000 16MHz and software that required more then
one megabyte of memory. i can still remember when 90% of all software
could be used with an a500 with 512kb chipram. After a while you almost
had to have 512Kb "fast" as well. No, I almost have to get some sleep
now, in 13 hour's or so I have to be able to drive a car 300 kilometers
in order to get home again.