Party Review for Icing 1996
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The Icing96 Partyreport by Hawk of Strange^Why ................................................ 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.