Rush Hour'98	RokDaZone&Maq	        Rush Hour'98 - Report
      by RokDaZone & Maq/Endzeit


Polish  parties.  We all know they are
factually  happening almost all of the
time throughout the entire year, but -
damned  -  why don't we ever hear from
them?   Luckily we can lift the (iron)
curtain  a little at least in the case
of  Rush  Hours'98.   Best  regards to
Maq/Endzeit for the information.

The  Rush  Hour'98 took place from the
25th    to    26th   April   1998   in
Czestochowa/Poland,  a very famous and
touristically interesting polish city.
The   whole  event  was  organised  by
Freezers,  the once quite famous group
which  has become quite silent in 1997
actually.   Much  like  it  is  to  be
expected  the  party  took  place in a
sportshall  in  which estimated 400 to
500   visitors,   from   groups   like
Appendix,  Endzeit,  VenusArt, Floppy,
Amnesty,  PhaseTruce and Union, easily
found  place  in.   Even  a handful of
italian Sceners have been seen.

 "That   Sportshall   was  good,"  Maq
confirms, "but sanitary condition were
awful!   Anyway,  the  party place was
quite good."

Only  irritating  factor here that the
partyplace  was  changed only a couple
of days before the party so that quite
a  lot  of  people  first drove to the
wrong  location.   Well,  we had worse
things.

Repordetly  the  place  and  the whole
event took advance from the bright and
sunny weather which caused quite a lot
of Sceners to enjoy themselves outside
on  the  lawn.  Maybe smoking parts of
it,  we  don't  know.   All in all the
athmosphere  was  described as relaxed
and friendly.

As   usually  there  is  one  cardinal
question  after a party:  What did the
organisers do wrong?

First  of  all  it  seemed  like  they
showed  an  uncommonly rigid behaviour
for   polish  parties.   People  being
found  with alcohol were simply kicked
out,   the   same   goes  for  Sceners
sleeping in the hall(!).


           The Competitions

Demo Competition

 1.)  Napalm              /  Floppy
 2.)  Visible World       /  Mawi
 3.)  Flea                /  Appendix
 4.)  Twich               /  Vegas

In  the  Demo Competition we find only
one demo which deserved that name.  It
is  the  winning  production  made  by
Zig/Endzeit  & Floppy.  'VisibleWorld'
from Mawi & Venus Arts was a slideshow
with  one  (really  nice) effect and a
lot  of great gfx.  'Flea' by Appendix
was      another      advanced     but
disappointingly  short  release  which
rather  reminded  of  an  intro  not a
demo.    'Twich'   by   Vegas   was  a
production  coded  in AMOS and we know
what    to    think    about    those.
Interesting   then   again   that   it
featured   environmental  and  texture
mapping routines in assembler.


64kb Intro

 1.) Korn / Amnesty
 2.) Born Again / Venus Art
 3.) Revolution909 / Mawi
 ?.) Infinity / Reality
 ?.) Retro / Instinct
 ?.) Dysentry2 /  Victims
 ?.) Relievo /  AVD
 ?.) Child /  Moons
 ?.) Skizzy /  Palimy Trafke
 ?.) Death Brain /  Phace Truce

The  64kb intro competition was - like
we are used to from polish parties- of
a  rather high standard.  Amnesty took
the  first  place  with  an impressive
production  called 'Korn'.  A surprise
surely   the  return  of  Venus  Arts.
After  only three months in the polish
army,  Noe returned with a yet another
high-quality    CyberGFX    supporting
intro.
These  guys  are  planning huge things
for the future nd for this they search
for  another talented 3D-worksman.  So
in  case of interest rush to join this
surely grand group.  The Virtua Art 3D
engine  has been already ported to PPC
and  with  'Everything Dies remix' and
'Ghost in The Machine special edition'
two  PPC-supporting releases have been
presented at RushHour '98.


4kb Intro

 1.) Together Remix / Phace Truce
 2.) S38ZB4 / Mawi
 3.) Thud_Remix / Mawi
 ?.) CoolMix / Amnesty
 ?.) srorriM / EndZeit
 ?.) Babcia / PSB
 ?.) Sroka / Wfms

Places  only known for the first three
ranks.  Maq re-released his intro from
the  Mekka Symposium which then didn't
competed   in  the  competitions.   It
seems  people didn't like that idea as
else  there  is no explaination why he
didn't   win  the  overall  very  weak
contest.  Also difficult to understand
why  'CoolMix' by Amnesty didn't reach
one of the first three ranks.  Maybe a
lot of Mawi friends there.


256b Intro

 1.) Midge / Appendix
 2.) ??? /  Wfms
 3.) Break in Chaos / ITB^Ind

Aln!/Appendix  has  made an impressive
256bytes    intro    called   'Midge'.
Incredible  what some people can think
of  in  a  bunch  of bytes which is 20
times shorter than this article.


4-Channel Competition

 1.)  Mark
 2.)  Moon
 3.)  X-Ceed/Endzeit


Multi-Channel Competition

 1.)  X-Ceed/Endzeit
 2.)  ChildDream          /  ???
 3.)  ???                 /  Bartesek


Graphics Competition

 1.)  Crazy Man           /  Kro
 2.)  Sinner              /  Madd
 3.)  Mystic-Influence    /  Mustafa

Mostly   Photoshop-pictures   in  this
competition,  which  also goes for the
first  place.   At  least a handful of
hand-drawn  pictures  of  some quality
there.


Raytrace Competition

 1.)  Nauka               /  Traitor
 2.)  Kinder              /  Traitor
 3.)  Rflexx              /  ???

Once  more, Traitor has proven that he
deserves  the  title of he best polish
RayTracer at the moment.