THE BSE 1998
BELGIAN SCENE EVENT


__After the mediocre success of the first Belgian Scene Event, the organisers
had announced some improvements, and so the second edition of this party
promised to get a lot better than last year's fiasco...
__Due to the fact that Raven, Kill'O'Byte and Andy / Nuance didn't have enough
money nor time to attend the party, I was forced to travel there alone by
train without the possibility to take a computer with me. I arrived at the
party place on Friday morning, even before the official opening, so ofcourse
the place itself was rather empty. The hall was nice, it featured enough
electricity, clean toilets (Each having a 'Intel Inside' sign above it. -Ed.)
and a little bar where you could buy snacks, sandwiches, some soft-drinks
and beer! Especially the possibility to buy beer was heavily used and
appreciated, most of all by the Iris and Maximum members. Or like Darkhawk
expressed it somewhen around midnight: "I don't know how much beer I drank
today, but we started at 9 o'clock this morning!"
__Friday night the hall was still rather uncrowded, and people started to fear
that no more visitors would arrive. Luckily I had brought a video tape with 4
hours of classic A500 demos on it, so we were able to enjoy ARTE, State of
the Art, Mental Hangover, Hardwired and other great productions on the
big-screen! During the night the big-screen was switched off, cause the stage
in front of it was used as the sleeping area. This lead to very low activity
during the night and also to some boredom for the people who weren't tired.
__Saturday morning a long awaited guest arrived, namely Petro Tyschtschenko,
managing director of Amiga International! He gave away lots of Amiga
merchandise products, including pens, posters, stickers and CD's, but he
didn't seem very fond of starting a discussion about the Amiga's future,
which was rather disapointing. But at least he shows interest in the scene
and before he left he expressed his appreciation for what we're doing and
that we still believe in the Amiga.
__Later on, the organisers were able to show a really interesting video, shot
one day after Commodore went bankrupt in 1994. It was done by Dave Haynie and
showed the secluded offices and rooms in the American Headquarters of
Commodore. If you want to know more about this video and the fall of Commodore
back then, you should read the seperate article elsewhere in this mag.
__Soon it was about time for the competitions. They originally had been
scheduled to take place during the whole day, but technical problems
lead to one big competition block on Saturday night. Nobody seemed to be
bothered by this delay, yet the technical problems caused some conflicts,
amongst it the fact that E-Liza / Maximum's competition picture got lost,
and though it was officially shown some time after the other pictures it did
not appear on the result list... (?)
__The graphics competition was dominated by JCS / Factor7's picture, though
it was most probably not created on an Amiga (We know his Photoshop skills,
that's for sure -Ed.). The music competition was won by Maniac / Crux, only
a few points in front of Notman / Iris. It was also Iris to win the 40KB
intro competition, followed by Nuance's entry. Finally, the demo
competition was won by Sector7 with a nice demo coded by NoName, which meant
a brand-new A1200 Magic Pack for them. Second came a demo by Clary and
company, but due to a HD crash shortly before deadline the quality of the
animations was not as good as in earlier productions.
__During the party there were also two live acts by a DJ who had brought all
his equipment along. He was experimenting a lot, so the flow of music was
often interrupted, yet it offered a change from all the MP3s and modules
played the rest of the time.
__All in all, BSE 1998 was a nice party, and considering the very small scene
Belgium has, the approximately 50 visitors were a good result, and with
attenders from TRSI, Scoopex, Haujobb, Iris, Nuance, Sector7, Drifters, Crux
and Maximum the scene was represented quite well. In case there will be a
further edition next year, the organisers should try to announce the event
even more, to attract some additional visitors...
... I will be there for sure!
















by Grey (c) Insomnia'98 


BSE 1998 - BELGIAN SCENE EVENT - THE RESULTS (By the BSE staff)              
                                                                             
                                                                             
AMIGA DEMO COMPETITION                                                       
                                                                             
1.      Reflexity / Sector 7 .................................. 78 points    
2.      Planete A / Overaga & Drifters & Crux ................. 59 points    
                                                                             
                                                                             
AMIGA 40Kb COMPETITION                                                       
                                                                             
1.      Blue / Iris ........................................... 63 points    
2.      Unnamed / Nuance ...................................... 44 points    
3.      Press the mousebutton when crazy / Maximum ............ 25 points    
4.      My First Intro / Commander Trole ...................... 14 points    
                                                                             
                                                                             
AMIGA MUSIC COMPETITION                                                      
                                                                             
1.      Disconnected / Maniac of Crux (4ch) ................... 41 points    
2.      Happy Burger / Notman of Iris (4ch) ................... 37 points    
3.      Keep The Secret / Ramboy (4ch) ........................ 27 points    
4.      Pupmuj / JB (Mch) ..................................... 22 points    
5.      Interaudio / Marc (4ch) ............................... 20 points    
6.      Overtax / CDK (Mch) ................................... 19 points    
7.      Stinking / Vaere (4ch) ................................ 14 points    
                                                                             
                                                                             
AMIGA GRAPHICS COMPETITION                                                   
                                                                             
1.      Space Girls / JCS ..................................... 48 points    
2.      Funk Soul Brother / Graffito .......................... 30 points    
3.      Hello? / Ransom ....................................... 27 points    
4.      Ville A. / Sweety ..................................... 19 points    
5.      Distant Outer Space / Makno ........................... 18 points    
6.      Some Chick / Warco .................................... 11 points    
7.      The Chase / Sentry .................................... 06 points    
8.      Rezonanz / The Eye .................................... 02 points    
                                                                             
                                                                             
AMIGA FAST INTRO COMPETITION                                                 
                                                                             
1.      Crisis / Drifters & Iris .............................. 54 points    
                                                                             
                                                                             
AMIGA WILD COMPETITION                                                       
                                                                             
1.      Amiga Knight / The White Commitee ..................... 50 points    
                                                                             
                                                                             
Notes:                                                                       
                                                                             
1) The music competition consisted of both 4channel and multichannel music.  
   (Denoted in the results by (4ch)for 4channel and (Mch) for Multichannel). 
                                                                             
2) The graphics competition consisted of both pixelized and rendered graphics
   (unlike previous announced). We accepted the renders anyway simply because
   we couldn't disappoint to the authors (call us weak if you want :).