Party Review for The Gathering 1998
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TG'98 results Unofficial TG'98 results Taken from the votingsystem after the price ceremony You will have noticed no music compo results. Those were on my voting results sheets but only in entry numbers and not in names/nicks and titles. I appologize to all the norwegian ppl for not writing their titles/names/nicks correctly but my keyboard doesn't have those keys. Remember these are only the unofficial results taken from the votingsystem after the price ceremony. Wait for the final results from the TG'98 Organisers. Ravian / Jello aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Amiga Demo Competition 1. Rise - TRSI 2. Nebula - Dual Crew Shining 3. Nostalgia - Nukleus 4. Invitation [none] - Sonik Clique 5. Kicker - Nature 6. Dage Down - Da Jormas 7. Device 47 - Ephidrena 8. Ass-Strife - After Eights 9. Dr.Sovnois Round - Lamathron 10. Kicker - Wannabe too - Nature PC Demo Competition 1. Dimensions - Gods 2. Loco - Cryonics 3. te-2rb - Tpolm 4. Suck my clock - Sense 5. Aquarium - TLs 6. Urknall - Blasphemy 7. Life - Proxima 8. Natural born coders - Boar 9. Goatique - Noice 10. Valkone - Kooma 11. Astro - Union 12. Draum - Pimp 13. TwentyFourSeven - Sonik 14. vi bader hver dag - rC 15. Snickers kladd i andan - Pw-inc Amiga 4k 1. Hippie Machinery - Spaceballs 2. Lift Me - Contrast 3. Byte - Ephidrena 4. Monday - Tulou 5. Do the Lambada - Digital Corruption Pc 4k 1. 4k intro - Cortex & Zauron 2. Is you Schmeck - Sublogic 3. Tsetse - rC 4. Kolakola - Purple 5. Digital Element - Zien 6. Macaroni - Twaddler 7. Test Upload - Crusaders Fast Intro Compo 1. Quakeroo - Spaceballs 2. [] - rC 3. Virnen Yo - Hirmu vs rC 4. Kangaroo love - Cryonics 5. Denne ble laget i full fart - Havard Productions 6. Kang-groo-looove! - Instinct The totally WildCompo 1. Casio Insanity - Portable Phun 2. SHIT SHOW - Sapphire 3. Textboard - Theisen 4. Akkuratt nettopp - Acne 5. Drugs sucks - DjNatas 6. Saltvann - West Coast 7. Skumling - Gravity Zone 8. Baked Beans - Redfox 4channel Music Compo 1. Girl Fromage - Caramel/Int 2. Tetris forever - Anvil 3. Present your world - Knert & Cosmo 4. Dest. Mainstream - Frequent/Ephidrena 5. Caroline(tg) - Radiance/Instince & Dzone 6. Safari^Funk - Jamsam & Steffo 7. Pumpkin - Zixaq/Ephidrena 8. Rush - Bullet/Fried Chicken 9. Feedback Freedom - Boo & Slummy / Spaceballs 10. Eskefjes - Muffe 11. test - Dion 12. testtest - Dion 13. test test test - Dion 14. A F R I K A - System Halted Pc Textdemo Compo 1. Schmeck 2 - Kravitz & Jisemdu 2. Boogiedown - AX 3. Planet - Xcene 4. Porno-dildo-ting met & uten - CompoCrew 5. test - Dion Raytrace GFX Compo 1. Future Bandits - 3daddict/Digital Nerds 2. Area 51 - ? 3. T-Rex - Marius Bachen 4. T-holland - Tudor/TBL 5. Wired Pilgrims - PL & Darkness/Imphobia 6. rc - ? 7. Spacefighter - Ivan Moen/Triumph 8. Robo - Morton Johnsen/Triumph 9. Pengu - Zarg/Robur 10. Test - Havard Anthonsen 11. Singing Smileys - tChr/ELQ 12. Armydude - Silve3d 13. Bar 2 be - Mr. Figaro & Reflexion/Contrax 14. Room 1 - Zathan 15. Pirze - ? 16. The Drop - ? 17. Attack - ? 18. Rombil8 - Lulu 19. Receiver - Oden 20. RanerPezePaSondagMorgen - Todd/MpG JavaCompo 1. Forward - Saviour/Komplex 2. Next - Digital Nerds 3. Helt Sten - Nocturnal 4. Pomp the h-town everyday - H-town Playaz Amiga 64k 1. Imitation None - Louie/TBL 2. Total Dominance - Spaceballs 3. Fusion is my energy - Load Error/Epid 4. Stars of another sky - Spaceballs 5. A very long precalc - Contraz 6. Uge Pappi the Age Pup - Da Jormas 7. 3rd Dimension - Iris 8. ElefantService - After Eights 9. Nothing - Apathy 10. Flushed - Whisker PC 64k 1. Jive 2 - Sublogic 2. Photon - Purple 3. Sin (x) - Dawn 3 4. Ocean 2 - rC 5. Carah - DaBeep 6. Tur 3 - rC 7. Commie - Bamboosh Graphics Competition 1. Alone - Tmk/INF 2. The gathering of souls - McMoffin/ACNE 3. The dragon woman - Missing Organs/Total Eclipse 4. Danny We Miss you - Java/Cryonics 5. Check DaLoops - Louie/CNCD 6. Duo - Benj/Imphobia 7. fishFood - Pix/Subspace Rebels 8. Just another story - Orome/Talent 9. My kitty cat can say miao - Saffron & Dominei/Dolphin 10. AngelaTG - Denny Kroger Walle 11. Tante Olga - Cheetah/Ephidrena 12. Atlantis - Flood/Noice 13. Suntan - Sunday 14. Ghost - Aquarius 15. Insane - Response/Darklite 16. My land is your land - Boo 17. Showing eve and the snake - Le Fay/LED 18. Omnirush - Jam Sam/Mystic 19. House of EC - Erik Thon 20. TG'98 in deep space - Echo War 21. Tanks i solnedgang - Cable guy 22. Misc - Matrix 23. Frozen - Massive 24. Kamelen - Takmandu 25. The apple man - Beam 26. Jav, vi elsker bakbein - bissm 27. Cry baby - Illusion 28. Bjonn!!! - BobKaare 29. Stygg jaevel!!! - BobKaare 30. as we leave for something better - Spud/Deranged 31. as we leave for something better - Spud/Deranged (did they actually count this one twice?) 32. HimmelHopp - Stoney/Ephidrena 33. the wave - Svenna 34. Touch me mini - Cwetdrug 35. Spawn - Swahili/ACNE 36. God watching over Pelle Politibil on a boattrip - Nyco 3Dfx Competition 1. Planet Cornball - Complex 2. Pils demo - Ludde 3. SpacePussy - Purple 4. 3dfx - Tralon Animation Competition 1. Babylonia - Nasse/Phobic 2. Wobblerne 2 - Triumph 3. Intel Outside 2 - Snuskis & Agamemnon 4. SuperHero - Triumph 5. Halucimations - Snooky/Yodel 6. Reiders Verden - ? 7. Kassademo - ? 8. Only you by - no12 9. TG Terminator - Bytex/Oxygen 10. Psion 5 - Jorgen Sivertsen Gathering 1998 Micro/DC The Gathering 1998 A party report in five chapters by Micro/Digital Corruption Introduction For those who still don't know what TG I there simply is no hope. TG is considered as one of the three BIG Scene parties every year, and has grown so big that they currently uses Vikingeskipet (which some might remember from the olympics in -94) on Hamar, Norway to keep shelter to over 3.500 more or less sane computer freaks every year. Chapter one: Still the same? Over the years I have been to many more or less successful parties in Norway, and even this year I was going to the biggest Scene event in Norway. Even though all the tickets was sold out a month before the party opened, i still packed my bags, and took of by train on Wedensday. With no ticket. The organizers opened their doors in the early morning hours that day, but when I arrived the clock had ticked way beyond midnight. On the train my thoughts where reflecting over what this party might bring. I attended TG in -96, and like most other places all over the world I took notice of the decreasing range of amiga users. Would this happen this year too? .or was the amiga people to show up in wide ranges to take over what had become the biggest PC gaming conference ever? I hoped for the best. But I must admit I feared the worst. Chapter two: Nightmares come true When I arrived to the partyplace I soon realized that my nightmares about TG had come true. The place was simply overcrowded with Quake lamers, as we amigans tend to call them. Their only mission on TG is to play Quake over the network, and sit in the internet. Just outside the hall I met Numen and Leia. (Some of you might know Leia, as shes a swapper in Apathy, while Numen is a more or less retired modem trader.) Good thing I met some fellow amigans that fast, or else I might have turned around in the door. When I got to the ticket sale, there was almost no people there. (Which is not so wierd, when it was in the middle of the night) I asked about getting a ticket, which I thought would be a small problem. But no. Even though I hadn't got any machine with me, the organizer dude wouldn't let me in. He just kept saying the same line over and over again. "There are no tickets left, and if you want to get in, then you'll have to buy a daytime pass, but we do not sell them until 10.00 am." and I watched my clock. 02.00 am. Eight hours. And then the guy told me to get lost and find a place to stay over night (which is VERY hard during Gathering). Sleep out in the cold, and then coming back only to be let in for a few hours. I don't think so. I had compos to attend, so I just decided to go straight in. And so I did. Past all guards, with no ticket. Almost too easy. Just like that. BAAAD security. But since I had no tickets I had to "stay low", or else I might be kicked out. I joined Baffle/Delirium, Numen and Madsen at row 6 for a while and enjoyed that. We sat there playing N64 for several hours.And suddenly the clock was 9.55 am. Finally!, I though. Now I could get a ticket. But no. Still only daypass available. After arguing with the organizers for a while, and demanding to speak to the boss, I bought some tickets from a guy not needing them. Finally I was through with the shit. Chapter three: Party feeling After collecting my badge, I was told to register. The only problem was that all registering could be done through the internet. Which internet? As usual the organizers had failed to create a stable internal and external network connection, so they had to setup registering PC's nearby the entrance. With 4 computers, 3.500 visitors and a unstable network connection you can imagine yourself how fast the line moved. A snail would be running compared to it. I decided to skip that part for a while. Instead I joined the Ephirena and Spaceballs crew, that where working on their contributions to the 4k compo that had deadline later that evening. Slummy/SPB had started to redisign his palettes for the 4k and 64k intros, because he had seen Ephidrenas contributions and he thought they would be tough to beat. He simply HAD to beat them, because he had no money left to pay his rent. Beeing a student can be hard at times. Slummy had gathered many Spaceballs members this time. Zack, Useless, Dominei and Major Asshole was there, but it was only Zack who actually helped him in his work. At this time it seemed like Spaceballs and Ephidrena was to battle for the first position in the 4k intro compo. I had a 4k intro aswell, to compete in the compo, but we never really had any belief that it would give anyone a great deal of competition. Anyway, I borrowed Frequent/Ephidrenas machine to finish of the release .NFO file, and some readme stuff so that I had it delivered before deadline. The deadline was imminent, so I was in a hurry. The contributions was also to be delivered through the internet, but as there still wasn't any network connection, this was rearranged to handing in the disks. (Which the organizers seemed to care VERY little about, as they just throwed all the disks into a big bag.) You could get nervous breakdowns of less. Row 29, where Ephidrena and Spaceballs had gathered was actually a more or less Amiga only row. or atleast the one half of it where they sat. Apathy, Instinct, After Eights and Contraz was some of the groups around us. This helped to get that really party feeling, which I thought I lost when I arrived to the main entrance. Some really dedicated Scene people did the trick. After the deadline for the 4k intros, Shade/TRSI and Sixpack/Haujobb came over to test TRSI's latest demo, "Rise", which was supposed to be released at The Party last christmas. As we tested the demo on different configurations, this demo turned out to be one of the best in a long time, even though the routine was done in 2x2. The Mellow Chips division of TRSI could turn out to be the thing that will put TRSI back on top of what's happening in the amiga Scene. Sixpack also told me that Haujobb was supposed to be competing at TG too, but this plans was scrapped due to most of the Haujobb members was attending Symposium/Mekka that weekend. He seemed very confident that Haujobb would succeed in winning the first price at MS (And he was absolutely right). Chapter four: The legends arrive. Late Thursday night TBL arrived. I had spoken to Rubberduc on IRC in front of the party, and he told be that they where going to contribute in the 64k intro compo. Originally it should have been a demo, but Rubberducs harddrive suddenly failed to work, and in a desperate attempt to rescue it, he smashed Digit's harddrive too. Half of a year worth of coding goes down the drain like that. Just like that. Too bad really. Anyway. When they arrived they showed that they had put the recent HD breakdowns past them. They worked on something that looked like a "not-so -stunning", but yet wellpolished intro. Spite, Digit and Rubberduc was coding like hell, while the old guys Equalizer and Offa just sat in behind and was offering their moral support and advice. Tudor and Louie was also there, but Tudor was busy trying to win the Raytraced gfx compo (4th place), and Louie was far too busy playing Starcraft on another not so well known computer. The guys in Sonik:Clique was also working on a demo, which seemed like somewhat alike the TBL intro. Just before the deadlines Digits computer broke down yet again, but with Frequent/Sphidrenas help, they switched the hd cables, and managed to get out the most important data from the harddrive. A operation which probably saved their contribution. All productions was delivered in time for the deadline at Friday evening and night, and everyone was happy. In fact Offa, Tudor, Equalizer, Louie some of the others went to town to get drunk, while Rubberduc and Digit had to do the last fixing on the intro for themselves. Tudor and Rubberduc told me that they missed the finnish guys, because they sure knew how to party! Me and Tudor drank some Vodka each, and then they was off to the city, while I drank some beer I had hidden. Party On! Chapter five: Another party, another end. Saturday night the big compos was shown at the bigscreen. In the demo compo we soon realized that "Rise" where going to win, as all people in the hall. Even the Quake lamers, that had their five minute break, cheered and was very pleased. The graphics compo shown that there where many great pixelers in the crown, and in the 64k intro compo it was clear that it was hard to beat TBL this year too . At the price seremony Slummy was the winner, with two 1st places in the Fast intro compo and in the 4k compo, and a good runner up position in the 64k compo. 4.500 NOK (about 650$) was enough to pay his rent until July. and he also got a N64 and some clothes with him, and two nice thophys. He celebrated with smoking some weed and getting to stoned that he almost missed his bus. In the Raytrace compo 3D Addict got the first place, as so many times before, whil TMK/Inf was the best of the pixelers, and TRSI and TBL got their not so surprisingly first places in the demo and intro compo. 3 years of TBL dominance on The Gathering. Maybe was this the last year we will see them at TG? Who knows. After the price ceremony Rubberduck was very pleased, and Tudor was as much pissed as Rubberduck was pleased. Turning up 4th (which he didn't know at that moment) wasn't exactly what he had hoped for. Slummy was so happy that he wondered about retiring the whole Scene, just to play on his N64, and the rest of us just sat there. Without any prices. But somewhat richer on memories. ... maybe next year? Last Words. TG 1998 will most certainly not go in as the best TG every, atleast not on the amiga side. What the quakers, and ircers mean I don't know, but they are certainly not helping it to be a better party. Too few amiga Sceners attended. Let's hope 1998 will be the turning point of the machine with the most dedicated users of all. And lets hope the organizers of TG will make a better effort next time. With fixing the network connection, and follow the program. As of now the best thing about TG is probably that all the quakers and others help raising the price money, and that TG sctually is a nice place to meet old Scene friends, but the question is: Will all the real Sceners go to MS next year? Already just after I had come home I discussed the party with Speedevil/RBS^LFC^etc. and we found the perfect solution: To make a party nearby TG, and go to TG just to recieve the prices. Or maybe we'll all go to MS? Who knows? Who cares? Time will show what happens. The organizers have screwed TG long time ago. Too much commerse. Still there are qualiy releases. Still there are amiga Sceners. May the Scene feeling last forever, because TG won't. ? R.I.P The Gathering ?