This is a tiny  report  of  the  Amiga  
 Industries   &   TRSI  /// Kickin' Ass  
 Party \\\   written by 'The Pincher of  
 Vertical'.                              
                                         
 Some  of you may know that I have been  
 incognito  for 6 weeks, I have been in  
 a  sanatorium in  Saarland  where hard  
 conditions rule e.g. you mustn't leave  
 this house overnight and actually  you  
 aren't allowed to drive home, too. OK,  
 the AI&TRSI took place in Dinkelbuehl/  
 Bavaria on 3./4.    August so I had to  
 find an  excuse to  stay  overnight, I  
 told  the guys  in the  office  that I  
 wanna   leave for the   weekend coz my  
 mother has got   birthday   on 4th and  
 speaking  of  excuse is false...  yep,  
 it's  true my mother  got  birthday on  
 that  day but I   didn't  go there but  
 phoned with JPN/Vertical several times  
 first of all we    didn't know whether
 driving or not,    eventually we drove
 coz  some  other  already  promised to
 come.On 12.30 pm we (JPN, Cube and me)
 arrived in  Dinkelsbuehl and the first
 we got  to do woz to  let Cube outside
 the car,  he  felt  rather   sick  and
 looked forward to some fresh air...   
 otherwise   he   would  have  puked...
 perhaps he did, hehe,  who knows?? OK,
 all the people were already in the old
 'TSV gym' so we followed Andy's father
 to the party-place.  And  what was the
 first thing I recognized, yeah, it was
 the   'always-red'  head  of  Andy/AI.
 Something   different:  Ask   for  his
 sister, she's quite pretty and has got
 a friend... argh!!! We were one of the
 first who came. The entrance  fee  was
 pretty expensive, each of  us  had  to
 pay DM 20,- and  in  this  prize  were
 included:   using  the  building,  one  
 Szenator-Beer (Special Brew  -  Strong  
 Lager Beer) and as many prezels as you  
 wanted. At  the  entrance  you  got  a  
 ribbon for your hand after having paid  
 The hall was fairly big for the amount  
 of people who came,  there was a small  
 stage with 2 Amigas on it and  2  good  
 boxes. The first  Amiga  showed  very,  
 very old demos (digitezed sounds, logo  
 scroller...?!),  let's  say  legendary  
 demos from the beginning of  the Amiga  
 scene,  I  enjoyed  this  crap  coz  I  
 haven't  seen  these  demos  for years  
 know!!   The  other  Amiga was used by  
 Flic  Flac/UFO  and  Delta/TRSI,  they  
 tried   to  finish  their  cooperation  
 intro for the Kickin' Ass party.  From  
 time to time more people showed up but  
 the hall couldn't be  filled:  It  was  
 pretty  interesting  to  see  all  the  
 legends of the scene, of course  there
 were no kidz but adults hanging around
 I hope I can list them all... George 2
 of Subway, Amicon, RADWAR, John Player
 Flynn * Delta * Dr. Beat * Bobby Quine
 of Tristar/Red Sector, Outbound,  many
 guys from Spreadpoint, F-16, UFO (Coke
 wozn't there,   he  was  hitch-hicking
 anywhere in  deep  France!),  Wizards,
 Antiprotect,      NMI,       Mike   of
 Bitkillersoft (he came  directly  from
 Heath- row to  Nuernberg),  FACTOR  5,
 Beermacht,    Decton,    Greg,    Ego,
 Blackman, Peter Parker, Phil *  Haegar
 Kongoman of Thrust, Armin  of Supplex,
 Harry of Abakus,   Sysop's  of  Flying
 Saucer (also  Spreadpoint),  TIP,  one
 from  the  CACHET  firm,  a   guy from
 'seven eleven'  and   the   well-known
 Zeropage - I hope I haven't  forgotten
 anyone, but it could be that some guys
 came very late that means  anywhen  in  
 the evening...   we decided  to  drive  
 early in the evening and  so  we  did.  
 Many fellows were on the stage to  see  
 the demos and to chat around but  also  
 many guys left the building for having  
 fun outside. The most people were good  
 programmers or  other  freaks  so  you  
 heard  only   words    and   sentences  
 concerning any professional  subjects.  
 A standard Amiga user (that is to  say  
 a disk-xcopy-lamer) wouldn't find  his  
 kind of fun.   Girls?? Yes, there have  
 been some girls...   Phil   brought  a  
 girlie with him,  seems  to  be a good  
 friend of  him, and all the time girls  
 were walking down the road.. everytime  
 the brother  of  Peter  Parker  got  a  
 stiffie coz he  got  very  nervous  as  
 seeing    the     attractive    women.  
 Bullshitting   the   girls  made  some  
 persons being obtrusive  but  as  long
 the hords of (ex-) computer freaks got
 fun everything was alright,  hehehe!!!
 At 7 o'clock (of course 'after' having
 smoked the grass) we  started  journey
 JPN's home  where  I  stayed  for  the
 night. to The  next  day  we  tried to
 find  a  accetable  italian restaurant
 but nothing everything had  closed  at
 this    time...     our  last  resort:
 McDonalds, aaawuerg....               
 THIS MEETING WAS PRETTY NICE COZ  SOME
 OLD AND LEGENDARY  PEOPLE  WERE  THERE
 AND OF COURSE SOME OF THE  BEST  AMIGA
 PROGRAMMERS OF GERMANY...             
                                       
     ARTICLE BY PINCHER/ VERTICAL!