PHENOMENA & LIGHT'S EASTERCONFERENCE
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By Omega of Rebels

Well,  I  was  asked by this lunatic
Lord  Helmet  to  write  an  article
concerning   Phenomena  and  Light's
Easterconference '92.  And who would
dare  refusing  HIM?!   Not anything
human, I hope.  Anyway, here goes:

This  Amiga/C64 party started off at
the  17th  of April and ended in the
early   hours   of  a  mondaymorning
(Grr..)   the   20th.   As  we  (?!)
arrived   in   Alingsas,  Sweden  at
friday  we  took a taxi to the place
where  the  hole  event  would  take
place,   a  large  ice-hockey  hall.
(Swe-Fin  5-2 in the finals. Haha!)
Personally I like it better when the
organizers  have  arranged  a school
with some classrooms instead, but, I
thought  for  myself,  I guess it'll
have  to  do!   The  noise is always
louder  at  these parties with a big
hall   and   the   possibilities  of
sleeping  considerably  lower.   One
good   thing   about   it   is  that
information  about competitions etc.
is  often easier to spread here than
at    a    conference   with   small
classrooms.

The    place    was    invaded    by
approximately  500  freaks,  at  the
time  we  got there, but the numbers
would  soon  climb  up  to over 800.
The  biggest  party  in  Sweden,  no
doubt.  (Even IF the entrance was as
high  as  150 SEK.) At least half of
them  must  have  been C64-kings and
they  sure  dominated  in  number of
releases.   Many  of the demos on it
were actually better than on Amiga.

At  the  front  there  was  a  large
screen  (standard these days!) and a
pair  of MEGA loud-speakers.  On the
big  screen  they  showed everything
from     old     classical     demos
(COMA/Rebels!!!    Wooow!),  videos,
sick   animations   and  information
about  all  kinds  of things.  There
was  a  cafeteria  with  hamburgers,
candy,  snacks  and  egg-sandwiches.
(Hey,  it  was  Easter!)  It  wasn't
cheap,  but  if  you're  hungry  you
often  don't  care.   The organizers
had also arranged a Pizza-service so
that  you  could  order  food from a
local  restaurant  at  a fair price.
That,  we  didn't know when we first
bought our 75-kronors pizzas at some
other  fancy restaurant...  And they
didn't      even     taste     good.
Arrrgghhh...

Trouble with the power seems to be a
tradition  on  parties  all over, so
why   break   it.   Also  here,  the
inveterated  computer-users  had  to
wait  for  the  power  to  arrive at
times.   I  don't  think  it was too
serious,  however.  All together the
organizing  at this party was just a
bit above average.

So,   were  there  any  famous  guys
there?   Well,  I  can only speak on
behalf  of  Amiga's enthusiasts, and
they seemed to have stayed home this
Easter.   Present  were  for example
Phenomena    (ofcourse!),    Rebels,
Silents,  Noxious, Rage and a lot of
other "not-so-famous" groups.  A lot
of  people were, as said, there with
their Commodore 64.

The   result  of  the  C64-democompo
really   affected  me.   I  kind  of
thought  that  the scene and all was
dead   and   buried,  but  that  was
totally    wrong.     Many    groups
impressively  showed what they could
do  with  the  ten-year old machine.
And  it  almost looked like the best
demos  on  Amiga  a  couple of years
ago.   The graphics were not too bad
either,  and the winning picture was
a  naked girl sitting somewhere on a
beach  with  her legs rather spread.
Now,  who could help voting for that
picture.     None   of   the   young
teenagers  present  on  this  party,
that's for sure.

On  Amiga it was worse.  The winning
contribution  was  a  megademo (Long
time, no see!) that won on it's nice
Raytracing-routine,   nothing  else.
The quality in this category was way
below average.  The organizers chose
ten  songs  and as many pictures for
the  two other competitions on Amiga
and   the   quality  was  absolutely
better  here  than  on the demoside,
but nothing revolutionaty.

Read  the  results some else in this
mag!!!