SyMbIoSiS pArTy MaNdAl/NoRwAy 10-12 JuLy !!!
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                       - A sHoRt RePoRt


  As the headline tells you, Symbiosis held a party in Mandal/Norway
  from the 10th of July to the 12th. The invitation promised big
  prizes and good arrangement. My opinion is that the arrangement
  was totally unsuccesfull. Here`s a short party-story.....
  
  JTW,Nazgul,Merry and I drove early to the busstation. The bus for
  Mandal was leaving at 07.40. We didn`t think it would be a great 
  party, but we looked forward to it anyway. When we had been sitting
  on the bus for about 1 hour, some freax from Imp-666 and Offence
  entered the bus. They were the only ones that ever entered the bus.
  Usually when a party is arranged, you meet several freax on the 
  way, but this seemed to be an exception. Some hours later we arrived
  at the party-hall. Nothing told us that there was going to be a
  party in this hall, as we didn`t see anyone outside the buildings.
  We carried all our equipment inside and entered the main-hall....
  I can only say that we were shocked. What we saw was an allmost
  empty hall, with perhaps only 25 freax sitting around playing games.
  Some big logos at least told us that there were some known groups
  presented. Of course Symbiosis was there, but they didn`t do any-
  thing at the moment we arrived. Well, fortunately it got better
  after some hours. And at about midnight I think that about 140 people
  was sitting in front of their computers. The first night nothing 
  happened. I was so bored that I would rather like to be home drinking
  tea with my grandparents. They ofcourse showed some movies, but I`m
  getting sick of watching Terminator 2 over and over again...........
  
  The second night was the deadline of the music, gfx and demo-compo.
  We wondered if there really was going to be a demo-competition as
  we hadn`t heard about any releases. The first deadline was at 20.00
  on the 11th of July(Of course it`s July you idiot), but the contri-
  butions wasn`t delivered for yet another four or five hours. Then
  finally, at three in the morning(12th/7), the gfx & music-compo was 
  held. I was so tired at that moment, that I allmost don`t remember
  anything from it. All I can say is that Jason of Silents won the
  music-compo with a quite cool tune. I don`t know the result from the 
  gfx-compo, but as only 5 or 6 pictures was delivered, I don`t care
  much about it. I was sleeping when the demo-compo finally was going 
  to be held, but Merry was told to wake me up. Only the simple amount
  of two demos contributed. One demo by Amega Industries and one mega-
  demo by Triumph. The demo by Amega Industries was called Look a Bit-
  plane, and I personally think it sucks. That`s also my opinion about
  the Triumph-demo. It wasn`t any triumph at all.

  Since we left before the final results was finished, I can`t tell you
  who the winner was, but you shouldn`t care much if you miss the demos.
  
  Here`s a list of some of the presented groups(only those I remember):

  Crusaders & Deadline     Desire
  The Silents              Exile
  Amega Industries         Andromeda
  Devils                   The Sorcerers From Middle Earth
  Crystal                  D-Tect
  Amiga Freelancers        Avalon
  Imp-666                  Offence
  Supernova                Symbiosis  
  Addict                   + some PC and Archimedes groups (yuck)!

  I must say that this party was extremely bad organized, but we sure
  had fun anyway. Not with comuters, but in the swimming-pool next-door
  to the hall. We also used a big amount of money on pizza, coke and 
  other important things. Oh, I allmost forgot. There was a twin-tris 
  and gravity-force competition, and that was quite fun too. 
  As a usual copy-party, I must say that I were lucky. I copied allmost
  70 disx, and I finally got Monkey Island II. I also got some other 
  NEW things(at that moment), for example Dune, Lure of the Temptress etc.
  But even if we did copy plenty of new stuff, I looked forward to go home
  all the time. This was definently my most boring party.
  So if Symbiosis is going to arrange another party, I think I`ll stay home
  drinking tea with my grandparents. It seems that no party can beat
  the Crystal&TSL&Anarchy party which was held in Aars. I really look
  forward to the Revenge of the Party conference. It will truly be
  awesome......
                                        yours...............
                                                    
                                        Tom Bombadil / TSFME