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    The  Icing'96  Party Report


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24 of May.

12.05..   Just spoke with a old friend
of  mine on the phone, Orbit / Giants.
Everything  is  already  packed except
for  my  trustworthy  Amiga of coz and
I'm  dying  here while waiting for the
time   to   move   faster.   Wizard  /
Giants^Morbid^  Strange  and  Lillen /
Independent  is  going  with me in the
car  and since I have to wait for them
It's  no use leaving home untill 16.45
or so.

14.25..  Changed my prefs a bit so now
I'm  running  workbench in 32 glorious
colors   with  a  Strangelogo  in  the
background.   To  bad  I  'aint  got a
multisynk-  monitor.   T'would be nice
having    a    flickerfree   hireslace
workbench.   Still  a  few  hours left
until  it's  time  to leave, I have to
come  up  with something to do b4 I go
mad.   Leaving  alone without my pal's
would  get  me to the party faster but
then  I'd  probably be killed when the
party is over.

21.16..  Finally here at the Icing and
my  computer  is  operational at last.
Had  to  stand  in  line  in  about 45
minutes before I got in and could pick
a  table.   But now everything is just
fine,  I  had  my  first coke and some
candy   to   calm   my   nerves.   The
organizers  have  still  not  realised
that people like to see what's what on
the keyboard.  The lights are a little
better  then  last  year but not much,
the  music  the organizers are playing
isn't  as loud as last year but on the
other  hand  the other dewds here have
brought  a  bit  more  soundpower this
year.   Orbit  /  Giants  and Wizard /
Gts^Str^Mrb   are  still  standing  in
line, we arrived here 'bout 20.02.

21.53..   Though I should go and buy a
tshirt  (  4got  b4 ), walked away and
almost  stright back.  There's still a
que  with  'bout 40 people standing in
line waiting to get in.

25th of May.

00.50..  Tried to do some constructive
work  but apart from a little more for
the  game  "Destroyer  of  Hope" and a
.guide  of  my  harddrive  demos.  The
music  in  here  is  simply to loud, I
think   I'm   going   to   toast  some
sandwitches.   My stomach is reminding
me  that the last thing i ate was b4 I
left home.

03.25..  Got some new modules, swapped
them  4  Nemac_4+  and  Prowizard.   I
think I'll have to sleep a hour or two
in  a  hour or so, I'm starting to get
tired.   Must  be getting older 'coz I
never  used  to  be  this  tired  at a
party.

05.49..   Been  watching four computer
here  and  got  a visit from Coma, got
some  new  mods  and  started thinking
'bout  a  small  chippack with his and
Spin Dizzy's mods.

10.02..   Had  almost  forgotten about
this  report.   Slept an hour or so in
the  sleepinghall  b4, some dewds were
snoring ( I hope I didn't ) quite loud
and  'coz o that I had some trouble in
the  beginning.   Perhaps it's time to
make  some  breakfast.  I don't regret
that  I  brought my toaster, in just a
few minutes I have a VERY tasty meal.

22.27..   Me and Orbit borrowed a cd32
and  made  some transfers with the aid
of a communicator.  Dataworld ( 2nd at
Tp5  Wildcompo is now almost unpackeed
and  ready  to  run.   'bout  80 Mb of
space  is  what it takes but hey, I've
got  some to spare now.  At the moment
the  bloody  organizers  have  allowed
some  jerkoff  to enter the stage with
something  that faintly resembles of a
band.  They make more noice then music
and  I  DONT  LIKE IT!  I just want to
see Dataworld and then get a few hours
of  sleep,  not  listen to some crappy
musicans.   The communicator is a nice
gadget  but I can't help wondering why
they  made  it  connect  to the serial
port instead of PcmCia or even the old
expantion  slot  on the a500.  I never
got  more  then  3100  chars  / Sec, I
usually  get 3200+ when trading so I'm
a   little   suprised   by  the  lousy
transfer rates.

26th of may.

05.09..   Got a few hours of sleep and
have   seen   Dataworld,   it's   damn
impressive  but  still  just  a lot of
raytraced   animations.    Darn   good
animations   though.    Tried  a  cd32
joypad  for the first time and now I'm
convinced,  when my joystick wears out
I'm  going  to  buy  a cd32 joypad.  I
think I want to try and get a few more
hours  alseep since I'm going to drive
a  car  tomorrow.   It might be a good
idea to be awake then.

10.26..   Still  here  at  the  icing,
lot's  o  stuff  is  delayed  but  the
Amigascene jeopardy will prob soon bee
played  anyway.  There have been a few
brownouts   but   I  must  have  slept
through  them.   But I just cant stand
all  the  nerds  here  who  don't look
where they are going.  The cables that
supply  the  power I need is constanly
being  stepped  on  and the one to the
monitor  must  have  jumped out of the
socket at least a dozen times so far.

11.29..    Musiccompo  just  recently,
some  trouble of coz but I am to tired
to really care.  Coma entered with one
of  his  works.   I  think  he'll come
first  to  third  with  it.   Anything
lower   is   out   of   the  question.
Unpacked  some of the stuff I got from
Cd's.   Some  good, some lousy and the
bigger part of it in between.

12.30..    Thought   'bout   buying  a
cdromplayer,  they are selling 6x ones
for  670 Sek here at the icing.  Would
be  great but I'll wait a while longer
b4 I buy one.

14.35..       Multichannelcompo     is
happening  right  now as I write.  The
Scenejeopardy  have  still  not  taken
place  (  should  have  been  finished
yesterday   ).   Seems  like  I  still
cannot  concentrate  on  bizniz,  I've
tried   to  write  some  articles  for
Gossip  but  my mind seems to be blank
at the moment.  On the other hand I've
made   four   battlefields  to  Worms,
mastered  Speedball2  and  spent a few
minutes  with  Settlers again, old but
great.

19.48..   The  Amigascenejeopardy have
just  finished  and Orbit is badgering
me   coz  he  want  a  partyreport  in
Braindamage.   4ch,  Multichannel  and
64k intro compos have also taken place
in  addition  to suprisecompos such as
Robyn      lookalike,     Icingjingle,
Icinglogo  and  some others.  The PeZe
scene  jeopardy did not take place coz
the   competence   among  the  wouldbe
contenders  was ZERO!  ( Acctually one
of  the  questions  in  the Amigascene
jeopardy  ).  In the end everyone lost
their  points  even if I have to agree
with  my friend Ant / 3Le that a quote
was   from   The   prey   instead/and?
Nexus7.   Oh  well,  it  was  funny at
least.  I can see Tbl from here, their
64k   was  good  and  I'm  hoping  for
another Tint in the democompo later.

20.06..   Someone turned on the lights
at  last,  but  after  a  few  days of
almost  complete  darkness ( 'xept for
the monitors/tv's and some weak lights
)  I  already  hear  complaining but I
rather like it, perhaps people will be
able  to see the cables before ripping
out  the  one  to my monitor.  I can't
understand why the lights haven't been
throwing  their  shining light over us
all  the time.  Perhaps the organizers
think it's to expensive.

20.38..  Someone turned the lights off
a  few  minutes after they were turned
on.   A  few  more hours left and then
it's  time  for  the democompo.  After
that   one   should  be  able  to  get
something  more  then  music  and  64k
intros.

21.39..    Someone  is  looking  on  a
tvshow  with Robert Gustavsson, one of
my   personal  favourites  in  Swedish
humor.  A small crowd have gathered to
see, I can't really tell from here but
I  think  the  small  tv  has a larger
crowd  then  the  bigscreen.   Of  coz
there  'aint  much  going  on  on  the
bigscreen but anyway.  Talked to Ant /
3Le,  another  of  my contacts, he was
one    of    the    dewds    in    the
AmigasceneJeopardy  compo.  Nobody won
as   I  already  wrote  above.   Still
waiting for the democompo, t'would bee
nice  with some fresh demos to fill up
the   mail   with.    I  brought  both
envelopes,  my  mail  and  stamps so I
could mail a few letters from here but
I did not count with how fucking tired
I  have  become  almost  b4 I even got
hold  of  some  shit  to  send.   I've
started  taking  mininaps, sleep in my
chair  for  just  a  few  minutes.  It
acctually  works,  after  a  few hours
sleep  one  is still tired but after a
mininap you're still able to think and
act  (  Almost ) coherently.  Damn but
I've   noticed   that  I've  acctually
started  to enjoy the noice in here, I
caught   myself  humming  and  beating
along  on  the table while thinking of
what  to  write  next.  Soon I'll prob
start  turning  off the lights at home
and replace them with candles.

22.25..    Acctualy   managed   to  do
something for a change, I wrote a text
'bout  How to organize a bad party.  I
felt inspired by some troubles here at
the  Icing even if this certainly is a
GREAT  party.   I'm still at two minds
about  the  best  party I've ever been
to,  The EuropeanComputerConference'93
was  the  first  and until Icing96 the
best  I've ever been to.  I'm not THAT
sure anymore even if I still think ECC
was  better.   My  memory  might  be a
little  clouded by age though.  When I
see  nostalgic  demos and old demos on
bigscreen  I feel older then I am.  It
makes  me  feel  like a relic from the
dark ages, before aga equipped amigas,
cpu's  better  then  68000  16MHz  and
software  that  required more then one
megabyte   of  memory.   i  can  still
remember  when  90%  of  all  software
could  be used with an a500 with 512kb
chipram.  After a while you almost had
to  have  512Kb "fast" as well.  No, I
almost  have to get some sleep now, in
13  hour's  or so I have to be able to
drive a car 300 kilometers in order to
get home again.

27th of may.

06.35..   Well,  nobody  woke me up in
time  for  the  democompo  so I missed
that  one,  tried to look at Balance's
demo   but  got  the  mezz  not  'nuff
memory.   Will  try  with the 3le demo
after  I  have written this.  Got some
sleep  at  last  and  I'm  now feeling
rather  good.  Also got myself a Icing
t-shirt,  I  didn't  have  time b4 and
when  I  had  time I thought they were
sold out.  Oh well, I now have one and
I got it 20 Sek cheaper.  I'm going to
print  out  a  Hawk  of Strangelogo in
school and iron it on the t-shirt.

07.03..  Checked out two of the demos,
Freak by balance and Tribe 3le.  Freak
demands  a  whole lot of memory, I had
to  turn  off some of my partitions in
order  to see it.  'twas good but I've
seen  much  better, Tribe on the other
hand   was   quite   good.    Not   as
impressive as The Gate or Tint though.
I'm starting to get tired again, I can
hardly  see  whats  going  on  on  the
bigscreen  anymore.  It might bee best
if  I  try  to get a few more hours of
sleep  before  I  try to handle a car.
Braindamage  still  not ready and both
Wierd  and  a commercial for Gossip is
delayed.  Dunno if either of the three
is  going  to bee released before this
party is over.

10.30..   I  have now seen most of the
demos  and  I  must  say  that even if
3le's demo was good and they deserve a
high  ranking it's plain that they won
becoz  they  have a lot of friends who
voted  for  them.   Glow  by The Black
Lotus  was much better and should have
won  without  a  doubt if people voted
for  quality.   This is the last entry
as  it's almost time to start packing.
I  must  say that it have been a GREAT
party,  I  feel sorry for everyone who
did not go.  Icing is THE best Swedish
sceneevent  and I'll certainly go next
year  too and I hope to see all of you
there then.  Perhaps we'll meet at the
Summer Computer Conference b4 Icing97.

Hawk  / Strange^Why greets everyone at
the party, all my contacts and friends
and of coz my trustworthy a1200.


                   Hawk of Strange^Why