Party Review for Amega Party
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Amega Party Report - page 1/6 by Scuba of X-Trade A m e g a P a r t y R e p o r t First some words from the invitation... "Come and you will be a part of the best Amigaparty ever (?!)" Held by.........Violence,Dexion,CRB,FLT Location......Porsgrunn/southern Norway Date...........28th - 30th of June 1991 The entrance fee: 100 NOK Norwegians 1USD = 5.85 NOK 80 NOK Swedes/Danes 1PND = 11.5 NOK 40 NOK for others 1 DM = 3.90 NOK 20 NOK extra fee per amplifier You are NOT allowed to smoke inside You are NOT allowed to get drunk inside You are NOT allowed to damage furniture (no drunk no fun no no ????) At the Party: - 24hrs Cafeteria - On Saturday grillparty outdoors - Video Room for watching - On Sunday evening a small AFTERPARTY to make new contax and talk to your old contacts (if present) The Competitions: - Demo-Competition - Music-Competition - Graphic-Competition - Video-Watching-Competition - Gameplaying-Competition - Football and (or) freesbee cup - Eating Competition - Arm-Wrestling Competition - Beerdrinking Competition - Sureprise Competition The things above were the promises of the invitation and I must say that sounds very good, BUT.... Well,we Amega Party Report - page 2/6 by Scuba of X-Trade bought our traintickets and I organised our trip to Norway..... with Amiga and other stuff + food and drinx we started our trip on Thursday morning at 5:00 AM !! At 22:00 PM we were on the ferry from Fredrikshavn to Larvik where we met some cool dudes from Rebels, Silents and Dexion, later Yankee of Addonic... We started training for the beerdrinking Competition.... Well, at about 12:00 we were at Larvik! Then we took the train to Porsgrunn... In the invitation also stand that there will be signs everywhere which show the way to the partyplace! Well, I saw NOT one sign! NOTHING! That was the first promise which was not held! But it gets better... After nearly 45 minutes of searching we found the partyplace!!!! Even the guys from Dexion who were also the organisers didn't know where the partyplace was.. Well, here I have to say that the group VIOLENCE did the main organising I heard...and I think that was a mistake! At the Partyplace we had to pay 20 NOK MORE than on the invitation stood!!!! This was the 2nd thing which was not like the invitation said!! Poor!!! Ok, we had to pay and went inside!!!! There were many guys hanging around... And now a list comes with all (I think) groups who were on the AMEGA-PARTY..... (The letters behind the names are the countries... N = Norway etc.....) Abnormal(N), Absence(N,NL), Abstract(S) Academy(N), Accept(N), Acme(S), Addonic (N,FRG), Adept(N), AFL(S), Aliens(N), Amega(N), Amiga Freelancers(N), Amiga Voice(N), Amonia(N), Anarchy(DK,S,UK), Andromeda(N), Artic Forces(N), Aurora (S), Avatars(N), Axe(N), Backdrop(N), Badline(N), Balance(DK), Beastie Boys (N), Beef(N), Black Bones(FIN), Black Amega Party Report - page 3/6 by Scuba of X-TRADE Sinus(FRG), Brainbyte(N), Brainstorm (CH), Brainwave(F), Brothesin Arm(I), C.O.X.(N), Canaery(N), Cave(N), Cerbevus(H), Cinefix Designs(N,ICE), Code Light(N), CodeX(N), Coma(N), Comp. Death(N), Concept(N), Core(N), CPI(N), Crazy Banana(N), Cream(-),Crusaders(N), Crypt(N), Cult(DK), Cypex(N), D-TECT(N) Deadline(N), Deltazone 2(UK), Devils(F) Diffusion(N), DOS(N), E.O.C. 1999(F,N), Elexion(N), EON(N), Epedemic(N), Equinox(N,CH), Euphoria(N), Euroswap(N) Exalt(N), Exit(N), Extreme(N), Fahrenheit(S), FLT(N) (I haven't seen), Frantic(FIN), Fraxion(S,N), Freemem Inc(N), G-Force(POL), Gemini(N), Gods (DK), Grace(N), Handicaps(N), Heaven(N) Hypnosis(S), Illusion(N), IMP 666(N) , Impulse(N), Innoxient(N), Iris(N), IT(N), Katharisis(POL), Lame(N), Loctite(N), Lovely Milkmaids(N), Magic Power(N,S), Majic 12(N), Massive(N), Megastyle Inc(N), Mirage(NL), MON(N,S), Motion(N), N-Corruptions(N), Nasty Boys(N), Nation A(N), Network(N), New Wave(N) , Nighthawks(N), No limits(N), Ontarion(S), Palace(N), Paramount(N) , Phenomena(S), Pirates(S), Pondemonium (N), Pulse(N), Pure Metal Coders(N), Radical(S,A), RAF(N), Rawhide(N), Razor 1911(N,S), Rebels(FIN,DK,S), Reflectors (S), Reflex(N), Sanity(FRG), Scope(N), Shade(N), Shades(N), Shockwave(N), Signetta(N), Silents(DK,S), Simpsons (N), Spaceballs(N), Sparta(N), Symbosis (FIN,N,F), TEC(N), Technofighters(N), Terminators(N), The Arc Sailor(N), The Gang(S), The Gulbba Boys(N), The Magic Guild(N), The Park(N), Them(S), TNT(S), Treacl(FRG), Triumph(N,NL), Twilight Zone(YUG), Utopia(N), Visual Image(N), Vogue(S), Wizzcat(N,FIN), X-F(N), X-TRADE(S,FRG), XITE(N), Zone 7(N,DK) Soooo, this list contains 147 groups, but I think there were some more..... Amega Party Report - page 4/6 by Scuba of X-Trade altogether there were about 800-900 freaks... Well, lets continue with the report... The building was a school, quite a good place for such a party. We build up our equipment and started to explore the school... I wanted to count the Amigas, but it were too much!!! Many guys were painting, makin' musics and some coded, but there were also many lame guys who only played all the time... I took my time to make some new friends and to talk with some cool guys...... Well, ok many people and many Amigas were present, but there were many small things which were not so as mentioned in the invitation... So for example the big screen was shitty placed under stairs, so there was not much place for people watching it... Why haven't they put it on the stairs, so everybody could have watched it!!! Well, and then the competitions came...and also the 3rd thing which was not like in the invitation... There was NO Eating Compo as promised There was NO Beerdrinking Compo. There was NO Videowatching Compo. There was NO Gameplaying Compo. (I haven't seen some guys competing..) There was NO Football or Freesbee cup (There were some guys playing football but NO results were spread..!!??) --------------------------------------- The surprise compo was I think that the other compos were not held... Otherwise the surprise compo was not. Well, what a great organisation!!!! The Armwrestling competition was held, but it took not longer than 5 minutes and after those 5 minutes nobody knew who had won... Well, perhaps the jury had to inquire which one was better... AND: It was NOT like that, that everybody was able to vote and that all Amega Party Report - page 5/6 by Scuba of X-Trade Demos, Gfx etc.. were shown on the big screen... The jury went into a separate room to discuss which ones will get which place... POOOOOORRR!! Well, there also could have been more new productions, coz many groups did not release anything... What a pity! I also think that the voting went like the name of the groups and not like the quality of their work... Many other people thought like this, too. But anyway look at the competition- results.... DEMO-COMPO --------------------------------- 1. Thomas Landsburg 2. Pure Metal Coders 3. Silents 4. Andromeda 5. Spaceballs 6. Anarchy GFX-COMPO --------------------------------- 1. Viper \ No Limits 2. Color \ Phenomena Wedge \ Frantic 4. Airbrush \ Acme 5. Minion \ Grace 6. Manta \ X-Trade 7. Scuba \ X-Trade 8. Bustman \ Crusaders 9. TMB Design \ Euphoria 10. PAL \ Razor 1911 MUSIC-COMPO --------------------------------------- 1. Shorty\Network "Digital Expression" 2. Heatbeat\Rebels "Anette" 3. Perro\Frantic "Something #Samitet" 4. Walkman\CRB "TJA" 5. Jester\Sanity "Whisper my Thought" Amega Party Report - page 6/6 by Scuba of X-Trade ARM-WRESTLING-COMPO --------------------------------------- 1. Maniac \ Razor 1911 2. Duty \ Treacl 3. Bubber \ Sanity Well, to the Music Compo is to say, that Dexion (they were jury in the Musiccomp) got 82 Disx full with modules!!!! That were 150 songs competing each other! That were the most important things about the AMEGA-PARTY.... I can't say something about the AFTERPARTY coz we had to go on Sunday to catch our ferry... Well, all in all the party was funny becoz there were enuff guys but the organising of Violence was pure SHIT! 50% of the things mentioned in the invitation were a lie!!! So I can't say that it was the "best Amiga party ever held". One is for sure: Next year I will go on a conference which isn't organised by Violence. So see ya next year! CIAO Scuba/X-TRADE