Party Review for TRSI Easter Conference 1992

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    TRSI EASTER  CONFERENCE              The  PC section was very small.  I
                                            saw one 386 tower and three laptops.
  In  the  middle  of April the TRSI        This was very lame.
Easter  conference  was announced in          While  at  the  beginning  it  was
Lueven  in  Belium.   After we got a        little  boring there were shown some
personal  invitation  from  our TRSI        videos   at  the  screen.   Two  new
friends  we  decided  to  visit  the        English   and   one   German  movie,
party.                                      Science  Fiction and splatter Horror
  Arriving  at  about twelve o'clock        movies.  Nice while a number of kids
on Saturday we got a first big shock        haven't been already 18 years old.
seeing   the  entrance  prices.   We          The  biggest  problem at the party
never  saw  a  party  15 DM entrance        was  that  there  were  scarcely any
fee.   After  making a small deal we        releases.    I   saw  F1  TORNADO  a
were  inside.  The hall was not very        terrible action game. BATTLE COMMAND
big  but all right:  15 x 20 meter I        and   THE  QUEST  OF  AGRAVIAN  were
guess.  There was a small stage with        available  too.   The  jump  and run
a  large  video projector and a cool        game  HOI from Skid Row was the only
stereo equipment.  At the side there        real  good  release.   And of course
was  a  bar but the prices have been        some  games  from the last week like
shocking  again:   2  DM for a small        STEEL EMPIRE were spread too.  But I
Coke or terrible beer.                      saw  a lot of people playing PINBALL
  Well there have already been quite        WIZARD.
a lot of people and within the early          The  party  should  become a great
afternoon  the number increased till        coding  event.   TRSI announced 3000
400  I would guess.  So the hall was        dollar  price  money  for  the  best
really filled well.  I counted about        demos,  gfx,  sfx  on  Amiga and PC.
32  Amigas,  mainly Amiga 500, a few        And  so  many coders and demo groups
A1000 and A2000 and one A3000T.             came  to the party.  I tried to make

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a  list  of the visitors and here it        impressing  have  been  some  really
is (hopefully complete) (ABC-order):        fantastic  graphic artist who showed
Agnostic    Front,   Alpha   Flight,        their  painting abilities live.  The
Anarchy,  Animals, Animators, Avise,        coders  were  very  busy  working on
Axis,     Beermacht,    Bitstoppers,        their  intros  for  the competition.
Contrast, Delight, Desire, Hardline,        So  it was impossible to have a good
Legend,   LSD,  Manor,  Association,        talk  with  them.  The demos haven't
Silents,  Skid  Row, Supremacy, TRSI        been very good.  Just old routines.
(indeed!),  Origin,  Pirates,  Poss-          After  some  time  we noticed that
essed, Razor 1911, Rylax, Shining 8,        the  competion  would not take place
Silents, Tech Design, The Elektronik        this  day any more.  Until 9 o'clock
Knights  (a  big suprise that one of        the productions must have been given
the eldest groups in scene was still        to  the organisers and the selection
alive),   The   Guild,  The  Special        was  done on Sunday.  TRSI wanted to
Brothers,  Tremors,  Troop, Venture,        continue their party on the next day
Vision Factory, Wildfire.....               and make some more money but for the
  You  see  there really have been a        most people it was disappointing.
lot  of  people.  Mostly coming from          We left the meeting in the evening
Netherlands,    Germany,    Belgium,        too.   At nine o'clock there started
France  and  other  middle  European        a very cool techno party.  Therefore
countries.    Of  course  very  much        the  best Dutch DJ was hired for 500
lamers.   From the better groups too        DM.  He managed a really great show.
only a few competend guys came.               The  organisers  got a sports hall
  There  were  very  much Mailtrader        in  a  school as sleeping room and a
who had a good party for getting new        bus  shuttle.   Many guest took this
connections  and  swap  partners.  I        possibility   and  the  German  TRSI
also  found some sounder working for        managers slept there too.
the     competition    but    mostly          After  the  party  we phoned BOBBY

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QUINE  for infos and the competition           gaining 500.- DM
result.   The  next  day  about  200        2. "Florence" by AUDIOMONSTER of
persons came.  TRSI made a jury with           SILENTS
some  qualified  guests  who elected        3. AGNOSTIC FRONT
the  winners.   The  PC  competition          Last  but not least there was also
didn't  take  place  because  nobody        a big problem.  Near the place there
sended any demo.  So one big problem        was a Snack Bar ("Pommesbude") which
of  TRSI  was  reduced:   the  price        was  stormed the whole time by party
money.   In  spite  of many visitors        guests.   Some  ashholes painted the
they  had  very  high  cost  for the        front  wall and the owner called the
room, the DJ, the sleeping room, the        police.  The police took some freaks
bus,...    So  in  the  three  Amiga        and searched them for a spray bottle
categories  only  the  winner  got a        but didn't find one.  The organisers
high  price  and this was okay cause        were  accused  and  have  a  lot  of
the others really didn't deserve it:        trouble now.
               DEMOS                          The party was not bad.  There were
1. "Human Target" by MELON DESIGN of        many freaks, lamers, normal ones and
   CRYSTAL. The only one with good          elite  too.  And there was many fun!
   coding. Price: 1000.- DM                 But  there were too few releases and
2. WILLOW                                   the  competition was lame.  You must
3. "Easter Demo" from WILDFIRE with         see   that   there  were  two  major
   great GFX animations.                    envents  just  before  it, the CEBIT
                GFX                         and  the AMIEEXPO.  I think the date
1. "Sunken"  - HOF of SILENTS               was  wrong.  TRSI promised to make a
2. "Wings"   - DANNY of AXIS                better  Party  soon.   Probably  the
3. "Pinhead" - KALE of TECH                 SUMMER   CONFERENCE   together  with
               SOUND                        SILENTS  or  and own party in Luxem-
1. "Solace" from Fabian of DESIRE           bourg.  Good luck!   (doctor mabuse)

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      TRSI EASTERN CONFERRENCE              Mister    Video,    Speedlock    and
                                            whiteheat of VF and some other guys.
           IN APRIL 92                      A guy supplied the organizers with
                                            some  very cool movies like scanners
  We  started  our  journey  to  the        II,  the  pit  and  the pendulum and
little  belgish town "Leuven" with a        some  other  kinda  gore ones, which
little  delay  at about 8.00 o'clock        were  shown on a big screen in front
on   the   saturday   of  the  party        of the party place.  Later the party
weekend.  Several guys waited for us        began  to  be  a  bit  boring, so we
at  the  railstation in Duesseldorf.        moved   to   the   local  chips-shop
We  drove  in a convoi together with        together     with    Airwolf/Genesis
FDT/Venture,   Beermacht   and  some        Project.   There  we  meet some guys
other  guys.   We  reached Leuven at        from  Sanity  and  talked  a  bit to
around  10 o'clock.  The party place        them.   Later  in  the  evening  the
was  very  easy to find, because the        promised techno-disco started.  Only
organizers  placed some signs at the        a  few  guys  joined  to the dancing
important crossings.  The party took        floor.   Most  of the party visitors
place  in  a cool pub.  It seemed to        seemed  to  be  uninterrested.  Only
be equal to the famous Duesseldorfer        some  hard techno freaks danced like
`Kneipe`,  but  it  was much bigger.        hell  and some others tried to also.
The  entrance  fee  was 15 DM and in        (Guybrush,Knacko,  Alkfred, Madison,
our  opinion  it  was a bit to high.        Krypton, and myself).  After several
After entering the room, we strolled        hours  most  of  us  got tired so we
a  bit  around.  We meet many of our        decided  to  leave  the party.  Some
friends   like   Secret/Crystal,some        kilometers  before  german border we
guys  from  tremors,  many guys from        discovered,   that  we  didn't  have
TRSI(Hi  Knackobooze,  Guy, Hamster,        enough  fuel.  Very tired and exited
DRC,   Tequilla,   Nutri,   Floenn),        i   left   the   car  togehter  with

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Tuborg/Beermacht  to  find a filling        films.
station.   After walking about 20 KM          No  No  there  was  no  PORNO film
we made it and payed about 50 DM for        running!  hehehe...
a taxi to get back to the car.                But  the  big  flair from the good
  All in all the party was nice, but        old  time is not present today.  The
we  think  it  wasnt worth it.  Only        best  time  for partys is over.  The
few  guys  were  there  (about 300).        "ELITE"  says that partys was totaly
Compared  with  the  big  partys  in        lame.   Well yes its lame if ya need
denmark, it was poor.                       mega  new  stuff, but wich guy needs
  Written  by  Booze  Brothers  with        stuff  who  is 1 hour old?  Well the
some assistance by Krypton/Decade!          Elite  OK.   But  I mean that partys
                 FDT SAYS:                  good  are  places  to meet cool guys
                                            and  good old friends or to meet any
  Yaehh  it  was  a great party that        member of his group who ya never has
can I say too.                              seen.  I FDT travel very well to any
  It  was  a perfect organisation by        party  I  hope  every  time that the
TRSI  that must i say, ok.  But very        police  not  come  to  the party and
bad  was  that  the  comp.  was hold        that the custom people sleep and not
down  at sunday afternoon and not at        look  at the guys who are sitting in
saterday  afternoon.   So comes that        my car.  The last one was hard and i
the  most  people was not present at        think the next will be harder.
the  comp.   for  the  Future i hope          Also  all  in  all I will say that
that   TRSI  managed  this  point  a        TRSI  has  made  a fine work, it was
better as now.                              really  hard  i think to managed all
  Total  great was the hyper big and        this  one.   I  hope  to see any guy
good  VIDEO-WALL who was standing at        from  my  readers  any  time  at any
the  big  scaffold who shows top new        party.   Thats  all  for now bye bye
films.    Many   freaks  look  these        says for now your FDT.

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