Party Review for Prime Party 1992
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@t2,04@^@t8@f09@cPRIME '92 PARTY REPORT @f00@t1The party took place in a luxuous hall in Riel near Tilburg during the 1st of August! As previous PRIMES,the 92 event was a success!About 300 people showed up and the whole organization was good. The giant screen was constantly sup plied with movies,video-clips,video demos and even pornos...For the first time,Space Wars,the new video-demo from Tobias Richter was showed in a party,and the one thing we can say is that it has astonished the whole party place... As always,there were some problems... First of all,many dutch lamers showed up just to fuck the room up...like Origin with their bloody stickers! It was so messy that the owner asked a 200 Hfl extra fee! Many famous groups @^ showed up like Sanity, Alcatraz, Vision, Rebels, Silents, Desire, Agnostic Front, Awesome, TRSI, Noxious, Tech, Adept, Shining, Anarchy and other more or less known like Animators, Origin, TEK, Submission, Hardline, Jetset, EOC 99,... Mirage released there the brandnew CHIT CHAT but the democompo also brought some nice productions! Here are the results: @t91-@t1ANIMATORS with a strange game @t92-@t1DESIRE with Menace @t93-@t1TECH with Digital Intoxication Facet also released his neat mini slideshow together with Slash and Hein of Vision under the name FOCUSED on @# @t2,04 @k400,048,06 @^ART... Gothic also competeted with a nice demo,and everything else was Load And Destroy productions! By the way,the spastic team of the party was EOC 99 cause they got bashed for Beachtro 3 during the compo as everybody shouted GELUL IN DE RUIMTE...it was quite funny!! A little movie was shot during the party and the main actors are Facet Conquest,and Ramona...but if you can't get it,just look for the party slideshow! There's no better place to greet the whole MIRAGE fleet for such a cool party and for their great work! Special handshake to Darkman and Kisses to Ramona... @t4 Conquest of Anarchy @@ ----------- @t7,02 @^@f08@t1@cQuartz Summer Conference 1992 @cby Trixter of Futura @f00@t4Most people will know that Quartz held a party here in the UK, on August 8th & 9th, the party was called The Quartz Summer Conference (QSC for short), Well this is a report of that party. Of course this is my view, if you feel differently, then do your own report!. This party was something special in that it was the first real conference here in the UK, previously, all the parties have been 1 day events. The party (officially) started at 10:00am on Saturday 8th, and ended at 12:00am (Midnight) on Sunday. It was in the SouthWest of England in a place called Somerset. (To people in other countries, get an Atlas, find LONDON, and go left (West) from there, until @^ you hit the West coast, now go down a bit - and that is aproximately where the party was. (yeah that bit that sticks out on the bottom left of the UK, just below WALES.) We travelled about 200 miles (322 Km for non-UK people) from MANCHESTER (North West of England), we actually got to the party place about 6:00am which was too early!, so we found the local town (Bridgwater - not exactly local), it had a cafe, so we got some breakfast, and had some rest... The invitation sheets (and inftro's) said SUNNY Somerset - hey guys we didn't see much sun ! We went back to the party place at about 9:00am, and it was open, so we un-loaded our transport and setup in @# @t7,02 @^@f00@t4the hall. Only about 2 other groups were there (or at least there were only about 2 Amigas set up) at this time, so we set up ours, we just started doing our own things, (I was coding on our intro, Atrocity & Marauder were working on a tune.), the place started to fill up a bit, but not much (but the party hadn't officially started yet!), so we carried on doing our things until some more people arrived. Until about 12:00pm (midday) nothing really happened, except the party place slowly filled up, oh yeah, and a little who's sound system is the loudest war between us and a few other groups. (which was ended by Quartz, who told us all to turn our amplifiers down because no-one else could hear their sounds). As more people started to arrive, the atmosphere started to pick up a hell of a lot, but a lot of the groups who had just arrived were busy working on their @^own releases, and so weren't really that talkative!. About 2:00pm, trading was well underway (sounds like the stock-market hehe), but most of the stuff was existing stuff, not released at the party, because quite a few people didn't have their releases ready just at that time (including us!), and a lot of people still weren't swapping yet, then slowly at first, releases started to appear, then just from those first few releases, the whole place went mad with trading all the new releases (there wern't many at this stage, but EVERYONE wanted a copy for themselves), this continued into the early evening when the GFX competition started... Well first I'll explain the voting system: To get a voting-form, you had a hole punched in your ticket, the voting form had 3 lines for your top 3 votes, also it had a Handle and Group line. There were 2 BIG TV's, a @# @t7,02 @^@f00@t4monitor and a portable TV, in a stack all linked together to the same Amiga, the entries were shown on these. Everyone crowded round these screens to get a view of the entries... During the gfx competition, a pretty lame thing happened... a thief stole an action replay 3 from one of the Amigas while everyone was looking to the front... I won't say who it was who stole it, because it's not my place, but it was made public at the party, so if you were there, you'll know (if you were listening) who stole it, but he had gone by this stage, and there was no hard evidence. But of course this wasn't Quartz's fault, it was the guy who stole it's fault. After the gfx comp, and the announcement of the Action Replay theft, the normal mayhem restarted for a while... Everyone was asked if they would donate 50 pence to the guy who had his Action replay @^stolen (Kryme/Phobia I think?), about 40 pounds were raised for him. (Which is still 20 pounds too little, but it's better than nothing) Normal party things happened (copying making friends, talking etc etc...), for a while.. The RSI demomaker competition was announced, and they asked for entries, but guess what - they only got one!, I think it's because a lot of groups (including us) would be embaressed if it got spread!, so the RSI-Demomaker compo was cancelled. The next competition was the Music one, the same voting system was used for this compo too, I didn't vote in this competition, because there were 17 tunes, and I was *VERY* tired, I was sort of listening to some of the tunes, but not paying attention to any of the names.... Part of the way through the music competition, all the power went dead and the room went black, this was @# @t7,02 @^@f00@t4restored in a minute or so, but apparently the power supply had been hit by lightning, as a huge electrical storm rages across England After a very short and highly interrupted rest, I felt better, and started listening to some of the tunes (I was still really tired), around this time it was Hydlide/Quartz's tune, I remember because he was really pissed, and the other Quartz guys were taking the piss out of his tune, and then over the microphone, came "Its Ok everybody, Hydlide's just been sick in the sink", then Quartz made another funny statement - "Hydlide is no longer a member of Quartz",(This was only a joke, so don't go writing it in your news-sections, because he is still a member) in the background to this Hydlide could clearly be heard shouting obsenaties. A lot of the tunes at the end of the music compo were rave tunes, @^some people didn't like these (Hydlides was a Rave tune), as said earlier, I was sleepy at this time, and so missed the results, but I do remember Anarchy winning the Demo Competition, with a great demo by Paradroid called "Deja Vu". Some people were going by this time (even though it was a 2 day party, there were a lot of BORING people who left in the first night), some people were just going out to camp, stay somewhere etc, but some left. Quite a few people who had been there earlier, had gone after a while. In the night the demo-competition entries were shown (but not voted on yet), Please note, I have only given a few coders names, not the rest of the team who worked on the demo, also I have forgotten some of the coders ('coz of bad memory, and I didn't plan to originally do this report, so didn't write down the results) The first was a rather poor @# @t7,02 @^@f00@t4(sorry guys, but thats the way I feel) intro (?) - the intro had a few sine waves and circles made of dots, on a copper list colour faded red screen, and that was about it for the first entry.. Paradroid/Anarchy's DEJA VU was shown, and a lot of people already reckoned that this one would win, because this had quite a few nice effects in it, filled circles on normal filled vectors, etc, generally nice effects.. Ranx/Quartz had a demo up as well, this tells the story of a polluted earth, and a colony of people who go off to find a new planet to live on, but theres a twist, they end up back on earth due to a faulty take off... this was a good demo, after the story part, some other effects come on, like a stencilled colour cycling scroll etc Majic Mushroom/Quartz had a demo up too, this has some nice effects like pixel plasma, sine dots, etc etc EOC @^1999 - Entered a demo (I think so anyway), I can't remember too much about this apart from that it had some normal standard type effects in it... After the demo compo-preview, I got some sleep across some chairs.... I don't know what time it was when I finally woke up, because the actual hall had no windows and the lights were still on. I can't remember the exact order of events from here on, so they may be in a different order to the way they happened. The Demo competition started, with the same voting system as the other compos, where everyone watched the demos again, yet again, I don't remember all of the results exactly: @t61. Deja Vu by Anarchy 2. Dynamic Illusions by Quartz 3. Divine Madness by Quartz @# @t7,02 @^@f00@t4I missed the football and Tug-of-war competitions, because we went to get some (Real) Coke and other snacks from one of the only local stores... I did see the disk throwing compo though, it was held on a big field at the back of the party place, well you know how this competition works (everyone stands at one end of a field, and people take turns in throwing disks, the disk that goes the furthest towards the other end of the field wins - simple) Some people tried using just standard disks, others were using branded disks, cutting pieces off the disk, melting stones to disks etc etc. Most of the extra things that people tried made the disks go no further than usual, the guy who people thought would win (the one who had the furthest throw so far) was pretty well built, and normal sized, etc, now the last competitor (I think), was a little guy about 14 years old, @^and guess what everybody - he won, it shows that the tecnique matters more than the muscle power! The party started to cool down somewhat as the day progressed, until about 7 o'clock when there were only about 3 groups there (Us, Quartz, Digital and Paradroid/Anarchy!), we left at 7 o'clock to set off on our journey home.... @t1OTHER THINGS @t4The darts and 9-pin skittles tournaments didn't appear to take place (unless we missed them) The snacks and cooked foods didn't happen properly on the Saturday because the caterers didn't turn up or something, but every hour, someone would go out to the MacDonalds a few miles away, and would take orders from everyone who wanted food, since this was every hour, it wasn't that bad. Also Quartz were @# @t7,02 @^@f00@t4selling cheap crisps (potatoe chips), cans of cola (not the real one though), and cans of Quartz(!) lager. On the Sunday, there were 2 old women with a cooker supplying food for us hungry people, there was standard stuff, burgers, toast, sausages etc.., also they were supplying drinks like coffee, and tea. The bar was in a seperate door, so you had to go out of the main hall to the outside, and then in another door to the bar. In the bar was the only phone (that we knew of), pinned up on the phone were some 0800 numbers relating to the party, set up by Quartz (to non UK people 0800 numbers are toll free numbers), one of the numbers was a party hotline where you could get details of who won what compo, what was happening etc... The other line was - an abortion helpline set up by them - hmmmm - I wonder if they payed to set the numbers up ? - @^hm phreakety phreak eh? The power supply was nice and strong, and so we had no cut-outs (apart from when we were struck by lightning). @t1IN SUMMARY @t4Overall a good fun party, but not enough people were able to make it, this isn't Quartz's fault, it's just that a lot of people were on holiday, also some people even had tickets, but their transport failed at the last minute. Not many lamers were there, OK there were a number of the SMALL groups there, as well as the bigger ones, but I think that nearly every group released something, from a tiny intro to a full track-demo. Also because of the general atmosphere of the party, people were more open and willing to talk to each other and make friends, this is one of the critiscisms of the Anarchy Party 92 that people had, that @# @t7,02 @^ @f00@t4people were only talking to their contacts and immediate friends, and not touring and making friends with everybody... The UK scene has had a real conference now, even though some who came were treating it like a one day party, some people that we knew of that left earlier hadn't come as far as we had, but still left on the Saturday night. I suppose that the more conferences we have here in the UK, the more used to them people will become. If this conference had more people who were willing to stay for the full 2 days, I think it would have been one of the best UK parties so far.. Some groups who were there include (not every group is listed, because I don't know of every group there): @^ @t6Anarchy (only 1 - Paradroid!!) Crystal (only 1 I think - Tripwire) Cybernetix Damage Delicious design Destiny Dianetix Digital Dimension-X (2 - Ghost and Gemini) EOC 1999 Futura (only 3 out of our 8!) LSD Lunatics Phobia Plasma Quartz (obviously!) Silents (There were about 2 there) The Lodge @# @t7,02 @^ @f00@t4No doubt there were probably more groups there, but people not wearing name badges, and groups without posters and signs, and people we didn't chat to meant we don't know of everyone who was there. Two of the DIGITAL guys were from Germany!! (did you come over especially for the party ?) As said earlier, a good party, well worth the 4 pounds entrance price, which is only one pound more than the entrance price of most 1 day parties!, all thats left to say is - see you at the next party (probably the DIGITAL one in October) - come over and have a chat if you do go!, (look out for our new T-Shirts and posters) Hope you enjoyed this report, if not - tough - write your own! Just before I go, I must just welcome our two new members: @^ @t6 * THE WELDER (CODER) * * MR GUMBY (ARTIST) * @t4 Welcome guys! We need more members coders, gfxers, musicians. (new traders also required), write to me with examples of your work: @t1 Trixter/Futura @t5 94 Argyll Road Cheadle Stockport GREATer Manchester SK8 2LH England @@