Party report from The Party IV

PARTY GLIMPSE - The alternative report put together of fractions of statements and facts

* Around 3000 people visited The Party 1994, about 60% of them were Amiga owners. The figure is uncertain since the counting system broke down at 2850.

"I'm much more happy about this victory than our last (<a href="https://amiga.millway.dk/party/the-gathering-94">Gathering &#039;94</a> with <a href="https://amiga.millway.dk/prod/86">Sequential</a>, -ed.) since I think that <a href="https://amiga.millway.dk/scener/160">Dr. Jekyll</a> and <a href="https://amiga.millway.dk/scener/165">Mr. Hyde</a> has been very underrated" - <a href="https://amiga.millway.dk/scener/164">Interphace</a>/<a href="https://amiga.millway.dk/group/andromeda">Andromeda</a>

* Devilstar/VD & Polka Brothers is considering to rename to TV-star after he together with Merge/Polka Brothers and a party organizer was interviewed for the prime time news in Danish national TV2.

* Peachy's winning picture represented the famous and foolish German TV-comedian, Helge Schneider. Actually none of the best placed pictures were the by tradition so popular naked dragon/lady pictures.

* After winning the the PC intro competition with 64 highly impressing kilobytes, Complex promised to release a multiplatform demo, meaning that Amiga and PC owners will be able to enjoy the same.

* Dr. Skull/Virtual Dreams totally forgot to write credits in his demo, Psychedelic. Apart from the code by himself, graphics was drawn by Ra/Sanity (rayt by Alien?), the first module by Julius/Polka Brothers, the second by Probe/VD. Skull also "forgot" the rule that the demo should be able to run from floppy. IT DIDN'T. Actually the organizers gave him special permission to let the 2.4 Mb run from harddisk.

"... sends fuckings to <a href="https://amiga.millway.dk/scener/563">Lord Helmet</a> of <a href="https://amiga.millway.dk/group/spaceballs">Spaceballs</a> for being a pathetic liar..." - Raytraced scroller in <a href="https://amiga.millway.dk/group/andromeda">Andromeda</a>'s <a href="https://amiga.millway.dk/prod/1235">Nexus 7</a>

* "Can I get an A500 version of Nexus 7 so I can read the hate scroller", Lord Helmet asked Andromeda with a smile. They only offered him a printout of the text.

* Ra/Sanity appeared four times on the stages when the prizes were given, all four times receiving a second prize: Graphics competition, the Amiga and PC demo competition and for a multichannel
module together with Moby. In the latter his involvement can be doubted... it could have somthing to do with that Moby wasn't present at the party.

* Alien/Virtual Dreams had similar problems since he wasn't present at the party to release his 40kb intro as the rules said. So the intro was handed in by "Devilstar/VD" who had nothing to do with the production but the organizers didn't disqualify it.

* And Chromag/Polka Brothers was hiding under the name Zulu & Grey/Rebels as he won the third price in the music competition.

* "The Fishing Trip 1994 was better than this party", Toastmaster/Movement said after visiting the party for nine hours.

* After the Polish group Union only made a 9th place with their demo containing very interesting code but awful design, Interphace/Andromeda offered to design the next Union demo.

* Sanity's 8th placed demo Roots was only a half demo since Mr. Pet didn't succeed coming to the party with his part. Read more in the interview with Chaos. If you rip Jester's module in a tracker then please check out the samples while the module is playing...

* Slide/Polka Brothers was probably the one to have most modules released at the party: 2 in the intro competition (Fresh Prince and Spoon), 4 in Polka Brothers' wild-demo Twisted, 1 in Pixie's slideshow Blob! and in cooperation with Merge he made the two modules for Polka's Prey.

* The small spelling/writing mistakes on the big screen like "Dr. Skull/Vitual" and "Devistar/Virtual Drems" weren't corrected during the competitions. A group even had to explain their actual name when receiving their prize on the stage.

"I feel that people are very arrogant at this party" - <a href="https://amiga.millway.dk/scener/964">Diesel</a>/<a href="https://amiga.millway.dk/group/razor-1911">Razor 1911</a>

* Most people will probably remember the 4-disk demo from Oxyron (shown as one of the last in the competition) as extremely boring. But they are very talented coders. The style of demo with text-routine-text-routine... is because they come directly from big succes on C64. Therefore you can of course exit all routines with the mouse buttom.
"Oxyron have to learn a lot but they are really good coders. Since they only moved to Amiga a few months ago, I guess we will see top demos from them soon", Chaos/Sanity says.

* As always the C64 ignored all hardware limitations and remade the hottest PC and Amiga effects on the 1 Mhz machine, thus receiving big applause from the crowd.

* "Haatiswikituashitatoh!" (or something similar ;-), a not too sober Finn shouting more or less every time something went wrong on the big screen.

* As always the arrangers confiscated a lot of alcohol. This year about 2000 beers and 50-60 more or less full bottles of liquor. And there was a good reason for that. As usual there were problems with damages and though the amount isn't clear yet, it was much more than last year. Some sprayed grafitti in the elevator twice, toilet paper was set on fire and a surround amplifier was stolen from the video room.

* The winner demo in the wild competition was, of course, made on an Amiga. Or actually two A4000/040 linked to play the 1.2 Gigabyte packed animations. Parts of the demo had been rendered on a Pentium though, but they had to be rerendered on Amiga because of calculating errors...
The wild compo took quite long time since the computers had to changed each time and sometimes wait for the producers - even for the, for some reason, big amount of C64 demos.

* Some violence might have been avoided because people could dance out their aggressions at the rave in a hall nearby or "kill" their friends in the big laser game field, taking up the space of a half hall. The "live" techno concert in the main hall was quite popular, at least quite a lot of people were watching the dancing girls closely.

* A CD-ROM with all the stuff released at The Party 1994 (except for some wild demos maybe...) will be out in a couple of months. Bugfixed update versions of the productions can until the beginning of February be sent to:

Red Scorpion/Bonzai (PC)
Ulrik Henriksen
Stensagervej 5A
DK-8260 Viby J
E-mail: surprise@aarhues.dk