Hawdy Ladies and gentlemen, ACBS on yar screen to talk about da Saturne Party 2 held in Paris from 22 to 24 April 1994! First of all I'd like to let all of you know that Paris is the best city all around da globe. You'd ask me why? Just go there and you'll see! O.K. In a normal Evening of April me, Executor, Deus and my wife Sonia took an international Express train from Genoa straight to Paris. After a non-sleeping night we reached the Eiffel Tower, and then by a strange train (I mean... Local French trains are really shit.....) we reached Chelles, a little town 20 km east of Paris... To reach the Party place was quite easy Pratically all around the city there were arrows showing the exact direction! Anyway reached the party we discovered that already Friday morning lots of people filled the giant room arranged for the Saturne. The most interesting things were the big (I can say Giant) screen and the kind of computers... I pratically saw only 1200 and 4000... 500 is Dead! Well, we met a lot of people (720 men payed to enter, for women was free, and we saw about 50-60 females... not so bad overall....), we met expecially some swapping friends, but the strangest thing was to find the incredible, abnormal, mad editor of ABNORMALIA. Yeah, Macno was in Paris for a strange study between Milan and Paris universities, so he decided to make a little trip and met sum people... Well, There were present almost all French Groups, but only few foreigners. Us from Italy, Macno even from Italy, Darkness from Spain, Crhiseis from Belgium, Some Vision german Members, Sting of Alcatraz from Germany, Mr. King of Scoopex even from Germany and some Movement members, also if I think they were almost all French guys... dunno! French groups were almost the following : SATURNE Naturally (Hi to Heinz, Vodka and all the others great SATURNES), COMPLEX (Gengis, Clawz, Eloy and others) MELON DEZIGN (Shmoovy Shmoov, Mack, Audiomonster etc..), PARADOX (Monty), DREAMDEALERS (Napoleon, Sun, Anthony etc..), MOVEMENT (Nam, Suny etc..), SCOOPEX (Chris, Dr. Feelgood, Made, Youri etc..), SANITY (Ra), IVORY, NEW GENERATION CREW (NGC), INTENSE, HEMOROIDS, OXYGENE, IRIS, DELIGHT, MODELS, NOVA, LES SHADOCK, HERETIA, PHANTOM, SPASM, ISCH CREW, AGOA, MENTASM, EREMATION, ARKHAM, ARTCORE and Many others. Some funny compos took place like a THROW a FLOPPY DISK Competition, The guy who throwed a Floppy farest won! Bah... ehhehe.. and then the usuals game and Ping Pong compos (BTW Macno arrived 2nd.. WOW!) The first REAL competition was the Music competition. I expected really some better modules... I didn't like anything.. strange really. I think the half of the modules around deserved to win, because there was not one cool module.. all average products. The second competition was the Gfx Compo. And it was really another thing. WOW.. 80 pics, one better than the other, showed up on the big screen using SCALA to play the pics... incredible.. I think at least 40 pics were really stunning and wonderful, Anyway the MACK & WALT pic was really cool, but I think they won only beacuse they were Melon members.. The average was so high that it was really difficult to choose the best one. All the compos started with about one hour of delay respect to the program, So the Intro compos which should have started around 10 P.M. Started at Midnight. Nothing Special anyway everything of an average level, with no stunning effects and nothing more than some normal intros. Also the Paradox one was without any cool effect, Yes, it was well drawn, well designed and a cool music, but no code. So, we reached finally the demo compo.. or at least we thought so! In fact when the speaker introduced the Demo Compo some demos showed on the giant screen, but they were done with the SYLICON GRAPHICS!!! Some took from the LAINMOVERMAN, some others I never saw before. Really stunning... but people was getting tired. The real competition started at 2.30 a.m. And there were 32 Demos to watch! So it started with two useless stupid productions made by some independent children, it continued with 3 or 4 stupid things almost by Melon Dezign and then finally started the Demo Compo The first demo showed was The MOVEMENT one. and it was 3.30 a.m. At the 4.30 all the demos were shown, but almost 150-200 people got away or falt asleep before the end. Another strange thing was the 1200 used to play the demos. 3 demos crashed becuase of read/write errors, but those disks were all tested... Maybe it was the hot developed by the projector for the megascreen.... Well, The awards followed on Sunday at 1 p.m. and the prices were really cool... about 750 US$ to the 3rd demo, 1.300 to the 2nd and 2.000 to the winner... Not so bad... the whole prize money was of 36.000 FF, about 7.000 US$... The sleeping room was simply a gymnasium. We slept only a few hours, anyway it was quite comfortable. What can I say more? A Pizza dealer was just outside the party room, but I tried it... It was a French Pizza... I mean all of you poor strangers... YOU HAVE TO CAME TO ITALY TO EAT A PIZZA... otherwise you won't know what a pizza is..... Also a little Bar was arranged inside the party place with cheap prices and cool (and good) stuff to eat and to drink. To smoke was forbidden, but there was a garden inside the building, in which almost everyone spent some time smoking cigarettes (and not only cigarettes...) Overall the people was quite Lame, I mean to much children busy to play games or stun theyrselves watching State of the art... Anyway also some cool dudes where present having fun and meeting other people. I can say SATURNE organized a really cool party, I'm really looking forward for theyr 3rd party, hoping some more foreigners should come (and hoping that the speaker will talk in English next time... I don't know French and it was really hard to understand everything!) Well, that's all, my best compliments to all the dudes which worked to organize it.. So .. See ya all next time!