your best party memory
category: general [glöplog]
nosfe, what happened anyway? i only noticed virne laying around, i thought he started getting drunk just then
When we went to MS98, my first demo-party, Yoghurt forgot mouse AND keyboard of the only PC we brougth and we couldn't borrow any, so he had to drive back and get them... Then my Quantum Fireball (mind the name) harddisk went up in flames (one chip was completely burnt afterwards) and destroyed all my code + data on it.
But after boozing and watching "The fulcrum" on the bigscreen I wasn't angry anymore. Never seen so much monitors beeing switched off so quickly...
But after boozing and watching "The fulcrum" on the bigscreen I wasn't angry anymore. Never seen so much monitors beeing switched off so quickly...
bush party II my first party.
winning tp99 was bloody great.. And the bp04 amiga demo compo kicked ass :)
and of course all the friends and all the booze.. singing polish songs (at least trying very hard) together with zig/floppy at ms2k (I think) was a great laugh. :D
winning tp99 was bloody great.. And the bp04 amiga demo compo kicked ass :)
and of course all the friends and all the booze.. singing polish songs (at least trying very hard) together with zig/floppy at ms2k (I think) was a great laugh. :D
walking around and ask other sceners how the do the job e.g. software rendering
after realizing that the own prod couldn't get ready until deadline
*bump* ;)
(just for the sake of eventually having some more nice stories ;)
(just for the sake of eventually having some more nice stories ;)
Winning that huge cash price on MS2k3 really ruled!
laying under a tree.. stoned =)
drinking rum in Jamaica
ENLiGHT'97 did end rather strange way ==
because E97 was cancelled on the 2nd day, we occupied some park next to the partyplace which became rather trashed after a while // so milicya arrived and asked us to leave, causing an outburst of laughter:: how could they handle hundred of sceners? // well, they couldnt but a squad of special forces armed with kalashnikovs did // everyone was arrested, searched and identified // me & mates got away thanks to the foreign passports, and noone was killed in the final afaik=)
++ PHAT2 ofcourse but i wont go into details:: there're too many
dalezy, he found out in the monday morning that he still had one bottle he had brought from finland. so, he had to drink it all very quickly. :D
oh man...
TG94: Meeting the oslo dudes like tmk, wwater, snoopy, purple raven++ and found INF with them.
O95: Stripping on stage with Slummy
TG95: Watching Dope
TG98: Me and Darkness/imphobia trolling with sleeping people. Me, darkness and thor/tpolm smoking a lot of dope believing an IBM commercial was the wild compo. Slummy saving my life a couple of times when I tried rollerblades.
Solskogen04: Arriving. Meeting everyone again.Playing football with myself. Hansa beer.
Evoke04: the entire party.
BP05: Me and tekno at the Aral. Shouting. Dancing.
TG94: Meeting the oslo dudes like tmk, wwater, snoopy, purple raven++ and found INF with them.
O95: Stripping on stage with Slummy
TG95: Watching Dope
TG98: Me and Darkness/imphobia trolling with sleeping people. Me, darkness and thor/tpolm smoking a lot of dope believing an IBM commercial was the wild compo. Slummy saving my life a couple of times when I tried rollerblades.
Solskogen04: Arriving. Meeting everyone again.Playing football with myself. Hansa beer.
Evoke04: the entire party.
BP05: Me and tekno at the Aral. Shouting. Dancing.
Hahah. Tekno at BP05 -> Worst hangover ever. :D
my best party memory is from solskogen, wakeing up fresh and clean
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reminds me of flag2001 when the funcompo managed to make the whole partyplace smell of puke in a matter of 2 hours i guess...
I've only been to two large and two small, some of the best memories I have include things like:
- Meeting scene idols and finding out they're humble and you have a regular good old time just talking about scene stuff
- Seeing truly talented people create demostuff (art, music, code) during the party in a few hours or less -- stuff so good, done so fast, that nobody would ever have believed it unless they saw it with their own eyes
At a small party in Pyro's (large) basement in Illinois, we called long-distance to New York to "connect" with another small local demoparty to hold an impromptu fast coding compo... we had one hour, everything we brought with us, and a single theme: "Bagels". We were allowed to use one pre-coded routine (like a rasterizer, or voxelscape, etc.) but everything else had to be created right there and then in one hour. Some of the results were just hilarious :-)
At one of the NAIDs there was a music fastcompo and all you had was Scream Tracker 3 -- that's it, no samples, just the ST3.ZIP! Make a tune in 30 minutes! Most people were going into edit/edlin/debug and trying to figure out how create suitable waveforms and save them out to disk; others were a little more creative and quickly wrote qbasic programs to dump out sine waves or similar. But Necros -- this is why I love the scene -- took about 30 seconds to think it over, said something like "I haven't got time for this shit!" and proceeded to load entire CHUNKS of Scream Tracker 3 ITSELF as samples!! When I saw the tune playing with sample names like "FILE_ID.DIZ" I laughed so long and hard I nearly shit myself. (Not surprisingly, since he had 29.5 minutes to actually track a tune, he won and it sounded surprisingly good. I'm sure the tune can be tracked down somewhere...)
Another memory was Tran trying to beat the living shit out of everyone who was trying to take his picture or videotape him. He wasn't drunk and he wasn't kidding -- he honestly looked like he was going to turn your face into hamburger if you tried it. I took a chance and asked him politely if I could take his picture; he paused, looked at me funny, said "No, but thanks for asking me first" and we got along great the rest of the day.
At NAID95 I was a demo judge, and during pre-screening there was one demo that locked up during a voxel part. We called the guy in to give him a chance to fix his demo; he took one look at the screen, rebooted, loaded some data file (not the .exe, some sin table or something) into debug, seached to a known location, changed a single byte, saved, and now it worked. I never asked him about it but I couldn't help laughing after he left: How the fuck did he know exactly what it was, and more importantly why didn't he fix it before he submitted if he knew it was a problem? :-)
Some of my best memories are AFTER the party -- like meeting basehead in person at a party, but for the next 3-4 years having regular conversations with him in IRC now that we knew who we were.
This is such an awesome thread :-)
- Meeting scene idols and finding out they're humble and you have a regular good old time just talking about scene stuff
- Seeing truly talented people create demostuff (art, music, code) during the party in a few hours or less -- stuff so good, done so fast, that nobody would ever have believed it unless they saw it with their own eyes
At a small party in Pyro's (large) basement in Illinois, we called long-distance to New York to "connect" with another small local demoparty to hold an impromptu fast coding compo... we had one hour, everything we brought with us, and a single theme: "Bagels". We were allowed to use one pre-coded routine (like a rasterizer, or voxelscape, etc.) but everything else had to be created right there and then in one hour. Some of the results were just hilarious :-)
At one of the NAIDs there was a music fastcompo and all you had was Scream Tracker 3 -- that's it, no samples, just the ST3.ZIP! Make a tune in 30 minutes! Most people were going into edit/edlin/debug and trying to figure out how create suitable waveforms and save them out to disk; others were a little more creative and quickly wrote qbasic programs to dump out sine waves or similar. But Necros -- this is why I love the scene -- took about 30 seconds to think it over, said something like "I haven't got time for this shit!" and proceeded to load entire CHUNKS of Scream Tracker 3 ITSELF as samples!! When I saw the tune playing with sample names like "FILE_ID.DIZ" I laughed so long and hard I nearly shit myself. (Not surprisingly, since he had 29.5 minutes to actually track a tune, he won and it sounded surprisingly good. I'm sure the tune can be tracked down somewhere...)
Another memory was Tran trying to beat the living shit out of everyone who was trying to take his picture or videotape him. He wasn't drunk and he wasn't kidding -- he honestly looked like he was going to turn your face into hamburger if you tried it. I took a chance and asked him politely if I could take his picture; he paused, looked at me funny, said "No, but thanks for asking me first" and we got along great the rest of the day.
At NAID95 I was a demo judge, and during pre-screening there was one demo that locked up during a voxel part. We called the guy in to give him a chance to fix his demo; he took one look at the screen, rebooted, loaded some data file (not the .exe, some sin table or something) into debug, seached to a known location, changed a single byte, saved, and now it worked. I never asked him about it but I couldn't help laughing after he left: How the fuck did he know exactly what it was, and more importantly why didn't he fix it before he submitted if he knew it was a problem? :-)
Some of my best memories are AFTER the party -- like meeting basehead in person at a party, but for the next 3-4 years having regular conversations with him in IRC now that we knew who we were.
This is such an awesome thread :-)
I almost forgot the very best moment: At NAID95, Dope had just been released (TG was happening at the same time) and someone grabbed a floppy and ran to the bigscreen to play it. As it played, without any annoucement whatsoever, people slowly stopped what they were doing and watched, silently. (Like the previous poster said, "I've never seen so many monitors turn off so quickly" :-) After it was over, massive cheering -- just to cheer in general at a great piece of demoscene work, even if it wasn't a part of the party we were at. Snowman wrote about it later in demonews as a life-changing experience; at one point, everyone in the hall -- 800 people or so -- were all experiencing the same thing, unique to the demoscene, and we all "got it" collectively. Moments like that define the scene and yet are so hard to explain...
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proceeded to load entire CHUNKS of Scream Tracker 3 ITSELF as samples!!
I think we all did that once at least :)
at fried bits 3 in 1995, t-tje/sentry spotted a "huge snoring german non-atari guy" in the hallway. so i grabbed the camera, followed t-tje back and we made the most famous piece of video footage of the mid-90's dutch atari scene: the bowl of water didn't wake him up at all (anyone who's been in the army surely knows what trick i'm talking about right now :-))
so around 1999, i was having some discussions with evil/dhs, who by that time was well established as one of the leading figures in the atari scene. turns out he had been sleeping in the hallway during FB3... at exactly the location where we spotted that "german non-atari guy" :-)))
so around 1999, i was having some discussions with evil/dhs, who by that time was well established as one of the leading figures in the atari scene. turns out he had been sleeping in the hallway during FB3... at exactly the location where we spotted that "german non-atari guy" :-)))
Well : many parties were cool
The crystal summer 2 ( my first atari party ) in 1993.
So many people doing demos. I have a memory a gymnasium full of demo scener.
The place to be and place to be again in the south of france.
The saturne Parties ( of course teh last one was the wiredes one : no power )
The wired 98 : where we released SHAD 1. Seeing a demo in which u put 9 month of your free time on the big screen is really a nice experience.
The takeover parties : probably the most hardcore and well organised events i ever attened.
The party 2000 : spending 15 hours freezing in a minibus to get to aars with french and belgium sceners. Drinking beer with HJB guys.
The BP03 : sitting on the grass, drinking beer and mirabelle listening to the music compo.
The sota 2002 : presenting raw confession on the demo compo... seeing guille becoming white while a deepness in the sky was shown...talking about the demoscene with lettique and XXX.
And all the other i will attend ...
The crystal summer 2 ( my first atari party ) in 1993.
So many people doing demos. I have a memory a gymnasium full of demo scener.
The place to be and place to be again in the south of france.
The saturne Parties ( of course teh last one was the wiredes one : no power )
The wired 98 : where we released SHAD 1. Seeing a demo in which u put 9 month of your free time on the big screen is really a nice experience.
The takeover parties : probably the most hardcore and well organised events i ever attened.
The party 2000 : spending 15 hours freezing in a minibus to get to aars with french and belgium sceners. Drinking beer with HJB guys.
The BP03 : sitting on the grass, drinking beer and mirabelle listening to the music compo.
The sota 2002 : presenting raw confession on the demo compo... seeing guille becoming white while a deepness in the sky was shown...talking about the demoscene with lettique and XXX.
And all the other i will attend ...
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The saturne Parties ( of course teh last one was the wiredes one : no power )
heheh, i remember dbug explaining this to us when we were worried about how Function2004 might turn out :) "you cant get worse than saturne4 anyway" :D
ahhh this thread is so lovely. i would really love to cut out the best parts and make it a diskmag article.
actually, this thread inspired me for an idea for a series of articles in pain diskmag. anyone who wants to write 2-4 pain pages on their _first_ party experience, contact me at dipswitch_at_kaoz_dot_org. please mind that i don't want another theparty/ms/assembly/whateverbigparty report. it would be rather interesting to read about small forgotten parties that either noone knows anymore (like, i don't know... neithernor'97 or breed'99 for example!) or parties everyone knows they're important but they were so long ago that noone remembers the details (like the early-90s cebits or the digital symposium in england).
please _don'T_ post the stuff, which you want to get published, here in this thread. i will not include it because it spoils the fun. rather contact me.
so, if anyone has anything interesting to tell (it should be kinda partyreports though, not single experiences), take the chance! the next pain issue is likely to get published in mid-late summer.
please _don'T_ post the stuff, which you want to get published, here in this thread. i will not include it because it spoils the fun. rather contact me.
so, if anyone has anything interesting to tell (it should be kinda partyreports though, not single experiences), take the chance! the next pain issue is likely to get published in mid-late summer.