Welcome dear colleagues ! I will report you here the carryforward of
the last coding party organized by the group PC Mentasm which took
place with Cournon of Auvergne in the 63.
Let us note that this event proceeded at the same place that last year
in the general-purpose room of Cournon close to a base of leisure.
Volcanic Party 5 took place of February 19 at February 21.
As I had liked the last CP well, I hurry myself to return my
reservation of 90 francs (the price on the spot was 120 francs).
Although this coding party is without interest for our Atariste
community, it is normal that the readers of Toxic Mag can keep up to
date with the last productions with the data-processing world, and
this all confused machines for I point out it are not sectarian
towards the other machines.
Left around 8 hours the morning Friday and a passage to Mée Sur
Seine... (guys who often read my articles must know this village
now)
It is a city lost at the fine bottom of the mysterious jungle of
Fontainebleau where a zikos lives that everyone likes well that it
resembles a weasel. In short, let us leave of with dimensions
suspense and are honest. Why should I be malicious towards these
small beasts which in addition absolutely anything did me ? And well
does it of it is because of him : yes yes completely because of this
zikos ! With its Breton origins it is not rare to cross it from time
to time circling of liana in liana dressed of a loincloth in skin of
zebra and singing with keep silent tete " I hear the wolves, the fox and
the weasel... " etc... In short, rather strange as attitude but the
question is not there : who is it ? We will never know it the truth is
elsewhere as he likes to repeat it.) Good I begin again : after a
passage to Mée to recover named DMA SC well, the best musician of the
galaxy ;-) direction Auvergne !
After loads of adventures among closes and of fields, we
arrived : miss chance... Contrary to last year where one had
hardly waited 5 minutes to enter, here we have to wait for at least
1h15 ! And there was even a guy who waited more than 3 hours ! Us,
with a pretty lie and thanks to the solidarity of Exyl de Sector One
and Razaac de Supremacy, well one succeeded in passing through. In
fact while our accomplices installed our material undermines anything
by a catch door whose they only knew the existence, I succeeded in
convincing the organizers that me and DMA SC had come without material
thus that it was useless to make us wait like patients during hours !
Worst it is than the tail did not advance : the organizers had not
envisaged such an multitude (more than 850 people compared to 500 last
year) thus the arrived first had squatted tables too much thus I let
to you imagine the brothel...
Bad point this year with regard to the organization...
If not on the level of Ataristes one could meet on the spot :
Good useless to veil the face : about atarist activity, it was
nothing. But I say well : nothing the whole ! Same of my dimensioned,
the motivation was not there : with St Survivor, well one said himself
that the report was really bitter : if that continuous will be
necessary to emigrate on the PC... heu not there I laugh, is not
necessary to talk cock !
Ah if ! In fact it seems to to me that Ptif/Typhoon came out small a
intro not too technical but funny (super the duck).
In short, one awaited all impatiently the official exit of Pie Bill
Gates of Sector One but following the incompetence of Centek, Falcon
de Exyl fell in roads (thank you the CT2) : Exyl was
without Atari to code, it was hot. Moreover, of my dimensioned, I was
hardly motivated to draw anything : excessive heat, tiredness (hey yes
in CP one sleeps very little) and then let us say frankly : the
motivation was not there vis-a-vis a scene Atari dying woman and with
a scene PC (and same Amiga !) in full form it would be can be a little
time to put some questions... In all the cases, I hope that next
Error in Line (CP organized by our friends let us teutons) will
contradira me a little since some productions are awaited and not the
least.
But what to say moreover on this CP ? Compared to the last JEM 98 of
last year, Volcanic 5 was really not badly commercial (but after all
is an evil ? More advantageous rewards, larger means...) and really
centered PC : PC demos are quite simply fabulous, sublimates
design and all the remainder.
Notice with PII 450 (and same of the PIII now !), the coders do not
have to break their head too much for programming effects. Same on
the level of the graphic designers : with 16 software and color
million like Photoshop, believe me, the drawing it is part of pleasure
on these bikes ! But good, I am those which privilege the final visual
aspect : one of fout a little knowing how a demo was made if
returned is sublime : PC demos are to date the most beautiful
productions all machines confused (and that it is not said to me that
that is not worth the demos of the Flipo style or Union demo :
they are too oldschools).
The only funny moment of the party was the diffusion of a film X
saturdays evening around the 2 hours of the morning when the room
comatait : guaranteed effect (except on the rare girls present ; -)
If not, the productions presented were of a very good level :
animations were terrible (techniques and sometimes quite funny), the
graphs presented were very good (that went from the scan to the pure
chief of work like that of Zaac on Amiga : made in three days the guy
almost slept on his machine but the result is sublime. One feels
small vis-a-vis guy like him of the times).
To finish, this CP was without interest for the Atari machines. It is
clear that if you had a PC (it is also my case) or Amiga, your
presence was justified fully, only for the demos or same to
connect itself to the network to recover quite interesting tricks (isn't
it Razaac ? -)
I wonder how the guy exclusively on Atari could occupy their time...
To avoid for the next year !
Bye !
EdO/Sector One
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