from party to party
ellvis / ZeroTeam
- From party to party -
(Cafe'03 and FOReVER 5 party reports and comparision by
ellvis / ZeroTeam)
CAFE'03
in the summer'03 mikezt and ellvis
did a little mad thing - a travelling little over 2000km to
visit Speccy party in Russia-Cafe'03.
trip was not prepared very well,
we were not taking care much about
accomondations or travellings. but
party was the main point and it
was most important.
we came to the party with a lot of
other people. we were little like
in another world - all those people who we knew about only
because of demos, were in the same train
with us. it was a nice feeling to
see that they all really exist:)
we missed the official begining of
party because we were eating in
close restaurant. well, food was
good, just the woman working there
was not really fast. :)
first day of party was about
Speccy. classic competitions as
gfx, music, intro (512bytes) and
demo. the first new thing for us
was the fact, that noone there had
own computer, party was strictly
only for watching the production
presented on bigscreen. technical
background looked very good
sound was great (and really not silent:), big screen was really
big.
CAFE'03 was biggest Speccy event
in Russia in 2003 year and it really looked like that - i think
that most of all active people around
Speccy were there. we spent a lot
of time in talks, but we also wanted to enjoy the party (well,
sorry to all who did not understood our jokes and also sorry
for our not joinings of people outside as
we really wanted to watch the production). nice was the fact,
that mikezt took part in intro competition and even if he was
not the winner, he not ended on last
place.
little surprise was the fact, that
after all the competitions the party place was closed and
everybody had to leave. we were little confused, because we had
no place to sleep (and even it's not problem
to sleep on the street for us, but
we simply wanted some great comfort and not street !:-), but
organisers finaly let us to sleep on party place. thanks to
them!
second day was about pc and amiga
competitions. well, it's ok, just
little boring after some time for
me. very nice was one amiga demo
pretty against USA - there were two
guys from USA presented on the party so i think they were having
fun. :)
well, it was another world - so
much people around Speccy scene,
guys taking interviews for magazines, lot of new productions,
words as "lamer" in the air:) and
so and so and so. the scene in russia is really big and it's
possible to take a lot of energy from such events. CAFE was
different party then we used to know from
here, but it have a lot of advantages which we can't se here.
FOReVER 5
i came to party very late - it was
about 2am in saturday morning. there was just very few people-i
t's little sad that people are unable
to free themselves for one full
wekend and friday. i met few Speccy people - Shrek, Dizzy,
Logout and so. atari people were sleeping
or away in pub, c64 the same. forever is the biggest pure 8bit
multiplatform party in middle europe, but this friday was there
just about 30 people.
saturday was very good in the way
that there was official program.
so people were not just sitting
and working on their computers,
but hey had also fun with other people. it was throwing with
5,25 " diskette and playing a football
match in microprose soccer on c64
(Well, zx scene loosed:).
during saturday came the usuall
amount of people, so party was on
every year standart. afternoon
there were some presentations of
new games (c64), digisid - SID emulation (Speccy) and later
started very long and boring music competitions. this time was
a little problem with sound aparature, but
for next years it will be better
for sure.
demo competition was little surprise for atari and c64 scene
was demo atTRAPA by MB Maniax. both scenes prommised revenge,
so i am unpatient to see what they will show us on next forever.
sunday is just about prizes giving, this time we made prizes
little more better - not only
t-shirts but also calculator and
other stuff.
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well, and what's diferent between
CAFE and FOReVER?
computers. CAFE was party for watching and talking, meeting and
so. Forever is also the same, but you
can also bring your own computer.
well, saying truth, people here
even can't imagine that they will
be unable to bring computers to
the party. and it's not like they
all the time sit in front of computer.
the scene. well, saying truth, russian scene looked to me little
like "professional". like it's very strictly divided between
"Elite" and "lamers". here people
take it as pure hobby.
on both parties is lot of alcohol:) people here visit more
pubs, on CAFE they were drinking
before party place.
CAFE is MUCH bigger party.
i wanna thank here to some people
who helped us a lot. at first it's
to Dizzy - he took care about us
for all the two weeks which we spent
in Russia. next is Unbeliever - we
were his guests for few days and
as he look like "professional
elite ":), he is really a great
person. next big thanks goes to organizers of CAFE - well, it
was ugly from you to let us sleep on the street:) but thanks
for letting us on the party place and also
thanks for the party itself!
greets to all who we met there
i'll not write any names because
it was a LOT of people and i don't
wanna forget for anyone.
ellvis / ZeroTeam
