----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturne Party IV party report by lORD / iMPULSE^aBSOLUTe!^cRiMSOnjiHAd Date : 1-3, November, 1996 Place: Chelles / France Friday, 1st november: --------------------- My plane landed in Paris at 9.30am after a 2 hours boring flight with Air France. After paying 80 FF for the train ticket, i headed for Chelles. Of course, there were signs everywhere in Chelles showing the direction of the party, except around train station. Anyway, i arrived to the partyplace around 12.30pm. The Culture Centre where the party was held was really beautiful - too good for a party, i thought, though it was said to be the same place where the previous Saturnes were held, too - in spite there was no lasting trace of them around ;)) The building covered 2 big halls, an opened inner corner between the 2 halls, and a sleeping-room (though in spite i rather chose the comfort of undertable) The entrance fee was 120 FF (36 DM) that i think is quite fair compared to similar foreign events and you even got a votebook, infosheet and headache for it (i had to fill an attendance sheet on french keyboard...arrgghh... with all my private infos - probably, they didn't ask my foot-size yet only) Anyway, i got in the room and pitched tent a few metres from the entrance. In the afternoon, there was an outdoor crash compo (not baseboards only, but whole machines!) and a Duke Nukem compo. The first shocking news got me after this event only. There was NO Internet connection from the partyplace, in spite it was promised in the invitation. I agreed on thursday with EFT/Impulse (coder) we meet or irc at 19h on friday in order to receive the new 64kb Impulse intro to compete with, but I couldn't, so this case we gave chance to win someone else, too ;) In the evening i wanted to go out for having fun and boozing with some friends, but haven't found any pubs nor "knife-throwing" places around the partyplace (seems the French ppl live too sober life) So we stayed and watched the Wild and Fast compos all the night. After these compos, till morning, videofilms and demos were presented on the bigscreen (or at least i heard something like that, under the table) Saturday, 2nd november: ----------------------- At 8am ZanOne! (my hungarian friend) and me woke up and went to Paris. Somehow it seemed a bit smaller on map. Especially like the way we did it, by foot. But that's for sure, if somebody invites me in the evening for a 10 mins walk-around only, i tear out his balls immediately. Anyway, we arrived back to the partyplace sometimes around 5pm. The module compo delayed 2 hours. I was really awaiting it, since i was contributing, too... Finally it started... 12 modules were selected... The first module was played...the 2nd, too... 3rd...4th...5th... 11th... 12th... but where's my one?! I really wondered, because anybody whom i played my module before, enjoyed it very much. And I was working on it for more than 2 weeks, so i didn't want to acquiesce in it at all. I rushed immediately to Vodka to complain. He told he tries to go after what had happened. Later he came back and told not only mine, but the winner of last Saturne's module-compo (the italien Fby's) module was not played either. Vodka explained, the guy who selected the modules somehow 'forgot' to listen to our modules (we were the only foreigner contributors!)... So, I got really disappointed... The graphics compo was the next one. All the pictures were shown twice. I think, the screen was quite good, big and enough colourful for my colour-blind eyes, too.... Just after the graphics, the raytracing compo came of course... And then a break. Or at least i thought. But Tetsuo/Saturne (member of the staff) appeared on the stage, the ligths went down, and he made a fast strip! on the stage. Needless to say thunderous applause afterall (though i rather vote for girls) ... After his unexpected dance, 8 (from far) pretty girls continued the dance-show. hmmmm. i feeled the same as in a disco, probably the only difference was less girl with even more dress... After their 10-15 mins dance, Tetsuo came back to the stage and pawed the girls in a dance with them. The compos continued after the girls had left the stage in the protect hands of their crusaders. Twelve crap 64kb intros were shown next (pc and Amiga intros together!), but there were perhaps maximum 2 pc 64k only! Seems the 68030 power is still far better and more popular than the p120! After the successful Amiga demos some failing PC ones continued. Mentasm's production (the winner of PC demos) wanted to run on the 4th attempt only. But it's usually on pc. By the morning some more films and demos were shown again on the bigscreen (and later, i was told, even Fby's and my 'forgotten' modules were played, too, during the night... but out of competition unfortunately ;( ) Sunday, 3rd november: ---------------------- After a dawn got up at 9am, i searched for Vodka and copied all the party releases from him (35 mb in .lzx) thanks man! The awarding ceremony began around 13.30pm. But the thing i really wondered at, was, the results were not shown on the bigscreen at all, only announced in French! A few more general opinion: --------------------------- - very cheap buffet and the thing, that surprised me a lot, pizza was sold from a caravan just about 10 metres in front of the building on less price than anywhere else in the town! - the kindness of the organizers were unbelievable, especially Vodka, Tetsuo and Tetsuo mama - the rest rooms were as neat as a pin ; the toilette-paper was not used for floor-covering, the mirrors were clean and unbroken, there was warm water and shower as well (though in a near building only, but nobody became snowman while he got back - as e.g it was on TP5) - there was a shopping street about 100 metres far (although on friday evening nothing was opened, except a flower shop all night) but the nearly supermarket was opened even on sunday, too - i haven't seen beggars, trashcan-divers nor drunk man! on the streets at all - Though alcohol was forbidden of course (why of course?!), i took some "soft-drink", too, and when an organizer noticed me drinking not tee, he just warned me to do it rather hidden, and he didn't call half of the security to come over here, show me their muscles and bowel out all my luggages (as it happened on The Parties) - the number of attandents was around 800-1000 that is quite acceptable for me (the strangers were 3-4 italien, 2 german and 2 hungarian), but unfortunately the most french traitor rather prefered to go to the PC ONLY Wired party to Belgium, thus i didn't meet with a lot of friends of mine ;( - Duke Nukem went to my nerves already. I don't know the guy who played on maximum volume on the bigscreen was deaf or idiot, but listening to shoots and death for 2 hours is terrible. Productions: ------------ - demos: better demos than released on Saturne III, that's for sure (Haujobb, Syndrome (Hardcore), Gods, Led) but SCENE groups already should stop making demos with no jokes and l(AMOS) code! - intros were just average, with no design and code at all - musics: too many boring modules (some tekkno or unspeakable jazz themes) Probably the (pre)selector was the same deaf Duke Nukem star. Only 2 modules out of 12 were multichannel ; Seems the number of channels is not enough either... something is still missing from the pc musicians... the talent - graphic: just 4-5 better ones (Tenshu, Made, HP, Hardfire, Rendall) Too many idiot pictures Overall feeling: ---------------- Anyway, what the party was like, in sum up? Hard to say. The party itself certainly won't get in the top 10 parties ever, but in spite this, the party atmosphere was not that bad (though i missed those party animals) and no doubt, Paris is unforgettable. And that's for sure, the kindness of the organizers either will be never-to-be-forgotten for me (they invited me for a pizza, because i came from so far away, helped me arranging everything, e.g. managing to find a place to stay, due to the fact my plane departured one day after only) So, Anyway, i think, i didn't regret at all going to Paris! But, let's see The Party 6! Special thanks for Vodka, Tetsuo, his mother, father (and his sister ;)) Party greetings to: ZanOne!, Rahiem, Touchstone, Vodka, Tetsuo, Gengis (no more, because i didn't know ANYBODY ELSE!!!!!) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- @BEGIN_FILE_ID.DIZ -------------------------------------------- Saturne Party IV party report Date : 1-3, November, 1996 Place: Chelles / France by lORD / iMS^aBS^cJ -------------------------------------------- @END_FILE_ID.DIZ