This is a breif round-up of the latest happenings at DHS and a small party report from Little Computer People 2004.
Ok, we decided a couple of weeks ago that we'd check out the Little Computer People demo party this summer. It's a party for C64 and they wanna expand to every other -old- computer formats. They had arrangend compos for demo, music and graphics, in two categories; c64 and 'others'. That was probably a wise thing to do all things considered. We arrived just when the party opened on friday 30/7, and could select a good place which didn't seem to get very jammed during the party (oh boy we were wrong).
We packed up our Falcons, and just from the start a lot of people started looking strange at our monitors with those unfamiliar desktops and editors (thing/qed). People asked what on earth these things are, and we just said it's an Atari.. 'uhmm.. isn't that desktop green?'. Ahh well, the same question came a few dozen times, but very nice to see so many people being interested. Not only by the desktop colour, but also about the hardware, the OS and if there are new demos still being made.
As time go by, other well known Atari guys drop in, Crazy Q and Nerve to be precise. Also Mermaid of Creators and Dbug II fom NeXT shows up in the car with Nerve. The place fills up until there are close to no space left. Loads of C64's. More than I've seen at once before. Pretty cool, after all these guys bring their real machines and code them. No emushit.
The party is oldskool, not only so by the machines of choice, but also the way it is organised. Get a place, tables, chairs and pack as many people os possible there. Proper sleeping places, showers, food orders etc are as long away as it can be. No EIL luxury here, it's back to basics, like I remember parties from 80's and beginning of the 90's. But let's face it.. We're growing old and getting lazy, comfortable and frankly used to better standards. So I would recomend future visitors to get a cheap hotel or so to sleep at. Luckily we had a few friends living in the town so we could crash and clean up there (huge thanks to TAM/Toys and JAG/DTVM for their excellent housing and Ajje/IMP for the taxi service!).
Ok, saturday night, compo time. We're desperately trying to get a demo ready for showing in the compo. Coding and coding and... compo! Rats! If we had got just another eight hours and.. ahh well. Thanks alot to Mermaid and Crazy Q for delivering goods of unparallaed quality for the demo. We will finish it post-party instead. Music compos begins in the 'other' category. _REALLY_ good stuff here, the Gameboy and NES stuff were amazing. Well, what shouldn't happen, then happens. Crazy Q's tune had been forgotten from the voting disks and were not going to be played. After some quarrels, the organisers hook up an STe to the mixer and runs Crazys funky tune anyways, huge applause! Triplex sounds great as always, even if the sound system wasn't very dynamic. The organisers tell everyone that they can vote for the Atari song by writing notes and hand in somewhere. Ok, too bad for Crazy Q one might have thought, but these guys are serious for the most part and actually do paper-voting aside the normal disk stuff. Crazy Q ends up in first place! Hey Damo, you have to get this tracker out officially soon, it kicks ass :-)
One more compo with a bit of Atari-prospect was the 'other' Demo compo which had a demo by DbugII/NeXT (aka Dbug/Defence Force). As we have grown to learn (and accept..) Dbug has put his coding energy into the Oric 8-bit computer. Once again showing a long demo featuring checkerboard zoomers, scrollers, mandelbrot zoomer and more. Really cool 8bit stuff, pleaaase come back to the ST ;)
The other compos were rather uninteresting Atari-wise but had some quality stuff, especially the C64 demo compo had a few good ones.
That ends the party report and we're heading back to post-party and why this article is nearly a week late. Well, sometime shit happens, and this summer it did really happen. On the way back home from LCP I got a terrible pain in the stomach area and had to visit the hospital. Luckily it wasn't terribly bad, the appendix had to be taken away. But still this gets you down some time, and right now I'm at home again, slowly recovering.
That means our little LCP demo is delayed and this site will not be updated on the spot when something arrives. Sorry about that, but that's how things are at the moment.
For example, Leonard mailed me a few days ago about a new online-compo, and there's no news article yet. I am not doing some sort of boycott if somebody thought so, it's all about energy, and for now this small notice here and the link below will have to do. I hope you will understand, and have patience. The little DHS/Creators demo will arrive when things are back to normal.
And to end this text with the best news: DHS got a new musican! Crazy Q joined up the other day and we're very happy to recruit talented lonely Atari sceners in sweden :)
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