PEOPLE AT THE SYMPOSIUM'97
the Personality Show
by RokDaZone


FAIRLIGHT & TRSI

Some people might have already expected it:  As it seems at the
moment, the legendary Amiga-groups will go into fusion, which means
that there won't be a new group but a regular cooperation, releasing
together under one label.  Sources which names may not be given here,
but which are definately trustworthy as they belong to the inner
circle of both groups already unofficially confirmed that in the
first step, TRSI Rec.  will become TRSI&Fairlight Rec.  and also the
demosection on all platforms will melt.  First traces can be found on
Cyberlogik3.11 where the TRSI&Fairlight Experience falls in ones eye
immediately.  A quite obvious step regarding that 2-Sign/Fairlight
can already now be described the most active graphician of TRSI.


ANTIBYTE/SCOOPEX

Despite participating in the democompetition, there seemingly was no
one less interested in the results.  He even missed the pricegiving
and gave no reaction when he heard about his underrated seventh rank.
We have to ask ourselves where the overambitious coder at The Party
VI about whom we have reported in Generation 23 remained?  Well, it
seems like we have interpreted his behaviour then in a quite wrong
way.  we are sorry about that, Anti!


PARSEC/ELVEN 11

Although most Sceners rather should remember him for his articles
mainly in Abnormalia (or also as "Mr.  Nose", pardon), he proved his
musical abilities at the Symposium in quite an impressive way.  Not
only that he wrote the semi-official soundtrack for the Symposium and
reached rank three in the ProTracker Competition ("Feel the
viiiiibes!  Get high together..."), his name also appeared in the
credits of four democompetition entries.  Three groups used modules
from him, for a fourth one he delivered the samples (although those
extremely reminded of some from Maniacs of Noice).


KESTREL/SYNDROME

A quite ennerved megaswapper told us about the perspectives he sees
for himself and Syndrome and actually, there seemingly are only few
left.  Not only that he himself hasn't got any reactions from the
French sections even after four letters, he also knew to tell that
the quarrels of the individual members with Tenshu, the strange
graphician and head of Syndrome, go out of hand.  "Under the given
conditions, the group might splitt soon", Kestrel puts it to the
point.


WK-ARTWORKS/INFECT

Together with 'Wild Summer' and 'DataWorld II', their
videoeffect-processing softwarepackage Wildfire entered AmiNet and
several PD-CDs as restricted shareware version.  The version is
usable only the buffers do not get emptied after single tasks are
finished.  So, watching the examples and also processing single
pictures is possible with standard equipment.  For working on full
animations, however, you should rather have 1 GB of RAM or get
yourself the DM 50,- keyfile, which fixes the problem.  The DM 100,-
key actually opens access to highend specialeffects.  Quite a handful
of people already have registered themselves, underneath them a
software company from the USA paying with an 80$ cheque via mail.
Asked if they plan to sue people using faked keyfiles, Eksec negates:
"If someone really wants to use Wildfire seriously, he is awilled to
pay the few bucks as he also is looking for support and updates.
Wildfire measures directly to programs costing more than DM 1000,-
and it is even better than those.  If these people are so stupid to
need this faking, than they could never be serious clients anyway."


LINCOLN/LIGHTFORCE

Such a nice young man...  First he gets kicked outside for throwing
beerbottles at the bigscreen; being totally drunk, then he starts a
fight short after returning in again.  When the police which the
organizers called before arrived, he tried to escape, but too late:
He got caught but let go after just some sharp words.  Most people
would have came to reason after that, not our "partyhero":  After he
tagged on the walls of the Internetcafe and reportedly threatened
some organizers with a knife, the police arrived for a second time
and took him to custody for around six hours as Sul/Teklords of the
organizer staff confirmed lateron.


BIRDHOUSE PROJECTS

Although their embarrasing appearance at the Symposium is rather not
worth to be mentioned, we can't save ourselves from some lines.  Wild
Demo means to them to do a scrolling page with static text on screen
and jump up the stage with a British Petrol flag to "perform" to
their pityful entry.  This taken alone may be understood as funny
(although hardly anyone seemingly thought it was), but that they
afterwards actually begged people to vote for them really widens the
horizont of pathos.  At least they got the seventh place (out of
nine).  Our advise:  If you ripp the idea of a partybrigade from
Infect ("The real partyheroes"), then you should at least be as funny
as them - and not just boldly primitive.


DRIFTERS

After reaching the fourth place with their highly entertaining demo,
the French based group may proudly state to be the first group in the
ninetieth to have reached a quite high ranking with a fun release.
Maybe some people from Birdhouse Projects or Accept could learn from
this?  Clary, who short before recorded Amigademos for an
computerbased art-exhibition in Belgium, had some troubles in the
forefield with finishing the demo as her A1200 died some weeks before
the party, but thanks to the help of her sisters computer (A1200
also) the project was finished in time - luckily for us attendants as
we else would have missed a splendid release.