Yet Another Lame Party Official Report This is the official report of Yet Another Lame Party, organized in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on May 25th 1997 by MindEscapE with Renegade and Alcal Pone. The compos lasted approximately from 19:00 to 01:00. Results PC DEMO 1. Virtual Insanity by Black Plum 2. Ace CD Collection #4 intro by Hyperopia 3. The Ultimate Solution by Demoniac/New Primitives AMIGA DEMO There were no Amiga demos at the party :( C64 DEMO 1. Tautologic by Victory + TempesT 256 BYTES DEMO 1. TIE Fighter by Suicidal/Lucid 1. Fire! by Rep/Titan 3. 256 by Nucleus/Tempest ANSI There were no ANSI's either (read the note under "Failures" below) ASCII 1. Horny Things in the Swamp by Phuzzy Logic/DepthCharge 2. Napad Vesh Mashina Ljudozdera Ubica sa Marsa Dva by N0pe Dope/PaS MaterS 3. Yet Another Lame Party by Green Tooth/NeverMind PIXEL GFX 1. Wash Me! by Jamon/Juice/Hyperopia 2. Slamm by N0pe Dope/PaS MaterS 3. Inside by Neutron/Lucid PHOTOSHOP GFX 1. No Title by Nom/Hive Studio 2. Cyber by Hive Studio 3. It's Alive! by Paranoid/CoRRoSioN RENDERED GFX 1. Jagodina by Kolja 2. Proba 19 by Trippers 3. Saucer by N0pe Dope/PaS MaterS C64 GFX 1. Jodie by JB/No Name/TempesT/Industry 2. Arise by Phantom/Lepsi/Panic 3. The Healer by JB/No Name/TempesT/Industry ANIMATION 1. Dancing Teddy by N0pe Dope/PaS MaterS 2. Lamp by Maverick/Acid Dream 3. No Title by dNk/NeverMind 4 CHANNEL 1. Faceless by N0pe Dope/PaS MaterS 2. X2 Remix by Paranoid/CoRRoSioN 3. BassHop by NotSafe/CoRRoSioN MULTICHANNEL 1. 48 by BP/Hyperopia 2. IK 96 by DM/Victory 3. Escape from Reality by B.O.B./Lucid C64 MUSIC 1. 1993 by String/ex-Chaos 2. Line by Dalton/Transcom 3. Krupa A440 mix by Phantom/Lepsi/Panic USELESS UTILITY 1. Fraktalni Generator Shvajcarskih Shumovitih Planina sa Zvukom i Atmosferom, a bez Mogucnosti Snimanja by Woodoo/PaS MaterS and N0pe Dope/PaS MaterS 2. CheckMonitor v1.0 by Phuzzy Logic/DepthCharge 3. Garbage Grafix Generator by Kiso Qpus/PaS MaterS & N0pe Dope/PaS MaterS Prizes We weren't too strong on this field, we only found two sponsors who donated 3 CD's each, plus the Ecstasy BBS gave a copy of Ecstasy CD collection as an additional prize. These were given to the winners of the PC Demo, Pixel, Photoshop, Rendered, Animation, 4 Channel and Multichannel categories. Additionally, the winners in all categories got wonderful, exceptional, very limited series, priceless YALP T-shirts. Don't forget that the entrance was free :) Voting Irregularities As we had decided to make the entrance to YALP free, the classical "one ticket, one votesheet" concept couldn't be applied, so we just tried to give every present person one sheet. However, it wasn't too hard for determined voters to get their hands on more than one votesheet. In spite of the remarkable similarity in votes and handwriting of some sheets, we decided to disregard none of them, as we believe everyone had the same chance to cheat. Certain two members of Vortex would have won the 2nd place in the Pixel compo and the 3rd place in the Photoshop compo, but since we the organizers find their entries not nearly as good as the other high-ranking ones, we decided to disqualify them so that we don't get accused for fixing votes. So, unofficially, they DID win those places, but if we put that official, nobody would believe us we had not fixed the votes. As of those two - don't worry about them, they are our groupmates and they'll surely understand. Right there on the spot we had to count the votes VERY fast, so two mistakes got through: in the 256 Byte Demo category, the TIE fighter by Suicidal/Lucid was found to have 1 vote more than the second-ranking Fire! by Rep/Titan. However, during the careful vote-check later, we discovered that those two had exactly equal numbers of votes. Also, in the Rendered category, Proba 19 by Trippers was declared winner, but later we found out that Jagodina by Kolja Tatic had more votes. The lists in this report are corrected, but we cannot provide the deserved prizes for Rep/Titan and Kolja. We are most terribly sorry for this, but since the prizes were of little material value anyway (T-shirts and a CD) we hope those two will forgive us. Entry Notes Ace CD Collection #4 Intro by Hyperopia was not a "previously unreleased production" and it was submitted way after the deadline; also, the C64 pic Uriboric Forms by Phantom/Lepsi/Panic was not submitted executable, as it should have been. However, we accepted these contributions because their irregularities did little harm and their compo categories weren't really overcrowded. N0pe Dope/PaS MaterS really flooded us with all those contributions and got some 25% of the prizes - totally deservedly. In case you don't understand Serbian, his ASCII is called "Attack of The Man-Eating Killer Washing Machines from Mars Two" and the PaS MaterS useless utility is called "Fractal Generator of Wooded Swiss Mountains with Sound and Atmosphere, but with No Save Option". Failures Five entries were e-mailed to Han Solo, but the disk with them was lost by another member of the organizing crew (we'll keep his identity secret to protect him from bomb-attacks), so they weren't shown. These were: a multichannel module by Spurious/Dead Clown Records, a 256 byte demo by Veljko Miljanic and two ANSI's and a 256 byte demo by MasterMind. We are particularly sorry about MasterMind's works, as there were no other ANSI's submitted and his 256 byte demo stood (in our humble opinion) a chance of winning the compo. The C64 tune Uphill by DM/Victory was not played because of another obscure mistake caused by the organizers' sloppiness. But what's done is done. For reasons unknown to us, the C64 tune Lullaby Remake by Trugoy/TempesT crashed on our compo machine (three times!) and the PC demo The Ultimate Solution by Demoniac/New Primitives played no music (while it normally plays some). The animation Inside of st. Dimitrije's Basilicas by Power Bugs, Bell and Utvara could not be played as our video beam did not support such a high resolution. It proved a very bad idea to put all 256 byte demos in one category, as PC demos were very superior to C64 demos - if there are any 256 byte categories at the next party, we'll separate them. Achievements We managed to gather a great part of the Yugoslav demo scene at one time and in one place - far more people than ever before - made them get to know each other and gave them an unforgettable time. YALP was the first event of its kind in the history of this country, and we are sure that demo parties will become a regular event in Yugoslavia in a year or two. We have shown to a kind of "wider" audience - passionate BBS'ers and serious programmers - what demo scene is all about. We have shown to the people that demo sceners are not strange people living in faraway countries, but flesh and blood humans you meet every day. We made it all a fun event; even when things didn't work, we did our best to make the party worth staying at. For what we hear of the foreign demo parties, they usually get a lot more boring than YALP was in any moment. We believe nobody regretted coming to the party. We managed to promote the C64 scene to the Amiga and PC people who mostly knew nothing of its existence. We had been supposed to show a nice mix of different styles of C64 demos, but we only had time to show two of them (one of which was shown incompletely). Nevertheless, the reactions of the audience to those demos, to the (only) C64 demo that was brought to the compo, to the C64 grafix and muzax and to Paranoid's "Commodore is dead" statement indicate that we have succeeded. Acknowledgements Turbo mega electro ultra quartz big big big MindEscaping thanks to: NeverMind for all the Amiga support MR Sound for the video beam Nucleus/Tempest/Equinoxe for fixing our cable in the last minute Nom/Hive for the T-shirt design Normal thanks to: all visitors and competitors for the support compo winners for the cool works useless utility authors for making our lives so much happier, juicier and longer Phantom/Lepsi/Panic, N0pe Dope/Pas Maters and Kolja Tatic for the immense number of contributions Bigfoot for the help with vote counting Hustler/WASP for the GUS and VCR Marko Savic for the disk drive Ecstasy board for the CD all support boards for the support :) Broker for the YALP mailing list Tomcat/Controlled Dreams for organization tips and spreading the word about the party in Hungary Lion/Chromance for spreading the word about the party in Hungary Fatboy/Hyperopia for all the help Byterapers and Reflex for making "Unsound Minds" and "Nine", which were shown at the party Jizzlober's father and Han Solo's father for transporting the equipment and cattle ;) Harkaster/W[i]GS, Drow/W[i]GS, Kriss/Vortex, Katarina and Verica for the moral support Media City and MB Soft for their sponsorship Apologies to: Kolja Tatic and Rep/Titan for our mistakes with vote-counting and them not getting their prizes Power Bugs + Bell + Utvara, MasterMind, Spurious/Dead Clown Records, Veljko Miljanic and DM/Victory for our failing to show their entries in the compos Nucleus/TempesT/Equinoxe for Han Solo burning his hand all visitors, especially gfx competitors for the phukkup during the gfx compos (we fixed that, didn't we?) Cooler/Titan for the delay in playing his module Phuzzy Logic/DepthCharge for our failing to show his Scene Strike 1 invitro Triad, Blackmail, Crest and Wrath Designs for our failing to show "Red Storm", "Dutch Breeze", "Krestology" and "Stupidity 3" at the party everyone for other lame little organization failures that no party is free of Kicks to: Web for deserting us when we needed him the most Paranoid/CoRRoSioN for his lameass speech at the end Best wishes to: CoRRoSioN, Phuzzy Logic and N0pe Dope with organizing Scene Strike 1 We hope to see you all again at A Yet Even Lamer Party next year. We'll keep your favourite sysops informed, so watch out for the invitation. Sincerely, the organizers (in alpha order): Alcal Pone Dope Han Solo Jizzlober Renegade Spider Virulent Void ... IBM