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W I R E D
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WiRED 1994 was held in Mons/Belgium (somewhere in the ricefields like Lord
Cyrix likes to call it) from 29th till 31st october. The party was
organised by Antares/Babylon 5/Chryseis. WiRED was the first demoparty
held in Belgium and i think it sucked less then ASSEMBLY 1994 so that ain't
so bad but then again what can suck more then ASM (read "truth about ASM'94"
by Grif/Phantom Dezign)?! I went to Mons by train, that was quite easy, but
then the hard stuff started. I had been so stupid not to bring the map that
Antares released in their invitation intro so I have been walking in the
fuckin' rain for 2 hours without any result. When I got back to the railway-
station I luckily found my friends from PHUN/TRAXX/BLACK DEZIGN. We waited
for all members to arrive before leaving for the search of the place.
I must say that the place was rather hard to find but anyway, we got there
around 14.00.
WiRED was held in the amphitheatre-building on the campus of the university
of Mons/Hainaut which looked like this:
┌───────────────────────┐ Back ┌──────────────────────────┐
│ │ Entrance │ Hall 2 │
│ Amphitheatre - │ │ │
│ All compos were │ └ ────────────────────────┘
│ held inhere
│ │ ─ Stairs to ┌──────── ┐
│ │ -> Sleeping Room │ Toilets │
│ │ ─ (Very big) └──────── ┘
└───────────────────────┘ -> Sandwich Place
Front ───────────────────┐ ┌────────────┐
Entrance │ │ Hamburger │
│ Kitchen │
┌────┘ └────────────┴──────┐
WiRED '94 PARTYPLACE │ │
│ Hall 1 │
│ │
└───────────────────────────┘
- Amphitheatre: This was really 'de max'. This place was really perfect for
the compos, the sound was really cool and everybody had a
good view. Gore/FC should learn from this.
- Hall: There were two halls full of tables where everybody had a spot with
electricity. No major problems inhere allthough the music was pretty
'mixed'. Everybody brought his hifi-equipment and played everything
as loud as they could. Unfortunately Imagine had the biggest thingie
so they ruled in hall 1 (and they ruled also the demo-compo).
- Food: There were five possibilities:
* Lots of guys brought their own food
* It was easy to find some food-stores around
* There was a hamburger thingie open at the place (not all night)
* There was a sandwich thingie open at the place (not all night)
where it was also possible to get some drinks. So in fact there
was no 24/24 food possibilty as promised but I didn't starve
because of that.
* Two or three times a day it was possible to order your pizza,
so that was really cool, allthough they costed 300 BEF on
sunday. The size was really good for that prize so you won't
hear me yawn about it.
- Toilets: I must say the toilets were really good, there were enough 'do
your dang-thingies' and they were quite clean after all :)
The big mistake of WiRED is that there were NO SHOWERS !! How can
a demoparty attract nice chicks when all dudes are dirty because
there is no shower. At ASM there were still 3 showers for 3000
people (I guess Grif didn't find them :)) and we had a shower 2/3
times a day ... Maybe nxt year huh ?!
- Sleeping Room: On the second floor there was a very large hall were people
could sleep. It was quite dark inthere and the noise from
downstairs was limited. Very nice in comparison with ASM'94
∙: Saturday 29th :∙
The party officially started at 13.00. As we arrived at 14.00 it was all-
ready stuffed with people. No special events occured in the afternoon,
first pizza-round was announced and in the evening there was the DOOM-compo.
I went to the reception-desk and joined the compo. Well, I guess we were
around 20/30 competitors :). The compo was under the bigscreen on the stage
at the amphitheatre and 4 guys were playing at the time. The one who first
had 5 frags would be the winner. But the organizers changed the keys, I had
no time finding out the keys for running and spaffling. Anyway, so I didn't
won, ok, so what ... nxt time better huh (couldn't find any better excuse
at the moment) !? After the compo, lots of old demos and intros were shown
from amiga and PC. At night they played 'Naked Gun 2 1/3' and 'Patriot Games'
on CD-I. Don't ask me how that was because I fell asleep :). Ask another
guy who was there.
∙: Sunday 30th :∙
I woke up around 6.15 and at that time the sleeping room was really filled
with people makin' funny noises. As I slept about 4 hours (which is quite
much at a demoparty) I got back downstairs to see a whole bunch of coders
coding and artists drawing with their eyes allmost closed :). That day,
everybody was realy busy laying last hand on his productions. Anyway, the
deadline was 18.00 but at the end it was 20.00 or something (organising is
a tough business :)). All day long people played DOOM and even some guys
played all night after 'Patriot Games' ended. They really looked DOOMed :).
Around 20.30 the theatre was filled with people (seems there were 400 voters
which is not bad for a first phase of a party in Belgium) and the compos
began. I don't really remember the order of the compos but I still know the
PC musiccompo (in which I competed too) was around 2.00 in the morning and
that is a fuckin' big mistake. Only the groups who entered a product into
the compo where there. All others were allready gone ... No wonder that
OVAN/HYPERNOVA won the compo (Hypernova was the biggest group still present)
I'm not saying OVAN made shit, his entry was very nice, but I'm just not
happy about the fact that there were allmost no voters left. And then again
my module was played wrong (like some others told me too). They played it
with DMP instead of INERTIA PLAYER and that on a SB16 instead of on a GUS.
That made me quite mad. And there was that typical partyorganiser attitude
of quitting in the middle of a production telling there is a lack of time.
FUCK THAT !!! There is no lack of time, ya got all night !! Anyway, I went
upstairs sleeping, cuz I had enough of that bullshit. But allthough I must
say there was a nice sphere in the compoplace. Belgium may be proud of his
scene, I really like all guys I met and nobody acted shitty. The presentation
of the compos was rather amateuristic but we laughed us to death ("Hij heeft
een hondelul" :)).
∙: Monday 31st :∙
That morning I didn't wait for the results. I left at 7.00 to get my train
and I arrived home about 10.00. I heard the results in the afternoon and
first entries were pumped upon my board.
I had really a lot of fun at WiRED, but that is mostly because of the PHUN
crew, we know eachother quite good because we have a lot of meetings.
I suggest all groups should do that, it makes a group more fun to be with.
Computers are not the only thing in life ya know :)
I would like to greet the following groups/dudes at WiRED
- [PHUN-TRAXX-BD/PC] : When is the nxt meeting dudez ??
- [MELTING POT/AMIGA] : Very nice GFX dudez, greetz to tha 'hondelul' :)
- [ZION/PC] : Finally on the move.
- [ISCH CREW/PC] : Very nice products.
- [IMAGINE/PC] : Very nice demo and muzaq.
- [BLAZE RUNNER/TRAXX] : Nice guy you are, get that board running.
- [SLEEPING DOG/NATIVES] : Vergeet uwen oven niet hé :)
- [PURPLE ZEBRA/NATIVES] : I saw you on TV :)
- [DOCTOR K-OS/RADICAL] : Hope to see ya soon again, tape's commin'.
- [SEMTEX/TFS] : Watch your back man and I sure hope you'll get that PC.
- [PROBOTECTOR/AZURE SKY] : Nxt time, I want a release from ya :)
And somebody please make that "STRUIFJE" amiga-demo on PC !! It really
kicked ass :)
Anybody who thinks WiRED SUX might be right (I'm quite happy about it) but
first go to ASM and then come back to WiRED, let's see what you say then !
WiRED was an event that should be done more frequently in Belgium, our
scene is not a bag of shit !!
∙: ATTEND WiRED '95 :∙
[THE ORME/AZURE SKY-BD-PHUN]