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- F A C E T O F A C E W I T H U N F A M O U S S C E N E R S
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- <link=g22.scr>H O S P E S</l> / (ex) T H E V O T I O N
- (ST demo crew from Poland)
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- short overview: the votion was the 1st serious Atari group i've been in. we
- lost contact a few years ago due to the internal conflicts.
- oneday i'd been surfing the net and i found messages posted by
- Hospes. he replied and discovered hismelf as the Hamtech from
- my ex-demo team! so i've got the idea to lead this interview
- which could be a good pretext to re-fresh our contact ;)
-
-
- grey: hiya, pal!
-
- hospes: Heh. Welcome after a long silence on my side!
-
- grey: I am sure that 99% of our readers living outside never heard about you
- so please introduce yourself as precisly as possible. How old are you,
- what are you doing these days etc?
-
- hospes: ...hmmm. let's start with the easiest things.... 27 years old, so i'm
- getting on a bit. Currently I am a professional graphician in a
- publicity agency. I live in the capital of polish beer (did you ever
- drink 'EB' in Poland? add note: grey).
-
- grey: When did you buy your first Atari ? And did you ever regret this
- choice? Who persuaded you with such purchase?
-
- hospes: My first Atari was second hand 65Xe with a XC12 tape drive without any
- turbo extension. What does it mean? Every user of such config should
- know what I mean. When I got bored playing games I started to create
- something. Of course I began with BASIC and due to the fact I was
- also interested in graphics then I started to experiment with mixing
- up the graphic modes etc.. In that time I managed to create "StarKwak"
- game. Heh, what a lame name, but being 14 years old I liked it. What
- was later... oh yes, what was? I've seen something like disc-drive at
- my cousin's home and everything started again... Another game came up
- - "No Exit" in mono mode, graphic drawn in Turbo Basic plus various
- sound experiments... And later STe era came up. In Elblag most of the
- computer sellers offered C-64 as the best computer or AT trash with
- Herkules and mono.. . When I asked about Atari they shrugged their
- shoulders. Then I decided to go to Gdansk to search for an ST. I
- remember it was August when I put myself on the train the train with
- hopes of finding this computer.
-
- I have to admit that at the beginning I persuaded myself to buy an
- Atari XL/XE 'coz I was "uder impression" even if I missed a good music
- in comparison to the C-64. But later everything changed..
-
- grey: When at the first time you licked the so called 'demo scene'? What was
- your first ST demo you have seen? Which one really impressed you?
-
- hospes: I've seen such a demo in Elblag at my friend's house. He had 1040STFM
- (hello to CZAREK.... you have a quite nice sister...) and he showed me
- demo made by Union group. I don't remember and name, it has gone from
- my memory. Anyway during loading I was able to listen to the great
- "PLEASE WAIT" ripped from "Wings of Death". Eh, this music, overscan
- and something like a horse controlled by myself on the screen. Heh,
- that was probably my first demo I've seen. But one which I like the
- most was "OMEGA DEMO" but I am still not sure about the name of it..
- It was working only on the STe and featured mixed samples and dancing
- figures. There was also other demo which really surprised me, but this
- time for the Falcon. It was a german "Veltmerschfsdhfsl" - I don't
- remember exactly. But anyway the hard music and digitalised screens
- with death of various ppl, scenes from Terminator etc.. Quite cool,
- even if technical not so complicated.
-
- grey: When The Votion has been founded ? And do you remember the members
- names?
-
- hospes: .....hmm. sometime in 93 the group became a reality. At the beginning
- The Votion had only two graphicians so we were searching for a coder
- now. In (probably) 2nd issue of QuaST magazine we've found the address
- to Uras who lived.... on the same street ;) So being armed with beers
- we decided to visit him. But before that we came to the park to drink
- another beer for being so brave.. we were going to a coder! ;) When we
- finally arrived at Uras house, we explained the reason for our visit
- and we then decided to work together. That's how The Votion became the
- fact. It turned out that we stole this coder from Van Eijk who was co-
- operating with Uras to develop QuaST magazine. A short while later,
- other members joined us, it was Costek, the lonely coder and Michal
- known also as Grey. Heh, he had another nickname before... but I won't
- say anything about it, hehe.
-
- So our member-list was the following:
-
- Uras (CODE)
- CoSTek (CODE)
- Marcin (GRAPHICIAN)
- Hospes alias HamTech (GRAPHICIAN AND MUSICIAN)
- Grey (SWAP)
-
- grey: What prods did you release on the ST? Could you tell us the titles?
-
- hospes: Hmm, we managed to release something, however we had more music and
- graphics than coders willing to put it somewhere ;) We did a couple
- intros to the QuaST magazine, I took a part in several graphic compos
- at parties. Besides we did a multi-part demo which fitted on two
- DD disk, however only the beginning "survived"... There was a big
- digitalized animation when I murder the doll in my cellar... There was
- a big scroll on the overscan and module playing. The main part of
- the demo was DELETED (!) by... Costek, 3 hours before the competitions
- started (!!!). Being "gratful" for that in the greetings part we put a
- photo of big pennis instead of his face. So finally this demo became a
- real SHIT.
-
- I still have a lot of graphics which weren't used anywhere because of
- the coders laziness.
-
- I almost forgot about another The Votion release called "Really shit".
- It was a..... porno demo in 4096col for the STe, overscan, mixed
- resolutions, module... These pictures were REALLY the worst pictures
- which seen the light of the day. If you have this demo then press F10
- - hidden part!
-
- Later I co-operated with Wachu (coder from Luzak Team - grey's note)
- in time of my study in Poznan. We were working together on the demo
- called Insomnia which featured: mapped pictures, gourauds, fractals...
- Unfortunately time didn't let us to work on details...
-
- grey: If I good remember you were working on the game? Apocalypse clone for
- the ST? Is there a preview available?
-
- hospes: Yes, it's true, it was "RED KILLER" with one playable screen shown at
- the QuaST party. But where is it now? I don't know, I was moving from
- "place to place" and I probably lost it. Maybe I'll ask Costek then we
- will spread the preview version.
-
- If I have to compare this version to the original from Amiga then I
- have to say it looked the same, maybe a bit better even. I was working
- on it pretty hard. "RED KILLER" was running only on the STe so we put
- sampled sound and modules wherever it was only possible. The final
- version was planned to fit on three disks, the beginning the end, all
- "beetwen game" parts were ready... Unfortunately I had trouble with my
- studies, Costek found a girlfriend and everything failed.
-
- That was our last project which I really regret skipping...
-
- grey: Did you ever think about posibility of creating a Falcon section of
- The Votion?
-
- hospes: ...well, people with who I was working aren't on the scene anymore,
- And I am also not the same anymore, job, home, wife, children.. Ooops,
- wife and children - lack ;)) So it's rather unlikely that you will see
- The Votion on the Falcon scene.
-
- grey: What's happening with The Votion members? Is there any chance to see
- you back on the scene? Do you plan to release anything for the ST? Are
- you still drawing graphics?
-
- hospes: A little bit...... Uras is busy with his studies, I see him sometimes
- huddling together with a women during weekend evenings. He is THAT
- busy that he even doesn't recognize mates. Costek lives with his
- girlfriend Iza..... I meet him quite often, he has a lot of ideas for
- the work to earn money but always doesn't finish it. The only thing
- we finished lately was a couple bottles of beer... Marcin is twice
- as fat as he used to be...
-
- If I get in touch with any ST coder than I would be pleased to
- co-operate. I am really willing to do something for the ST one day.
-
- grey: Have you seen the latest ST prods? What do you think about their
- technical-level?
-
- hospes: ...lately rather don't... I don't have too much time... But I rather
- often check the Atari www pages and I am almost up-to-date what's
- happening in that world. Ah, I've seen a small intro for the ST
- downloaded from Atari Area. Quite nice...
-
- grey: If someone would ask you to choose between Jennifer Lopez and your ST,
- what or who it would be? =)) Detailed answer please...
-
- hospes: ....hmm if we talk about women then I am still alone.... so if someone
- gives me that posibility of choice..... I would ask for the Lopez, but
- wait a second. I am playing with my Atari since almost 10 years and I
- am still so nostalgic to this machine... And women after only 3 months
- becomes pretty boring... So I think I'll take Lopez, do something with
- her and later I say "I was wrong" and exchange her for an ST.
-
- grey: ..okay, thanx for all your answers. keep taking your paintbrush and see
- ya soon drinking beer somewhere! old times rule 4eva!
-
- hospes: ...heh I am leaning on the beer bottle, which helped me to answer all
- these questions. See you soon when I back from Turkey!
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