¢¢ ----------------¢ Atari-Stories: ¢ ----------------¢¢Jeder, der oefter mal etwas erzaehlen¢moechte, kann dies hier tun. Dabei¢kann es sich um Berichte, Erfahrungen¢oder Stories von "anno dazumal" oder¢auch um Dinge handeln, die verdammt¢lang her sind, genauso gut aber kann¢es auch etwas aktuelles sein. Die¢Hauptsache ist, dass die Texte ein¢klein wenig mit Atari zu tun haben.¢¢Man kann hier also Geruechte in die¢Welt setzen, News verbreiten, Messe¢Berichte oder Club-Treffen darlegen,¢seine eigene kleine Story ("Wie ich¢zu Atari kam...") erzaehlen oder was¢einem sonst so einfaellt. Kurzum,¢dies ist die Boulevard und Laber Ecke¢wie man sie bisher nur aus dem TV¢kannte. Hauptsache: Atari...¢¢Der hier vorliegende erste Bericht¢handelt von einem Demo-Coder Treffen,¢genannt Miliways II. Da der Text auch¢im Internet erschien, ist er in¢engl. Sprache geschrieben worden.¢Wem dies nicht gefaellt, der bekommt¢demnext den tschechischen Original=¢bericht, he he he !! Na, ich denke,¢da ist Englisch doch angenehmer...¢¢Milliways II:¢*************¢¢From the 4th to the 6th of December¢TSCC invited some friends and the¢friends of the friends to issue 2 of¢the Milliways convention.¢¢Soon (or very late) Mc Laser, Sky,¢Dynacore (TSCC), Sage/Escape,¢Creature XL/H.A.R. and Mad Butscher/¢Foundation Two arrived in Bellheim.¢After the exchange of news, everyone¢started working.¢¢Mc Laser and a friend of him (ex-¢member of gems [R.I.P.]) did some¢music with Cubase. Creature XL made¢his first experiments with the ¢Falcon assembler. Mad Butscher began¢to code his next 8 Bit game, and Sky¢and Dynacore hacked something in¢Pearl under Linux. ¢¢On Saturday Questor/Inter arrived and¢started watching some PC games¢together with the Linux crew. Mc¢Laser showed us Doom for the Falcon¢from a French coder which he had¢downloaded from the net, and we¢started to discuss if a very slow¢Doom is better than nothing or if it¢is only a lame toy.¢¢I think its a cool demo and maybe¢someday they optimise the code to the¢limit, so that you can play it in a¢suitable performance. Cool without a¢question is the Godboy version of¢"Zelda" from the Reservoir Gods...¢¢Sage told us that someone compiled¢the Java compiler, so that it is now¢available for the ST/Falcon. But¢without the graphic library and very¢slow. But we should keep an eye on¢it, maybe there will be any usable¢version in the future.¢¢Also cool is a demo of the Mad team¢for the 8 Bit ATARI from 1997 (named¢LAJF) which includes Bill Gates, but¢unfortunately there was no 8 Bit¢Computer available with a 256 KB or¢more Ramdisk expansion.¢¢In the night from the 5th to the 6th¢of December a local television¢channel (NDR? WDR??, ???) made a very¢big computer night to celebrate the¢15th birthday of the computer corner¢of the channel. ATARI was mentioned ¢too...¢¢Ali Gaukassian the infamous puppet of¢the German ATARI magazine had 3¢minutes to make some advertisements¢for the Milan. Well you could hate¢Ali or try to ignore him, but he did¢his job well. Besides this historical¢moment there were some cool¢misunderstandings during the live¢report, so we had great fun. ¢¢On Sunday it was time to leave, with¢some minor car problems and tired,¢we left Bellheim. Next time we and a¢lot more people will meet each other¢in Dresden at easter to celebrate the¢"Error On/In Line 99" convention. ¢¢Mad Butscher / Foundation Two¢(Thorsten Butschke)¢¢¢¢
