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The "BitMovie" is an annual graphics' competition, taking place in Riccione.
Anyway, there is also a music competition, and this year there was a demo
compoetition.
"Tempesta" is the demo that won this competition, developed by SoftOne.
When we first read about a democompo in this year's BitMovie, we were really
happy... and we sure didn't wonder all the problems that were waiting for us.
After some phone calls for infos, we realized that if we wanted to be
sure that the audio of our demo whould have been played, we had to send
a GUS to the organizers of the BitMovie 'cause they had none. As the ad
telling about the democompo was unespected and sudden, we didn't have the
time to test the replay routines for the SoundBlaster.
Three days before the beginning of the compo (that's two weeks after we
sent the GUS) we were advised that the demo didn't work on their computers,
and after a frenetic day of phone calls and tries, I (G-Lock) went to
Riccione (750Km - 4 trains) hoping to solve the problem with some new
driver and with another SCSI HD controller. So, after some try, we found
out that the computer where the demos run had some serious hardware conflicts
with any GUS. The problem was with the lame motherboard... but Mr.Mainardi
(the "Chairman") didn't care and told me that, if I wanted our demo to be
shown with the music, I had to bring my computer with me.
So, on Thursday, the first day of the compo, while in Rome we were organizing
the unexpected travel, the demo has NOT been shown, even if it was possible
to (with no audio). At the end of the same day, as we acknowledged, we asked
to show the demo anyway (did we have to ask?!), and we HOPE they did...
Anyway, we (maybe:-)) lost (a lot!) of votes!
So we went to Riccione with my computer.
The organizers gave us a monitor, while we took the speakers from a computer
nearby, which was shout down, with the intention to alternate the use of
those speakers between our and their computer. But few time later they told
us badly that we should have bringed OUR speakers, and that we unrightfully
stole the speakers from "Tempesta's computer"! After a short dispute, anyway,
we obtained to alternate the use of the speakers...
Besides the specific problems that happened to US, we have to say that the
"DEMO / Interactive Multimedia" section didn't have any structure for the
entertainment of the public. The people, while touring, tried to understand
which demo was running.
The employed, WHEN he was there, had to satisfy, when asked to, the curiosity
of the people who didn't have the slightest idea of what to do!
The point is that - or you supply the public with a ciclic demonstration
- or you try anyway to catch its attention with a big screen or something,
- or you put a computer for each demo and let the public interact,
supplying the necessary information about what's going on.
Slow and Tempesta had a computer each (our for Slow and BitMovie's for
Tempesta), while the other demos had to fight to be shown on 1 Amiga and
1 Macintosh. 11 demos on 3 computers!!
Just to gratify us of all the work, the time and the money spent there's
Mr.Mainardi who removed a funny sticker from my comp. (a sticker reporting
a poor dealer in second-hand's ad called Mario, which I found on a trashcan!)
and was angry with us cause he said it was free advertisement! ARGH!!
I really don't understand why the sticker, that was integrant part of MY
computer which I kindly put at their disposal, has been removed and trashed
instead of being simply covered and, again, why did they remove our little
sign saying "DEMO-SLOW" which we put next to the computer? The public got
the right to know what they're seeing!
So... this year the BitMovie was better than the other years, but the
"DEMO / Interactive Multimedia" section was really bad, since there were
people like us who spent a lot of time realizing something that has not
been hold in (the due) consideration. Anyway, we have to thank some employee
as Davide, who did what he can in order to help us.
We think that Tempesta fully deserved to get the first place, and we were
very glad to meet SoftOne in the hour after the end of the compo, when
no one turned down the volume of the speakers so low that no one could
hear them. In this little time the people crowded up around the computers
to see our (iBB+SoftOne) demos, to hear some good music at a decent volume
and to talk with us.
If it wasn't for this small moral reward, the balance of the BitMovie whould
have been totally negative for us...
Signin' off
Davide Pasca - G-Lock/Italian Bad Boys
Fabrizio Zavagli - Raster Master/Italian Bad Boys
Sergio Paolantonio - Ra0ul/Pornorockerz
P.S. Today, 8 May, after 3 weeks from the end fo the BitMovie, we're still
waiting to get back the GUS we sent them...