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- ±d3The party III×
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- ±b2 -YOU CANT×
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- ±b2 BEAT THE FEELING×
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- By Mystra and Braintumour/Stone Arts
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- The Danish Christmas-parties have now
- become tradition. Both the one in
- 1991 and the one in 1992 were great
- successes. Up to this party, The
- Party II was the world's largest ever.
- This year the party was moved from
- Aars to a larger city, quite in the
- middle of Denmark, called Herning.
- The party-place was called Herning
- Messe-Center, and is Scandinavia's
- biggest of its kind. The groups
- arranging this event were Silents,
- Lemon. and Spaceballs, but there have
- been some rumours that these names are
- just "sold" to the arrangers.
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- The party-place consisted of many
- halls and was really a±43 perfect±41 place
- to host a bunch of computer-freaks.
- Three halls were used for the usual
- partying, and two halls were for those
- who wanted to have a quiet place to
- sleep, but you were allowed to sleep
- wherever you wanted. The main-hall
- was really big. This hall was for
- those who had reserved places before
- they arrived.
- It was actually allowed to smoke
- inside the halls, so the air got quite
- ±42polluted±41 after some time. I know that
- some asthmatics got ill of it, and
- this should be avoided at coming
- parties.
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- In the fair-center, there were also
- two cafeterias and a kiosk. One of
- the cafeterias was open around the
- clock, and the prices were actually
- quite reasonable, anyway the food
- didn't taste±42 too±41 much.
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- The arrangers also had a laser-disk
- room, but I did unfortunatly not visit
- it. Anyway, I was told that it was
- very nice.
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- In addition to the normal party, there
- was also an Amiga-fair called Amiga
- KAOS! and here you could buy both
- software and hardware at favourable
- prices - at least for us Norwegians.
- You could also try some karaoke or the
- new ±43Amiga CD32±41.
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- The competitions were showed on a big
- screen in the main-hall, and also on a
- screen in one of the smaller halls.
- The BIG disadvantage for us sitting in
- the little hall, was that if someone
- decided to play some music LOUD, we
- wasn't able to hear what the
- organizers informed us about, when
- competitions started, among other
- things. There was only a screen in
- the little hall, ±43no±41 loudspeakers, and
- because of that, I (Braintumour),
- didn't hear my module in the compo,
- which I'd been looking forward to for
- at least three months! Another thing
- that destroyed my opinion on the
- competitions, was that the organizers
- didn't shut the power off, so many
- people who wasn't interested (like C64
- and PC-freaks), still played music,
- thus ruining at least the audio part
- of demos (and not to mention the
- music-compo)!
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- At last someone managed to really make
- some show out of the voting. The
- votes were counted live on the big
- screens, and this made it more
- exciting. Anyway, it could have been
- done better. The results should have
- stayed on the screen a bit longer, for
- instance. But indeed, this was quite
- nice!
- Often in party-invitations, they have
- announced cleaning personell, and this
- time, it really was true. People who
- went around vacuuming was a sight I
- never thought I'd see at a party.
- Nice going.
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- Indeed, this party ±43was±41 great. Maybe
- the greatest computer-party ever held
- on this planet? I don't know. Now
- were just hoping that the success will
- continue this year, too. PLEASE?
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