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»PIC:barclip.ilbm» »CL9: The scene 2003 - Status Report »PIC:barclip.ilbm» »CL4: By Zerox of Gods »CL1:As this is the first issue of the EuroChart in 2004, it's time to look back on the things that happened in the scene last year, and to check out the status of our precious scene. »CL8:The Parties »CL1:The tradition with most productions being released at various parties have continued. But this year we can't really say that one party offered a lot more releases than other parties. »CL0:In previous years we've experienced that most productions get released at the Party, the Gathering, the Assembly or the latest years; at the Mekka & Symposium. But last year the productions were distributed more evenly on the various parties. »CL1:In 2003 the most important scene events were probably the new Breakpoint party in Germany, the Symphony party in Poland, the Kindergarden party in Norway, the Gathering in Norway, the Underscore party in Sweden, and the Assembly in Finland. But there were also other parties with Amiga contributions, such as the Equinoxe party, the Fyanica party, the Euskal party, the Cafe party, Dreamhack, the Syndeecate - Apocalypse party, the Evoke party, The Remedy party and some more. »CL0:That year we missed parties such as the TRSAC party in Denmark, the Solskogen party in Norway, Lobotomia in Finland, the Flag party in Hungary, the Slach party in France and probably some more. At least I haven't heard that these parties were arranged nor seen any releases from these parties. »CL1:It was also sad to hear that the famous The Party in Denmark was cancelled last year for the first time since the start in 1991. The Party was once the main party for all sceners. Unfortunately those days have long been gone. »CL8:The Productions »CL1:In 2003 there were slightly less productions released than the previous years. But still some productions were of quite high quality. »CL0:First lets have a look at the somewhat memorable classic demo-releases of this year. We got the following productions which could more or less be classified as demos: »CL1:Magia by The Black Lotus, Mental by Push Entertainment, Fake Elektronik Lightshow by Ephidrena, Light II by IRIS, We were dark helmets by Spaceballs, My Definition In Blue by Scarab, Lysbryter by Ephidrena, Micromonster by Contraz, The Plague by Spaceballs, Hätä by dA JoRMaS, I Am Back by The Gang, Plenum by Elcrew, Agitation by TeamPowerAmiga, Vice by V-nom, No Santa Porn by Marshals, Singularity Is Just The Beginning by Singular Crew, At Last by Harvester & Nah-Kolor, Watching TV by Pure Lamers, Megademo 8 by Laxative Effects, Fast Codequinoxe by Pure Lamers, Demo 90 by Elcrew, Megademo 3 by Fag, TsattiXP by po-RNO, and Bravo by Laxative Effects. »CL0:And then we have the PPC demos, which are: »CL1:Fate Fits Karma by Mawi, Till I Feel You by Mawi, Own Love Balance by Mawi, By Night by Encore and No Sync by Universe. »CL0:I'm sure there have been released other demos also that have slipped my mind. In any case, both the quality of the majority of classic demos and the PPC demos are quite good. However, we can't say much about the quantity which is a bit disappointing. »CL1:Lets have a look at the intros that have been released during 2003. We have the 40k/64k and other intros (even some dentros etc.): »CL0:One by Nature, Mindflux by Software Failure, Biologic by Veezya, Khold by Tulou & Traktor, The Earth Buildings by Tulou & Traktor, Lost In Otaniemi by Spaceballs & UpRough, Haakan by Apathy & UpRough, Turbo by Traktor and Intro by Laxative Effects, Gagaip by W.A.T.T, The Wall by Nukleus, Hamster Party Invitro by Pure Lamers & Woodtower, Blast by KIKI-Production, Pimptro by Planet Jazz, Kuelschraemke by Bluebox Cinematique, Tunnel Effect by Up-Rough, Spline 2 by Chip, Dotmatrix by Xeron, Ticle Compo Entry by Musashi/HellHoundSG, Horoperse by po-RNO, Simple by Im}bE, A story About Sceners by various, Hubschrauber by Bluebox Cinematique, Unfortunately by Drifters & Moods, Catcon2k Invitro, Kindergarten Boogie by Bluebox Cinematique, Fyanica Invitro, D.I.S.C. #14 Intro by Kufa/Scarab. »CL1:Those are the intros that I more or less can remember. Unfortunately I can't say many of these mentioned here are of any good quality. The intros released previous years were better. »CL0:As for the 4k intros in 2003, we have: »CL1:Pop (Humus 4) by Push Entertainment, Fistpig by Spaceballs & Ephidrena, Timur Lenk by Spaceballs & Ephidrena, Fact by Scarab, Bobshow by Void and Tulou 4k by Tulou. »CL0:The vast majority of these 4k intros were quite good actually. »CL1:Naturally there have been released even more intros, but I can't remember them. I haven't even seem all of the productions mentioned above either, but at least 80-90% of them. »CL0:As for diskmags, we've had two releases of the new mag Saxonia (nr. 1 & 2). This is infact the first new mag in the Amiga scene for many many years. We've also had one release of D.I.S.C (nr. 14), which was infact the last release of this mag ever after 13 years of existence. There have also been released one issue of the EuroChart (nr. 46) and one issue of Jurassic Pack (nr. 12). Cows n' Snakefights also made a comeback in 2003, and issue 5 got out. In addition to that, there was one issue of the World Charts (nr. 15). Unluckily, it now seems that the returned World Charts are dead, along with mags as Devotion and ShowTime. Even though ShowTime is not declared dead yet. Excess (nr. 9) also got released in 2003, along with Taboo 5. But those mags are mainly for the ones that understand the language they speak in Poland. »CL1:As for packs, there haven't been many at all. This is mainly because there are so few things to insert into these packs. But at least there have been some issues of Hitpack by Gods (55 and 56) and Frozen Pack by Whelpz (52, 53 and 54.) »CL0:When it comes to musicdisks/chippacks, it seems like Traktor released Extraliv and Traktor & Liquid Motion released Old shit. Veezya has released Embrion 8 and 9 also. Zenon released issue 7 and 8 of GooGoo, Instant 3 and 4 were released by Appendix, and Creators released Music From The Crypt. Liquid Skies have been hyper active and released lots of modules, and the same is the case with Moods. We've also seen a few other releases from other musicgroups. »CL1:There has only been released one real slideshow in 2003 I think, and that was Blind Visions by Appendix. It features some cool pictures from the graphician Slayer. Anyway, some rumours indicate that more slideshows will appear next year. »CL0:There have been released some videodemos, wilddemos, gallery-slideshows, party-slideshows, asci-collections and other stuff which is hard to put into any category. »CL8:The Groups »CL1:2003 was ruled by a few groups really. Some quite good groups were more or less resting, like Loonies, Potion and Creative Minds for instance, and some weren't as active as they've been in the previous years. »CL0:Nevertheless, the shining light of 2003 got to be groups like Mawi (for all of their great PPC productions), Ephidrena (for all their great classic demos and intros), Spaceballs (for their high activity level and smashing productions), IRIS (for supplying the only chart left and other cool productions), Scarab (for more great productions), Push Entertainment (for some excellent productions), TBL (for one stunning demo) and perhaps Nature (for the best bigger intro of 2003). But other groups like Encore, Contraz, Universe, Software Failure, Appendix, Veezya etc. etc. should be mentioned for making 2003 what it was. »CL8:The Future »CL1:I have to admit that 2003 was a bit depressing concerning the number of productions. But at least there were some demos and intros which really are worth to watch many many times. It was also a bit surprising that some old groups made comebacks after all these years, and that a few new ones appeared too. »CL0:We do not know what the future will bring, but one thing is sure; the scene will continue with its uniqeness and creativity in 2004 also. »CL1:And already now it's quite likely that the uncertainty of the future of the Kindergarden party has vanished; another party will be held between the 17th to 19th of September 2004! This time it's called KGb, and the location is the same as last year. »CL0:So I'm sure there will also be released productions at parties such as the Breakpoint party, the Gathering, Symphony, Kindergarden, Underscore, the Assembly, the Euskal party, TRSAC and probably a few others as well. »CL1:Therefore the Amiga scene should look forward to getting more quality demos, intros, diskmags, slideshows and musicdisks throughout in 2004. In addition to lots of new tracks and pictures. When we least expect it, there will always come some fantastic Amiga productions. I'm infact confident that there will be more Amiga releases at the Breakpoint party in 2004, than last year. »CL0:How many demos and intros that will be released in 2004 is hard to say at this point, but the number will most likely be something similar to the previous years. This means that there will probably not be released many slideshows nor musicdisks. The latest years it has been usually only released a couple of slideshows and musicdisks a year, if any. And there won't be too many mags released either now. But quantity isn't everything, quality is. »CL1:It's most certain that 2004 will be some kind of turning point for the Amiga scene. If AmigaOne with OS4.0 ever will come, then 2004 is the year! The past years the users of classic Amigas have decreased much, and there have been a small increase in users of PPC cards. In 2004 I think many groups will start making productions/moving to PPC. It's at least certain that some parts of the scene will make a push towards PPC and/or AmigaOne. I bet even some of the leading mags will try turning PPC during 2004. I should think that this will be a very interesting year; it's definately a crossroad for our fragile community. Fanatic protecters of the classic Amiga scene are loosing ground and have started to accept that AmigaOnes or Amigas with PPC cards will play an important part of the future scene. Let us not forget that 2004 WILL be the year with the first AmigaOne productions. But then again, I do not think that the classic Amiga scene will die. However, it is likely it will become smaller. It's also likely that there will come more PPC productions and that a new AmigaOne scene somehow will emerge. »CL8:Conclusion »CL1:The results should be more excellent Amiga productions. A new world of opportunities are opened for the scene, it's just the Amiga community that has to grab this chance. This is also the chance for Amiga users to join the Amiga scene and take part in forming our new scene. »CL0:It's at least certain that the new productions will look a bit different than the past productions. With AmigaOne for instance, the sound and graphics in the productions should improve greatly. I think we will get used to many 3d based demos for the Amiga in the future. But I do also hope that the creativity and innovation will continue in this new scene even though the hardware is improved. »CL1:No one can be truly certain about which direction the scene will take. Whatever may happen, some exciting times are ahead for the Amiga scene for sure. Whether the scene will move in a positive or negative direction this year, is yet to be seen. The facit we'll be able to see in around 12 months! »PIC:EcLogoFish2.iff»