ÄÄ-Ä--ú/\ú-Ä-ÄÄÄ NAID'95 REPORT by Coluche of Rash Reflections Version 1.10 ÄÄ-Ä--ú\/ú-Ä-ÄÄÄ ÛÛ²±° NAID - North American Internationnal Demo Festival Û²±° From Saturday 15th and 16th of April 1995 ÛÛ INTRODUCTION I hope this won't look like a whole complain even if I write down some problems, but I must first say that NAID was terrific. Better then I thought it would be, and well organised for a first try. If this text sounds too much negative about NAID, well, it wasn't my intention. NAID was really cool, people who didn't came MISSED SOMETHING REALLY BIG. But still, some things have to change for NAID'96, and everybody who was on site know that. Anyways, for anything in the world I wouldn't miss NAID. And for anything in the world I wouldn't miss NAID'96. This little intro was added after naid, let's get back in time... ßß ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ÛÛ DAY 1 ÜÜ 04.16.95 8.56am Hi there... Slow hi please, I'm really tired but there's not much sleep to get when people around don't want us to sleep or something like that. So here I am, sunday morning, second day of the event, writing this to let the time fly because many people are still "sleeping" anyway. The night was a bit strange. We received strange messages under our door with things like "Brebie bleu" or something like that, didn't understood... Also a guy entered our room and checked the speakers of the computer there and get out when he figured I wasn't sleeping and looking at him. Duh, what he intended to do? Anyways, I didn't see anyone getting his stuff stolen or something like that. Except one thing, a gang of ravers (I don't have anything against ravers at all, on the contraire) did some fuck'd up in the college during that night, especially in the space room (see the room "R" on the map I did next). I didn't get too much informations about that. Hopefully, it was the only incident of the event... (I think!) And one incident comparing to the "Sonic PC sucks" banners and stuff like that on the other side of the ocean is quite "nothing"... ÛÛ NAID PLACE PLAN NAID took place at College Edouard-Montpetit. It's pretty a cool place due to the architecture of the cafeteria. Let see a little ascii plan of the place... S ³ ³ ³ ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ R ³ T ÄÄÄÄÄÄ|Ù ÀÄÄÄÄÄÙ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ÄÄÄÄÄÄ|ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄ Â ÄÄ¿ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ U ³ V ³ V ³ ³ ÀÄÄÄÁÄÄÄ´ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ| ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³ |¿ G | ³ ³ ---------------³ ========= ³ ³ | ³ ³ | ³ D ³ ³ | ³ Blue³ | N --------------- ³ | ³ Section³ | F | ³Orange ³ | K E | ³Section ³ | H | ³ ³ | ³ ³ | ³ ³ |-- M ---- L ---³ ³ `--³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ´ I J ³ XÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ B ³---------------³ ³ | à ÅÄÄÄ Ä ÄÄÄÅ ÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ ³ C | ³A ³ ³ X ³ | ³ ³ ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ´ ³ O ³ Legend: ³ ³ ÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ :Walls ³---------------³ | and -- :Closed ³ P Q ³ Area or ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ Tables... Green Section ======= :Big Screen Description of areas... A: Entrance B: Tickets table C: Cloakroom (hum... vestiaire anyway) D: Stage and huge screen! E: Console and place for everyone to see the compos and old demos! F: Tables for anyone who bring their computers, everyone got space... G: About 10 college's computer (IBM 486-66) for those without any computer wanting one asap! (the Orange section) H: 3 computers dedicated to Internet's IRC. I: The Amiga corner... There was 2-3 guys who bring their Amiga there! J: Small dinosaur museum K: Doom II and other network games (the Blue section) L: Small computer store for disks and stuff like that M: AudioTrix table N: The midi corner O: Little cafeteria for snack, Magic games, etc. (the Green section) P: Subway stand Q: NAID T-Shirts and coffee stand R: Get crazy in that room with full stroboscopes flashing around! S: This corridor gets you to the sleeping rooms T: Closed corridor U: Passage to the pool and showers V: Toilets... X: Some of the exits... The middle of the place was high enough to place a stage plus a cool big screen with a powerfull sound system (even if the dolby surround failed during the music compo... but who cares?). At one side of that screen, another cafeteria section (orange section) was devoted to our computers with college's computers (about 10) for those who didn't bright their computers. Everyone had place has they wished, even the really small Amiga corner (who cares about Amiga? In fact, they were 2 or 3... Nothing really impressive). Also in that section, 3 computers were dedicated to Internet; you have certainly seen those guys on IRC. The problem with those Internet computers was that the guys never get out to let others people on it, but I didn't really care cuz I don't have any account (yet!). In the other side of that screen, another cafeteria section (blue section) was devoted to Doom on network and another game similar to Doom... There were also some guys who tried to sell you disks, Audiotrix Pro (one of the sponsers) and others gadgets for computers... In the section in front of the big screen, another cafeteria section (the green section now) was devoted to...: a cafeteria! Subway had a stand there for those who didn't want to cross the street in front of the college to get to the real Subway (I didn't check if the prices were the same...), Cafe Edouard, Harvey's and others good places... They also sale NAID t-shirts there! ÛÛ OPENING... NAID started saturday the 15th at 9-10h... Almost everyone were installing their computers, many started to rush their buggy intro or demo to be in shape for the deadline at midnight. Others were seeking to place faces on alias, know new people and all... very cool. They did the opening ceremony sometime near 10h30 but I didn't see it (I was with other members trying to finish our demo but we dropped the idea at diner, it wasn't really ready, even if we rushed it all the day, partying was more interresting!) and nothing of the opening ceremony was much exciting apparently except "Welcome to NAID". Duh. ÛÛ HISTORICAL DEMOS During the historical demos show, the major event of that morning was the presentation of Dope by Complex. Totally everyone were in front of the big screen to see that incredible demo that just got on Internet one hour before from the Gathering. Every groups who intended to release a demo for NAID surely thought it twice! ÛÛ MUSIC COMPO Then, at 04:00pm, the musical competition started. They said it would be for 2 or 3 hours. No way! They didn't said it at first, they had 56 entries! What a chance the time limit was of 5 minutes: the music event last for about 7 hours. Most of the tune were bad, sleepy or simply stupid (even mine hehe not!)... For that reason, people didn't listen very much. During the night, Khan suggested to me there won't be a public choice but a 4th jury's choice or something similar. Simply because only the jury listen to all the tunes (poor them...) and the public would certainly vote at random. Anyway, I will get back on that when NAID will end and I'll finish this "quite linear" report. Because of the music competition that ended between 9 and 10 P.M., the intro competition (scheduled for 8:30pm!) was reported to sunday morning at 10:00am. The organizers wasn't prepare for that amount of tunes!! I really understand that! But that wasn't a lost: there were only 6 intros on time so they reported also the deadline to midnight for the intro. That let time for some groups to finish their intro, and also to other groups to do one in a hurry just for the fun. When I got to bed (huh, my sleeping bag... anyway!), 8 or 9 intros were in (the guy at the console wasn't sure!). ÛÛ THE NIGHT... Anyway, there wasn't anything scheduled after the music compo before midnight for the performance of Public Enema on scene. It wasn't bad at all but it isn't exactly my style. BUT! A techno/rave segment was scheduled at 3:30am, more the stuff I listen; but the part I listen wasn't really great during the first hour... Anyway, we were doing our intro and it bugged a bit! It was 11:10pm when Voodoo and I decided to do an intro, seeking and highly inviting Boggart and a friend of Voodoo, Holy Avenger... It was around 11:20pm when they accepted after we found them... The deadline was at midnight... Argh! Boggart got his gourad routines and created 2 objects; Voodoo remixed a picture for the background; I got to do the fucking music (the place was full of noise, I use normally MMEdit but they wanted S3M, I had to seek for ST3 + samples (cuz I didn't have any on site) then a computer with a GUS... I had to learn ST3 (pretty easy but when you have less then 20 minutes, it's terrible!), "learn" the samples a guy gave me, and compose the tune on small speakers playing very weird at high volume to get over the band's music. I don't know yet this morning how it sounded... We had some trouble with the GUS routine and the palettes of Voodoo's pic (don't ask why) so we didn't get it on time but they told us (and everyone who wanted to know) before midnight they accepted intros until they have 15 intros (they had 8-9 when we gave them the disk!). We totally have to greet Tiger Claw for his computer: I composed the music and we tested our GUS routine on his computer. I have to greet another guy from the group US who copied me ST3 and his samples but I don't know his name... If some part weren't understandable, it's normal. I'm still sleeping! We gonna now go wake up some guys, it's near 10am and the intro compo should start! ßß ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ÛÛ DAY 2 ÜÜ 04.17.95 04.30pm (writing the day after naid...) NAID is now done. Old (not!) But still: nothing is released yet! ÛÛ INTRO COMPO Sunday was great... At 10am, the intro shown were really great, well almost all. There were a funny intro which was only a SLOW scroller, people got fun to cry the words! And also, the music in our intro wasn't too bad after all but it's really a simple fast done tune. Anyways, quality varied alot in that competition too (as the music competition) and it had 11 entries finally instead of 8-9 last night. There was many trouble running some intros but hey, intros are never easy to run. When PC will drop realmode or EMS/XMS stupidities or get GUS a standard or something like that... Huh? Maybe a day... NOT. ÛÛ GRAPHIC COMPO A bit later, the graphic competition started. More then before, the quality varied. Some were awesome, some were... were "how the guy thought he could win something with that?". There were 11 pictures (if I remember correctly) shown on big screen for one minute each. The trouble with the big screen is that every dark color are lost and using to much brightness destroy the other colors... dunno. Plus, the big screen fuck'd up small details. Also, they started the competition with a very old version of CSHOW, and they got incompatibility troubles at the second picture haha! ÛÛ DEMO COMPO After diner, at 3.00pm, the competition we were waiting for started: THE DEMO COMPETITTION. Only one demo had been shown on the computers before the competition (I just see one... anyways). So I wasn't sure about what to expect from that competition. Strangly, every demo was of VERY GOOD QUALITY. Much better then I excepted! The only trouble was that the big screen is totally black for 2-3 seconds after any screen mode changes. There were a demo who switched videomode between a Doom corridor routine with every other routines for 3-4 seconds so we missed all the routines but there were nothing to do. (btw, the corridor routine wasn't bad the first time, after 346324 returns to that routine... sheeeh.) Anyway, every demo were good, almost all groups were new. I can't describe every demo cuz I was there for my own fun, not to write a fully detailled report on every demos. Btw, I've heard Legend and Axidental should be there... They didn't came or what? ÛÛ AWARDS, RANKING and JURY After the demo competition, I think everyone was finding NAID was approching to it's end. In fact, some guys were already packing their stock. Anyways, the awards started at 08pm. After a cool speech of SnowMan, the guy of DemoNews, and Veritech Knight, one of the NAID organizers, the awards really started. But it was a bit desapointing. Only the title and author/group were named with their position. It doesn't seem much prepared. They were three on stage but they were mixing roles anytime. It could be better if they say thing like "For the 3rd position in the music competition". Then fully or partially PLAY the tune (or run the demo/intro or show the picture, via computer, tape or video) and then ask the guy(s) to come on the stage after naming their names and the title. The mics would be on the side of the stage with a light when nothing was on the screen. I simply propose this because they named every positions for every competitions but I don't remember every simple product, especially from the music competition. Also, precising prices before starting the countdown of a competition would be better since some wasn't told at all or said under all the applause. I must also say the ranking done by the jury are in contraction of some prediction I've said. Anyways... Just check the 1st position in the GFX competition. It's a scanned picture which the "hand drawn proof picture" had been apparantly lost and, well... explain why the picture is so great with a so ugly font and fast done spray reactors when others reactors were so smooth? Really strange picture. It got almost kick'd out of the competition. I seriously don't know why they let that in (sorry TS). Another picture by another guy of TRS'93, again, was kick'd out because the guy ripped on a GIF and a guy had it on site! It seems TRS'93 isn't really clean at all. For the music competition, as mentionned, the public choice was replaced by a forth jury place. With the "memories" of Voodoo and I, we list this ranking. This ranking should NOT be take as OFFICIAL cuz we might mix'd up some of them. I repeat, this ranking is NOT the official ranking. Also, some position are missing... and SORRY FOR ERRORS IN NAMES/TITLE even maybe in positions, I don't have any written name here so I wrote them as they sounded. ²±° MUSIC 1. ? by Necros/LD/FM 2. Hitch Hiking by Mealcum (Kosmic) and HiQ (?) 3. Can't fake the funk by Basshead (Kosmic/FM) ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ 4. Tears by Mosaic (Renaissance) ³ ³ ³ Those ranking ³ ²±° INTRO ³ ³ 1. Less is more by The Humanoid ³ úAúRúEúNú'úTú ³ 2. High pressure by USED ³ ³ 3. Threesome (???) ³ official. Ok? ³ Public choice: (??) Less is more by The Humanoid ³ ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ ²±° GFX 1. RipBot (Bot like Butt TRS'93) by Thunder Storm (TRS'93 sucks) 2. Purple Dragon by Schizo (Pure Resistance/ACID) 3. Opticron (or MonoMessUp!) by Lakeee (duh.. a 320x200 with a grayscale) Public choice: Opticron (ah yeah?) (I seriously doubt the jury was correctly selected here) ²±° DEMOS 1. Opticron by Craw Productions 2. Electric Gruyere by Da Cheez Brigade (formally TEI) 3. Flight by Kosmic Public choice: Electric Gruyere by Da Cheez Brigade ßß ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ÛÛ AFTER PARTY SUGGESTIONS... (or: MORE SUGGESTIONS) ÜÜ For about every competition, only one thing was missing. A 27" tv screen (or something like that) showing the title of the tune/intro/gfx/demo playing/ running/showed beside the big screen with the author/group's name and the number in back would be great. Should be very EASY to code something like that, and very usefull for the public. (Call me if you can't or you want me (and voodoo maybe?) to do it!) About the event itself, some things were also missing. Distribution after or during the demo competition of a sheet with all numbers, title and group of all four competitions. We could remember sometimes only one part (number, author or title) and even the organizers were mixing numbers! So... Another thing would be to distribute or invite people to write and clip their alias (and group) on themself. It would be more fun cuz I surely sat beside some guys I chatted for some hours like friends but I never said to them "hi" because I didn't know who they were and they wasn't doing anything to let me in their conversation. Anyways, just a thought. I wasn't to say "Hello, who are you?" to everyone in case I know them! Also, a word about the rules... If a music is over 5 min when the rule limit a tune for 5 minutes, it should be out of the competition and the author should have nothing to say about it. If a composer can't remix his tune to fit inside 5 minutes, I think there's a trouble somewhere: that's the author, not the competition. Also, for NAID'96, a rule should be added: any author or group who presented an illegal (rip, scan, or anything else) entry in any previous event can't present himself (under any name) for any future NAID event. I really think it's logic. You can do a mistake when you rip or scan, you did it volontary: your fault, life with it looser but not at NAID anymore. (Note: I didn't name anyone, the guys know themself...) ßß ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ÛÛ REPORT CONCLUSION, GREETS (n0t) and PUBS! ÜÜ I really hope there will be a NAID'96. I want one! If the organisers need help -> you know my voice and data numbers so! (Btw, you will propably need a better light man, he didn't made a great job at all... (I have been light man chief for 4 years so :) )) But I'm sure the actual organisation team won't need anyone more: they have shown that they can plan a 36 hours demo event. Not so sure it would be more easy for NAID'96 since it might get more people interrested but you just got some big experience. Good job guys! See you all at NAID'96! ÄÄ-- Coluche^RR I won't greet anyone except those I already greeted, simply because I've seen too many people that, at the end, some guys were saying me "bye" but I couldn't remember their names... DUH. I think I should stop taking dope (easy word joke here...anyway). Greetz to everyone at NAID'95! (easy huh?) :) Btw, call RR -> see next! ÄÄ-Ä--ú/\ú-Ä-ÄÄÄ ÛßÜ ÜÜ ÜÜ Ü ÛßÜ ÜÜ ÜÜ Ü ÜÜ ÜÜ ÜÜÜ þ ÜÜ Ü ÜÜ ÛÝ Ý ÛÛ Û ÛÜ ß ÛÝ Û ÛÝ Ý ÛÛ Ý ÛÛ ß Ý ÛÛ Ý ÛÛ Ý ÛÝ Ü ÛÛ Û ÛÞÛ ÛÜ ß Û Û Û Þ ßÛ ÞÝ Þ Û Û Û Û Û Ý Û Û ÞÝ Û Ý Û Þ Û ÞÝ ßÛ ÝÜß Þ ÜÛ ³ ÞÝ ÞÜ Ý ÝÜß Þ Üß Þ Ü Þ Þ Üß Û Û Ý Þ Þ Ý Û ³ ÞÝ Ý Ý Ýß Û Ý Ý Û ßÞ Ý Ý Ý Ýß Û Ý Ý ³ Þ Û Ý Ý Ý Þ Ý Ý ³ Þ Û Þ Þ Û Ý Û ³ Þ Û Ü Ý ÛÛ Ü Û Ü Û Ý Þ ÛÝ Û ÞÝ ³ Þ Þ Û ß ß ß ßß ß ß ß ßß ß ßß ßß ßß ß ßß ßß ß ßß Rash Reflections . 1-514-635-4043 . 880 megs . SysOp: Coluche ÄÄ Only for the PC Demo and Music Scenes! 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