³¼COMPFAIR '91¼

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This  kind  of  exhabition  is arranged
every  year  in Budapest.  (Hungary) It
took   place  at  the  BNV  (Budapest's
international  fair)  from 15th to 19th
October.   This is a bit like CeBit, or
AmiExpo.  This event luckily was at the
same  time  as  our  class outing.  You
have  to know, our class is learning to
be  programers,  so  everybody  (except
some girls) were intrested in CompFair.
We  started from Gyor at 7 o'clock, and
arrived  to  Budapest  at 10 o'clock in
the  afternoon.   First  we stopped our
trip  in the centre of our capital.  We
got  2  hours  to do whatever we wanted
to.  So I and my friend Lado started to
hit  the  town.   As  the main event we
used  the  subway  at  least  10  times
without   any  tickets.   It  was  very
dangerous   bcoz   there  are  so  many
conductors,  and the fine is very high.
But   this  time  we  didn't  have  any
problems  with  the conductors.  All in
all  in those 2 hours we visited nearly
all  the  big  events in Budapest.  The
next   stop  with  the  class  was  the
CompFair.   The weather was really bad,
it  was  raining.   The entrace fee was
quite  low.   (50 Ft = 0.75 USD) At the
gate  some guys gave us info sheets and
stickers.  At the BNV's place there are
several   huge   rooms.   I  think  the
territory  of  the  biggest  one was at
least  100x200  meters.   Two  of these
rooms  were  used  for the CompFair and
some   others   for   the  non-computer
exhabitions.   We  started  our tour in
the  smaller  room.   Wow!   Inside the
weather was great, only the noise level
was  a bit too high.  There were mainly
PC,Fax,Phonesystem etc.  stands, I have
seen only one Amiga stand.  On the Pc's
mainly  run  only two kind of software:
Either  VGA  slideshows  or boring book
keeping  etc.  programs.  But of course
there were some digitizers.  By the way
the  best one run under Windows and the
digitized  color picture displayed in a
window,     which     was     moveable,
magnifyable.  (as in WorkBench) But the
best  thing  I  saw were some beautiful
girls  with  mini  skirts,  and  skate.
They  gave  us  sheets  again, but this
time we were happy bcoz we talked a bit
to   them.    There   was   an   really
interesting  stand  where  I  saw  some
amigas.    On  an  Amiga3000  the  anti
lemming   demo   was   running,   on  a
Amiga2000  some shot them up games were
played  with  a  revolver-joy  (I don't
know   its   real   name).    Some  new
Amiga500+  and  disks and casettes were
for   sale.   I  and  Lado  bought  2-2
casettes,    bcoz    they   were   very
cheap.(About  1  USD) A democompetition
was  arranged here also, but the result
published next day, so I don't know it.
Some  demos were shown on a big Philips
TV.   (about  150cm).  Our demo -Ray Of
Hope2-  was also shown, but at the very
long  grettings  list  the  guy  in the
front  of  the  Amiga  made a reset, so
Majic  12's  show  finished  very fast.
After  that  we went to the other room.
But  before  we bought a hambuger and a
coke.    It  was  really  nice  to  eat
hambuger  and  drink  cola in the rain.
In  the  second  room  there  were  the
bigger  companies' stands.  For example
IBM, APPLE, STAR.  We saw a silly stand
with  a  computer on the ceiling, in an
aquarium,  on  a Mercedes sportcar etc.
At  the  STAR's  place we received blue
luftballons  from  a very nice girl.  I
asked a men at IBM for a blue rose, but
he hadn't any for me because others had
taken  them  already.  At the centre of
the  room there was a laser screen, but
we  didn't  find  the  projector.   The
prices  were relatively low compared to
normal  prices  in  Hungary,  but quite
high   compared   to  the  AmiExpo  for
example.  (660 USD for an Amiga500)
 When  we were at the CompFair the most
of the scene dudes were at school, so I
didn't  met anybody.  We passed 2 hours
here,  and  then we started to our last
target called EGER.

            ²Written by ³Avantage/Majic12¹