b1a0tRush Hour'98tRokDaZone&Maqthpf2s2c01 Rush Hour'98 - Report f1c02 by RokDaZone & Maq/Endzeit c04Polish parties. We all know they are factually happening almost all of the time throughout the entire year, but - damned - why don't we ever hear from them? Luckily we can lift the (iron) curtain a little at least in the case of Rush Hours'98. Best regards to Maq/Endzeit for the information. c03The Rush Hour'98 took place from the 25th to 26th April 1998 in Czestochowa/Poland, a very famous and touristically interesting polish city. The whole event was organised by Freezers, the once quite famous group which has become quite silent in 1997 actually. Much like it is to be expected the party took place in a sportshall in which estimated 400 to 500 visitors, from groups like Appendix, Endzeit, VenusArt, Floppy, Amnesty, PhaseTruce and Union, easily found place in. Even a handful of italian Sceners have been seen. c02f4 "That Sportshall was good,"f1c03 Maq confirms,f4c02 "but sanitary condition were awful! Anyway, the party place was quite good." f1c03Only irritating factor here that the partyplace was changed only a couple of days before the party so that quite a lot of people first drove to the wrong location. Well, we had worse things. Repordetly the place and the whole event took advance from the bright and sunny weather which caused quite a lot of Sceners to enjoy themselves outside on the lawn. Maybe smoking parts of it, we don't know. All in all the athmosphere was described as relaxed and friendly. c04As usually there is one cardinal question after a party: What did the organisers do wrong? c03First of all it seemed like they showed an uncommonly rigid behaviour for polish parties. People being found with alcohol were simply kicked out, the same goes for Sceners sleeping in the hall(!). c01 The Competitions c02Demo Competition c03 1.) Napalm / Floppy c04 2.) Visible World / Mawi 3.) Flea / Appendix 4.) Twich / Vegas c02In the Demo Competition we find only one demo which deserved that name. It is the winning production made by Zig/Endzeit & Floppy. 'VisibleWorld' from Mawi & Venus Arts was a slideshow with one (really nice) effect and a lot of great gfx. 'Flea' by Appendix was another advanced but disappointingly short release which rather reminded of an intro not a demo. 'Twich' by Vegas was a production coded in AMOS and we know what to think about those. Interesting then again that it featured environmental and texture mapping routines in assembler. c0164kb Intro c03 1.) Korn / Amnesty c04 2.) Born Again / Venus Art 3.) Revolution909 / Mawi ?.) Infinity / Reality ?.) Retro / Instinct ?.) Dysentry2 / Victims ?.) Relievo / AVD ?.) Child / Moons ?.) Skizzy / Palimy Trafke ?.) Death Brain / Phace Truce c02The 64kb intro competition was - like we are used to from polish parties- of a rather high standard. Amnesty took the first place with an impressive production called 'Korn'. A surprise surely the return of Venus Arts. After only three months in the polish army, Noe returned with a yet another high-quality CyberGFX supporting intro. These guys are planning huge things for the future nd for this they search for another talented 3D-worksman. So in case of interest rush to join this surely grand group. The Virtua Art 3D engine has been already ported to PPC and with 'Everything Dies remix' and 'Ghost in The Machine special edition' two PPC-supporting releases have been presented at RushHour '98. c014kb Intro c03 1.) Together Remix / Phace Truce c04 2.) S38ZB4 / Mawi 3.) Thud_Remix / Mawi ?.) CoolMix / Amnesty ?.) srorriM / EndZeit ?.) Babcia / PSB ?.) Sroka / Wfms c02Places only known for the first three ranks. Maq re-released his intro from the Mekka Symposium which then didn't competed in the competitions. It seems people didn't like that idea as else there is no explaination why he didn't win the overall very weak contest. Also difficult to understand why 'CoolMix' by Amnesty didn't reach one of the first three ranks. Maybe a lot of Mawi friends there. c01256b Intro c03 1.) Midge / Appendix c04 2.) ??? / Wfms 3.) Break in Chaos / ITB^Ind c02Aln!/Appendix has made an impressive 256bytes intro called 'Midge'. Incredible what some people can think of in a bunch of bytes which is 20 times shorter than this article. c014-Channel Competition c03 1.) Mark c04 2.) Moon 3.) X-Ceed/Endzeit c01Multi-Channel Competition c03 1.) X-Ceed/Endzeit c04 2.) ChildDream / ??? 3.) ??? / Bartesek c01Graphics Competition c03 1.) Crazy Man / Kro c04 2.) Sinner / Madd 3.) Mystic-Influence / Mustafa c02Mostly Photoshop-pictures in this competition, which also goes for the first place. At least a handful of hand-drawn pictures of some quality there. c01Raytrace Competition c03 1.) Nauka / Traitor c04 2.) Kinder / Traitor 3.) Rflexx / ??? c02Once more, Traitor has proven that he deserves the title of he best polish RayTracer at the moment.