tPeople at the SymposiumtRokDaZonetfpc02s1f2 PEOPLE AT THE SYMPOSIUM'97 f1c03 the Personality Show c04 by RokDaZone c01 FAIRLIGHT & TRSI c03 Some people might have already expected it: As it seems at the moment, the legendary Amiga-groups will go into fusion, which means that there won't be a new group but a regular cooperation, releasing together under one label. Sources which names may not be given here, but which are definately trustworthy as they belong to the inner circle of both groups already unofficially confirmed that in the first step, c04TRSI Recc03. will become c04TRSI&Fairlight Recc03. and also the demosection on all platforms will melt. First traces can be found on c02Cyberlogik3.11c03 where the c04 TRSI&Fairlightc03 Experience falls in ones eye immediately. A quite obvious step regarding that c022-Sign/Fairlightc03 can already now be described the most active graphician of c04TRSIc03. c01 ANTIBYTE/SCOOPEX c03 Despite participating in the democompetition, there seemingly was no one less interested in the results. He even missed the pricegiving and gave no reaction when he heard about his underrated c04seventhc03 rank. We have to ask ourselves where the overambitious coder at c04The Party VIc03 about whom we have reported in c04Generation 23c03 remained? Well, it seems like we have interpreted his behaviour then in a quite wrong way. we are sorry about that, c02Antic03! c01 PARSEC/ELVEN 11 c03 Although most Sceners rather should remember him for his articles mainly in c04Abnormalia c03(or also as c02"Mr. Nose"c03, pardon), he proved his musical abilities at the c04Symposiumc03 in quite an impressive way. Not only that he wrote the semi-official soundtrack for the Symposium and reached rank three in the ProTracker Competition ("Feel the viiiiibes! Get high together..."), his name also appeared in the credits of four democompetition entries. Three groups used modules from him, for a fourth one he delivered the samples (although those extremely reminded of some from c04Maniacs of Noicec03). c01 KESTREL/SYNDROME c03 A quite ennerved megaswapper told us about the perspectives he sees for himself and c04Syndromec03 and actually, there seemingly are only few left. Not only that he himself hasn't got any reactions from the French sections even after f4fourf1 letters, he also knew to tell that the quarrels of the individual members with c02Tenshuc03, the strange graphician and head of Syndrome, go out of hand. f4"Under the given conditions, the group might splitt soon"f1, c02Kestrelc03 puts it to the point. c01 WK-ARTWORKS/INFECT c03 Together with c04'Wild Summer'c03 and c04'DataWorld II'c03, their videoeffect-processing softwarepackage Wildfire entered c02AmiNetc03 and several PD-CDs as restricted shareware version. The version is usable only the buffers do not get emptied after single tasks are finished. So, watching the examples and also processing single pictures is possible with standard equipment. For working on full animations, however, you should rather have 1 GB of RAM or get yourself the DM 50,- keyfile, which fixes the problem. The DM 100,- key actually opens access to highend specialeffects. Quite a handful of people already have registered themselves, underneath them a software company from the USA paying with an 80$ cheque via mail. Asked if they plan to sue people using faked keyfiles, c02Eksecc03 negates: f4"If someone really wants to use Wildfire seriously, he is awilled to pay the few bucks as he also is looking for support and updates. Wildfire measures directly to programs costing more than DM 1000,- and it is even better than those. If these people are so stupid to need this faking, than they could never be serious clients anyway."f1 c01 LINCOLN/LIGHTFORCE c03 Such a nice young man... First he gets kicked outside for throwing beerbottles at the bigscreen; being totally drunk, then he starts a fight short after returning in again. When the police which the organizers called before arrived, he tried to escape, but too late: He got caught but let go after just some sharp words. Most people would have came to reason after that, not our c04"partyhero"c03: After he tagged on the walls of the c04Internetcafec03 and reportedly threatened some organizers with a c02knifec03, the police arrived for a second time and took him to custody for around six hours as c02Sul/Teklordsc03 of the organizer staff confirmed lateron. c01 BIRDHOUSE PROJECTS c03 Although their embarrasing appearance at the c04Symposiumc03 is rather not worth to be mentioned, we can't save ourselves from some lines. c02Wild Democ03 means to them to do a scrolling page with static text on screen and jump up the stage with a c04British Petrolc03 flag to "perform" to their pityful entry. This taken alone may be understood as funny (although hardly anyone seemingly thought it was), but that they afterwards actually begged people to vote for them really widens the horizont of pathos. At least they got the seventh place (out of nine). Our advise: If you ripp the idea of a partybrigade from c04Infectc03 ("The real partyheroes"), then you should at least be as funny as them - and not just boldly c02primitivec03. c01 DRIFTERS c03 After reaching the fourth place with their highly entertaining demo, the French based group may proudly state to be the first group in the ninetieth to have reached a quite high ranking with a fun release. Maybe some people from c04Birdhouse Projectsc03 or c04Acceptc03 could learn from this? c02Claryc03, who short before recorded Amigademos for an computerbased art-exhibition in Belgium, had some troubles in the forefield with finishing the demo as her A1200 died some weeks before the party, but thanks to the help of her sisters computer (A1200 also) the project was finished in time - luckily for us attendants as we else would have missed a splendid release.