Yet Another Lame Party Official Report

    This is the official report of Yet Another Lame Party, organized in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on May 25th 1997 by MindEscapE with Renegade and Alcal Pone. The compos lasted approximately from 19:00 to 01:00.


Results

PC DEMO

  1. Virtual Insanity by Black Plum
  2. Ace CD Collection #4 intro by Hyperopia
  3. The Ultimate Solution by Demoniac/New Primitives

AMIGA DEMO

There were no Amiga demos at the party :(

C64 DEMO

  1. Tautologic by Victory + TempesT

256 BYTES DEMO

  1. TIE Fighter by Suicidal/Lucid
  2. Fire! by Rep/Titan
  3. 256 by Nucleus/Tempest

ANSI

There were no ANSI's either (read the note under "Failures" below)

ASCII

  1. Horny Things in the Swamp by Phuzzy Logic/DepthCharge
  2. Napad Vesh Mashina Ljudozdera Ubica sa Marsa Dva by N0pe Dope/PaS MaterS
  3. Yet Another Lame Party by Green Tooth/NeverMind

PIXEL GFX

  1. Wash Me! by Jamon/Juice/Hyperopia
  2. Slamm by N0pe Dope/PaS MaterS
  3. Inside by ???/Lucid

PHOTOSHOP GFX

  1. No Title by Nom/Hive
  2. Cyber by Hive
  3. It's Alive! by Paranoid/CoRRoSioN

RENDERED GFX

  1. Jagodina by Kolja
  2. Proba 19 by Trippers
  3. Saucer by N0pe Dope/PaS MaterS

C64 GFX

  1. Jodie by JB/No Name/TempesT/Industry
  2. Arise by Phantom/Lepsi/Panic
  3. The Healer by JB/No Name/TempesT/Industry

ANIMATION

  1. Dancing Teddy by N0pe Dope/PaS MaterS
  2. Lamp by Maverick/Acid Dream
  3. No Title by dNk/NeverMind

4 CHANNEL

  1. Faceless by N0pe Dope/PaS MaterS
  2. X2 Remix by Paranoid/CoRRoSioN
  3. BassHop by NotSafe/CoRRoSioN

MULTICHANNEL

  1. 48 by BP/Hyperopia
  2. IK 96 by DM/Victory
  3. Escape from Reality by B.O.B./Lucid

C64 MUSIC

  1. 1993 by String/ex-Chaos
  2. Line by Dalton/Transcom
  3. Krupa A440 mix by Phantom/Lepsi/Panic

USELESS UTILITY

  1. Fraktalni Generator Shvajcarskih Shumovitih Planina sa Zvukom i Atmosferom, a bez Mogucnosti Snimanja by Woodoo/PaS MaterS and N0pe Dope/PaS MaterS
  2. CheckMonitor v1.0 by Phuzzy Logic/DepthCharge
  3. Garbage Grafix Generator by Kiso Qpus/PaS MaterS & N0pe Dope/PaS MaterS


Prizes

    We weren't too strong on this field, we only found two sponsors who donated 3 CD's each, plus the Ecstasy BBS gave a copy of Ecstasy CD collection as an additional prize. These were given to the winners of the PC Demo, Pixel, Photoshop, Rendered, Animation, 4 Channel and Multichannel categories. Additionally, the winners in all categories got wonderful, exceptional, very limited series, priceless YALP T-shirts. Don't forget that the entrance was free :)

Voting Irregularities

    As we had decided to make the entrance to YALP free, the classical "one ticket, one votesheet" concept couldn't be applied, so we just tried to give every present person one sheet. However, it wasn't too hard for determined voters to get their hands on more than one votesheet. In spite of the remarkable similarity in votes and handwriting of some sheets, we decided to disregard none of them, as we believe everyone had the same chance to cheat.

    Certain two members of Vortex would have won the 2nd place in the Pixel compo and the 3rd place in the Photoshop compo, but since we the organizers find their entries not nearly as good as the other high-ranking ones, we decided to disqualify them so that we don't get accused for fixing votes. So, unofficially, they DID win those places, but if we put that official, nobody would believe us we had not fixed the votes. As of those two - don't worry about them, they are our groupmates and they'll surely understand.

    Right there on the spot we had to count the votes VERY fast, so two mistakes got through: in the 256 Byte Demo category, the TIE fighter by Suicidal/Lucid was found to have 1 vote more than the second-ranking Fire! by Rep/Titan. However, during the careful vote-check later, we discovered that those two had exactly equal numbers of votes. Also, in the Rendered category, Proba 19 by Trippers was declared winner, but later we found out that Jagodina by Kolja Tatic had more votes. The lists in this report are corrected, but we cannot provide the deserved prizes for Rep/Titan and Kolja. We are most terribly sorry for this, but since the prizes were of little material value anyway (T-shirts and a CD) we hope those two will forgive us.

Entry Notes

    Ace CD Collection #4 Intro by Hyperopia was not a "previously unreleased production" and it was submitted way after the deadline; also, the C64 pic Uriboric Forms by Phantom/Lepsi/Panic was not submitted executable, as it should have been. However, we accepted these contributions because their irregularities did little harm and their compo categories weren't really overcrowded.

    N0pe Dope/PaS MaterS really flooded us with all those contributions and got some 25% of the prizes - totally deservedly. In case you don't understand Serbian, his ASCII is called "Attack of The Man-Eating Killer Washing Machines from Mars Two" and the PaS MaterS useless utility is called "Fractal Generator of Wooded Swiss Mountains with Sound and Atmosphere, but with No Save Option".

Failures

    Five entries were e-mailed to Han Solo, but the disk with them was lost by another member of the organizing crew (we'll keep his identity secret to protect him from bomb-attacks), so they weren't shown. These were: a multichannel module by Spurious/Dead Clown Records, a 256 byte demo by Veljko Miljanic and two ANSI's and a 256 byte demo by MasterMind. We are particularly sorry about MasterMind's works, as there were no other ANSI's submitted and his 256 byte demo stood (in our humble opinion) a chance of winning the compo. The C64 tune Uphill by DM/Victory was not played because of another obscure mistake caused by the organizers' sloppiness. But what's done is done.

    For reasons unknown to us, the C64 tune Lullaby Remake by Trugoy/TempesT crashed on our compo machine (three times!) and the PC demo The Ultimate Solution by Demoniac/New Primitives played no music (while it normally plays some). The animation Inside of st. Dimitrije's Basilicas by Power Bugs, Bell and Utvara could not be played as our video beam did not support such a high resolution.

    It proved a very bad idea to put all 256 byte demos in one category, as PC demos were very superior to C64 demos - if there are any 256 byte categories at the next party, we'll separate them.

Achievements

    We managed to gather a great part of the Yugoslav demo scene at one time and in one place - far more people than ever before - made them get to know each other and gave them an unforgettable time. YALP was the first event of its kind in the history of this country, and we are sure that demo parties will become a regular event in Yugoslavia in a year or two.

    We have shown to a kind of "wider" audience - passionate BBS'ers and serious programmers - what demo scene is all about. We have shown to the people that demo sceners are not strange people living in faraway countries, but flesh and blood humans you meet every day.

    We made it all a fun event; even when things didn't work, we did our best to make the party worth staying at. For what we hear of the foreign demo parties, they usually get a lot more boring than YALP was in any moment. We believe nobody regretted coming to the party.

    We managed to promote the C64 scene to the Amiga and PC people who mostly knew nothing of its existence. We had been supposed to show a nice mix of different styles of C64 demos, but we only had time to show two of them (one of which was shown incompletely). Nevertheless, the reactions of the audience to those demos, to the (only) C64 demo that was brought to the compo, to the C64 grafix and muzax and to Paranoid's "Commodore is dead" statement indicate that we have succeeded.

Acknowledgements

    Turbo mega electro ultra quartz big big big MindEscaping thanks to:
NeverMind
for all the Amiga support
MR Sound
for the data beam
Nucleus/Tempest/Equinoxe
ddfor fixing our cable in the last minute
Nom/Hive
for the T-shirt design
    Normal thanks to:
all visitors and competitors
for the support
compo winners
for the cool works
useless utility authors
for making our lives so much happier, juicier and longer
Phantom/Lepsi/Panic, N0pe Dope/Pas Maters and Kolja Tatic
for the immense number of contributions
Bigfoot
for the help with vote counting
Hustler/WASP
for the GUS and VCR
dtMarko Savic
for the disk drive
Ecstasy board
for the CD
all support boards
For the support :)
Broker
for the YALP mailing list
Tomcat/Controlled Dreams
for organization tips and spreading the word about the party in Hungary
Lion/Chromance
for spreading the word about the party in Hungary
Fatboy/Hyperopia
for all the help
Byterapers and Reflex
for making "Unsound Minds" and "Nine", which were shown at the party
Jizzlober's father and Han Solo's father
for transporting the equipment and cattle ;)
Harkaster/W[i]GS, Drow/W[i]GS, Kriss/Vortex, Katarina and Verica
for the moral support
Media City and MB Soft
for their sponsorship
    Apologies to:
Kolja Tatic and Rep/Titan
for our mistakes with vote-counting and them not getting their prizes
Power Bugs + Bell + Utvara, MasterMind, Spurious/Dead Clown Records, Veljko Miljanic and DM/Victory
for our failing to show their entries in the compos
Nucleus/TempesT/Equinoxe
for Han Solo burning his hand
all visitors, especially gfx competitors
for the phukkup during the gfx compos (we fixed that, didn't we?)
Cooler/Titan
for the delay in playing his module
Phuzzy Logic/DepthCharge
for our failing to show his Scene Strike 1 invitro
Triad, Blackmail, Crest and Wrath Designs
for our failing to show "Red Storm", "Dutch Breeze", "Krestology" and "Stupidity 3" at the party
everyone
for other lame little organization failures that no party is free of
    Kicks to:
Web
for deserting us when we needed him the most
Paranoid/CoRRoSioN
for his lameass speech at the end
    Best wishes to:
CoRRoSioN, Phuzzy Logic and N0pe Dope
with organizing Scene Strike 1

    We hope to see you all again at A Yet Even Lamer Party next year. We'll keep your favourite sysops informed, so watch out for the invitation. Sincerely, the organizers (in alpha order):

Alcal Pone
Dope
Han Solo
Jizzlober
Renegade
Spider
Virulent Void