A.D.A. Amiga Demoscene Archive

UP ROUGH SOUNDSYSTEM, GENESIS PROJECT and DIVINE STYLERS invites you to DATASTORM 2010!

The demo party for oldskool platforms. Only.


PREFACE

Sweden has since 1998 been blessed with the world's greatest summer party, Little Computer People, delivering
hot data action for the oldskool crowd year after year. While we are grateful to the Hack'n'Trade posse for
having us boozing, computing, and socializing each year, we curse them for the hardcore one year data-abstinence
they inflict upon us inbetween each party...

Since we obviously can't get rid of the addiction, we have now decided to accept it and even take it to the next
level by doubling the dose! The winter-time withdrawal syndromes has finally come to an end for all you oldskool
fanatics: The absolute swedish elite has gathered to bring you the best fucking fix of Amiga/C64/Console axxion ever!


THE DEAL

Up Rough Soundsystem, Genesis Project & Divine Stylers hereby invite you to DATASTORM 2010! The ultimate winter party
for people operating on machines with SOUL. It's going down on the the 5:th of February 2010 and keeps going until
the 7:th of February 2010! Can you dig it?

Partylocation is the city of Gothenburg at the swedish westcoast - the stronghold of the swedish amigascene.
The city is easy to reach through two international airports, ferry and train.

The entrance fee is set to 200 SEK (~20E), with dinner included on Saturday and breakfast included on
Saturday and Sunday. Only swedish currency accepted.


PARTYPLACE

You know that when we do stuff, we do it right, and this time we have put in extra effort to make that dreary
weekend in February something special. The party will be hosted at a night club in an industrial complex, close to
the centre of Gothenburg, providing that special mix of roughness and cozyness that we all love.
In addition to the tables on which to put your real hardware on, although we allow laptops for cross-dev purposes,
we have lounge areas with cozy sofas and arm chairs where you can comfortably sit around and talk about that new
cruncherroutine you've been working on for the last decade or whatever...


FEATURES

Having the party at a nightclub is something special. The greatest difference from other small parties is that
DATASTORM will feature a proper bar with service-minded personnel that works as long as people are awake and will
serve thirsty party freax with an endless supply of beer, wine, and softdrinks. But a party is not just about
drinking right? We also hired some cooks that will deliver vegetarian and non-vegeterarian breakfast, dinner,
and supper on announced times. When the special meals are not served, barfood like pizza, hummousrolls, falafel
and kebab can be ordered as long as the bar is open. Everything to a price that even the scener on a budget
can afford! Ofcourse you can also buy snacks, candy and tobacco at all times. And the coffee is free, so you don't
fall asleep before your releases are finished in time for the competition!

Here is a list with all features of the party, more stuff might be added in the future so stay tuned!

* Bar open almost 24h with full assortment of cheap beer/wine/softdrinks.
* 2 Breakfasts and 1 Dinner included in entrance fee, vegeterian alternatives available.
* A variety of cheap barfood is available anytime.
* Snacks and tobacco available 24h.
* Superchill environment with cozy furniture.
* 6 clean toilets. No queues! Never pee your pants! Freedom!
* Powerful nightclub soundsystem!
* Cocktail data - we strive to get the perfect mix of socializing and computing!


SPECIAL GUESTS

* The grandfather of moduleswappers returns! Slash / Citron. is back! He will bring his customized
hippodecks to deliver the finest zak ever written in protracker. Bring your boathorns and your guns!
This is one show you don't wanna miss! Pull up selecta! Move Rudebwoy Move!
* More stuff is coming.. Stay tuned!


BATTLES

The mighty competition is being held at Saturday evening with the winners being presented after midnight..
For detailed info about the compos, head over to http://www.datastorm.se
Stay tuned for the announcement of compo-prizes!

The atmosphere when all competitors are present during the compo is unbeatable.
Therefore we do not allow remote entries which means that atleast one of the authors of an entry must be present
at the party. However, we do allow (and even encourage!) snail mail entries in the Packdisk Open contest,
see below for further details.


MORE INFO

Head over to http://www.datastorm.se and sign up for the party and find all the info you need, if you don't find it, ask in the forum!
You can also reach us via the official party Chat.

Slightly off-topic maybe, but i'd love to see a new demo from UPROUGH! It's been too long.

@z5_: if you come to the party we might do something just for you ;)

Now this is something to look forward to! Lots of people signed up already, just 2 days after the site went official! Lots of Amiga guys aswell :)

yes, after 2 days more than 50% of the available seats are already reserved.. hurry up and sign before the c64-scene takes your place ;)

didn't even know there was that many people in the amiga scene!

datastorm 2010 - reuniting the ameega scene, yeah? :)

>75% of seats are booked now.. don't hesitate to signup if you want to be part of the axxion.. in a few days (or hours) it might be too late ;)

spotUP, let's hope so! It's been a while since the latest 3LE, Ward or Candle demos got released.. :) Let's build some castles in the air! :D

109 visitors. Not bad for two days :)

only 18 seats left now!
the amiga legends are returning home!

@Spot: on the website it says that you only accept remote entries via snailmail, and not via e-mail - is that really true?

It says remote entries for the packdisk open only:

"The atmosphere when all competitors are present during the compo is unbeatable. Therefore we do not allow remote entries which means that atleast one of the authors of an entry must be present at the party. However, we do allow (and even encourage!) snail mail entries in the Packdisk Open contest, see below for further details."

@malmix: ah, I see :-). Well then there won't be any release from me at Datastorm.

Tonight at 20.00 you'll have another chance to register. A limited number of canceled seats will be reopened for registration.

http://www.datastorm.se/

So who's working on stuff for DATASTORM? I might throw a quick bootblock intro together. :)

I'm going to Datastorm, and I have a demo in the works. And if I can finish it with some time to spare, I'll probably finish one half-ready 64k I have lying around.

Datastorm is already this weekend (thought it was next weekend). Hopefully we'll see some nice productions (me is still hoping for a new uprough demo someday).

Awesome party! many great releases. highlights for me being that birdsong sid replication entry in the music compo and that c64mp3 player :)

Seems there were also some Amiga releases. Looking forward to seeing those, so I can get inspired to actually do some more work on a possible BP release.

Were there any Amiga demos released, or are we talking music/gfx only on the Amiga front?

@swd

--demos:
1. Britelite's Super Original (download link, or here)
2. Otro and Goto80 New-D Slideshow
3. loaderror Last Demo Ever

--bootblock intros:
1. KaosBlok 2 Blueberry of Loonies
2. Love Data Mahoney dl link
3. Liknar Doom Slummy and Loaderror dl link
4. No Virus Booger of La Paz

All results here

Has anybody succeded in running the Supergroup demo via UAE (running Cloanto's Amiga Forever)? If so, which settings should be used for the demo?

@corial

For me it runs fine over winuae only after JIT disabling (a1200/040 and all the os loading, just without JIT). Also on pouet Brite said that maybe will need to to disable cashes in the boot-menu). But it works fine for me with all the crap/cashes and so on. Just disable JIT make it works.

ps. it also works fine on my aos4 with e-uae. Check for fun screen1 and screen2 :)

Corial: either use standard A500-settings or any settings as long as JIT is disabled

For the lazy ones, there's a good capture on youtube (great work, dirtie! How about capturing the rest of the zillion amiga demos and putting them on youtube :)? Nah, seriously, would be nice, as a test, the see a couple of extra demos converted (demos from eph, dcs, madwizards,...)

Is loaderror's last demo ever online for download somewhere?

I'm still working on it. It is just a small demo testing out a videocompression I've been coding on. I just wanted to participate with something.. "Last demo ever" is just a drunk attempt at shock propaganda of course ;)

@britelite: that demo is really well executed. You did a very fine job on the bumpmapper, which looks excellent imo.