--- scene 1989 ------------------------------------------------------------

                             - 1989: Megademo! -

'First, there was Exact. And now, Red Sector presents... A TCC design...
 Megademo!'. These words introduced us all to the best megademo ever
released - Red Sector's. It was a rare occurence back in those days when
everything worked as good together as it did in this demo - design was, if
not named as such, born. The demo featured great graphics and music, and
more new and original routines than anyone had seen for a very long while.

hardware - In june at the World of Commodore show in London, Commodore
announce that the 1 millionth Amiga has been sold. Motorola launches the
68040 processor. Deluxe Paint III was released.

Demo of the Year  - Red Sector "Megademo".
Intro of the year -
Significantly      Dexion "Megademo".
                   Scoopex "J.O.E Slideshow 2".

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index
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          Avenger/Alcatraz Party.
          'Lahti' copyparty.
          Magnetic Fields Party.
          Paranoimia AmiExpo Party.
          PC Show.
07-08.01  Random Access Party.
28-29.01  Escape Copy-Party.
11-12.02  Bamiga Sector 1 and The Warfalcons party.
24-26.02  Rawhead, Bros, Suppliers Party.
02-05.03  The Gang, Zyx and Amiga Lords party.
08-15.03  CeBit 89 [exposition].
24-26.03  IT, Rawhead, The Band, IMP-666 Megaparty.
24-25.03  Ikari/Zargon Party.
01-02.04  Trilogy, Vision Factory and BTW Party.
16-18.04  European Computer Entertainment Show (ECES) [exposition].
   18.04  Red Eagle Party.
   29.04  Piranhas Party.
12-15.05  Equinox and Horizon Party.
23-25.06  IT and Razor 1911 Party.
23-25.06  Abnormal, Hoaxers, Network and Razor 1911 Gigaparty.
   29.07  Alpha Flight, Vision Factory and Powerslaves copy party.
   07.08  Digitech - IBB Summer Conference 89.
25-27.08  Pepsi Hacker Conference.
   09.09  Tristar party.
29-31.09  Horizon Meeting.
07-08.10  Escape and Spreadpoint party.
12-15.10  Shape & TRC party.
13-15.10  Le Salon de la Micro 1989 [exposition]
14-15.10  Vision Party.
04-05.11  Random Access Overnight Party II.
02-05.11  Spectre & Northstar Helloween Party 89.
18-19.11  Bamiga Sector 1 Copyparty.
     .12  Transcom party.
     .12  Vision/Avenger/DDC NewYear-Party Rotterdam.
   10.12  Brainstorm/D-Tect party.
26-30.12  X-Mas Party 89.



          Avenger/Alcatraz Party.
---------------------------------
Held in a gymnastics hall near Geneva, Switzerland. Certainly held!


          'Lahti' copyparty.
----------------------------
Held in Lahti, Finland.

other   Accession "For Your Eyes Only".


          Magnetic Fields Party.
--------------------------------
Little is known about this presumably English party.

other   Anarchy "Kreator's First" (amiga).


          Paranoimia AmiExpo Party.
-----------------------------------
The AmiExpo in Cologne (Kln) afterparty was arranged by Paranoimia, and the
most memorable event was reportedly a fight that erupted between rival
cracking groups Paranoimia and Quartex.


          PC Show.
------------------
The PC Show exposition was held at Earl's Court in London, England. There
were actually two scene events arranged in conjunction with the show, the
first one arranged at Hawk/Red Sector's house! There was a lot of new
releases, and many elite sceners were present. Hawk got pissed off because a
lot of people had shown up without an invitation, so he pulled the plug on
the power at 01.00 and annnounced that the party was over. The second day
another party was arranged by Cyrus Corp.


07-08.01  Random Access Party.
------------------------------
The party was probably held in Holland. There was a party report in Cracker
Journal #13, but it didn't really give us much info. There would be a
second party later in the year, the same mag informed us; see the entry
for Random Access Overnight-Party II for more info.


28-29.01  Escape Copy-Party.
----------------------------
Held in Villmergen, Switzerland. About 120 people attended, and 10 demos
were released. Here's one guy that'd like to know which ones... :)
Escape helped organize another swiss party, this time together with
Spreadpoint, in october.


11-12.02  Bamiga Sector 1 and The Warfalcons party.
---------------------------------------------------
Held in Fredericia, Denmark. About 250 people attended, of which about 100
were on the Amiga, and a total of three were female :) As you can see, the
results I've gathered are quite sparse, so any help is welcome!

amdemo  1.  Dexion "Megademo".
        2.  The Silents Sweden.

other   Atomic Intelligence "Party Demo" (amiga).
        Atomic Team "Party Demo" (amiga).
        Beastie Boys "Sound System Demo" (amiga).
        Rebels "On Wheels of Steel" (amiga).


24-26.02  Rawhead, Bros, Suppliers Party.
-----------------------------------------
Held at Spydeberg near Askim, Norway for C64 and Amiga owners. About 300
people attended. The party was apparently very professional, with sleeping
areas, showers, electricity, bar, disco, and even a video room! Naturally,
the deadline for the demo competition was moved - 9 hours this time! From
the original deadline at midnight saturday, it was moved to 9 in the
morning on sunday. The winners were decided by a jury.

amdemo  1.  Zoko Team.
        2.  Crusaders.
        3.  Shadows.
        4.  Quackers.
        5.  Breakout.
        6.  Errors.

64demo  1.  Weird Science.
        2.  Abnormal.
        3.  Rawhead/Shadows "Pimplesqueezer 6".
        4.  Killers.
        5.  Shape "At Last".
        6.  New Triad.
        7.  Errors.
        8.  Zoko Team.

other   Abnormal "Seeker 8" (c64 demo).
        Abnormal "The Unicorn" (c64 demo).


02-05.03  The Gang, Zyx and Amiga Lords party.
----------------------------------------------
Held at a school in Karlstad, Sweden for the Amiga scene. There were some
hardware theft problems... The small party report in Crack Journal #13
didn't really give much information, or any results, so please contribute :)

 Information from party report in Alpha Flight's "Cracker Journal #13".
 Information from party report in North Star's "Exceller 8 #3".


08-15.03  CeBit 89 [exposition].
--------------------------------
CEBIT89 exposition was held in Hannover, Germany. In the old days such
expositions, especially in Germany and England, were popular meeting places
for the scene. Not to mention that they were ideal places to steal copies of
new releases ;)


24-26.03  IT, Rawhead, The Band, IMP-666 Megaparty.
---------------------------------------------------
This easter party was held in Arendal, Norway for the amiga scene only! The
No Limits and IMP-666 party the following year was held at the same school
as this. There were more than 50 releases at this party! It appears that I
was originally wrong in thinking this party was held 18-21.03. Thanks to Zeg
for correcting me! Does anyone know if there were actually compos at this
place, or was stuff just released?

 Info and additional results from:
  - Demos and intros from Arendal party pack #1 by Razor 1911 & Cartel.
  - Some musics from Party muzak by It & CRB.

other   Cartel "Ball" (amiga).
        Cartel "Seal Slaughter" (amiga).
        Cartel "Plate Demo" (amiga).
        Crusaders "Project; Beat" (amiga musicdisk).
        Cryptoburners "Megademo" (amiga).
        It & Cryptoburners "Megaparty Muzak Disk" (amiga).
        Route 66 "Lamekill" (amiga).
        Route 66 "Rejsor" (amiga).
        Route 66 & K.O.R.T. "Musicdisk" (amiga).
        Razor 1911 "Wirwar" (amiga).
        Razor 1911 "Chainsaw" (amiga).
        Razor 1911 "Yeah!" (amiga).
        Razor 1911 "Liquid Bobs" (amiga).
        The Flash Team "Musicdisk 2" (amiga musicdisk).


24-25.03  Ikari/Zargon Party.
-----------------------------
Held in Slagelse, Denmark, mostly for the c64 scene.

64demo  1.  Ikari.
        xx. Abnormal "Illegal".

other   Fairlight "Human Killing Machine" (c64 crack).
        Online, Triangle, Cosmos, 711 and Dominators "Combat Crazy" coop
          crack! (c64 crack).
        Triangle "Asgard" (c64 crack).


01-02.04  Trilogy, Vision Factory and BTW Party.
------------------------------------------------
This party was announced in Cracker Journal #13, and was probably to be
held in Germany. But was it ever arranged?


16-18.04  European Computer Entertainment Show (ECES) [exposition].
-------------------------------------------------------------------
ECES exposition was arranged in London, England.


   18.04  Red Eagle Party.
--------------------------
This party was announced in Cracker Journal #13.


   29.04  Piranhas Party.
-------------------------
This party was announced in Cracker Journal #13.
Entrance only with official invitation! ;)


12-15.05  Equinox and Horizon Party.
------------------------------------
Held at Stlforsskolan in Eskilstuna, Sweden by Equinox and Horizon for both
the c64 and amiga scenes. About 500 people attended from sweden, norway,
denmark, finland and england. Held during 'pingsthelgen', sometime in the
beginning of summer. Also referred to as the "Eskilstuna Copy Party
1989". If anyone can help with more results I'd be eternally grateful!

amdemo  1.  Phenomena "200 Bobs".

64demo  xx. Science 451 "Puke".
        xx. Shape "Demented Children".


23-25.06  IT and Razor 1911 Party.
----------------------------------
Held in a school in Heimdal, 10km from Trondheim, Norway. I don't know the
exact date, but it was sometime before June. I had a 'party-pack' disk from
TFT (The Flash Team?) assembled in June...

amdemo  1.  Cryptoburners "Wild Bunch".
        2.  Arcadia.
        3.  Quackers "Blitter Pine".
        4.  T.E.C. "Demo 6".
        5.  Escape.

other   Avalanche "Megacrash" (amiga).
        Cartel "Fjords" (amiga).
        Crime "Masterbrain" (amiga).
        Crime "Party Demo 1" (amiga).
        Escape "2nd Party Demo" (amiga).
        Freedom Force^Amiga Industries (amiga demo).
        Ghostriders "PartyDemo" (amiga).
        Illusion "First Demo Party Demo" (amiga).
        New Order intro (amiga intro).
        Rebels "Swimming" (amiga demo).
        T.E.C. "Demo 7" (amiga).
        T.E.C. "Lamdemo" (amiga).
        T.L.D. "Bouncing Balls" (amiga).
        Vision "Small-Pack" (amiga).


23-25.06  Abnormal, Hoaxers, Network and Razor 1911 Gigaparty.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Held in Norway. All the information I have is the C64 demo, that said it
was released at this party :)

64demo  xx. Megastyle Inc "Brainstorm 3".


   29.07  Alpha Flight, Vision Factory and Powerslaves copy party.
------------------------------------------------------------------
Held near Venlo, Holland, presumably for the amiga scene. It is uncertain
whether there were actually competitions at all. The power supply broke down
a lot.

other   Alpha Flight "Cracker Journal #7 & #8" (amiga diskmag).
        Fulcrum (amiga).
        Genesis AFL "Demo" (amiga).
        Genesis AFL "Slideshow" (amiga).
        Genesis AFL "Soundbox 2" (amiga).
        Robot Session (amiga).
        Setrox (amiga).
        Spreadpoint "Demopack" (amiga).
        Tristar "Paranoimia party demo" (amiga).
        Vision "Megademo 2" (amiga).


   07.08  Digitech - IBB Summer Conference 89.
----------------------------------------------
Held at a school Kortedala outside Gothenburg, Sweden for the Amiga scene
during one single day. Arrangers of the party were Digital Technology
(Digitech) and Acme Factories, while other sources claim it was arranged by
IBB too. 39 productions were handed in for the competition.

 Information and results from:
  - some demos and complete results taken from Digitech Partypack
  - demos from noname digitech party pack #1

amdemo  1.  Defjam and The Silents (1483).
        2.  TSD "Hypnosis" (1399).
        3.  Digitech (1185).
        4.  Rebels "Megademo" (1155).
        5.  Alive "Lines & Sinus" (1148).
        6.  Digitech "Solid 3d Flight" (1114).
        7.  K.O.R.T. (1114).
        8.  Vortex 42 "Revolutin" (1113).
        9.  Fairlight "Disco" (1063).
        10. Deathstar (1061).
        11. Public Enemies (1008).
        12. Crusaders "Space" (967).
        13. Digitech (939).
        14. Crusaders (913).
        15. Crusaders (899).
        16. Scoopex (898).
        17. Dual Crew (893).
        18. Crusaders "Waterdemo" (884).
        19. Deadzone (881).
        20. Deadline (869).
        21. Dual Crew (860).
        22. Crusaders (846).
        23. Acme Factories (827).
        24. Phenomena (817).
        25. Legend "1st Demo" (753).
        26. Atomic Intelligence (741).
        27. The Supply Team (725).
        28. Digitech (712).
        29. Digitech (708).
        30. Powerdrive "Snakewoman" (648).
        31. Rigor Mortis (646).
        32. Atomic Intelligence (600).
        33. Undertakers "Benerlyzer" (543).
        34. Sargon (542).
        35. Rigor Mortis (521).

other   Scoopex "J.O.E slideshow 2" (amiga slideshow).


25-27.08  Pepsi Hacker Conference.
----------------------------------
Held in Furulund, Sweden by Pepsi. About 200 people attended.
The computer press, represented by Digital (norway), Oberoende Computer
(sweden) and DatorMagazin (sweden) were present, as well as some of the big
Swedish newspapers, like Sydsvenska Dagbladet abd Kvllsposten.
There were no usual demo competition; instead, there were competitions for
music, gfx and best utility program. Theis was not intended as a party as
such, but more as a means for people to be able to show some of their work
to some of the professional companies that were invited. Obviously, there
was a total ban on illegal copying. 12 contributions for music, three
pictures and two utilities were submitted. Three tunes were chosen by the
arrangers, and then played up for the audience, who voted.

 Information from Robert Hed's report in Digital 4/89 (Amiga fanzine).
Additional information from report in Datormagazin 13/89 (papermag).

gfx     1.  Gunnar Ljungstrand "Elfquest".

music   1.  Voice.

utility 1.  Johan Lindahl.

other   Kaktus & Mahoney "NoiseTracker 1.1" (amiga utility).


   09.09  Tristar party.
------------------------
Held in Holland, this party was the major scene event of the year.
Ofcourse, it will go down in history as the party where the Red Sector
"MEGADEMO" was released - probably the most successful demo of all time!!
Knowledge of more releases at this party would be nice...

amdemo  1.  Red Sector "Megademo".


29-31.09  Horizon Meeting.
--------------------------
Held in Sweden for the c64 scene. This was a smaller meeting, for elite
sceners only. The party had to be moved after the first day, due to the
groundskeeper of the original party place finding some empty alcohol bottles
and seriously disliking it. A new place was quickly found, "Kvaernberga"
school. There was likely no demo competition, just some individual cracks
(Altered Beast/Censor) and a demo from Light.

 Information from party report in Censor's "Fatal News #1" (c64 mag).


07-08.10  Escape and Spreadpoint party.
---------------------------------------
Held in Sarmenstorf, Switzerland by Escape and Spreadpoint for the amiga
scene. It was a real good oldfashioned copy party, and games like Batman,
Predator, Strider, Sci Fi, Sol Negro, Fighting Soccer and Hillsfar were
first released here. There was unfortunately no demo competition, it was
just a social and 'copy' event.


12-15.10  Shape & TRC party.
----------------------------
Held at a large sports hall in Porsgrunn, Norway by Shape (c64) and The
Ruling Company (TRC) (amiga). As usual in the old days, there were some
power problems. Complete results would be great, if anyone knows!

 Information and c64 results from party report in Censor's "Fatal News #2".

amdemo  1.  No Limits "Vector Ball".
        xx. No Limits "Spotlight".

64demo  1.  Censor Design "Boozer".
        2.  Shape "Phoenix".
        3.  Contex "High Pr."
        4.  Hoaxers.


13-15.10  Le Salon de la Micro 1989 [exposition]
------------------------------------------------
This French exposition (the name means The French Micro Expo) was held in
Paris. NAturally, Commodore France was present. Biggest news for the scene
was perhaps that Ackerlight Software (yes, that's right :) were presenting
their latest utilities (E.A.M) and gamnes (Wings of Glory).


14-15.10  Vision Party.
-----------------------
Announced in a Vision Germany intro in 1989, with no other info expect that
it would be held in Germany.


04-05.11  Random Access Overnight Party II.
-------------------------------------------
I have only seen this announced in Crack Journal #13; I have no info on
whether it was ever held. Amiga only.


02-05.11  Spectre & Northstar Helloween Party 89.
-------------------------------------------------
Held in Trollhttan, Sweden for the amiga scene. More info most welcome,
were there graphics and music competitions?

invit   Spectre "Party Invitation Demo" (amiga).

amdemo  1.  The Silents "Snurkel Preview".
        xx. Bloodsuckers "Nokian Nuoriso Ohjaaja Demu Part".
        xx. Bounty "Demo".
        xx. Extacy "Demo".
        xx. Phenomena "Arboga Party 90 Invitation".
        xx. Phenomena "S & N Party 89 Demo".
        xx. Phoenix "Party".
        xx. Rebels "Toked Away".
        xx. Spectre "Hold On".
        xx. Tommyknockers "Rasterdemo".


18-19.11  Bamiga Sector 1 Copyparty.
------------------------------------
The BS1 party was arranged in Nestelrode, Holland by Switch/Bamiga Sector 1.
There were two problems at this party; one thing was that the fuses seemed
to be blowing constantly, and the other was that it was raided by the
police! In a joint venture with Dutch and French police (working with
software house Titus) they raided the party with six police cars, and 100's
of disks were confiscated. Many destroyed their disks, there was total
panic. In the end, everybody had to be registered by the police before
leaving, and disks, hardware and adress books were confiscated.

 Information from party report in Brainstorm's "Zine #4" diskmag (amiga).

other   The Silents "Danish Quality" (amiga demo).


     .12  Transcom party.
-------------------------
Held in France by the c64 group Transcom for the c64, amiga and atari st
scenes. The organizer was interviewed in the largest French computer mag,
Tilt.

 Information from party report in Brainstorm's "Zine #4" diskmag (amiga).


     .12  Vision/Avenger/DDC NewYear-Party Rotterdam.
-----------------------------------------------------
Held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

other   Abandon "Megademo" (amiga).
        Abandon "Potheads Beast" (amiga).


   10.12  Brainstorm/D-Tect party.
----------------------------------
Held at a castle in Lrrach, Germany near the swiss border by Brainstorm and
D-Tect for the amiga scene. Most of the German and Swiss elite was present.
The party started at 11 and went on to 9 o'clock, meaning this was a one-day
party. About Half past 11, two policemen showed up to inform the attendants
that the German police was aware that software was being illegally copied at
this event, but that they were not going to act on this for now. The party
went on peacefully after the police had left. There was a demonstration (the
first ever?) of an amiga cartridge called Pro Access.
  Please note that the date is a guess based on the release date of Zine.

 Information from party report in Brainstorm's "Zine #4" diskmag (amiga).

other   Brainstorm "Zine issue #3" (amiga diskmag).
        Setrox "Toolsdisk #3" (amiga pack).


26-30.12  X-Mas Party 89.
-------------------------
Held in Randers, Denmark, by Dominators (c64), Upfront (c64) and Trilogy
(amiga). Results from the c64 and amiga competitions would be most welcome!

other   Beyond Force "Party Demo" (amiga).
        Flash Production "Hit The Road" (amiga demo).
        IT "Vectorstuff" (amiga demo).


