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After abort'97 we decided to go international. We began to code a new demo and after half of coding 
Black said we should prepare this demo for takeover'98. And I said yea right... Holland, here we go, it's 
just about 1400 km. About a week before the party he said again:... seriously, let's go. Then I don't know, 
how we decided, I just asked my brother if he wants to go to @X0EAmsterdam@X03.
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 That's how we started off. @X0EBlack, Mister[m], me, my brother and his girlfriend@X03 went with Clio(tm). 
We were driving about 12 hours. It was a bit squeezing(4 people and Black in Clio... like 5.5 people, 
plus 2 comps and other luggage, and 120 wat of music) 
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  Around 8am we arrived. The party began at 5pm. btw: it was held in @X0EEindhoven University@X03(The Auditorium). 
We somehow managed to hold out until the party. Black got us a free enterance, but lousy seats. We were 
facing with our backs to the enterance, so anybody could see what we were doing, and next to Acme. 
The place was BIG, plus the competiton room(cinema).
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  We were competing in demo, music and house competition. The demo was half finished, so we didn't have 
a lot of spare time; actualy... we slept about 6 hours in 2 days I think. The whole place was on the net, 
so we bought an ethernet card. There was a sign above the enterance:"Free warez,teen XXX... ip:....":)); 
strange, becouse the place was gouarded with 2 cops, and they've specifically written in the invitation 
list @X0E"NO WAREZ"@X03.
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  After the live show on Friday night we went to the gim. We were sleeping on the floor. I was amazed, 
becouse there was only about 20 out of 600 people sleeping.
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  Next day we woke up at 9am. The deadline for the demo was on sunday at 6am. We started coding about 
10am, and we still had to code about half of the demo. After 8 hours we still had nothing and paniced. 
Black was so busy that he had to see the movie "Hackers". Then.... me and Mister[m] started to make 
really stupid 3d scenes... (see the last 2 scenes in @X0EGamma State@X03). The demo was slow becouse we didn't 
have enough time to optimize the scenes. They had about 3500 faces, and the 3de was mapping 
perspective-correct, plus the 3de wasn't optimized for that kind of scenes yet.
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  After 20 hours of coding and modeling we somehow managed to finish the demo. We smoked a joint and then 
went on the demo competition. The ambience was really something. :)). A demo starts with starfield and 
everybody claps and screams....yeeeaaa..uuuu...yeeaaah. Another demo crashes and everybody again... yeaaa, 
wuuu....  At the end we ended up 4th of 10 entries. We got nothing and the first one got 1000 guilders. 
That's like 950 dem.
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  We had a great time....and we're already planning to go to @X0ETakeover'99.@X03

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