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Assembly '03
An anonymous reader writes "The world's biggest festival for computer enthusiasts, Assembly '03 starts off today. Four days of coding, compos, music, games and other geeky stuff. See press release (rtf) for more..."
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Assembly is a great party, there are alot of talented demo people there back in the day - m68k to the max! I just hope that it hasn't turned into "yer next lan party" with untalented fraggers filling the rooms!
Well - last time I checked, The Gathering in Norway is bigger - over 5000 visitors, while the Assembly had a measly 4500 visitors. Oh well. ;)
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The original and the soundtrack: download away
Here it is in divx, in case you've thrown away your old computer: misc_fc-2ndreality-divx.avi
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Is there a place to find the results of previous years' compos?
You could try scene.org, as it has lots of stuff archived by category, then by year. I'm looking at last year results: ->files->parties->2002->assembly02->results.txt .
There is no such thing as good luck. There is only misfortune and its occasional absence.
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Actually, it is far from the world's largest. It is surpassed by The Gathering in Norway with 5100 people (plus guests, of course) and Dreamhack in Sweden with about 5000 people (including guests, if I remember correctly). If I remember correctly, Assembly has about 4000 people, but it sure is amongst the world's largest :-)
Note that all three events I listed are Computer Parties, not to mistaken as Lan (Parties). What's the difference? At computer parties, the organizers try to encourage lots of other events other than gaming like creative competitions - coding of demos, graphics, music, etc. There are often also lectures/conferences on development, linux/unix, security, etc. For more information: The Gathering Tech:Server Crew - Why TG is not a LAN page.
To conclude, check out this way cool panorama picture of The Gathering 99 (only with about 4200 people then, but.. yeah, cool): Panorama of TG99
Note: I'm not neutral in my writing in this case since I'm the leader of the Tech:Server (former Tech:Linux) crew at The Gathering since 1999. And yes, it's without pay.. just loads of fun and experience :-)
Linux IS user friendly, it's just choosy of who it's friends are.
Yeah, I heard the Linux chicks are going to be there!
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Mikrobitti (A Finnish computer magazine) has it's own Assembly 2003 site partly translated to English.
Pictures from the party can be seen here (Finnish only). There is not very much stuff yet, but there should be more soon. :)
I demand the Cone of Silence!
Jump off at the Pasila railway station. There's a pedestrian bridge going to the arena, you can't miss it...
Ah, and the answer is Helsinki, Finland, Europe, in case you didn't ask for directions. Hartwall is a brewery that sponsored the ice hockey stadium, therefore the name.
Why does the kernel go through stable and then unstable forks? Can't it always be a stable build, like with Windows?
AssemblyTV: http://www.assemblytv.net/
Some pics: Mbnet.fi
For those interested, slengpung will be updated with pictures later.
Note to self: get smarter troll to guard door.
maybe you should know a bit more about demoparties
the average scener (not some gamer) usually :-)) When they do sleep, it can be almost anywhere (on their keyboard, under the tables, in the isles, in the dorm, next to hifi-speaker systems, ...).
either doesn't sleep during the whole event, or in between compos. (and even then not a whole lot
as for the kitchen equipment. 4 days without food is not such an option (as if 4 days without sleep is ;-)), and there are those who bring their entire refrigerators and electric stoves.
the whole issue with this is that such kitchen appliances take a lot more power than your average PC (or even hi-fi equipment). To lower the risk of power shortages, these appliances are banned from the party electric grid.
Actually, second reality ran on a 386SX/25. Pretty amazing stuff. It was pretty much the breaktrough into the demoscene for the PC.
The real party is traditionally just outside the convention hall, and is called the Boozembly (greets to the hardcore elite, you know who you are).
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
you might be interested in this retrospective double sided DVD
mindcandy
which has demo's from both oldschool (early 90's) and newschool 2001/2002 demo scenes. Well worth it.
I don't read your sig, why do you read mine?
The Assembly convo may not be the biggest LAN party, or the best, but it's certainly one of the most historically significant. The IBM demoscene didn't really reach maturity until Future Crew released "Unreal" at ASM'92.
Has it really been ten years since Second Reality? Oy, I got old somehow.
And then there's this C64 port of Second Reality. Wow.
check out scene.org
If you're looking for something similar a little closer to home, make sure to check out the Pilgrimage demo party this weekend in Salt Lake City Utah. It'll be more or less the same, more scene spirit, less (no) gamers, more conferences and all kinds of demos and compos. Info @ http://pilgrimage.scene.org
some of futurecrew members formed remedy entertainment, (and did titles such as Death Rally and Max Payne - and now working on Max Payne 2), and they are also related to 3DMark 2001 (MadOnion) and 3DMark 2003 (Now under the name of FutureMark).
:)
So yeah, they went right back to writing cool demos that push the limits of current hardware