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Tickets For The World's Biggest Computer Party
vvizard writes "For Norwegian geeks in particular, easter is preferable spent at the worlds biggest computer-party [The Gathering]. That is, for those lucky enough to get tickets at least. Tickets for the scandinavian people where released through Partyticket last night, and got sold out as fast as the system managed (which due to extreme traffic, isn't very fast). However, there are still tickets left. Foreigners, demosceners and professional gamers have their own pool of tickets, which started selling tonight. So if you fit in one of the previous mentioned categories, and would like to experience the biggest computer-party in the world, now is the time to check out www.gathering.org for information, and www.partyticket.net for ticket-booking."
The event takes place in Vikingskipet (The Viking ship) which was used under the Winter olympics at Lillehammer in 1994, so yeah, it's big :)
Me, I'll be attending the the Inferno festival which takes place just a few miles south. Easter is traditionally a time when there are lots of things happening in Norway, and a lot of people will be travelling up in the mountains to ski, snowboard etc.
The police are in the vicinity at least, I can't remember (nor find the link) exactly how many, but last year some people got arrested for selling (sharing) pirated games and software..
It sure isn't. Dreamhack did pass TG in largest attending crowd one or two years ago, and now they top each other for each event. So when TG is held this year, it'll likely be the worlds biggest (as last year), until Dreamhack. Then Dreamhack will stay the largest until the next TG (and so and so on)
Note that The Gathering will feature a concert by danish Commodore64 band PRESS PLAY ON TAPE on saturday the 10th of april. Another reason for showing up!
A lot of pictures from The Gathering last year.
Whyis itthat theNorwegians liketo squishwords together?
;-P) on norwegian texts.
I realize that you are only trying to be funny, but it might not be coincidental that norwegians does this.
That's because that's the way it's done in the Norwegian language. Most expressions of that kind is concatenated to a new word in norwegian. This of course causes some problems using the Word spell checker (which in norwegian is one word
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That demo would be Unreal by Future Crew. One of the first megademos, and a real milestone in the PC demoscene. Another great PC demo from that era is Crystal Dreams by Triton. To watch them, just get your hands on a 386 and a Gravis UltraSound... and you're good to go!
What is a computer party anyway?
LAN" vs. "computer party
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Demoparties do take place in the USA, but not with the frequency nor large attendance that one would find at such spectacular events as Assembly or The Gathering.
The next North American Demoparty is going to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 5-7. Refer to pilgrimage.scene.org for details.
-- RaD Man / ACiD