Termin: 13. bis 18. März 2007
Ort: Trencin (Slowakei)
URL: forever.zeroteam.sk
Beschreibung: Bereits zum 8. Mal findet die 8-Bit-Party „Forever“ statt. Sie widmet sich den unterschiedlichsten 8-Bit-Systemen, mit Schwerpunkt ZX Spectrum, Atari XL/XE und C64.
It’s going to be 8th Forever in a row so this will be a kind of round aniversary ;-) Forever is an annual multiplatform 8-bit party held in Trencin/Slovakia. The major plattforms are:
- ZX Spectrum (48/128) which is traditionally strong in released demo productions. They also have a strong ace up their sleeve – the most sympathetic foreveran – Gasman/Raww Arse a creative and smart gentleman whose witty crossplattfrom jokes became a traditional feature of Forever party compos. To add even more flavour of decent british humour, last time he brough another cool Speccy celebritney – Icabod – a raww.org scene news site maintainer. The list of other speccy celebritneys is so long, that I will keep it for another post ;-).
- Atari (800xl/130XE) which is getting stronger visitors and compo-participants base every year which makes us really proud and happy. They also have a strong representant in their troops. A dude called Raster whose demos, intros and even graphics became legendary for their humour, originality and presentation. Not to speak about ever growing polish creative scene base which maybe started slow in first years of Forever party, but now it shows that it must be counted with.
- …and C64 – traditionally getting the richest scale of visitors from all around the europe but lately having the least supported demo compo of all 3 plattforms which makes us feel humiliated and insecure ;-) (…can’t get rid of habbit of writing in 3rd person). As for features. Last year we had more-or-less surprising visitors from Serbia, Jailbird and DaFunk who (according to JB) are plannig to repeat this trip again. We also had a live jamming Retroskoi session (idea by IDE developer – Visac/Cult) featuring TopSecret as improvisation leader and wannabe keyboardist with no experience (but substituting this handicap by enthusiasm) one an only – guess who would be so stupid – CreaMD. The last year performance should be topped by this years attempt where we would like to have more computers playing live than last time (total 2 ;-)). This year you can again expect the quizes, competitions, Music/Author guessing compos, presentations and other entertaining features as usual traditionally moderated by our court-speaker Wotnau/Dmagic. As for the rest. You can be sure that C64 scene has the greatest (and most exhausting) music compos ever. The beautiefooliest GFX compos of all the platfforms. We also have the most beautiful sceners at the party (thanx to me, my sister and Wotnau). All we need to make our reputation solid and secured is to make some demos and 1k intros. So please, keep that in mind when thinking about participating/coming to Forever 8 party.
You can check/register in the Forever #8 party visitors list Or check the Forever 8 page for info If you would like to compete, you can choose from GFX, Music, 1k intro, Demo or Wild compo cathegories. . As usual, send your stuff to creamd@c64.sk Have fun!