v.plonk!

So I had a look at the prices for taking the train or flying to Buenzli17. Not to my surprise it was pretty expensive:

By train it takes around 7 hours from Cologne to Winterthur (and back another 7 hours) for 247Euros.

If I fly to Zurich it takes 1 hour from airport Cologne to airport Zurich, afterwards I have to take a suburban train to Winterthur (or ask someone to pick me up), back for the same amount of time, together for 258Euros.

So I had a look on the map and calculated time and price for driving there: I need around 6 hours (with 2 short breaks) in each direction. The combined distance is 1.100km. I need around 9litres of petrol per 100km, so I need about 100litres for 1.50Euros per litre. That's 150Euros but I'll be sick and tired after that tour.



All in all it doesn't look well for Buenzli17. I think I should instead save the money and concentrate on creating a new graphics entry for my Commodore64.

At the moment I'm trying to prepare for the upcoming evoke2008 in Cologne (just 20minutes away from home) from 8th to 10th of August, but I'm a bit doubtfully about it. I asked for C64 support and got told, that I should provide my image as PNG, not as Koala-file or D64-disc-image.

For one of the three largest demoscene parties in the world this answer seems pretty poor. The demo compos do not even provide an oldschool compo, you have to compete in the wild competitions and you even have to bring your own hardware for it.

At least I'll meet D.Fox again, who will reveal our future on evoke... some specials planned for the Ultimate Meeting 2008.


So right now I'm still thinking about a cool idea for an new image on evoke2008... only 3 weeks left to go, so time's running up.
Suggestions welcome!

Around 8am I woke up in my car(this night was pretty okay) and went over to the party location. I expected to be some people already/still being at their machines, but... all was dark. Not a single screen was turned on. So I sneaked into the hall, for I don't want to wake up the guys/gals around here.

If you still wonder: The best place to sleep is surely right next to your PC. I prefer under the table, it's safer in case of an earthquake, or people just stumbling over you.

Yesterday late night the competitions were shown on bigscreen. Not really many entries, but the spirit is high and some entries really kicked ass. I hope my entry gets some good points, let's wait and see.

Looking at the timetable of our intranet, the prizes will be given around 12:00, so still some time left for me to have some food, drink and more pixeling. Reminder to myself: Ask FRaNKy to upload the PC intro demo for Rewired on youtube and about updating the C64scene db entry of this party.