Thursday, 1. January 2009, 16:34:41
tUM 2008, demoscene
So party's over and I'm back home again. The Ultimate Meeting was great and BIG fun. I ranked 4th out of 5 in Oldschool Graphics, but I must admit that Exin's image "And they asked me... What is Bhudda" was in fact a little bit better than mine. Nevertheless I'm happy that I got more than 100 points, which isn't that bad at all.
So let's talk about the last day of the party.
The Ultimate Breakfast
The last day started with a very nice breakfast, sponsored by
Echtzeit, so all sceners could refresh and recharge for the final hours.
The Pricegiving
With a slight delay the pricegiving ceremony were started. The prices were really cool looking (see photo above) and there were tons of extra prices (cups, shirts ...). Congratulations to all winners! The best experience I take home from tUM2008 was a ZX Spectrum Demo called
"Aeon" made by "Triebkraft & 4th Dimension". To read the full results, see the
results page of tUM 2008.
See ya on the Ultimate Meeting 2009!
Last but not least, there were a Jury price: An Asus EeePC 900A with AmigaOS preinstalled, so the orgas call it the "AMEeeGA". The winners were "Speedfisters / Titans on Meth / Stroboholics" who ranked 4th in the HighEnd-Demo competition.
That's all folks! Cya all again on tUM2009, the 10th anniversary of the Ultimate Meeting! Can't wait to meet you all again!
Tuesday, 30. December 2008, 09:49:28
demoscene, tUM 2008
Jeroen Tel
Big party time on tUM: Jeroen Tel, one of the best music artists (
Turbo Outrun for example) of the C64 era, did a really great show on tUM and many people were dancing and having fun. It was most definately one of the highlights of the party.
Combined Low-End
The three entries did a good job and the ZX Spectrum Demo "Aeon" by Triebkraft & 4th Dimension really kicked asses!
High-End 4k / High-End 64k / High-End Demo
Usually these parts should be filled with eye candies and cool stuff, but to be honest most of the demos were just "okay" or even less. Best entry (in my opinion) was "belgian summer" by cOcOOn and Bonzai Bros, who showed a visually nice demo with great soundtrack in just 4kB.
...oh yeah I missed to mention the compos
Fixed Style Music,
Game and
4K Executable Graphics, right? Okay, here we go... the Music compo was good, yes really nice. Only one Game (made for Wii) but it was really funny and 4K ExeGraphics were okay... nothing realy breathtaking.
Now I'm looking forward for the Ultimate Breakfast and the Prize Giving. Hopefully my image will do well. For now... I'm off having a coffee.
Monday, 29. December 2008, 17:30:10
tUM 2008, demoscene
... and more competitions. We had the
Modern Tools GraphicsWith 9 entries it was much bigger than the oldschool graphics compo, but the quality wasn't really much better. While some images were really done nicely, others looked a bit weird or even heartless. All in all it will be still a very interestingg compo, but imho the oldschool compo was a bit better.
Tracked MusicFour competitors here, except for the first with totally poor audio quality all tracks were pretty good. othing really surprising, but still worth listening.
LoopNow this was a surprising compo. The idea is that the artist creates a small music snippets with a maximum length of 7seconds and this snippet will be looped for 30 seconds. There were 16 (!) entries, with many excellent ones among them. Interesting to see, how creative and skilled some (sadly not all) artists can use just 7 seconds!
The Ultimate Meat-Thing
Outside of the party halls the demo group
nuance had their special event by spending their well deserved winner money from the buenzli party to buy loads of fat meat to have a great BBQ with their scene friends. It was YUMMY!
The invisible heroes
Yes, I think it should be mentioned that the organizers do a awesome job here. So I think it's about time to at least show two of them here. The photo shows Katje and SaVke (the guy in the background... yes, the one who had this
windscreen trouble on rewired2008).
Monday, 29. December 2008, 13:48:12
demoscene, tUM 2008
Uarghh!... good mornin'...
I went to bed around 6am, but I think I had one of the most comfortable beds tonight on this party as I took the mobile home of my parents and got here. So here we go, next day! Directly ordered a pizza, bought myself a coffee mug from
Individual Computers, one of the sponsors of tUM.
Executable Music
There were three entries, but pretty good stuff! I especially liked the music made for a ZX Spectrum called "torchbot", as it sounded really full and well made.
Oldschool Graphics
This is the part I compete in too... will see how it works out. I did my best, but the competitors are really really good.
Five entries for DOS, C64, Amiga and even an Amstrad CPC464 graphics. I've seen yesterday how some of those were done and I must admit, that I was deeply impressed by the skill of the artists. I really need far more practise, but at least my image wasn't all that bad, so I'm hoping for a good score. Wish me luck!
Streamed MusicWhile I'm writing this blog entry the hall is filled with fat, loud music that rocks (or at leasts hurts my ears and stomach very badly
). Right now track 4 "Sky Phenomina" is playing... imho one of the better tracks.
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