Party - report from the first Latvian demoparty: PHAT9.

 PHAT9                   
 OR                    
            CONFESSION OF AN EYEWITNESS             
                                          
  As promised at the beginning of our
program, now we will talk about
held  25.09.99  in Latvia, in the city
Riga, party PHAT9.                        
  09.25.99.  09:20  I woke up with a stomach bug
headache.   Yesterday was the last one
rehearsal for my birthday. Trying hard
remember something about yesterday's events
reached for the phone and dialed the number
Hunter. From him I learned that I was no longer
the first day they search, and if they find it, then
insane state, it turns out he told me
Yesterday I told you what I knew about PHAT9. K
unfortunately I didn’t remember anything and he
I had to tell it all again.
It turned out that he called me and him RELICT and
said that PHAT9 will be held in Riga on the 25th, during
how much he still doesn’t know and what he still
will call.  Shurik and I agreed that
we won't wait for a call, but we'll go to HAZARD
and we will wait with him.   In an hour
We agreed to meet at the station.  I
took a shower as much as possible
got myself in order andmessed up terribly
that celebrating my birthday
scheduled for today.  The guests should have
come at 6 o'clock...                       
 10:30  We met with HUNTER at
station and immediately went to HAZARD. minutes
thirty train rides and we're at
him. When we went to see him, we found out that he too
knows nothing. Taking a promise from him that
he won't leave without us we went to
RELICT.  RELICT's mother said that he
I just came back and they had to wake me up themselves,
we didn't succeed. We left him to sleep
returned to HAZARD, on the way I
grabbed a couple of battle beers to get better
health.     Arriving at HAZARD we
sat down at the monitor and started watching
demos on Amige.  I won't tell you anything
special, I saw much cooler on PC, yes
and the price is the same as a Pentium III, so I
I think all these cries about Amige have been sucked out
out of the blue, but that's by the way.                
 13:00 RAVER called and said that they were in
the two meet ZOOLOOK at the station. We
They said that we’ll be there soon too
agreed to meet.                   
 14:10  We approach the meeting place and what we
see? And there are RAVER and RELICT. RELICT,
which we have not recentlywere able to lift
now seemed quite cheerful.  RELICT
I brought my computer. After talking with them a little
found out that someone will bring ZOOLOOK to
car, and when he arrives in Riga, then
will call RAVER and leave a message on
answering machine.   Leaving us: HAZARD,
HUNTER and me, RAVER and RELICT went
check the answering machine and enter your computer,
We bought beer and began to wait.     
 15:30  RAVERs appeared on the horizon,
RELICT, ZOOLOOK and BEDAZZLE. After the first
dating, we decided to go to the
market, buy.  Having bought grub and a couple
beer battles (for starters), rushed to
RAVER to the apartment, where in general there is a party and
passed, showed it to the guests on the way
Riga sights, polluted river
and a couple of abandoned houses.  On the way
got to talking - ZOOLOOK in the most
in ecstatic tones I remembered ENLIGHTe and
CC999, also said that in Estonia
there seem to be no spektrumists, although the same RAVER
I haven’t entered our radio market for 3 years now and
also does not know the situation in Latvia itself.
So perhaps ZOOLOOK is simply not in
course, because it’s hard to believe that in
there is no neighboring Estonia except it
spektrumistov.  We took photos along the way,
We took a bunch of photos. Slowly we got to
at home.  That's where the party started. We were at the party
computer: PC(I think it’s either 133 or 166),
two C64, 1 SCORP + color monitor. Slyakhs
hanging out (because ZOOLOOK refused
participate in the party on an empty stomach)
HUNTER saw in a pile of all kinds of boards and
computers, near the table, an incomprehensible keyboard. C
question: "What is this?" - he turned
to RAVER, RAVER looking in the indicated
direction replied that it was a C64.  This
caused some interest in our ranks,
Almost unanimously we exclaimed: “Come on!
Let's see!!!"  RAVER fished out a computer from the pile
(the pile was almost up to my waist), after rummaging
also, he fished out a small colored one from there
TV, quickly connecting the whole thing
we checked out a couple of dems. Dems amazed me
its coolness by 1 Mg. Those dems that I
saw on the same day at HAZARD on AMIGE not
there was no comparison. C64 produced by
I was very impressed and very
positive.  And then I looked at my watch and
I was amazed, the clock showed me 17:40, and at
18:00 the celebration of my day begins
birth!  Quickly jumping up from my seats, I and
HUNTER said goodbye to everyone and started
to a stop.  That's it for my participation in PHAT9
ended.                              
                                          
 The party was attended by:          
                                          
 RAVER /PHT/ LATVIA          
         DEPREDATOR /PHT/ LATVIA          
         HAZARD /PHT/ LATVIA          
         ZOOLOOK /PHT/ ESTONIA         
         BEDAZZLE /???/ ESTONIA         
         RELECT /PHT/ LATVIA          
         WARLORD /CRS/ LATVIA          
         HUNTER /CRS/ LATVIA          
                                          
 CONCLUSIONS                  
                                          
  I personally did not participate in large parties and
I don’t know how cool it can be there, so
I will base my conclusions only on my own
feeling from the party.   And the feeling is very
positive, always interesting
meet new people.  Many
they will say what kind of party this is, where
8 people were present.    I will answer,
the organizer allowed one very
an important miscalculation, they did not notify in advance
Latvian spektrumists.  And since the party
took place in Latvia, then the Latvian
spektrumists would be the main ones
visitors.  The strangest thing is that RAVER
I saw SpecInfo and knew that there are many
spektrumistov and that I organized training camps
and yet he did not contact me. I learned about
this on the day of the party, but I should have found out beforehand
a month at least.  Askedthis question
RAVERu and he explained it to me a little
situation.  It's a shame that no one
I knew, then many people were offended at me that
I didn't warn them.  Many would like
exhibit your works, our group
I would definitely take part in all
nominations.  Very, very sorry. But how
they say, the first damn thing is lumpy.  Very
I was depressed by the work, the intro is simply not there
words, graphics - still so-so, music -
very weak, we launched a couple during the evaluation
their Mouzons and were once again upset that they
not in the competition, the only thing is
liked it - demo BOA.  To me personally she
I liked it and watched it with
pleasure.   In general, such
small parties could be held, well
at least 3 times a year, at least for
Baltic states, we have a visa-free regime and
tickets are not expensive. I myself go to Lithuania, to
Klaipeda, to relatives, occasionally and in
I go to the market in Vilnius, so brothers
according to reason from Lithuania - if you tell us your
coordinates, I'll definitely stop by.  And for
to relax, we need to organize parties like this,
Of course, big demos should be done on the central ones
party, but 16k, 4k, 1k intras every 3-4
You can do it for months without stress. So
If you have any ideas, write, call, come in.
Always your WARLORD!