FOUR DAYS IN HELL
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Last summer, on my way back hom from Holland (Hi Havoc, Earx, TiNKer and Pheno)
I stopped near Lille at Thyrex's place to work on our new gfa demo : Waiting
for the Apocalypse. Therefore we spent four days in his room, barely seeing the
difference between nights and days and we had a lot of fun !
The task seemed huge at first since we mostly had ideas and material but almost
no finished screens :( Luckily I am well prepared to such work and had already
listed the different screens, their order and the several elements that needed
be put together :)
D a y O n e
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I had just arrived at Thyrex when we decided to start working. Erm we had to
find extra space for my Ste + tv set and that was quite a mess at first :) At
last we had two Ataris and a lamer's PC installed. Thyrex showed me some porn
he got from the internet, gosh he's a real PC lamer :)
We spent this first night working on various screens and I don't think it's
worth boring you with that. It was damm hot in his room so we switched his big
electric fan on and almost forgot about our feet smelling so sweet :)
Late at night, we got connected because we were stuck with mcl's chip that
wouldn't run properly in gfa... Minutes later, we were being given advice by
Evil on IRC :) Pfouu, we could go on now, thanks to him !
D a y T w o
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Erm we quite missed the moment when day one became two, since we went to bed at
about 4 in the morning. After some coffee and lunch (it was early afternoon by
now) we got back to work. Thyrex wanted to show me more porn but I decided that
porn should be a reward only :)) Sometimes I wonder if Thyrex isn't Swedish :P
No surprise, we spent our second day working on the same boring details :
adding backgrounds, painting afew things, having a few good ideas :)
D a y T h r e e
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Another day that ended somewhere around 4 in the morning, we were more like a
couple of living dead, or crazy sceners :) Again I had to restrain Thyrex from
spending all his time on the internet or trying to show me more porn :)
This time we had a full preview running. As the night grew darker we only had a
few things to work on. Around midnight, we left for a Belgian hardcore club
where Thyrex becomes DJ Thyrex every Saturday. We spent 4 hours there into loud
music :) Though it's not my style, it was still brutal enough for my tasty ears
hehe !
D a y F o u r
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Hard to get up after three days spent in front of a monitor, erm :) We worked
on the final details, full credits, textfile, the usual last minute crap. We
seized the opportunity to shoot some photos than can be found on my homepage at
http://stsurvivor.atari.org, just check the freaks section !
We also used Thyrex webcam to shoot a couple of movies :) Later Thyrex made a
CD out of it but it refuses to work from here on my old P100. I think it's
because of Thyrex DVD drive, but I cannot tell you more. Around midnight the
demo was completed, fully running on a typical 1Mb Ste both from floppy and
hard drive. We spent another two hours (maybe more :) talking crap on irc,
advertising our demo (tho we didn't spread it until it was presented at the
Unconventional Party two), sending away crazy photos of us after four day of
work.
C o n c l u s i o n
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Well this report may not sound very exciting but I can tell you that we spent 4
incredible days filled with hard work and madness ! Thyrex is a really cool pal
(at least for a gfa coder :) and I hope we can work together again. Now if you
want to get photos, our demo and more stuff, please visit us at :
http://stsurvivor.atari.org -------------------------------------------------->
Thyrex's words:
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Just some lines to tell you that it is alway nice to work with such a good
friend as St Survivor. As always this four days session was really hard (no too
much sleeping) but I cannot tell you how really proud I am now to present this
demo to the Atari scene. And I would like to thank everyone for the feedback.
Especially all the cool guys on IRC (hi Evil, Beer, pHEYno, MC Laser). Since
I have had my Internet access, it's been like a second Atari life for me. So I
hope all of you have enjoyed our demo. And to finish, I just want to say that :
WE ARE NOT DEAD !! Maybe there will be some new prods from us !! It's up to
you to motivate us ! As always big big big thanks to my best Atari friend (yes
you Seb !). It's always nice to 'face' your challenge ! you can contact me by
sending an email to... djthyrex@hotmail.com, and see you in our next production
(soon !).
Thyrex from LouD! is signing ofF ;)
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