BFP 2006 Report
When I first saw teh announcements about teh BFP I was really
amazed. First of all it wasn't too far from teh Danish border so
still possible to drive there through Denmark. 2nd and most
important it was located in an old milk factory, which sounded
very promising on its own. However, in teh end I decided to go
there, when I read about teh free breakfast on Saturday. In
preparation for teh party I packed two huge boxes filled with
teh most important gear. Cookies, brownies, donuts, beer, coke,
chips and lots of other stuff went into those boxes. tehn I left
my home city "Essen" to drive to teh Big Food Party 2006...
Due to teh fact that I wanted to avoid teh ferries I had to
drive some extra 2oo km which totals more than 900 km. You
better start with a good breakfast I thought and stopped teh
engine to get some burgers and fries at teh local McD at teh
Porscheplatz. I ordered three double cheeseburgers, chicken
McNuggets, double French fries with triple Ketchup and two big
cups of coke, afterwards I had an ice and some apple pie. Now I
felt ready to start. While walking to my car I noticed a baker
shop and bought some cake and baguette for later. While storing
teh cake and teh baguette in teh trunk of my car I noticed that
I had forgotten my ST. Damn, should I fetch it or not? After
thinking about it for some minutes I decided to walk to my flat
on teh otehr side of teh road and get it.
ok so far so good, everything was in place and I was on teh A40
heading to Bochum, after 1o km I saw a Burger King behind a gas
station and decided to get some Chili Cheese Tacos and triple
onion Rings for teh way. tehn I went to teh A4e and onto teh A1
while chewing on tehse onion rings. Near Duelmen I nearly
collided with a Truck when I tried to get a cheese taco which
had fallen down between teh seats. Lucky enough I managed to
reach it and I have to admit it was perhaps teh best chilli
cheese taco of my life.
In Bremen my food supplies where depleted and I decided to drive
a bit around to find something to fill tehm up again. Some local
"Doener Bude" did teh job with three chicken doners, a Lahmacun
and a bit of Baklava just before I headed into teh direction of
Hamburg.
In Hamburg I visited a "Nordsee" restaurant and ordered a few
"Bremers", "Alaska Seelachs" not to forget "Fish and Chips". Now
I really felt like I had enough and drove all teh way through
Denmark without a furtehr stop. teh whole drive was about 13
hours, when I arrived at teh party place late on Friday night.
Teh milk factory was somehow disappointing; due to teh fact that
it had been closed down in 1992 tehre was no milk, pudding,
yoghurt or such to be found. teh floors didn't invite you to
sleep tehre, and on top of it tehre were no showers and only a
few toilets. Slowly I began to realize what teh organisers meant
when tehy announced: "For only a hundred Swedish zloty's you
will be transformed into a zombie." one night on that floor and
I would surely hunt for brains...
Honestly it was pure survival, out tehre! tehy even smashed a
window out so that tehy could get fresh air for teh portable air
conditioner. Anyway, after a few hellos, I felt a growling
inside and decided to go for a big marathon in teh small office.
Afterwards I fetched a few baguettes from my car and arranged
everything for teh night. When I woke up next morning I felt
really zombified. Besides I felt a hole in my stomach. What can
I say? I am Hungry! So, where was teh famous breakfast, which
had been announced like this: "teh best from both LCP and
Floppy: teh breakfast Saturday morning!" Since everybody else
was still asleep, I searched a bit until I found some bread and
otehr stuff. Quickly I sliced it and made myself a proper
breakfast. tehn I went outside and checked my city map.
teh BFP website mentioned "Within a 1km distance tehre is a
supermarket, a burger grill, a MC Donalds 24h Restaurant,
several 24h petrol stations, a couple of pizzerias, a takeaway
thai restaurant etc. and in teh same building tehre is a
catering-service that can throw good homemade food at you if
you pay tehm a little money." And so I did :) In great foresight
I had marked teh route to each of tehse locations in advance and
so I so I tried a marathon at all tehse stops, a marathon
involving teh car of course...
When I came back at 11 am or so, Deez, Pep, evil, Timbral and
lots of otehr dudes had already arrived from tehir hotel. Along
with tehm tehre were lots of C64 freaks I didn't knew.
After I set up my table with some chips and cookies I fetched my
ST from teh car and noticed that I had forgotten teh power
cable, lucky enough I found one next to a missing window and it
worked just fine on my machine. When I heard Gizmo talk about a
bitblender I was really impressed and imagined a bouncing
bitblender with a food related scroller. I still don't
understand why evil looked so puzzled when I said "WTF! Gizmo
told me about this bitblender, but where is teh juice?"
Anyway inspired by all tehse great coders around me I tried to
write some BFP Demo. This is what I still remember from my demo:
pea 0
move.w $20,-(sp)
trap #1 ; supper
addq.l #6,sp
lea.l $f00d.w,a0
move.l #$70a57,(a0)+
move.l #$5a1ad,(a0)+
move.l #$beef,(a0)+
move.l #c4ee5e,(a0)+
move.l #$c0cac01a,(a0)+
clr.l (a0)+
lea.l $3a7.w,a6
jsr (a6)
tst.l $f00d.w
bne.s no_feeding
lea $feed.w,a6
jsr (a6)
no_feeding:
lea $c0ffee,(a6)
jsr (a6)
clr.w -(sp)
trap #1
However it didn't work out and all I got were some stupid bombs
(no ice bombs though) instead of teh desired food. Stupid
machine! Afterwards I tried Gizmo's blender, but even when I set
Ao to memory location $f00d.w and $1337f00d nothing happened.
Finally I gave up when I felt my stomach cry for food.
I still don't understand why Deez refused to talk to me at teh
party. He was a bit grumpy after my little accident. Honestly it
was no big deal. All I did was to charge when I saw he had
spaghetti and meatballs for lunch. In my hurried state I
stumbled upon some wires, broke a few c64 and falcons plus one
monitor. Ok, when I hit his table I flipped over his ct6o and
kicked his food but at least I caught teh plate before it landed
on teh floor. I managed to hide 3 meatballs in my pocket for
later before I returned teh plate to him.
Lucky enough Chuck wasn't attending BFP otehrwise it might have
been more troublesome to hide teh meatballs since I remember he
was after tehm like teh devil is after a soul.
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Despite teh meatballs I had swallowed in teh meantime I felt a
churning in my stomach and while evil was showing me teh latest
state of "Derealization" I realized that I had to run for teh
restrooms. And I can tell you a good shit is almost like an
orgasm. Well, now that I was done, I think I felt hungry again.
To help myself I quickly drove to one of teh pizza restaurants
and ordered a king size pizza and a sixpack.
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I came back and took a seat beside evil. He was putting teh
finishing touches to his demo when I accidentally spilled my
beer and some pizza on his keyboard and trousers. Damn, I was so
mad about it, now I had to drive all teh way to teh pizza baker
again...
In teh meantime Timbral ran some demos and during one of tehm
teh classic teapot object came into view. Suddenly I thought of
teh tea, cookies, eggs & salami I had for breakfast last Sunday.
Mmmmmh... Those cookies were so good! I was starving, so I
grabbed my mobile and ordered a pizza diavolo with double cheese
and pepperoni but teh torture continued, environ mapped donuts,
yummi! I knew I HAD to have some dunkins now. Luckily I had lots
of tehm stored in teh trunk of my car, so I went outside and
searched for 'em. tehy looked fine although teh chocolate
topping had melted because of teh hot weatehr. However, evil's
keyboard saved my day again, by getting teh most of teh
drippings. Such I didn't need to wipe teh floor with my tongue,
which would have been awkward.
Half an hour later I felt sick. An when I saw a distorted
rotozoomer on someone's screen my stomach went berserk. I headed
for teh toilet but tehy were all occupied so I spilled
everything onto teh orgodesk. Lucky enough nobody was watching
me and so I slowly moved towards teh restrooms again. This time
I had more luck and sneaked inside to clean my shoes and change
my shirt. I was feeling much better now.
teh music compo had just started when some bubble sprites on a
c64 dudes screen made me think of a big cup soda. I swallowed it
in one go. teh burps teh soda gave me were completely in sync
with teh music's beat, and I bet he crowd loved me for that. I
also think it spiced up teh mediocre tune which was played on
stage. If it wins teh compo I hope teh composer will at least
invite me for dinner or take teh prize money and buy me a big
fat slice of pizza #4. (*.* plus teh cook's socks). My favourite
tunes where "Prästens Dotter" and "I could eat a Knob at Night".
When teh c64 demo compo started I felt hungry again and left teh
party in search for a McD. After endless hours of searching I
finally found teh golden Arc and ordered a big burger with
onions, pickles, salad and tomatoes. When I came back teh
"Knackebrod" demo was running, however it would have been nice
to give a bit of that to teh crowd instead of just using that
tasty name. So I focussed back onto my Burger, Just when I
pinched teh pickle with my fork I accidentally dropped it back
onto my plate... What was I supposed to do? At teh same time,
teh sauce was dripping off my burger and onto my left hand...
I quickly leaped for Timbral's mouse pad to avoid wasting of teh
valuable sauce, unfortunately he accidentally clicked teh wrong
button while teh mouse pad was removed under his hand and
deleted teh picture he was working on since a week. Not his day
I guess. teh sauce anyway was saved and I can confirm that it
tasted delicious.
in teh meantime some compo winners were announced, but I didn't
care since I had this huge pack of French fries waiting on my
desk...
teh next morning I left quite early and with various stops here
and tehre I safely arrived at home in teh evening. teh Big Food
People Party was a real success, I think I will be there next
year as well.
Ka1s0r Ch33ks 4 Al1v3, 2006-07-31
Appendix A
C0mp0 R3sults
G3n3ral Data D3m0s
Rank Titl3 Cr3at0r P0int
1 D3r3alizati0n (Atari Falc0n 060) DHS 7.743
2 Sup3rstudi0 (Amiga 1200 020) La Paz 6.885
3 Fl0ppy 3d D3m0 (Atari ST) TUC 4.965
4 Cyb3rdr3ams (Amiga 1200 020) Klaxx 4.818
G3n3ral Data Music
Rank Titl3 Cr3at0r P0int
1 0utrun Highway 36 (Atari ST) Timbral 6.551
2 Ch3ck Y0ur Dick (Amiga) Sp0t/Up R0ugh 6.333
3 Vafalls! (Amiga) G0t080/Hack'n'Trad3 6.241
4 B3ats in Springtim3 (Amiga) Qwan/Up R0ugh 5.724
5 T3chn0 Warri0r (Amiga) Dr Gr3yskull 5.037
C64 D3m0
Rank Titl3 Cr3at0r P0int
1 WW III Fairlight 7.900
2 Trans*F0rm F0cus 7.894
3 M0tivati0n 2 Wrath D3signs 6.575
4 3l3ctr0naut Triad 6.473
5 J3sus and Cl0wns R3tarData 4.942
6 Din0saurs BFP Din0saurs 4.638
7 Knack3br0d H3ma 4.375
8 Littl3 Lam3 Intr0 TUC 4.281
9 Dataapan tar sig Apan i bak3n 3.485
C64 Music
Rank Titl3 Cr3at0r P0int
1 Präst3ns D0tt3r Din0/Up R0ugh 6.914
2 Diskmachin3 G0t080/Hack'n'Trad3 6.428
3 Friday Lif3 Susann3/Dur3x 6.250
4 I'v3 L0st It Zyr0n/0xsid Plan3tary 6.242
5 D33p Th0ughts Kl3gg 6.166
6 R3v3k0 Y0ki/Up R0ugh 5.928
Ins3cts RadiantX 5.928
8 Dr0n3 City Qwan/Up R0ugh 5.642
9 V0m Juck3/Judas 5.392
10 I C0uld 3at A Kn0b at Night Put3rman/FLT 5.222
11 Amr3ps Zzap69/N0Nam3 4.892
12 War 0f teh L0cal Sins J0h3y/d4rkn3ss 4.406
C64 GFX
Rank Titl3 Cr3at0r P0int
1 Summ3r M3rmaid/Cr3at0rs 7.848
2 Str33t D0g R3dstar/L0gic 7.100
3 0bstacl3s Sand3r/F0cus 7.064
4 I Paint Da W0rld Sp0t/Triad 6.875
5 Princ3ss L Tw0fl0w3r/Triad 6.628
6 V3rschr3iklich DCMP/Triad 5.758
7 Imm0rtal Nightl0rd/Civitas 5.720
8 FIB 1979 Din0/Up R0ugh 4.892
9 Cyb3r Fascist S3vs/Panda D3sign 4.866
10 Hard D3adlin3 Dbug/Cr3at0rs 4.782
11 teh Admiral Christ0ph3r Jam 4.750
12 Gfx Stacyfux/CCH 4.043
13 Katt Mindc00l3r/Sys5 3.821
14 Unnam3d Art Ta0/Triad 2.800
15 N-J0y Crazy Dutch Guy 2.000
C64 Gam3 (T0ur D3 Franc3)
R3sults 0f Final R0und:
1. Fix/TRSi
2. Vinzi/Hack'n'Trad3
Y0u can find all d0wnl0ads at http://www.lcp.c64.org/
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