EIL
99 IN FIVE MINUTES
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Filmed by Spion/Escape and Joe Cool/Checkpoint
Put together by Evil/DHS
Msx by unknown composer (taken from Nectarine)
Available from dhs.atari.org
MPG file (size 55Mb)
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Yes I'm going to review a video ! I see several reasons to that : first, as
far as I remember this is the first time we are given such release. Then it's
pretty cool stuff and people may have missed it or be unable to download it if
they don't have fast internet access. Even if you have slow access, I suggest
you try to download this file and i'll let you know why.
Error In Line 99 was surely one of the greatest ATARI party that was set :
about a hundred Atarians from various countries gathered at the same place and
a huge amount of releases including some brainblasting stuff like Suretrip,
Sweetie, Breath, ATS, Alive... If you were there, you'll be happy to keep track
of this great moment. And if you were not here, well, you're given a second
chance to witness the friendly atmosphere and "virtually" meet the many people
who attended this party.
The video is of pretty good quality, even when you display it fullscreen
(move backward of a few meters to enjoy it), it looks very professional and you
can spot many, oh yeah MANY known Atarians ! Let's try to name the people I
know and recognized in the video (sorry, there are still some guys who are pure
mystery to me).
Well, we shall start with the organizers as you will identify No, Joe Cool,
505, Spion but also Defjam, Modmate, Evil, MC Laser, Loke, A-t, Tao, Abyss,
Swe, Deez, Frost, Edo, Havoc, Earx, CiH, MSG, Paranoia, Drizzt, Nature, Llama,
Polish guys (from Cobra ?) , Tinker, Energizer, Mad butscher and many others...
Of course there were more people than described but some of them hid from the
camera and refused fame :)
The video really shows what EIL99 was about : a bunch of cool people gathered
in the underground of a students building, with dozens and dozens of flashing
screens and Atari keyboards, people bending over them and discussing coding,
painting or composing (or just talking about life ?)
Here are a few nice parts you will enjoy in this video : many screens
scattered in what seems to be some sort of an electronic cave, nice Polish
people talking to the camera while Dutch guys seem to be absorded in some
secret project.
Swedish people love camera and they show it. No also seems to think this is
the occasion to show his acting skills :) Some odd looking schematics on 505's
screen while Creamies seem to be hard at work. There are ATARIs all around,
either STs, Falcon or XLs. Yes this is HEAVEN !
Hey this is me talking with Edo and MSG ! There are many people standing in
the not so wide corridor. Mc Laser is busy writing stuff for the UCM realtime
article while SWE sleeps on a bench, in the corridor. Uh Joe Cool seems to be a
bit tired ! Havoc amuses us with his first lesson in Swedish teaching :)
We stop for a while at the English corner where MSG tells us there is nothing
to see :) We witness a preview of WHIP, then MSG (half drunk ?) starts singing
while two Polish guys are definitely pissed off, talking together in a drunken
way (I remember drinking with these cool guys :). Next is 505 pulling his hair
off, trying to count compos votes.
Last is a vertical scroller giving credits and some greetings and that where
the show ends.
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Bottom Line : this is a "premiere" and let me tell you this : this video
definitely rocks ! Msx is really nice and the video shows what our small world
is about, a bunch of nice freaks talking to each other, sharing the same
passion. Sounds kind of funny when you realise there were people from Germany,
Poland, UK, Holland, France, Sweden, Eastern Europe and all of them manage to
communicate through English and Atari language.
This is a pure demonstration of the ATARI spirit that keeps us going ! I only
wished the comments added to the video identified every scener and showed some
parts of the demo compo (especially when we stood speechless watching Suretrip
on the big screen !).
Surely, even three years later, Evil had the greatest idea with releasing
this video ! What about EIL 2001 then ? If anyone has some videos, I hope he'll
put them online so that we can share another great memory of ATARI community !
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