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"y" like in why?
well, i've got my peg2 for free from freescale and it's certainly a nice toy and good fun, but nothing more - especially when talking about morphos. actually i don't like mos at all, possibly because i'm not coming from amiga - and not mentioning all the struggles with early versions of 1.4.
however, all that's left then is a middle-class linux-machine for twice the price of any x86-thing...

@hellfire
Want to send it to me, then? ;-)

What would be cool is for a CT060 Falcon to be offered alongside Amiga 060 for a combined "060 & PAL" compo. I doubt anyone would mind that. The question is, is there a CT060 owning scener who wants to offer the machine and handle the entries for breakpoint?

you were using plural here.

Well if Breakpoint were to run for 18 months continuously, then you might get plural CT60 entries! ;-)

This, and a few other things, is exactly why I regret not speaking with Scamp at Evoke last weekend.

Hellfire has a point allright, there are not so many Falcon CT60 sceners and therefore prods, so there's no reason to expect a huge increase in the number of entries.

However, disregarding the small size of our scene for a moment, we are convinced that we both deserve and have a moral obligation "to be there". This is underlined by the positive reactions we received at parties visited, and upon prods released sofar in our "Atarization campaign".

Besides all the platform mumbo jumbo, there is another reason why coordination with the big German party organisers is advisable for all parties involved. We (and I mean the Outline organisers rather than the Atari scene) have what we believe is a revolutionary plan for future parties. It is already clear that we will need the cooperation of at least one major German party organiser to make it happen. That could be either Evoke, or Breakpoint- for practical reasons, other organisers could not be expected to fulfill our criteria.

So there, it's out now. Now is the time to shoot me if you think I am just putting up a charade. Or, alternatively, you can choose to take my word for the greatness of the plan, and keep your fingers crossed that we can really make it happen. Because if it happens... IF IT HAPPENS... it will undoubtedly be the most extraordinary party ever, and you will all want to be there. You can quote me on that, if you like... :-)

Well, a combined Amiga 060 and Falcon 060 compo gets my thumbs up. Its fair, and it would be great to see more CT060 demos :)

Yeah, a combined 060-compo get two thumbs up my ass too

room for one more up there Brite? :)

Combined Atari and Amiga compo is a great idea. Makes perfect sense to me.

amiga+falcon compo is ok with me too ^^

Maybe compos should be divided into categories with like:

"<100mips" (amiga,falcon,ds,gba,etc?)
"<10mips" (c64,gameboy,msx,nes,etc),
"console" (psp,ps2,xbox,etc.. could go into rest if too few entries)

and "rest" (pc,ppc,mac,etc..)

havoc: Well, feel free to drop me a mail anytime (scamp@untergrund.net), contact me on ircnet (nick: scamp) or meet me at TUM...

I'm all for all sceners having a spot at Breakpoint to show off their stuff, so of course I'm going \o/ about the idea of a combined 060 compo. Especially if the 060 bits get 0wn3d by an A500 demo (:

truck: if ...

I understand. Just one question: Do you mope about the file renaming or about the bottle deposit?

nice to see that ppl like the 680x0 combined idea :-)

whizzter, imho, categories should be assembled in such a way that there will be an interesting compo. at breakpoint, the biggest demoparty in existance, that means more compos can be organised, for more specific platforms. but at smaller parties such a system works well- we used a similar "categroisation" method ourselves @ outline this year :-)

madenmann, file renaming? i had already forgotten about that, actually... and yeah the bottle cap system was retarded. not a showstopper though... i'll probably visit again this year, time allowing.

so no. those are not the issues at all. the plan i have, however, could only work in conjunction with TUM, if TUM were to change to another date. i don't expect that to happen, and don't want to ask the organisers to do it.

A combined compo? Fine for me!

How about our demo/intro-compo categories since tUM*o5?
http://2005.tum-party.net/compos_demo.php.

I ever wondered if we went the right way...

btw: havoc, what's wrong with the date of the Ultimate Meeting?

this picture should give you a hint. (clue: it's not because of pandur, dipsie or warp)

that said, durlach is on the wrong side of karlsruhe anyway.

(naturally we're coming with carloads of dutchos like every year, no worries benjam! tum rocks!)

fact is: we never had more snow since organizing tUM then in 2oo5. and another fact is: we never had more visitors then 2oo5.
I believe the traditional The Party date is still a good one.

sadly not for me (as I really want to pay a visit), but that date is traditionally "chill date" from _all_ scenes I'm in.

benJam,

the dates for TUM 2006 are imho not at all "wrong" as such. actually it's an excellent time for a party, i'd say. that's why i said i don't want to ask you to change the date of the party.

having said that, skrebbel is pointing in the right direction. TUM is clearly a winter party, that's a big disqualification already, considering the aim of the operation. on top of that, christmas is right before the party, and newyear right after. so the timeframe simply doesn't fit with our plan.

i sincerely hope you won't take it personal... that would be a shame, since my reasoning is entirely practical.

maybe it would help if i explain the plan in more detail over a beer at TUM2006? i'd be happy to do that, if you give me your word to keep the plan a secret. :-)