BlockParty 2008 -- April 4 - 6

[rbernardo]

BlockParty 2008 is coming to Cleveland, Ohio on April 4-6. A giant demo party and show here in North America. Taken from the webpage, the organizers say, "2008's looking to dwarf 2007, as we continue our Five Years of Blockparty Pledge to bring you more of the top-flight demoparty action you've come to expect from us." http://www.demoparty.us

At BlockParty, attendees will listen to guest speakers, have the chance to attend "camps" (extended sessions for learning demo-coding), and participate and/or observe the competitions. I've been told that Commodore demo action will be there, too. Guest speakers include such notables as Jason Scott of the BBS Documentary movie (his BP topic -- Now and Then, Here and There: Editing) and Jeri Ellsworth of CommodoreOne and C64 DTV fame (her BP topic -- CPU Not Required: Making Demos with FPGAs). For the complete speaker list and schedule, go to http://www.notacon.org/blockparty.html

BlockParty 2008 will be held at the Holiday Inn Select City Centre Lakeside, 1111 Lakeside Ave., in downtown Cleveland. (The hotel accomodations seem to be booked solid already for BlockParty guests, but some rooms may still be available by a direct phone call to the hotel. The hotel contact details are at the Notacon website.)

Various registration packages are available from $50 to $599. Early registration closes on March 23 at 9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Any remaining tickets will be sold at the door for $100 each.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/

[rbernardo]

At the BlockParty 2008 held on April 4-6 in Cleveland, Ohio, the CommodoreOne demo, "Flame" a.k.a. "Lame", won first place in the Wild Compo. The demo programmed by Jeri Ellsworth, Ken Sumrall, and George "Fatman" Sanger, was first shown at Jeri's talk on Friday evening. Actual competition voting was on Saturday midnight with "Flame" going up against various competitors, including a Linux demo showing ASCII characters on a revolving 3-D polygon and a demo utilizing the first music tracker for an 8086 computer.

The C1 board itself was modded to run MIDI files straight from the FPGA, no CPU required. Winners were announced at noon on Sunday. Jeri and George accepted the first place prize of various items, including a trophy that lights up.

More exact details on the Wild Compo to be reported here and more details on all of the compos to be reported at the BlockParty website -- http://www.demoparty.us

More photos and video to come.

At the Cleveland airport
for the return to California,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/