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    HEXUS and ATI present : Assembly 05

    Take an ice hockey rink in Helsinki, Finland.

    Fill it with a 3,000 machine lan.

    Bung another 1,500 on wireless.

    Let in another 600 or so for single day passes.

    What have you got?

    Assembly 05, that's what. A massive four day LAN with US$70,000 up for grabs as CASH prizes and a further US$100,000 in hardware, also up for grabs.

    But the event covers more than just LAN, pregrammers and developers meet, companies like ASUSTeK and ATI sponsor or partner it and games dvelopers get involved and make sure it all runs smoothly...

    You WISH the UK had something like this...

    Check out our coverage starting with an Event Report featuring the smallest graphics package you've ever seen available for download...

    Then check out the pics and video of the event... want to see what it like to walk through a hall with 5,000 gamers in it? Click the link!

    And then finish off with two videos, both with Jussi Laakkonen, where he talks about Glimmerati, X360 and PS3 before we subject him to the dreaded, irrelevant HEXUS.gaming quickfire round. Find the full story here.
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    No-one told me!

    I am gonna do mah best to get there for next year.

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    Um, the UK does have something like this - it's called Sundown2005, although we're small at the moment we do try to represent the UK Demoscene the best we can - so if you're interested, do come along. It's not a gaming thing though.

    http://www.sundown2005.org/index.php

    To mention Assembly 2005 without mentioning what the demoscene is like a roast dinner without gravy. Hell, it's like a roast dinner made with just carrots. Not to disrespect gamers specifically but generally LAN parties are just constant gaming and little else, where as Demoscene parties like Assembly are orientated towards competition based creativity where short music video style presentations called demos are shown sequentially and judged on their creative and technical merits.

    Although there are game developers there and a certain element of gaming is there - it's all about the 'scene.

    Read these two wikipedia articles if you can:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_demo_party
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

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    Quote Originally Posted by rc55
    To mention Assembly 2005 without mentioning what the demoscene is like a roast dinner without gravy.
    Umm...
    To get to the root of what Assembly is all about, you have to go back years and years. (cue wobbly visual effects). Let’s timewarp back to the late 80s, mullets have (thankfully) gone out of fashion and the Amiga and Atari ST are still battling it out to be the home computer kings. The humble PC is just starting to make its way into the home in the form of the 286, or if you were minted, the 386 with astonishing clocks speeds of 10MHz for the 286 and up to 33MHz for the 386 and of course, a whopping 2 or 4 Mb of memory, shared with the video of course…. Ahh, I miss those days of DOS…

    Anyway, around this time there were a bunch of guys mucking around writing programs and demos in machine code and assembly languages. With the comparatively tiny amount of system memory actually available to use, programmers focused on optimizing code as much as possible to be able to achieve as much as possible using as few resources as they could. Of course, what with programmers being a feisty lot, friendly rivalries soon sprung up as to who could get the most out of the smallest memory use… and so, in 1992, a couple of these uber-geeks organized a meet in a school in Kauniainen, Finland to compare their work and have a bit of a competition with each other. This was to set the stage for Assembly, arguably now the largest meeting of computer fans this side of the Atlantic.

    Each year, loads of progammers would try every trick in the book to get as much as possible out of their programs whilst using as little memory as possible. Why not take a look at last year's winner? Prepare to be stunned by what someone can do with just 4kb of memory. Oh, and before you cry out that the file is not 4kb, it's wrapped up as an .exe, so there!
    Sorry, but thats a hell of a lot more than a 'mention'... I've even hosted last years winning entry!
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    Nick:

    Yeah, but read the front page of Hexus, it makes no indication that Assembly is anything more than a gaming event. I think it's misleading and slightly insulting that it's represented initially in this way as generally the demoscene has tried to distance itself from LAN parties which are less sociable and no where near as creative.

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    Given that gaming.hexus.net is a gaming portal and given the number of people who don't know about Assembly and Sundown (a lot); then appealing to the common denominator of gaming to get people to read the articles can only be good for such events in the future. The excellent article by Nick has great coverage of the event and should help to promote it to those who were previously ignorant. If only one person looks at the winning entry from last year and is intrigued enough to do some further investigation then the article has been a resounding success.

    So, the front page post is neither misleading nor insulting, it is written to pique the interest of the larger demographic of our audience and given you obviously have such events' best interests at heart I am sure you can agree. Nick spent a large number of hours working on this event coverage; both in research before and after, and in writing the article. To tell him he is being insulting is a bit inflammatory. All you needed to do was mention what the events are about .

    Keep the discussion going, we'd love to hear of any other people who are interested in this scene so that we can deliver more content to you.

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    Finland, computers?

    I didnt realise they had electricity yet.

    Looks fun though, we need something like that in England.
    Please remember that Finland is actually one of the most technologically developed countries in the world. Although you may not of heard of a little company that's quite well known, that being Nokia.

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    Linus Torvalds is Finish or Swedish IIRC, northern europe is damn techie.

    They have 100MB net and 10MB/10MB for the same price we pay for 512kB/256kB
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    I've even hosted last years winning entry!
    Wow...careful you dont max out your HDDs
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    Iain: Yeah, sorry - I flew off the handle a bit. I just think although it (the front page) was written in context I think it was a little unfair to label Assembly as a gaming event when for the most part its main intention is to foster new programming, design, 3d and musician talent rather than yet another huge gaming LAN with the added bonus of some gaming developers being present.

    I'm glad you're keen on increasing the profile of the demoscene though, maybe we should talk further sometime!

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    Linus Torvalds is Finish or Swedish IIRC, northern europe is damn techie.
    Linus is Finnish.

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    Linus is Finnish.
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    Wyoming out forum guidelines ask for a maximum sig height of 100px including images and text. Can you please modify your sig to adhere to the guidelines for the benefit of those on lower resolutions

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    A girl I know on IRC actually won third prize in the retro compo, I didn't think hexus would touch on this, since it's non-gamey, but it's cool that it did.

    Has anyone seen the winner of the full demo comp? I thourght Iconoclast was really rather cool.

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    I've done a lot of work getting some information together about the UK's first demo party in a while, Sundown 2005:
    http://www.sundown2005.org/index.php

    Sign up to the forums if you like, let me know what you think.

    Smash from Fairlight is coming too, he was the main coder for the Che Guevara intro that one the Assembly 05 64k competition - top fella he is too!

    Cheers,

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