

This text was originally written for the NorthStar mag Exceller 8,
but they ran out of memory, so I used it here instead ...     
Read and enjoy!    


The Beach-church.            

A mini-meeting-report by Mahoney.            

Well, well, all meetings are not big, so that's why I will tell you about
a little meeting arranged by Defiers in Lomma (southwest of Sweden).      
      
At 16:23 (xactly) I and my friend Glue Master came to a place called
'The Beach-church', and just outside the door you could hear Kaktus with his
new tune at a volume that could break a normal ear. Hackers are not normal ...
             
I found the place quite nice, although it was a church. There were two
pianos (one for me, one for Kaktus!), a big organ, a Roland-synth, a fridge,
five rooms (to sleep in), two video-cameras and at last about 25
computer-freaks stuffed in some kind of shelter. A warm shelter.
Bleurgh! As always, It all began with 5 minutes of hellos (I hadn't met
those guys for half a year!) Nice to see that almost everybody was there.
Wiz wasn't there. (something about school ... argh!)     
So, I quickly made my stuff up beside Kaktus (as always) and we showed our
works for eachother. For the last two months he had been busy with some scroll-
program for an ad-company (money!). I showed him the music-disk. (it's nice!)
I also noticed some females in another part of the church.
Time passed, and about 7 o'clock we had to be silent depending on an
evening-service. (halleluja!)            

The night slowly came up, and we saw some movies. (The Fly, Critters &
Aliens) Can you imagine seven guys & four (5?) girls, all crunched in 
front of a small tv surrounded by Monitors, recorders, disk-boxes, all
standing in the way for the show? We sure had a nice time! (not my back, but
anyway!)            

Time passed 05:00 and we were only four guys left in the room, the
others had been sleeping for about 2 hrs then. We placed ourselves (not
too comfortable) on the floor.               


Tuesday the 21st of March.       

Two hours later I took a little walk outside (the sun burned my eyes totally,
I couldn't see my screen clear after that ...)     
Well, at seven o'clock it was sure meeting again, there were a war
between the two video-cameras. Monopoly won ... (Isn't that right Kaktus?)
My breakfast contained of two buns, a borrowed coce and a packet of raisins.
The clock passed eleven, and the power went out ... Glue Master's demo
was not saved for the last 15 minutes, and he was so happy!   
We checked if some fuse had blown, but we were on the wrong track.
We noticed some excavators outside the building. Parrot, Nizze and some
other freaks ran out there to kill them (almost!). They were innocent ...
After three minutes we got the power back, as by a miracle. Thank God that
we were in a church!              

It became lunch-time, and we went to the supermarket to buy something to
eat. Djungeljuice, Light yoghurt, a packet of ice-cream and some sweets.
When we came back, there were four bikes outside the church. (guess who?)
We swigged our drinks and ate the ice-cream with plastic forks, all perpetuated
in videotapes. We talked about a lot of things. (not strange that I didn't do
anything on the meeting) I held a concert in the service-room (piano) and
also showed my ability to play the guitar.             

Time flew away, and suddenly it was dark outside. At 20:55 me & Kaktus
ran to the pizzeria, and there we met the two girls we had lent 20kr ten
minutes ago. We realized that we had had the same thing in mind.
In the kitchen, Mogwai showed (for the 5th time) that he wasn't able to
eat a whole pizza. (strange guy!)            

As the other night, it was time for some movies. (but now we moved into
another room with more space!) Two sleepy films later (Swordkill &
Exterminator), the time was 02:00, and we went into the church-office to
sleep. Five cushions, a coat and a locked door made me sleep seven hours
(new record!)                


Wednesday the 22nd of March.         

This (not too) wonderful day started with the rest of the Light-yoghurt, and
some sweets. It was raining, but it was a meeting! Yabba and Nizze had started
on their first Amiga-demo and needed some help. Nizze made the blitter-scroll
and Yabba made the skruv-routine. Quite nice! Glue Master's routines were
almost ready (some sprites were missing) and my music-disk was totally
bug-free (I think!). Parrot had a virus on his copy-disk, and when he looked
through his disks, he had no less that three different viruses on them.
Yabba also got virus on his programming-disk ... (No data destroyed, but his
bug-free program didn't work, bad luck!)            

At 14:30, Kaktus & Mogwai (both living in Helsingborg) were going pack their
stuff to leave the place. Without checking, they disconnected five
computers from the power-net. Including me, my soudtracker-song AND Glue
Master who hadn't saved the final version of his demo. Real BAD luck!
            
Well, I waved goodbye to Kaktus (Snyft!) and went back to my computer.
Too tired to do anything with the music-disk, so I made a sinus-wave to
Yabba's skruv-routine. (In Amiga-basic ...) Parrot had a hell with his
C-compiler (why C? Assembler is better!) and I don't know a shit about C,
so I left him with his problems.            

Time became 16:00 and it was time for us (Me + Glue) to go home. The rain
kept falling, we (and our things) got real wet. Went home to Glue Master's,
and then home to my very own bed!            

The result of the meeting: Three video-tapes, a music-disk scroll, three new
addresses, the very first Defiers-demo and at last a great time!             

Thanks to Jimmy, Ulrika, Petra, Angela, Monopoly, Parrot, Kaktus and the rest
of the crew for the great meeting. A small meeting doesn't have to be lame!
               
Mahoney gives the church-meeting 17 antiviruses out of 18!
                       

That was the end of the text, and since I haven"t got anything special to
do, I might just type a few lines here ...        

Today it"s the 23rd of May 1989, time passes quickly these days.    
I"ve now broken my estimated timelimit with about a month.   But just keep
cool ...      I don"t really want to release a non-working musicdisk!   
    Right now, I"ve only got 2 big tests left in school.    BIG tests.
       I"ve been quite busy these days, and who wants to sit in front of
a computer all the time?         We have soon spent half a man-year on this
disk, and I think it"s worth it!     This is really something different from
all others demos, disks & games ...       Anyway, keep cool, enjoy yourself,
drink water (not coce!), look forward to all our works that will appear in
the near future, such as Glue"s megabobs, Mahoney & Kaktus musicdisk number
3, My heavily nice game, Mahoney & Kaktus musicdisk 4 (done by me (Mahoney))
, and all other small demo-works that will pup up on some compacts.     
If you"re going to make a compact and want a demo from us (Mahoney & Kaktus
or Glue Master) then feel free to write to us.    We"re humans to, you know.
         On Friday (the 26th) there will be a Party here in Staffanstorp
(I happen to live in Staffanstorp) and we"ll have great fun!     
If you don"t believe me, be there and watch us doing our show!    (It"s
top secret at the moment!)            It"s also nice to see that a lot
of guys have learnt assembler on Amiga, but there"s only one thing ...   
Please try to do something unusual.    Ok, it"s nice to see that you can
make a standard-demo, but if it"s not going to be as on the 64 (over
1000 demos, all looking the same), make something different instead.    
Amiga has all the capabilities to do exactly what you want, so use your
brain and imagination!       I"m not saying this to be rude, but I"ve learnt
quite a lot since my time on the 64.           No, now I"ll leave this text
for some days and maybe type more at the meeting ... (when I"m too tired to
check the sourcecode (which is over 120 Kilobytes of memory!))

Hey man!    Today it"s the 26th of May 1989.      Do you think I want
to write in this fucking scroll?      Nonono!     I have to get this disk
ready here, and it"ll be a hell of a work with all this noise in my
ears.        No, see you in another scroller.     There"s quite a lot
of them, you know!            This is Mahoney, finishing his text with
a nice word ...       Jungelmos                    