My 42^nd birthday party!

...?! wut...?! but...

Yes, I'm turning 52 ... in base10. However, if you are like me and count in base13, it is 40. So sorry, no clean 42 this year, but I'm looking forward to 54 where it is base13 to get to 42. End of discussion.

The intention is to have an old fart LAN/Demo-party full of retro computers/consoles, new computers/consoles, demoscene stuff, good movies, series, nice food and drinks, intelligent discussions. Space is limited so please check with me first, don't show up unannounced.

Be free to send me a playlist of your favourite demos in advance.
That way I can already test if my machine can run them live or search for a decent recording.

Who is (probably) coming?

• Jobj
• Aki
• Akos
• Berend
• Bjaan
• DFox *
• Djefke
• Dorien
• Fr4nkY_b0y
• FRaNKy
• FriedKiwi *
• Gasman *
• Gh0sty *
• Gunnie
• IceKiller
• Igaduma
• Kefcom
• Lambdacore
• Metoikos *
• NetPoet
• Noctis
• Oemfoe
• Reality404
• Steffest
• Yugecin
• You? ... let me know

The address is: Spalbeekstraat 34, 3510 Hasselt, Belgium

Google Maps

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Car

There are two parkings. PRIMARY, just close to the Brixel building and SECUNDAIRY, next to the Basisschool Spalbeek, accessible from Spalbeekstraat. This parking is about 1 minute walk to the party place. The entrance door is from the PRIMARY parking side.

Train

At the Hasselt train station, exit it and go left. Hop on one of two buses, Line 56 or Line 34. Use routeplanner with 'Hasselt Station P1' to 'Brixel Hackerspace Hasselt' for timetables. The bus ride takes about 26 minutes. Exit at 'Spalbeekstraat (56)' or 'Spalbeek Centrum (34)' and follow this map. The entrance door is from the PRIMARY parking side.

Invite Only

The party will be held at 7-8-9^th of February 2025 at Brixel, the Hasselt HackerSpace.

You are welcome starting from 17h.

Cleanup starts at 15h on Sunday.

If you want to come early or need to be picked up, due to public transport etc., Just let me know, I'll be there the greater part of the day building up and prepping, but I might be out to do some last minute shopping.

The address is: Spalbeekstraat 34, 3510 Hasselt, Belgium

Sleeping accommodations:

• There is room to put a sleeping bag/camping bed/air mattress. The two main rooms are heated, but the floors are cold and drafty, therefore elevated sleeping is advisable, if you are sensitive to that. There is also room in the attic. That is way quieter, but roof isn't insulated, so it's very cold.
• Also room for parking an RV or putting up a tent.
• Search for Spalbeek Hasselt on AirBnB.
• Or on bbbelgie.be.
• Or on booking.com.

Brixel can offer:

• Kitchen, stove, oven, microwave, pots and pans.
• Stocked bar, all kinds of Mate's, cola's, lemonades, beers, etc.
  All for resonable prices, to support Brixel who is making the place available to us.
• Internet access, wired and Wifi network.
• CRT TV, LCD TV, beamer, "BIG Screen".
• Sound equipment.
• Tables, chairs, limited sofa seats.

Things you can bring:

• Laptop or a computer, your own seat if you don't like mine.
• Beanbags, small sofa.
• Blinkenlights.
• Party attitude.
• ...

Despite this being my BDay Demoparty, I don't expect you to bring gifts. However, food, snacks and drinks to share at the party are always welcome. A small donation to help cover the heating/power costs is appreciated.

Again, we have Demo Compos! Loosely based on the compo rules of Revision.

The compo PC is an i7 4900k, 32G ram, Nvidia RTX 3080, running Win10.

If you have a Linux entry, let me know in advance.

Oldskool platforms will be shown on an original hardware where possible. If not, I try to use an FPGA replacement. The rest will be shown using an emulator.

Remote entries possible, mail to me. Multiple entries allowed (within reason, and I decide what is reasonable).

For now we have infrastructure for the folowing competitions:

• Oldskool Demo (C64 unless you bring your own hardware)
• Streaming Music
• Graphics
• ASCII/ANSI
• PC Demo/PC 64K
• PC 4K/Tiny Intro

e-mail JobJ!