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.

This year I even have a fancy Invite demo. (Made it myself, and it is my first production, so don't expect to much.)

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, FireCracker_C, Fr4nkY_b0y, FRaNKy, FriedKiwi *, Gasman, Gh0sty, Gunnie, IceKiller, Igaduma, Juvi, Kefcom, Lambdacore, Messy, Metoikos *, NetPoet, Nick_I, Noctis, Oemfoe, OhLi, Reality404, Steffest, Tolle, Yliana, Yugecin

You? ... let me know

Online: my Twitch channel

The address is: Spalbeekstraat 34, 3510 Hasselt, Belgium

Google Maps

OpenStreetMap

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.

Friday

• 17h: doors
• 19h: Seminair: Intro to democoding for tiny fantasy consoles (Tic-80 Pico-8) (Reality404)
• 20h: demo show
• 21h: Seminair: Creative with Amiga (Steffest)
• 22h: Dj set (TBC)

Saturday

• 17h: deadline entries (except speedcompo)
• 19h: DemoBlock: Kids, Music, Graphics, Wild
• 20h: deadline speedcompo
• 20h: Performance: Gasman
• 21h: Compoblock: Speedcompo Democompo
• 22h: Dj set (TBC)

Sunday

• 12h: Closing/thankyou
• 15h: doors closed
• 15h: Cleanup

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.
• Peace&quiet: besides the main room that can get hecktick, music, lights, beamer, perfomances we also have a "quiet room" to let your sensory imputs wind down a bit or have an quiet conversation.

Things you can bring:

• An entry for the DemoCompo: Demo, Music, Graphics, a poem
• Laptop or a computer, your own seat if you don't like mine.
• Beanbags, small sofa.
• Blinkenlights.
• Party attitude.
• ...

Despite this being my BDay Party I don't expect you to bring gifts. Make a demo entry as a birthdaygift, I will apreciat that more than agian a bottle of beer. Also: food, snacks and drinks to share at the party are always welcome. A small donation to help cover the heating/power costs is appreciated.

Deadline for compo's is Saturday 17h (20h for speedcompo), submit via mail or sneakernet. Provide a nick or artistname, name for your entry and short description in your entry (For the kidscompo; please include an age as well).

If you require Specific hardware (see list below) let us know BEFORE saturday afternoon, or bring your own.

The competitions wil be

• Demo
• Graphics
• Music
• Wild
• Speed
• Kids

Like last time, we have Demo Compos! Loosely based on the compo rules of Revision. But we want to be very inclusive to non Sceners so we accept Poems, Analog drawings, performances as well.

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

Examples: PC demo/intro, OldSkool Demo/intro, Fantasy platforms, Grafix, Music, Wild (A poem, perfomance art, short talk abnout a project you work on)

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: BBC Micro/Master 128 (only tape, entries must be stored in WAV file), MSX1 (only cartridges at the moment), MSX2 (cartridge or floppy), real C64C with DigiMod and LumaFix and 1541U-II, C64-I with old SID, Atari 800XL with 572kB RAM (with SD card reader), Atari 800XE with 320kB RAM and stereo mod (8 channels), Atari 1040STF (with Gotek floppy), Atari Mega ST2 (with Gotek Floppy), Amiga 500 1.3 very early model with CF harddrive and 8MB FastRAM, Amiga 600 with Gotek or Floppy, Amiga 1200 with PiStorm, Amiga 1200 with original Blizzard 68060@50/64MB RAM, ZX Spectrum 48K, Timex Computer 2048 (basically ZXS 48K with better composite video and extra gfx mode), ZX Spectrum 128K (toastrack) with stereo sound mod, ZX Spectrum +2 grey with stereo sound mod, Sinclair QL with SD card solution, Sinclair Z88 portable computer (may be a challenge to upload a software to it), Atari 2600 with composite video and SD card solution (can run demos and homebrew), Atari Jaguar with composite video and BJL ROM loader (via serial PC port), Nintendo Wii with soft mod, OSSC (including composit/s-video to RGB expansion, RetroTINK 5X).
• Streaming Music
• Graphics Oldskool/Modern Graphics
• ASCII/ANSI/PETSCII
• PC Demo/Intro/4K
• Fantasy Consoles Tic-80 Pico-8
• Poems, you can perform life of we have a vieuwer

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