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                             MILLIWAYS 2K2 REPORT
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Two weeks  ago I  suddenly  got the  message, that  another  Milliways will take
place. "Yeah, another cool coding session!" I thought.

To prepare the meeting, I tried to copy  the new demos  from the  Lato Lutzikow,
especially "Numen",  to the real hardware. After 3 hours I had to give up, cause
the loading always crashed at 97% :-// , maybe my MegaRAM 320KB extension is not
compatible, who knows.

So I picked up my ATARI 8 Bit an travelled to Bellheim.

I arrived  at  Friday around  17.00 o'clock. Besides  MC Laser, Ray  was already
there and busy coding (what else, he is a real coding maniac).

First I exchanged some news with MC Laser. After that we had another look at the
"Numen" demo from Taquart at an emulator. The demo rooks every time!!!

Then the rest of tSCc arrived: Sky, Dynacore and Remo. Later Sage also came, but
without Llama! A bit disappointing.

Now I  found  time  to  code  a  lot  on "Bremspunkt" a  game for  the MultiJoy8
interface (8 Joysticks) for the 8 Bit. Remo and Ray were coding on the next tSCc
demo for the EIL3, MC Laser finished the "Fading Twilight 6" and a lot more will
come he promised. Sky and Dynacore were coding on the PC some SSL stuff.

We all wanted  to see the  COOL GIRLS release, but Mc Nobody wanted to plug in a
VGA Adapter :-(

The hours flew  away and we  became hungry. So we went to the local Turkish food
shop. It was my favorite  Bellheim döner shop, but  again I was  surprised, that
the Turkish pizza was more expensive than the kebab, strange area.

At 6 o'clock on  Saturday I  went to bed. I woke  up when MarcStar  and Paranoid
from Paranoia appeared and setted up a Dreamcast.
After a coffee we continued  where we stopped  before. Sage did some nice things
on the Lynx, and told us some  interesting news from  the Lynx scene. I had 4 MB
ram cartridges and played with some Mod routines.

Later the day Questor and Samurai arrived. We  discussed some non  ATARI related
topics, and Questor acted as a beta tester for "Bremspunkt".

Paranoia were leaving early.

At Sunday 4 o'clock I went to bed again. After I woke  up, we had some talkings,
and around  4 o'clock we finish. I droved  Remo to the  Karlsruhe train station,
and went home also.

As all Milliways  before again  it was very  funny. A lot of the people only met
once a year, so there was a lot to talk (and burn) about. Thanks to Ray and Remo
coding feeling was also present. Many thanks to MC Laser for his great job.

                                                               Mad Butscher / F2
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