Rebels/Agile Copy Party 1988
Party Report
Submitted by hedning (hedning) on November 30 2013
Written by Morpheus
THE REBELS/AGILE party in Tyresö/Stockholm/Sweden
"Yes, THE REBELS/AGILE party... Ahh.. My whole scene carrer started in a group called PEEK & POKE. We were four guys, with no special skills at all. This perticular party was the first one I ever visited. I went with Jum-Jum (Hellcat, Space Ace, Squelch) from P&P and it was the biggest thing. There we were with the Swedish elite around us, from SUPER SWAP SWEDEN to THUNDERCATS to AGILE. We were so amazed. The first thing that happened after we had unpacked my computer, was that the guys from THE REBELS came up to us and introduced themselves and asked who we were. They were really kind to us, and that's something I'll never forget. They asked us if we were gonna perticipate in the demo compo, but we said no because we had nothing to use. At that time, we only knew how to rip things and swap. They told us that maybe we could change the scrolltext in one of our older demos and go with that. We had one of our demo's with us, but Jum-Jum said that Andy Capp (Dark Lord, Squeek) had done something special with the scrolltext and that it was impossible to change it. Some years later when I was able to go into a monitor and check it out myself, I found out that each letter in the scroll-text were written like this: "A, shift+A - (rvs on)A, shift+A(rvs off)". Really neat. Really special, huh?
One other funny thing that happened at the party was when we were staring at our idols SUPER SWAP SWEDEN working on their new party demo. I can recall that Kjer and Bagder looked at us with this "watcha want lamebrains"-look. There we were, probably the smallest, most unknown group in the scene sitting only a couple of metres away from this HUGE group, staring us blind. It was scary! We had no friends there (apart from Trinity of AGILE), this TRONIX guy wrote about "lamers standing behind him staring at his TV-screen" in his party demo, my local Tensta-'friend', Qix of STAGE 3, didn't talk to us, we put a big scratch in the table we had my computer on, we couldn't change our demo and over all, it wasn't a lot of fun. We went home the next day."
Quoted from http://www.flashinc.c64.org/memories.html
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