I am erroneously mentioned in the creds of the demo so people thought I joined TBL. Which is not true. In the early 90s they where MoraNET On Tour's arch enemy. But because of the disaster TG95 party I lent out my gouraud to TBL and I forget to ask gummiankan to delete the sourcecode.
So wrongly I'm not mentioned as XtaL/MoraNET but just Xtal.
And yes, TBL and MoraNET had to rewrite the "Voting" floppy tech and MoraNET quickly got crew shirts since Crusaders took the heating power from the tennis hall to get enough juice for the party.
We got stopped by norwegian police twice and I had my driver license checked with swedish police. It took 20 hours to drive to Stavanger and in the last hills the brakepads of our 60'ish Mercedes Limousine got worn out.
As our "multikille" said when we arrived in Stavanger at the tourist information at about 5 in the morning,"They're closed and opens at 9 am, in may". He also have a couple of other interesting "Dale" quotes. "There is no power in the väggen där", "Jävla NATO-elektriker".
I think that we where the only groups with a microwave owen and enough power.
Some facts straight: - The voting floppy tech was fixed by me, not MoraNET or anyone else.
The issue with the inital voting floppydisk was that saved votes on the floppy was not reloaded during a later reboot. So previous saved votes was basically lost. The issue was noticed way ahead of the compos, and all attendees was offered to deliver in their vote disks to get the new diskimage. We had several Amigas with external floppy drives at crew to quickly distribute the new image to around the 1000 vote disks that was being used during the party.
- The sleeping hall was a tennis hall. The org-team was informed before hand by the rent-out the hall was heated, but it turned out the heating was only working with the lights switched on in the roof. Function as a sleeping hall, the lights was of course shut off and then the heating system also was not working. I know we did rally down-town to hire and install a few heaters but it was still very cold and many started to sleep under the tables in the main hall. That was not actually allowed due to fire regulations, but I know many did it anyway and org-team allowed it.
- The power solution was initially delivered, designed and setup by two Crusaders members. And yes - they fucked up more than they did good. Since the power-grid immediately at start of the party failed and got overloaded, I immediately took control. The issue was that Crusaders team did serial connect all table grids instead of parallell and the fuses just blow. I got hold of some wood pieces where we nailed down electric outlets quickly and patched stuff into parallell connections for the different table rows. That fixed the electrical issues on the first day, and after initial power outlet there was no further power glitches in the main hall for the rest of the duration of the party. We also had seperate feeds of power for microowen and fridges so these devices was never part of the grid for the computers.
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I am erroneously mentioned in the creds of the demo so people thought I joined TBL. Which is not true. In the early 90s they where MoraNET On Tour's arch enemy. But because of the disaster TG95 party I lent out my gouraud to TBL and I forget to ask gummiankan to delete the sourcecode.
So wrongly I'm not mentioned as XtaL/MoraNET but just Xtal.
And yes, TBL and MoraNET had to rewrite the "Voting" floppy tech and MoraNET quickly got crew shirts since Crusaders took the heating power from the tennis hall to get enough juice for the party.
We got stopped by norwegian police twice and I had my driver license checked with swedish police. It took 20 hours to drive to Stavanger and in the last hills the brakepads of our 60'ish Mercedes Limousine got worn out.
As our "multikille" said when we arrived in Stavanger at the tourist information at about 5 in the morning,"They're closed and opens at 9 am, in may". He also have a couple of other interesting "Dale" quotes. "There is no power in the väggen där", "Jävla NATO-elektriker".
I think that we where the only groups with a microwave owen and enough power.
Some facts straight:
- The voting floppy tech was fixed by me, not MoraNET or anyone else.
The issue with the inital voting floppydisk was that saved votes on the floppy was not reloaded during a later reboot. So previous saved votes was basically lost. The issue was noticed way ahead of the compos, and all attendees was offered to deliver in their vote disks to get the new diskimage. We had several Amigas with external floppy drives at crew to quickly distribute the new image to around the 1000 vote disks that was being used during the party.
- The sleeping hall was a tennis hall. The org-team was informed before hand by the rent-out the hall was heated, but it turned out the heating was only working with the lights switched on in the roof. Function as a sleeping hall, the lights was of course shut off and then the heating system also was not working. I know we did rally down-town to hire and install a few heaters but it was still very cold and many started to sleep under the tables in the main hall. That was not actually allowed due to fire regulations, but I know many did it anyway and org-team allowed it.
- The power solution was initially delivered, designed and setup by two Crusaders members. And yes - they fucked up more than they did good. Since the power-grid immediately at start of the party failed and got overloaded, I immediately took control. The issue was that Crusaders team did serial connect all table grids instead of parallell and the fuses just blow. I got hold of some wood pieces where we nailed down electric outlets quickly and patched stuff into parallell connections for the different table rows. That fixed the electrical issues on the first day, and after initial power outlet there was no further power glitches in the main hall for the rest of the duration of the party. We also had seperate feeds of power for microowen and fridges so these devices was never part of the grid for the computers.