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NoCrew has given thoughts about changing name to Nova or VPSIFKB (Viktiga Personer Som Inte Far Komma Bort). About between 1989 - 1991 (Burgarden/Lundby (according to Stefan)). Laris version of VPSIFKB is that Budda had a binder with that text, that meant "Viktiga Papper Som Inte Far Komma Bort" (important papers that must not disappear - papers became persons in NoCrews version). The (almost complete) history of NoCrew, edited by Rolf Johansson, rojo@nocrew.org PRE NOCREW TimeLord's GFA-demo (TimeLord was Jesper Carlssons handle). 1989 Rocco and CMT held a party around Ascendation day in Gothenburg, Sweden. At this party NoCrew was formed. The demo Whataheck was released during this party. NoCrew had a screen called "Oh No! No crew!" in it. Joining: Rocco, CMT, Budda, Stefan NoCrew arranged Atari ST nyårskonvent v90.1 (29/12 - 1/1 1990), Burgarden in Gothenburg. Budda fired three explosives in the schoolyard. NoCrew made a screen in The Carebears So Watt demo. Lars remembers a lot of stairs, and that he started a long-time raytraceing on someones computer. This party was arranged together with the swedish Atari Magazine AtariSTen. Joining: Rocco, CMT, lars, Stefan, Budda, Lari 1990 NoCrew attended (and helped arrange?) Atari Party in Falköping (28/9 - 30/9) in Falkoping. Demo release: doc-balls-in-overscan by Noring, in the same contest as Omega with their plasma screen. Lars and Stefan had their own doc-balls-in-overscan-in-least-cycles-contest, and Lars won. Joining: lars, Stefan, Noring, Lari 1991 NoCrew attended TLT Convention in Uppsala (15/2 - 18/2). Electra won the demo contest. Joining: NoCrew held the party Göteborg NoCrew Konvent at Lundby Gymnasium, Gothenburg (29/3 - 1/4). Demo: Man-in-the-box by Lari and Pontus Lennartsson (relative to Budda), programmed in GFA Basic. Rocco was spotted here, maybe for the last time as a representative of NoCrew. Lars: Forsta partyt dar jag markte att alkohol smogs in. Ofta sa var alkohol strikt forbjuden pa dessa sorts tillstallningar. Joining: lars, Stefan, Tomas, Lari, Rocco, Noring NoCrew attended TSC Summer Convent (13/7 - 16/7). NoCrew attended OUCH/Imagina/Infinity Party in Oslo, Norway (19/7 - 22/7). Budda remember that the norwegians sold hot dogs in something that reminded him of warm dishcloths. It was in fact very thin bread. Joining: Budda Noring and Marcus Wenestam attended TCB/2LifeCrew in Haninge, Stockholm (1/11 - 3/11). About 280 attendants, Bitmap Brothers (Xenon) had plans on joining, but they never showed up due to a misunderstanding. Noring and Westin was probably the only representatives from NoCrew at this party. The demo contest was held in a big aula (surprise), with a floor that was heavy leaning. An Cool showed the demos from an ST with harddisk, all placed in the middle of the room. Noring remember Nick and Jas sitting above him and Wenestam, and all the walls in the school was painted in orange. Noring: Om ingen annan kan axla ansvaret för detta besök var det nog här jag och Wenestam representerade NoCrew. Minns jag rätt fanns det ett demo i tävlingen som bara hade en enfärgad y-distande scrolltext, inte så hippt kanske. Det fanns kanske värre exempel som jag inte kommer ihåg. Joining: Noring, Macus Wenestam 1992 NoCrew attended Brainless Institute Copy Party, Skovde (3/1 - 5/1). Bicycle pumps were sold here, which could be used as a weapon together with the corks that were sold too. About 370 visitors. Other groups: Electra, Sync, Omega, TCB and Unit17. Electra won the demo contest. 150 bicycle pumps were sold. TCB had to sit with some Amiga group, that was equiped with chainsaws. Joining: Stefan, Budda, Tomas, Lari, Noring --- this bit is a mix-up of two Uppsala partys --- NoCrew attended Mega-Leif-Convention (16/4 - 20/4) in Uppsala. Omega won the demo contest, about 400 people came there. Noring was very close missing the train, after running with his computers trough the whole town. Lars remember all sitting in a large hall, playing Depeche Mode modules. Electra built a large castle using chairs. On the way to the party, Budda was driving the car and got stopped by the police. When they pointed out that the car lights was off, Budda replied: "ok... but where is this place?" and asked the way to the party. The policeman was so confused that he answered the question, and then Budda drove away. NoCrew visited Ahlens City for breakfast. All of them was so tired of Coke that they ordered milk. Joining: Budda, Lari, Stefan, lars, Noring, Matti Stefan was at a party in Uppsala with Budda, they were programming the scroll routine that was used in Omegasnake demo (much later). > uppd: Jag vet att jag var pa ett party i uppsala dar budda var med, > och satt hackandes pa scrollrutinen som langt senare anvandes i > omega-snake. Lars: Mer detaljer: Jag hade gjort en rutin for synclock. Den ritade 8 cykler breda pixlar pa en ST, wow. Jag hade ritat en font, och Stefan gjorde ett snabbt GFA-hack for att satta farg pa den. Detta gjorde vi pa CCW Vasagatan. Pa partyt experimenterade jag med att gora en y-distande scroll- text i synclockgrafiken. Av misstag rakade jag sabba timingen i synclocken sa att all grafik hamnade snett. Det blev en riktigt bra effekt tillsammans med den distade scrollen. Matti var med, for han satt och ritade skuggorna pa en stor nocrew-logga. Den fick plats i en overscan-skarm. Noring: Inte bara det. :) Kommer du ihåg specialraytracern i GFA som skulle rita bilder till en kemibok? Experimenten med optimal ljudåtergivning, medelst empiriska undersökningar via ett oscilloskåp? Jag kommer inte ihåg hur det gick med dem sedan. Jag tycker också att det var två i Uppsala. Andra gången jag var där kom jag ihåg en bensinmack jag såg första gången jag var där. Ungefär så. Joining: lars, Matti (Electra's pary) Noring (both) [There are two possible parties in Uppsala, which one? Stefan was at one, but doesn't remember lars story... Could this please be straighten up, because the other Uppsala party was arranged by TLT (see above) in fabruary 1991] --- end of mix-up --- NoCrew attended Impulse Summer Party/Gurgelkvack (24/6 - 26/7), at Nösnässkolan, Stenungsund. Other crews: ICE, TLH, Crystalic, TFS/GRC, Aggression, Unnersal Coders, Exonic, Kruz, Toxic, No Ball Crew, Sync, Electra, Omega, and some small groups [source: Impulse RTA]. Electra won the demo contest and a rockband called Akmekop played during the party. Joining: Stefan, lars, Budda, Lari, Noring NoCrew attended The Party (23/10 - 25/10). [What is this? did NoCrew attend at all?] 1993 NoCrew attended TCC (The Computer Crossroad) in Gothenburg (29/5 - 31/5). A very large space for all the attendants to be in, at the largest exhibition centre in Gothenburg, Svenska Massan. Free entrance to Liseberg, though. Very noisy and probably the worst party of them all. There are pictures that I (rojo) took with my b/w camera. Any others? I think I had an article about this party published in SHN. The editor, Ulf Selstam, told me to delete the part where I wrote about alcohol at partys like this. He didn't want the parents to think that their children drank alcohol, which is indeed a nice thought even though they did. :) About 1800 people joined, according to sources. Joining: Stefan, rojo, Budda, Tomas, Ylva, Lari The party Motorola Inside (30/7 - 1/8) was held with the help of Impulse in Stenungsund. Electra bothered everyone by showing their new Archimedes with supervectors in 3D and Mandelbrot fractals. Omegasnake demo was released during Motorola Inside. The sound that the NoCrew-logo makes when hitting the Omega snake is in fact the sound that Buddas GFA Basic manual makes when closing it very hard. And the sound the worm makes is a non-oiled chair. During the Motorola Inside party, Lars bought an Atari Falcon 030. He was the first Falcon owner in NoCrew, with many more to follow later. NoCrew attended the sound contest, and did get in on third place. A release of Buddas over-worked sound equalizers and over-worked scrolling routines were made too. Four Falcon 030's were at the party. Excellence in art won the demo contest with TalkTalk. 57 people attended, not counting in the arrangers. It also rained for all three days. Attending crews: ICE, Omega, Electra, Sync, Excellence In Art, New Core, Exonic, IMPonance, TDS and some other people. Joining: lars, Stefan, Tomas, Lari, Janderz, Budda, Matti, Noring 1994 [Nothing happened this year? Unbelievable! :)] 1995 NoCrew attended Fried Bits 3 during easter. Mattis food: Start Musli and beer, and meatballs in strawberry cream. Janders and Matti also practised the "suck out" method for eating a banana. Pictures are available. A lot of people, mostly french and german, was bothered when NoCrew played telephone calls from Hassan records (Bundestag!). Stefan copied Linux/m68k 0.9.5 and started using it on his Falcon. In the years to follow, more and more members of NoCrew would migrate to Linux, becoming less attached to Atari machines in the process. Joining: Stefan, Budda, Janderz, Matti, CG NoCrew helped SAK with NAS95, at Samskolan in Gothenburg (16/6 - 18/6). Demo release: NoDemo was released. Since a disc crashed, noone has seen this demo. Joining: lars, Stefan, rojo, Budda, Tomas, Lari, Janderz, Noring NoCrew attended Aggressive II New Year Party in Finland (28/12 - 30/12). Fiskmås demo released by Noring. We got a second place, after DHS who won the contest. There was also a 4k intro that made it to the third place in a contest. Lars bought a Unisys with manuals on the way to the ferry. When all was to get in the car it was so full of manuals that one person had to walk besides the car. When the new year was a fact, NoCrew ate hamburgers at a McDonald's in central Helsinki. After the party, NoCrew visited Msk and WizTom. Joining: Stefan, Tomas, lars, Noring, Lari 1996 NoCrew attended Symposium in Germany (4/4 - 6/4). About 350 paying visitors, from that about 150 Atari owners. Lars was programming some line routines and debugging ICE's code. Two important things from the real-time article: First, Janderz talking about the pixel as a representation of a point. Janderz: Eftersom pixeln ar avsedd att vara en represention av en punkt och per definition endast ar definierad i en enda punkt namligen punkten sjalv sa saknar den punkten en yta. Darmed sa ar punktens horn samma punkt som punktens mittpunkt och alltsa obefintlig. AntiLarsPixelHornpunkt-satsen by Franz Janderz. Lars: Jag haller inte med om att "pixeln ar avsedd att vara en representation av en punkt"! Ska fundera pa saken... Tobbe: Men eftersom endast pixeln ar en referens for oss att inse vaar begransning vad galler denna totalt indivduella uppfattning av universum so spelar den absolut ingen roll, forutom for vaar egna tillfredstallelse... And then, Matti about the toilets at the convention: Jag skulle ga pa toalleten men det var stangt. Det stod nagot skrivet pa en lapp (pa tyska... naturligt vis) som jag ,enligt NELSO11, tolkade till "Stangt pa grung av stadning. Anvand garna flickornas. Joining: lars, Matti, Janderz. Mattis and Tobban (Techwave) from ICE were there too. NoCrew helped SAK with NAS96, at Kortedala Gymnasium in Gothenburg. Impulse won the demo contest with "Bugs from outer space". Other groups attending: ICE, Aggression, T.O.Y.S., DHS and IMPonance. Joining: lars, Stefan, rojo, Budda, Tomas, Noring, Bolmis NoCrew attended IMP3 during the summer. Matti couldn't be there, because his car broke down. Joining: CG, Lari, Prox, Lars NoCrew attended IMP4 during New Years Eve. Joining: Stefan, Tomas, lars, Lari 1997 First official octal 10 year anniversary, in Bollebygd. Lars was juggling with an axe, that dropped down on his head. It was only a small flesh wound. Budda was responsible for the fireplace, and cried out "moore wood!" all of the time. He was never satisfied with it. Joining: Stefan, rojo, Budda, Tomas, lars, Lari (ajje/IMP) NoCrew helped SAK with NAS97, at Lundby Gymnasium in Gothenburg (13/6 - 15/6). Janderz bought an MPEG decoder with SCSI interface. Joining: lars, Stefan, rojo, Budda, Tomas, Christer, Janderz, Lari, Noring, Bolmis NoCrew attended IMP5 during the summer. Matti's car was still out of order, so he had to take the bus instead. Joining: Tomas, lars, Christer, Lari, Matti NoCrew attended SiliConvention during the easter holidays. The expression "crazy juggling swedes" was invented, becuase NoCrew was very active juggling. Lars was convinced to show his skills in juggling in the end of the ordinary contests. Joining: Stefan, Tomas, lars, Lari, Bolmsjo In August, NoCrew visited Collioure. Lars, Christer, Elias and Eja went there to a summer resident that Elias had. NoCrew attended IMP6 during New Years Eve. Joining: lars, Tomas, Lari 1998 NoCrew released a 128 bytes demo: Plasma (29/5), by Tomas. NoCrew attended IMP7 during the summer. Joining: Tomas, Lari NoCrew released a 128 bytes demo: Mandelbrot (1/6), by Tomas. The first of all 128 bytes demos to be made, but it was released later. Done during IMP7. NoCrew released a 128 bytes demo: Pyro (1/6), by Tomas. NoCrew released a 128 bytes demo: Sierpinski (6/6), by Tomas. NoCrew attended, and some of them helped out at NAS98 at IOGT-NTO at Forsta Langgatan in Gothenburg (12/6 - 14/6). Joining: Tomas, Matti, Bolmsjo, Stefan, Lari, rojo NoCrew released a 128 bytes game: Pong (14/6), by Tomas and Matti. Most of it was done during NAS98. Parts of NoCrew visited Poland in July: Lars, Christer and Matti. On the 24th of October, NoCrew on the web [http://www.nocrew.org] became a part of The NoCrew art project. The project includes all written and graphical material produced by any members, official or unoffical, of NoCrew, and published on the web. The reason for this was the swedish law, Personuppgiftslagen (PUL), which made it illegal to put names on the web, without asking the person in question first. The law does not apply for journalists and artists, and therefore, not the NoCrew pages that are part of an art project. NoCrew attended IMP8 (IMP8000) during New Years Eve. Joining: Stefan, Tomas, Christer, Janderz, Lari, Bolmsjo, lars 1999 NoCrew attended the Error in Line party in Dresden, Germany (2/4 - 5/4). Demorelease: Egodemo, showing the egoistic side of NoCrew with lots of logotypes from around the world zoomed in on the characters that spell the name NoCrew. We recieved a proud last place in the demo contest. Joining: Stefan, Tomas, Matti NoCrew released a 128 bytes demo: Bigscroll (25/5), by Tomas. This demo was primarly released for the demo contest at EIL in Dresden, but really released at this date. First official decimal 10 year anniversary, in Bollebygd. Joining: Stefan, Tomas, Christer, Janderz, Bolmsjo, Matti, ajje/IMPonance NoCrew attended IMP9 (IMP112) during the summer. 2000 Nocrew attended yet another IMParty in February (?): Christer, Lari, Janderz, Rojo, Stefan, Tomas, Bolmsjö, Matti etc Nocrew representatives (Christer, Janderz and Lari) toured Europe: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Italy, France and Monaco in eight days.