E-Jag
Day 2k1
Words: Mad
Butscher
Pictures: Lars Hannig
The E-Jag
Day (EJD) took place on the 16th and 17th
of November in Coesfeld, Germany. Mr XY
of Foundation Two, Sage and I visited the
event on the 16th.
Traditionally,
Mr XY leaves his home in Kaiserslautern
(K-Town) the Friday before an event takes
place. He always watches Dragon Ball Z on
TV, so he leaves to arrive in Wiesbaden
just before Dragon Ball Z is broadcast.
So after we watched the further adventures
of Son Goku, we went into a pub. When we
returned, Mr XY had the idea to visit another
pub, because it has a funny name, "Bei
Gita" (at Gita). Maybe you recognize
that 8-bit language is spoken here, so to
understand you must know that one of the
graphic chips inside an XL/XE is called
GTIA, but everybody calls it GITA. I decided
not to join him and used the real GTIA in
the meantime, but Mr XY said he had
a lot of fun with GITA.
After Mr
XY's return we did some gaming, and at 3
o'clock on Saturday morning we decided that
sleeping some three hours was a good idea.
After we woke up, at 7 o'clock we left to
pick up Sage in Giessen, which is a one
hour drive away from Wiesbaden. There, Sage
tried to be angry that we arrived an hour
late, but because his girlfriend smiled
all the time, I think the hour wasn't wasted
for him :-)
After a short
stop at a Burger King, we finally arrived
at a quarter past eleven in Coesfeld. Unfortunately
the road map did not tell how narrow the
roads are, we ended up in the city and had
to take some biker roads to come out. This
reminded me that we are close to Holland.
So half an
hour later we finally arrived at the location,
which was a pub run by a Catholic organisation
(Kolping). Playing Doom under the sign of
the cross is real fun.
 The organisers (Starcat
and DVD) and some other people were already
there. They played some games on the Jaguar,
and had a look at the projects Starcat is
developing. Sage built up a Lynx network
to show his Lynx network routines. Mr XY
and I built up a Jaguar and an XE Game System
for the gaming competitions. Mr XY also
showed his copy of Star (something) 2000,
a prototype game he just bought. Later Michael
Neihs appeared, who promotes Nuon in Germany.
He gave us some new info about an upcoming
machine, that a new Nuon chip (version 3)
is ready and also showed his big Jaguar
collection.
On Saturday
there were 18 visitors at the event. Beside
the Germans, there were about seven people
from Holland. Of course the crazy MNX guys
(Fox, TXG) were present. Sijmen and Sandra
Schouten got married this day, but they
also came! They sold a lot of Lynx hardware
and games and some Jaguar games, so I could
make my little collection a bit more complete.
From near Amsterdam Getjan and Robert came.
Robert had an interesting Jaguar, because
he modified it to run 16 different operating
systems (What?! - Ed). So far he includes
five different ones.
Now it was
time to start the gaming competitions. First
we played Super Burnout on a Jaguar. Here
are the results:
- Michael
Neihs
- Mad
Butscher (Foundation Two)
- Mr XY
(Foundation Two)
Mr XY and
I trained in this game two weeks ago, but
Michael seems to do nothing else than playing
Jaguar. In the final I came off the bike
in the same corner in every round, it really
was a shame for a finalist.
The next
competition was Checkered Flag on the Lynx.
At the Unconventional 2k1 we had the problem
that some Lynxes didn't work, so we only
connected four of them. So this time it
was the first time we had a six-Lynx network
running, so it took only three rounds to
find a winner. After the normal network
problems (six machines, six administrators)
it was real fun for all. In the final, I
started extremely bad, the others were already
half a lap in front of me, but after I concentrated
a little, I reached fifth position and saw
two others in front of me half a lap before
the finish. I knew that I could only overtake
one of them, so I bumped in from behind,
got in front of him and got the 4th place.
The results
- Mr XY
(Foundation Two)
- Michael
Neihs
- Sijmen
Schouten
Now it was
time to eat a little bit. While we were
eating in the pub, we had a look at the
glorious German football team playing against
the Ukraine (1:1).
After that
we had the last competition: Joust on an
XE Game System. We had this competition
some weeks ago at the ABBUC JHV, so most
people knew what to do.
The results
- Mr XY
(Foundation Two)
- Robert
Demming
- Sage
I failed
in the first round, so I had some time to
speak with the mother of one of the visitors.
Talking with her was very interesting, because
she was someone from outside the Atari world
and had a different view of it than the
rest. She was also very busy painting the
certificates for the winners of the gaming
competitions by hand. So many thanks to
her for her great work.
The overall
champion of the day was once again Mr XY.
Foundation Two won four of nine certificates,
so we redeemed our bad result at the ABBUC
JHV.
After the
competitions we continued gaming and talking
until half past 11. Then we went home. We
had a relaxed day full of fun. I met a lot
of cool Atari people and I'm looking forward
to the EJD 2k2.
On our way
home, we wanted to take a stop at the gas
station, but we missed the open ones in
Coesfeld, so we had to go to a neighbor
town (Duelmen). There we were just standing
at the gas station, when three police cars
came into the station. The policemen jumped
out, pulled out their guns and arrested
two guys in the car. This really looked
very dangerous, and we thought that these
two guys were dangerous gangsters, but the
police found nothing in the car, so it was
a only a countryside theater. |
![[ Advert ]](images/banner.gif)
Issue
14