Event Eleven - the day after

We can safely say that Event Eleven was a blast! We had a lot visitors, and the amount of demonstrations, quizzes and lotteries we had in store certainly have matched with the impressive size of the crowd. At 16.00 we opened the doors and saw people already waiting.. like the good old days of the Tilburg and Zandvoort fairs.

The activities that took place during the afternoon and evening:

• Music Quiz - An orchestral 23 minute symphony made by Wolf which contains eleven tunes from famous MSX games by Konami, Falcom, Compile and Micro Cabin. Evergreens, songs everyone knows, but somewhat to our surprise it turned out not everyone could come up with all the game titles, hence: a real quiz. Afterwards a few lucky winners were drawn who received T-shirts with imprints from Konami's Metal Gear and Castlevania.
• First lottery - Donated pens and T-shirts from Konami were given away.
• Deva presentation. Robert Vroemisse and Norakomi gave a preview of the upcoming Deva game, a platformer with multilayers, somewhat a mix of Psycho World and Fantasm Soldier 2. Robert has put some emphasis on the graphics which are very detailed and vast, despite using tile mode.
• MOAM presentation. John Hassink talked about the history of MOAM, about its roots, about MSXdev, and about its destination. The game certainly looks like a lot of fun, with a touch of Indiana Jones.
• Presentation of the new MSX.ORG website by Sander and Jorrith (Jorito). For two and a half years in the making our visitors now finally had the chance to see what's coming. We hope you like what's coming as much as our visitors did yesterday.
• Project Melancholia. It has been a buzz for a while, but finally it was exposed yesterday. Sama has been working hard with Max Iwamoto and Rene Lourens to make a new English translation of Konami's smash hit SD Snatcher. This translation will feature the story as it was intended. The whole translation project certainly gained appreciation from the audience.
• Moonsound Music Studio (open stage) - Towards the end of the evening GuyveR800 explained this new utility: a refurbished MBWave/MBFM with a lot of added functionality. The ultimate goal is to finally support all this Moonsound cartridge technically has to offer.
• Polka 2 (open stage) - Finally, Infinite's Edwin Velds gave a brief demonstration of Polka 2; a large graphics tool. Multi platform, fully integrated, lots of importers and meant to provide tools for about any MSX game imaginable, with support for MSX1, MSX2, V9990 and basically any other video chip since Polka2's architecture is generic and open.
• Second lottery - In this final part of our event, cool sponsored goodies were given away. Canvas prints of SD-Snatcher, Arabic MSX machines, Konami T-shirts and more..
• During the day, The C-men Julian van Aalderen enjoyed us with chiptunes and great retro visuals.

It's been an amazing event, and we think it's also been an interesting new concept... perhaps an excellent test... for more? People enjoyed the served oriental soup, vegetables and sushi. Luckily we managed to keep all the drinks and food for free. While initially we'd announced to only use the Gallery section of Dokzaal, we actually got to use the large venue behind it as well. It meant we actually had a nice presentation room with a specially constructed steampunk theatre which was assembled for our event by French artist and co-host Cedric. Merci beaucoup!

A few more words of appreciation are in place. We would like to thank specifically the organisation of the Plantage Doklaan, our cook Elly, our VJ The C-Men, the cosplay girls Mashira and Malou van Doorn for their Bubble Bobble act (and a venue full of soapy bubbles, funny and hilarious at times). Cynthia Postma provided a nice cake, for which especially Cedric would say merci, since he 'took care of the cake'. Also we'd like to thank Abdullah al Swaikh, who has not only translated the interface of our new site to Arabic but also flew over from the United Arabic Emirates to join our party and brought with him Arabic MSX machines for the lottery. Bas Kornalijnslijper also receives our appreciation for providing an extra lottery prize: a service or product from Bas worth 50 euro. Konami, our main sponsor, certainly needs to be thanked for providing us with goodies, also Ronnie van der Kolk (RKLOK) who provided us with one of his Arcade Cabinets that plays MSX games.

Finally, we need to thank all the people who have given interesting demonstrations, and of course those of you who have taken the effort to come over to our party and made it a success - like TheWhipMaster who drove all the way from France with his girlfriend. If you have made any photos or videos please consider to also publish those on msx.org. We want to make a great photo album but we need your help so we can select the best photos to put online. Please send them to downloads@msx.org

Relevant link: Event Eleven