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             REDLiTE speaks a load of old cods wallop(?!)...
                   (Version V2 The Fried Bits Edit)

* Whats the Fried Bits Edit I here you cry!?!, well as this doc is of the
* boring kind (Stop reading now...), I thought that as I had a bit of time
* on my hands at the party in Bremen I would spell check(?), and add some
* extra borring lines of twaty chat to what I already had.... so if you
* have a life leave this doc file now!!......


Hum what should I speak about now, there are to many subjects that have been
covered, so many times in so many disks mags (ie: The Falcon debate, The
scene dying Etc etc...) arr-ha I have an idea what about a round of what
happened at the 7th International Computer Show in London.

Well the date now jumps back to the 19th of February 1993, the scene is
My bedroom...

Its was getting late and Drus and me were trying to get our 'Believe
the Music' demo finished for release at the show the next day, anyway
time went by, actually alot of time when by, but the demo was finally
was finished at some  early  hour  of  the  morning....  So  Drus and me
grabbed a few hours of sleep as  we  were getting picked up at 8.30am by
Dave a STe owning nobody,  anyway  we  woke,  washed, ate and dived into
Dave's mark II Escort (In true Essex boy racer style).

The train station was about 9 miles  away,  so away we went with a large
amount of pace. All went well until  we arrived at the station Car park,
where Dave decided he was going to  show off his driving talents by Hand
braking the car into a Parking space. Well lets just say we did not make
it. The car turned 90 degrees and then we hit a massive earth bank (Nice
one Dave!), So we all jumped out and pulled the car out of the bank!, we
then parked and went to get the train, which was dew at 9.20am.

At the platform we meet Lister, a good friend and we all waited for the
train, and we  waited...  and  we  waited...  the  time  had now reached
9.30am, so I asked  a  ticket  officer  when  the  train was dew..... he
replied...

'Oh sorry Mate the 9.20 train was cancelled the next is at 9.50am...'

Was anything meant to go right for  us...  As  I was meant to be meeting
Powa + Fracta of the Mega four at Wembley Park Station at 11.00am.

Anyway we all got the Train,  and  as  the last train was cancelled this
one was packed... we  had  to  stand  for  one  and  a  bit hours on the
train... Which was very boring not  to  mension hard on the old legs....
Anyway We arrived at Liverpool Street  Station  at about 10.55 and I had
to  meet TM4 at 11.00, I had no  chance, Well the other three lads where
starving so they left me and when to Casey Jones for breakfast so I when
on alone.

When I finally arrived at the  Station (after spending some time looking
for the right platform at liverpool  station)  there was no sign of Powa
and Fracta anywhere... So I rushed  off  down  to  the  Show to see if I
could meet them there.

The first place I looked was in the Bar (?!), there was no sign of them
there, there were only a couple of old Automation members drinking there
pints in skin tight  t-shirst  that  looked  3  years  old!.  I moved on
through the crowds, then as  I  was  walking  round  I  noticed a face I
recognised.... Yes I knew that look  at  the perpetual Dawn demo earlier
that morning would pay off, as I had  noticed Tat of Chaos, and with him
was Fracta  of  TM4....  So I  approached  them  and we got chatting, it
turns out that  Powa  was  at  the  station  and still was there (opps),
Well we moved around  the  packed show, looking at various bits and bobs
and waited for Powa and Drus to show up..

Combo had a large stand  dedicated  to  the  FALCON,  Which is were Powa
finally meet up with us, but  I  still  had  not  seen Drus and my other
mates. Anyway we spent  some  time  at  the  combo  stand looking at the
falcon, but as the stand was  crowded  the  only Falcon we could see was
running Windows 3.1.

As we slowly moved around the  show,  I  noticed Drus walking towards us
and finally we were back together.... well  this text must be boring you
senseless so far!!??.

Ok, well the show was a  bit  boring,  but the FALCON dominated the show
completely, I did not see one A1200 running.... The only A1200 I did see
had been bought by some twat... and  he  then proceeded to place the box
in a pool of sick in the restuarant... Just shows the average
intelligence of an Amiga  owner...  Ok  I  should  really talk about the
Falcon for a bit. Well in  a  word  the  machine is Amazing. At the show
they were showing off a demo of the falcon emulating MODE7 off the Super
Nes.... This was just a little  bit  nice(!!),  This machine is going to
beat the A1200 to with in a  inch  of  its life (As my dad would say!?),
and if all the people who say  they  are  going  to by a falcon, do then
this machine is going to have  a great future.

Ok on with the show type bit......

Right, by this time we had tried to  show  off are new demo, but with no
luck as all the ST's were using  Mono  monitors.  So we headed to the ST
user stand, were we meet a very nice  man,  who let us use his 4Meg mega
STe.... thing is STOS dont work on 4Meg STs.... But anyway the new Chaos
demo was but on and every one  was most impressed... (Slurp slurp!!), We
also managed to off load two copies  of  our  demo... one to ST user for
review and one to a small  crew  Called  M.L.P who where watching at the
stand.

You can not still be reading this!?, you must be a social reject with no
life!?..... go away and live?!.....

Well to cut along (boring) story short,  also at the St user stand, Powa
noticed Griff of E.I, So we  all  moved  over to the Falcon stand, where
Griff should us all his Falcon  protracker  replay, which was turned off
as soon as it went on by some big fat German... But what I saw of it was
very nice. He also tried to get our demo running on the falcon, but with
no luck?.

We stayed at the show until closing time,  which was a good move as most
people had gone home  which  ment  we  could  look  around a bit more...
anyway we left at about  6.30pm  and  all  got  a tube back to liverpool
Street station where we all went for some grub at casey jones....

God is it worth continuing!... Well the  show  was ok and we meet a load
of bods.... But we had been told that a load more people were going....?
were they?. ok just before I  go  and  spent 3 hours spell checking this
doc, oh and by the way if  there  are  any  mistakes its not my fault, I
dont know whos fault it is but I will think of someone....

Just before I go I would like to send a small message to  the  guys
from  automation who were at the show if they are reading this:

1. Get some new t-shirts and may be a couple of sizes bigger!.
2. Do you work in the newsagents, down St johns St in colchester?.

So this is goodnight from him and  a  goodnight from Me.... thats Dan of
that most unknown of Crews REDLiTE or should that be BEDLICE.....

Ps... Look out for DBA mag #8 for a real-timr party article from Bremen