Error
In Line 3 continued...
When I was tired
I just slept on my air mattress under the table
where I put my Atari. But there was also an
option to sleep in a separate sports hall with
nearby toilets and showers. Here's TWW connecting
his Atari Jaguar and TXG hidden somewhere...
![[Photo: TXG sleeping under the table]](images/eil26.jpg)
On Saturday we
went to the supermarket and there I found some
good Czech beer. Because there wasn't that much
in the supermarket we bought all 40 bottles
that were there, so we had to live
with that for the next two days. The weather
was good so it was nice to sit in the sun and
talk with other visitors outside.
In the evening
we had a barbecue and there we met some other
people. Everybody had a good time playing games,
programming or just relaxing.
![[Photo: Relaxing outdoors]](images/eil27.jpg)
![[Photo: More outside recreation]](images/eil28.jpg)
Here's tWh showing
people how to barbecue - the master at work!
![[Photo: tWh on the barbecue]](images/eil29.jpg)
Inside in the
hall people could use the internet, there were
two PCs connected to the internet by a dial-up
56 Kbps modem, later we shared it with more people
by using a router.
![[Photo: Internet terminal]](images/eil30.jpg)
Foundation Two
had put an Atari 8-bit in the hall for a gaming
competition. The game people could play was
Qix, this is a very addictive game...
![[Photo: Qix on an Atari 8-bit]](images/eil31.jpg)
Saturday night
the music and graphics competitions were presented
on the projector. On Sunday night the demos where
shown. Everybody could vote on his vote sheet
for the best tracker and SID music. The quality
of the entries were really good. I was impressed
by the creativity of the people who made the
music and demos.
![[Photo: Announcement of the competitions]](images/eil32.jpg)
On Sunday evening
before the demo competions were shown on the
projector we played Whip-Pong on the Falcon.
This was the same as at Error In Line 2. You
have to play Pong with a microphone. Each player
can move the bat with the volume of his voice.
This is real cool... after five points the match
was over. There was a little competition and
ST-Ghost from France won. Everybody was
very excited to see this. The fun factor of
this game was 500%!
![[Photo: Whip-Pong on the projector]](images/eil33.jpg)
The winner of
the Whip game, ST-Ghost.
![[Photo: ST-Ghost claims victory]](images/eil34.jpg)
After this competition
people could watch the demos...
![[Photo: EIL 3 demo]](images/eil35.jpg)
![[Photo: People watching demos]](images/eil37.jpg)
![[Photo: More demo watching]](images/eil38.jpg)
And now some
pictures to show how people showed they enjoyed
themselves there...
![[Photo: Thumbs up!]](images/eil39.jpg)
![[Photo: Green bottles]](images/eil40.jpg)
Because there
was so much there to see it’s very difficult
to tell it all in one story... so here is another
nice picture, of an Atari tower...
![[Photo: Atari tower]](images/eil41.jpg)
Satantronic was
also there and showed the 1 MB SIMM upgrade for
the Atari XL/XE - there are two versions, one for
systems with the Freddy chip and one for systems without
it (Freddy is the chip that does the bank switching of
the memory).
![[Photo: Satantronic 1 MB memory upgrade for XL/XE]](images/eil42.jpg)
Before we started
to travel back we took some group pictures of MNX,
Foundation Two, the Czechs and some other
people like some French Atari users. Here's
the MNX group picture:
TXG, TWW and Fox-1.
![[Photo: MNX group picture]](images/eil43.jpg)
Here's
Foundation Two...
![[Photo: Foundation Two group picture]](images/eil44.jpg)
The Czech delegation...
![[Photo: Czech group picture]](images/eil45.jpg)
All the people together... True Atarians...
and
all friends.
![[Photo: Big group picture]](images/eil46.jpg)
And also me with
the French people that were totally crazy but
lots of fun, I hope to see them sometime soon
at another party...
![[Photo: TXG with the French]](images/eil47.jpg)
On the morning
of Monday 21 April
we started to travel back home at 11:00, the
weather was sunny.
The Error In
Line 3 meeting was the best meeting in years.
It was even better then the second which was
also very good. I want to thank the organizers
of this meeting and tell them again that they
did a very good job. I hope that this success,
will be continued on Error In Line 4. I'd also
like to thank all people who visited EIL 3 and sent the pictures
to
me for this report.
txg@myatari.net
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