Pepsi Hacker Conference

25-27.08 Pepsi Hacker Conference. -- Held in Furulund, Sweden by Pepsi. About 200 people attended. The computer press, represented by Digital (norway), Oberoende Computer (sweden) and DatorMagazin (sweden) were present, as well as some of the big Swedish newspapers, like Sydsvenska Dagbladet abd Kvällsposten. There were no usual demo competition; instead, there were competitions for music, gfx and best utility program. Theis was not intended as a copy party as such, but more as a means for people to be able to show some of their work to some of the professional companies that were invited. Obviously, there was a total ban on illegal copying. 12 contributions for music, three pictures and two utilities were submitted. Three tunes were chosen by the arrangers, and then played up for the audience, who voted.

· Information from Robert Hed's report in Digital 4/89 (Amiga fanzine). · Additional information from report in Datormagazin 13/89 (papermag).

gfx    1. Gunnar Ljungstrand "Elfquest".

music  1. Voice.

utility 1. Johan Lindahl.

other  Fairlight "Rutig Banan" (c64 demo). Kaktus & Mahoney "NoiseTracker 1.1" (amiga utility).