Alchimie

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The 12th edition held in 2017


Alchimie is a French demo and retro computer party obviously held in France, more precisely in the Drôme département, in the wine producting Valley of the Rhône.



Organization and history

Organized by the TripleA association, an originally Amiga oriented club. TripleA mostly organize events called Amigabouffes, which are basically dinners with Amiga afficionados. Alchimie and µAlchimie are the annual XXL Amigabouffes.

The annual events are currently alternating with the main Alchimie each odd years and the smaller more intimist µAlchimie the even years (between each main). Main Alchimies are held in Tain l'Hermitage (Drôme) while µAlchimies are help in the smaller village of Clérieux (Drôme). mostly during late october or mid-november.

It has seen more and more French Amstradists attending it in later editions, slowly becoming one of the main French Amstrad friendly party, alongside Atari and Amiga and any retro computers fans, and modern computers users as well.

First edition of the Alchimie was held in 2001.

  • History

  • from 1st to 6th

  • 7th Alchimie

  • Alchimie 2009

  • Alchimie111111

  • AlchimieX

  • Alchimie0xb

Timeline

Alchimie 1 – 2001

Alchimie 2 – 2002

Alchimie 3 – 2003

Alchimie 4 – 2004

Alchimie 5 – 2005

Alchimie 6 – 2006

Alchimie 7 – 2007

Demoniak actually came here before everybody(builder) else as he is also an Amiga legend as well. He later chose to avoid the event in order to avoid MacDeath (quite understandable). ;-p

  • Proof Demoniak is also an Amiga enthusiast and attended Alchimie before it was cool.

  • Demoniak working on something at Alchimie2007 ?

Alchimie 2009 – 2009

µAlchimie – 2010

Alchimie 111111 – 2011

MacDeath (without reservation and a lone Amstrad 6128PLUS & Monitor with few floppies). could purchase brand new in-box joysticks and Sega Pads, find sweet cables and make new friends and taste the event.

  • MacDeath shopping.

µAlchimie II – 2012

Alchimie X – 2013

MacDeath having his 6128PLUS, ROMbox by Bryce and PC to write any 3"1/2 dsk possible on display, impressing Amiga fans with SymbOS and all the nice classics and Demos. AST came to pay a (short) visit as well.

  • MacDeath's place

  • Some machines

  • And others

  • MacDeath playing.

  • AST was here (background).

  • MacDeath corner.

  • How to impress Amiga fans...

µAlchimie III – 2014

Hermol, MacDeath, Overflow.

  • Panoramic view.

  • Hermol and MacDeath the bearded.

  • Nice machines assortments.

  • Enough machine power to successfully farm Bitcoins.

  • The Lotus turbo Esprit challenge, ST vs Amiga in network on projector, upon the Amstrad corner.

  • CPC464.

  • View from the amstrad corner, the Oliver pair.

  • MacDeath pretending to pixel something (unreleased yet)

  • Sir Hermol : CPCrulez!

Finally after many spams of reports of his previous editions in lenghty posts at various amstrad Forums, MacDeath managed to convince two other Amstradists to come taste the event, the food and the wine. With an amstrad Legend such as Overflow and Hermol the webmaster of CPCrulez website, this may take on at last. Halas, Overflow was totally unknown as a legend there, this injured his pride so he sweared to the gods of code that one day he will be recognized at last and began a long work to the tops of the Demoscene to re-affirm his status one day. (ok, this may be somewhat romantized)

Alchimie 0xb – 2015

MacDeath, Overflow, Ast, OffseT, POWER, others...

Paris was under terrorist attacks at the same time, which quite spoiled the event.

  • CPC corner

  • Some machines

  • Amigabouffe with Rosé.

  • Amiga fan vs Atari ST fan... notice the Amstradist in white and blue behind them.

Now with a handfull of Amstradists, the take over may start, and the now Amstrad corner is sieged for the first time. AST, OffseT and POWER could bring their reputation and expertize into the fray. Talking about Fray... A medieval martial art association came to give some nice demonstrations and re-enactement of the Atari vs Amiga wars of the past.

µAlchimie IV – 2016

MacDeath, Roudoudou, Overflow, Ast, OffseT, POWER, others...

  • Panoramic view.

  • Panoramic view.

  • CPC corner.

  • Some machine.

  • Some other machine.

  • Local press article (MacDeath's back can be seen).

  • Overflow (Demoniak?) and AST.

  • OffseT and Roudoudou.

Again the amstrad contingent grew stronger, with the addition of Roudoudou a well known french scener and a legend to become. Overflow already started his ascension to Godhood of code earlier with his release IO on MSX at Forever, he would later say : "what limitations ? No one told me I couldn't do that"... Yet a sordid and treacherous compatibility scandal almost rendered his effort vain.

Alchimie 12 – 2017

MacDeath/TO8rulez, Overflow/Logon System, AST/iMPact, Roudoudou/Flower Corp, Golem13/GnG, MvKTheBoss, OffseT/Futurs', Zik/Futurs', TotO/nogoLmetsyS, Khomenor/G2L2 Corp , Mac_Gyver/Pinscreenman, PulkoMandy/Shinra team/Pulkocitron, xtrabet, Case, POWER, Beb/Overlanders, Gotcha, Fred/Screetch, CloudStrife/Shinra team, Barjack ...

  • MacDeath's meltdown

  • Roudoudou the PinHead

  • And other legends around Overflow.

  • Some machines

  • GnG?

  • Ast and others

  • Zik, Offset? Watchout PulkoMandy the Croc is gonna eat you !

  • Who put a minimig inside a GX4000 casing?

This year more than 20 French Amstradists came to the party which also saw 3 Amstrad releases, while many are often seen at forums or Amstrad.eu or CPCrulez, other peoples simply came with Amstrads along other machines because you know, AMMMSTRAAAADDD !!! The Organizers really appreciated that those many Amstradists came to revitalize the Party with good humour and a huge crocodile, the best thanks to be done to the TripleA association is to come to release nice prods there. MacGyver spent the whole event to demonstrate the PinScreen in the "Amstrad corner" and some conferences were held by Roudoudou, MacGyver, PulkoMandy. Khomenor covered the event with many Twitch lives with 2 webcams and many drinks were had. As always a concert with AY/YM chiptunes was given on Saturday night. Also it was steaming hot because of some heating system malfunction and a few power shortage here and there due to some misplaced red power-off button and the many 30+ years old machines working.

Compos

Alchimie 12 – 2017

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The Alchimie12 (2017) was somewhat special in that Roudoudou and Overflow decided to both release at the composition, for Amstrad PLUS/GX4000 format in ROM cartridges, making it a doubled first. Nothing could have been possible without the C4CPC cartridge to unlock the full potential of the system at last. The second generation of Amstrad CPC made a grand entrance as a serious Demoscene competitor in the retro computer categories, competing with 16bits with huge number of colours on screen, impressive soundtracks and smooth fast paced animations, praised by Amiga and Atari fans during the event.

Case completed the Amstrad performances with his Amstrad CPC Graphic composition, Ranked First as well.

Glokzilla , a very cool Atari STf demo reached 3rd place and was also a serious contestant.


CRTC³

Roudoudou [code, graphics]

Zik [code, music]

CoyHot [graphics]

fra [graphics]

Amstrad 6128+ cartridge demo - Ranked 1st at Alchimie12 - 2017

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Pouët : http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=72279


Eerie Forest

Enters the Legend. By Overflow from Logon system.

Extra help by TotO

GX4000 cartridge demo - Ranked 2nd at Alchimie12 - 2017

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Pouët : http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=72271

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By Case

Amstrad CPC 16k screen - Mode0 - Ranked 1st in Graphic composition at Alchimie12 - 2017

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Links

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