Alchimie

(under construction)

The 12th edition held in 2017

Alchimie is a French demo and retro computer party held in France, more precisely in the Drôme département, in the 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).

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

Alchimie 2009 – 2009

µAlchimie – 2010

Alchimie 111111 – 2011

MacDeath (without reservation and a lone Amstrad 6128PLUS & Monitor with few floppies).

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.
MacDeath corner.
How to impress Amiga fans...

µAlchimie III – 2014

Hermol, MacDeath, Overflow.

Panoramic view.
Hermol and MacDeath the bearded.
Nice machines assortments.
Some machines.
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!

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.

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.

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/Pulkocitron, xtrabet, Case, POWER, Beb/Overlanders, Gotcha, Fred/Screetch, CloudStrife/Shinra...

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

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.