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          Could this also be known as 'Mag'! - Issue two and a half?

Well we're just a few days from the 2014 edition of the Sillyventure Party.

I've  managed to pull various  fingers out of various places,  and get this
thing done with days to spare before the party starts.

This  read me file is  literally  the last thing that  I'm writing  for the
third  "one-off" issue.  (This  is  beginning to  look like  part four of a
trilogy, is it not?)  Alternatively,  you can look on this opening textfile
as a looser more laid-back 'second editorial' if you wish.

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With Sillyventure 2014  just a few days away,  we firstly turn to the never
dull topic of packing for the party and deciding what to take.

One thing about the airport,  is that the 100ml limit for bottles of liquid
is very much  in force.  Of course most  retailers don't  set themselves to
selling small handy bottles of shower gel in that size.  However,  my local
supermarket does offer a reusable washable 'kit' of bottles. This is a nice
idea, but with the not so small issue that you make yourself look even more
like  someone  who's  planning  to  put  together an improvised bomb in the
aircraft toilet than usual!

I think I  might wait until I get to  .PL to pick up some toiletries there.

Things  not  to say at  the  airport check-in:-  "You can search as hard as
you like,  you'll  never  find  the other three.  I've hidden them good and
properly!"

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Browsing the Star  Wars Wiki  'Wookipeedia' doesn't help insomnia,  not one
little bit. But I don't really want to get in any early practice for 'party
sleeping' conditions, thanks very much!

Note  for  anyone trying  to tackle  Sith history in one go  -  Don't! I'd
suggest that you take it an epoch at a time,  then focus on your favourite
bit. It works well for non-fictional history too.

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We have a possible candidate for quote of the year. This comes from someone
who might be known as 'Shoggoth'  on the Atari Forum board.  When presented
with the information  that  Doug  Little had made encouraging progress with
getting the  Quake II levels to run  reasonably with a standard Falcon 030,
he said the following.. (Take it away, dreadlocked Swedish person!)

"Bricks have been shat."

But what sort of bricks? Are we talking full-sized house bricks here,or the
easier to pass but still horrible in a knobbly manner, lego bricks?

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/\/\ a g g i e  25th  Birthday! - This is just  like a pop-up ad!  It isn't
going to  be the last mention of it either.  Get your writing hands in gear
for next year!

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Forgotten greets:-  Kalms only went  and ported over the latest Black Lotus
demo for 060 Amiga,  'Rift' to the Falcon 060!  He was using Mikro's method
but managed to do this one for himself. It will be released at Sillyventure
but not as part of the competitions.  'Rift',  as some people might recall,
was the demo  that  we  failed to watch at Revision 2014,  as we had a long
journey to get back home and it was perilously past our bedtimes!

So 'Rift', we're not adrift, (in a sea of hopelessness!) - Yay! Poetry

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One final thing. This is being released in December. Therefore it is another
Christmas issue.  For your enjoyment, here's Santa bearing gifts in the form
of an oversized floppy disk with a compo entry! Could this be the winner?

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Post-Party  add-on note:-  I decided  to delay  releasing  the Sillyventure
Souvenir for a bit as I decided to add in the SV 2014 party report as well.
This was going to come with the realtime text, but this got lost on the way
home. Necessity being the mother of fakery and all that,which added another
few days.

In the end,  this turned out  to be  around  twice the article  count I was
starting with. Twenty-five texts in total.  Not bad for a life sign product
with minimal effort from my part. Still, I'll be back properly next year!

Merry Chrimbo Atariscene!

CiH - 1.12.2014 and 17.12.14
