Adventurer #14 30 июня 2003

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Scene - a report of the Slovak party for 8-bit Forever Quatro 2003.

ForeverQ report
Jtn/4D

Forever Quatro 2003

Go somewhere far away from
home, and even more so in another country
wanted back in 1999, but, being then a student, I could only 
dream about going to Doxycon. But, however, then it would cost 
less problematic, than it is now, more on that later.


Preparing for the trip. Somewhere in November 2002, Serzh 
expressed desire to go on ForeverQ; I

Once figured, how many can do such a trip,
supported him, and began campaigning
other people. The third was
Point777, however, neither the one nor the other on Forever did 
not make for various reasons. In December 2002 I begin to 
collect information. So, to leave his homeland for some time, 
in particular, take a trip to Slovakia, you will need: 

1. Passport. Necessary application form with
an excerpt from the work book and seal of the personnel 
department of employment, a certificate from the military 
office of the that you are not restricted from leaving, the 
Russian passport, 250 rubles + NN rubles for urgency - I 500r 
paid within 10 days. If not in a hurry, you'll have to wait 
about a month. 

2. The visa of the Slovak Republic.
Executed either at the Embassy in
Moscow or the Consulate in
St. Petersburg. Should be private
presence or power of attorney certified by a notary in
representing your face (about
75r, if power of attorney
relative). The visa is done in
a period of 5 working days, cost
$ 28 + $ 3 for a sticker in your passport.
Kinds of visas are many, but fit only one-tourist
(There is a visa invitation, but
invitations are made only for
relatives). In the case of a tourist visa you may be asked at 
the border crossing to produce honey. policy (done in Many 
tour. firms, the cost - less than a dollar a day), and

means to ensure that your
stay in Slovakia in the amount of
$ 72 for each day of stay
or traveler's checks (no idea
I have it:)), or a voucher tour.
firm. I'm at your own risk and went with only honey. policy and 
the amount money around 200 Euro, with a 10-day

visa =). But as it turned out, nobody
and did not think to check my money
bearded Slovak customs
only just checked the passport and
inquired about where I go.

3. Of course, you need more (or not) a lot of money on
travel, meals and other expenses. Bring their costs: Perm-Moscow
~ $ 15, the Moscow-Kiev ~ $ 15, Kiev-Trencin ~ $ 60. 
Interesting fact, I was driving back from Bratislava in Kiev 
(Bratislava is farther from the Kiev than Trencin), and the 
ticket cost only $ 52-53 and for his purchase did not require a 
passport. If we generalize, we about $ 220 for travel and 
paperwork. 

Part 1. Perm-Trencin

So my journey began on 9
March around in the afternoon when I boarded the train to
Moscow. As he rode past Glazov,
had a chat with
skreamer'om (parking is only 2 minutes), everything else is the 
same conversations elderly passengers

like "And I was in Soviet times
oh-oh-oh ... "and so on:). In Moscow
I, of course, no one met
(Though I never met anyone
throughout the trip, for
Except Ellvis'a and mikezt in
Trencin). Having stayed in Moscow 2 days
I got a visa, visited the student's dorm (nothing special, 
apart from the fact that there are internet). Drank beer with 
Dizzy (Big respect to him for giving place to stay), looked at 
its achievements and any demoz, spoke with Pheel'om and

departed for Kiev. To tell you the truth,
had pretty much worried when crossing the border, though I'm 
not carrying anything contraband, just before that with customs 
officials to communicate more was not necessary. But nothing 
happened ok, granny ehavshey with

me in the same compartment, not even checked the two huge trunk.

In Kiev, at the station I felt a real shock. For the first time 
in this city, one familiar and more that - almost everyone 
speaks in an incomprehensible language to me, including ads on 
the radio. Somehow found vooh'u, came to his house, drank beer, 
talked and bam, cuts off the light in the house (by the way, in 
Kiev, dark pretty early, at 6 pm in March at the darkness of 
the street). I had to go to another apartment

and drink vodka with soda without snacks =). Photographed
finally, I booted to finally drove up minibus
(Minutes before the train left
40-50) and went to the station. And then
I got lost at the station. Unsteady gait (0,5 for three) I was
the station in search of the train, but
for some reason could not find even
ways:). Went outside and saw
that has got - no signs of trains was not. Turned by 180
degrees and ba! 20 meters saw
a chain of wagons; no
hoping that it was my train, ran to the conductor and ask
about Bratislava train, it turns out he was asking another 
question, but where would I find the train number 388,

I say, duck out the next.
That's 15 minutes before departure
I very lucky, the conclusion: no
drink too much, trains do not like that =). Should be separately
say about the car, it consists of 10
compartments such as those in our
sleepers, but there are 3
bed-ridden places of each other,
on the contrary - hanger, locker
products, table, sink and
ladder. Each bedroom
Places to Eat light a lamp type. People in the car was very
little, so I drove a coupe.
The next day the train was on
Ukraine, interesting
Nothing happened until the reached the border. The conductor
here have some problems with
documents or on some weight
or something else, and while the
at the car changed wheelsets
(Passengers are in the car
while its up to 4x
jacks and a pair of change), a guide to deal with customs 
officials, and outside my window begging aboriginal and local 
lad of six years. And finally, we left Ukraine in the late 
evening and drove to the first Slovak station "Cierna nad 
Tisou". Here procedure for verifying documents

took less than 15 minutes, and the train
moved on. Especially at night
car window will not see anything,
and therefore have nothing to tell.
I woke up around 3 o'clock in the morning
some ate, bathed, and about 4
am local time, the conductor half-gestures, half in broken 
Russian said it was time to prepare for the exit. I had to 
hurry up a bit, because parking was only 5 minutes, and now I'm 
on a completely deserted platform of a completely unknown city. 
The transition, focusing on arrows, go to the station, I study

scheme of the city and, realizing what good
for me from her no, I go
the station, which, incidentally, by the form does not differ 
from the average of our, the same ragged wall both inside and 
outside, the only thing that I immediately caught my eye - is 
the abundance of graffiti Art on the walls and in cars.

Once I went into the station building,
me immediately approached by two types
I have to say something
in English, from what I understood that
it mikezt and Ellvis. Immersed in the car (oldskool yellow
Skoda roxx!), We headed toward the house.

Part 2. ForeverQ the first day.

Opening party was scheduled for
12 am, but because Ellvis'u
received a call early this morning and said,
that the venue had already approached people, we packed up 
(bourgeois for some reason carry with you to the party sleeping 
bags, bedding and etc.), PC mikezt, Spectrum type

didactik gamma 128k and went to partyplace. At the entrance is
people were thronging 8.10 people (in
hours it was still only 9 or 10
morning) - it turned out to be
Polish fans of 8bit atari, who enthusiastically played football 
in the yard school. I must say, if I do not know what are 
demoparty outside Russia, and I was somewhat alarmed that all 
visitors were huge bags, and some, and

Truck with rather big size
bags. After some time
We were allowed inside, however, had to go to some kind of a 
roundabout way:). And here we are inside - in a fairly large 
school assembly Hall. Poles have settled in the corner and 
resumed his football just inside the school. I began to help 
the organizer to clean up and prepare equipment. 

There are new people, but one friend I have not yet met.
Somewhere in the afternoon the whole crowd
went to the store on the way
bourgeois again surprised her different from ours, Russian, 
mentality. Any average Russian, where it had not arrived 
everywhere will feel like home, but they are even being at 
home, such as with apprehension apply to all around:). AND

here, has bought beer and food, we
returned to patipleys. People of all add, and then I started
understand the chip foreign scenery, almost every second
brought with him a computer and monitor, and some televisions 
and still a lot of rubbish such as old joysticks komodorovskih

tape recorders and so on. All this economy immediately 
established and connect. Someone was selling all sorts of 
pieces of iron, someone has demonstrated its other 
developments, some have tried to paint / kodit / play music. By 
the way, most people were fans of c = 64 and atari, 
spektrumistov except Organizer (zeroteam), I have not seen. 
When connecting the Spectrum became clear that he does not read 
any Mauger one floppy disk, and from 2 flopikov no one wanted 
to do this. Had to take matters into your own hands and

do alignment heads
actually no
tools with which I managed after a while. Evening
drove most of the spektrumistov-K3L (almost at full strength): 
Factor6, TDM, Dron, JohnyX. A little-known, we theirs Omega 
group, a few more people and, of course, legendary figure 
baze/3SC (if someone does not knows, really need to say "base" 
with the accent on 1st syllable, not "Basil"), somehow slipped 
unnoticed Gasman, but about him separate conversation. 
Meanwhile, it was already late in the evening, and it's time to 
go to a bar where We went to the crowd in an amount of 10-12 
people. The nearby bar was jam-packed with people (local), 
someone called other "travelers" like us, and

We moved across town (30-40 minutes). All the way
were talking about last year's
party, particularly remember a story about how Gasman drank 
plum brandy (as they call its alcohol beverage

although they say that it's not vodka:) and
fell dead on the table. I spent
short educational program for Russian
language (many Slovaks and Czechs studied Russian at school - 
probably in late 80s), they, in turn, have taught me such a 
dirty word as a classic "Kurwa" and "picha". Space bar will not 
tell, because bad I remember =) I remember in fragments that

me with money and drank very
a lot of beer. Returning back, we saw that a large
some people sleep, but from
nowhere, came from Zilog
Divide and twisted her with screws
connected to a Spectrum
some colorful animation
projector. I only found the
power to him and say hello
lay down to sleep.

To be continued ...