Interface - History of Antique Toy.

<b>Interface</b> - History of Antique Toy.

History of Antique Toy
Megus / Brainwave

elph> As for me, Antique Toy is
the most successfully organized
one among other virtual compos,
which are held not so often as
they could be. I want to ask you
some questions, concerning the organization of this event, I 
think you are experienced now. It's up

to you to decide whether they are
worth of answers or not, but it would be great to get this 
interesting information. 

Megus> Thanks for your appreciation. Really, we don't think that
it was a perfectly organized
compo. Too much mistakes took place during the process. I hope
we'll find and eliminate them to
prepare the next compo. The main
drawback - we couldn't make an Antique Toy Official Site. The 
other big mistake - too low promotional

activity that we held to make people compete and vote. So, I'll 
try to be as more correct as possible

in my answers.

elph> Whose idea was to held the
Antique Toy compo and when did it
appear?

Megus> After returning from CC'01
there appeared idea in my mind to
make a virtual compo purely devoted to the music. I was so 
excited with this idea and I began to figure out the rules and 
look for any cooperation. I decided, that it would be nice to 
convene a pre-select jury (and I still think

that even virtual compo must have
such thing). I picked out some famous musicians, from ex-USSR, 
from other countries, sent them the invitations to take part in 
organizing and pre-selecting. But only few of them replied. 
Among them was Siril, who had similar ideas

at that time. And it was his idea
to make a cover compo, and to divide the music compo into 
mainstream and progressive entries. Also he

suggested the title - Antique Toy,
it's the name of the track from some electronic project (can't 
remember, maybe Orbital, or some other). However, the project 
of Antique Toy stopped. I asked Siril to make a rough version 
of the rules, but he didn't reply me. And

later I became frustrated too. But
the compo's new life started at
CAFe'2002. MMCM, Andy Fer, Justinas and me decided to resume 
this project. So, I think, this fact

can be called a reference point in
the Antique Toy organizing.

elph> How quickly did you compile
the rules, and the most interesting aspect is dividing music and
graphics entries into the separate
compos correspondingly - it is
what Spectrum compos usually
need.

Megus> The preliminary version of
rules was ready in September. At
first, it must have been only a music compo, but Stanly / Stall 
offered to include also the gfx compos. That's how he became the

organizer too.

Everything was OK with music
compo, we just had to choose
tracks for cover compo. But it was
a bitter debate about gfx compos.
Organizers almost raised a quarrel
among themselves. They disputed
about gfx dividing into separate
entries, about rules and so on. I
can't remember now, how long they
discussed the rules, I think, for
a month, maybe more. And then the
rules were translated into English
and published.

elph> What did you think during votesheet collecting and after 
that? 

Megus> I was a little disappointed
with low voter's activity in the
voting period of time. Anyway,
with all mistakes that we had made
in organization we were happy to
get those 40 votes. I think, that
results are quite objective. It's
great that English musician Gasman
took part in a compo held by Russians and was one of the best. 
Maybe this fact will change the attitude

of foreign musicians to our parties? Maybe they will believe 
that it's possible to be rated high

here, in Russia? :)

elph> What caused the pc version
of compilation to be late and why
there was no tap version, though
TR-DOS pack was made brilliantly?

Megus> The PC compilation was
late because the last works, that
had been sent after the deadline,
were accepted by Stanly, not by
me. I saw them only when Stanly
sent me the final compilation:)
So I had to ask him for all music
and new gfx works I had to extract
from this pack:) You should ask
Stanly and Capry / Stall about the
absence of the tap version. However, I think it was because of
time. They just had no time to make it, but they wanted to.

After all, I hope that people will
support Antique Toy, if we'll decide to make it again, and 
we'll get both works and votes:)))