Contest - a competition to "boot" of the year.

    For a long time choosing a suitable topic for the contest
We tried a lot of proposals and finally
stopped at one. It played a decisive role
factor "utility" result of the competition
programs that can assess our
readers users. There is only one program
which any of the users face to
several dozen times a day. It is necessary
Spectrum as air and our happiness can be
different and unique in each individual
his incarnation. Yes, you guessed it -
it is nothing like good old "boot"!

    To date, there are about
five hundred "casks" of various forms and directions.
The best of them are on the right "F - COMMANDER
V 4.01 "Vadim Eremeev 1993 and" CONVER
COMMANDER Ver 3.03.R 128 K. "Yu Kovalevsky with
built-DISC-DOCTORom. 1992

    Such "boot'y" can be attributed to
professionals among the downloaders, even though
for all their power, they, there are certain
inconvenient places, which in some moments
there are other programs in a better
workmanship.

    There is a category of "boot" - decorative.
They dispense with the "bloat" but unlike
"Prof-casks" have beautiful graphics, good
music and more compact in length, occupy
less disk space. Among these markedly
allocated ZYX famous rotating stars on the
snowy background and different pieces of music.

    Given all this, we are opening a competition for
best "boot", in six categories:

1. Best professional "boot"
2. Best decorative "boot"
3. Best Graphics
4. Best Music
5. Best Service
6. The most original "boot"


    About the sixth category, you will notice
that is welcomed by the author's unique
idea, even the most ridiculous, but the original.
For example, you can bring a "boot", which
when you first load asks for a password
writes it in the future without having to enter this
password can not access the data on
disk, or "boot" which makes directory
float in the air, forcing the user to chase
arrow for the files ... one word -
word for you, gentlemen programmers.

    Terms and conditions of our contest, we will try to
published in the "ZX-Revue" to this idea
received the status of a people. Today
Introducing the first "boot" of Petrozavodsk
"Real Masters" from Karelia.



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