Polesse #09 14 июля 1999

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Event - The results of the Festival of Computer Art Chaos Construction 1999.

                            EVENT



                COMPUTER ART FESTIVAL

                     "CHAOS CONSTRUCTIONS'99"


(C) KVAZAR



   Third and Fourth of July in St. Petersburg hosted a 
multi-platform festival of computer art SS'99. For the fourth 
time Spectrum collects under the banners of his followers and 
fans, yet again proving to everyone that in spite of 
difficulties, Spectrum scene alive. Yes, we are together again, 
people of various professions: coders, artists, musicians, 
designers, electronic media and, finally, ordinary users, who 
could not stay away and arrived in town on Neve, to once again 
demonstrate their solidarity, their unity and to give all the 
unforgettable moments of this holiday. 

    The first day was entirely devoted to CC'99 ZX-SPECTRUM, 
that given the multi-platform oriented festival, it was quite 
reasonable, since the number of spektrumistov to the party was 
more than overwhelming. Ahead of the event, I can say that they 
made up 90% by all present.


    Premise - the school assembly hall on the street Bryantseva 
10, in the area Metro Civil Prospectus (the place, if not 
picturesque, it is richly provided by the various stalls and 
shops) - was spacious and bright. Seats, though obviously 
lacking, so ou have been supplemented by the benches of the 
school gymnasium. 

    The equipment consisted of the organizers in a single color 
TV, projector, which was black and white (!) and amps with a 
pair of columns of average power. Kompovskie machine: Several 
"Scorpion" with GMX, and a couple pisyukov "Amiga", were placed 
on the stage. Part of the equipment was hidden behind a dense 
red curtain. 

    Organizers and onymi were: Vsevolod Potapov aka RANDOM (one
most of Australia), Alex Monastyrenko aka MONSTER, Max Romanov 
aka HURTMAN, Artem Kharitonov aka ARTY and a few comrades from 
the number of visitors to the party all night drive running 
room and equipment in proper form, collecting the work coming 
through the Internet. Those who came to the festival before the 
planned period until July 3 sleeping in school, right at the 
party :-)... 

    By 12 am, July 3 at the door of the school has gathered an 
impressive crowd. Total present at the party were about 150 
people - far fewer than expected, but this will be discussed 
below. Attended by such famous personalities as: UnBEL! VER aka 
Maxim Muchkaev (he M.M.A.) from Samara, the leader of the 
Comanche tamoshnih ;-) - in my opinion, one of the most 
advanced people on the Spectrum scene, CPU - editors 
ADVENTURER, RUSTER - like already the representative of the 
deceased ZX-FORMAT'a, Peter Sobolev - organizer of the three 
ENLIGHT'ov, LAV, DNK, REAL MASTERS, 4th DIMENSION, BYTEX ... 
and yet the mass of the people. Mozhno not to mention of 
DIGITAL REALITY - they priimali part in the festival. Come and 
Eugene Buder - "Grandpa WELCOME", immediately have deployed on 
the street in his car, a brisk trade proprietary software.


    Orderly came from Moscow headed by WLODEK'om:
ANTARES (in full), SISTER (Marianne - Sister EA / ATS),
ZX-SHADOW, OPER, GPV ...

    From Belarus, except for us to Muhoy (FLY) have been WOLF, 
PAUL PAVLOV, ASCENDANCY (MINISOFT 'Dr.GRIFUS), SAVAGE / PG. K 
Unfortunately, No one else from the RUSH did not come, as 
indeed, from FATALITY ... 

    The occurrence of Vyacheslav Mednonogova, was greeted with 
stormy ovation. Near Fame immediately formed an impressive 
crowd. Naturally, people interested in the fate of the Black 
Crow-2. The author of the game assured that once solved the 
issue with its design work, creation of the project will be 
resumed, but definitely not before autumn. 

    After a short delay caused by the connection equipment 
(thanks to Sergei Zerova of the firm's "Scorpion"), the 
audience began to let inside. 

    Near the entrance to the hall lined up a huge backlog. 
Everyone donating for 50 rubles, received a ticket and a form 
to vote (Data on participants were entered in noutbuk-XT/86 
MONSTER'a). 

    Still about an hour walking collection of works, during 
which RANDOM and ARTY greeted the audience and briefly recalled 
poryaok of the party. 

    The hall darted hither and thither "Zonovtsy" and 
"Nemovtsy, advertising their products, and kept bumping into 
each other. In this case, both sides turned away, pretending 
that unfamiliar and followed hard-core competitor contemptuous 
look :-). Main event was a video operator Frunze (the one who 
carried on in E'97 Hall of rifle) - film on CC'99.



    First, traditionally started gfx-compo. It was shown about
twenty screenshots of them pieces of 6.7 were pretty good. Was
demonstrated and a picture of the monarch - "Savannah" Who Saw
Against this background, a very badsome. In the first place had 
explicitly requested two or three screens, and because of the 
black and white projector was very difficult evaluate them on 
merit. ARTY, names the number of competitive works, some times 
confused and had to start from scratch, then numbered images in 
a strange way changed, that only added confusion and difficult 
to assess. 

    One after the other contests were 0.5K and 4K intro - the 
work was a little something about a dozen. The strongest 
impression on the audience made a 4K intro "S2_H5_OH" (for the 
uninitiated, this formula alcohol): cool effects, music, 
original idea and design. Even on a monochrome screen, this 
mini-deme looked very impressive. 

    Several nominations were ruthlessly slaughtered because of 
the small number of jobs. So, instead of competition wild-compo 
showed some "Cartoon" with mediocre quality, but very long ...


    Before the music-compo was announced a half-hour break. 
Started presentation of their works. The audience was shown a 
few demo versions of games: "MIST: MONSTRLAND-2", "AWAKEN", 
"BABYLON-5", the magazine "RU (s) H-1" and a couple of new 
gazetok. 

    Korrespondenty numerous electronic publications hunted
for all and sundry, for exclusive interviews, making photos and
videosemku. Planned to invite the festival St. Petersburg 
television, but one of the organizers forgot to send back the 
fax. 

    Began "a musical show." Describe it is not, perhaps, make 
sense, because the quality of most papers have been sent 
explicitly below average. Among all this cacophony, which 
lasted a hour, with great difficulty could identify two or 
three more or less give pleasing Mouzon. The most striking 
thing was that almost all the music at the festival, there 
seems to be written by different authors, suffered a surprising 
uniformity - a complete boom-boom Tirley. Where are the lively 
fun tunes since Fantopa? It is natural that people not only 
danced (as it was on Fantope), but gradually began to evaporate 
from the floor. By the end of the contest, the room remained 
less than half the audience. Someone went for a smoke, somebody 
went to the toilet, a small group sinkleristov, jingling the 
half-empty dishes went to the nearby stalls, searching for 
intoxicating. Outside, the street, someone bawled a drunken 
voice songs, drowning out the music-compo (say, it was a Bronze 
;-)... Ostavshivsya in the hall, figuratively speaking, 
suffered from inaction. WLODEK, so he generally slept through 
the "view" ;-) (there is a unique photo) ... 

    Again a pause, and left in the hall of the shaft was thrown 
into the street. Most of the spectators settled down on the 
grass beside the school building. Others were scattered on the 
notorious kiosks. Small group Reporters again population on 
copper and on pick apart saved Glory miracle in the form 
suddenly appeared drunk three sheets to the homeless, who join 
the conversation, and scatter my spit lopocha bullshit, which 
caused universal joy of others. Homeless, local spektrumisty 
once dubbed Bill Gates ... 

    Demos for the competition were exhibited all three works. 
Most first started to show "ANAMNESIA" by REAL MASTERS. Known

group, good work, constant progress: from "INFARCT" to
"EMERGENCY", but this (!) Are not expected, probably no one.
Already after just a minute hall burst into applause. Speak
Deme about this can be many and long, but much better to see it
their eyes. It's not even deme, but rather the video. It is 
worth noting that the scales tipped the code is not cool or 
supergraphics (neither one nor the other in this Deme not) a 
good humorous story, nice design and just a great idea, 
flavored with a considerable share of the animation. Probably 
have sunk into oblivion, when escarpment demos determined 
ferocity code. There was a new time and deme should bring the 
viewer the pleasure of her contemplation. All of this 
"anamnesis" is in excess. What began with "FOREVER" and turned 
into a masterpiece - promises to be a new, post-modern trend in 
demomeykinge as sometime trekmo superseded megademo ...


    The second was the work of the group ACCEPT - "63BIT3". It 
was is so featureless that about her not want to even mention 
it. Anything fundamentally new, it has not been demonstrated. 

    A snack was shown DR'ovsky "JAM". Well, what can
say ... You remember "LYRA-2", where a girl is dancing? Here at
This effect is consistently emphasized by the authors of the 
demos. The rest: soundly, beautiful, stylish, but ... before 
the first job fades.


    Two hours of vote counting continued, during which the 
twisted old Amiga demos. The results of the trial components 
were quite predictable: 1-ranked REAL MASTERS, 2-e - DIGITAL 
REALITY, 3-e - ACCEPT. And the gap between the leaders was more 
than twofold. On schedule - quite deservedly, took first place 
FIL / ANTARES, but in music - EA from the same group. Picture 
of our MONARCH'a finished fourth. Congratulations!




      RESULTS OF THE FIRST DAY OF THE FESTIVAL CHAOS 
CONSTRUCTIONS '99 

                           ZX-SPECTRUM

                       Compiled by: ARTY / DR



Graphics Competition:

Rank Points Entry Title Made By
-------------------------------------------------- 
------------- 1 127 9 Dream Fil / Antares 2113 1913 Lovekind 
Diver / 4 Dimension March 1953 12 HrumHrum Hero / Discovery

April 1942 8 Savanna Monarch
5 January 29 BC'DP Paracels / Eternity Industry
6 Feb. 21 $ funtier Virtual / Scene
June 21, 1921 Voodoo Goblin / Trolls
7 July 20 Troll Scalina / Constellation
8 June 14 Sunrise! Gas13
9 April 12 Shadow Mr.John / Technology is
12 September 1916 Suicide Vaniac / Cyber ​​Punks Unity
10 September 1920 Vfx1 ...
10 September 1924 Frog Kristof / Constellation
11 August 1923 Wrongsun ...
12 7 3 Future! New Art
13 May 5 Confraction Kasik / Spectrum Club
May 13, 1910 Reptile Minisoft / Ascendancy
May 13, 1914 Wicked Deadie / Cyber ​​Punks Unity
14 March 1917 Death Twin / Global Corporation
14 March 1919 Lord Of Chaos Flying Skull / Partyzans
March 14, 1922 Wrestling ...
January 15, 1911 Nocturnal Lady Demiurge Ash
January 15, 1915 Gotcha Ant / Cyber ​​Punks Unity
16 0 18 Hellroad ...


AY Music Competition:

Rank Points Entry Title Made By
-------------------------------------------------- 
------------- 1 86 21 Together With Me EA / Antares February 
1960 September Unreal2 Dj.Serg March 1959 an Apocalypse MMCM / 
Sage 15 April 1946 Voyage In Future Davos / Cyber ​​Punks

5 March 29 Last DNK / Virt Group
6 June 23 Birds-1 Push
7 May 22 Before New Year Dj.Soundliner
22 July 1918 Chaos Is Beginning T. Mr.Nut / Partyzans
18 August 1922 Unfix. Reampflied Vibes Kunf
September 16, 1917 Tortures Of Detonated Never / Cyber ​​Punks
10 April 15 Ineffable Sector
15 October 1911 Suxxonia Andy Fer
11 July 14 Salute Nik-o/Techno Lab
November 14, 1910 Spring Siril / 4 Dimention
November 14, 1914 Sweet Moments Of Lust Miguel / Cyber ​​Punks
13 December 1920 Please Take Me On! Flying Skull
13 February 8 Imprivizasion DX-69/Comput. Rats
July 14th 1916 Rest From Your Deep F. Chasm / Cyber ​​Punks
June 15, 1913 Endless Chaos Dr.Dismal / Light
June 15, 1919 Find The Vacant Place Noize / Phantasy
January 16, 1912 My Birthday Groove / BLP
17 0 8 Lost In Eternity Viper / Techno Lab


512 Bytes Intro Competition:

Rank Points Entry Title Made By
-------------------------------------------------- 
------------- 1 124 1 0.5 'Vlad / Real Masters 2116 March 
Absent Extreme 3107 September Daningy Cryss / Razzlers

4103 April Sunday SerzhSoft
May 12 1911 Plzm512 STS / Volga-Soft
6 February 11 Eclipse ZS
6 August 11 Ambience Xn0bys/Cyber ​​Punks Unity
7 7 7 Land512 LX / BearMans
8 6 6 Circles Goblin / BearMans
9 3 5 Pifagority Pifagor / Constellation
10 2 10 2 Sectors Ivan Roschin


4k Intro Competition:

Rank Points Entry Title Made By
-------------------------------------------------- 
------------- 1 262 1 C2H5OH SerzhSoft 2145 4 Beyond Scorpion

March 1968 March Millenniumm Constellation
April 1958 2 The Dive Fyrex / Mayhem


Demo Competition:

Rank Points Entry Title Made By
-------------------------------------------------- 
------------- 1 267 1 Anamnesis Real Masters 2163 3 JAM Digital 
Reality 3110 2 63bit3 Accept Corp.




   The top places were publicly awarded diplomas (diplomas 
themselves only appeared on the second day) and went along with 
all celebrate such a joyous event. Those who could not find a 
lodging for the night, stayed overnight at the school. We Fly, 
Vlodek and other Muscovites went to the apartment Timothy Lapo, 
from the morning gave a tear to escape from local :-) 
cockroaches, but that's another story ... 


   And at this time ... turns to school at night came the 
police. Was divided into four windows. Fifth - broke wind on 
our own with a fly front. The people, sleeping in the room was 
so glad khalyavnykh night, that bathed in the insole (not going 
to point the finger at our WOLF'a. ;-). In short, it was 
announced that from all for the second day of going to another 
10 rubles to compensate the damage caused ... 


   The second day was entirely for PC / AMIGA, and demonstrate
they got together. Compared with the first day - it was rather 
boring. Very long and tedious job posting was then for some 
reason had to re-convert pisishnuyu music that robbed three 
more hours of time. Periodically run Amiga demos, but nothing 
really has not been shown. And people were much less ... Since 
the train, we went out in 17 hours, we were forced to leave the 
friendly Peter and go back to Gomel, and not inspecting all to 
end. But we did about it sorry ;-).



   The results of the second day, as well as a more detailed 
overview of the festival CC'99, with numerous interviews, our 
adventures, suffering and gags will be published in the journal 
"RU (s) H-2". 


   The festival took place, we can summarize and draw 
conclusions. Undoubtedly, labor organizers is great, but you 
can not close our eyes and the obvious shortcomings of the last 
party, so as not to repeat them future. Please do not take 
offense at the criticism, we do it all for the common good.



   Most important, in my opinion, miscalculation in organizing 
the event, too late announcement of a timetable, venue and 
timing thereof. The downside was the fact that the festival was 
focused exclusively on people with access to the network 
Internet and Fido. Completely lacked a broad advertising 
campaign in electronic media, the rules were published too 
later, there was the usual information support, as in its time 
for Enlight and FunTop, and even initially pledged $ 5 per 
entrance, did not add those wishing to visit CC'99. 

   Relatively small number of participants also explained by the
the fact that this year the scene was divided as never before. 
Refusal to perform FunTop'99 spawned a lot of "leftist" (not in 
insult to the organizers!) festivals around the ex-USSR. Tut 
you and Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod and Dzerzhinsk, and even some 
small town type Uryupinsk. Do not get me wrong, but only 
acceptable to the city for such events - is St. Petersburg and 
Moscow, with the latter, imho, will prefer the most 
spektrumistov. After all, but I'm much more likely to have gone 
to the purely Spectrum crowd than the multi-platform. Of 
course, WLODEK'a can understand - he did not want F'99 
disintegrate the scene, but in the end, everything turned out 
even worse ... 

   Negative role played by excessive self-confidence and some 
organizers in technical support. Apparatus was brought to 
school the day before the festival. Throughout the night, Max 
Romanov (HURTMAN), with companions had attempted unsuccessfully 
to kompovskie connect the machine to the two color televisions, 
and if would not be timely assistance Sergei Zerova of the firm 
"Scorpion" things would have gone very badly ... In addition, 
the screen was a video projector black and white. This annoying 
bug has been fixed only on the second day, when they were AMIGA 
/ PC components, and Ultimately, Spectrum section of the 
festival was in full Down's syndrome. 

    A lot of confusion with the competitive work. Immediately 
it is worth noting that no preselekta was not in sight. Contest 
Music on Speccy was an almost complete crap: Photo WLODEK'a 
sleeping during the music-compo, speaks for itself. The graph 
shows too quickly, the numbering of images is constantly 
changed, introducing viewers to the confusion. Some 
competitions do not was because of the vanishingly small number 
of exhibited works. AND such examples are set.



    Now, I would like to make a few wishes of the organizers of 
such events in future to reduce the occurrence of various 
incidents to a minimum. 


    1. Information about the upcoming festival (where he had 
not carried out) shall be published at least six months before 
his holding, and the preliminary preparation, the search space 
and Others - even earlier.


    2. Need to develop an extensive advertising campaign not 
only in networks but also in electronic media. Should ensure 
the timely output of information sheets, dem-invitations to an 
agreed time frame. For example, the first deme is beyond the 
year before festival, the second three months (with the new 
rules, etc.). The exact time and place must be established de 
facto no later than three months before the party. If a 
commercial festival - the cost of Tickets may not exceed $ 2 - 
is marginal sum for many spektrumistov.


    3. Map and directions to the venue should be
detailed and thorough and take into account the terrain 
features. For landmarks are best to use any architectural

structures, such as: "To the left of the cinema" Friendship 
through the way to the big fountain, and on the other hand one 
can see high-rise building and the church "itp be described 
fares from all stations, do not forget about subway and other 
transportation. 

    4. The most important aspect - technical support. All 
equipment and apparatus must be connected and tested, however, 
than a month before the festival. At least one week before the 
party of all must already be available in the room, connected 
and tested More than once. It would be nice to hold a dress 
rehearsal with all appliances, paying particular attention to 
the picture and sound quality. All cables and wires must be 
hidden and not confuse the audience under their feet. 

    5. It should be difficult to foresee in a room special
Indices such as "toilets", "smoking areas", "litter box"
etc. To prevent drunk at the party, one must have
several attendants, who would keep order.

    6. In advance to arrange the appropriate symbols,
produce T-shirts, to agree on diploma and prize with a similar
marking. In my view, the symbolism of "FunTop'98" and 
especially "SS'99" were obviously not successful because they 
do not reflected the essence of the event. First, the logo 
should be immediately designation indicating the orientation of 
the computer activities. If the party cross-platform, should be 
designated all participating platforms that no one was hurt. 
Behind you can write any logo or slogan. For example: "Speccy 
Alive Forever" if Festival Spectrum or anything else. Similar, 
strongly contribute to sustainability of the festival, 
especially if you approach to this fairly competently and with 
a certain taste. 

    7. Not interfere with commerce software, literature, and 
iron. On "SS'99" last almost absent, except for a single board 
General Sound. 

    8. Desirable and coverage by the media. You can invite a TV 
or newspaper - it all goes only benefit.


    9. In no event should not be confused by party PC and 
Amigo, for is completely different machines with different 
capabilities and characteristics. Criterion for mastery on the 
PC does (!) Does not may be equivalent to Amiga. This applies 
not only to dem, but and the graphics and music. Here is the 
opinion of most people who first visited the second day of the 
SS: "The union contests the PC and Amiga - the largest Error!. 
"Well, it is impossible to estimate with very different 
platormy ... 

    That is, in principle, and all that is needed for good
festival. The rest - have little things and depend only on 
ourselves. 


    In conclusion, I want to thank all the organizers and 
people who somehow had a hand in holding SS'99, contestants and 
spectators just ... 

    Thanks Timothy Lapo per night ;-)...

    And finally, we are especially grateful to the guys from
REAL MASTERS, created on the party atmosphere of celebration 
and thanks that many defects and omissions paled into 
insignificance. Not stop there, learn, create and create!

In your power to save the Speccy, and we must do everything 
that he continued to live and to please all their fans and the 
fans. And there will always be with you the scene - something 
unique collection of talent that collected and multiply over 
the years, from generation to generation. 

    God be with you Speccy, together forever!