Think #33 17 августа 1999

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Paradox - The story of the second day.

                PARADOX'99


Continuation of the report.


         ***** Day two. *****


  About seven rose and went to DC - they thought that if it is 
open, you can be in the hall sidushki move and lie on the normal

on soft. DC was really open,
there sat the same aunt that we did not
empty, but we freely went into the hall. And in
Conference organizers immediately from the scene yelling,
so that we were leaving, someone you let them? We said that we 
want to relax - all night bomzhevali, and generally, why not 
stay in Hall? They explain the type of steel that are prepared, 
and no they should not interfere. In general, we are with them, 
(and especially with one padloypridurkom) long cursed, but we 
see that they generally impenetrable, and we left.


  We went to the store, bought a couple of pies, snack. Then 
came armavirtsy - terribly tortured and evil, they are already 
the second night and slept at the station, and they have 
already been auditory hallucinations, announcing the train.

They also wanted to relax in the room, but we
said that the number of dead. Well, they were all
pofigu they went, and we with them. Same
moron started to speak, that the room
rented, and they who want to start up. All of it was sent, but 
he began to speak something about the police, and we 
communicate with her did not want. We have sworn, and then a 
armavirets said this fagot:  - Well what can I say? You're a 
cool kid. The people went away. 

  And we have piled up.

  Sat near the entrance to the recreation center, waited for 
the 11 hours. We all had shitty mood

got Sam and little by little began to pour in the morning. Then 
we decided to eat. Got canned food, bread and cucumbers. I 
pulled out a knife - open cans. Order tipsy armavirets took one 
bank and said he would rub it on the asphalt to open. He was 
advised that he should own x% d rubbed on the tarmac - in fact 
there is a knife. In general, almost all were hungry, tired and 
sleepy. 

  About 11 entered the hall, I immediately fell on the chair 
and slept for a couple of music contests on the PC.



  Then he announced a competition for PC-intro 64K.

  The fun begins (or at least
the case for me).

  Showed the first intro.

  From the beginning, everyone thought that it
to put it mildly, somewhere has already seen. Intra was 
zarelizina on ChaosConstruction'99, held in St. Petersburg. 
Under the rules of the same party previously zarelizenye work 
competition will not be accepted. Zavozmuschalsya people, 
organizers zakosili by fools, and said that they know nothing. 
Most of put the intro 0 points. Next intra

was also a CC99 group of PFC (Sergey Lebedev). I am in 
correspondence with him, and he is in front paradohom nothing 
about exhibiting it in Rostov did not speak. Organizers 
willfully povklyuchali the contest has not yet had time to 
crock demos. 

  Next intra flew in yuyukah then-whether
by DEMO.DESIGN, toli on TALKS.ASM.

  Another two were intro with ByteFall'99. Only
a deme made bourgeois has not previously been reliznuta, but 
she walked out of the competition - type of gift / greeting 
paradohu. 

  In general, the 64K - the competition has failed.


  Competition has started spektrumuvskoy AY-music. People to 
cry: the first 3 tunes are not cut in! Their last three times 
listened. But organizers apparently out of deference to the 
authors again began to torment the audience. It was 20rabot,

each lasting about 3 minutes. H
AY-music. Not everyone will survive such torment!
Somewhere on the 8 th melody realize that slowly losing your 
mind ... Although spektrumisty fun swing. On the back of the 
staged Dance hip-hop/breyk, oposlya each melody

rose wild roar "Rulez!", "HRC - mastday," "Give Speck!" etc. 
The mood in the Hall is up.



  Then he went to the competition schedules for ZX (all
show on the emulator). The works were
different, but particularly remember a picture
"The X-Files" with the mugs of agents
Mulder and Scully. And another cool job was
in Voronezh - a rose painted on the sinter.
Cool! Everything is so carefully worked out,
petals drawn - well, just like the real thing. Soon I will send 
it, I envelope in PCX - who should see.



  Then I went to contest 4K intro. There we
exhibited their demo AEROBALL. Knechno, we
previously understood that the deme weak - the
more than what was written in three weeks, and was
a work in progress ... But it turned out to much
worse. When the show other people's work,
somehow did not pay attention to the fact that
curtained windows in the room with white tulle, outside the 
sun, and the image on the projector pale and difficult to 
distinguish. But when kerf my DeMouy, I noticed it immediately.

In general, the initial splash screen has two red spots, that 
even I am completely could not read what is written there. Scene

sunset on the sea turned into a three-poloskidve blue in the 
middle of the red. Sucks. Although, like spektrumistam 
helicopter - well that even though they were normally seen.


  Then he showed another DeMouy - next
tunnels and the effects on the table displacement
Fractal ... only dorugogo color. Bored
but beautiful. Then let DeMouy with CC99. People have got used 
to it and not particularly angry. Those parts of the demos, 
which was blue-white palette is generally not visible. There 
are already I broke down and cried to adjust the projector, 
added kontrastnosi, chtoli ... 

  And finally - hit of the season! 4K-deme from
Voronezh with music. Image very good. well
thought out - the tunnels, sinus-snot, 3D zachepyatelno 
complement each other. Cool! People fanatel ... The picture is 
synchronized with music, all in one rhythm, and integrity. Well

a breakthrough in the 4K-making demo. After paradoha with this 
release, we can assume that a new standard - now make 4K

without the music as something completely off topic. First 
place - 100%. 


  Competition ZX-demo without size restrictions
long time to decide how to show it. The projector does not want 
to give a color image of the cake. In the end, launched to the 
public color monitor and simultaneously sintering all the shows 
and on the monitor and the projector. First demoy was "7UP"

vorenezhtsev. Well, that's cool ... Someone
tried to watch the video on the Spectrum?
It turns out that this is possible. In Deme different effects 
were replaced with the cinematics deysvuyuschimi persons - by 
their authors. As They are fun to drink on the nature of 7UP, 
have fun watching. Hall just dragged, the more so spektrumistov 
Most of it was. Sami DoublePlus-sheep jumped on his chair, 
whistling - in general, rejoice the heart. After the demos Hall 
has not been able to calm down ... 

  Following DeMouy I do not remember it.


  Nomination 16K-ZX-demo was three works.
Two - regular implementation of fractals / rotozumov / plasma, 
but for me it was amazing - so create at Speke I thought which 
is impossible. The third paper was brief, but amusing. Vapor 
effects, funny music, then there was one photo> organizer with 
the inscription "The Joker - lamer!". Facilities just 
oborzhalsya. Joker something embarrassment mumbled into the 
microphone about what he liked the original decision ...

Spektrumisty People and the rest of perlite
full program ...


  Contest Digital-Music-ZX. Translating hardware settings in 
the system of the EU, it is possible say that the digitized 
samples are from frequency of slightly more 8KGts. Natural

Tracker music, some interesting songs and the sound quality 
like 8KNts th Vav-file. You can listen to, though bored

odnoobrazdnost rhythms. Dynts-dynts-dynts ...
ounces-ounces ... All of the square 4 / 4. Couple
tracks fuse at some time in the soul, now to recall them at all 
can not. 


  In competitions HandDraw and Render GFX me
work is not quite like it - solid
fotoshopovskie filters, and a bit of work
hands. Render the entire schedule could be defined as 
"beginning to develop 3D-Studio." Maybe it was not so bad, but 
was already the end of the day, and from uymy information 
correctly perceive that anything was pretty hard ... 


  Finally, the long-awaited contests mikrokodinga. The first 
competition was in 512Byte, I exhibited a job SPEAR-who saw that

knows (on the background of an egg begayut sperm). There were 7 
papers (two of them with CC99), the work was quite strong. SPEAR

looked at the projector, drop dead - I
even he did not expect. At celerone-450 whole
speed is limited by line scan, so that spermiki ran smoothly 
and straight as living. I have the impression

I look popular-science film. Not a bad job was at DoublePlus-a 
- Vokselny landscape with little effect on top stars. They 
agreed with the turn-spektrumistami and those nafigachili their 
maximum points. We are with Max and then asked to see the Voice 
form these guys, and upset - my own work has been omitted. BUT! 
In RND.PROGS some reason results were not seen on the Internet, 
I have not climbed, but today it's Greetings from Moscow (group 
PFC): _vse_ravno_PERVOE_mesto_! _ All there is justice in this 
world. See, almost all those present enjoyed medical and 
biological subjects. 


  Competition 256Byte was represented by three
works - two plasma and our STORM (Max
makes the picture a raging sea, I inserted the sound). In light 
of the universal fitting results, we were alerted that a plasma 
made of an encoder Proxium, before showing her praise - it is 
not used 13h-graph mode (320x200x256) and some

higher. Before showing our demos, I came
organizer to check the sound.
Instalnuli Guseva driver, I listened to the
headphones - the sound was just quiet. Said he quietly. The guy 
who was responsible for sound reassured - such as if it will be 
bad Heard - once on the remote unscrewing. I

a clear conscience go into the hall. When enabled our DeMouy, 
sound, of course, was not. Some time organayzary were in 
disarray, we started to yell indignantly kerf sound / volume. I 
do not know what they forgot to do - whether peretyknut cable

from the console instead of headphones, even that toli
thread - but a moment later the sound was, but
the whole buzz was broken off. Then we talked with some 
demomeykerami, they said they have seen in my life a lot, but 
256Byte with sound - soul takes, and my head refuses to 
believe. As a result - the first place. Thanks to the 
organizers that sidekick did not fit glasses, all done honestly.



  Then there was a contest of ANSI / ASCII-graphics. Well
what to say ... This method of creating
image has its own traditions, and their authors are adhered to. 
Were slightly better job, were slightly worse. Participated as 
80x25, and 80x50 characters. Remember one job (something it 
was) - painted profile of the person crying, and says "do not 
Weep. " 


  Well, almost done. If something is forgotten / mistaken, 
please do not judge strictly. Two days of continuous 
pivovozliyaniya who want to tire. Finally organizers said that 
the results will be tomorrow at 12 o'clock. However, the 
remaining time before DoublePlus-sheep did not learn anything, 
and left with nothing, as we and passed. About

prizes - all read zapostennye paradoh-info? "For the first PC / 
ZX demo NCSA prize will be 1000-1500 rupees. Either If the 
prizes are very good. "When we left with half an ear to hear 
about some zamorochki with the bank. In general, the time show 
Kokov will pay for Works. Only I can not imagine what will

give prizes to nonresident. By mail chtoli?

  Our opinion was so - not need any coolness, would have 
prepared in advance with Kompashki demami / books / diplomas 
Festival would be dismissed quickly immediately after party 
vote and handed out prizes - all bylob nice, and festival would 
be a logical and well finished. 

  How come now to the organizers - is unknown. Well, come on - 
come what may. 

  Not nihilists we?


    <With all sorts of wishes, Sergey>
----------------------------------------- The results of the 
competition the next issue. 
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