Tusovka - Full report with FunTop'98: Part III. Thoughts during the Music compo: Virtual Vision group, Rage Technology.

(C) NEXT-STOP
Music GLUCK1N '(0MP0Z1NG (C) MR.Z / HWC



                 All looked - fun,

                 Play began - to tears ...



                 (Thoughts during MUSIC COMPO)



                  FUNTOP'98

                (Part Three)



     After dinner that can only be called
costs, we went back to school. On the porch was discovered a 
considerable number of people supported chips and beer. 
Climbing up to the fifth floor, we saw a number 19 on the 
monitors (all songs were numbered, and all of them were already 
39) and slightly wilted. Each track set aside the "legitimate" 
for 3 minutes. People in the room was a little, everyone 
listened, but basically, each other. ;) Two young men (obviously

not belong to the Spectrum brother) in the center of the room 
danced in unison under the hilarious "boom-boom-boom" coming 
from the speakers. Note that one of dancing pretty well worked. 
If it were not They, MUSIC COMPO would turn into swamps. : 
(Poglazev this action for a few minutes we decided to join the 
crowd at the entrance. Knows where we are surrounded by a dense 
ring of boys from the VIRTUAL VISION GROUP from Voronezh. Sin 
was do not take advantage and do not ask a few

questions:

 - Who is your group?
 - MIC, L-GRAPH, HIGH LORD, ROM CORP, RCL and ASW.
 - What do you bring to FUNTOP?
 - We brought a demo VIRTUAL DRINK, music and graphics, that is 
involved in almost all categories, except 4K INTRO. We would 
have written it, but not enough time. Even with the demo came 
out a little incident. The fact that we do not know, here she 
is, or no ...

 -??
 - She was sent to FIDO in the last day. Timeout
so we wrote all the pieces and left for Moscow,
and in Voronezh were people from our group, so
they had to collect it and send it. According to rumors,
they sent her. In short, it turned out that we ourselves see 
this demo for the first time!  - It will be interesting to see 
... Your opinion about the organization FUNTOP'a?  - We were on 
ENLIGHT'e, but it's better. The only drawback - a few people, 
and organizers tried, all on the level, and quite a good one. 
Sure that a lot of people because of what was going on 
ENLIGHT'e not supported FUNTOP. Moscow "Scored" in full, just 
wrote a demo ANTARES and all. It turns out that in Moscow's 10 
million people a ANTARES! Here in Voronezh, more! In our club 
forty people: there is a lamer, users, even the coders ... In 
general, in Voronezh situation does no different from what is 
happening in all cities. Of the major groups remained 
practically only VVG. There are several other groups, but they 
are some ... They work under the emulator, and produce one 
intro for two years. And last Voronezh trader this year, 
withdrew from the Spectrum.  - And you can not organize this 
thing?  - It's very difficult financially, we do not

No points, but on the radio market no computers and no smell. 
In general. Very rarely someone will appear with the BU-shnym 
screw and all. Were repeated attempts to arrange a sale of 
software, but it all ended in failure. A spektrumisty when 
there is no software, they same goes ... go to the PC, AMIGA, 
SONY PS, on DENDY, finally. : (  - Enough about the sad, let a 
little "peremoem Bone. "The first was the GFX COMPO ...

 - First, work had to be selected more serious. Yes, and showed 
each picture for a long time. More all afraid of "experience" 
ENLIGHT'a, where each job shown in seconds, organizers have 
increased the time, but it seems too. Yes, and scanning and 
"pull" the work had to be selected. But sometimes very 
difficult to separate the downloaded image from a drawing. If 
quality download, and then refine fingers, then no difference. 
It was necessary to verify the intermediate phase. But were 
were just blatantly skonverchenye work.  - And what about 
"crucian against the backdrop of the points?  - 
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah! Good picture, by the way ... :) This 
"Goldfish" drew 14-year-old brother of one of the members of 
our group. I must say that this is not from us, he himself, on 
his own initiative ... ;)  - Of course. And about 4K INTRO ...

 - Oh-oh-oh! VAV - it's just the thing! DIZZY - it's just 
something unimaginable! This - and in 4K! Bad Work from GLOBAL, 
but it pulls only the third place. In the first fight will VAV 
and SERZHSOFT. A cartoon we just laugh, no more. By

as one of our pictures, and music did not reach Moscow. We sent 
them on FIDO, but the organizers of their not received.




       VIRTUAL VISION GROUP, Voronezh


 - And here is why, while attending MUSIC COMPO,
you stand here on the street?
 - That's why we stand. MUSIC COMPO - pretty boring
thing ... And nobody wants to break - all waiting for
DEMO COMPO. It's one thing for which everything came.
 - What's next plan to do on the Spectrum?
 - Project a few. SSO 2.0 - graphics processor scans to improve 
quality, cutting away the points, increase the contrast of the 
image. Also in plans include writing such things as 
multifaylovaya system, fully compliant with TR-DOS, but with 
the ability to create directories and subdirectories. With the 
TR-DOS will be drop-in, then there can be sealed drive and work 
with it without any losses.  - And do not fear what will happen 
in PINK FLOYD?  - Oh, Lord! Of course not! Yes there will be no

brakes! Promise. Also, we are writing a strategic
Game EMPIRE. They brought a demo version and solemnly
pass it to you for publication in the journal.
 - And what did she like?
 - Real-time strategy game with color graphics. This is a 
fairly complex and deep draft, but the full version while in 
the air.  - Do not give rest to the laurels of Raven Black?

 - No, Thank Mednonogov - King of the strategic
games. First there were UFO, but BLACK RAVEN - is a top class!
 - I agree. Continue ... At FUNTOP'e displayed
KAY 1024 and SPRINTER. Your opinion about these machines?
 - Regarding KAY ... IS-DOS sew up the system - it
at least unwise. Furthermore, NEMO is not going to support the 
Pentagon, and yet anyway, many spektrumistov it was he. In 
short, it might be better. A SPRINTER ... Looks cool, but it

stillborn child. This is a machine without software, without
support. If he went out with PROFI, ATM ...
And what now? Under him just one to write nothing. At 
ENLIGHT'97 something showed on SPRINTER'e, but few understood 
what. This year showed "Norton" and "windsurfing" killed. That 
they are a year tormented, that all were in shock that all fell.

"Animation" show, which is more than a hundred "meters".
Lightly it all ...
 - Everything with you is clear. Thank you very much.


     Farewell to Voronezh, we went upstairs together. In the 
smoking room facing RAGE from Minsk. Held its first interview 
with the "foreigners": 

 - A few words about myself.
 - At FUNTOP of RAGE TECHNOLOGY arrived WOLF
(Main organizer) and MYTHOS (coder), has long worked with RAGE, 
but entered in the group recently.  - Standard question: What 
led you to FUNTOP?  - At home all my friends have asked: Where 
are you going? We give them and answered: in Moscow, wash.

 -??
 - It's very simple. We have no water in Minsk. ;) A
Seriously, we brought graphics, music and a new toy from Minsk 
called MONSTRLAND.  - A few words about the toys ...

 - This genre is not on the Spectrum. It's a mix adventure with 
action. Step mode. Walking, looking, to solve puzzles. The main 
thing - all the time to move on downstream, not to drop out of 
the corridor through which you lead.

 - What are your impressions of FUNTOPE.
 - To be honest, the organization is not very much. Disliked
that 4K INTRO launched from TR-DOS, monitors
small, it is better to put a large color
TV. But the sound is normal. About GFX -
very few good works, not to mention about this ...
"Brick crocodile ... ;))
 - Actually, it was more like a carp ...
I was told that it was drawing 14-year-old schoolboy from
Voronezh.
 - So what. Work of this level should have been cut off at a 
preliminary stage. But of scanned works almost was not. I'm not 
sure about dvuhtreh, others, like, you can really draw myself.  
- And about 4K INTRO?  - Work EXPLODER'a will long remember. Her

You can even compare with some demami, it will abruptly. If 
someone in the near future it would kill ... It's just a 
"higher" thing. Still want to mention DIZZY by SERZHSOFT and 
cool vector cartoon, which we dubbed the "impotent." Made at 
the summit, but with humor. We gave him third place.




      RAGE TECHNOLOGY, Minsk, Belarus


 - Now Playing MUSIC COMPO, and crawling scattered,
including you ...
 - We ourselves are putting on the music contest, but if
Honestly, we could not distinguish her from others. We
listened to all eight songs are no longer able.
 - Change theme. You came from Minsk. How is the Spectrum in 
Belarus?  - Fine. Die ... ;) In Minsk, there is a network, is 
now going to reach out to Grodno, where Spectrum is 
flourishing, they have coordinators there, the moderators ... 
Ours, Ming nick, a few frostbitten: climbed, downloaded, read 
and everything. Group fall apart. In principle, there were only 
PHD and we are no longer serious work does.

 - What are your plans? What's going to write?
 - Now we learn, we learn 3D-graphics, write procedures, write 
a procedure for drawing the polygon two-dimensional 
coordinates. It is full-screen sketching and a half break, that 
is faster than LDIR. Very fast procedure. Now we understand 
with math.  - Why do all this?

 - It will be a game, such as ELITE, but with mixing the 
adventure, to the same, with the shaded graphics. Must end up 
with something cool, but ... we'll see. Also there is a another 
project: a toy in the genre of adventure. Graphics will be in 
style NETHER EARTH. Once they saw on AMIGA similar things, very 
much, I wanted to do something like that. We think that for the 
year meet. In addition, there is a proposal from the company 
PETERS. They offer a free computer, SPRINTER,

and we are committed for a certain period
time to write under it some software. But first must submit a 
complete project, as is in serious company. The point still is,

that this "paper" project should take director
firm, that is, it decides whether a toy or not the future. If 
everything is OK, we provided SPRINTER'y, and we begin to work.

 - And if you see a future for himself SPRINTER'a?
 - First of all needed software. For 160 bucks that
we have seen - is impressive.
 - What KAY?
 - What KAY ... Spectrum usual, as you like. Here we have all 
the bytes, the sea BYTE. Before They were bought by the 
thousands.  - One thousand bytes - almost kilobytes! :) Thank 
you very much.  - Have a nice day. Be sure to see the first 
issue VOYAGER'a. We hope that we get the second. :)  - We also 
hope. 


     Finally, the long-awaited peace. Even
It seemed that all breathed a sigh of relief. Dissatisfaction 
with the end of the music but express above two dancers. They 
demanded a replay all the melodies. To them, nobody paid 
attention. All awaited climax. Ahead was DEMO COMPO ...



         * TO BE CONTINUED *