Revival #04 20 октября 1997

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News - stinging report from Enlight'97 and unofficial results, preliminary infa about the new party Funtop'98.

                           NEWS



                     Enlight 97 ... There are no words.



   This RVL was originally conceived as "inlaytovsky. But 
somehow so it turned out that the time lost, and everything 
seems to be about him has already been said ... Why again? 
Moreover, I could not be his comment, providing you the very 
possibility of all understand, using multiple sources. To give 
just one article written for this newspaper MMA from Samara.



                                                   M.M.A / XTM 
97 



               ∙ ENLIGHT'97: TECHNOLOGICAL DEATH ∙



   That was another ENLIGHT ... regular and posledny! MORE
Month nazad entire progressive community of the last forces
gotovilas to this "informal demo party". Coders' kodili "
Artists set the pixels, the musicians write music. No dazhe
not podozreval how deeply all throw on August 23-24 in the room 
"Voenmech. 


   In principle, it was clear from the outset - the organization
completely missing! Coming out of the subway with the prosaic 
name "Technological Institute" and I ALK / STARS OF KELADAN hour

combed the neighborhood looking for though any will
upcoming party.


   Only at 8:45 we were able to intuitive considerations
stop two more like us "seekers" and together
We continued the search ENLIGHT'a. Formed a crowd of four
people immediately began to attract the attention of all the 
other "seekers" and soon came out of the subway "our people" 
without question began to flock to the sound of crowd.



   And where, I ask you, at least one small piece of paper with
inscription such as "ENLIGHT'97>". Ah, makes available! It 
turns out that some kind uncle finally hung up the leaf with an 
arrow steklo front door, and now everyone knows that ENLIGHT

is precisely in that direction. But now that this piece of 
paper to anyone do not need - already have a crowd at kotoruyu 
can navigate. A here before the party, kogda narod just going 
to such pointers very much help at all. By the way, out of ten 
Petersburg passers-by, which that morning was zadan vopros: 
"How to get there Baltic University, only one was able to say 
something articulate.



   Soon came a large number of Moscow ZX-NET'chikov under
predvoditelstvom ALEX'a. He immediately opened a can of beer
"FAXE", kotoruyu by law may be regarded as the first can of 
beer, drunk on E'97. She zhe, most likely, and marked the 
beginning of global end ...



   Around 10:30 someone solemnly promised that ENLIGHT
begin no later chem at 11.00. People were handing out 
questionnaires and vote-sheets.



   The fact of registration of visitors, as well as
turned out later, the presence of a large seating kolichestva
places were the only thing that pleased. Everything else was as
a bolshoy koshmar.


   Even during the first ascent up the stairs to the 
auditorium, I noticed strange inscriptions on the walls, made 
with stencil:



                       "Designated Smoking Area"



   People lodging Institute for E'97, clearly
predpolagali not, what would happen if all 800 people visited
party, lit up at once. By the way, where are the heroes of the 
school front country - the owners premises of the Institute?



   Here is the first of them appears on the scene. On its face 
clearly vyrisovyvaetsya surprise. He is a poor man thought that 
there gather a crowd of prospective students to VUZ'a, and in 
fact Hall sits absolutely incomprehensible public. Entire 
spectrum of modern "Informal" nachinaya of "metal" and ending 
with "skinheads" and "Ravers".



   A man, however, was tough and, seizing the microphone two
hands became something verily speak about the joys of higher 
education and potential of each of us to become a first-class

specialist oblasti Navy.


   The people, as it is not surprising, humbly listened, and it 
is at least nemnogo, but also pulled back the offensive Vse 
breakup. Most of peasant listened to musicians - they have 
already begun idea of ​​what will feature their brilliant work 
in this room with THIS acoustics and the equipment.



   Then he sort of tension subsided and the people plunged into
Image of the best works on all three platforms. Barely
minutes demonstratsii ZX SPECTRUM DEMO, as the rows
rumor, chto SPECCY show through the modulator, and 50 frames
Image shlopyvayutsya 25. It would seem that nothing much
but the faces of many coders "oxidized" by trying to imagine how
detische earn them under such conditions.


   Misfortunes never come alone! It soon became clear that
a color that periodically appears on the screen and lezhaschy 
somewhere between light gray and off-white is nothing but

the local version of black-enabled brightness! Many
was ploho, but most coders was attached, hoping
that their demo once, mozhet be, and not at all black, with
included brightness ... But in vain hope - to get
everything!


   When did the GFX COMPO, tension, sort of like a little
asleep - all SPECTRUM'ovskie images featured on AMIGA from under
DOrus'a, and they looked more or less sober. Although recent
30-40 images many have not yet rasmotret as
demonstrated they rovno as much time as needed
to announce the number of works. Organisers,
definitely somewhere slowly ... Vopros - where?


   But they hastened to leave more time for
plays 80 tunes presented on MUSIC COMPO. True
listened to only 15, which is understandable and clear. And 
then it most terrible thing started - DEMO COMPO.



   Every third deme felt obliged to hang up when not in
samom nachale, at least in the middle, or certainly in case of 
emergency - in the end. Job number 13 did not run even with the 
fifth attempts. Well, those things that are still able to run,

terrify dazhe themselves of their creators. Poky high
brightness, 25 frames vmesto 50, smaller monitors, sound and all
else suggests tolko on one idea - why I did not stay
home?


   After completing the demonstration of all the demos, the 
first day ENLIGHT'a was history, but at the same time it was 
history and the next day. The owners of premises have been 
horrified by the first day, and the second promised even 
greater turmoil. Hearing gradually grew and multiplying, and 
21:30, no one doubted that E'97 not before it started already 
over! 


   The second day was lively appearance of new characters -
policemen. Glavny entrance was closed, but a crowd
continued to wait for something. On the wall hung two pieces of 
paper from which followed, chto some organizers brought to our

information, fact nevozmozhnosti compliance order on the party 
because of large number of participants and therefore the 
second day E'97 will not. 


   In "Down" were representatives of all three platforms. Deeply
right all the TE, who now, after the lapse of time claim
ENLIGHT that dips amizhniki "and" spektrumisty. Bitter and
vsem was sad, but especially thrown were representatives of PC.


         So who is to blame, and that actually do?


   At first I thought that the organizers ENLIGHT'a not guilty
situation. However, the further unfolding of the events
second day, the more and more I came to the conclusion that
ENLIGHT was originally dead!


   I would not want to give tips and advice from outside, but
Vse same if:


   A) To organize the entrance fee to the price of a ticket 
from 5 to 35 TR; 


   B) immediately inside the building to open a qualitative
refreshment and the sale of the same beer (on the spot)

could collect enough money to provide
decent protection and maintenance of order in the hall, and 
also, possibly, would appear a prize for the winners.



   All work on COMPO should have been collected in advance,
ottestirovany and from them choose the best. Ie of the 80 tunes 
can be would select 20 professional tracks, and then

put them on trial vseh attending the party. Same
should be with the graphics. I'm not saying that just
indecent show DEMO on conventional monitors. Needed a total
one large proektor with screen 2x2 meters, not tens of
monitors scattered throughout the hall. Not to mention the fact
image quality!


   In short, to say here is useless ... Personally for me this
party, as ENLIGHT, no longer exists. Even if the organizers
be corrected in the next year everything will be on the order 
of "cooler". No I nor any other EXTREME'isty not go more to 
Peter on ENLIGHT. Zhe this opinion is shared by many others 
with whom I dovelos poobschatsya throughout the second day of 
subculture. 


   Things go in threes! In the case of ENLIGHT'om third time
undoubtedly become poslednim ...



   Well, thanks to Maxim for a story, and now I will list
Participants Gfx Compo and Demo Compo (music as we know,
lost was less than half, and that ugly). Must
say that these results are unofficial - organizers
counting not done - so some of the
newsletters managed to collect only a few enterprising
sinkleristam. Based on these data, and summed nezhesleduyuschie
results (printed on the materials ZxNews # 41).



                         ∙ Demo Compo ∙



 Place Points Title Group


  01,319 Shit 4 Brains Progress (Moscow)


  02284 Binary Love Digital Reality (Novgorod)


  03096 Power Up MegaCode / Extreme


  04092 Eye Ache 2 Code Busters (Kharkiv)


  05026 Bizzare Beermans / Extreme

                 Constructions


  06 013 Excess Zer0


  07011 Infarct Real Masters Group

  07011 Ray Ivan Roshin


  08010 Amigo Die Krupps Group


  09008 Real Action Jordan / Reaction / Rush

                                   (Poland)

  09008 Cyber ​​Dream Imperio + HOG / Power Hackers

                                   Group

  09008 Noumenon ALK / SOK, Sage, Extreme

                                   (Samara)


  10,006 Abyss Power of Sound (Izhevsk)


  11004 Burdensome K3L Group

                 Dream


  12002 Rise Demo Global Corp.



   Now the first ten places with the ...



                         ∙ Gfx Compo ∙



 Place Points Title Author


  01,106 X-Files TeeRay (ex-Tracer) / Magic Soft / XTM

                            (Moscow)


  February 1973 Protect Crazy Digger & Deather / Intruders


  Mar. 1951 Skull Dap / Gladiatorssoft


  April 1945 USSR STS / Megadate (Moscow)


  May 1944 Strelka. Mixer / Style Group


  June 30 AbstrLov Radio Alex / Digital Reality

                            (Novgorod)


  July 27 Pereh5 Graf / Style Group


  August 1926 Enemy_M Crazy Digger & Deather / Intruders

  August 1926 Time2Die ROM / SM / PGS (Moscow)

  August 1926 Funky MIC / PGS (Moscow)


  September 1921 Konan Mr.Nik / Flash Inc (Novosibirsk)

  September 1921 PGSvsDR Terror + Radio Alex / DR, ROM + MIC / 
PGS 

                            (Novgorod and Moscow)


  October 1919 Robocop Spencer / Diamond (Moscow)



   Results Gfx-compo in no way be regarded
as adequate. Firstly, because there was confusion
bulletins, and secondly - because of the competition
attended by about 160 (!) images, and finally lost even
lead, jumped over several rooms. Therefore,
vote for the last several dozen papers just do not
sense. And of course, to assess the hub 160 projects
possible: the organizers had to sift out the most successful
of them.


   But that's the theory. Is it doable in practice? Show
time: as you can be sure that no more Inlaytov
will be (the organizers do not want, and its name nobody
give), it was decided to hold the Spectrum
demopati 98-year in Moscow! Title upcoming 
meropriyatiyaFunTop'98! Already, you can be sure that many 
disadvantages Inlayta it will be removed. This can be judged at 
least on behalf of the organizers: 

 ∙ Vladimir Bulchukey (Wlodek Black) - Chief Editor
Nicron, coordinator of the Moscow network ZX-NET.

 ∙ Alexei Ivanov (Alex Research) - Regional Coordinator
ZX-Net.

 ∙ Dmitry Grigoryev (Oldman / STEP) - no comment ...

 ∙ yours truly, as they say:)

 ∙ Some other Muscovites ...


   Another nice difference - Fantop will be fully
_spektrumovskiy_ what to Inla could only dream of.
This means that it will not show on the Spectrum dem pisishnyh
monitors, etc. And, of course, all the bugs and flaws Inlayta
we will try to fix it.


   While still talking about something sooner, but an agreement 
about space has already been achieved. Party will be held 
August 98-th. So demomeykery can start preparing. ;)