DonNews #18 11 декабря 2002

PARADOX 2oo2 version-2 - Report from the newspaper TELECOM-Rostov, criticism and all that.

               Carnival is not

(C) Anton Vilgotsky

    Telecom-Rostov. "
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 For the fourth time in Rostov festival of computer art 
, and Again we regret to state the following: . One gets the impression that any criticism, 
even the most objective, not able to get the organizers to 
think about what our the city exists on a permanent basis

Festival of the masshtaba.No in this case is not size matters. 
That completely absent in the  because it is

qualitative development. Festival does
has not changed since 2000. Has not helped even
moving from the complex center-Internet> under
the cover of night kluba.Eto only helped to create some 
semblance of positing such an event, the atmosphere, but in no 
way affected the quality of the event. A

sometimes even prevented the audience normally perceive it: 
agree, scurrying about on the background  
Screen waitress with salads and hot look for At least, 
organizers kurezno.V plus You can put the care of nonresident

participants in the audience (at the time of the festival
provided a hotel). As for the others - the show, as usual, did 
not correspond to the level of claims. Paradoxically, it is a 
fact. 

    The main trouble  is
its own nominations. Just a few years
ago it was possible to sigh with delight about the fact that 
the area we <ZX Spectrum> ahead of the rest, and to arrange 
appropriate demonstrations. But not today. Number ZX-product 
program  udivlyaet.Vrode to the yard in 2002, and all

understandable that such seminars should be shown the 
possibility of the most modern kompyuterov.No ZX Spectrum! The 
only justification - nostalgia. Longing for departed childhood. 
The same can be said and about the other nominations, not 
related to modern PC.


   But if only the organizers were to blame for the failure of 
his brainchild. Thus, the authors graphic projects do not go 
beyond hackneyed cliches, and if they are trying to create 
something original, just remember the phrase <would be better, 
it turned out as always>. Somewhat more interesting was

represented musical piece.

   Thus, we can draw some
outcome measures. Fourth  to
Sorry, can not be called successful. But
You can draw some conclusions. We have
country a large number of talented programmers who have learned 
to harness the power of available technology. And At least not 
right to talk about that the ZX Spectrum - a classic that

can show how people know how to program. Yes, even in a 
computer when knowledge of assembly Issued

good results. But in the presence of PC-base, multi-channel 
sound card and high-performance graphics card can be make a 
more interesting demo.