Nicron #117 21 мая 2000

Демопати

Events - demoparty Millennium and Paradox. Summary Report.

          Two demoparty



   ... Millennium and Paradox in 2000 took place in these days 
of spring demoscene ZX-Spectrum, as well as the PC and Amiga.


   Paradox 2000 took place in the city of Rostov-on-Don between 
the May holidays, and the Millennium - in the Belarusian 
capital Minsk a week later. 

   Detailed reports from the festival yet, but they will be, as 
members of the media - newspapers Don News, Polesie, C-Net Week 
and others - present on the party. From Nicron-but neither 
there nor there was nobody there, and the reason this are the 
only financial and time factors. I would love to attend both 
events. At the same time once again want to thank Paul-a 
Pavlov-and for the invitation to the Millennium Party! 

   A brief report on the Millennium Party wrote Ivan Poliakov, 
and placed in ehokonferentsiyu Demo.Design; this story we 
reprint. About Paradox was also issued a detailed text, but ... 
last year's Paradox-e. 

   Participants (and guests) from Moscow was not at the 
Paradox-e, nor the Millennium-e. Therefore, disputes in the 
first place were not FiL and not EA ;-))) :-)). Work won first 
place in the genre of graphic we publish.




        1 place on the Paradox 2000: "s51".
        Author KASik / Sinclair Club, Voronezh.


      Millennium Demoparty

Ivan Poliakov
Ivan Polyacov 2:450 / 164



   That is, in fact, ended the first day of a party. People 
left who are back home, who at the hidden part, well, and I 
took the opportunity and went to the boss to write this 
messagu. Especially, that are having problems with updating the 
main site to the party, so that the official results in the 
internet will probably only on Sunday 14 th May. 

   Still, on Thursday, when we have finished the inspection 
technique and folded, the first person to tender the works and 
questions about hotels. But the bulk of visitors, of course, 
came the morning of 12 th. 

   With regard to technology, then perhaps the only serious
problem was a sound system: unable to connect only to mono. In 
addition, one of eight speakers strongly sizzled and had to 
turn it off. Well at least that sound cards are not affected 
... Spectrum connected to the projector and the image was 
normal in color. With the Amiga and PC problems did not exist. 

   Thus, in the morning, long before the actual opening, people 
began to slowly gather. Start party was announced in 12 hours, 
but contests scheduled to begin only in 14 hours. During this 
time drove the demo on PC and Amiga, and the people in the 
meantime was proposed (it is too late) to check the 
availability of work and take new ones. Some are even so did 
:-) Speaking of demah: began with the Second Reality, and 
finished like Relic'om (although exactly I do not remember ...) 
Anyway, there are still lots of non-dem who just do not have 
enough time to show. 

   Nevertheless, most papers passed at the last
moment, that is, of course, did not contribute to the normal 
schedule of competitions. About preselekte actually could 
forget ... 

   Contests were in this order:

   4-channel music - think 9 works, to me personally there is 
nothing remember, some work has been slightly better, but no 
more. Although on average they were made pretty good. 

   Hand-drawn graphics - 3 works, one of which has a dubious 
origin. We'll have tomorrow to demand proof from the author of 
"drawing" work (unless of course it will find).


   Multichannel music - the same as 4-channel (this is all mine
imho!).

   Rendered graphics - think 7 works, here I am several times
said WoW!

   Wild Music - some good work ... However, the authors would 
be good to keep in mind that the CD can sometimes be difficult 
to read! 

   ACSII / ANSI - one work, which were shown out of competition.

   Wild compo - showed something on the emulator GameBoy'ya ...

   PC game compo - 5 job. Unfortunately, one of them, 
"stuttered" and occasionally hangs (for 2-com), although the 
game itself was certainly beautiful. Still further, too, met a 
very beautiful game. 

   ZX game compo - two games with an impressive entry and
most primitive essence:)

   That's it. Not a contest ZX Wild (single work).
I would also like to note that people still managed to refrain 
from drinking beer and stronger drinks. However, a couple of 
times beer bottles across on the eyes (and in the end, even 
carried a bag with empty bottles), but directly in the hall 
drinking is not was seen. Um ... Maybe people are ready for 
hidden party, on the which took in the late afternoon Sturm?


   As for the number of visitors: 74 votelist'a were collected.
Really well attended by about 90 people. Given the awkward date
(And more generally its port), it's pretty good. In general, I 
think that the first day of the party was quite successful.


   The voting system - forms, with fields for each job. Rating 
scale - ten (1 to 10). However, despite Explanation of Voting 
List'e and oral clarifications on the microphone, people often 
used the estimates of type 0 and even steeper - SUXX, NULL, 
RULEZ! What am I to do with them? However, it was decided 0 
equated to 1. 

   Results of voting on the first day I did not say, because
announcement of winners and awarding will take place only at 
the end of the second day. 

   Okay, I will not continue to take your time, wait for the 
official results.


   Work for ZX posted on the site PP: zx.da.ru. Rest in
An Internet, it seems, still do not have :-(. My computer at 
the time of removal arrested by local security forces, and he 
stood for the weekend them, so that there was a hitch with the 
formation of the results and reports.


   In general, I believe that the event was successful. In the
fact: despite the lack of sponsors and a rather inconvenient 
date, it's about 90 people and left almost no people. Most of 
the visitors - Belarus. Nobody hit the glass and not get drunk, 
and the hall was left piles of garbage and empty bottles. The 
number of jobs, too, was more than we expected, and average 
works very well. 

   On the other hand the organizers have made many mistakes and
punctures, but this better let others write ...



        1 place on the Millennium Party.
      "Butterfly". (C) RMG / Real Masters Group.