Born Dead #06 17 февраля 1999

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Spite of the day - At a party going? Artcomp'99, Chaos Constructions'99, Funtop'99.

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                PARTY ON KAKOE Belly, comrade?

Well, my young demomaykery, abandoned FunTop'a? It's about time 
already, as did half a year has passed. Demos, graphics and 
music with this party already became public and the classic 
Spectrum. And in minds of most progressive comrades are boiling 
fresh ideas creation of new and new masterpieces. However, from 
time to time another effect otassemblirovan already up and 
running, a new pattern music and full of play, and a fresh 
pixel postvlen in its place, there are dumb questions:


"Will there be any party in the 1999th year, where I can
exhibit their work? Is it party worthy of my work?
Whether it will be convenient time and place? "

The media give two answers to these questions, two
a sort of poorly understood names: ARTCOMP'99 and Chaos
Constructions'99. Consider the details both of them ...


                            ARTCOMP

Very, very doubtful thing! To understand why, rather
analyze the results of the past ARTCOMP'98. What we
see? Yes, sucks! None of decent work in any
nomination! Moreover, in the most prestigious compo - demo and 
intro there is only one job at nezasvechennaya FUNTOP'e - 
PARANOIA. AND then, only by the fact that she did not manage to 
get on to FUNTOP Technical prichnam. About music and graphics I 
want to silent ... A number of compo stated in the rules does 
not were due to lack of work (well, this is ridiculous - intro 
by PROFI!).


All material from ARTCOMP'98 fits all on one disk, then
as even the first ENLIGHT demanded two floppy disks! I'm not 
talking about shown by the organizers of complacency, resulting 
in a boot the first version of a compendium of ARTCOMP'a buggy, 
being launched from conventional TR-DOS'a and demanded USR 0: (


The very idea of ​​a virtual party of course is good and much 
more democratic, since it does not require (nor allow) personal

presence. Did the work, sent to the organizers - wait
results. However, on the other hand there is absolutely clear
neobektivnost such festivals - winning work
organizers!

My opinion in this matter is as follows: ARTCOMP'99 (if it) is 
not deserves to Major'nye team to stand there the

Work ...


                      Chaos Constructions'99

Really do not want to offend Random'a (organizer CC'99), so
he respected me, man, but ...

CC'98 already been appointed on December 98 th year. Date not 
explicitly convenient for the majority, and the venue, St 
Petersburg, for many non-dipped ... The rules, distributed over 
networks frightened of their leftism and sloppy language. They 
said it was machine translation ... Yes, even a monkey! I 
understood by these rules Only one - CC is not a simple 
collection of users and major scenery in order to communicate 
and present their latest achievements in various fields. It is 
likely that some commercial venture, invented for profit.

Undoubtedly, both are party there, in them, but for Russia,
more so for the ZX-Spectrum such a policy does not apply!

In addition to the ZX CC'98 planned compo on PC, AMIGA and C64 
(if I am not mistaken). All this is of course wonderful, but as

experience has shown, in the presence of multiplatform at Party
affects all other machines except PC, under which
"Sharpen" all the techniques!

And finally, the author of the idea and the organizer of live 
... in Australia! Not need to be a geographer to understand the 
situation. Here people in Russia are sitting, and that really 
can not do anything, let alone from Australia ... As you 
probably know, CC'98 not take place and postponed to late 
spring / early summer of 1999. And this is the only the real 
party of the emerging this year (while you are read these lines 
in Moscow might have ended BYTEFALL'99 which were PC, AMIGA and 
BC). 

Disadvantages CC'99, which are seen to me now that I have not 
yet acquainted with the latest version of the rules:


- Organizer live far from the venue of the event and is unlikely
able to implement their plans, which is fraught with 
postponement and total confusion.


- Time for Spring / Summer chosen badly, as
the only acceptable solution - this is the end of August - in 
this moment on the party can come vast majority of people!


- Location: St. Petersburg. Of course, this is somewhat biased, 
but Peter is ideal only for the Petrograd, people from the 
Baltic State, bourgeois (and they are to us more accurately did 
not come) and probably DIGITAL REALITY. For everyone else, 
Peter - it's extra miles and Dollars.


- Cross-platform, and commercialized. Spectrum inevitably
zagnetsya among these Amigo and PC, "purely on the iron." And 
we will be have a similarity E'97.


My opinion in this matter is as follows: CC'99 thing less 
dubious compared with ARTCOMP'om, but still does not withstand

any criticism.

                       "And what do we do?" - You ask!


                           FUNTOP'99

How could one forget about him? More recently, we are all there
were having fun partying, watching demos, receive diplomas and
prizes. Well, those who have not visited FUNTOP'98 personally, 
in consequence after reading reports on his passing, much 
regretted. Now all The army (TE + THESE) thirst for new 
parties, and it is in Moscow, as it is for virtually all the 
most convenient city.



  And what about the organizers? Organizers are silent as the 
fish on the ice ... 

I recently traveled to Moscow in person, and being
interested in the issue FT'99, as well as performing the 
assignment Eternity Industry (with whom I lived for about a 
week away), met with Vladimir Bulchukeem to clarify the 
situation. 

Vladimir unequivocally dismissed the idea and argued it FT'99
the following arguments:

- The difficult economic situation can not negotiate with
school director for party, since no one can
ensure that such is not shut off again
electricity.

- A team of organizers FT'98 poredela strongly since then, and 
those who stayed do not believe in the success of a possible 
FT'99. 

Let us examine this issue more in detail ... The difficult 
economic situation? So it may stabilize (though of course I

gonyu!). Director of the school? You can negotiate with anyone!
Outage? All compo can be made very quickly,
yes and the option with the cable already worked out. Any 
problem can be decide the main thing that was a wish! But it is 
the desire to have organizers FUNTOP'a very hard ...


So, if you, dear readers, there is a strong desire
hang out and po_comro_vatsya this summer, and for you too
optimal variant FUNTOP'a as party, as the city of Moscow, and
August as the month, then I urge you to action
designed to translate our desires into reality!

The first step is to raise the morale of the organizers. For 
this they need to fill up the letters, demanding: "Give FT'99!".

But this is not enough nuzho not just demand, and really help 
... 

Why do people going to the party? There are three components:

- Communication (this is where a lot of people)
- To see something new (this is where the cool demos)
- Booze (it's hidden part)

The third item, we will not discuss because it does not have to 
FT'99 nor any relationship - drinking can be, for anyone to 
take place after party, and who was on the second day FT'98, it 
remembers. 

COMMUNICATION! Here people want, as if coming FT'99 20
man, it would be natural skuchnyak.

SEE SOMETHING NEW! There needs good work as if
will be 10 demos and everything else ... GARLIC RESPIRATION

So, my young demomeykery! Urgently take the hands of the paper 
and pencil and fill the micro-profile:


-------------------------------------------------- -------------
1) Do you support an FT'99 at the same time that FT'98?

Yes, support [.]
No, do not support [.]

2) Will you be able to personally visit the party?

Yes, I can [.]
No, I can not [.]
It would be desirable, but not sure [.]
Do not even think about it [.]

3) Are you going to exhibit their work at the compo?

Yes, I will [.]
No, I will not [.]
I will attend as a spectator [.]
-------------------------------------------------- -------------
Of course we must also write your full name and contact address 
and sent to the organizers by any means.

Then, if a sufficient number of applications has accumulated, 
can be these same organizers to think about and begin to solve 
problems of holding FT'99


In fact, according to my personal observations, sufficient
number of people would go to FT'99 if available. By
at least provide 180-200 people is quite real. Other
dealing with work and their quality! Before the visit of 
Vladimir and carpet I thought it was nothing more powerful than 
on the REFRESH SPECCY can be done. However, the level of local 
coders (SaT / MC, SaiRoos' Senat / EI) is not just struck me, 
and put into state Down's syndrome. These guys write effects 
never seen before. Half FOREVER can be converted without the 
use of animation! And this level reached, not only they, I'm 
pretty sure. Distribution of sources of 4K intro from FT'98 and 
just revolution in the minds of SPECTRUM'ovskih coders can talk 
about what is coming wave of work performed by an impressive new

technologies. Works, capable of impressing even the man
not related to computers. So it will be
FT'99 the people, and then to look at ...

By the way, you can try to act in contradiction and to begin 
not with organizers, who are afraid of difficulties and have 
lost faith in themselves, but with Director of the school! 
Written in beautiful underscores (but still better printed) 
letter sleduyushego content obtained Director, may well 
contribute to FT'99. Example Text:


"Dear Mikhail Alexandrovich!


    We, the undersigned, have visited in August 98 th at the 
Festival Computer Art FUNTOP'98, held at your school.

Thank you for your assistance in organizing this
important for the thousands of people in Russia and abroad 
events! Please You, despite the difficult economic situation, 
seek the possibility of holding the festival in 1999 to the 
year ... " 

(This is just a sample! Spelling, grammar and punctuation, add 
new to taste:)


After the text - Name and signature of an increasing number
spektumistov your city.

The main thing now - to show each activity and send their
answers to the above profile, support, thus
organizers at a difficult moment decision. In the yard line
millennia, a time when many things are changing ... In my 
opinion, 1999th year will be the last in the life of Spectrum, 
but it is not means that SPECTURUM die. Just this year we will 
see the most strengths, the most amazing imagination of the 
program, and would be very wanted to see it all in one place 
(Moscow), at one time (August) and in the company of a large 
crowd of survivors of the true spektrumistov (FUNTOP'99). Whew!


Appendix:


                   Contact the organizers:

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          Bulchukey Vladimir aka Wlodek Black


                  Moscow, zip 107241

                  Address: Schelkovskoye Highway 31, kv.7

                       Phone: (095) 462-89-02

                       e-mail: wlblack@ns.91.ru


                       Director of the 91st school:

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            Where: Moscow, School 91, ul.Povorskaya d.14

          To: Dyukarevu Mikhail Aleksandrovich, Director


   All information at the addresses / name is taken from a 
newspaper NICRON