Virtual World #08 20 сентября 1997

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Enlight'97 - As we have seen off at Maxwella'a Inlayt. Day one ... Day Two ... Comments on the main organizer Enlight'a.

          ENLIGHT'97


(C) MR.JOHN / JS


   As we have seen off MAXWELL'a



  I just want to tell you about
As we saw off Max at Inlayt. But before that, a few words.


  As far as I know Max and
"And the software" want to make a joint issue of journal
'Vir.mir' and 'Stump'. I do not mind
of course, but on the contrary a very
rad. Can you imagine: 'Stump'
that all comes over and
victim of his raids 'Vir.mir'!?
But is not the case. I want to ask: when I'll paint splash me 
what to write - "The Virtual stump"? "Stump the virtual 
world?"? "Virtual the world in a stump "????? The question 
remains open. Or maybe nothing at all

not to write? :) Okay, we digress from the topic.


  So, I mean. Then came the
DAY, when Max had to collect things and blow off to Peter.
We agreed to meet at 13
hours at Max. I came to Max, bringing yet another picture on the
Inlayt (even though I wanted to use it to send a little 'facts' 
'water bike' (Moto-activator)). At Max's already Valerik 
sitting out "and soft" and they together plagued Extremes 
tracker, Mouzon translating from Scream

Tracker'a. After about five minutes
Kolyan descended from GLADIATORS
SOFT, and also brought back something. Then
Max, and behind him and Nick
started zipovat everything prepared for Inlayt, tuck and
zapechatavat boxes of floppy disks, winding their scotch. I
Meanwhile sharilsya on discs
Max, looking for that would have me rewrite. Not finding 
anything interesting, I rolled back from the company. Max at 
this time preparing for useredno departure, pushing all the 
right and unnecessary in my bag. That's like

he graduated from store things and we have gathered to dump.
We sat on the track. Max mum
spent the last briefing,
that he did not throw a car
under the train and the girls. :) And
so that the train was late (which
he subsequently fails to comply).


  Here, finally, we have chosen to
street and pochopali to the bus, on
something bazaar and by giving the last
instructions to Max. Especially
zealous Kohl and myself. He requested that Max had brought him 
to the screw and I - that he would have photographed

Amiga. ;) Reach the center, we
went for beer. Beer was
raspihano on bag (only one
Valerik came with a bottle of beer
hands and one more in your pocket) and
we have sent your feet to the bus stop to get to
Station. There
Kolyan bought lemonade and stuffed
Max in his bag. Landing
on the bus we went, as usual bazaar about something and 
somewhere midway Max remembers

that he made a new number of the virtual world. That's a radish,
previously could not remember. I
after fumbling on the disk, I find that something ...


  Safely to
Station Kolyan bought a lemonade
and again shoved it in the bag to Max. Began searching the town 
for emptying bottles stockpiled

beer. Then someone got the idea:
'How nice it would sit on a lawn somewhere ...'. 
Almost-camouflaged in the bushes that we landed in the town has 
pleasant, landed, everyone (except me)

but then "for technical reasons," and I had to land
(Almost as famous in the film:
"And so here sticks out like Three Poplars at Plyushchikha. 
Razlyazheshsya yet you're here, like a dog ...). Opening beer 
all sat down at butylachkam and, as you know, again

started to market. Passed that way an hour and then Kolyanom, 
and then I observed two subjects

in a police uniform, which
slowly separated from the station and
began to approach us with everything
increasing speed (see
we are a thinly veiled). When
they arrived their first question
was: "What guys? indulge in vodka, il marijuana smoke?
Present your dokumentiki ...
. Check at the Max tickets
passport and know where he works
began to identify friendly
ties Max to work with
menta'sa relatives. Not
unsuccessful detection
was the impetus for such a statement: "Then we need you to hold 
...". Stupid jokes from ments. Then he started questioning about

as to where Max is going and why. We
responded that he was going to Inlayt
(Although it was explained differently and Inlayt not even 
mentioned ). In the end, intending to dump ment said: "If there 
were Competition idiots I had it

participated! . "And probably took
be the first place "- I thought;)
Here at last mentosy dumps. AND
We began to open the second
butylochle beer. Looking at
clock and seeing that before the train left for half an hour we 
are very slowly began to gather to vypolzaniyu from the bushes. 
Climbed out of the them, we walked slowly to the platform. 
Someone wanted to crawl into station and the building itself is 
something out there look, but no, we continued to move up to 
the platform. Stopping at the kiosk someone started to seek out 
chocolate and not finding it, we again continued their journey 
to the train ... And here I was staring climbed on his forehead 
- all the conductors were standing at the door

wagons and pulled his flazhochki ... Did not understand 
anything, we have look out for coach Max and saw that he was 
almost at the end of the train! Then the train jerked, Max 
tried to climb into the first car, but the conductor shouting 
"Where you climb!" shuganula him. I had to quickly step

come to the right of the car and stuff there, Max. The train 
once again gone. Waving goodbye to handle and shouting final 
instructions, we once again waved and pochopali a departing 
train. Puzzled: before the train to

Ticket Max remained as
at least twenty minutes? May
Max, we are not on that train were packed? No, like the train 
was going to Moscow. And in the end, Max

not thrown off the train, then
the "beam". Looking then
schedule, we saw that he
departs minutes on twenty-two
before it was written in
ticket! We just got lucky
that we managed to cram in the Max
train, or he would have covered the whole trip. Then we pinned 
long as we both managed to: More a little bit and "truncated". 
But the glory bat, the danger was behind us and

Max importantly, even if it was
not the train gets to Moscow
and there, and Peter. And sitting on the tram, we went home ...

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(C) MAXWELL / JS


        Until ENLIGHT'a ...


  Well, I got on the train and go.
And drove and drove and drove ... Honestly
let the process visit me
do not like, especially if
a train to one (ie
the car was not a single acquaintance, and I was surrounded by
one grandmother, Dedkov, tetki and
guys who were not disposed to talk). In the morning, arriving 
in Moscow and went to the Polytechnic Museum (of course I there 
was no one found. MagiC (Ex-LooKER) and KANO long been in St. 
Petersburg) I was headed on Mitinskaya radio market, but

as I have left two hours before
departure of the train, I changed my mind and
went to the Leningrad station.
Further details I omitted.
Let me just note that the trip from
Moscow to St. Petersburg I liked
even less. Peter arrived in the night. Metro has already been 
closed. To reach Yudin Alexandra failed. Passed the bag to the 
chamber storage and went for a walk on

one of the most beautiful cities
world. Wandered into the devil knows where.
I had to catch a wheelbarrow, that would
get to the station. Nap in
camera ... ugh ... recreation room
Early in the morning went to the apartment
relatives Sanka. Breakfast and in the way - on the
ENLIGHT'97!


         Day one ...


  Arriving at the place we first saw a large crowd at
login Voenmech, which was
noticeable from afar. Someone has already
adorned T-shirts' AMIGA -
iNTEL oUTSIDE ', who then greeted old friends, and some people 
already hard sipping beer. At 10:00 am began handing out papers

to vote and the gradual
seepage of the people in the building.
Once inside we saw ... SHIT!
On the whole room stood a 5 or 6 monitors SVGA! Having spent 
some time around and watching some demos on AMIGA

and pC, we heard familiar music
(Played. Mod files), but the screen glowed very familiar
Spectrum graph. It turned out: we have demonstrated musical and 
payment GENERAL SOUND Editor RIFF TRACKER under this

fee. Sound, in comparison with various COVOX'ami (about 
digitizing a muz.protsessor and speech not) was simply superb,

though of course it is far to the Amiga. Were seen a ripple on 
the monitors, which subsequently just infuriated. When they 
began to demonstrate the best Spectrum demoshki all saw that 
video blaster, which is excreted through the monitor does not 
give two bitplana. In Later in the DEMO-compo many

effects demah or voobshe none
not seen, or to remove half effekta. Registration has begun.
People built in the queue. Who
had already changed into his T-shirts with
inscriptions' AMIGA - iNTEL
oUTSIDE 'and company
'ENLIGHT'97', which sold
right there in the hall. Briskly walked trade literature on the 
Amiga. People in corridor to drink beer, although it is

forbidden. Showed a new
Computer 'Sprinter'. For
Spectrum is cool, but still
my opinion - is a perversion. For
the same money (and even cheaper)
You can take the 'Amiga 600', which
in all respects surpass this
machine. According to the developers
first task was to develop low-cost car
to work in networks. But still
software under it there, and when he will appear is unknown, 
but what about a cheap I said above. 


  After registration, Sanya has finally noticed MagiC'a and 
introduced me to him (in absentia, verily, we were already 
familiar, but personally no). Went outside and talked

with people. Met with the guys from PROGRESS'a. Stood,
drank beer, talked, looked like a ROM'a interview
and decided to seek out Macdonald's,
that would have lunch. I have all this time trying to 
zafotografirovat all the memory, but then found out that some 
staff simply lost (lit when purely by chance I opened the 
camera). After dinner we (MagiC, Visual, ROM, FUX, I, Sanya, 
and more a boy, introduced himself as 'dunce';) in waltz tempo 
rushed back, which already nachinalos 4K intro compo (AMIGA). 
Glory God had! Few settled and began ...



  At 4K intro compo byla
represented by only one work.
Next went 64K intro compo
(AMIGA), which won a clear victory with his CODEBUSTERS
REST-2. And so we waited
gfx-compo at the Spectrum. It was announced about two hundred 
(!) Works. All of them were run fairly

quickly. Immediately after the works
GLADIATORS SOFT'ov took a break and our work were immediately
after gladiatorovskih. So
when they began to show our work half the people still smoke.
Yes, in addition also while viewing a picture reduced to a 
minimum (which is 2-3 seconds), so that all the work after a 
break flying, DO NOT deposited in memory. Then they started to 
turn the music on the Spectrum (music-compo). The sound was 
just disgusting. I almost fell asleep. Just woke up

at the tenth track (it was
rather battle, so do not
it was hard to wake up:)). AND
here and all, and broken off. Of 80
Mouzon lost more than just
15! Time is not enough ... Here
a pie ...


  Again the break. And then began what all been waiting for: 
DEMO-COMPO (SPECTRUM). The first shows the work particularly in 
memory is not deferred, music voobshe it was shit, though

built up over the sound-mennee.
The second job was on the demo
PROGRESS'ov. That's the guys job! Even considering that
some effects not working with video blaster (ROM was just
rage) demo was a great success!
Personally, I liked it more
total. Perhaps because we
were far from Montoro, and the effects were large and in the 
distance looked just fine. That is why the demo and from the 
DIGITAL REALITY also went well (although

and does not start from the first time). Especially everyone 
enjoyed inscription 'Hiroshima-46 ... CHERNOBYL-86 ... 
WINDOWS-95 ... ENLIGHT-97 ...'. That is pinned!

Many people liked and EYE ACHE-2
from CODEBUSTERS. Although, when I
looked at it without the video blaster
Spectrum Monitor found that more than half of the demo
we just have not seen ENLIGHT'e
(As in other demos)! Total
presented about 15
work and after watching all the demos we were told that
the first day and finished Enlight'a
time to disperse. Now turn
HIDDEN PART ... I literally fell asleep after a night exploring 
the Peter and upon arrival back home soon passed out until 
morning ... 



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(C) MAXWELL / JS



         Day Two ...


  No sooner had I closed my eyes, as
Sanya I already wake ... ;) Has come the second day. Hastily 
snack we went to Inlayt. Leaving the subway, we, like the first 
day, spotted a large crowd in front of tusuyuschuyusya 
Voenmech. But strange: no one inside is not

zahodil. Came closer, and that
we saw: people who stood in
doors and gave some message. That is all I can remember (for
the accuracy of information transfer is not
answer): "... because the organizers can not ensure the safety 
of participants in the congress ... ... Will not be ...". 
That's bummer! People traveled hundreds of kilometers,

and their broken off! Well, we
spektrumisty had time to myself
watch and other show ...
Or vice versa. And what amizhnikam
and pisishnikam? Hung side by side, the answer to the 
organizers at a healthy paper and appeal to the people (not

I remember already who wrote it). On
a piece of paper with the inscription "ENLIGHT'97 -
Festival of Computer Art "someone marker finished" prosto zaley 
beer ";). Arrived at the prison mess and

asked to go home.
But where to go to us - newcomers? Do nothing - narod began to 
gradually disperse in all directions. Someone suggested to 
count votes at least in those contests, who managed to hold the 
first day. They collected the papers and to

then disappeared from view. Came the guys from the firms 
'Skorpion' - handed out price lists and booklets on controller 
SMUC. I, Sanya, Max (M.M.A.) and another Sanya (the last two of 
the city of Samara) went to the 'emulator' McDonald

(There is one institution in St. Petersburg -
Grilmaster said. So
We have nicknamed it the emulator.
Emulation McDonald - somewhere
80%:))) and bite a little.
Returned to Voenmech, and there remains hangouts gathered to
protest - the solemn
burned T-shirts Enlight'a. About an hour later hanged 
preliminary results of the vote. Of the eight hundred-odd 
people in the vote was attended by about 180 (if not mistaken). 
We've noticed that people groups began to disappear in the next 
turn and headed the same direction. And we saw there a

picture: in a small little park in
surrounded by abandoned houses located offsuit company. In the 
center lay a drink and a snack (as well as zapivka). People 
drinking, hanging out, yelling in chorus 'RULEZ!' and something 
else. Someone have been unable to rise from

grass. A couple of hours the four of us left the company, even
just emulate that, walked
by Peter (or rather: go to
aimlessly, and then returned to
same place:)) and decided to go back to the park. But did not 
join the main company, and sat slightly apart. Approached

people 'from SpbZxNet', as he
introduced (it seems to address that
Whether 7.15, or 17.5. If that
messed up - please do not be offended!
And in poemu his name is Max
Petrov.). Chatted about that - about
Sem (and about eNLIGHT'a too).
Then he went away, and we noticed
it is not known from the crowd
taxied police car to and from
She jumped out of certain subjects. We
immediately decided to quietly slip away.
Do not have time to get to the exit as
heard behind us: 'Guys, wait a minute! ". Behind us
ran a young cop. 'Let's
look at your belongings and documents. " Since we Yudin Sanko
were no bags, we were asked
to step aside and checked for
We only pockets (perhaps he
thought we were local and not
should we have to check the documents), but have Samarans he 
turned all things into bags, flipped through the papers and 
checked all pockets. Then followed the question: 'What are you 
doing here? " Well, we answered him, as it should. Explained so 
that he would have understood. What we heard in response: 'This 
is what you have here, pointovka what? '. 'This is loaded

ment! " we thought. 'So what?
Often pointovki overclock have? " - Ask. 'Yes, sometimes
sometimes. Okay. Go ahead and try not to get more '.
We went long and then making fun of 'pointovkoy'. May
He fidoshnik? Walk a little, we decided to go to
Sanka for my family
bag (unto me that night
prdstoyalo depart to Moscow). A
Samara guys, if you do not find
a place where to sleep, we decided to
accompany me and stay on
night in the station building. Reached
to the station and decided to have dinner.
Long sought kakoenibud cafe
type 'emulator', but nothing
found and bought food at the store
settled at the station for dinner.
Very sleepy. Sat
a little bit and decided to go into the room
Rest a little relaxation. I
It was impossible to sleep and I sat down to read. We agreed 
that when I announce my landing pushed Max Sankom with me and 
they spend, but when it came Rush Hour they have a gun and 
could not wake up. ;))) Great difficulty I pushed them. After 
saying goodbye to them: 'Good-bye! Waiting for your visit! "

and heard 'Give greetings grandfather Lenin' I started home.


  That's how I went to the
Enlight. If someone says that
Enlight was shit, I objected.
Shit - this is how the organizers
held it, and everything else
RULEZZZZ! Hello to everyone who was
there, whom I know and I do not know. I hope to see the next
year (even if not on
Enlight'e). And would very much like
that would be similar tusovka organized in Moscow! May be be
it will ByteFall?

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  And now the main comments
organizer Enlight'a, caught in the FidoNet:
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           Hello All!


  It's time to comment on the situation and draw some 
conclusions. 


  So, as many already know,
second day ENLiGHT'97 demo
party was canceled. This means
that were only those compo, which were on the first day - all
with regard to the Amiga and Spectrum.
This also means that no
the voting results do not exist.


  I would first like to clarify - the second day was canceled
on my initiative, which was
supported by all present
at the end of the first day members of the
Organizing Committee (stalls (Spectrum),
Lions (Amiga), StarGuest (PC),
Slash (PC)) and the administration VoenMeh'a. Actually, I 
emphasize this because here as at least a couple of times 
slipped theme of the second day was

Administration banned BSTU.
It is not. Another thing is that output in any case was not. No.


  Now, about the reasons. Initially,
preparing for ENLiGHT'97, we
counted approximately 500 people. In reality, however, by the 
middle the first day passed through the entrance

approximately 1200-1300 people. Ie
more than twice as many planned. That would be yet
as critical if not one
circumstance ... Take the last, in 1996. According to my rough
estimations (counting was not conducted)
then present some
300-400. It was expected that
which would increase the number of
not come to 1997m, it will be
look like this: 1chaynik-> 3chaynika, 1profi-> 3profi, 
1huligan-> 3huligan, 1_s_pivom-> 3_s_pivom etc.. It is clear 
that I have view. Well, it happened at all

not so. The number of decent people
remained about the same as in
last year. Can be grown, but quite a bit. The number of
eg drunk (or made
those already in the process) people
increased significantly. No warning or request (including
those already on the very party) have not helped. If last year
security is quite able to maintain order, in the 1997m to 
control so many drunks It was simply impossible. Solved

negative role is also
what all happened on the fourth floor and pull someone from the 
audience or on the street was quite difficult. Pro splayed 
fingers and swinging gsm'ami I generally keep quiet. One way or 
another began to emerge incidents. Most known how many have 
heard, was painted from a container

to paint the wall and the presence of
Hall of a drunken man
with an air rifle. But the people throughout
Day continued to drink beer. It was interesting to watch how 
they drink those who know exactly what this

do not, those who later in the
ehah us the same and condemned. A bad
example is known contagious.
In the afternoon, looking at
it all started to get nervous administration of the institute. 
For those who not aware of a slight lyric

retreat - in this age of the victory of democracy in any
Institute, there are different
commercial and semi-commercial
structure on which the administration does not have a direct 
influence can. When the second half

Day suddenly lost power in 70% of outlets, it was like
such a case. Or rather -
direct reaction to the ornamented
wall. With great difficulty, managed to
convince a person to include
electricity back. Then
followed by a couple similar
actions by other organizations. In short, the situation
has already become unmanageable - even with
purely technical point of view. People
also continued to drink. Should
also take into account that the second
day in our experience are usually heavier than the first. 
Solution so it was obvious (to me). Certainly mattered, and what

that for the whole technique is
on the party I held personally liable. In addition, I would
did not want people to have
Roughly speaking let us Voenmech, would lose jobs as a result 
of his action. So way on the second morning was hung on the 
abolition of second day. Announcement of this

however constantly disrupted. We
out a few times and I explained the situation - no one said 
anything to me in the eye from the fact that the writing on the 
posters what was said behind his back when we

leaving what is now written in
ehah.



           On the Future


  In three years neither I nor my friends could not find a way 
to move to a higher ENLiGHT level. Enthusiasm may be enough for 
a long time in one person, but its not enough for many of

4-7 or-10I. One is impossible
roll out like on any
level. During this period I spoke to
directors of large firms, with officials of state organizations 
and is now fairly well represent the reasons on which

We did not have, and no serious
sponsor. It's a complicated question and I
I will not discuss it here. Can simply accept as fact
- St. Petersburg
95m-96m-97m years a sponsor _zakonomerno_ not appear
could. (I'm saying
exclude from consideration the situation with a friend the 
mayor / governor, father / grandfather - the head of the bank, 
etc.) Based on this principle, I see no prospects for ENLiGHT'a 
in St. Petersburg. In the other town, he will not be done. This 
does not mean that ENLiGHT'98 not be 100%. This

only means that I will not deal with organizational issues 
related to its conduct. Only technical / ideological. In other 
words, if there are people ready go for it, find a sponsor, and

who can convince me
their seriousness,
possible if ENLiGHT'98 place. I though this is not very
believe.



                      CodeRipper


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