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 Millennium'1902: The Complete Guide with Questions and Answers

Fed up with questions, speculation, attacks, reproaches, etc.
tops of a similar plan, which pour abundantly from each
Internet cracks, like virtual cockroaches, I offer to your
Please note the following document, compiled in the form of questions and
answers. You can think absolutely everything in your favor about him.
will judge...

I heard that organizers rose sharply at the party, thanks to
bad prices for tickets and generally everything that was in the club. Is that so?
Fuck off, dude. If anyone rose to the occasion, it would be the club.
(of which I’m not very sure, because the hall was full
40 percent maximum).  The organizers' share of profits was
agreed upon in advance and was initially equal to 0% (zero percent - according to
letters - for those who did not move in). By the end of the party nothing came of-
has changed. The losses amounted to a modest amount ~$150-200 plus half
a completely stupefied head and absent weekends, which for peoplewho have to go to work on Monday is important.

The organizers deceitfully deceived visitors by changing the ticket price for
day before the party. Is there such a thing?
Welcome to the Official Site of Millennium Demoparty. From there you
you will find out that the price was set by the club so as not to lose
reputation of an expensive establishment. Moreover, it was said
(on the website) a week or two before the event, but not on May 3.

Why bother with a cool club?
The club was found for us at our request. We ourselves are in search
premises are not strong.  Unfortunately, I have to admit that
You can have a truly good party only in a club that
ry belongs personally to the organizers. But we are still far from such things
Moons... At least for now.

The organizers refused to accept works directly
before the start of the party. Are they the last kaldyrs?
Kaldyri are those who did not want to read the rules. Which states that
Partyplace accepts only very large sizes of work,
which you get tired of downloading from the internet.  Moreover, the category
Multichannel Music was overflowing with applicants. Reception of non-tested
work afterdeadline (May 2) and so led to decent
delays and glitches.  Just remember PC Game Compo. By the way,
Let's sing the praises of Paul Pavlov, who received Spectrum work until the morning -
ra May 5th!

Why the hell was that lame disco sound?
For questions to those who DJed. This is repeated for the second time
times.  Explain that people came to the party, not to the Gopnitsa
dancing, it just doesn't work.  I’ll say in advance that the dirty
There are a lot of comments about the WinAMP equalizer, because this equalizer was
disabled.

Why use the buggy Vortex 2, which lost
sound?
The fact is that no one did crash tests before the party, and
in addition, the compo machine mostly runs Linux, and
not Win2K.  Penguin breeders have this glitch associated with dislike
Vortex 2 for VIA chipsets appears less frequently.  Moreover, he
can be easily treated with wpcredit or setpci. What we did on
second day.  By the way, the sound did not fall off “a hundred times”, as claimed.
some are waiting, and not more than three (it generally seems to me that two
times).

Well, the projector was just rubbish. And where do they get such things?
The projector is for a club, and we couldn’t find a better option. His
um... "features"we compensated by manufactured to second-hand
today with an S-Video extender, for which many thanks to Hammer.

Again there was no real Spectrum. Fed up with crap emulators!
Nothing could be done here, because the Spectrum was burned in the evening
first day...

Why are you in such a hurry?  The breaks between the components were very short
shy.
We were afraid of not being on time, like last year. Fortunately, almost everyone
made it in time.

What, was the compo machine like in the rules?
Yes.  Athlon XP 1600+ with 512 MB DDR RAM. For particularly demanding
The demos were delivered by GeForce2Ti, at the request of the authors. Everything else
ran on Radeon VE. We didn’t regret installing Radeon
never, because it had an additional VGA and TV-OUT (see above
answer about the projector). In addition, some of the compo-work
flatly refused to work on GeForce.

The guys from The Psycho Team took away too much prize money
place... Something is unclean here...
Dirty innuendo.  On the second day, if you saw, counting
voices were held right in the club, and you could come up and see
see how the process is going. I think Cooler for yousource code voted-
ki would have shown even if asked... And about where who is?
won... So the public likes it, period.

The party website says that there will be no more Millenniums. This
is it really so?
Hmm... In general, the situation is like this: at the moment we do not have
I have no desire to organize such events.
This party showed that the demoscene is turning from entertainment into
free (and even unprofitable) hard work. And in general, where
did the youth hide?  What should we do, hold a party until retirement? C
Let's gladly take down the challenge banner for young stagers and help
advice.

Well, I don’t believe it... DJ Psych said something to the effect that
that the organizers will have a rest and will want to organize it again
party...
In general, last time we had thoughts like “in
this is the last time we’ll arrange this,” but now the decision is to “give it up”
has taken final shape.  So hurry up to become organizers
Millennium'1903: according to rumors, the Ukrainians want to take the banner, and
Belarus will be left with virtually no party (organizers Twilight
Demoparty in Grodno also decided that their firstthere will be a party
last).

Well, maybe you can at least please us with a report?
Let the party visitors do this for us.  Go to
opensources.narod.ru, yomoma.ru, scenosaurus.org, scene.org.ru,
demoscene.ru, and follow the news (on the first two sites already
there are reports with photographs).

Millennium Demoparty you are abandoning. What about the demoscene?
For now we plan to focus our main efforts on our website
Scenosaurus.org.

I have a question that is not covered in this document. Who wants it
set?
Write to sergei@scenosaurus.org or 2:450/42.24, let's try
figure it out.

 Version dated 05/19/2002, 23:35.

Written to the music of Bjork, the wheezing of the modem and the BUSY signals, which
this same modem did not want to catch...

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