Di:Halt`99 - The truth about Di:Halt.

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     |    Travel around the party.  |    
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August 18 was a crazy day.  In the morning
had to run out to pay the rent,
Tom drop by the apartment of D-Man'
whom I also met andSpy. He’s the one for me
was needed. But as it turned out, the insert for the badge
zhu was never done, but the next
I had to leave the day before.  Okay
I thought, printed on a matrix would do just fine.
Nom printer through a carbon copy.    To the extreme
case I’ll do it in Dzerzhinsk.  PXM pose-
took care of the stickers in advance, ordering them from
company Gemma and shelling out a lot of money.  And time
went.  In addition to the presentation of his magazine, in
at the last moment I decided to still participate in
CHUNK GFX COMPO, which means it was necessary to take
Hard Core and draw pictures.  Something about
I was already there and it made the work easier...
half past four in the morning I'm almost done
finished it, threw it on disk and went to bed.      
5.30. It's time to get up.  You'll be a little late
home and the train will leave without me.  But neo-
An idea suddenly appeared from the pictures and
I'm quickly starting to refine them... Still
a little bitand I'll miss the train. Quickly boil
I put my things in my bag and run to the station... Oh
damn, I forgot to take a printout of the info
Di:Halt where the production schedule was written
conducting all competitions, as well as indicating
home address of the organizers.  (Like this with
me always: I ran, printed it, stapled it and
I forgot)... In a not very good mood anymore
I’m not getting on the train. Okay I thought:
“I know the city, I’ll find it anyway”... Here comes the electric
trika went...                         
 9.50. The train arrived in Gorokhovets without delay
Denmark, but to my surprise at the neighboring place
there was no train.  How did I later find out
the schedule has been changed and she will arrive only
at 11.30. I'm waiting...                           
                                          
 12.30. So I arrived in Dzerzhinsk.  Cxo-
I live at Pushkino station.  Before you borrow
to see my family, I decided to drop into la-
rivers and buy beer.  These few minutes
everything was decided.  When I came to my relatives
Kam then found out that about 15 minutes ago to me
two guys came in and asked me.
They promised to come again...                      
 16.40. Call.  I open the door.  Re-
There are 5 people before me. "Spectrumists?" - ask
I am strong. Answerwas positive. "We need to
be able to carry the monitor,” they said.  And we
let's go. Along the way we got to know each other better...
 Orgamism as the main character in my hanging
wording (ed. but not as the main person on
Di: Halt) showed me the receipt and said
that the free premises were broken off and
had to rent for one day
placement of another educational institution for 1
thousand. rubles  Then Org with two more guys-
we took the speakers and dragged them to him
apartment (ed. all equipment was brought
to Orgamism's apartment, where he checked
its performance was affected). And I, Nuts and
Time Keeper went to Ice behind the monitor.  How
It turned out Ice was an excellent musician.
After listening to 3 of his Mouzons, most chose
is the last one to participate in the party (ed. and not
in vain, T-REX will later take 1st place in Music
compo).  Taking Ice's monitor and computer, we
We also went to Org's apartment.  On the way
I discussed the conversion problem with Nuts
files from CP/M format to Profi to
TR-Dos... Arriving at Org I saw still un-
how many peoplewho take turns torturing
tried to revive the TV. I gave the disk
with his works, and also began to show
vat soft who brought. On one of the dis-
it turned out to be a little girl inviting me to
Di:Halt.  To my surprise, most
kinda saw her for the first time.  Someone said
:"Preparations for the party began three days ago
when they realized that Di:Halt would take place."
At this moment I didn’t pay much attention to it
th attention (ed. but it was worth it).  In my opinion,
grew up: "Will the promised projector be on
party", Org replied thatthe projector belongs to
lies with the sect "Church of Adventist Christians"
seventh day" and a week before DI: Halt he
went on a missionary mission to
Belarus...In the evening I'm with SLG and Beer
let's go home.    When leaving the apartment
Orgamism shouted: “This is not CC for you”...      
                                          























                                          
  На следующий день я решил снова зайти  к
Org'у домой.  Так как вспомнил,    что  не
спросил его где же именно будет  проходить
Di:Halt. Я постучал в его дверь.  Раздался
вопрос:"Кто там ?".  "Melted" - ответил я.
Дверь  распахнулась  и  под  крики  Org'а:
"Пришел Melted Snov",  я зашел внутрь.   В
"Пришел Melted Snov",  я зашел внутрь.   В
квартире сидело трое незнакомых людей. Как
оказалось это  были  ребята  из  Syndrome:Phantazm, Spark and Lester.  What rushed into
eyes so this is their badge. And they told the story
the story of their creation. Still on the train with their hands
they tore the name of their band from the newspaper,
glued the letters onto the paper with soap and then
station at the first company they came across
their photocopy. It turned out quite stylish
and beautiful.  Syndrome's took a little for
arrival and the exchange of Spectrum began
soft.  At this time, Time Keeper launched
the still unfinished shell of your magazine.
The shell was cool. And Syndromes are produced
carried: "Scenergi sucks!".   In response, they
began to show their intros, saying that
they were written during parties. Seeing them
work, I involuntarily came to the conclusion that
The amount of alcohol consumed is directly proportional to
rationally for the quality of the code (for the better
side).  Then Orgamism began to say that
doesn't have time to do everything and Syndrome's decide
help steel cut input sheets
tickets and voting forms for Di: Halt.
                                          
























                                          
А  я  с  Time  Keeper'ом,     Nuts'ом    и
Мг.First'ом пошли на квартиру  к  Keeper'у
за телевизором и его компьютером.   Прийдя
домой хозяин квартиры решил принять душ, а
мы в это время сидели за его компьютером и
слушали писюшные mod'ы на Profi...  Погру-
зив на тележку телевизор мы через пол  го-
рода стали добираться обратно  на  хату  к
Org'у.  Наthe street was already dark, he was walking
heavy rain. The TV keeps jumping up
died in the pits of the broken Dzerzhinsk road.
Then I remembered what I should buy for home
bread But it was a bummer. If at home everyone
roy store was open at night, then here it is
was as difficult to find as a "virgin"
tsu on Tverskaya".  We settled on one
from crossroads.  Nuts went to borrow from one-
th guy's amplifier, and I saw a working magician
zine entered it. "Do you have bread" - asked
I am one of the saleswomen. "Yes, but raw"
- she answered cheerfully.  I politely refused -
Xia and leaving the store we flooded again
the TV is further away.  More and more muddy puddles
absorbed broken asphalt and TV
groaned every time the cart hit
into a hole in the road... Somehow we still
We got to Organism.  The time was already
Later, I decided to hit the road home. "Meet-
Let's hang out on Di: Halt", I shouted to Syndrome
and left the apartment...                    
                                          
 August 21. 7.30.    Day of the event
Di:Halt'99.  I left the house and went to
station  The promised person in whom
it will be possible to find out the spektrumist, I’m not there
discovered howhowever, and visitors to the spectrum
mists.  According to the map that he drew for me
Nuts, I calmly reached the new place
conducting the party.    I met you at the building
Eternity Industry and Syndrome's.A Proxima
I asked.  “Yes, they are staggering somewhere,” answered
Paracels.  Later, Beermans and guys came up
from Cheboksary. Amid cries of indignation: “When-
let's start," people started drinking vodka,
filling it with watermelon.  Without waiting for the invitation
niya people went to the room where the
moose party.  Apparently the organizers don't care about this
counted. And the security instead
stand at the door and collect money for entry
I sat at the monitor and babbled about my own things.    C
this is when the streak of bad luck began
Di: Halt...                              
  Already in the hall, Orgamism began to call on
kind of buy tickets, but approached him
units and took it at the promised discount.    From
voices began to be heard from the hall: “Subtract
ticket price from our prize fund -
yes."  (ed. I would be interested in answering
these are, say, the organizers of ASSEMBLY).  A
further on we go. Equipment thatswarm worked before at Org's house
break one after another.   First burnt
Orgamism's monitor, which by mistake
turned on in the wrong place.  Then the amplifier burned out,
as a result of which the sounding music remains
was without one channel.                   
                                          
  The hall accommodated about 50 people.
Here are the ones I could remember:            
 ORGANISM, MAX KLM, MR.FIRST, VOVAN,
NUTS, TIME KEEPER, BEAR, MOONWALKER,
FRODO, ALONE IN TNE DARK, ICE, MAYOR,
WOLAND, SLG, YURIK, MELTED SNOW,
FROZENGIRL, YULIA, PHANTAZM, LESTER,
SPARK, SENAT, SAIR00S, PARACELS, D-MAN,
SPY, PYRODEX, DARKLION, VEL, ERENA KLINE,
SERGIUS PUZZLER, UNCLE SAM, ASH, PAPS,
HARRY, TERMINUS, TONY, LX, TRIVIAL, DWARF,
GOBLIN, VIRUS, ALCHEMIST... 34 people from
they bought entrance tickets and/or received
the right to vote at the party. Time Keeper for
launched a specially written viewer for
viewing pictures and listening to music.
On the TV screen and two monitors,
located along the edges, a chanco-
your inscription Di: Halt'99.    Someone in the hall
said:"Major"... First nomination
became STANDART GFX.  The screen began to appear
hand-drawn pictures with sequence
in ten seconds.  Then came the 3-color
graphics. Only 4 works were shown.  Their
replaced by ASCII - graphics.  It was interesting
work by aARTY'S SCULL (by Ash).  But for some time
In some works, suddenly, together with ASCII, it became
information about the authors appears.  (ed.
everything is very simple - there was no check for
nets of the text and together with pseudographics become
and technical information is also displayed).
The display of chunk graphics took a long time, so
how there were twenty-two works. Moreover, one
neither the pictures were in Hard Core format, other
6912 bytes. One of the pictures shows
the alien's face hovered and there was someone in the hall
said: “The truth is somewhere nearby” (ed. phrase-
for from X-FILES).  The last Chunkovskaya car-
the teenager became FUCKSIDE.  On the screen it is
held on longer than anyone else and said in the hall:
"We were all sent!".(ed. under this sign-
com and subsequently went through the entire
Di: Halt'99).    The organizers did not
there was a long pause and everyone began to show
call demo versions of your toys...        






















                                          
  Началось MUSIC COMPO.   На  одиннадцатом
музоне компьютер повис,  попытка воспроиз-
вести его снова не удалась. (ред. как ока-
залось он несоответсвовал требованиям кон-
курса и был размером больше 16 кБ).   Две-
залось онdid not meet the requirements of the
course and was larger than 16 kB).   Two-
the eleventh Mouzon when playing the heat
channel C, as reported by its authors and
his audition was moved to the end
(ed. the reason for this was a breakdown of the amplifier
litelya).  When the music "Beautiful" started playing
far away...(From future)" from the hall again to-
rushed: "Major."    After this Time
Keeper attempted to listen to two
eleventh Mouzon and fifteen minutes later
hard work the audience heard him.  This is the cost
Besides, the music was great...        
 “A break is needed,” the organizers asked
party.  From the hall we heard: “Come on, Dems!”
DEMO COMPO has begun.  The warm-up act was
Free Art demo from VolgaSoft.    Then
Muscate Nut by Syndrome and Demodyin by
Beermars.  "All the show dem is over" - it was
spoken into the microphone.  "What about Napalm?"  -
shouted the guys from EI, eating the remains of art
booza.  “Well, yes, now we’ll turn it on” - again
spoke into the microphone.  And the last demo
was shown to a standing ovation from the same EI.
(ed. the fact is that this demo was
brought by EI with her and given to the organizing
ram at the last moment).  By this time
Organism completely moved out of his chairku-
and then down, where it disappeared.            
  The counting of votes has begun. Time passed.  On-
the race began to rage.  It became known that
There is no prize fund, because...  paid for
not everyone entered and raised little money (ed. de-
The only thing is that they collected only 400 for the entrance
rubles and for rent the organizers also received
wants to shell out 600 rubles from his pocket -
lei).  For the announcement of the voting results -
Organism was never released. The first to announce
or STANDART GFX.  First place picture
number 13 from Erena KLine/PXM. Picture of the eye-
turned black and white and because of this from the hall
shouts began to be heard that this could not happen
maybe.  Then they announced 3-color pictures.
The third place was taken by the picture DRAGON by
Dvarf/BMZ. Then Dvarf said to the whole hall:
"You posted translated pictures,
admit it, the first place belongs to
lives for me, I drew it myself."  No one from the audience
uttered the words. (ed. this is understandable, author
there were no 3-color pictures in the hall).
Then Dvarf stood up and, leaving the hall, shouted -
zero: "Di:Halt did not take place."  (ed. pos.
today the party organizersmade a decision
award the picture Dragon first place, and
disqualify the rest, although this too
controversial issue).  The main
tal nominations.                        
  “Where are the diplomas?” voices began to be heard
from the hall.    “They don’t exist,” replied Time.
Keeper: "Diplomas will be made after and
sent to home addresses." No people are already
didn't listen. There was confusion. From the hall
voices can be heard: “Give us our money back
for the road" and appeared in the men's restroom
inscription: "DiHalt'99 must Die vith orgs". A
then and unambiguous inscriptions on
chairs in the assembly hall (ed. how to find out
then this “artist” turned out to be not
unknown Pyrodex from EI).   The people became
go outside. I approached Org.  View
he was clearly depressed. He became re-
take voting forms saying that he
it's not my fault that people voted
so (ed. in principle, if everyone bought
tickets, then perhaps the results would be
others).  K came up to us SLG and began to explain
understand that it was necessary to attract sponsors,
organizing COMPO for example with a PC, likethis is
was on Galaxi'99 (ed. purely Spectrum-
the party was dubious from the very beginning
started)...  The equipment began to be disassembled and
carry down.  Organism began to examine
damage caused and collect scattered everywhere
sled watermelon rinds...                  



 Party visitors stood for a while on the street
near the building and decided to go along
at home. Beermans, Syndrome and Eternity
Industry  went to the railway
station Since there was nowhere to rush,
I went with them.  In one of the stalls,
Having seen the ice cream "FUN", I decided to eat it
drink. Imagine my surprise when
and everyone else, following my example
bought the same thing... On the way Syndrome's
they said that they only have a ticket for 00.00
August 23 and that they have nothing to do.   EI
invited them to go with them to Kov-
ditch  To which they agreed.  Onstation
Beermans took the bus and went to
mine.  And the train will arrive to Vyazniki
only at 18.02. Sair00s and Senat decided
drink pies near the station. The pies were
were raw.  I could hardly resist
laughter, because the seller of this semi-finished product is
that was my cousin's fiance and me
knew very well what he was feeding people. What would
I called DarkLion to calm down a little
go shopping in search of cheap
new CDs.  How evil are the shops in
Dzerzhinsk worked only until 17.00 and
the only thing I managed to buy was
an ordinary audio cassette with foreign songs -
mi. The train arrived at Vyazniki.  This
moment Syndrome decided not to go to Kovrov.
EI took the train and went home.
After going one stop with them, I got out...  























                                          
  22 августа. Воскресенье.    Второй  день
Di:Halt'99.  После обеда ко мне на кварти-
ру зашли Organism,  Time Keeper,   Nuts  и
Ice. Org сказал,  что произошла путаница с
нумерацией работ.  А проще говоря,    пос-
кольку многие работыwere delivered on the day
holding a party, it turned out that
showed work with one number, and in the list -
but it is under a different number. 
for Org'y's apartment we stuffed non-
large program and recalculated the state
Losov again.    The results accepted
final look. (ed. it should be like this
do it at the party itself, but due to technical
ical reasons had to be considered in
manual)...  I was interested in converters with
CP/M started a conversation on this topic with
Nuts... So as not to disrupt the schedule
it was decided to hold Realtime
drinking. Someone ran for vodka and beer.
A ruff was made. After the third stack of us-
everyone's tripling quickly went uphill and Ice
started filling my disks with his music.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to find
Syndrome's.  Another boo appeared in the apartment.
back of hawthorn tincture (or more simply put
moonshine at 60-70 degrees), taking co-
the second one inside was simply not-for-you-e-mo.
Org asked me to read a quote from the bib-
lia instead of yourself.  I agreed... Hours in
11 pm I decided to go home.    C not-
I got home with great accompaniment... 

























                                          
  23 августа.Monday. Collecting mushrooms in
30 kilometers from Bogorodsk.              
 August 24. Tuesday. 19.30.  I'm back again
I went to Organism's apartment. Just as I expected
gave, he already had Time Keeper, Ice at home
and a few more people.  Work was in progress
creation of a viewer for re-voting
Di:Halt results.  Confusion with numbers -
tion of works, a small number of people bought
best tickets and voting for your groups
led to the fact that the voting results
tions have become more than objective.  It was
it was decided to hold another vote
communication (already free) via the network
INTERNET.  (Ed. Nevertheless, voting
of August 21 remains in force and its victory
Children will also receive diplomas, although it was
would be smarter voting via I-NET
give a name different from the title
DI: Halt'99). Then we began to discuss different
personal ways to control voting in
I-NET'e. (Ed. the fact is that one user
The operator may have several electronic
addresses and vote several times).    I
asked Organism where he had been during the day.    How
it turned out he was in the police and gave evidence
niya against hooligans who on August 4
broke into his dacha,  staged a pogrom and
destroyed floppy disks with those sent to the party
works.  And only thanks to the heroic
the work of Dzerzhinsk hackers succeeded
restore (ed. almost last
day).  Then Ice and Time Keeper filled in
my floppy disks also contain music and applications for
magazine... 22.00.  Ice shouted: "Well,
Andryukha, you are going home."  I said yes
and began to get ready.  Time Keeper decided to
to go to Org in order to finish finishing the night
viewer.  Ice said that from Org's ear-
Children don't say goodbye quickly. And we left...     
                                          
 The next day I was already driving an electric
trichka home to Kovrov.    My journey
was coming to an end. Left over from the summer holidays
it's only been a few days...