┌---------------------------------------┐ │░░░░░░░░░░░ Enlight rulez?! ░░░░░░░░░░░│ └---------------------------------------┘ (C) Imperio Day two (22.08) Well, here I am in St. Petersburg. at the station me should meet a friend. "Let only won’t come,” I think. But no, she came. From her a proposal comes: before going to apartment, go to the place where you will be escorted dit Inlight. Okay, let's go. We arrived we mean, to this very BSTU on the 1st Krasnoarmeyskaya. What a disgusting month... then. Not a tree nearby, not a lawn - this is not Inlight'96. We approach the main entrance and the inscription "RE- MONT". No shit, there's not enough repairs yet - melted. “Maybe it’s not here at all,” I think me, and we go into some dark arch. And in fact, here is the door with the inscription. Zash- Do my friend and I go inside, and I ask: "Will Inlight be here tomorrow?" And I'm from- The answer sounds: “What is this?” "How" - I think - "explain thisgrandparents and grandmothers lam, what is Inlight?" Okay, he said that this is a computer competition. And they in response to me: “The person who is involved in this will be toiling by 11 o'clock." I looked at watch. Damn, it's 10:35 now, I'll have to sleep- I started to go to the hut to unload my bags, and then come back here again. Let's go unloaded, in the subway there were some Japanese we met the googly ones, and at about 11:20 I'm back at BSTU. I came in and along the way I asked wondered if that guy had come. And they say to me- They say: “Yes, he has come! Go to 1st Krasnoar- Mayskaya 13". I go into some house and under- I'm going to the 2nd or 3rd (I don't remember) floor. There are some dudes sitting with a bunch of equipment (company in general). Well, I asked, but they politely they sent it quickly. I went to another house, also on The 3rd floor went up - some priest, some mentions... in general, they sent from there- ... I see some university, I went there too, I didn’t find a damn thing... In general, I returned I ran into this pass office and said: "Listen, I didn't find anything there, you me- They obviously sent me to the wrong place." We don’t know" - from- they tell me. “Okay,” I say, “we can pos- stink." It turned out it was possible. I'm dialing the number Petra Sobolev. 1st digit, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th... oh my, the number can't be dialed further. I reset, try to dial again... Again same crap. “Why doesn’t the phone want but- measures to perceive" - I ask thesethen- comrades. “And this is a regional phone number,” answered They tell me - “call me on the phone???? (I don’t remember)". So I dialed this number and I'm waiting. Yeah, someone picked up the phone - it seems some guy. "Will Inlight be here?" - I ask. “Yes, here, here,” answers this dude to me. “Well, thank you,” I say, "at least someone can say something, otherwise I haven't been able to say a damn thing here for an hour now. they can’t start.” "Goodbye". Finally I found out everything, it’s time to take a walk in peace new soul. I went to a store nearby and bought bottle of "BALTIKA" and went to look for a bench wow, I searched for a long time, probably half a kilometer passed, but found it. I lit a cigarette, drank beer and went to the house. They ate there, so I'm calling Sobolev. Someone picks up the phone and says... says: “Petya went to unload the equipment, will be on Monday." Cool, I'll go again at BSTU. There are Sobolev, Larkov and more someone (I don’t remember) unloaded all the trash and installed it on stage. I was hanging out a little with them, I tried to bargain Larkov has all the demos for $5, but he for- sting Okay, I looked at the GENERAL board SOUND, and somewhere and somewhere at 9 pm returned to the hut, ate it, looked at the box and went to bed... Day three (23.08) ENLIGHT has arrived A bottle makes a gloomy day brighter, The bottle will light up a rainbow in the sky. Share your bottle And she will return to you more than once. I got up in the morning, about 9:00, I drove fast and went to this FUCKING BSTU. I took the metro to the Tekhnologiches- ky institute". I went outside and bought beer. I look near the entrance to BSTU there is a huge crowd of big crowd of people. That means I came up. Took it some papers - a voting form and personal participant card. Filled everything out as expected and began to survey the entire gen. I started looking for IWAMOTO, to require raise money for REAL SOFTfor TECHNODROM, ARTY, but the greatest efforts were directed Lena in search of guys from Belarus. Ho- I was there like a zombie, and I asked everyone Have you seen TANKARD ? No ? Or maybe someone anyone from Belarus? I didn't find anyone but I met some guys from Kazan (DELIRIUM, like), Moscow... Well here we aresent inside. Place where took place Inlight was a huge a hall with a stage and a bunch of chairs. At times in certain places in the hall there were 5 or 6 powerful PCs nitrov, and behind the scenes was the head control center for all this nonsense. I sat down I look - MEGACOD's people. Well, I got to know them lurched. I turned to the right and looked at the faces familiar, it seems, in OBERON #3 seen. It turned out to be M. M. A. (which is not M. M. A., and UNBLULVER ) and another one from Samara (not I remember). Well, I played around with them. Meanwhile- on the monitors you can see BEST ZX, PC, and AMIGA DEMOS.M.M.A. in general ok turned out to be a good conversationalist and joked that, and even uncultured - never I’ll forget how he sat and ate sausage, the box from which I threw under the chair! B In general, registration of works has begun. standing in queue, I met MR. NICK/FLASH and found out what they brought his IRIS (who stubbornly did not want to work later). Well, I registered everything he wanted, he returned, sat down and started pestering M.M.A. with questions aboutby- asking whether he had seen the Belarusians. "Yes no, I haven’t seen it,” he answers me, “And you shout from the stage!" "That's not a bad idea" - I thought and climbed onto the stage. Yes how shouted. And now I look, one comrade, standing who was almost next to me, modestly raised his hand. It turned out that it wasJASS. From him I know I realized that no one else had arrived. Of course I was a little upset, but it was all quick passed. I waited until JASS registered he plays his music, and we went to his place hotel. There were bazaars along the road SPECCY-topic and on the topic of everything you can talk about talk. JASS was very lucky - in the state ininice he settled with the Czechs (Czechs in In- light have arrived!), who attracted their SPECTRUM +2 with built-in mafon (was it’s cool when the Inlight organizers see divided this crowd - everyone laughed!), and who don’t know what smoked fish is, and what Some people eat watermelons with spoons(!). Well, in general, JASS and I sat in his room and returned to BSTU. Late forZX GFX COMPO, but I learned from new friends that SCREENs there were about 140(!) and that the organiza- congestion when viewing pictures somewhere from the 70s numbers were givenjust a couple of seconds. Ku- drank JASS beer. We had a drink and went into the hall. Oka- is already calledZX MUSIC COMPOhas begun (gra- fic that all the newspapers tried so hard to publish rejoice has been changed). Honestly, music we are complete SHIT, I only liked those two that I brought and one more or two. You might think that their authors are over 5 years old minutes before the start of Inlight they wrote. Maybe there were still cool music, but no one heard them for the simple reason that the organizers Apparently they thought that ZX music would be enough (es- if so, then the organizers are pigs)... Okay Next comes ZX DEMO COMPO ... Well, what can you do say?! I didn't expect this from SPECTRUM gave. It was a total mess. Me and M.M.A. they didn’t believe this could happen SPECTRUM and they screamed to each other: "This is not SPECTRUM! This AMIGA!!!" The only deme who looked buggy and wasn’t even finished watched until the middle - this is my CYBER DREAM. Well, what can you do - learn from mistakes. It's a shame, of course, but I wrote a demo at the level Ven 96 and did not expect to see something more sophisticated 97. I was wrong... By the way, funny -some groups completed their demos, when the registration of works was already underway, here!.. What else was good that day: I listened GENERAL SOUND - cool, cool and more since it’s cool, I dragged myself along; in the toilet with some some guys painted the walls with paint, of course with inscriptions like "SPECTRUM RULEZZZ CHEVER!); together with everyone diligently ransacked the entire floor with bulls (at the end of the 1st day Inlight, the entire 4th floor was littered with empty and broken bottles of beer, cola, forfeits, bags of chips and other bullshit); I'm glad that near the entrance to the hall sold TECHNODROM (+MORTAL COMBAT + Inlight T-shirts) and bought them all day as many as 4 copies of it. By the way, I found IWAMOTO, approached him and asked how about money - he started yelling at me, stuttering, as if I had covered him in front of everyone (I thought before fights will come). In general, I didn’t wait 10 pm end of the 1st day of Inlight, and Around 9 I went to the hut. All evening I the anxiety did not go away - who else would see off to die Inlight, after what happened today- Nya!..
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