About everything - party zone: MMA report on the trip to Enlight 97 - day one.

                  
                                          
(C) М.М.A/SPEED СО.                       
                                          
 ENLIGHT 97: DISK ERROR:Track 0,Sector 9  
                                          
                                          
                     "ART OF TRACKMIN' IZ 
                      A REASON OF RESPECT"
                                          
                         ROM DA SEAMAN/PGS
                                          
Подозрительные   явления  начались  непос-
редственно  ранним  утром  23-го  августа,
когда  я  и ALK  stood peacefully in line for
return  tickets to Samara. To the building bi-
flight  ticket counters constantly entered and exited
young people belonging  to a variety of
layers of society (from skinheads and rave-
ditch  to Satanists and Tolkeinists), but with
with the same  strange facial expression.  This
there was joy, mixed with anticipation
beer.                                     
However, many were quickly given away by one fact - in
differences from ordinary people who tensely
use all your consciousness to get help
about free places at the terrible computer
zired device (explicitlyINTEL INSIDE!),
these individuals with suspicious ease
pressed the keys and in a matter of seconds
We tried to get an answer from the car. Doubts practically
there was literally nothing left - they all arrived
on ENLIGHT'97.                            
                                          
I  gradually got used to these comrades, because
I myself was one of them. And the meeting with the per-
by "Enlight" happened yesterday, in
Friday when passing  by train through
ALK noticed the glorious city of Rybinsk from the window
a group of three people, clearly not dressed for
business trip.  We  were traveling in the carriage on -
the train manager and therefore at all stations
people flocked here in pitiful attempts
how to get there by hook or by crook
train.                                    
Going out to breathe the glorious Rybinsk air,
we  again  saw  these three, frantically
asking the guide for something. Foreman
riding sent them to ... tomorrow, and having heard
in  answer phrase: "Tomorrow it will be too late",
I approached and plucked up the nerve to ask about
goals their travel to St. Petersburg. Although already
in a second my question turned out to be stupid and
blunt  - on lapel  one of them has jackets
asking was  a chip with a large over-
in writing  "MOTOROLA".  The guys turned out to be
famous local group"AURIN".After talking
with  them about the trends of the upcoming E'97, and
also  having discussed  problems of publishing electronic
magazines, I  had to take the train,
because the time allottedto the parking lot, finishing
elk...                                   
                                          
Having finally purchased tickets, ALK and I
liked in the subway. Actually, I was intimidated
because in St. Petersburg the metro is more different than in
Moscow, but at first glance there are no differences
was.  Having stood in an endless queue for the ticket
us,  we finally managed to go down
and  direct your own  path to the metro station
"TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE". Station, no matter how
strange, it turned out to be very close to the station
easy, but despite this, during the
day  underground, I  managed to come up with her
nickname  TECHNOLOGICAL  DEATH(by name
classic dems  for  A600),  which
it quickly took root. Moreover, in recent
those  all further events, we have come to
conclusion that this station is the center of all
local universe.                        
                                          
Map  ENLIGHT,  received  by  FIDO, I
prudently left  at home, assuring himself and
Sanka  in  that all the way from the metro to
directly to the building where ENLIGHT will be,
should  be marked with all possible arrow-
kami, marks, graphity and other rock-
noah painting. Oddly enough, my reliable
ladies were not destined to come true.              
Located at the exit from the metro station, we
stood at a crossroads with the opportunity to go
on four  different sides. Before the party starts
there were about two hours left and during this time
we  managed to  get pretty tired, going around three
streets  in searches  "MilitaryMech". And that's when
ALK suggested finally combing the last one
remaining  street, two appeared in front of us
a person clearly of the “Enlight” format.    
                                          
Having caught up with them, we managed to find out that they too
not   not at all  sure  in  location
ENLIGHT. Already the four of us managed to postpone
to see a very fierce Tolkienist, in the hands
which the area plan was clamped. Studied
nium this drawing  and we've run out
searches. It turned out that the last ten mi-
We were standing right next to the target. Absolutely
an inconspicuous house located directly opposite
metro and turned out to be the VoenMech building. And not
we had to look for anything..... However, ours
ALK's wanderings made it clear that a little further

there is a large market along the street, and
large crowds of people periodically passed through
complete   bewilderment between  expanding
crowd of E'97 participants.                   
                                          
                                          
Soon  appeared ALEX  RESEARCH with considerable
a crowd of  Moscow ZX-NET guys. ALEX at least
and had a rather criminal appearance, but turned out to be
the kindest  soul person and with complete self-
giving back began to treat those gathered to a variety of
various sandwiches and some beer. Who
and in what order came next, say
difficult, since the crowd soon became
giving birth sizes. However, the famous "scenes"
ry" were in no hurry to appear - apparently they had poured out -
were "after yesterday."                  
                                          
                                          
The time was approaching 10:00, but no one was breathing
small to open PARTY. Based on conversations, we collected
 it was felt that more than 80% of them
are not indifferent to SPECCY. Representatives of the OS-
tal platforms  can be could be distinguished from
labor.  Here I almost paid for the first time
life! Having decided to go to the kiosks near the metro for
another dose of "BALTIKA", I'm right herein the middle of the roadway I met half
nal composition DIGITAL REALITY. Thinking about 
that how  would act in a similar situation
Leader Samara Hackers, I don’t
marked  a couple of cars coming towards me. And only
deep thirst for beer brought me out of hypno-
tical impact ARTY and its teams. 
                                          
                                          
Having returned with beer, I found a table that
They were taken out of the room and  a certain  queue
to this table. It turned out that ENLIGHT is like
how it started,  but first it was necessary to fill
fill out the form and get a pass for it. On-
family, filling out forms on each other's backs
hurried to grab the coveted pass and entered
put it inside. In one of the queues I finally
met firstEXTREME'ists. These were
NOY  and  DWARF  from  BEERMANS's. A little later
MEGACODE' TOX and SAT appeared. Active
Having filled out the questionnaires, we together began to penetrate
drive into the building.                            
                                          
At  entrance  we were greeted by a fierce granny
from the breed of watchmen, which let anyone through
day  exclusively on the basis of  availability
pieces of paper with ENLIGHT and drawn hours -
mi.  Our papers had the effect they deserved on her.
action and we stepped under the arches of "VoenMe-
ha."                                      
                                          
It turned out that everything would be on the fourth
floor  and of course there is no elevator. Rising
along  the stairs, I noticed a lot of people approving
inscriptions"Smoking area"and people
who bring these inscriptions to life. On the fourth
The floor turned out to be a large assembly hall.       
                                          
                                          
                                          
There were much more people inside than
I thought it was outside, but there were still seats
more.  Having decided to sit closer anyway, we
took  seats on the 6-7th row from the stage. Voltage
the pressure was growing....                       
                                          
I was more I was worried about everything  lack
MAGIC and all MAGIC SOFT', as well as that
fact,  that no one accepts our work.
Trying to find a place where you can-ta-
ki to hand over my creations, I came across a child
monstration  creations Mr. NEMO  under
name  KAU-256.  3 and there’s no one on stage
let in.                                  
                                          
Despite all the confusion, soon due to
backstage  came out organizers  and asked everyone
shut up, started the party. Having told a little
to the assembled people about sponsors, organiza-
tors introduced themselves and gave the floor to some
to some  adult friend. Comrade, apparently
he was a big boss at VoenMech, so
how to take everyone for potential applicants
entov, began to talk about the delights of post-
stupidity in this university. Despite on all  that bullshit that man
spoke from the stage, almost everyone listened to him.
Finally he completed his "speech", and again
appeared someone from organizers. All
asked  to behave decently, and without special
battle of panic and  hurry to start giving up your
work. Without any second thought I took from
ALK is the final "release" of our demo and
began to move towards the stage, finding himself
re  second  or third in line. The very same
the queue of themes over time  has grown and multiplied
las.                                     
                                          
Due to  scenes called people according
with the platform on which they submit work.
SPECTRUM was  overloaded  and it was very
for a long time  no one  was not  called.  Therefore, having betrayed
interests native AMIGA, I pretended "pi-
sishnik" and penetrated the computer, where he received
worked  work  on  RS.  Having passed 64K INTRO by
BRUCKINSON  and  music from G-ELAY MS (works
Samara  groups  -=QUEEN=- SOFTfor IBM
RS),I managed to get to HACKER CRIS,
which accepted work on the ZX COMPO.      
                                          
                                          
Leaving copies of our creations (DEMO and car-
teen with Mouzon) on CRIS discs, I got out
because of  scenes  and discovered that the queue was not
only  not  decreased, but even accepted
threatening  scale. According to individual measurements
comrades,  the delivery of work has not yet taken place
it's 3 o'clock.                            
                                          
                                          
Meanwhile  finally  Victor appeared
Moskalev with part of MAGIC SOFT and EXPLODER
(ex-VAV). It turned out that all this time
they were on the other side of town, where
EXPLODER set finishing touches to POWER
UP.  In general, there was a lot of work on ENLIGHT
bot added at the very last moment.
As a result, a lot of things were buggy and freezing.
right during the show.                    
                                          
                                          
Having finally gathered all EXTREME, we
took several seats in three rows at once and
started   the most a variety of measures
riyatiyam. In the meantime,  with time they loaded from the stage
everyone than  nor  hit,  starting from "super"SPECTRUM  called SPRINTER and finished
bright  GENERAL SOUND.On the monitors
  demos recognized by  organizers were running
the best. I would like to note that the demos are still
called  new  and such "classics" as LYRA
II and SHOCK, to my joy, were not there. Big
aroused interest demonstration  several
parts from IRIS ULTRADEMO,promised so long ago -
Novosibirsk group FLASH inc.      
                                          
                                          
More and more people passed by,
clutching  in  hands T-shirts with the inscription AMIGA and
ENLIGHT'97.  After asking one of the
them, how muchrulez and where you can buy it, we
with  ALK  headed  to  end of the hall where
a mini-market opened.Rulez cost everything
35 thousand rubles, and people took it very
tive. Having decided that delaying death is similar
but, I gave my money and preference to May-
ke with the AMIGA logo. Sanya, calm down a little
Having hesitated, he did the same.                 
                                          
In addition to T-shirts, right here you could display
cook with various literature and video courses
themselves according to Amiga programs. Noticing something unexpected
lekeMAX'a IWAMOTO,trading branded
releasesMORTAL KOMBATand TECHNODROMi
came up and  asked  him several questions.
Max was   is laconic   and   speaking about
SPECTRUM  in   Kharkov, expressed  extreme
skepticism.  But to my questions about
AMIGA  he  he answered specifically and in detail. B
In conclusion, I managed to take a photo with him
sign up, but at the very last moment
Max Polyntsev/MAXI G.I also ran up  -
large Samara  BK-shechnik,  winner
held  a week before ENLIGHT in Moscow
BC-MANIA'97.                              
                                          
                                          
              In the photo:MAXI  M.M.A   MAXI G.I.    
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          

                                          
The people kept coming and coming! SPECTRUM
on  monitors it was replaced by AMIGA and PC. Beam-
The best demos on these platforms were also good.
Roshi.  We also showed   several  works,
winners  on past   shortly
ASSEMBLY'97.However, for the majority of those hanging out
everythingit was "on the drum." People walked
made new acquaintances, drank beer and did
business.  Remembering that I also need
rub someone the distribution kit of a fresh ZX-
WINWORD, I started looking for potential
buyers.                              
                                          
The first one I liked  was the director
company  WELCOME  (as it was written on his
identification paper).  It is radically
different from the rest of the public
since he was clearly not young. I'm still on the street
heard mention of a cunning local trade -
re  under the code name "grandfather". Apparently he
he was.                                 
                                          
However   not I managed  to sit down near and
introduce himself,  as "grandfather"sharply climbed into
wallet. I didn’t expect this from him at all
quickly  and didn’t even know what to assume.
Soon  became the owner of unexpected 50
thousand  (for "OBERON#3)  I  became obedient
listener to a lecture about proprietary software and software
ratah.  Getting up from the chair and saying goodbye to the "de-
Duley", I  sincerely wished him success in
his difficult task and headed to ALK's de-
make a sudden profit for OBERON.         
                                          
                                          
Suddenly Viktor Moskalev appeared and called
all us   give an interview  on  about
EXTREME.  Going out into the corridor and lining up
in a chain, under the watchful eye of a video camera,
each  confessed  all their insidious
plans.  By  end "interrogation" RUSTER
gave  to us as  two copies as a gift
ZXFORMAT#6. Victor was not at a loss, and accepted

Next  an interesting event did not make
yourself wait. Through the hall and immediately intocorridor
followed Sergey Zonov and his comrades,
KANO,  RST#7,  MAXI  and catching up RUSTER from
ZX-FORMAT + person with a video camera.
Anticipating another cool showdown on
about  SCORPION, fans "flame" after-
followed this group.                   
                                          
Few of  those gathered  15-20  person
were able  to listen to  conversation   "giants
computer thought" to the end. Honestlygovo-
rya, I  couldn't even  catch  any
meaning.  They say that Zonov jammed KANO for-
home-prepared arguments, and RST#7
I tried to draw some kind of picture on a piece of paper
diagram.  There are even rumors that the conversation is
was done with obscenities, but these are just rumors. Right
It also stores a video recording of what is happening. K
Unfortunately, the photograph  of this process
This one  by me turned out to be too dark and
did not undergo conversion to SPECTRUM.      
Soon  after  this epochal dispute, everything
works  were finally handed over and work began
voe COMPO.  At first it was one job
for  4K AMIGA INTRO, and then three works on
64K INTRO  COMPO. I remember from 64K INTRO
REST 2 by CODEBUSTERS and group work
LooKERS HOUSE.  And  although according to many
hardcore Amizhniki, intro from LooKER'ov
was cooler, the people in the hall preferred
communication to family and friends CODEBUSTER. I
too voted for  REST 2, but according to others
reasons - I I just really liked it
music.                                   
                                          
On  this AMIGA itself  exhausted and started
limitless SPECTRUM.The first thing went according to plan
GFX COMPO  and  it  started immediately.
True, AMIG couldn’t do it here either, so
like all the pictures were recorded on a screw and
were shown from under  DOpus.  This was
the only right decision made
whether the organizers. Already during the demonstration
best   "dem"  many noticed  terrible
dirty gray colorwhich appeared in those
places where there should have been black withincl.
specified brightness.                          
                                          
Picturesshowed at quite acceptable
speed and people peering intently at
each"masterpiece",started voting. Some
whose  works were greeted with stormy claps and
shouts, while others shouted at the top of their voices
were covered in mud. To be honest, it was difficult to
Limit  with  distances of 5-10 meters, what's there
on  screen - rulez or sux. Finally on ek-
previously arose  picture from BioMaX and me
was able fill in the column  first place, ru-
guided by this thought - if not me,
then  who? The candidate for third place is also not
forced to wait. Soon I put in
third  column number of the picture depicting
a crushed tin can. Who will
in second place on my voting paper
vania, I knew even before ENLIGHT!           
                                          
The first work of TeeRay was number 49.
Although the author himself admitted that it was THE
SHADOW  worthy first  place, people are not
perceived  this thing. But the next job
not  only  carried  on  number 50, but also
full  victory.  As Anton himself told me
Markin, the pictureTNE X-FILESwas drawn from
counting on the popularity of the series of the same name
ala. However even  this calculation did not interfere
Anton to draw a real masterpiece with absolute
fierce with ferocious color transitions.     
                                          
                                          
The hall simply shuddered in applause and
all further work was carried out by the people
how sluggish. 3 and one dozen followed -
speaking, and some of those gathered became un-
to wonder:  when  well  all this will end.
Cheerful voice  due to  scene when announced
one of the 80th works produced the phrase: "Half-
Well, they showed, there’s still as much left..." 
                                          
Of course, no one believed him, and when
After a few minutes they finally announced a re-
burst, gathered  with a feeling of accomplishment
duty went to inhale fresh nicotine, counting
that GFX COMPO has already ended. However,
There were really just as many more... 
                                          
                                          
The break ended without warning, at
monitors  lighted up one after another
teens, and the process  went. The remaining 60-70
works  showed  exactly for as long as
how much  was needed to announce the number
next. True, sometimes the voice announces
he was lost in the impulse of his own
laughter  orstretched out in drunken delight.
It was at these moments that we were able to see
separate  works.  So, for example, I am from
the last 50 pictures touched a nerve
tag  from the album PIECE OF MIND my favorite
IRON MAIDEN, but I don't remember anything about it
frantically  work number, no
shove behind it (all three places were already dis-
written) I couldn't do it anymore.                    
                                          
                                          
The graphics ended and the music began. Here
things were much worse...  The first non-
How many  melodies were  apparently  from  DIGITAL
REALITY, so as  played from under  FAST
TRACKER. There would be nothing special about them
Well, probably becausesound as such
th  was not  present.  One by one on
stage  famous musicians (I
I personally noticed an angry KSA andMIC ) with
The purpose is to help set up the equipment. sitting
next VISUAL constantly loaded with what ogi-
I can’t hear the beating. I was trying to understand us -
how much my ear was crushed, if for
Everything obeyed me more or less. The only
a valuable work performed in
At the beginning of COMPO there was MIC's music.           
                                          
                                          
Somewhere around the 8th or 9th started playing TRANQUILLITY
translated from AMIGA by our Samara musician
edging  DAGMA. It was then that I realized
take in all the wretchedness of the equipment! Even at home
hissing monophonic ELECTRONICS-302 she
sounded better.  Retiring to the very end
I came to even more terrible conclusions:
if music was still possible in the first rows
listen, then at the end my ears were simply bursting
from  sound overload. After listening to our me-
lodia  to  end,  i went  ...for beer.
By the way, during this trip we managed to find out
thread,  that  MUSIC  COMPO was quite possible
listen from the street, since at least in
within a radius of 50 meters from the institute, melody
was quite guessable.                       
                                          
No sooner had I arrived and taken my place than
MUSIC COMPO is over! Without any explanation
neniya  began showing DEMO works. Only later
became it is known that all 80 melodies are played
rat was  simply  impossible. People wouldn't
survived!  Yes, and time to show DEMO
was tragically lacking. In a word, mu-
language "broken off".                        
                                          
First  among  DEMO was very "interesting"
work under the impressive title INFARCT.
I remember  only that everything was very drawn out,
dull and unimpressive. Anyway
this work played the role of a test. The people
the man saw how the effects looked on the dirt
but graybackground instead of black with increased
brightness. Many finally realized how
dual-screen will work  effects on mo-
nitors, where two  nearest frames collapse
are displayed and displayed as one. In one word
vom, many realized that their work would be
cauldrons are far from being the best.          
                                          
Meanwhile, INFARCT finally  has ended.
They turned on the monitor screensPC,where someone
ran  with the cursor across the DOS NAVIGATOR window.
                                          
                                          
Almost everyone started to the discussion
viewed: some said that all this
suxx, others began to stigmatize the or-
organizers, others made themselves more comfortable
to eat food reserves... And at this moment-
ment the most, the most, happened. Window DN from-and on the screen, without any announcements
niy, go "dema"  SHIT 4 BRAINS. Moreover
The first  effect  was skipped,  and since
no one  saw the PROGRESS inscription at the beginning,
There was complete bewilderment in the hall. During
all the time that INTRO was going on, many,
perplexed, they asked the neighbors in the row,
why ZX DEMO COMPO ended on the screen
damn some cool "dem" from another
platforms. It was a real shock for many
awareness  that that everything IT IS ordinary
SPECTRUM.                                 
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
View yourself SHIT 4 BRAINS took place in
the most  living environment.  Almost  on
Every effect the hall simply exploded. First-
Well, it was weak applause, but it started
Naya with HiRes Radial Mapping people met
each new effect "with a bang."             
                                          
According to  evidence  many, upon completion
show  S4B ROM ran out of the hall screaming,
that half  was not. Meant the one
the most  lawlessness that happened with two
screens. However, few  saw  the moment
when  already in the middle of DEMO COMPO into the hall
one of the PROGRESS members (KOLVER?) was walking andos-
turning on the ROM, he said:  "I was just watching
S4B on a normal PENTAGON is the last one
part of it is crap!"                         
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
Indeed,  in the  that  version of S4B which
was shown on E'97, the ending was supported
chena,  and closer to  the end of the frames in the animation
jumped up and  distorted. In short
not  was that  most ROM's hands with letters
S4B. And if she was...                
                                          
DEMO COMPO continued. I was interested
reviewed  work  CODE BUSTERS, but again
but rulez was nowhere to be seen. But not even
Looking  at this, many of those sitting nearby
yellow sighed, seeing in other demos "theirs"
effects. Ahead were DIGITAL REALITY.    
                                          
BINARY  LOVE from DR did not last long. Not
managed  people drag from the intro with a very
similarto living dr'sheep, as in very
During loading the demo froze. On the way
was MEGACODE'ovskyPOWER  UP! Completely
Naturally, not everything went smoothly here either. By-
lovina effects came in a poor color palette
liter, a couple of times it was completely dark on the screen
but, of course, the coolest RBG
picturewith AMIGA looked like a piece of film
sora.  On  happiness, the drive did not disappoint, and
the loading animation went smoothly. In love
In any case, EXPLODER was completely broken and
depressed.                                 
                                          
The remaining  works  were not a variety
differed, although  it should be recognized that in
each  demo had at least one inter-
eyelash effect. Although there was one more reason -
critical moment - work number 13. It is for-
tried it five or six times and still without success -
but... Here we gothink after that...            
                                          
Demonstration  demo has come to end. Straight from
scenes someone announced the first day of E'97 closed
dug, and the people slowly began to disperse.
Finally,  we ran S4B and EYE one more time each
ACHE 2.                                   
                                          
MAGIC decided to go backstage to find out
thread about the fate of MUSIC COMPO and in general. Here-
then what was happening there was  captured
with my camera.                       
                                          
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    │  │     
    ├---┐   ┌---┐  │     
    │ 1 │            │ 2 │   ┌---┐  │     
    │   │┌---┐       │   │   │ 3 │  │     
    ├---┘│   │       └---┘   │   │  │     
    │    │ 4 │ ┌---┐         └---┘  │   │    │   │ │   │                │     
    │    └---┘ │ 5 │                │     
    │          │   │                │     
    │          └---┘                │     
    │    1. Остатки RUSTER'а        │     
    │    2. MAGIC/MAGIC SOFT/XTM│     
    │    3. Неопознанный товарищ    │     
    │    4. KANO                    │     
    │    5. Уставший Ларьков        │     
    └-------------------------------┘     

Вернувшись, Виктор огласил нерадостное из-
вестие:  MUSIC  COMPO  не  будет,  так как
ENLIGHT'97 закрыт! Завтрашний день отменя-
еться,  and  it's all to blame drinking beer,
litter and painted toilet. Dol-
no one cried and decided that tomorrow we could
Maybe it would be better, everyone went to spend the night.
Well  and on case, if we don’t see you again,
several frames of film were shot.     
     ┌----------------------------┐     
     │  ┌---┐  ┌---┐  │     
     │  ┌---┐ │  │  │ 3 │  │     
     │  │  │ │ 2 │   │ ┌-┴--┐    │     
     │    │ 1 │ │   │   │ │    │    │     
     │    │   │ └---┘   └-┤ 4  │    │     
     │    └---┘           │    │    │     
     │                    └----┘    │     
     │ 1. МАХ IWAMOTO/CBS           │     
     │ 2. TOX/MEGACODE/XTM          │     
     │ 3. EXPLODER/MEGACODE/XTM     │     
     │ 4. МАХ BUSTER/MAGIC SOFT/XTM │     
     └------------------------------┘