(c) Pavel Yarmolchuk (xPasha)
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Oof, this very CAFe'99 is over. We still have it
done. We are Excess Team and Vysokogorsky Computer
Center Back in the spring, the first versions of rules were released online.
Closer to summer, the composition of the organizing team was determined. Honestly
It's not an easy thing to do as a demoparty. There was so much
need to be found, and firstqueue money. Sent out letters at 15
Kazan computer companies and no one even responded with a refusal.
Here..... Okay, I won’t swear, well, them.... There, in general, they understood
probably...
And so when for the first cool hall found with a cool
We requested 10 pieces of equipment in 2 days and there were some awesome problems,
there was nowhere to get this money. And then I got involved
Vysokogorsk Computer Center. Unlike the snickers
gentlemen in Mercedes they turned out to be more attentive to this
original event and now they are already co-organizers, all
money problems solved. In general, high mountain people are simply the most
naturally saved the party from failure, for which they are special
and thank you very much. By the way, such an important thing as
They already had a video projector. We were turned down with a cool hall,
the owners of the hall were up to something there and the director of the cultural center could not give us
it’s already even for twice the amount. We found a worse place in
times cheaper. And then spring passed, followed by summer, the time has come
carrying out CAFe'999.
August 27.
The night before the festival: part of Excess Team: Lasoft, Pasha,
xPasha, ZK System, SK Corp from St. Petersburg, Adam Bazaroff, Xanth and
Maxi GC music makers from Samara gathered at Lasoft's apartment.
The whole night was spent sorting and selecting competition entries.works, checked
equipment and eliminated the detected glitches. By morning I had a view
everyone else, some of the Excess Team, for example Lasoft, are not
We've been sleeping for two days now.
August 28.
In the hall of the Mayakovsky Palace of Culture work is in full swing on installation and configuration
equipment: 4 computers, video projector, acoustics and some
necessary little things. The remaining time before opening is filled
showing demos on an Amiga computer. Adam Bazarov takes the stage
and after the welcoming speech of Director Vysokogorsky
Computer Center L.V. Bikmullina announces festival
open. The first of the competitions was the 1k intro competition at
PC/Amiga computers, then multi-channel music competition, ZX
Spectrum 4k intro, hand-drawn graphics, BC 4k intro, Amiga/PC 64k
intro, Wild compo.
Representatives of two came to film a report on CAFe
TV companies: Variant and Ether. During breaks between competitions
the best demos were demonstrated and took prizes at the best
in the demoparty world: Assembly, The Gathering, The Party, etc. Guests
festival showed an interesting video about the
Finnish demo party Assembly and a funny 3D video about penguins
won a prize at this festival. On occasion on the same
Vint turned out to be a video about how Bill Gates was treated tocake, this video was played several times, and each time
climactic moment of cake hitting the head of a corporation in the face
The Microsoft hall simply exploded with shouts like: Microsoft must die,
whistling and hooting. Wild compo is a competition in the style of show what
you can. One of the Wild compo members sang rap, the second played
popular melodies on your own teeth, third
demonstrated a 400 byte demo for Linux. After that the first
the day is declared closed. The problem arises: where to settle
a crowd of guests from other cities. The problem is successfully solved:
Yoshkarolina team BrainWave and Moscow Antares takes to
himself one local computer scientist. This night in a tiny
Almost the entire Excess Team and Moscow team spend the night in the Lasofta apartment
guests: Manwe/Sands, Shaggy Nik/BFG, Nazgul/Chaos Energy. Total in
a total of 14 people. Maxi is already breaking all endurance records
he spends the second night without sleep while intensively working on
your competition works. CAFe guys drink beer all night, chat,
share impressions and experiences. In the morning, fatigue takes its toll and
some even fall asleep on the bare floor and sometimes in awkward positions.
Those who remain awake can only make fun of
sleeping because there is no more room even on the floor.
August 29.
The second competition day opens fromlate by more than
hour The following competitions took place on this day: Amiga/PC 4k
intro, 4-channel music, BC demo, Simulated graphics, ZX
Spectrum 4K intro, Amiga/PC demo, Animation. Around 18.00 second
the competition day was completed before the award ceremony
3 hours remained, a break was announced and during this time people were killing
chatting, drinking beer, watching demos and listening to music,
music maker Manwe from the band Sands finds a piano behind the stage and under
own accompaniment begins to sing songs in English
language. And at 21.00 the award ceremony began. Director
Vysokogorsk Computer Center Bikmullina Larisa
Vladimirovna congratulated the winners and presented them with diplomas
festival and cash prizes. Everyone was very happy (or almost
everything). Diplomas of those who were not in too much of a hurry were decorated with signatures
Head of the Committee for Children and Youth Affairs Bariev M.M.
After this, the Yoshkarolinsk BrainWave team went to
station, and Muscovites in full force joined Excess
Team. That night in Lasoft’s apartment there was nowhere to fall not only
an apple, but also a berry, and the hallway resembled a shoe warehouse. Every
spent the night on the Internet, downloading demos and doing all sorts of nonsense.
Moscow guests liked the good Internet connection via
digital PBX, which is no longer uncommon in Kazan. On v90easily presses
49,000, and sometimes even 50,000 and a few kopecks. Hidden Part
lasted all night. Despite the cramped conditions it was very interesting
and fun. In the morning, Muscovites can’t wait to stroll around the festive
Kazan. Everyone goes to Bauman Street to take photos as a souvenir.
Moscow guests really liked the local Arbat. And from the cafe
~Fed Dad~ they were simply delighted. On this occasion one of
told them that in Moscow you can eat so tasty and varied
paying 2-3 times more, and 50-60 rubles for which they are up to
we ate enough in Papa, it’s impossible to even get a decent meal in the capital
in the very middle #$@th canteen (is it true?). More guests of Tatarstan
Tatar inscriptions are usually pinned, and they were no exception
visiting cafe makers, they discovered the meaning of the words: barn,
yabyk and yort. At 1.30 the next day the last guest left: SK
CORP from St. Petersburg and this concludes CAFe'99 for the organizers.
Yes, of course there were many shortcomings: a rake with equipment,
large delays between compos, poor sound, problems with
accommodation of guests for the night, etc. Next year Excess Team
and VKTs are planning to hold CAFe again and this time on
really high level. Maybe the first pancake came out lumpy,
this is not so important, because as one famous politician said,
the main thing is to start (with emphasis on the first syllable).
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