Party - Funtop 98: rules.

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  International Festival
  computer art "FunTop 98"
 Official information v.1.3. from 04/05/98

International Computer Science Festival
arts "FunTop 98" will be held

  August 22

in Moscow, in the premises of the Experimental
secondary school No. 91
Russian Academy of Education, finding-
located at:

  Moscow, Povarskaya st., 14.

This is the first event of its kind in Russia.
yes, entirely and completely dedicated to the
PC ZX Spectrum.  The main goals of the Festival are
valya - establishing contacts between production
software drivers, exchange of ideas, presentations
new games and system programs, conducting
competitions with prizes awarded to the winners
call

In order to attend the Festival, you must
We must first send an application to
one of the addresses specified in the section
"Contact information".

Entrance to the Festival is paid, approximate
cost - 20 rub.  For those who are late with re-
registration - 30 rub.  Proceeds
will be used to reward winnersparents of the competition.

Software sales will be open at the Festival,
where you can not only buy old
and new programs, but also put them on display
I sell my own copyrights (not con-
coursework) works.  In this case, it is extremely
It is advisable to send them in advance.  Sob-
Copyright protection is guaranteed.

  GENERAL RULES FOR CONTESTS

According to tradition, competitions will be held at the Festival
works in the following categories: Demo, Music
and Graphics, as well as the Cheka-Intro competition.

From one author/group to the competition
there is no more than one job in each job
minations.  In case the work is
the result of collective creativity, complete
the presence of at least one pre-
maker from the group.  If there is respect,
valid reasons (difficulties with travel, more
illness, exams, problems with visas, etc.)
Absentee participation in competitions is allowed -
You can send your works as usual
or e-mail or transfer from another
other persons, with an urgent request
request for pre-registration of such
work remains valid.

Works submitted to competitions must
We need to send you in advance by email or
by regular mail or delivered in person, accompanied by
amazing information about the authors and the work itself
(see sample application). Privacy and
compliance with copyright by the Organization
committeeguaranteed. Last day of re-
registration of works - August 8.   Expelled
after this date, work will be accepted
only in exceptional cases and if
circumstances will allow, except for work in new
presentations "Demo" - you can bring them
straight to the Festival, if the work is completed -
comes at the last moment.  However, such
the situation is considered as an emergency
tea; entrance ticket price for participants,
bringing their works directly to the Festival,
without sending them in advance, even if
pre-registration, there will be
which, as for persons who have not registered
in advance.  In case of excessive
the quality of the work will be carried out in advance
careful selection by a reputable jury consisting
from persons not participating in competitions. Non-pro-
selected works will be demonstrated
vans are out of competition if guests and participants
Festival participants will express their desire to do so, and will
included in collections.  Works accepted
participation in competitions, automatically transfer-
classified as freeware - subject to free-
distribution, but if the author(s)
for some reason do not want to include them
works in collections and subsequent distribution
danger, they must notify the Organizing Committee
tet in advance, preferably already upon submission
applications for participation in the competition.

During the screening of the competition works, the audience
will have to choose the three they like and
award them from one to three points, frommarking it on the voting form. Auto-
ry of works that took the first three places in the
The number of points scored will be announced
winners and awarded valuable prizes.

  WORK REQUIREMENTS,
  SUBMITTED TO THE COMPETITION

In all nominations it is not allowed to pre-
submission to the competition of works previously accepted
who took part in any such events -
tiyah.

  GRAPHICS COMPO

Digitized or converted
graphics from other platforms, as well as
own adaptations of other people's works.  In service
tea such suspicion arises, the author
must provide the jury with interim
stages of creating a composition.

  CHK-INTRO COMPO

The works will be shown on a computer
There is the following configuration:

Pentagon-128 (3.5 Mhz, 128 kB, TRDOS 5.03/
5.04T, AY-3-8910/12, 5.25" DS/DD FDD).

The work must be presented as one
file type  with the starting address, the same
falling with the download directory address and
ranging from #6000 to #FFFF;
The file length is no more than 16 sectors.

The program can use any built-in
ROM resources of the computer base computer
figurations; RAM from #6000 to #FFFF in anymemory pages except the 6th.  Program
must return control via RET, to
basic memory configuration 128 kB (incl.
chena page 0); IY = #5CZA standard; with
enabled interrupts in IM 1 mode; with
undestroyed area of systemic change-
nykh; with AY muted.  Clean the e-
wounds and restore the original colors
necessarily.

Duration of demonstration - up to 3 minutes
chickpeas, including time for calculation, preparation,
unpacking data.

  MUSIC COMPO

Only on interrupt music is allowed
compositions for coprocessor AY-3-8910/12.
Digital works are not accepted for the competition in
due to the difficulty of determining their original
ness.

Works are accepted in compiled form
address #C000 (49152) form, indicating mu-
language editor, in which it was written
sana composition.

It is highly advisable to send the original (not
compiled) version of the composition. He doesn't
will be freely distributed
(unless otherwise agreed with the author).

In case of using non-traditional
means of creating music (for example, your own
ven music editor), please
send them along with your work. They also don't
will be allowed for free distribution
nu.

Maximum playback time - 3 minutes
chickpeas

  DEMO COMPO

Workswill be shown on a computer
There is the following configuration:

Pentagon-128 (3.5 Mhz, 128 kB, TRDOS 5.03/
5.04T, AY-3-8910/12, 5.25" DS/DD FDD).

The organizing committee will accept for distribution outside
competitive analogues of works intended
for demonstration on computers of other con-
figurations (for example, tap versions for long-distance
him abroad).

There are no transitions between parts of the demo.
should require keystrokes, while
I like the existence of such an opportunity only
welcome.

The work must not contain obscene language
expressions in any language or any
otherwise not comply with moral standards
nal or legal norms.

"Pure animation" is traditionally prohibited. B
Demo should be dominated by real-time effects.

Maximum duration of demonstration
tions - 10 minutes.  Maximum volume - one
TRDOS disk.

Do not protect the floppy disk from being copied.
nia. Any restrictions within TRDOS
5.03 no (for example, music is allowed in
loading time, etc.). Defense allowed
code from viewing, hacking, "Magic" button
etc., but also - subject to the conditions
free copying.

  CONTACT INFORMATION

Applications, as well as the work themselves, you can highly
send to the following addresses:

1) E-mail: master@satan.spb.su
2) FidoNet:2:5020/689.100
3) ZXNet: Wladimir Bulchukey (500:95/462)
4) 125130 Moscow, PO Box 51
5) 107241 Moscow, Shchelkovskoe highway,
  31, quarter 7. V.V. Bulchukei.

At these addresses you can also receive
any additional information.  Corres-
The donation must contain in the "To :" field
(or on the envelope) marked "FunTop 98" and,
If you don’t mind, please specify
turnout (for example, "FunTop 98. Demo compo.").

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These Rules are not final and may
be changed and supplemented.

Organizing Committee of the IFCI "FunTop 98"
Chairman of the Organizing Committee

  Vladimir Bulchukei

ZX.SPECTRUM ──────────────────────────────
From: Andrew Savichev 2:5020/400 05/12/98
To: All
Subj: Official address
  registration department FunTop 98
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From: "Andrew Savichev"
      
Reply-To: master@satan.spb.su

Hi,All!

Today in the registration department
fifty "requests" have accumulated, which
today cannot be considered accepted
to registration. Therefore, a big request to
these dozens of people and groups known and
not very famous.  FunTop 98 left
very little time, and the information is in
pawn the data memory due to its incompleteness
impossible :(, but these people probably consider
melt that “the job is done.” Therefore I bring it to
Your information that the application is official
socially accepted, guaranteeing you a cheap
tickets at the entrance and most importantly incl.
inclusion of your works in the number of applicants for
prizes ONLY IF FILLED CORRECTLY
rejection of the application.  Here is an excerpt from the official
rules that are the fundamental law
for the registration department.

Example of an application for participation in the competition
course (if you decide to take
participation in several nominations, each
the work must be accompanied
by separate application):
─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─
Handle: FireSoft
Real Name: Ivan Ivanov
Group: Firefighters CHG
Address: 123080, Elektroshok,
 101st street, 10, building 2, apt. 102
Phone: (001) 123-4567
E-mail Address(es): 2:345/133.1,
  firer@dialup.ru
Competition: Demo compo
Name: The Help!
Filename(s): thehelp.B, thehelp.C
─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─
If you are going to attend Fes-
tivale as a spectator, leave the last three
fields are empty.

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The application is considered accepted upon receipt
You will receive a response letter of the following sample:

The registration department of FunTop 98 hereby
pesters Ivan Ivanov that his application for
participation as ... accepted.

Date
FunTop 98 Registration Department

If you have not received such a response, please
send your application again and please
fill in all the information, including your
authorized representative (to represent your
interests if you send work to
competition, but you won’t be present).

Confidentiality of what you communicate to us
information (titles of works and information about
in which nominations does it take part?
or other person orgroup) is guaranteed.
The safety of the sent Va-
mi works.

Until August 22, no one except the jury members and
me personally, will not know my name
works, nor their content. For the rest, the manual
comply with the law on public competitions
and Official information. Other documents
Comrade, to my deep regret, the Organizing Committee
tet has not yet worked out (Rules for conducting
competition and summing up the results, rules of the festival
tional trading, Rules of conduct for
participants and spectators at the Festival). Also
the guest accommodation service was not created and
some other official services carried out
despite my insistent demands. Duma-
it is not too late to create them in order to
so that everything takes place at the highest level
national level.

Best regards,
member of the FunTop 98 Organizing Committee Andrey Savichev,
                         registration department

NICRON, #89 from 05/15/98 ──────────────────

(C) Vladimir Bulchukei

Dear competition participants, if you have
there is no way to use e-mail for
sending applications, you can use
Fido address 2:5020/689.100 (this is the central
ZXNet input address from Fido);  in the field
Subject specify 500:95/462; recipient's name
Wladimir Bulchukey.  You can send an application
and by regular letter... All incoming applications
ki will be immediately transferred to Andrey
Savichev...

The organizing committee continues to work...So what?
concerns the accommodation of guests, the Organizing Committee
did not plan to create an official service
placement. Try contacting directly
to the people - ZXNet is not without good people...

Best regards -
Vladimir.

Pnotes ZX-club ───────────────────────

1. Handle

Nickname (or rather, nickname).  Manager-
Use common sense: if you don't have
pseudonym (for example, you are a viewer)
lem and never faced a problem
choosing a signature for your works), then you shouldn’t
rack your brains... The easiest way out is to-
write your name in English transcription
(for example, Ivan Ivanov, or I. Ivanov).

2. Real name

Name/Surname of the author of the submitted work
or First/Last name of the Festival guest (spectator).

3. Group

The group whose work is presented in
turnout for participation in the competition.  This field
in our opinion, it makes sense to fill out only
However, if the work is a
lecture, and the team is established.  Ras-
We look at the fundamentally possible options:

1) creation of a graphic/musical composition
positions by a team of authors;
2) creation of a demo by one author (director,
programmer, artist and musician - in one
face);
3) creation of a demo by a team of authors, including
working indifferent groups.

Agree, if we formally link the av-
privilege of working with the Group field without specifying
at the same time, the official purpose of this
Yes, then misunderstandings are inevitable.

4. Address/Phone

Postal address/telephone (indicating the code
locality).

ZX.SPECTRUM ──────────────────────────────
From: Dmitry Grigoryev 2:5020/689.31
To: Vova Hex 05/18/98
Subj: Official address
  registration department FunTop 98
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Hello, Vova!

Saturday, May 16, 1998, 10:21 am Vova Hex wrote
to Andrew Savichev:

VH> Why do you need to participate in the competition?
VH> my address and phone number?

For operational communication (demo/picture/music)
it's buggy/doesn't meet the requirements,
additional information...). _Guarantees-
confidentiality of information. You are not for us
do you trust?

VH> And if you filled it in incorrectly, me and
VH> won’t they let you watch?..

Difficult to fill out correctly? They'll let you in if
will have time...

VH> Yours truly, Hexman/BYTEX.

Best regards, Dmitry (OLDMAN).

ZXNet: 095/100.1 oldman@i-connect.ru
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5. Email Address(es)

This field may include addresses:

FidoNet
InterNet,
ZXNet.

ZX.SPECTRUM ──────────────────────────────
From: Andrew Savichev 2:5020/400 06/04/98
To: All
Subj: ... FunTop 98
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From: "Andrew Savichev" 
Reply-To: ms@satan.spb.su

Dear friends!

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We ask all those who send works and apply
ki for visiting by viewers: indicate your
email address, be it ZX-NET, FIDO
or E-mail.

Questions may be discussed with the audience
overnight accommodation on the night from 22 to 23
August.

Best regards, Andrey Savichev
FunTop 98 Registration Department
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6. Competition (Compo)

Competition in which your
work.  Let us remind you that the Festival Rules
There are four competitions:

Graphics compo;
4K-Intro compo;
Music compo;
Demo compo.

7. Work name

Full title of the work (in eight characters)
no need to fit)

__________________________________________

   APPLICATION #1
  DIRECTION TO THE FESTIVAL VENUE

Venue of the Festival "FunTop 98":

  Povarskaya st., 14 (school 91).

Pmetro route:

"Arbatskaya",
"Lenin Library",
"Borovitskaya".

Inexit to Novy Arbat street to the "Moscow Do-
mbook".

On the corner of Arbat Square, opposite the facade
cinema "Khudozhestvenny", enter the sub-
earth transition;  after entering the transition
return to the right tunnel;  walk along
shopping row "PanInter" and go to
the opposite side of Novy Arbat street; from
underground passage - left; follow example-
but 150 m along Novy Arbat street pastbuildings
post-telegraph (where the headquarters of the In-
forkoma") to the fork in the streets;  right in front
You will be the church;  branch street
diagonally to the right - Povarskaya.  White 5
storey school building about 100 m from
turning onto Povarskaya Street from Novy Street
Arbat. Graphic traffic diagram from the metro
"Arbatskaya" to the school building 91 published
in the newspaper Nicron, 91 dated 05.29.98 (article
"Ariadne's Thread").

  APPENDIX #2
  SAMPLE SCHEDULE OF THE FESTIVAL

Saturday, August 22

10.00 Grand opening of the IFCI
            "FunTop `98"
10.00-11.00 Final registration of work
            bot, in parallel - display outside
            competition works, performances
            authors of soft and hardware; re-
            solving current organizational issues...
11.00-11.45 Graphic competition
11.45-12.00 Break
12.00-12.45 CHK-Intro
12.45-13.00 Break
13.00-16.00 Competitionmusical works
16.00-16.30 Break
16.30-19.00 Demo Competition
19.00-20.00 Vote counting; in parallel with
            him - speeches by the authors, about
            communication with the press, repeated
            kaz best Demo, etc.
20.00-20.30 Awarding the winners,
            ceremonial closing of the Festival.

Sunday, August 23

Informal communication, cultural program
outside the official framework of the Festival.

  APPENDIX #3
  MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FunTop 98

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Real Name │Handle │Group
══════════════ ╪═════════════╪═════════════
Alexey │Alex │(R)
Ivanov │ │
────────────── ┼─────────────┼─────────────
Alexey│Asder        │FFC
Летаев        │             │
──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────
Дмитрий       │Oldman       │
Григорьев     │             │
──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────
Сергей        │Spirit       │Digital
Новиков       │             │Reality
──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────
Илья          │ZX-Shadow    │Z-Factor
Иванов        │             │
──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────
Андрей        │m@s          │Census Group
Савичев       │             │SPB
──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────
Владимир      │Wlodek Black │
Bulchukey │ │
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Pnotes:

1) Andrey Savichev -
Zav. preliminary registration of works;
2) Vladimir Bulchukei -
PChairman of the Organizing Committee

  APPENDIX #4
  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CHANNEL

Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Festival "FunTop"
98" Vladimir Bulchukei:

e-mail: wlblack@ns.91.ru
ZXNet: 500:95/462
tphone: (095) 462-89-02
ppost office: 107241 Moscow, Shchelkovskoe highway,
  31, apt. 7.

You can contact us with any questions at
theme of the Festival and will definitely receive
vet.

ZX.SPECTRUM ──────────────────────────────
From: Wladimir Bulchukey 2:5020/689.100
To: All 06/19/98
Subj: FunTop98
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From: Wladimir Bulchukey (500:95/462)

              Hello!

The FT98 Organizing Committee officially informs about
principles of vote counting, accrual
points and prize fund distribution.

1. Approximate view of a voting card

══════════════ ════════════════════════════
  Voting card
══════╤═══════ ═╤════════╤════════╤════════
Mesto │Music │Graphics│CHK-Intro│Demo
──────┼─────── ─┼────────┼────────┼────────
  1 │ │ │ │
──────┼─────── ─┼────────┼────────┼────────
  2 │ │ │ │
──────┼─────── ─┼────────┼────────┼────────
  3 │ ││ │
──────┴─────── ─┴────────┴────────┴────────
 Rules for filling out the voting form
 ───────────── ────────────────────────────
During each of the 4 competitions
please select the 3 ones you like the most
work and enter their numbers for the first, second
first and third places according to your own
external assessment of the quality of products offered at
prizes for work.

  The principle of determining the winners
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For each work whose number was entered
in at least one bulletin, is made
counting the points scored, calculated next
in the following way: for each vote for the first
place - 3 points; for every vote for the second
place - 2 points; for every vote for the third
place - 1 point. The final result of each
from competitions is determined by the amount collected
points: first place - work, scoring
give the highest number of points; second and
third places are awarded for the greatest
number of points accordingly after
first and second work.
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Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the International
Computer Art Festival 1998
yes "FunTop98" V.V. Bulchukei

                            (place of printing)
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2. Personal participant (guest) card FT 98

══════════════ ════════════════════════════
Lpersonal card of the participant (guest) International
rone Computer Art Festival
1998 on the ZX-Spectrum FunTop98 platform
══════════════ ════════════════════════════

Flast name, first name, patronymic:___________________

Pnickname:________________________________

Tcreative group:________________________

Gstate, region:______________________

Rwork submitted for the competition:

1.Nomination______________________________

2.Name_________________________________

3.Information about the author(s)____________

___________________________________________

Hhow to contact you:_____________________

___________________________________________
(postal address; telephone; email address
no mail - indicate your choice)

  (print location)
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3. Principle of prize fund distribution

By nomination:

Demo - 60%
4K-Intro - 20%
Grafika - 10%
Mmusic - 10%
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andtogo: 100%


By place (as a percentage of the amount for each
from nominations):

1th place = 3/6 = 50.0%
2th place = 2/6 = 33.3%
3th place = 1/6 = 16.7%
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andtogo: 100.0%

The principle of scoring is borrowed from
practices of the Enlight Festival, since with it
most future participants agree
FT98.

Distribution of the prize fund by nomination
pits is based on the idea of labor-intensive
ty of the creation of competition works and their significance
bridges both for the progress of the Spectrum
movement (scene), and in accordance with
goals and objectives of the Festival;  also take into account
was a measure of individual or collective
significant participation of authors in the creation of the work.

Distribution of the share of the prize fund in the pre-
cases of one nomination is based on the correlation
changes in points awarded for the first, second
swarm and third place.

Discussed in the Organizing Committee and accepted on June 14, 1998

Best regards -
Vladimir.

(c) Andrew Savichev

 Official message from the registration department
  FunTop`98

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From: "Andrew Savichev" 
Reply-To: ms@satan.spb.su

Hello, dear Spectrum friends!

In Rus' it’s always like this, “until the thunder
thunder - the man will not cross himself" ;) In sacred
zi with an avalanche-like increase in the flow of
wok and works to my address (if earlier
a week we received 3-4 applications, but now
3-4 per day) I bring to your attention,
that registration cards are considered
accepted if they were sent to
alternative or KOI-8 encoding.  Please
please, do not overuse exotic
coders.  Registration confirmations
They have been sent to everyone by August 15th. Not
duplicate your requests!  Preliminary
Registration ends on August 10.  you
you can register your works and not
mediocre on FunTop, but the price of entry
In this case there will be 30 tickets for you, and
not 20 rubles. To date, registered
There were over 80 people.  Presented
applications and work on almost all nominations
nations. They are in the lead, oddly enough ;), work-
you are on demo-compo: 9 works have been submitted. Less
total applications for Chk-intro - 3. Purely visual
Tel applications are about 50%.  ALL SPECIFIED
FIGURES MAY DIFFER upward,
since some applications and works fall
by regular mail to the Chairman of FunTop`98.
Thatwhat gets to him electronically, take into account
occurred during the counting. Most applications are not
from Muscovites, apparently Muscovites decided not to
save :) There are applications from Siberia, the Urals,
Volga region, from Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia
vii. In a word, Moscow must prepare-
ready to receive guests.  At least it is necessary
solve the problem of accommodation for the night
about 50 visitors. In general, I don’t care
please come from my mailbox
nothing was missing from the box, pah-pah-pah.
The company "Nevalink" is one of the largest
Internet providers in St. Petersburg, and I keep
they have their own sole host.

Withrespect, Andrey Savichev
30.07.98 registration department FunTop`98


Pwhen preparing material on
festival "FunTop 98" were used
withthe following sources:

1. Electronic newspaper "Optron", #12.

Aaddress: 290045 Lviv, post office box 1131.
  Andrey Stegnitsky

2. Electronic newspaper "Nicron".

3. FidoNet, конференция ZX.SPECTRUM.

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