Party - Funtop: Report by Sergei Novikov - From the Unspeakable.

                                          
FunTop-98 - RULEZZZ! REPORT             
                                          
 FunTop-98. FROM THE UNSAYABLE        
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To fully reveal the topic, it remains
add some details.                
                                          
First of all, there were few St. Petersburg residents.  Almost
no one. Neither Formatovtsy, nor Mednonogov, nor
X-Trade, no LAV with Felix... We're used to it,
when they go to see them, they missed this
cool party. :)                           
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Vyacheslav Mednonogov (24.08.98):         
                                          
Maybe not a lot, but not so little either:        
                                          
The Peters are riding                              
                                          



                                          
Евгений Юрьевич (Welcome)                 
                                          























                                          
with M. Blum,                               
Denis Markelov (God Fazer),               
A. Neumann (apparently)                      
Timofey Lapo                              
Frunze from Style Group (will make a movie)
You never know...                             
                                          
Accordingly, there were also:                  
                                          
Nemo,                                     
                                          























                                          
                                          
Captain (Style Group),                    
Иван Мак (из Петерсов),..                 
                                          
























                                          
Слухи,  что к вам  уехал  хакер  Крис - не
подтвердились. Был ли GodFather - не знаю.
От Блюма я уже наслушался восторженных от-
зывов!                                    
                                          
Может,  это и хорошо - "пиво не преградило
дорогу фестивалю FunTop-98" :))           
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Almost no one was from Kharkov.  Neither Code
Busters, nor Alexey Bugay (who, according to
rumors I wanted to come).    The only one
Kharkov deme - Garlic Respiration only
spoiled the impression of the demo component and did not
exceeded most four-kilobyte
nyh intro.  Planned to be Viator from Ava-
lon, but didn't come.                     
                                          
Most of them were Muscovites (40 people).
Antares won in the music compo, but in the demo
and Moscow didn’t even participate in the intro.       
                                          
Now about the organization.  The action passes
dilo on the fifth floor of the school. There was no buffet
so people bought provisions in neighboring
tents (someone was lucky - 200 hunger -
new mouths!).                               
                                          
During the break between computers, everyone could
whether to purchase the products they are interested in:
T-shirts with Fantop symbols (it was pro-
given 20 pcs. 30 rub. and 5 - 25 each), practically
virtually any literature on ZX (nowhere
I've seen so many things: from the ancient "500 games"
and "ZX-Spectrum for users and pro-
rammists", all five issues of "Best
games" (were sold out instantly) and "ZX-
-Review" to all kinds of Inforcom books-
zhek and "Computer Worlds").  Sold
licensedgames, magazines. "Black Crow"
on" and "Mirrors" was not there, but it had its own
exotic: "UFO-2" and "48 irons"!          
                                          
A small number of spectators (200 people
against 600 (?) on the E-97) provided the proper
discipline and cleanliness. Spend it on this
party level for ZX+PC+Amiga is not representative
is possible due to the larger number of spectators
lei.  In addition, fans of different platforms
don't get along well together.                   
                                          
And finally, where will the next party be?  B
at the end of the festival it was announced that
I'm counting on the success of the Moscow party, it was worth it
a lot of effort and nerves, so organize
tors would be very happy to go to
another city.  But if no one else is for-
wants to hold a party at his place, then, apparently,
we will have to gather in Moscow again.     
                                          
In December of this year, Random wanted to organize
call a party for three platforms in St. Petersburg
(Chaos Constructions).                    
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Potapov Vsevolod Viktorovich (25.08.98):  
                                          
Not just wanted, but also wants, and also,
most likely, it will carry out.  Still unclear
situation with all platforms(this will be
clarified in the near future), but Spectrum
will be at 100% and RS - at 80%;  Amiga - how
I'll negotiate with the developers.              
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Different from Inlight, which was also carried out in
St. Petersburg for fans of PC, Amiga and ZX, bu-
children are the commercial basis of the party, i.e. paid
entrance, prizes, sponsors.  This idea is quite
risky.                              
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He who does not take risks is not from the Chaos Concern ;)
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Even if Random manages to save money and
arrive on time from Australia, absolutely
It’s not clear how the prize money will be divided
fund between cars: if those who came are amizh-
there will be 5 times fewer nicks than spectrum
mists, then there should still be prizes
the same, which means the spektrumists will be
"feed" the Amizhniki.                      
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Verified sources report that Random
gave up on studying and now earns a day -
gi, 370 Australian dollars per week, at
the road. He will be saving for about five and a half
the fault of the weeks (tickets are incredibly expensive).
So for Random you can notworry and
entrust him with the conduct and publication
tion of information on Chaos Constructions...   
                                          
[The Prize Fund will be shared] directly about
proportional to the number of works in the competence
tions. [Therefore, the prizes will not be the same
and no one will “feed” anyone.]       
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In addition, two full-fledged demos per year are not
Each Spectrum group can handle it.      
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That's why associations and concerns are needed ;)))
But seriously, the main thing is that there is a desire. 
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It is also clear that Spectrum music com-
but in its existing form it has outlived its usefulness.  By
at least that's what the majority thought
Fantop.                                  
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And it will be carried out at KH completely
differently.  The music will play;  how much
time and how is another question.        
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People simply did not listen to 39 similar
a Mouzon. And this is at the highestquality
your sound (those who were at FT will understand me).
Fortunately, we decided not to take digi-
tal music, which is usually significantly worse
same in terms of sound purity than AU. Yes and under-
takes up a lot of space.                         
                                          
We haven’t decided yet what the music compo should be.
Ideas were put forward: either remove it completely
(then there will be discrimination against musicians -
they show the graphics), or give for each
dy music for 1 minute, which, of course,
not enough.  It seems to me that the optimal thing would be
reduce listening time to 2 minutes
(this is enough, while listening
the same thing for 3 minutes got boring).  Except
In addition, a break after the demonstration is required.
tions of half the Mouzons.  Here are all the reforms:
It’s not difficult to sit 2 times for 40 minutes.   
                                          
August 24, 1998 Spirit/AntiQue