Party - Funtop: Briefly.

                                          
BRIEFLY                                   
                                          
 ZX-DIGEST                
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 As usual, the party was powerful
          an incentive for creative people.
          We can soon expect a surge in ac-
          activity of the masses: in each
          newspaper and magazine will be like this or
          the festival is described differently...       
                                          
 Sergey Novikov
                                          
 Write about everything!             
                                          
  I appeal to everyone who was on FunTop.
If you're not too lazy, write a couple of lines about
your impressions of the party and send it to me.
Your letters will form the basis of an article about IFCI
FunTop-98, which will then be published
in the online newspaper ASPECT (St. Petersburg).        
 Write about everything!  What did you like and what
didn’t like it, wishes to the organizers and
etc. In general, everything that comes to mind! =)27.08.98 Alexey Guryev/Discovery group
                                          
The same can be sent to me.  Now
The consolidation of the second is proceeding at an accelerated pace
(third) electronic magazine "VOYAGER".
Your information will be very useful, and
Many people will recognize you! e-mail: nadejda@st.ru  
                                          
29.08.98 Vladimir Lyjin
                                          
Read more about my vision of FT98 and other chi-
melt in OBERON, #5 (October, 98).         
                                          
30.08.98 Yuri Vasiliev
                                          
NICRON (Moscow)                         
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 In the introductory article to the anniversary
measure of the newspaper Vladimir Bulchukei wrote: "100-
Nicron's anniversary issue after everything
the experience seems to be just one of the episodes,
one of the pieces of the past August 22
long-awaited* computer holiday  
creativity, so let it merge into
one with FunTop and will now become
a piece of his history!"                   
  Add to thisnothing, - it is said brightly,
emotional and precise.  It seems that this
the newspaper issue should be distributed together
and on a par with collections of competition works. 
  In rooms 101, 102 - continuation of the photo-
story started in the 100th issue of the newspaper.     
                                          
ASPECT, #10 (St. Petersburg)           
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Alexey Guryev (November 1998):              
 From the letters I received, I compiled a small
(about 80 sectors) article. First they go
letters from the FT organizers, where they tell stories -
talk about the preparation and holding of the festival.
Then there are a couple of letters from compo members,
and several letters from viewers.  Plus it-
the foot of my comments.                  
                                          
OPTRON (Lviv)                          
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 In issue 18 for September 1998 it was published
to Pavel Vysotsky's article "FunTop-98: Demo
Compo". "Demo construction on the Spectrum continues
wants to develop... And this development - further
but not gradual.  The whole year in the strictest
something new is being prepared in secret, then the
The Festival begins - and everything becomes clear..."
  Analysis of some works presented
on FunTop:Funtasy Oops/Odintsovo (out of competition);    
Morbid Vision Tankard, Asphixia/Minsk;   
Emergency Real Nome corp. group/Dzerzhinsk;
Adrenalize Global corp./Stary Oskol;     
Blame Stars of Keladan group/Samara;      
Entropy ZX-Maniacs & MKHG/...             
                                          
  "...See you in the next issue of "Opt-
ron"! There we will continue our analysis..."    
                                          
The editors can be contacted at:   
                                          
290045 Lviv, PO Box 1131.                
        Andrey Stegnitsky                
e-mail: felkons@felkons.lviv.ia           
                                          
RIP (Minsk)                             
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 In the 8th, August, issue of the newspaper Arse-
nij Astapenko writes that about all important
events within the CIS Spectrum
has already been told by the press, so again
It's probably not worth the hassle.  And therefore, oh
FunTop he didn’t write anything, but
gave a fairly detailed retelling-translation
Official Invitation from the E.S.A. group
at the Festival in the Czech town of Doxie (with an-
in the English original of the Invitation you can
read the section "And sooh..." - "And
so on..."), and also remembered the idea
holding a virtual FunTop, which
at that time it was exaggerated by Artem Kharitonov
and was described in detail in the newspaper "#Z80",
#2.                                       
  In issue 10, the incomparable duet of Ars and
Werewolves talks about two, already served
the events of the year that had occurred by that time:
Doxycon and FunTop. However, the Czech Festival
not much attention was paid to Val, -
We have only preliminary results.  Co-
beings are given an original FunTop, i.e.
unborrowed, appreciation - everything is sincere,
everything is with humor, everything is as always with Rip!       
                                          
BUZZ (Kovrov)                           
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 In the 16th issue of the Kovrov electronic
Zeta, which is released by the notorious
Eternity Industry group, two published
articles on topics that interest us: "Fun
Tor-98 in detail" (C) Paracels/EI and
"Impressions of FunTop-98" BY DEMIURGE ASH/
E.I.                                       
  The first article is written in the travel genre
essay and presented in style, if possible
say, "chronicles of events";  second article
compares favorably with most articles -
- impressions that are short, sharp and specific -
comments on organizational issues
himself and essentiallyfestival competitions. 
                                          
Newspaper publication date: September 28, 98     
Editorial address: 601901 Vladimir region.  
Kovrov, Chernyshevsky St., 7, apt. 17.   
Kalinin Dmitry Yurievich                 
                                          
Oberon (Samara)                         
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 In the 5th issue of the magazine (November 7, 98) topic
FunTop is dedicated to two articles by Naxim Mucha-
va (M.M.A. aka UnBEL!EVER/SPEED co./XTM). 
                                          
 "Working with FunTop-98" (section "Overview")   
 "...I had no desire to write a review.
...However, after reading it, there is absolutely no
zoom review in 2 issues of the OPTRON newspaper,
I thought about it.  What will the average person get?
user!  On the one hand, literary and poetic
tic downloads from Gendalf (OPTRON), and
on the other hand, DEJA VU will be released one of these days
and there again DAN!!L will load with something
like: “interrupt vector I=#5V...” So
the busy user will not understand that he needs to look
I'm wondering what's not worth it..."                  
                                          
 "FunTop" (section "About everything")            
 "...These 12 hours spent on the 5th floor
in the school assembly hall, we found ourselvesinscribed
into the world history of the ZX Spectrum by a huge co-
number of works, people, opinions, acquaintances,
photographs and videos.  Fun for some
Thor was a shock, for others - an ordinary se-
height..."                                
 An article was published in the "Review" section,
dedicated to the works of the Doxycon-98 festival. 
                                          
 * * *                   
So, the bulk of the material about FunTop-98
in the Spectrum press can be roughly divided
into two types: work evaluation (mainly -
Demo), personal impressions with chronological
what kind of transmission of the events described.        
                                          
If the evaluation material is to a large extent
depends on the author's competence in the field
demomaking, then articles of the second type - from
emotionality and personal inclinations of auto-
ra.  I have read all the above articles
and, we must pay tribute to their authors,
the probability of the events described in the articles,
did not dampen my interest in reading. Each
giving a new article (read - the identity of the author)
adds new events to the overall picture
paints and details.  However, the similarity of the structure
The majority of the articles were inspired by some
other negative thoughts: too obviously
the conclusion is drawn that journalists are stereotyped
thinking of most authors, and from
here is a direct parallel to the stereotypedness of in-
interfaces and shells of the bulk of today-
nanny of the ZX press.  Previously I advocated not
dubious priority of content, but, apparently
my, somewhat militant, position
was caused by the fact that it was too peremptory
they tried to impose the opposite on me
point of view on the process of creating electronic
new publications. However, as is known, "meet-
they look at clothes" and here it is preferable
integrated approach: high level of content
zhaniya, polished design, non-standard
interface development, well written
codes... However, sorry for going off topic.
                                          
 Read the ZX press!            
     This phenomenon is truly unique!     
                                          
SWdZ
                                          
                                          
                                          
 COMPETITION WORKS IN InterNet       
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Soon look for all works on:http://funtop.da.ru!                      
                                          
26.08.98 Alexey Ivanov
                                          
Aleksandr V. Solodkov                     
 wrote:                 
                                          
AVS>> PEOPLE, where can I get everything on the Internet?
AVS>> what was on FunTop?               
                                          
PV> CHA0SiTE: ftp://129.78.238.196/pub/   
                                          
ftp://ftp.ogre2vsk.edu.lv/acid-nature/    
speccy/incomming/funtop                   
                                          
http://funtop.da.ru - verified, downloaded
normal archives.                        
                                          
Use the file download program from
Internet connection when the connection is lost (such as Reget c
www.reget.som)                            
                                          
28.08.98 Alexey Ivanov
                                          
                                          
 COLLECTIONS OF COMPETITION WORKS         
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The first two to three weeks after August 22 all
those who did not have the opportunity to attend the Festival -
le, lived in tense anticipation of collections
competitive works.  Each new collection
became an event.  "The graphics have arrived!"
“The music has arrived!”, “4K began to be uploaded” -
this was good news, which was greeted with trepidation.
that echoed the heart of every spectrumis-
ta. It's one thing to follow discussions on the topic
"Blame. Plot or effects" and read the report-
tags of Sergei Novikov, another thing - make sure
firsthand in the merits of the work.  And yet, not
there was no fly in the ointment... The first two
bots "Forever" and "Refresh" (2nd and 1st months)
that accordingly in Demo Compo) had to
wait much longer for other jobs.  And
This, I think, is not good!        
                                          
“Forever” I received from ETC-Server (arrived
I had to wait), but “Refresh” was successful
watch only today - October 26th!  And
what, one wonders, could be op-
dew and questionnaires...                          
                                          
So, today we have at our disposal
There are 5 floppy disks with works DemoCom-
ro and one floppy disk each gfx-, music-, CHK-In-
tro compo; total: 8 floppy disks.  This is our dos-
groaning, ourspride! Sign up for one of
Nicron floppies, #100 and include them in your
Khiv.                                      
                                          
SWdZ
                                          
                                          
ALTAI REGION. ABSENTEE PARTICIPATION      
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Of the two Barnaul groups known to me
members got to participate in FunTop
only one - Dementia corporation.  On
court spectators were presented with graphic
and musical work (that’s it, - as it turns out -
Xia) and CHK-Intro, started two or three days before
deadline for completion of work and completed
on that very last day.  Special, st.
childish, there is romance in this - for the night
learn "Sopromat" before the exam - but a lot
is it valor... The trouble is that they themselves
the leaders of the scene set a bad example for the beginning
shim, bringing his works to the festival stage
condition literally in the last hours and mi-
chickpeas before starting.  Behind the scenes, unfortunately
nyu, all the preliminary work remains,
but the fact that the work was brought into the hall already in
compo time and takes
first/second place is impressive...   
Итак,  рисунок  Максима Шелепова  ниже  по
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Competitive work of Alexander Rostov co-
accompanies this section of the issue, 4K file
-Intro "dementia" is written in the appendix to
magazine.                                  
                                          
SWdZ
                                          
                                          
REFRESH                  
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From: Potapov Vsevolod Viktorovich        
                    
                                          
Passed 12948308506843205698569380396830683
0683 billion thousand million tens
hundreds of trillions of nanoseconds (+- billion
years), but still no demo.  Does this really know?
cheat that FOREVER is the winner of fantop, and
BLAME is in second place (that’s what they threatened
organizers about a month ago)?         
                                          
Regards, Random/SS
                                          
Officialthe application will be in two days
current  Most likely, you will be right.  A
let the prizes for first place remain
VAV's conscience.                            
                                          
Sincerely, Alexey Ivanov
                                          
P.S. And to Viktor Moskalev the unsold prize
Kaya-1024's calling fee will have to be handed over
Digital Reality. This is such a bummer ;)    
                                          
October 4, 1998                            
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From: Pavel Nikonov (04.10.98)
                                          
You can safely forget (or forget) on rfs like
to the demo from ftp (if it appears, it will already
clearly turned upside down) :(      
                                          
Nice dreams, Virtual/Silence Crionix-98
                                          
It looks like it.  By the way, in connection with this it is possible
This raises an interesting question. Suppose the car
tori changed names, changed pictures
and colors and released on another batch.  Yes
how very few people saw her “in the eyes”,
no one will even suspect anything.  Yes
you can travel around the country and collect the firstplaces :) But seriously, it's time to quit
already with this first place.  Don't need anyone
disqualify, leave as is, but
for the future know that ALL work will be
CONFISCATED (or copied:) before
chalom compo. And they were not given to the authors. :) Yes
Let's do it.                                  
                                          
Regards, Random/SS
October 5, 1998                            
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From: Alexander Grimalovsky (10/12/98)
That: Victor Moskalyov                    
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VM> I'm here on Sunday (11-Ost-98) talking
VM> cooked with Exploder. As it turned out,
VM> the demo did not come out on time by one
VM> for another terrible reason: the disk with
VM> part of the source code, i.e. some hour-
VM> you had to rewrite it again!      
                                          
Backups must be done! ;)                  
                                          
VM> In general, we agreed with him that he
VM> finishes everything and arrives in a week
VM> is moving to Moscow and we are putting everything together
VM> and bring the demo to the end. Like this.     
                                          
Cool! Let's wait a little longer...             
                                          
VM> Yes, DR, of course, well done. But understand and
VM> us - active work on the demo has begun
VM> was just a week before FunTop!  
                                          
I understand perfectly! Here's just one question:
There's a little discrepancy here, I agree
good to the statements of Mbr^xTm on #z80, Refresh
should have been ready back in May
holidays!  And VAV himself said that
I started writing Refresh back in the fall of 1997!    
                                          
                                          
 ARCANOID IS A DEMO VERSION OF THE GAME!     
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From: Andrew Alexandrow (02.10.98)
That: Alexander Grimalovsky               
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AG> Question to Funtop organizers: judging
AG> according to the results, did not take part in
AG> compo 4K INTRO.<С> and ARCANOID.<С>. Ho-
AG> I would like to know where these came from
AG> intros?                               
                                          
These two works were writtenus:             
4k intro bу SiMM/PhF                      
Arcanoid Ly Globalus/PhF                  
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From: Andrew Alexandrow (02.10.98)
That: Artem Kharitonov                     
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AN> Arcanoid works great, it's just
AN> we have to wait, it’s a data screen
AN> uses... But in general, in my opinion, this is ab-
AN> absolute first place on FT!   None
AN> GOA Vav doesn't hold a candle to him! B
AN> these words - a very large percentage
AN> serious reasoning...              
                                          
Thank you for such words!  Globalus on seventh
in my heaven... It’s a pity that the intro was out of control
course!                                    
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From: Andrew Alexandrow (02.10.98)
That: All                                 
Subj: Phantom FAMILY corporation messages!
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There were recently messages about Arca-
noid, 4k intro, Master of Orion... All these
work, as well as many others, - on
server fromFatality.  I think you know the address
better than me!                               
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