(C) VEL / PROXIMA (C) SERGIUS PUZZLER / PROXIMA Special edition for e-magazins. As Proxima Hackers Team we went to FunTop. For a trip to the International Festival Computer Art FunTop we, Proxima, we prepared for a long time, even when we saw the first info. Bye until 22 August, we saved money (collected bottles, swept the streets and took out trash containers ;-))) Well, the long-awaited 21st has arrived number. From the very morning through my house began people walk. In the evening there is a little traffic stopped, Viky Monster taxied in, Uncle Sam and Sergius. Together they tore me away from interplanetary battles in Elite Z, friends decided to pass the time playing a logic game (with two difficulty levels! ;-) - Ugolki.Our time was inexorably approaching departures :`-) We began to persuade Viky Monster will come with us. Ho at Vitka's there was a pretty good reason to turn down from the trip ;-) Next time he has this an excuse won't work... ...................... We liked Arbat, even though deserted, empty and lonely. Well it came up time to rush to find the venue Sinclairist parties. The city was waking up after a cool night (it will soon be autumn, to someone and to school :-) By 8 o'clock we ended up near school 91. Before entering a dozen participants were already hanging out in the yard festival We humbly joined them rows. Not even five minutes passed and we started make new acquaintances, especially in represented by the representative of St. Petersburg WELCOM CORPORATION by Evgeniy Buder. Around nine o'clock everything is together rushed into the school yard and went there the rest of the Sinclairists are catching up, coming up later. It should be mentioned that that the delegation is from our city of Kovrov turned out to be the largest - 11 people. Somewhere after 9 o'clock, when everything is already We managed to chat and take pictures, everyone was allowed into the school building. On the stairs between the fourth and fifth floors started people were gathering - was goingregistration participants and guests. Having registered and taken forms for voting and personal cards, we went to a medium-sized assembly hall filled with chairs. They also stood near the windows. There were five monitors in total, which were quite enough. Three monitors stood in front of the first nearby - one in the center and two closer to the windows. One b/w monitor was intended for the needs the organizers themselves, and therefore stood lower others. Well, the last monitor was placed approximately in the center of the hall - for back rows. Much to our chagrin it turned out that business cards were not issued there will be. This made the process very difficult identifying people we know through correspondence personalities. Although there were some resourceful people who are home early We made these cards for ourselves. We decided to settle closer to the so-called. podium and sat in the second row. Later it turned out that the guys from CPU, and in the third row are the guys from Rage Creative Group, from Belarus. First, as always, we scrolled several demos and after a short The festival itself began waiting. At the very beginning with a short informal The message was given by Alex. He told us what's inthis time passes at school itself some other important event and asked to be more restrained in emotions and not disturb public order. Wlodek Black himself spoke next, which, in fact, solemnly opened International Computer Festival Arts FunTop`98. But here Wlodek surprised everyone with the following message: at school The electricity was turned off due to debts! Like this bummer - everyone probably thought. Ho and right there calmed down. All equipment succeeded connect to a neighboring private house, for that they - thank you very much (not free, of course :-) After this, the floor was passed to the President Welcome Corp. - Evgeny Buder. Here on the monitors there was some video with a painfully familiar plot. “The pussy was tampered with,” many thought and were wrong. It turns out that this is the company "Peters" brought my new one to the presentation computer - Sprinter with 4 megabytes, screw and other bells and whistles - horror! Video lasted 4 minutes and took approximately 15OMB. Naturally, after such a grandiose started to the representative of the company Peters started people with voice recorders burst in and began ask a wide variety of questions. Having withstood all the questions withhonor, Peter's once again we scrolled through part of what was already shown roller By the way, I’ll say that the prices are in advance prepared by the company, they were not taken so well. At least they weren't too ostentatious these same prices. Or maybe the company itself don't care about it? Now it’s the Captain’s turn NEMO. He talked about his computer KAU-1024 and showed the motherboard. How It’s not strange, but there are practically no questions it was. In conclusion, NEMO reported that Slava Mednonogov could not come and reports Warm greetings to everyone. After these words The captain took out a large stack various prices, from which through for a few seconds there was no trace left. B this stack was so very interesting price list of A5 format, the contents of which I I quote it verbatim. Forthcoming new game for Spectrum "Black Raven - 2" The game will be a continuation real-time strategy "Black Raven". The action moves forward two thousand years forward to the future, where people and kungs to come againmeet in an unequal battle for justice. Get ready for the release of the full version! Always yours, Vyacheslav Mednonogov. All other price space was filled with gorgeous pictures. Various Sinclairists performed further, presenting their new developments in the field software, both system, and gaming. A in general was present at the festival a lot of different people: strangers, acquaintances and not really. PC'yuchnikov spotted on FunTop'e there weren’t, but there were representatives of the platform AMIGA (how could it be otherwise? :-) In particular AMIG'niks sitting nearby from time to time time they said something like "at AMIGA is better for me." Well, their favorite Everyone has known the phrase for a long time - “sux `n` must die". Well, the time has come for the first one nominations. It turned out to be GFX compo. The pictures were very diverse and there was there are a great many of them. Bo show time pictures, the organizers made an announcement those who brought pictures with them, but not managed to registertheir. And such found! At the very end of the viewing Two more pictures appeared. Ho, how am I I understand, the final collection included more more pictures. When voting it was necessary to select three pictures from 69. Much to our surprise, The prizes were not won by the best pictures. And it's strange. But even more I was surprised by the fact that it turned out to be on compo several pictures by the same authors! The next compo turned out to be 4K intro. Not many works were presented - 14, just like the demo. The works turned out to be truly the most diverse (according to at least that's what it seemed like at first times). There were also quite memorable ones work, there were works with enough unexpected humor, and there were also just 4K intro :-) Personally, we didn’t like the fact that the authors of some intros didn’t bother yourself with extra work. It's enough just take some part from your demo - here to you and 4K intro. Actually the prize money the people who deserve the places are not the ones who deserve them received. After looking at it for quite some time graphics and 4K intro took a break. Some comrades immediately went to smoke in space reserved for this, others left just to chat from the audience,well, and the third generally remained in place. Particularly far They weren’t allowed to run away, because... time is money, especially considering that electricity "Downloaded" from a neighboring house. Of course, for they didn’t start running around with everyone, but just warned about the imminent start of the next compo. Well, it's time for music. There were a total of 39 registered works, of which the numbers of which we chose the best. you would you say that this is not so much? Judge for yourself, it turns out to be 39x3 minutes about 2 hours. And all these two hours are needed listen carefully and then choose the best! Yeah... There was work here too quite different, but some of them frankly bored. In the beginning everything was Quite calm. Well let's go here several killer rave music, under who, without hesitation, rushed to dance several guys. And so there were several once... The most unpleasant thing was that this roar woke up Uncle Sam, before moment of sleeping peacefully on a chair ;-) Via for some time part of the hall was joyful again buzzed, clapping and whistling. It turned out that the music came from Moscow musicians. The result can be was foreseen with 100% probability of the first place was taken by Ilya Abrosimov/EA-Soft/Antares Upon completioncompo people are tired, but satisfied, they fell into the corridor, although, again some remained in their places. In the corridor itself they have already hung several sheets of sheets glued together - if you have a marker, but a bigger one, keep it for yourself memory. It was also possible to purchase licensed software from Welcome and T-shirts with with cute FunTop symbols. I don't know what colors were used to make these inscriptions? but already in Kovrov I learned from Mongol that the inscriptions are erased almost with moisture finger (well, such a “pleasure” was worth it) initially 30, and later 25 rubles). Also opened selling used books, former Sinclairist, I am now a happy owner of an AMIGA. Also it was possible to purchase licensed copies magazines Adventurer #8, Deja Vu #5, Spectrum Expert #2, Voyajer #1 and others. Branded versions of games were also sold: Monstarland, Mirror, Ufo 2, etc. Except all these people just gave freeware soft on used floppy disks :-) Well, the break is over and the demo compo. By this time I noticed a small row of empty beer bottles "Baltika", and some spektrumists with the happy faces were not empty bottles. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seemed that they were mostly Moscow Sinclairists. And so they launched first demoshki. In general,as on Enlight`e, in some demos they are the same themes or the effects themselves. Well let's go here demos from MegaCode and Digital Reality. Hall literally exploded with applause and screams. As it turned out later, for the demo The Exploders shouted louder :-) Themselves the demos were very diverse and the audience reacted to them differently. For example the phrase "vodka+beer=speccy rulez" was met with laughter. And here, for example, video (which, by the way, first filmed on a video camera, then transferred to PC'yuk and then to our beloved Speccy) the public accepted it almost with such roars like the prize demos. That's why the point is that the cameraman captured that moment, when one resourceful guy stopped by Billy Gates with a sponge cake in the face... At the end the compo was scrolled non-competitive work and three times tried to show to no avail unfinished parts of the demo on FT from Antares. Finally, having collected all the voting forms, organizers left for counting votes. By the way, we managed to find out approximate number of participants and guests - 150-160 people. Not that much, but if we take into account that not everyone came, and those who arrived were from different parts of our beloved country, then it becomes Really great. The votes were being counted, and behind the b/w monitor someone was busy fiddling around and copying something. We also wondered what they had there. on disks and calmly stood in line. But here it is finally and irrevocably The electricity was turned off. But we're not very upset. The vote counting was going on very for a long time, about an hour. Some don't endured and left... But now the solemn moment has come announcement of winners and presentation diplomas, cash prizes and gifts. 4K COMPO 1. GOA VU EXPLODER/MEGACODE/EXTREME 2. DIZZY VU SERZH SOFT Z. NEVERLAND VU SENAT/ETERNITY INDUSTRY GFX COMPO 1. POLESJE VU ARTHUR BURN/ELSSLAND 2. TRASSA VU ANTON SURANOV Z. ALF 1Z VU DEMIURGE ASH/ETERNITY MUSICCOMPO 1. I MUST WIN A COMPO VU EA-SOFT/ANTARES 2. ZX-SOS VU IGOVAL/ANTIQUE Z. ... VU IMP DEMO COMPO 1. REFRESH VU MEGACODE 2. FOREVER VU DIGITAL REALITY Z. BLAME VU STARS OF KELADAN AND SPEED COMPANY By the way, Exploder, in addition to the diploma and received a cash prize as a gift motherboard KAU-1024, the same one which NEMO showed. (C) MITCHELL / HWC The Fun Top`s 98 Party members list: Wolf/Rage, Mythos/Rage, Spirit, Recalder, BOS/LOSW/GE/vP, Wlodek Black, Kano/RP, M!7cHe11/HWC, SerzhSoft, Mr.Z/HWC, SD/HWC, Frunze/SG/Logros, Captain/SG/Logros, ALK/Stars ofKeladan, L-Graph/VVG, GPV, RCL/VVG, Rom Corp./VVG, High Lord/VVG, Mic/VVG, Dr. Мах/Global, Twin/Global, Alex Kerman/Global, Dan!!l/PGC/BDA, Mic/Progress, Rom/Progress, Fux/Progress, KLR/Progress, Sauron/DR, OZ/DR, AR7У/DR, Flying/DR, John/VB, Calev/Ris, Alex(R), ZX-Shadow, Antares, Sister, Chazm/InfoSoft/CPU, Elf/Auryn/CPU, Shaitan/Surdakar/CPU, Dr.Dash/DGN, NSS/DGN, Dude/DGN, Balbes (Last Zahary), Sand and his friend from Mayhem, Peters Software, Welcome Corp., OOPS group, Siv Blader/Excess, Hacker Gri/Excess, Lion/Excess, Magic/Magic Soft/Extreme, Мас Buster/Magic Soft/Extreme, ХРЕН/Magic Soft/Extreme, E.I., Gladiator, Die Crups, M.M.A./Speed Co./Extreme, Exploder(VAV)/ Megacode/Extreme, Ilya Komandin/ZXManiacs, Sergius Puzzler/PROXIMA, Vel/PROXIMA, Uncle Sam/PROXIMA, Mr.John/JS, MAXWELL/JS, Art Soft... and many others...
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