Born Dead #10 02 июля 2000

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Party Zone - FOREVER 2E3: Journey to Forever Gasman'a through half of Europe.

(C) Gasman ^ Raww Arse


                    Forever 2e3 - the report


    Last Spectrum party at which I was held in
Horwich, which is 10 minutes from my house. Travel through
half of Europe in order to get at Forever 2e3 demo party,
which took place in Slovakia, promised to be something quite
others. Getting a National Express coach to London, I do not
imagine what to expect from all this traveling.
The only thing I guessed was that to be
several changes in the major European airports.


    My first flight was late, but I have not had the opportunity
notify the people who had to meet me.
Landing at Prague airport, I discovered that this is perhaps
the best place to get lost and the gap
forever. Fortunately, the helpful staff at the airport said
English and helped me choose an alternative flight to the point
destination.


    While I was waiting for departure, and thought that the 
party has already begun and All visitors to this fun event 
where full swing, I remembered that a few people from among the 
organizers promised meet me at the railway station in 
Trencin'e. And I decided send them prismo one similarity 
Internet Salon was available nearby. But it was not the most

simple task. Can you imagine a keyboard on
who scored something even harder than on the keyboard ZX81? A
I can ... Now I can. Sending the message I thought that
Organizers will hardly have time to read it before the party. 
They not read. The remaining time, I entertained myself that 
looked channel, which is probably the German analogue of MTV.

I should note, the German POP music - this is a very bad thing.


    A few hours later, replacing many forms of transport, I
finally stepped onto the threshold of the school building, 
which was take that same party for which I had crossed half of 
Europe. I felt frozen, tired and exhausted that

vobschem something, and it is not surprising, because by this 
time was about morning. Once inside, I felt joy when I heard a 
squeak Speaker 8-bit computers layer interior of the building. 
Although it squeak sounded noble enough, because reproducible

through the hefty sound speakers.


    Soon I met Ellvis (no, not Presley) and immediately
dragged to represent everyone with visitors, most
I knew only through the Internet. Following his best
tradition, I'm there also I forgot the name of the person.


    It was not only the Spectrum parties. Also in attendance
owners of the Commodore 64 and Atari, the last and dragged me
watch classic demonstration at Atari. Instead of
use a normal floppy drive, they joined Atari to PC,
which was used as an emulator of that same
drive. Atari computer itself was open to a
opportunity to attach it to your PC, and unimaginable pile of 
wires lay on the table between the hulls of two computers. Wow,

cool!


    Demonstrations themselves were pretty impressive. I was 
particularly struck by the smoothness of all that is happening 
on the screen. But being ardent fan of the Spectrum, I thought 
that all the same thing could be done and we have, whether at 
the Speccy significantly bolshe colors. Heh-heh-he.K this time 
I really wanted to sleep, and six staircases that had to be 
overcome before the room which could sleep significantly 
increased this desire. 


    The next morning I woke up just in time for that
to catch the last five minutes of realtime contest. The meaning 
of this the contest was that without preparation

write a better intro or brief musical composition for
ogranichenneo time. The result of this contest was ... very
interesting. Factor 6 ranked first in the music competition,
TDM'a leaving in second place. The competition realtime intro
participated for three works: the game works independently,
reminiscent of Breakout, on the Atari; something strange called
Haluzky; and Zero Divide, represents the effect starfield,
which also took first place.


    At the same time I talked to Matsoft'om, mainly
Editor ZX Magazin. It seems that in Eastern Europe
just set off on additional devices, and among
an impressive number of articles, reviews and reports from
diverse party, in this magazine you can find anything: from
circuits sound card, hard disk controller scheme for
Spectrum! Unfortunately, at this point the hard drive controller
very short of the normal operating system. Although it is not
prevented developers to demonstrate to visitors Zlincon 99
animation from the movie "Star Wars" and a series of
cartoon "The Simpsons," which played out directly from
Winchester.


    I spent most of the day looking at X-agon'ovskuyu
a collection of demos, trying to find something which is not on
my site "Demotopia". And achieved some results, however,
After viewing radya unknown works got the feeling that
maybe it's for the best that they either have not seen beyond
those countries in which these demonstrations have been 
written. But I also copied them himself - will deal later. 
Incidentally, all this was done with using local models of the 
Spectrum - Didaktik Kompakt, which gained popularity in those 
places. Cute look (More and more resembles a rectangular box) 
and pleasant to work quite similar in shape, the keys ... 
Perhaps he I even liked it. Next to my Dron suffered in Art 
Studio trying to draw a scene from the television show "South 
Park", which he I saw on someone's shirt.



    Then, the group has demonstrated a new kommodorschikov 
DMAgic device Super CPU overclock the CPU in the C-64 to 20

megahertz. It started Stunt Car Racer, who has worked with
such speed that it was absolutely impossible to play it, and
Driller with the speed at which it finally became possible
play. In the end they ran written specifically for the Super
CPU shooter. It was a lot of full-screen animation and
digital effects. Spectrum delegation there also responded to
this challenge by running Hypnotic Dreams (demonstration
full-screen animation, and - right! - Digital music).


    Tiger's Claw, become generous, gave me a fresh issue
e-magazine "Scene +" and the issue of the journal "SUC-Session" 
(at This time the paper). And not just any old one, but a 
special "X-rated" release. It's good that customs officers at 
the airport did not show special interest to my luggage!



    Finally, the time came for the most important - for the 
competition. This is exactly why all proper and everything came 
together. In contrast, of realtime contests where the work 
created directly onto venue of the party for a limited time to 
work upcoming contests were created during the days, weeks, and,

maybe even months. It all started with music.


    I have tried to determine the best product, but it was
far from easy task because all the work was very
high quality (although it may be because they sounded due to
the tremendous sound speakers). At first I tried to estimate
work on a 10-point scale, but soon discovered that can `t
determine the three leading because all my records were full of
notes such as 8.1295 and links from one room to work
drugoiu number. I have no idea what I eventually chose, but
I am now convinced that the first three places were exactly 
those which I pointed out.



    The competition schedule was probably the easiest to select
best work. Not so much because it was not so
too many participants, but because of the difference in 
quality. Some work were very good, and judging by enthusiastic 
sighs the audience, I was not alone in this opinion.



    Then began the contest odnokilobaytnyh intro, a great event
for me. The meaning of this competition is to place
as much as possible a variety of effects in one kilobyte. I
sent the organizers my intro a few weeks ago, and
apparently they really liked it. After spending a decent
amount of time to write this intro, I lost to him
any interest, but still mostly cyurprizom there was music
which occupied almost the entire allotted amount. The first
demonstrated by the work were very good quality (for
one kilobyte). Then it was time to show my intro.
The music began. The audience slightly stunned by
surprises. Heard loud applause. I smiled at
manner of the Cheshire Cat, but fortunately the light in the 
room was almost completely extinguished and no one saw it 
clearly Pathetic.



    But the most interesting was shown at the end of the 
competition. Baze has managed to cram into a rotating 3D object 
and light source on the fractal background in his intro under 
the name "Mathricks". A Serzh joined forces with Ravager'om 
created "Artifice". Serzh gained popularity for its 4K intro 
lasting repetitions in within 5 minutes and consisting of 25 
pieces. This intro is also not was an exception. Serzh Ravager 
and could fit in otpushennye 1K three different parts.



    To everyone's regret does not get enough of
demonstrations on each individual provided a platform
and the organizers decided to show them together. First there 
was shown to be surprisingly silly demonstration "Superboy" on 
Atari. Then we saw a preliminary version of unfinished before

the end of the demonstration at the C-64. Nor how I can not 
remember her name. After that came the Spectrum demos

"BASICdemo" and "FDT" authors who make the most of a standard 
48k BASIC all that is possible. The competition typically show

Russian chankovoy demonstration titled "Bobbering 2000
sent on group Forever2000 Syndrome. It should be noted there
met quite atypical for Spectrum 3D effects.


    Completing and passing the organizers of their lists for 
all voting PhD, gathered around the two beam wires Atari. On

which could play NetPong. You can play it together,
every player in his car. Once upon a time I had
game console "Binatone" (which could play
one of the five games available in it) and there was such a toy.
In my opinion it is very accurately moved to Atari.



    Celebration continued with the classic demos from all three
scenes on the big screen. Orgaznizatory each of the sections 
party selected the best work for each of the computers. 
Atmospheres 

    To everyone's regret does not get enough of
demonstrations on each individual provided a platform
and the organizers decided to show them together. First there 
was shown to be surprisingly silly demonstration "Superboy" on 
Atari. Then we saw a preliminary version of unfinished before

the end of the demonstration at the C-64. Nor how I can not 
remember her name. After that came the Spectrum demos

"BASICdemo" and "FDT" authors who make the most of a standard 
48k BASIC all that is possible. The competition typically show

Russian chankovoy demonstration titled "Bobbering 2000
sent on group Forever2000 Syndrome. It should be noted there
met quite atypical for Spectrum 3D effects.


    Completing and passing the organizers of their lists for 
all voting PhD, gathered around the two beam wires Atari. On

which could play NetPong. You can play it together,
every player in his car. Once upon a time I had
game console "Binatone" (which could play
one of the five games available in it) and there was such a toy.
In my opinion it is very accurately moved to Atari.


    Celebration continued with the classic demos from all three
scenes on the big screen. Orgaznizatory each of the sections 
party selected the best work for each of the computers. 
Atmosphere here was great - I have never watched all of these 
demos in this way - watch them on TV is still not

look at all. All this prodozhalos until morning.


    The next morning for me started with attempting to deal with
tickets and other papers that were needed in order
to go way back (during which I
had to replace three planes and the number of transferable
trains). It only remained to wait for the announcement of the 
results past competitions ...



    I was pleased to see that LAEsq from our group Raww
Arse took third place in the competition with his music 
composition "New Generation". "Dospazio" brought Baze second 
place in the same competition, and in my personal opinion, a 
moral victory. 


    GAS 1913 took prizes in contests graphics
several previous party and finally here it is the first since
his work "Don't Pass By". Agyagos Diver and also could
impress the assembled audience, for which he received a second 
and third places respectively.



    Baze was lucky to climb the podium for the second time
day. His 1k intro "Mathricks" took third place in this
competition. My intro - "Madrielle" - took second place, behind
first friend intro - "Artifice", which was predstvleno
Serzh'em and Ravager'om. It was so well done that I
not even offended by them because they pushed my creations.


    Vobschem organizers did a great job and from visiting
This party I still have an unforgettable experience. In total 
there gathered 62 people, at least half of them came

from other countries. As I understand it's a pretty big
number of people for such actions.


    Homecoming was held without any hassles and
three o'clock the next morning I was home and could finally
rest. But the rest is not very long because it promised
publish the results of the party and his impressions of his 
visit on its website as soon as possible. It seems I did.