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(C) Jocker / Critical Mass
(C) Klim / OmegaHackers Group
As some of you are aware ,19-20 August 2000, in St.
Petersburg held komputernoe pati Chaos Construction 2000.Na it
were to be presented the following Platform:
ZX Spectrum, PC, Amiga and BC. So a little story about how
it was:
Day 0
"The Arrival"
(August 18, 15:36):
We (Jocker / Critical Mass' Klim / OHG)
arrived at the train # 49 at the Moscow Railway Station
St. Petersburg.
The first fiasco was waiting for us right after arrival,
since no one is met, but must in fact there were. = ((
Hang on, we left vokazale
things in the chamber and went smoteret city. City anything at
all, quite beautiful, only oldish. The main form of transport
a subway and trolley buses. Walking through the streets
We quietly Figel with the price of food! For example
hot dog stands 14P! Pizza 19F (maaaalenkaya). True beer and
coca-cola pleased. =) How to get all the wheel: trolley / bus
- 4p, 5p subway, taxi - 6/7r. With what
emotion I remembered our lumps for 2. 5p
=) So after looking a little town, we decided to find housing,
but even then broken off in Hotel rooms available there. At the
station, the truth is a lot of grandmothers, offering room /
apartment, but the prices are varying all the 350 - 500r day!
And then we remembered that a certain New-Art
pains in the echo (ZX. SPECTRUM) that can
provide accommodation for a 2-3 people, maybe more. Having
found his phone number, we rang. And what was our surprise,
after we explained who we are and hence, he asked: "So what you
want from me do you want?? . For a second, I honestly say small
prihuel ... No principle the to resident Peter, this might
normally, but when people drove almost 2000km and were in the
city, which hitherto seen only in pictures, not having even a
small presentation where they move, it was
just an asshole! Next, I explained our need for housing. At
that negative answer was received, as well as a request tell
where anyone can settle. Realizing that with the person we
catch nothing, we modestly, but proudly followed in the
direction of of the party. Well, that though as there
get he could not explain. Because sleep
on the bench as the New-Art offered the same
echo, we need something not wanted. And almost as indigenous
Petersburgers boarded a trolley and drove the wrong way, as
learned too late. But during the next half hour we finally got
to the party.
And what is once again was our
surprise when we arrived found no patipodobnogo rights.
All was quiet, as in the tank. K
Fortunately we had the nerve to tumble into
into the question, "but where there is party?". Someone from
the run past human pointed to the door of the hall. Going into
that, we saw the following picture:
A pair of disconnected bodies lying on the
chairs. Round table, stood before
scene, several people were playing cards, drinking beer
brazenly. Among them, clearly stood out one blonde (Sister /
Antares) and painfully familiar face Phantom Lord / Accept
corp. A closer look at place just showed up at least some
familiar faces MOT / Accept corp and KASIK / ZX Club! With a
nearly native people, we have little felt easier. Next to the
scene of some equipment hanging out white T-shirt with the image
Protracker'a and the Kremlin stars. =) But
soon to find out what it myself EA from Antares, we are almost
relieved. And here in doorway by a man in camouflage with
badge, and shirt with the image of an automaton
Kalashnikov! Protection, I thought! No,
was it self Random (organizer CC2000
party).
Thus, after a small dinner and
acquainted with the other, we realized that
we have nowhere else to go, and they decided to spend the night
right at the venue. Further, the situation became even more
interesting, it turned out that all of the work has not yet
were preselekt, most of which lying on the discs and bolts.
Compo machine were not connected to the projector and audio.
The forms for voting and tickets were unavailable. Frunze and
Hunter feverishly were 5-meter ladder and tried to install the
lighting equipment. Someone drinking beer. Someone was asleep.
As we were told this morning was nehily buster. Generally up to
the beginning of party remained 12 hours, but almost nothing
was done. Naturally, that lived in the train 1. 5 days we did
not want to break off and we are wiser organizing and
conducting Paradox demoparty decided to help. As a result, per
night and it was decided to dispense without a ticket, instead
of them on hand stamp (kontromarku) in exchange for
60r, which had to pay an entrance fee. Originally planned to
turn all components on Scorpio, but because of glitches with
AY, MMA in the first hour of the night had to flee to
Mednonogovu his Speccy, since it was actually only the
Pentagon, the survivor in St. Petersburg. Due to MOT / Accept
corp, and we the cutting sword, which we incidentally cut
sausage, it was dismantled and podrublen to projector. EA,
Klim, MOT and I spent almost all preselekt ZX compos.
Tired of MMA was running between two
com, copying from one disk to
another work from the competition, incidentally undermining
sleepy to take action. Fruze and Hunter, for
Small does not kill all of his superlestnitsey, still found the
light and sound. The veil in this case the entire ceiling a
bunch of wires.
Is closer to 8 o'clock in the morning we udalostaki nap for
an hour or two.
Day # 1
"The first tops"
(August 19, 8.00):
At times, waking up, we beheld on
screen clip from the Frunze of CC99, in spite of all
NEMO claims the work was done fairly high quality and original,
though not particularly informative.
Finally woken up and found that it still moved, firstly it
was noticeable on our own and some other distorted from fatigue
persons that the whole night doing something, incidentally
consuming tens of liters of beer, coca-cola and
cigarettes.
Going out to breathe the air, we found
nehily crowd was moving in our direction. Then ran one of the
organizers and with the motto: "immediately close the door to
No one has broken! "corked inside the room, we had good to go.
And then started again, turmoil, MMA has gone to collect the
work, brought directly to party. Because of what all the fuss
the night went on beard. Again started preselekt, copying,
formatting, delaying the beginning of a party. Still, after the
mass cries, noise and the din it was brought to a victorious
end.
Closer to 10.00 people in the hall was added, there was a
major orgnizator Random, that somewhere in the 3 o'clock left us
for reasons unknown, leaving all of a
One of bugs its activities. Dragged miracle komputer Sprinter.
Became a catch up with some press guys with a camera tetki with
microphones and etc. Around 12.00 We asked all the streets in
order to we are paying to get kontromarki 60r.
Vyvylivshis the street we found the sea
people. Man commercials in the 400-450, which
gradually growing. 70% of people something to drink in the main
it was beer, sometimes vodka. All were in anticipation of the
impending party and uplifting. Soon began to run.
Scoring its place we have to wait for a start.
A start was delayed a few ... 40 minutes
stuck Comondore 64, winamp, muse was
Of course good, but her house and I heard enough. A Comondore
not meet our expectations. = (
All pleased with the projector, the image
which lasted almost the entire screen (~ 5x ~ 3m). In the end,
came on stage Random. Something was said, I do not remember,
since after the train, then almost daily is not sleeping and
night work, my head tight comprehend what is happening. Next
began to twist Spectrum components. But because of no forms to
vote, few assessed work, since leaves almost no
who did not have. By the end of the first component
Only one Cusick still figured to distribute the rows of paper.
When the kerf ZX AY music, my mind is just twisted
inside out! The left column is constantly glohla
overload, the upper generally not be heard.
I decided to put the blame on the air. But going to the
found that out the door waiting for us
valiant militia, which was very
"Pleased" so a bunch of potentially
Hazardous items to tomuzhe consuming
nemeryannom amount of alcohol. Further, all
it was generally entertaining, the police are very interested
in paying the entrance and demanded organizer. Nothing good is
not promise. Random retired to their escorts. And all of us (~
500chel) closed in the building. The truth about this man known
only 10, because others sat in the hall and "estimated" work.
Realizing that the street does not get out, I returned to the
hall. By the end of component Random pridupredil come and that
if someone come with a bottle of beer or
somehow namusorit, the party immediately closed down.
And disappeared again to resolve the conflict,
leaving the holding of CC on the slide. But here
undertaken business of MMA and party went up the hill.
Was followed by the remaining components.
What about them briefly, I can say that from
submitted 10 works on ZX Demo compo,
three demos and have not earned.
One work from the Real Masters, promised
start the next day at KAY. On the ZX
4kb intro one is not gone. BC in general and
could not pull up to the projector.
Nevertheless, almost all represented
work was high, particularly pleased with DOGMA by Eternity
Industry! Between different components are constantly arising
Kaki something delay, although it would seem that complicated,
Just scroll work with the disk? At half-time was presented to
the miracle komputer "Sprinter". In a nutshell: a fancy
Spectrum, cpu Z80 a series of 20mhz, 4mb ram,
HDD, a few hires rezhimoy. It was shown recently, even on it to
achieve - DOOM, how could evaluate 100% similarity with
original.
In general, closest to the 19.00 the first day came to an
end. Mlilitsii seem bothered us watch and stayed only one
machine and that aside. People began to disperse. Well
and we, as those with no shelter decided to go for a walk. But
there it was! It turned out the next day is a day to fully
PC and Amiga compos. A work, as has already become a tradition,
not preselekteny and not rewritten. The bulk of which lay at
Randoma on screw his laptop, which is currently absent. It
smelled another sleepless night. And so it happened.
It is true people are now spending the night with us
more, it was fun. Somewhere in the 2 night finally brought a
laptop and started to copy the work. All is good, but the car
components (PC) was a real bug, it was celeron 566, razognany
up to 850mhz! She fasting hung not allowing to work normally. I
had to have sex with seturom. The owner of this miracle was not
there. Well that was still soft menu. Somewhere in half an hour
with our UPI / THROB efforts comp still work correctly.
Further, a crowd gathered around him in the composition:
THROB, Jocker / Critical Mass, Klim / OHG,
EA / Antares, LAV, EXCESS Team, Phantom Lord
and MOT / Accept corp, Tangerline, Arty / Digital Reality and
someone else whom I do not have remember. And flooded sorting
of entries. Arty barely manages to shove the new screws and
transfer files. All these efforts It took much less time than
spent last night. Then narrow
number of people began viewing of entries in order to avoid
stocks of the first day of inoperable prog.
Obsmotrevshis demos, the crowd dispersed, and
UPI sat perekompilit its 64kb intro, etc.
since it somehow decimated by GeForce. We decided nevertheless
to sleep. But not everything was Easy!
LAV game at all on the piano, which was on the scene. A
drunken crowd sang along wholeheartedly hits like: "On the
field tanks roared, and the Union inviolate .... "" Tits
in the test ", etc.
Meanwhile, a mini-casino prodolozhalo
their activity is already the second day, which occurred a
terrible massacre kartezhnaya. Shorter at 5 am, we finally got
to chop off.
But when the LAV sang the words of the song
"Boobs in the test, I could not resist shouting:
"I want zhraat!". =)
As it turned out the most persistent has been able to
preselekt to the PC and Amiga music, and
it's about 50 pieces, but it already passed
under our snoring.
Day # 2
"Final cut"
(August 20, 8.30):
Waking up, I myself still pochuvstvoavl
worse than at night. After studying the situation around
we decided to yank the station to take
train tickets to Rostov, and on the way to eat. Beginning the
second day was scheduled at 12.00. Along the way, in the
subway, we were in a coma. I almost overslept my stop. Dragged
to the station we were able to take a couple Tickets for our
home train # 49 and went on to search for a diner. But not so
easy at 9. 30 in St. Petersburg inexpensive meal in a decent
cafe. As we learned in the capital of # 2 zavtrakt
taken after a 10. 00, as most
average eating houses were closed, and those that
open to all kind have shown that
they are not for our pockets.
Croce separated from the station at a decent distance and
not having found no suitable cafe, we dying from hunger and
exhaustion mixed with increasing anger at himself for what we
stormozili and poeheli to Peter instead go to Sea, returned to
the station and there really something ate. Then, having come a
little bounce back, feeling a surge of strength, we began to
move to the party.
At obratonom way we found a couple of familiar faces -
Phantom Lord, MOT, EA, Sister, who attacked the food stall. By
joining them, we still Bare podzavtrakali. How much we spent on
it a little better, I say nothing.
So, more or less woke up and eaten, we all crowd pushed into
place. It was already 12.00. But something did not converge and
up nobody. Croce at 13.20 entrance finally opened.
Cheers, distributed forms to vote!
Proposing to transfer all of yesterday's results, recorded on
the left leaf in these form. Some have filled the first day and
tearing half passed to the organizers. To those brought up on
ZX Spectrum, while was the second day. Next began PC'Amiga
hand draw gfx compo. Everything went pretty
well, it was shown 33 works, except the level of the works
themselves. Then began the PC alternative multi channel music.
AND here my mind is again beginning to ask out. Glitches with
the sound became even more pronounced than on the Spectrum, not
only that one column is always umerala, half music almost could
not hear. Type that sat at the mixer seems no fumbling what's
what.
Someone jumped on stage and danced to
Muse, straboskopom lighting, light and
soundlights. This is somewhat defused the situation. Frunze and
Hunter filmed it all on video.
In short, something like scroll through all the music.
After the break, began intros compos. All
nothing, but as it turned out no one was to steer the PC. T. K.
organizers then, if not found the person who will all turn and
be responsible for PC compos, then, if at all about this did
not care. In the end, sat at the helm UPI / THROB and all went
as it should.
Were shown to 256, 512 and 4kb intros.
Then a break, and 64 kb intros PC'Aimga.
The first was shown working on Amiga. Well
that can be said for 96 years it would have been
certainly cool, but for 2000 just sour.
Next kerf 64 kb intro PC from PROXIUM,
it was just shock, Hall clapped almost throughout the show
work! Definitely it was the first place. It was further intro
from THROB, is also quite fancy. Wash had another job, but it
is not made a particular impression.
Next was adjourned 10min and PC
demo compo!? Out on the street, I realized that
people of markedly diminished. Really pristustvovalo somewhere
250 300chel against 450-500 on the first day. People like
always drank beer, smoked, gave intervyu irrepressible
reporter, and talked.
And here we are in the hall. At the scene dumped Random. And
he asked a moment of attention. Its meaning speech boiled down
to that there are 10 brand-name T-shirts "CC000". And an
auction. The starting price was determined by t-shirts at $
100. Some cried out that for these money is better to drink
vodka. But there are people who have raised the price to 120r.
And no matter how weird all the T-shirts left. Cusick gave
mini striptits with pereodivaniyami in realtime
on the stage.
And then Random pulls out one last, he said, a T-shirt and
announce the contest. To do this, on the scene / called
multiple volunteers. Next, turn on the killer track of the PCs,
all possible lighting features, cut down the light and begin
the most powerful movement bodies. All this Turns audience.
Some people try to drive straight while sitting in a chair. A
few minutes later everything calms down and the number of
applause determine the winner this competition. They turned out
to be, as far as I remember, Mass / Fatality.
And now, a long-awaited PC demo compo.Vsego was 6 works.
Almost all demos deserved attention. Authors of course it was
interesting to look at their demo on the big screen. Everything
was quite good, if not pay attention to Galimov sound and
brightness of the projector. But like all already is
acceptable. And here, the first place are already defined. When
they began to twist DeMouy of AND from Voronezh, the hall again
vzovalsya applause. His demo is really deserve such a reaction.
And now shows the last demo. On the scene
Random SPEECH WAS DELIVERED went and what type of party is
over! Initially, of course no one believed, that since there
were several competitions:
PC traditional multichanell music, chip
music, wild compo, MP3 music, asci, ansi,
maybe something else. Nevertheless, it
According to the residence time in the hall is completed,
they have agreed to 7 pm with the administration. What about
all the diplomas, too, remained unknown, not to mention the
prizes. All pushed out of the room, promising will soon
announce the results. Minutes later 30 on the street came out
and called all the MMA inside. All sat waiting for the results.
But not so easy to Chaos Construction. It was found that all
were put 117 forms and this is when the hall was
about 500 people. And besides, not all forms are counted and
that preliminary results. In short, thanks to the efforts of
all the same MMA, only Spektrumisty learned winners party this
year at Speke in two competitions: ZX 4kb intro and ZX Demo
compo. Why not be said about the PC and Amiga. T.
since in connection with the actual lack of organizers on these
platforms, counting vote for them no one was doing.
Estesvennym was and what had not been
presented no diplomas or awards.
That's all.
All politely asked to vacate the premises. Promised to send
certificates by mail, and the results indicate in all
conceivable and unthinkable forms of communication. I think it
is not necessary describe the mood of many people. Although
it was just my reason is quite normal. Some rolled forward many
intoxicating, basement idea for a hidden party.
All posetepenno diverged. For us,
all a bit complicated by the fact that before the train
There were still about a day. A place for
Sleeping is no longer there.
In a nutshell, I will say that we perekentovalis night at
the station along with the Accept corp, are many people who
dumped before us, and 05.04 the following day, successfully
rolled off the train moved off toward the house.
So for us over demopati "Chaos
Construction 2000.
PS: Although This is all we
do not regret that have gone to the party. T. K. The experience
of communicating with people who had come almost flattened
failure CC.
