[FWD] cc'000, impression of an amateur

============================================================================== * Forwarded by Eugene Palenock (500:95/468) * Region : SPB.SPECCY (Spectrum in St. Petersburg) * From: Igor Gruzdev, 2:5030/827 (21 Aug 00 02:32) * To: All, * Topic: cc'000, impression of an amateur ============================================================================== Hello, All! I rarely come out here, but what can I say, a small glass of wine tiredness' pushes me to write a short letter about the subject. --:-- --.--.---- ts'000 is transferred from the civilian to almost immediate proximity to mine at home. It’s a sin not to go, for which I had to take time off from work. 23:50 08/18/2000. 10 minutes before the start of the day of the CC, I still don’t know what will happen on the first day the day when it all starts, how much it costs and in general. 23:51 08/18/2000 Fresh mail has arrived and in the letter from the local area I understand that since a person offers meet him at the metro (~20 minutes drive to the CC) at 11:30...11:45 - start scheduled at 12:00. Ok, I decide to leave the house at 11:45 so that I can slowly approach by 12:00 to the event site. 11:55 08/19/2000 When approaching the cinema, I see a very significant crowd, crowded around groups of people 10-15-20. In total, at a glance, there were about three hundred to four hundred people. Local aborigines, represented by grannies, are amazed, because the maximum number The people they observed reached a maximum of one high school class. ;) MoreoverWhile I was looking around, I was pestered with questions (well, about five people definitely asked, they say what a bunch of people.) 12:00 08/19/2000 They did recognize me. :) Mostly points. :) Like the boss was given a chocolate bar, that helped me while away the long minutes of the party itself. ;( Familiar and unfamiliar people came up to my face (such as the author of ZX-Nevs, Lav, Felix, copperlegs, stepans, beans (I won’t list them all)). 12:30 08/19/2000 I’m standing, smoking my second Belomorina, chatting with Bobov about everything, usually about that everything is bad, and it will get even worse. 12:40 08/19/2000 I see two people with video cameras. Bah! Yes, this is Frunze himself. Runs, fusses, I think it’s not in vain. Exactly. A six-door pretentious car rolls up, it takes a long time and persistently filmed, after which those who arrived in this car go inside cinema, and the rest of the people continue to kick cigarette butts and drink beer. PS: It looks like someone has already filled themselves with beer. In any case, head over heels from the stairs Someone fell down at the cinema, but they helped him up. Zzy: as Bobov said, being nearby, in an hour they will be allowed in. 13:00 08/19/2000 They started to let people in, and people started pouring out. I quietly and peacefully continued to stand and smoke Belomop. 13:40 08/19/2000 Evgeny Buder came up. About ten minutes of his complaints about all hackers and others like them, I from escaped and ended up inside the cinema, where, in fact, everything happened.While everyone who came was seated (it is worth noting that there was room for everyone (in cinema!) was not enough), the organizers tried to set up the equipment. B in particular, a microphone that just didn’t want to work. Finally came out (Arty?) and got my attention. To be honest, I expected at least some thread of speech, even if small, but nevertheless, at least a rough plan of what I came there for. No, the people were greeted, and in such a tone that we (the spectators) should We owe it to them for organizing all this. Also mentioned sponsors of this event. All. The speech took three sentences (of those that I I heard it while sitting almost at the end of the hall). This is a greeting to everyone, thanks to the sponsors and an invitation to watch the Commodore's demos. Demos turned on. Demos are like demos. :) They were chasing them around for about 45 minutes, then a guy came out and said that the zx-compo was starting, music-compo section. 11 works presented. Because I'm not a fan of this compo - left the hall and returned somewhere around 4-5 melody. From the whole list to me I liked literally two of them. One in itself is not even bad, the other is under acid, but not bad either. However, this is not important. After the music compo, the same person came out and said that we should all evaluate the work, no paper, no pen, what the heck. A little later, the same person was running around, handing out sheets of paper papers, claiming that this is all draft, and that later they will issue vote sheets. I didn't wait.In general, after the music, there were pictures. 44 jobs announced. One turned out to be accurate a copy of the previous one, a total of 43 pictures. Because this is my favorite computer - it’s for me I liked it the most. Among the pictures it is worth noting as an outright mess (~3-4 works), outright robbery with an envelope (~3-4 works), and indeed masterpieces. In any case, it’s the pictures that I put in my database for myself, there they are something to look at. After the schedule-compo they announced a half-hour break, which I dozed off right at hall The most interesting thing is that I was never aware of what would follow graphix-compo. ;( Half an hour passed, Random came out and started speculating with ten T-shirts. Or he came out a little later? I don’t remember at all, but I remember him. He cheated people out of 200 rubles, took about half an hour, after which they announced the start of the 512k-intro-compo. For It was a 4k intro. To be honest, I didn’t see anything impressive. In general. And, I can’t even really appreciate anything. Was it somewhere here? por = graphic demo in wire graphics, which was shown for about ten minutes, after which they interrupted and stated that the work was removed from the competition, if not satisfying moral and aesthetic standards. Ah! Exactly, when everyone was already waiting for the demo compo (for which, in fact, everyone was there) We got together randomly and came out with our T-shirts. Well, okay. What shook me in advance - a guy came out and said that they would show demosnot just like that, but starting from the most uninteresting in terms of increasing entertainment. Those. Already arranged all the demos in their occupied places in advance. Nonsense. This is no longer correct. So, demos. Being tortured, I don’t remember well what happened there, but still there was interest. We were pleased with the fractal plasmas. Simply beautiful. In general there were demos ones that are worth a look. Perhaps not for all, but among those represented there are noble ones. The second demo shown refused to launch at all. Organizers 'on the fly' tried to start it - it didn’t work. At this time, a funny incident happened. Or rather not the case. And so. Hochma. The door to the hall opens, Copperlegs comes in, drunk as hell. %-) Sits next to me. He asks in a slurred tongue, what's going on here? I, Of course, I answer that the tsts-000 is coming. ;) Copper tries to nod his head, then then turns green before his eyes, says “something sucks for me” and leaves hall ;) Here. The guys, having tinkered with the demo, which was not allowed, brought the time to 19:20, after which Random came out and said that the first day of the party was over, that the two demos not shown will be shown the next morning. After which I left from there. General impressions. Party, like a get-together of computer people - "4-" Party, how to organize the spectacle - "3-" Party, like new versions of dem/mus/grf. - "4" And in the end I want to express my notes in general on demos on the Spectrum in particular.Remember which demos won at e'96? funtop? cc'999? That's right. Co script. Back in those distant times I said that demos should be _interesting_ _to the viewer_. Now no one takes this into account. The effect is riveted (good, if still riveted with his own hands, and not licked off from the demo I watched on alternative platform). That's all. But so little is needed. Example? Look, let's take two hypothetical demos. The first consists of the following effects: rotating cube - bouncing ball - magnifying glass - scroll in the mirror. another demo consists of _exactly_ the same effects, BUT between them is inserted picture: submarine - rocket takeoff - nuclear explosion - ruins - charred planet. What demo will you watch and re-watch? I'm second. And not for the sake of pictures. For the sake of the script. And this is precisely what is missing. there is just a set of scenes, nothing in between not related to each other. The ideal option is C2H5OH demo (cc'999). This is a movie stuffed with special effects. And he is worth first place. Unfortunately, I didn’t see anything like that on tsts’000. Did you look bad? Thank you everyone if you have read this far. With all kinds of regards and wishes. Igor. + Origin: Dark Dragon Station (2:5030/827) ================================================================================