[FWD] fast results v.2

Greetings, All! Somehow Wed 7 Jul 1999 Alexey Ivanov and All discussed [FWD] fast results v.2 Here's my comment: AI> ZX Demo: AI> 1. Anamnesia by Real Masters 267 AI> 2. Jam by DR 163 AI> 3. 63 bits by Accept Corp. 110 And in Minsk they started a rumor that the demo component was the first place at ANTARES :-) CC999 . ──────────────────────── from :Hamer to :all subj :report about CC'999 date :06-07-99 01.41.03 X-SystemInfo: home: PVT.STEALTH.LINKS X-Message-No: 50 (database) From: Ivan Polyacov <2:450/164.5> Subject: My report about CC'999 Date: Tue, 5 Jan 99 14:00:00 Message-ID: 2:450/164.5 3780baac ^MSGID: 2:450/164.5 3780baac ^PATH: 172/37,372 Hello All! Well, I actually came from the Construction of Chaos'999 to St. Petersburg and am going to share my impressions. Of course it was difficult expect normal organization of the Russian competition - without there were some bummers and troubles, but overall the event was clearly succeeded. But first things first. Arriving about an hour before partyplace (5 minutes late) min), and it was an ordinary school (externally the building is the same as and my old 189, but inside it’s a little different), in short II found a crowd of demomakers at the door - no one was allowed in yet. The people came from different places: from regions of Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, Israel. Half an hour later they finally let us in and started issuing tickets. There weren't very many people (120-140 people), and there seemed to be enough places. By the way, I had to pay for the ticket. only 50 rub. in two days - much less than expected. Then the main organizer appeared - Random (Vsevolod Potapov), who flew from Australia to organize competition. He said that the first day of the party will be dedicated to Spectrum and the second - PC and Amiga, and that the components will start around in an hour, but in the meantime you can register and check your work. It became clear that the published rules have very superficial attitude towards what will actually happen happen. This did not bode well. To my great surprise, I found 2 more people. from Minsk (according to the list of reserved tickets I was the only visitor from Belarus) were Paul Pavlov (who turned out to be the most sociable of the visitors) and Wolf (looking ahead, it would be better if it didn’t exist at all!). And then the competitions began: they started with graphics, then AY-music, intros (512b, 4k, 16k) and demo. The schedule was very difficult for me evaluate because I'm new to Speccy. The music was different some works left one's ears withered, others left a very pleasantimpression. First place was taken by the work registered at the very last moment. There were intros interesting, especially 4k (C2H5OH) and 16k (this nomination was outside competition, but there was an amazing intro in verse!), and my the estimates almost completely coincided with the result. Demos were also on high level - I never expected to see THIS on the ZX, if not lousy graphical capabilities would generally rulez. Some of the work was even repeated later. I'll need a thread somewhere get it and run it on the emulator... In other words, my opinion about ZX has changed significantly. Won first place (absolutely) deservedly) demo from ANTARES Soft., and the second - Digital Reality. To the question why DR takes 2nd place for life, Arty answered very “modest”: “DR is an order of magnitude ahead of everyone, that’s why Most viewers don't have time to appreciate our demos." Like this here :-))) This is where the official part of the first day ended - the start is very good. The people dispersed: some went home, others went to friends, but I and many out-of-towners stayed overnight at the school. Here I my sleeping bag came in handy. It was actually quite uncomfortable to sleep: Spectrum fans were copying their works until 5 am, the organizers were busy with their PCs and Amigas, the people were quite happy spoke loudly, and then it’s still unclear how he clearly appeared drunk Wolf. However, by 3 o’clock the people calmed down and went to bed.In the morning it turned out that, firstly, some assholes had excursion through the window and on the way back the glass was broken, and even under the alarm, and secondly Random went to the disco and didn’t came back... However, then he finally appeared and walked around awesome angry (like the Monster and other organizers), he wanted to cancel the second day, but in the end the decision was made collect an additional 10 rubles from all participants. Overall the organizers themselves were largely to blame for what happened, but this that's another story. So, the second day of the party will take place, the school is gathering again crowd (the organizers kicked everyone out in order to conduct the preselection works). True, the composition of the people has changed somewhat: there are fewer spektrumistov, more PC'shnikov. As usual, after a solid The delays have finally started. Hand-drawn graphics - almost all works are great. Interesting feature: first place in this compo (as well as first place on ZX) was drawn on a glitchy monitor. Rendered graphics - two works out of 13 caused widespread Wow! Against their background, my work looked a bit boring... ANSI was combined with ASCII due to the small number of works, It turned out to be a strange mixture, but overall it was okay. Then the organizers noticed that Gus did not want to lose them XM, and decided to first convert everything to WAV. There was a long pause, during which the bestAmiga demos - quite interesting, but people were reluctant to wait, there was a storm PC people were delighted by two moments: when the Amiga demo started to slow down, and when WorkBench (under AmigaOS) crashed. However, when the music started playing, someone began to draw in Count screensaver editor with job numbers (and indeed on Amiga graphic editors are much cooler than PhotoShop :-(. Somewhere during the break, the leader of the group KHRG (Hellraiser) made a speech Group) - the same one who remixed Titanic on the button accordion (there was an MP3 here somewhere), by the way, they have this thing there too performed :-) The essence of his speech boiled down to what needs to be done something completely original, because... old groups are squeezed within the framework their own ideas about the demoscene, which have long been irrelevant. However, he doesn’t know what exactly needs to be done. Multichannel music - the music was high quality and good. 4ch. music (MOD) - this is just a failure, people are relieved sighed after finishing each composition. And where are they? dug up the music... I couldn't stay any longer, because... already bought a return one train ticket. I had to leave the event early and didn’t after seeing the demo itself. If I had taken a ticket a day later, then of course it would have been much more interesting, but even so I got a lot pleasure. If DEMO.DESIGN.* walk normally, then soon we can will get intros and demos from the party and find out the results.However, the results can be found out even earlier, but judging by The reaction of the audience does not mean that something serious is going to happen to my work. We'll wait we'll see... PS: It turned out that I spent noticeably less money than I assumed - everything except train tickets cost $5 PPS: But I didn’t really see the city itself - it wasn’t there at all time :-(((Well, we’ll have to get out somehow :-) In this regard, CC is good, because in the summer. And then there's Finland It’s not far, which means Assembly! PPPS: Cool! [Pascal Team] [Lycee of BSU Team] [BSU FPMI Team] [DOOM2 Team] [NoBeer Team] Pokedova. Ivan. CoolSoft BBS. ───────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────── Valeriy Kovalev aka EQUATOR was here