BYTEFALL'97 Review
A few words...
BYTEFALL'97 Demo Competition was held in Moscow on August, 16-17 at
the Kuntsevo Art museum building near metro Kuntsevkaya. It was a second
demo competition ever in Moscow, the first one was BF96, that Bytefall Group
has organized a year earlier. There were about 300 visitors came to watch
demo groups' production and to listen to their music. The house itself was
pretty small for this amount of people. But anyway, most part of the visitors
said they like the show ;).
Actually, there were a lot of delays during the party, especially before the
announcement of the results. And we guess it's all right for the first time ;)
(The bf96 wasn't a public party, more likely it was a private one).
Nevertheless, the party was well-equipped with the powerful soundsystem
(about 4KW), a projection screen (2 * 1.5 meters) and several 17" monitors.
Another room (there were two rooms) contained 10 computers wired to the
local network. The first big showroom was very crowded and we guess for the
future BF democompo we will need much bigger room. The second room was
used for realtime competitions and network games and was ok for this kind of
purposes.
The party was held for two days, starting from the saturday morning with
the registration and finishing with the results announcement and giving the
prizes on sunday evening.
The party program
The party program was slightly different to the traditional party programs.
The realtime competitions were the new part of the program and they were
very interesting as we found out. The following event list is the party program
that might be different to an actual one, because this is party just as it's
supposed to be conducted.
time
period
event
extra events
S a t u r d a y , a u g u s t 16
[10:00]
2h
Registration and opening words
[12:00]
30m
128b Intro Compo
[12:30]
10m
Review, voting
[12:40]
30m
512b Intro Compo
[13:10]
10m
Review, voting
[13:30]
1h
Music compo 4Channel
[14:30]
30m
Review, voting
[15:00]
1h
Lunch break
[16:00]
15m
Graphics Compo HandDrawn
[16:15]
30m
Review, voting
[16:45]
1h
Music compo multichannel
Real-time GFX
[17:45]
30m
Review, voting
[18:15]
15m
Graphics Compo rendered
[18:30]
30m
Review, voting
[19:00]
30m
Show of the Best PC demos & music
[19:30]
1h
Animation Compo (S/VHS)
Real-time crackers
[20:30]
30m
Review, voting
[21:00]
30m
First day results announcement
[22:00]
8h
Discoteque
S u n d a y , a u g u s t 17
[10:00]
1h
MIDI Music Compo
[11:00]
30m
Review, voting
[11:30]
1h
64Kb Intro Compo
Real-time coders
[12:30]
30m
Review, voting
[13:00]
30m
4Kb Intro Compo
[13:30]
30m
Review, voting
[14:00]
1h
Lunch break
[15:00]
1h
4Mb Demo Compo
Real-time music
[16:00]
30m
Review, voting
[17:00]
45m
Real-time ascii/ansi
[18:00]
1.30m
Arithmetics (votes counting)
[19:30]
1h
Last words and prizes
Info pack
There was russian version of the info file that you can obtain here. It is
written in russian language using DOS Codepage 866, that is standard for the
MS DOS ver. 6.xx. It might be useful for you to study russian. ;) Please note
that the info file is outdated and the contact information is CHANGED.
BYTEFALL'97 Demo Party Results
DEMOS
P l a c e , t i t l e
V o t e s
128 bytes intro compo
[1] "Super Nova" by Moonlight Dreams
58
[2] "The Real SVGA" by Mr.Steuz/PrM
5
[3] "The Dead TV" by Evgeny Rubcov
3
[4] "The second 128b intro" by Gogolev Vladimir
2
[4] 128b intro by Programmer // UnV
2
[4] "Top" Intro by MoNsTeR
2
512 bytes intro compo
[1] "Fractall Bump" by Death Lord // HRG
33
[2] "Gring King" by OLLiE // KalvaDOS & iMAGE
21
[3] "Products" by Asman // PrM
14
[4] "Fluid" by MoNsTeR
6
[5] 200h bytes intro by Alex Mut
2
[6] "From Death to Life" by $prite
1
4Kb intro compo
[1] "Atomix" by Serg Polsky
41
[2] "Majestic" by Asman // PrM & Mr.Steuz // PrM
31
[3] Intro by Programmer // UnV
1
64Kb intro compo
[1] "Spice" by Kirshe // Eternal
44
[2] "Water" by Kirshe // Eternal
16
4Mb Demo
[1] "Distant Worlds" by Moonlight Dreams
No voting
MUSIC
MIDI Music compo
[1] "Overture of the 'Penetration'" by Fill Mars
[2] "Penetration" by Fill Mars
[3] "The Trumpet Flyght" by White Eagle // RCD
4-channel Music Compo
[1] "High Power Zone" by Madminder // DD
28
[2] "June Wind" by Soul Grabber // BFG
18
[3] "Two Souls" by An Earth Dweller // DSS
8
[4] "Desert Spirit" by BOO!
4
Multichannel Music Compo
[1] "Endless Pleasure" by Madminder // DDT
11
[2] "Z-transformation" by Corpse // HRG
7
[2] "LaLa" by Katty // SRG
7
[3] "Lost Forever'97" by Slightly Magic // BFG
6
[4] "Sea of Dreams" by Fast Shadow // BFG
5
[5] "Take Me Away" by Death Lord // HRG
4
[6] "Cone" by Onion // HNO3
3
[7] "Walking Side by Side" by An Earth Dweller
2
[8] "Midnight River Ride" by Dark Freddy // HRG
1
[8] "Ocean of Dreams" by Bazed // HNO3
1
GRAPHICS
Handdrawn Graphics Compo
[1] "I_L's Portrait" by Shere Khan // HRG
38
[2] "Bytefall 97 Promo" by Sprocket // HRG
7
[3] "Final Spell" by Vitsly Putsly
6
[4] "Underwater" by GreenPix7 // UnV
5
[5] "TFDS" by Kirshe // Eternal
3
[6] "Year of Fiery Bull" by Andrey Ivanov
2
[6] "My Spirit Lives On" by War Hawk
2
[7] "Dance" by VIK
1
Rendered Graphics Compo
[1] "Enduro Madness" by Vitsly Putsly
17
[2] "Tower" by Alexandr Duzhev
13
[3] "The Unexpected" by Dark Lord // SLC
12
[4] "Dungeon" by Deep Trasher // RDC
9
[5] "Spaceman" by Alexander Kosygin
8
[6] "Fantastic Landscape" by Andrey Ivanov
6
REAL TIME COMPOS
Real Time Graphics Compo
[1] BF98 theme by DJ-ALi
36
[2] BF98 theme by ???
8
[3] BF98 theme by Golovchenko Stanislav
7
[4] BF98 theme by ARTiST
3
[5] BF98 theme by ???
1
Real Time ANSI // ASCII Compo
[1] BF97 theme by Iron Lung
34
[2] BFG theme by Helix
14
[3] BF97 theme by Infernal Flames
8
[4] BF97 theme by PhL
6
Real Time Music Compo
[1] "Never ever try" by Slightly Magic // BFG
37
[2] "Davit" by DJ Dioxide // HRG
14
[3] "Realtime" by Prizrak // RCD
8
[4] Theme by Soul Grabber // BFG
5
[5] Theme by Kostyan
3
Real Time Crackers Compo
Protection theme contributed by Mete0 // UCL
The winner - Programmer // UnV
Real Time Coders Compo
[1] "OUT5" contributed by ???
12
[2] "SHOW" contributed by ???
9
[3] "LEXEY" contributed by ???
5