Scene - an interview with ukraiskim spektrumistom Looker taken on CAFe'2002.

<b>Scene</b> - an interview with ukraiskim spektrumistom Looker taken on CAFe'2002.

Interview with Looker
elph / CPU

Looker appeared on the scene relatively recently, and once with 
a very global project-Netspec,

rocks the public's attention. It was very interesting to talk 
to him on the party, the more so because he is always full

ideas on the development of our platform.

Elf> To begin, I want to ask about
project with which your name is associated at this time
Netspec; tell me what prompted you to do this.

Looker> In fact, thoughts
I had quite a long time, until I went to the army ...

Elf> Ie in what year was it?

Looker> It was more ... In general,
2,5 years ago. Here, finding himself.
Not only for me, practically
each spektrumista have thought about centralization. I've been 
talking with many already. Someone wants to have standards

iron, ie No one knows who
that invented and how it is maintained, even if it wants to 
maintain - do not know where that is invented. Some like to 
collect base on soft'u who still something.

If someone does it, then it
engaged in this alone, although
these people set. And if they had the opportunity to 
communicate with each other, it would be much easier and 
simpler. That's exactly such a goal I had in the past

times. So, the idea of centralization have virtually everyone 
spektrumista. But for some reason all hold deep in yourself and 
not let out. Here I have picked up, and advanced. And those who 
understand that My thoughts are similar to his own, they join. 
Who does not understand, I arrived at the party, to tell these 
people. 

Elf> reasonable solution, always
best people to talk
live.

Looker> Because the one thing
remotely something to someone
tell. And the paper can be
voice is not all. A live - this is
quite another matter, and I look
sufficiently high hopes for
that many will understand me just
here. Here's to you we also had
conversation, well, I'll also understand
that as such on their CPU
yourself, you own ideology ...

Elf> Yes, we do not want to impose on
additional responsibilities and obligations, even moral, to a 
large community of people. 

Looker> Here's a fact of the matter is that
All this is perceived as a liability. How Netspec - it
some kind of label, under which, for example, Miguel'yu have to 
do something do. Nothing like that. Do not want to say that you 
are in the community - do not say. This is your private affair. 
Just when you something necessary, you can ask

others, you can help, you just
help. Here, people are looking for an artist - did we find them 
an artist. People looking for a coder, so that they continue 
Heresy - found we told him the encoder, while only in the face

me. Here, another newspaper soon
will be continued, too
we found them to the encoder.

Elf> Which, if not secret?

Looker> It is possible that this
will KrNews ... Just mutual support. I recently read about a 
similar organization Freedom ... 

Elf> But it is in general fails to
my opinion was.

Looker> Yes, it was unfortunate, because there once was told: 
"Here, type, there will only be advanced

sceners to be with each other
help ". A, we can not all be
from lamer, to the most advanced sceners. We all
equal. That is a basis of equality,
because some who are just
starts at the Spectrum, they need
learn coding.

Elf> Well, that is, thanks to you
plan to raise the youngsters?

Looker> Including. Yes, of course,
from young people like me
said to the most advanced people, all need information, 
everyone needs help, as would they were not promoted. Just

someone has less access
to information, some more. Here,
Some people who have
e-mail, access the internet, they forget about all the others 
who do not. Very few have e-mail. Set

scenery, except for real mail
general access to no
have. And as far as you yourself
imagine, in every town
remaining 1-2 people who
somehow involved. Well, for example Kharkov. Was a computer, 
Spectrum Capital Ukraine. Now there is generally no sceners 
left! Jam was the last. I know him a little

rewrite it with a maximum interest novem. Everything. He did
does not, there was none.

Elf> No, do not forget, he helped
we do the last issue of the magazine.

Looker> help.

Elf> So far we have not sent any materials of the next
6nomera for the editorial ...

Looker> Well, it is unlikely.
I corresponded with him enough.
He is now busy literary career. His fantastic novel
soon be published.

Elf> Well, yes, I know, he said. However, he told me to do
compatible with the CPU spekovsky
project for Chasm'a materials
sent, and from the same text editing does not give up.

Looker> Well, I do not know ... It seems like it will publish,
and all ...

Elf> You say that now, e-mail correspondence are engaged.
What do you snail volume of correspondence?

Looker> Mailing yet small. Because I'm not doing this 
specifically. 

Elf> It's pretty tedious, I
I know. This is very time consuming.

Looker> It's time consuming, but it
worth it. While I was doing
those with whom you can quickly connect. Ie how to create the 
backbone. For this we use snail, internet, fido, zxnet, 
eventually your mobile phone. Planned will soon open a website. 
I acquire domain of the first

level, the problem is how
find a credit card. But I
I think by the time I
I'll come, will find it for me. Immediately
I want to do a little promotion - there will be a new
spectrum'ovsky portal. Portal
news. Collaboration will
as with ours, and western
sceners, I am now negotiating with Raww Arse, they agree that 
we helped them with our news and they are us ihnimi news. 

Elf> Well, tell me, let's say
I know Heresy, KrNews. Kakimi
More projects from real soft'a
you're doing?

Looker> The fact that we do not support specific projects.
If anyone needs any help,
we are looking for someone who can provide it. In the 
particular case of Heresy assistance provided me. Well just, 
well, here, look, you who have us? Coder? Who now?


Elf> Coder, organizer - in some places.

Looker> Here, organizer, who you are
there, suddenly you ask someone
Well, a piece of coded, small,
you help?

Elf> With difficulty. We have a lot
their projects. But we often
Music helps different
people. Simply, we decided to help people if we are satisfied
concept, the idea of the project, where
music will be used. This
due to the fact that the recent experience with us a few RGI
upset. We just had no idea what happens in the final
Finally, provided the music and all.

Looker> And here is our challenge - to
People who want to work
together, no problem to find
each other and communicate.

Elf> You have now a lot of contacts established?

Looker> Yes, here, people are turning: "We need help on DMA",
well, we took them helped.
Several people have offered to add their achievements on the 
basis of the source - open sources ... When I returned from the 
army and tried to restore the old context, it turned out, all 
spektrumisty as spektrumisty died. This is one of those

whom I knew, at least. So I have to take the new frontiers. As 
I said, the standardization, the union was already thinking 
long. But now there was opportunity to do so. Not

I know, but personally I think that
Stage lifts. And she NetSpec
needed.

Elf> Yes, I think that the rise of really noticeable compared 
to the last 2 years. 

Looker> By the way, I suffer very much
from what I have no real
Spectrum'a, and I just decided to
itself, that iron is a virtual
part, and the real is precisely what
what we see on the computer. Ie
what we have on the table, not so
important. The important thing is what we are working. But if 
present, to forget about what we have computer forget about 
what we have stuck into each other card, and pay more attention 
to the fact that we have drawn on the screen ... After all, in 
principle ... 

Elf> I do not agree, I suggest you still find the real
Spectrum. No matter how perfect
nor was the emulsion, it will not give that power, which has a 
real machine.


Looker> I want to get a real spec is very strong.

Elf> Could not find in Kharkov
in general, no one left with nothing?

Looker> No, in Kharkov, nor
Here, in Severodonetsk. By the way,
you Adventurer'e, and other printed sources on the project
development of a new board in the Ukraine.

Elf> But this board, frankly,
insane impression that
the person doing it, do not
thought about using it the rest - gigantic proportions, the use 
of old components Base ... I'm afraid it will all be very

strongly fail and be difficult to configure in real terms.

Looker> Therefore, all questions to
me, because it was done right here in town. This makes the 
person, rather strange and is closed. He did it himself

on its own. He threw Speck with the
massive modifications, including
including dma sound card. Why did he
did it? Even before my departure
one person we have gathered dma sound card, and I helped him to 
debug it, make it all right worked. We have achieved success, 
and then those few spektrumisty who came this

listen, just fell in
sediment. What is zvukan! Well, well, it's 100% sound
Amiga. Absolutely. Ie it is even
idea is the same, the implementation of the same ...

Elf> By the way, you will need to party like it's something to 
bring device.


Looker> Unfortunately, I could not.
I hope that next year
bring.

Elf> Or at least Digitize mp3,
to evaluate the sound. This, of course,
will be worse than the real, but still
something.

Looker> Yes, it is better to mp3, because
that 40 shells fee - glyuknut
simply can not.

Elf> In my opinion this man
which accounted for a fee, he
somehow not on Modern technology is all done.

Looker> Modern technology
a PLM.

Elf> Yes, yes, yes. And what is the difficulty?

Looker> Difficulties do not.

Elf> Tak now he should think about how I think. Because
he made a payment which does not fit just about anywhere. I
housing is pretty healthy. I
measure up - not even climb into it.

Looker> No, well, a separate fee.

Elf> No, he's published dimensions, dimensions of its board. She
simply does not fit anywhere. In the big
tower, which is more expensive than
this fee.

Looker> You mean fee
Spectrum'a? By the way, this board is not
will continue.

Elf> Do not get?

Looker> None. Explain why.
Even such dimensions are achieved
by a very thin tracks, as well
as they are very thin, it's all very
very buggy. Domestic
mikruhi between a buggy.

Elf> Well, probably need a different breed all ...

Looker> It makes no sense. All
because it was something like this: on this
board found Sly, he
spektrumist mediocre in
iron little hack, but began
everywhere to spread info about
This unfinished board. But in reality it's all very raw and
unsuitable for mass replication.

Elf> working version of a general
There is one at least, this
fees?

Looker> One that is to say, but buggy.
Here, for example, the man who developed a fee, brought
her to me, so check out the moped. Y
him except for a payment was nothing -
or moped, no phone - it all
I had. We tried
connect, but just not enough
time and I went to the army, and then
He stalled, and get it now
very difficult.

Elf> I think it is very difficult to develop a card that 
supports modem, a telephone, if he has nothing in itself.


Looker> Well, of course, he just
took ready-made scheme. So, in
Currently the developer stated that this fee with the DMA and 
other twists to continue to have will not, due to the fact that 
the beetles begin to fail. I do not see but according to him I 
understood. 

Elf> Yes? Well, this may be to believe,
because he is a little that way, I think, gone.

Looker> Therefore, he ruled out all the complex elements, 
leaving the right thing. And like that Someone brought this 
board to party, presented to all, and if people

like it - then he will do it. The last few weeks
before leaving, I tried to catch it and failed. This is an 
extremely difficult - it does not live at home. In

Generally, such a disposition that will
further - I do not know. However, I plan to the community
distribute separate-tested shemki different
devices (DMA, modem, etc.), so that everyone who cares, hung 
himself. But first, it would be worth a new breed of Spectrum. 

Elf> At Altera, I think
still stands. It will not be expensive, but it will be much 
more stable. 

Looker> Incidentally, I learned about the prices
in Russia. Such as Xilinx Spartan
2 - it will fit everything you need.
It costs ten dollars.

Elf> I have, in principle, know about. In short, the twenty 
dollars you can meet. We, too, about think about it.


Looker> In a twenty-
You can stuff and Z80 and the AY and
SH-shku.

Elf> Well, AY not shove everything
equal.

Looker> Well, yes, AY can not shove, but thirty thousand gates
enough for their eyes to everything. Here's one person asks for 
twenty bucks bare board, which must all

solder in that you want to possibly debug. Another thing
where Altera, Xilinx-inserted into a small shawl, in which all 
that is is razemchiki. By the way, that's gone on this way

Sprinter, but the Sprinter - this is another level of the 
machine. Power Spectrum - in his conservatism, just as the 
strength of any church. Look at the Orthodox Christians - they 
kept their religion thousands of years just because they do not 
weave in himself there, metal music, and something like that, 
and they are strong, they have to still strong. That's exactly 
the same Spectrum - he will be strong until

long as we are conservative, and we
do not need "super-duper" bells and whistles,
we need what we have.

Elf> I agree that we may from
that we are getting much more than we have now and continue 
it's advance, and something else-why? for this

There are other cars - someone wants
be able to use it, if possible.

Looker> Exactly, so we
should be done at low cost
PLM'kah a Spectrum, which
would have been similar to ours, but
cost would be inexpensive and would be accessible to all.

Unknown> In principle, Sprinter, I
I think almost meets ...

Looker> It is not available to all ...

Elf> No, you know that there AY
just do not normal? That he
There is emulated and there that sound,
that it is better not to hear?

Unknown> On Sprinter something? What about the sound I do not 
know ... 

Elf> I know. Perhaps the situation is
has changed now, but some time ago, it was exactly
so.

Unknown> Really did not see ...

Elf> I have not seen it, but I talked
a person who directly heard. Fatal Snipe -
they have in the city Sprinter, and he
says there is a sound that is better
not to hear.

Unknown> In principle, there's probably a real can be supplied.

Elf> You can, but they somehow
do not even think about it.

Unknown> So it should just
little idea to throw.

Elf> Yes, they were told. I happen to him
met earlier in the party.

Unknown> They have the same model now
A new kind of, here's a Survivor
Insanity wrote - out there
a Sprinter 2 or 3. New
motherboard at all, it should already be AY ...

Looker> So, Sprinter in the first place - expensive, and 
secondly, he had sought in the direction of the HRC. Us in this 
strive towards totally needed.


Unknown> Why in the direction of the HRC,
by the way?

Looker> Well, in the direction of coolness,
megahertz.

Elf> They tend toward the mass, in fact.

Unknown> No, well, let's say, for
gland when compared, then the cheaper machine is unlikely to 
already be found. Especially because the next generation of 
Spectrum, the there he makes progress

Spectrum. If we had supported him, it would be a firm that 
would lead Spectrum. 

Looker> Do not you understand a little progress Spectrum.
Advances in Spectrum idoadaptatsii. This is a concept of 
evolution. Creature can degrade - the level down, can progress 
- on the level up, then there is the following

life stage. And can grow in their parallels. Here
It is in this parallel
Spectrum and should develop.

Unknown> What do you mean
under the parallel?

Looker> That is what we are, we
these should be. We do not
should increase the MC and
megabytes.

Unknown> That is, you are against progress.

Looker> None.

Elf> No, no progress in this may
be, and in new ideas and methods for their
incarnation at this iron, trust me, this path will never lead 
to a deadlock. 

Unknown> And then what is the progress
is, if not to build?

Looker> Do you know who they were
dinosaurs? They have every century increased weight and 
increased power. Likewise, now increasing megahertz

and megabytes mi. You know what
happened to the dinosaurs? In one
wonderful time they all died and were small animals,
that no one noticed, but which were warm-blooded. They were
very small, but they survived and
Now of them were men.

Unknown> The same thing happens with
those who do not progress at all, they too become extinct.

Looker> Here is the same small animals were progressive
their warm-blooded, they were the same young and
such as warm. Therefore, they
survived. And now, our Spectrum
should remain the same small and friendly, and he survives.

Unknown> Who? Spectrum? No
progress he bend.

Elf> You, for example, do you know about the existence of the 
scene on the Commodore 64? 

Unknown> Have you heard ...

Elf> What do you think there is progress in iron?

Looker> Zero!

Elf> I just have besides Speck
I have chest and a little about this issue. With 82'go year
Progress in iron there, but
very little. A scene on the
It developed a much more significant than we have.

Unknown> And there in the demo, we assume there is some 
progress? For example, if there are there every year new 
technology? 

Elf> Yes, there are. The people there did not
afraid to experiment, new video modes, such as interlace,
ifli, return to the oldschool with the use of new technologies 
and etc. Literally, it is noticeable in the works of 2001-2002.


Unknown> In recent years I
Spectrum do not see any progress.
After the revolution chankovoy stagnating. In my opinion from 
3.5 megahertz already squeezed all. 

Elf> Technical progress in the code
will continue, but of course,
much slower. Now
need to be much deeper than all
study, but still something new
will appear, I'm sure. But
concentrate, I think
stands on the ideological, each deme
should bear the message ...

Unknown> In my opinion, is all
studied. Come up with something new
very difficult.

Looker> None. Right now, many
said: "We have two choices in
demos - multiclour or chunks ".
In fact, in the old demos
There are many things that can be
strongly developed using
new technologies. Well, something
we digress from the topic. Let's continue on NetSpec.

Elf> Yes, continue.

Looker> Another of my thoughts
Spectrum is to promote the Internet, because the
akin to us Platform C64
has its own servak in an Internet.
Which is web-page
C64. What are we worse?

Elf> By the way, you know, like all
there has been done? In my opinion it's not quite that way in 
reality. They where pc is used for Internet connections.

At Kommodore, of course,
some data are processed,
osnovnom but everything is done through
pc-they use a modem
memory, the screw. In general, it's like
great appendage Kommodora without
which it fully in the network will not work, I know. Although 
some features can be implemented and standard hardware.


Looker> clear. Well this is like
how Speck connected via
Linux, Zotov Sergey did ... Well
Okay. That's Atari also connects via modem to the Internet. Y
Spectrum, too, have
Modem ...

Elf> Well, yes. Let's say, work with
FTP-server with respect to real.

Looker> Yes, FTP. Consider further
IRC, smtp-pop3, it is possible to write a mailer and please
real e-mail. And now the majority spektrumistov communicate via 
e-mail. 

Unknown> What about HTML? How to schedule a viewing?

Looker> There are plenty of Internet services that are 
available to the Spectrum. Practically, that is not available, 
so it flash full screen ...


Elf> Actually, you do support WAP-protocols for cell phones, 
which use low resolution.


Looker> Let's say: 90% of internet protocols available
Spectrum ...

Elf> Well, I would go with such certainty
not said ...

Looker> Protocols, namely service protocols. We're not talking 
about dynamic graphics applications, such as flash. For example,

when I'm on the Internet through
pisyuk, then load the Opera, disable all nafig schedule and sit 
in text, because it increases the

speed surf dozens of times. Then
the same can be done through
Spectrum. That is - my idea. By
polls, there are people who are willing to pay money to someone 
who will write it. They say, "And you yourself write." Of 
course if you sit a long time write, but I have already worries

missing. In addition, I am writing
own toy, I'm interested in writing it.

Elf> How do you igruhu the way you write?

Looker> "Command'Conquer". I
doing the conversion of the first part,
there resolution is very low,
close to the Spectrum. I want to make the game as much as 
possible approximate to the original. I planned to make it even 
3.5 years ago, when he was still alive me a real Spectrum. I am 
a man, if that said, I will do sooner or later. I have a long

time it was not possible to implement ideas, but now the process
went full speed, though,
however, under the emulsion. At this point you can to scroll to
map ...

Elf> How many percent ready?

Looker> At the moment I'm her
made by 30%. If you finish up
50%, we can already produce demo. But still a lot of strength 
and time it takes me to the community, so I even rejected

invitation Alex XOR'a to participate in the "Your Game", as 
real in the near future "C'C" I did not finish. Possibly expose 
him next year. 

Elf> Okay, thanks. Come sfotkaemsya.