Adventurer #14 30 июня 2003

Железо

Review - zhelezyachny retro Fetishizm.

Hardware Retrofetishism
elph / CPU

Clear'u helping in finding and translating materials for the 
previous article, I have crystallized some thoughts, disturbing 
the mind from time to time. Not attempting to change the style

Review article man, well versed in the gland, I
decided here talk about how
I see the problem of existence
our cake and your eyes on the road
its solution.

To begin with, that I think works one of the highest 
manifestations of human existence, and therefore I'm interested 
in art, as its fruit. I I appreciate and respect people who 
create new hardware for our platform, but only up until

it is not transformed into a fetish.

I am somewhat saddened open letters Nemo (and I paid for
They note, given that he
actually the last manufacturer of the Spectrum-compatible 
machines in Russia). The man who denies the many achievements 
of modern civilization, as imposed our Western culture, it 
seems, he does not realize that sold her the

one of the first. And what else can be said repetition of a word
'Money' with a constant mantra?
The denial of the Internet, informed that the stupidity and 
futility prevails there over the helpful information? Quite 
funny ... this is obvious - the Internet is a reflection of the 
real world, and if there is 90% of people spend their

time for discussion thread
dirt, pour daily
media, there will be an identical situation. But learning how 
to find a grain of truth in realnosti, we be able to use the 
network to more quickly achieve their goal. Only with the 
Targeting of Humanity is always a problem ...

As Nemo positions its
machines? Use as a word processor? Getting more computational 
power using 7 mhz? Why all this? We do not be able to compete 
with multinational corporations that control the production of 
'Home' computers. So do not better to focus their efforts in

another channel?

We can samorealizovyvatsya themselves in the arts, 
participating in the development of the young, but certainly 
very significant manifestations of modern life as demomeyking. 
Here you can send their feelings, to reveal their feelings,

tell us about his worldview.
Means a lot, and megahertz with
MB has nothing to do with it, people
ages do without it,
incarnating themselves in music, painting and literature. Yes, 
create their works can be and

'Magnificent' MBytes turbokae, discarding once
time history and the experience of our platform, as most work 
of past demo- years will look like here is not the best way. A 
development without the knowledge of and respect for history is 
often lead to impotence. I envy kommodorschikam in this regard 
- practically, they have only two types of machines - pal and 
ntsc, the latter being distributed mainly in America, where the 
demoscene is virtually absent. Developers AmigaOne, probably 
also wondered about the preservation of historical baggage 
platform, which made so much for the development demomeykinga 
in Europe at the time - to This modern in all respects to the 
G3/G4 processor machine can be connected to conventional 
Amiga1200, thus receiving a dual-processor system with optional 
ability to run applications on the native hardware. 

So why does reading the specification Sparky, SpeccyBob,
Spectrum3e, SpectrumSE I often saw only a vague mention of such 
parameters as the number of cycles in a row, and 'slow' slow 
memory (which By the way, even on the original

Spectrum works differently)? Impression that
creators of machines is not quite
understand the purpose of the activity ...

So, I need a Pentagon. Pentagon, the parameters of which have 
long known and time tested.

Pentagon, where I can see Tryptomine Dream,
Shit4Brains, Power UP and many
other works the way it conceived of the authors. Pentagon, 
which does not fall apart when I'll take it on Altparty or 
Forever, to show to our western friends abyss of its domestic 
world. 

I remember Lyra, Shock, Dies
Irae, Higher State, etc. - No
secret, that produce a fix
The Pentagon is much easier than do the inverse operation. 
First coming to mind proof of this is

tr-dos-version Loosing Victoria,
Made Triebkraft. On the other
side - an unsuccessful attempt to make a scorpion - compatible
Insult version with cuts in many parts.

Emulators - is not a panacea
dying gland. This is undoubtedly a powerful tool will always be 
a program working in a foreign operating

environment. And it was not in sound and video modes - business 
in magic. Magic fusion of man and

machine, implemented for the sake of creativity at the deepest 
level only a few platforms

today. And we have much to be proud of in this regard, but much 
more be achieved. Only

recent years demomaking ceases to be a sport. We finally
began to pay more attention to
feelings. And this path is unlimited
and diverse. It is our responsibility to preserve the history 
and rituals for future generations. 

Technology today is not the same as
were 10-15 years ago, in random
times of appearance of Russian Spectrum clones, nevertheless 
giant multihull monsters occasionally appear

Now, one has only to recall
Ukrainian development that made a lot of noise about a year ago
and burst like a soap bubble
because of the insolvency of the authors.
It is now possible to get a car identical to the modern 
Pentagon, looking inside, not as entangled wire slot 
extraterrestrial beings. The problem of professionally trained 
people able to implement it. Think here it's not the money, so

how this issue could
would help many who are not indifferent to the fate of our 
platform, its life in the new millennium.


All this is nothing more than a reflection
on the theme, exciting me even with
During our conversation with Unbeliever'om in 1999. 
Unfortunately, I have not seen in the press articles on people 
who are able to translate these fairly realistic ideas. I hope 
the situation will change, time will put everything in its 
place, that's only if there are those who are interested in the 
spectrum now, at a time when will it happen?