Plutonium #18 30 июня 2001

История

Story of spektrumista - I, Spectrum and the Spectrum again.

                  I SPECTRUM AND AGAIN Spectrum


(C) Sergei Lukyanenko (Nevasilevich)


     Now even amusing to recall his first encounter with
computer, more precisely, a computer that is a primitive unit 
even not name, but nevertheless for me it's incomplete for 
eight years was in some sense a miracle. Called it "a miracle" 
rather simple - "Videosport" a sort of Soviet Dandy - the dream 
of any Child second half of the 80's. Here are just at the 
moment, no afraid to say so, love was born to a variety of 
"smart thing. "Then there were the occasional acquaintance with 
CD, Radio-86RK" and other domestic advances of cybernetics. 
Undoubtedly, it was just a great machine for home at the time.


     And somewhere in the early 90's, back then in the Union, 
there was boom in the Spectrum. Perhaps then the boom was not, 
and sinklerovskaya machine made its way to us gradually, but in 
my memory Spectrum appeared in stores just as suddenly, 
vanished as sugar sand, literally overnight. Following the 
sugar has disappeared and the USSR, and Spectrum stayed. 
Moreover, the department that sells this computer and a huge 
mass of literature and audio cassettes with the programs had 
Every self-respecting children's shop, or he was simply 
razzoritsya doomed if you do not, then be forgotten. 

     All these "prichendaly" thoroughly studied, perhaps every
child, and if the on-screen color monitor
demonstrated some kind of game, then tear it out
impossible. The sight was amazing. For some reason I
the most memorable games Pacmania and Target Renegade.

     But at that time that the computer, many did not
now familiar cassette tape, here with katushechnikami
it was easier, but they are for such a lofty goal as the 
magnetic drive to the Spectrum could not serve. More precisely, 
in principle, could, but I play on the coils in the bulk sale 
was never seen. And the price is now terribly primitive 48-th 
computer was feasible, let alone the 128-th out of capitals, 
probably, if not heard. All this delayed the purchase of 
computer sometimes permanently. When I bought the Spectrum, I 
first began to fill some of the program from a book on BASIC. 
But seriously programming it is impossible, at least for a 
beginner. The more tape is not very convenient place

storage of business information. So after several attempts
writing programs, I threw this thing until better times, more
to the Pentagon-128 with the drive. That's already much better
the more programs on floppy disks were sold by that time already
much more than the tapes, among which there are very
useful things. So what could be "messing" with full force,
What I was doing, but, unfortunately, among friends was not 
found like-minded people, so being wanted all ploys was under

doubt.

     And then, interest in Spectrum gradually began to die.
Major role in this process was played by rapidly desheveyuschie
"Personalki" that occurred in mid-90's better quality
soft, I'm not talking about entertainment games, although equity
sake, I note that their interesting at times was below the 
Spectrum. But who immediately looks at interesting? Generally, 
in the wake of endemic PTszatsii I exactly had gone on another 
platform, and completely bezpovorotno, having sold podeshevke 
all that I had, but it was not enough. Bought bad that once 
again urged me to utter failure of interest to the Spectrum. C

last frontier - with the urban radio market - Spectrum also
began to recede, and by year 97-th left at all. And I think this
The situation was typical of all the provincial cities.
Impression that the Spectrum had gone as suddenly
as it had appeared.

     Only with my arrival at university, where it was possible 
to two hours a day for free climbing on the internet, I 
stumbled again on this computer. More precisely, we came across 
was to say it is not true Conversely, I purposefully sought in 
the network only Spectrum resources and find it. From the 
moment I started restores all I have been true in virtual form. 
Dug out with friends and friends from the dark corners of 
forgotten diskette with the programs, etc. By Indeed, even in 
the FIDO came from the fact that I have read somewhere briefly 
Spectrum of echo. And what FIDO I, frankly, represented then, 
somewhere just over a year ago, very, very vaguely. Never mind, 
found fidoshnikov, asked to FIDO and first of all subscribed to 
the Spectrum ekhi. And what I saw? Something that could not 
have expected - and clashes between realschikami 
emulyatorschikami about who is more spektrumisty. Read a couple 
of someone's thoughts on the need to protect software from 
emulators, etc. The first question that I came across: "Why all 
this talk? "I even wrote to echo a couple of letters with 
proposal to tie all these disputes. Naive. 

     Then gradually subsided, but even now, after nearly
year, I periodically noticed this wave then ZX.SPECTRUM, then
REAL.SPECTRUM. If the first I had something happens write it in
the second did not even pop out. Why? There were gathered 
together this spektrumisty! And I - emulyatorschik. I have only 
one question to everyone who in one way or another connected 
with the Spectrum: why I and many people that can tell exactly 
the same story, not spektrumisty?


     In principle, I do not care how I would be called until
I wonder - I'll do something for the Spectrum, and on what -
in real life or on the emulator - it's husk. I just do not 
understand meaning of this division.



                                                      29.06.2001