#Z80 #02 06 августа 1998

Опросы

Poll - Poll Spektrumistov on IRC channel # Z80.

                Poll channel # Z80



(C) Diver/4D
(C) Marchy / CDS / CC


   Yes! Done! Finally I found time to
sit for the processing of the results of this survey. Here
already in the past two months the whole
Channel shaking me: "when will be score ???".
"Coming soon:)" - I replied. And here is the work before
you, so fasten your seat belts and hold on your
butts, because will be published almost everything you
written, with the name:), plus my spiteful
comments in [brackets]. Let's go!



               How it all began.


   It was in early April. We sat down once with
Marchy in IRC, chatting about this and that, then he take
Yes lyapni: can anketku we do? Well here I am
bounced - I'm already thinking about this a couple of days
little idea, and Marchy evidently too. But it is still
it was he who first proposed right now to come up with
profile and start sending it to everyone on the channel through
DCC. You've got to give him his due, because if I did not
it, I would have per week and come up with questions
arranged to be with someone from botovladeltsev
What about hooking function mailing questionnaires to
bot, and Marchy said: "What about right now?". AND
gone gone, hastily came up with 15
issues, entry, was transferred to the lame english, and
started a poll at the beginning of a huge number of people
asked Marchy, I was busy licking the file
questionnaire, after I joined. Collect questionnaires
early days it was just cool. You sit yourself
chat on the channel, then flies somebody
brand new or just unquestioned, you're right to it:

   - Do you want a little questionnaire about your
life on Speccy

   and # z80 channel?

   - Yes!:)

   - Dcc?

   - Yep

   - Get!

   - Wait, answering ...

   - Ok

   ... 10-15 minutes of waiting

   - Filled, catch the answer!

   - Thanks!:)

   And sitting in the excitement you read the answers.

   When the survey began, to
activity led the way with our friends abroad - from
Czech and Slovak Republics, Russia lagged behind.
This is partly because they have many friends Marchy
among Czechs and Slovaks, and partly because
Eastern Europe, people in the Speccy smaller
Internet podostupnee, and we have just the opposite. In
result is exactly the same situation in the channel:
Czech / Slovak / Polish on the channel is less, but sitting
they are longer, more of our own - one and a half times, but
and they are rarer.



                Proper form.


   The questionnaire looked something like this:


   Cap intro (in the alternative and KOI-8
encodings):


   Hi all great and equally huge Mega
Gritingz!! On behalf of our entire editorial staff
# Z80 want to appeal to all audiences channel
# Z80, so that we can better you know and
invite you to answer a few of our
questions (we hope for your honesty and
candor of the responses:)))). That's actually
everything. Apologies for lamerskoe entry, more
smart my head at the moment nothing
come.


   send your answers - marchcat@uniyar.ac.ru


                                     Marchy / CDS / CC


   Well, the questions (in the alternative and KOI-8
encodings, in transliteration and lame english).



                    Results


   In total, were collected in 1957 filled
questionnaires, one answer was, alas, be disqualified. Because
responsible, as I understood, was not and is on
Channel # Z80, but, alas, this automatically deletes
him from my list of answers. These are the pies.


   So, who responded to our questionnaire?


   The following countries:


   Australia - 1 (1,7%)

   England - 1 (1,7%)

   Belarus - 1 (1,7%)

   Latvia - 8 (14%)

   Poland - 5 (9%)

   Russia - 16 (28%)

   Slovakia - 8 (14%)

   Ukraine - 1 (1,7%)

   Czech Republic - 9 (16%)

   Sweden - 1 (1,7%)

   Estonia - 5 (9%)


   I decided that, for clarity, it is best to
if you sort all of terrirorialnomu
grounds. In parentheses are the main or emergency
nick mismatched with an alias.

Australia:

   1. Random / ConcernChaos (Potapov) / Sydney [1]
Belarus:

   2. Ars / Fatality / Minsk
United Kingdom

   3. Chris J. Allen (Cja) / Ipswich
Latvia:

   4. Hunter / Crushers / Elgava

   5. Noart / Crushers / Elgava

   6. Raver / Phantasy / Liepaja

   7. Depredator / Phantasy (Dep) / Ogre

   8. Hazard / Phantasy / Ogre

   9. Cirkul / WAVESoft (Corn) / Riga

   10. Jelis / WAVESoft / Riga

   11. Dea / KYO Corp. (Useless, Usis) / Riga
Poland:

   12. Tygrys / GDC zx section / Lublin

   13. DC Pak / Claw (Buster) / Sulejo'wek

   14. Illmatic (Godsend) / Warsaw

   15. Jordan / Reaction / Warsaw

   16. - (Kar) / Warsaw
Russia:

   17. Agressor / Saros / Ufa

   18. AlSp / HyperSoft / Digital Reality / Novgorod
Great

   19. Arty / Digital Reality / Veliky Novgorod

   20. Flying / Digital Reality / Veliky Novgorod

   21. Alex Cristensen / Virtual Brothers (Cris)
/ St. Petersburg

   22. Rome'r Software (Poma) / St. Petersburg [2]

   23. Illusion Works (Alx) / Saratov

   24. ProfeSSor F0lken / Moscow

   25. MagiC / Extreme / Moscow

   26. Mac Buster / Magic Soft / Extreme (Mbr)
/ Moscow

   27. Slam / Moscow

   28. JtN / 4th Dimension (BACbKA) / Perm

   29. Diver / 4th Dimension (OrangeFox) / Perm

   30. RAYman / 4th Dimension (Prof) / Perm

   31. MarchCat / Condor Soft / Concern Chaos
(Marchy) / Yaroslavl

   32. Rick Murray / Chelyabinsk
Slovakia:

   33. Astex / 3SC hardcore / Dubnica nad Vahom

   34. Busy Soft / Bratislava

   35. Glip / Bratislava

   36. WWW / 4 Crazy People / Bratislava

   37. Samuraj / Yanoshick Soft / Kosice

   38. spAsm / Modra

   39. Seliga Software / Speccy Boyz (SS) / Kosice

   40. Ellvis / Zero Team / Nove Mesto nad Vahom [4]
Ukraine:

   41. Point777 / Crazy Brothers / Phantasy / Rivne
Czech Republic:

   42. Dron / K3L Corp. / Zabreh

   43. Factor 6 / Excellent Spectrum Aces / Doksy

   44. PlusGama / NSDAP (Gama) / Prague

   45. Jan K. Soft / Libeznice (village near Prague)

   46. Tritol / Prague

   47. MGSak (MGSian) / Turnnov

   48. Zilog / Turnov

   49. TDM / K3L Corp. / Uhersky Brod

   50. Chrysagon / Naughty Crew (X-agon) / Karvina
Estonia:

   51. Hacker Scorpion / Hsc 'Co. prg. (Hsc)
/ Sillamae

   52. Jaan / Phantasy (DJ Phantasy - on ammy)
/ Tallinn

   53. SaNcH0 / Tallinn

   54. StarSoft / Phantasy / Tallinn

   55. Zool00k / Phantasy / Tallinn
Sweden:

   56. Ravon / Borlange


   Notes:

   1. Random hails from Piterburg, but now
two years as a student in Australia.

   2. Poma in St. Petersburg are just learning, but does not 
live I remember where:).


   3. Samuraj studies in Kosice, was born in
Michalovce.

   4. Ellvis is just there three groups: Zero
Team (demos), Zero Technologies (games), Zero
Networks (hardware), and all these groups consist of
the same three people:) here because
head and share:)


   Agams, questions 1, 5, 6, taken apart, we go further:


   Question 2: Gender (Sex: male or female).


   Well, as you might expect - on channel one
guys, no girls. No, but of course at # Z80
There are Veverka and Makrela, but I had no idea
comes to send them a questionnaire - in fact they run up
the channel just to visit friends.
Earlier still call Rimanka, but now it does not
see ...


   Well, if all the guys, it does not mean that
there nothing more to write! After all, in different ways
answer to this question:).


   Ordinary, unremarkable answer:

   male, male, men, man, m - 49 (in one or
other variations)

   macho =) - 1 (arty, Funny)

   i think male .... / Male (i hope) - 2:) (they do not
sure, so I say nothing about their names:)

   he is one at all - 1 (conspirator Mac Buster)

   e-male - 1 (Slam)

   male dragon - 1 (well, it Glip course)

   Well, so fine in DC Pak'a:

   Question: sex (male or female)

   Response: i like sex (i'm male)

   Here are pinned, pinned duck ... I'm 5 minutes
laughed. Perhaps the only person 3-4 (DC Pak,
Slam, Glip well and Arty, managed to show a sense of
humor, it would seem quite simple and
unambiguous question, rather than me
pleased).


   Question 4: Age (Age)

   Well since the poll was conducted from April to June and
dates of birth, I did not ask, the real
picture is probably slightly different from
specified below. A picture like this:


   17 - 3 (5%)

   18 - 5 (9%)

   19 - 7 (12,5%)

   20 years - 9 (16%)

   1921 - 13 (23%)

   1922 - 5 (9%)

   1923 - 7 (12,5%)

   1924 - 3 (5%)

   25, 27, 30, 34 years - one person


   Roughly speaking: to the 21st year increases
exponentially, a decrease after a hyperbola, but certainly
If anyone is after 23eh years, mostly
ZUBR-dinosaur, a lot of doing for Speccy.


   Question 8: A computer (ZX) (Your ZX hardware)


   Esche one dark lesochek. For a start we divide all
into two parts: the former Soviet Union - some clones ZX
Spectrum, Eastern Europe - quite different clones
and sometimes the original version:).


   Let's go:

   Say what you like and what the Scorpion more
Total (at least for IRC-Schnick) not going anywhere:

   Scorpion ZS 256 - 18 people: Agressor, AlSp,
Alx, ​​Arty, Cris, Dep, Hsc, Hunter, Jelis, Cirkul,
StarSoft, Useless, Noart, Diver, Poma, Raver,
Random, Sancho.

   In addition Alx'a Scorpion still Delta48, have already 
AlSp'a 2 Scorpion and two 48th Speccy, Sancho - a unique

man, has just two companies: the Skorpion256 and
Pentagon128.

   Pentagon (128/512) - 7 people: Jaan, Flying,
Marchy, Mbr, Point, Sancho, Zool00k.

   Profi - just two: JtN, Prof.

   Ars exploits Baltic128, Folken -
GrandRomMax512, Hazard - just 128 (may be
Pent?), Magic is even more puzzling - he simply
zx, Rick Murray: Leningrad48 and Slam entirely without
com - he gave it Mic'u of Progress'a.


   Now foreign clones and so unfamiliar to us
2, +2 A, +3 ... Holy smoke, I've tried to somehow
classify all but counted more than reached the 10
varieties understood: nothing good comes out
better to just read all the answers in a row:


   Astex: Didaktik M, D40 (5.25 "'3.5" FDD),
Internal AY-chip


   DC Pak: Timex in 2128 and FDD 3000


   Busy: Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128k +2 [base
computer]

   512 kB extended RAM [powered by accumulator]

   MB-02 disk system [1.8 MB on disk 3.5 HD]

   Floppy disks: 3.5 HD/80trk + 5.25 DD/80trk

   Hard disks: none (still)

   3 paralell ports (MHB8255)

   1 serial port RS232/Midi

   (And an intelligent serial port RS232 based on
AT89C2051 will be soon)

   30-LED memory map

   ACB stereo sound 3x 8-bit D / A convertor

   ACB stereo sound AY-3-8912 audio-output

   RGB schmitt-filtered video-output

   Green monochrom NI monitor PMD60.1

   Internal coprocesors: DMA, FDC, RTC, AY-3-8912
(Will be AT89C2051)

   External coprocesors: P133/GusPnP (it's my PC)


   CJA: original 48K


   Dron: ZX Spectrum 128K +, ZX Spectrum +, ZX
Spectrum (ruber),

   ZX 81, Sam Coupe, MB02, 2x3.5 "FDD, ...


   Ellvis: Didaktik Gama'88, Didaktik Gama'89,
Sinclair ZX Spectrum +


   Factor 6: ZX 128 (original), D40 5,25 "floppy
(MDOS), Didaktik M


   Gama: ZX Spectrum +2, disk MB-02 + ...


   Glip: Delta (48 +)


   Godsend: ZX Spectrum + 48kB, 3.5MHz, FDD3000
(This is polish floppy

   disk drive with TOS by Wiseman (FDD crash, I
using now

   emulator Z80 registered version)


   Jan K. Soft: Didaktik M 128k, diskdrive D80
(3.5 "DD) and D40B (5.25" DD), Melodik
(AY interface), Printer Epson, Joistick, (I
will have Amiga Mause),

   autofire interface, D / A


   Jordan: ZX Spectrum +2 A/MB02 (disc drive)


   Kar: some years later. : ((


   MGSak: Didaktik M 48k, AY-Melodik, D40-diskdrive
(5 1 / 4''), printer BT100


   Ravon: Hmm .... A Texas Instruments 1982 ...


   Samuraj: Didaktik Gama, Melodik, D40


   Spasm: ZX Spectrum + 48kB


   Seliga: Didaktik M + D80 Disk Drive + Melodik +
Green mono monitor

   (Didaktik M = 48k speccy, same speed RAM
everywhere, it's

   slower then 48k fast RAM, but faster as 48k
slow RAM, some

   instructions (4 Tacted) are faster then on
ordinary Speccy.

   No problems with IM2 table snowing.)

   (D80 DD = Disk drive with MDOS operating
system. It isn't compatible with any other
DD!)

   (Melodik = AY interface with cool ACB stereo
sound

   monitor = I think, everyone knows, what is it ...)


   TDM: ZX Spectrum +2 A, 128, 1948


   Tritol: ZXS 128 +2 A issue 3 (I think)


   Tygris: Timex 2048 + 80kB RAM, rest is broken
also haven't: (


   WWW: 128 +2, Spectrum +, Didaktik M, Didaktik
Gama


   Chrysagon: Didaktik Gama 128k

   Ay-chip: Melodik (FAT destroyer:))

   Disk Drive D80 (3,5'', 720kb)

   2x tape recorder (1st-load, 2nd-save:))

   200 disks, 80 tapes


   Zilog: Didaktik M (48k, 4mhz, waitstate ULA),
Didaktik Gama (80k, 3.5 MHz).


   Well, what can I say ... In Russia,
Baltic states, dominated by Scorpion, in second place
Pentagon, though, I think, if provovdit total
poll, thanks to Ukraine and Russia, Pentagon
may overtake the Scorpion, and even Prof'ey and other
clones will be much greater.

   In the Czech Republic / Slovakia / Poland, mostly original
ZX Spectrum +, +2, +2 A, well, and their clone - Didaktik in
different models. 128th machine has only
50% of them, the others suffer for 48k: (, many do not
against buy himself Pentagon128, but do not know where
and how ... In addition they have also different disc
System: D40/D80, FDD 3000, MB-02, MB-02 +,
which is no worse or even privoshodyat Betadisk
128 ... Here are pictures here.


   Now, three questions about chat'e: 9. Platform 10.
Program, 13. Where have the solution:

   Who sits on anything.

   In Windows (on PC of course) work: 37
people (66%)

   Under Unix'om (God knows where ... it is the same 
everywhere): 19 people (34%)


   Amiga: 7 patients (12,5%)

   On the Macintosh - a [lucky Marchy:)] (1,7%)


   Incidentally, the numbers can not add, because there is
such people who have access and the PC, and
Amig'e, and even to the same Unix'om indulge:) because
them something and get 114.2%:)


   Now who is that yuzaet.


   mIRC (rulez forever) - Chatter 34 (60%)

   IRC / IRC II (Unix) - Chatter 19 (34%)

   amIRC - seven brave:) (12,5%)

   ezIRC, pIRCh, vIRC, VMS IRC, macIRC - one
man.


   And how. Most people have a way out
both at work and at home, either in
University. In percentage terms:

   From home - 17 people (30%)

   With work - 24 (43%)

   From university / school - 33 people (59%)


   So make your conclusions. In Latvia, specifically
Riga - Freestuff have access, we have in Perm, too, and
here in Yaroslavl, there is no such: (from home - a little 
expensive, povremenka almost anywhere, so basically the people

chatitsya from work and school.


   Question 11: Relation to other platforms
(Amiga, PC) (What you think about Amiga 'PC: have
you seen and use this computers? What you think
about them?)


   Here the answers are not amenable to classification. In
mostly people of course Amig'u likes and dislikes PC,
Although almost all work on the PC, but there are
exceptions. Respondents were given the full
freedom of expression, so anyone
cut I will not publish all (translated from
English - my clumsy:), slogans and insults
- No translation).


   Agressor: Good


   Alx: I am now working on the PC, to do with Amiga
I do not have - some she endangered. [Cause and
endangered]


   AlSp: PC - Average contempt .... but
to work and programming, Amiga -
rulez ... but it never worked ... (In the sense
programmed)


   Astex:'ve seen enough now
I have the K6-233 +64 MB, PC - a bad platform, and Amiga
too.


   Ars: something that is not rulez, you suck. [Short and
succinctly:)]


   Arty: Good


   DC Pak: Amiga, though too old, but very
not a bad machine. I quite like it and the PC, sometimes
can make good on it to work.


   Busy: I've got this house Personal Calculator,
I use it as a co-processor and hard drive for
Speccy, which is much better PC. Amiga - good
computer, but I do not.


   CJA: Amiga: Good computer, but marketing
weak, a lot of reliability problems, not solved
until it's too late. PC: bad
computer, but a very good marketing, good
have an open arhitekuru and the ability to create
clones. Windows is horrible bloatware, but we
use it, because underneath it is written so
many programs. Linux is better, since it is more
available and accessible to all of its resources.


   Cris: normal


   Dep: PC is not bad if you have PII with 128Mb RAM and
3D accelerator. Amiga also not bad, but the brake
for the calculation of 3D graphics.


   Dron: PC - ShIT!!! (No translation:) Amiga - did not
bad. I have Amiga1200, but without
accelerator, I use it for typing,
creating graphics (for the Speccy of course), well
play ;-)


   Ellvis: Well I had a lot of different PC (pentium
133MHz, 486dx4 ...), now: Cyrix200MMX, 32M RAM,
2Gb HDD, 2Mb video (s3virge) - fast, but
not as good as we would like (I mean
technology and the system itself). I've seen and Amig'u
I think that it is better than a PC, but it seems she is 
already over. 


   Factor6: AMiGA RULEEEZZ!!!! (I have a A1200),
PC - shit (although it can be converted and
Download Speccy ... Microshit Doorz SUXXXX!)


   Flying: Amiga - I just love this car! pC -
I do not like almost anything connected with it
(Especially the m $), except for demos! But in view of
various reasons, have to work on pC.


   Folken: Amiga rulzz! PC - just life ...


   Gama: PC yuzal of course, but Amig'u neet ... PC is
SHIT! (Amiga vobschem something too, but not so much
as PC)


   Glip: Amiga - a good thing, but I did not mean yes
and do not want;), PeC - big shit, but alas it is necessary ...
If you use Linux, you can live well and
PeC;)


   Godsend: PC - I have to use this
shit ... Well, you know - Excel, Word, Mathcad,
Autocad ... I hate Microsoft and Bill Gates.
Amiga - hmmm ... I do not have, but as far as I know
y Amig'i very good architecture, and in general it
most user-friendly computer.


   Hazard: PC thing is necessary, without a PC I could not
get with the prog Ineta:) Since he did not have the PC,
is nothing more sensible to say I can not: (A
AMIGA cool thing, you can play around and demos
watch (the beginning), but there's nothing really
I can not say since I just bought Amig'u
recently:) And in general I think these platforms (in
mostly Amiga) rob scenery from ZX scene. I
certainly hope that now the situation has improved.


   Hsc: yuzal both. Ami cool! PC ... so-so ... (Glitches
a lot, and brake).


   Hunter: In each component has its bad and
good quality. A general attitude is well kakak
to the PC, and to Amig'e.


   Jaan: Amiga - just a friend, as it is
sounds trivial .. Kakie HRC would not have shown unto me,
navorochennye, Vse dela .. Vse bolshe tyanet equal to
svoey, DO NOT let such a powerful and moguchey, but pain
familiar and favorite mashine (per ammy I half
years). Ochen nadeyus on uspeh predprinyatoy
nemetskoy firm "Phase5" campaign power up .. I
imeyu view perehod on PowerPC protsessory plus
deystvitelno sovremennye grafichekie cards under
these cpu. Voobschem - something ney Apartment belongs takoe
misticheskoe and prityagatelnoe for menya in Amige.
A big role in this moem teplom otnoshenii to ney
takzhe play zamechatelnye people from the channel
# Amigarus IRCnet. Vsegda can find podderzhku and
neobhodimuyu assistance (soft + sovet). Nigde on petse
such communication and mutual DO NOT vstretish
(Well razve that krome birthmark speccy). Although
kommercheski to sozhaleniyu, ochen maloveroyatno that
she "pereplyunet" mi-sovmestimye. If, konechno, DO NOT
naydetsya dobrovolets, and DO NOT organizuet pokushenitse
at Uncle Bill:) Although, I was wondering .. dazhe and this
DO NOT destroy pC. :-(


   Jan K. Soft: ... Speccy - better!, PC good
support tool for the Speccy, I Try Us
it at school to access Internet'u and IRC.


   Jelis: PC / Amiga: now gone, but soon to be PC,
Amiga, too, though not bad, but in Latvia anything about them
can not be heard, and bend very difficult to obtain, and in 
general, if we ask: "Do you have a PC?", then

it means "Do you have a PC?", so that Amig'u y
We have great fans like Raver'a.


   Jordan: Yes I have seen all these platforms!


   JtN: very negative:)


   Kar: Ammy - rulez, PC - a large color
calculator!


   Cirkul: Amiga Rulez PC must die .. ;)


   Magic: amiga - positive, pc - general
nothing


   Marchy: Cpektrum, of course, for the soul. Amiga
- Body / joke / and for the cause (ruleznaya shtu4ka,
would recommend though, would just look and
Discover / I myself am: A1200 + Blizzard 30/50 +
1916 RAM + 2.2 Gb HDD and another two A600 + RAM + 120 Mb
HDD /), Pc - I do not accept with all my heart (intel outside,
uniquely), though - a good office equipment, not
claims to be the home computer.


   Mbr: PC - a hefty emulator Speccy,
Amiga: easier and more pleasant OS I've ever seen.


   MGSak: I prefer Amig'u. This is a very
user-friendly computer. The graphics on it just
fascinating, multi-tasking - in real
time. Price acceptable. What can I say about
PC .. : - / It's good except for the Internet'a;)).


   Murray: normal.


   Noart: positive.


   Diver: Amiga is certainly cool, but I
have not seen:) (in our town it seems not at all) PCs
- A good tool for the lack of other (Amiga,
Mac), although to be honest - very buggy piece.


   Point: normal.


   Poma: in a sense? Working on a pc WebDesigner'om.
pc suxxxxx, curve all this pc ... only 2 times for
It smooth scroller saw ... and even in windsurfing
p200 all jerks! but mi all eat, imho: (.


   Prof: Otnoenie dugim platforms to normal, with
IBM linked my main job, and the Amiga until
work has been brought, though, and heard about it
pretty much ... Vobschem each platform
have their charms and of course, drawbacks.


   Raver: Have to use them? Of course!
What I think: PC more common, and the Amig'e -
cool scene.


   Ravon: I have both Amiga and PC. If I do not
it was necessary to speed, I would long ago have
vykiunul PC out the window.


   Random: they are in perfect order, and I love
macintosh, and, generally, g3 rules.


   Samuraj: juzat had both. That
think? Amiga - a good machine, though old,
Speccy but still cool.


   Sancho: pEEcEE suxx, Amiga Rulez the Earth. I
love Ammy:)


   Slam: I hate Amig'u:) (just kidding:))


   Spasm: good demo ... :)) But they are all very
demanding on the hardware: ((which is now the time when
coders could fit Great
toy / demo / hot_chto in 48/128 kilobyte))) And
on the Speccy no such compatibility issues:
any program can be run on any
Speccy ... Well, unless of course wisely done:))) [well with
some well-known stretch of the imagination, be said
so].


   Seliga: Amig'u I just saw, a PC in my house
there. Amiga: the computer was very good, but
Now PC became better it. One big
an advantage in Amig'i: it is simply
programmers, no MicroSoft'ov! Those who created the
Amig'u have made one big mistake: they do not
made it possible to expand the sound to
16-bit capabilities and improve the graphics ...
(Amiga 3000 and above - too expensive and
unavailable, so for them I do not know ...) PC:
best choice, but it is more difficult to write programs:
Nobody knows toli is your prog hung, or
just a Windows glitch ... Nobody knows what it's
really going on ... In my opinion, this is our future
(Unfortunately) [thanks of course, that so many
written, but I'm already there to hang with these transfers,
without a dictionary, a meal in one intuitive
perception: (].


   StarSoft: normal, throw discord - is
only computers and how they can be
love / hate?


   TDM: I worked on that and on the other. These
Platform younger ZX, they are as goos as they
seems.


   Tritol: PC - most inhibitory shit in the world,
Amiga is good enough, but more than 8
bit computers - just a quick
calculators (I can not even name them
computers).


   Tygrys: Amiga, I have, PC - can be
will ...


   Useless: Ammy - rulz, pc - so-so (although there are
good stuff).


   WWW: Amiga is almost dead now: (. It was
Great machine. I use a PC every day, and
I have a home they already 3 pieces. Spectrum is not enough
speed, memory, graphics capabilities for
the creation of many useful applications: (this is a fact.
PC - dumb machines with enhanced 8080 CPU, and
technology copied from others,
really "big" cars. PC anywhere and we
forced to use them.


   Chrysagon: Amiga (eh!) Pc: for download
software for the Speccy.


   Zilog: Amiga - a good machine, I have a - A1200,
PC - horseradish computer, I - 386/40.


   Zool00k: sux Rulez, Rulez sux (c) by Random.


   Question 12: Favorite web and ftp sites by category
Speccy (Your lovely http and ftp sites about Speccy)


   Did not answer or do not have a favorite
Sites: Agressos, CJA, DC Pak, Hunter, Jordan, JtN,
Mac Buster, Magic, Noart, Ravon, Murray, Slam,
Sancho, Useless. Well, this is understandable: many of the
They have not iteresuyutsya software for the Speccy,
someone not yet reached the site, and someone
nastolkl busy, that even once crawling on the
Internet'u.


   If the voter did not specify the ftp or www it
voice was added in both categories. Number
votes in parentheses.


   FTP-sites:


   ftp://ftp.ogre2vsk.edu.lv/acid-nature/ (22)

   ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/ (7)

   ftp://fornax.elf.stuba.sk/ (5)

   ftp://bbs.ogo.ru/spectrum/ (3)

   ftp://sorry.vse.cz/ (2)

   ftp://ftp.gns.getronics.nl/ (2)

   ftp://z80.hsoft.ml.org/ (1)

   ftp://univ.uniyar.ac.ru/ (1)

   ftp://zx-museum.org.ru/ (1)


   Acid-Nature undisputed leader among the ftp sites
but now even appeared Chaosite, I hope he
will take its rightful place in this list.


   WEB-site:


   http://www.void.demon.nl/spectrum.html (9)

   http://www.nvg.unit.no/sinclair/planet/index.html
(8)

   http://fornax.elf.stuba.sk (6)

   http://www.fi.muni.cz/ ~ xhotarek (5)

   http://ftl.da.ru (4)

   http://www.uniyar.ac.ru/ ~ fantom / museum / (4)

   http://z80.hsoft.ml.org (2)

   http://speccy.planet.sk/ (2)

   http://zx.museum.org.ru (2)

   http://www.grendel.cz/hry/spectrum/index.html (1)

   http://ajax.umcs.lublin.pl/ ~ tygrys / speccy / (1)

   http://www.atlantic.net/ ~ adansby / sinclair.html (1)

   http://fly.to/gama (1)

   http://luna.gui.uva.es (1)

   http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/motorola/146
/ Index.html (1)

   http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/motorola/134
/ Index.html (1)


   Among the web site is leading WOS (as expected,
all the same official world archive of ZX Spectrum),
followed by Planet Sinclair, Slovak site, the site
Chrysagon'a, well, our two - Fatality Archive, and
Russian Museum.


   And even then had a couple prikolchikov:

   Alx: Stupid question, I have that on the bookmark look like?

   Astex: www.playboy.com


   Question 13. Than they are now engaged in Speccy?
(What you doing on Speccy now?)


   Agressor: nothing (remember the past).


   Alx: I work in a text editor. Remember
former ... :)


   AlSp: DOOM support, is currently writing
Driver DEATHMATCH DOOM in the sense of joining two
Speccy.


   Astex: demo of a new do.


   Ars: watch, sometimes organizes:).


   Arty: all =).


   DC Pak: trying to finish a project Lazarus
[Demo].


   Busy: Hardware: Intelligent serial port with
AT89C2051, Software: brand new BS-DOS 400
for better disk system MB-02. [Here and so.
neither more nor less. This is not a manic miner
play].


   CJA: I sobiryu Spectrum and ZX81 machine, but very
difficult to find them in our country. We have very little
interested in them :-(.


   Cris: nothing.


   Dep: yes like a demo I write.


   Dron: demomeyking, demosmotring, playing music,
igroigranie and coding ;-)))).


   Ellvis: I'm a musician (writin on SQ-Tracker'e)
Fonts paint, some graphics. Now I am preparing
my first demo (for the 48k course).


   Factor6: writing music, trying to draw and
encode.


   Flying: all the little bit of everything! At the moment
finish assembly Scenergy # 0, in addition do
Megaball'a writing, demos, intros, helped write
Paradise Lost ...


   Folken: nostalgic / experimenting with
glands.


   Gama: coding, coding, coding.


   Glip: joining ZX <---> PeC via sound
card. Summer to write DeMouy (s)) may
Linux to be Speccy (now starting;).


   Godsend: I am writing my first demo ... and of course
assembler, assembler, assembler. [In the sense of not asm
writes a coding guy is fond of].


   Hazard: graphics and music do.


   Hsc: No big deal ... we have to finish it
that started ... has long been going ... (Training prevents
and laziness):)) [damn, well, just like I have right now, 
though :))), Study does not interfere with:), but look for work 
nadoooo :()]. 


   Hunter: a software programmer, toys, scrap.


   Jaan: I study Vse nove (krome games) that lyubezno
skachivaet-dostaet Zool00k:), writing music (as
nastroeniyu). A programmirovaniem - crack'om ago
DO NOT doing.


   Jan K. Soft:'m doing Amiga mouse interface
for my company (Didaktik M), well and applets
all sorts of writing, although I'm not a pro codes.


   Jelis: I recently did a "Mystery of Capital
Shelton (5 months ago :))), doing on the sly
something which bend, but the programming is now
strongly inhibited all kinds of examinations and other
difficulties, so it will work in the summer. And so
actually I love the program, although
very lazy:))


   Jordan: coding.


   JtN: coder zhelezyachnik.


   Kar: I am now a user emulator x128:))


   Circul: graphics and codes.


   Magic: the organization, network, demomeyking.


   Marchy: Sale / Exchange software, an article in
PC edition, fine coding for himself.


   MacBuster: as before: crackin 'and demos.


   MGSak: musician at 50Hz, trying to digitize
music, but now the problem with conversion samples.


   Murray: almost nothing. no time.


   Noart: graph.


   Diver: Newspaper # Z80.


   Point: programming.


   Poma: read the press, sometimes kodyu on tuition (ASM) ..


   Prof: I'm on the Speccy gfxmaker and Dumb things
designer.


   Raver: I live an active life stsenovoy.


   Random: hmm, yes especially anything now. Slightly
Scenergy, a little web-design for spekovskih
site (Tim Chaos Files and Speccy Zone). Basically
because everyone is busy studying.


   Ravon: write a prog to basic'e for my
calculator [TI]


   Samuraj: hmmm, cracking :))).


   Sancho: watch demos :)... kodit, music, writing
too lazy to it ... : (


   Slam: -


   Spasm: right now? nothing :(((((( just looking
'New' demos and old games,> (nostalgia;).


   Seliga: doing a part for the First Association
(COBRA MUSIC DISK preview), a demo for Doxycon 98
(COBRA MUSIC DISK), look Kulnev demos, collect
48th demki and toys with the support of AY (scored at
15 megs !!!).


   StarSoft: to make 3D begalku summer of 97-th, since
has virtually nothing to do ZX. May
will be a demo in the summer of PHT (little pieces until
but already there is music).


   TDM: Music.


   Tritol: convert steep Russian toys
BetaDisk in my disk system. Software write
(Now - CLIP to create a sprite graphics
Speccy). Updating WH (make interesting additions)
[Pancake should ask that the WH this:) web home that
right?].


   Tygrys: hmm .. now nothing: (maybe soon
write a farewell demo with the muse of
YERZMYEY / HOOY-PROGRAM. And so I encoder.


   Useless: an advanced user:).


   WWW: coding, when I have time .. I want to move
linux on 128 +2 MB-02, but not disastrous
enough time for it: (.


   Chrysagon: music writing, the program break, a little
encoding.


   Zilog: make wrapper Trasher.


   Zool00k: Coding / design / organization.


   Question 15. What do you think further
prospects Speccy? (What you think about
Speccy life in the future)


   Agressor: hard to say ...


   Alx: if no one will replace the processor - the platform
zagnetsya safely.


   AlSp: Music, video processors, multiprocessor
system to increase performance.

   Ars: dotyanet until 2000.


   Arty: only the demo scene 
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 


   Astex: Speccy life will be good and long ...


   DC Pak: I wish him long life, I never him
no kin!


   Busy: SPECCY LIVES FOREVER * 39 [39 times
Elah-burns! Mr. Busy gives!].


   CJA: in England he had no prospects.
Much better situation in Russia and Eastern
Europe, where he was often much more
interest and where there are so many PC machines [that have
We is not much??, though perhaps they still
more, because everything and decayed ...:(].


   Cris: very weak, I must say, in large
cities.


   Dep: I think the demo scene will survive:).


   Dron: Speccy has to live! When I first
Enlight'ovskie saw the demo, I realized that with the Speccy
everything OK :-) (kstati. .. this week [somewhere in the
mid-April:)] saw a Czech music
Journal - Trip2Hous, Duc there was already a whole
page about ZX Spectrum !!!!).


   Ellvis: Speccy a long time to live. I think the year
commercials in the 2007th, I otpraznuyu 25y.o. Speccy -
the best computer. I think on the Speccy More
enough people and its future is not as bleak as
many are predicting.


   Factor6: hmmm ... Well if the IRC appear
New spektrumisty, then I think he is not
too bad the future.

   Flying: I personally would prefer to see the Spectrum in
future as a purely stsenovuyu car! Ideally -
that what is now the C64!


   Folken: unfortunately, it will remain a toy for
programmers, but will remain!


   Gama: only one clouding his future:
incompatibility of iron (and other Pentagon'y
Russian clones of the original a little faster
versions have a common memory field ... in Russia in
All BetaDisk (TRDOS), all Englishmen - + D or
+3 Disk [disk systems], in Slovakia, many
D40/80, with the Czechs in the main MB-02 + (probably the most
best?), so that Russian programs, if they
use TRDOS, will not work in
spektrumistov other countries. This is bad because
will turn out that not everyone can enjoy the most
the best software ... But Speccy is alive and will live (I do 
not I know how long, but I hope that bit longer than the obtuse

PC) ...


   Glip: I'll tell you when I will have web-server
on the Speccy;)

   Godsend: difficult question ... In Poland, the Speccy died
only (?) Buster (DC Pak) remained, and it is very
a very good coder. In the Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine
etc. Speccy fairly good condition. Just
Speccy is dying ... slowly ... dying ... [Damn, when
the country remains a coder, then perhaps the process
damping is really obvious, but it can
be not all that bad?]


   Hazard: officially it is long dead, but the scene at
ZX evolving, and I hope that this plan will
reached the level Amig'i or C64.


   Hsc: hmm ... Speccy will always live in our
hearts. (SPECCY FOREVER!).


   Hunter: should be supported and everything will be cool. Z80
with IBM 'AMIGA twists.


   Jaan: chill-out:) to sozhaleniyu - medlennoe
zatuhanie it ochevidno. What kasaetsya menya -
sell / throw out the plug Shall I not going to ever since
is the symbol and the "flag" moey youth and adolescence. Y
menya many favorite programs and demo, kotorye I
uveren, DO NOT EVER nadoedyat unto me .. and takzhe favorite
melody (Imp, Mic, Ksa), kotorye sometimes scary
coincide with my nastroeniem - and then we
slivaemsya one tseloe:) And takzhe until suschestvuet
stsena and potentsialnye slushateli - DO NOT try to
lenitsya and write tracks, though, as correctly
zametil IMP / Rush, - AY-3-8912 (10) DO NOT pozvolyaet
musician realizovat sebya completely .. too
many ogranicheny (monotonous sound, a little
channels).


   Jan K. Soft: Speccy alive FOREVER!


   Jelis: Perspectives ... Actually, I think ZX
only those who like myself to do anything with
a computer, bend wrote, iron does. On a PC or
Amig'ah you're not very poprogrammiruesh (so that all
learned), and iron everything cool company doing so
ZX fans that need creativity and gamers
gradually go to other platforms, becoming
richer. About the prospects for iron ... These
all lotions nice, but that they were
standard, requires a very long time, but it's bad.
Though of course I would be glad to see for yourself and GS (and
Can anything more abruptly), and some
video processor (which is a separate video processor, and
not enhanced graphics RAM), and turbo mode and
other pleasures. But it should be taken into account
the cost of all this, as if it will be
more expensive than a PC or Amig'i (and such tendencies
already), then no they just will not fly.


   Jordan: weird? [Oh damn prikolschik as
will it be fantastic if you do not flopovod
fix your own??]


   JtN: do not die, at least until I die!


   Kar: Speccy rulez forever!


   Circul: Forward to a happy future ... He's
I already have 6-7 years and so far its not going to throw.


   Magic: I am interested only in its Spectrum
original performance (Pentagon 128 + AY +
TRDOS, for example) [too original ?:)]. For
everything else, there Amiga or PC [too true, but
Kulnev to write software for a Speccy
original performance, it is even the way will be
bells and whistles such as memory, turbo, mouse and so on.
amenities to facilitate the work of the programmer and
musician at least].


   Marchy: Spectrum will live forever (at
least in our hearts). About the capacity
iron at the root of disagreement - we do not need (sorry,
I), such mutants. Spectrum should ostavatsya
Spectrum, rather than becoming a pathetic semblance of PC
or Amig'i.


   Mac Buster: Despite what we mean by development.


   MGSak: I believe that there will always be fans Speccy
(Coders, artists, musicians, ...), because
Speccy - a good car. Other 8bitnye Platform
already dead or dying. [Anyway it will not give up,
because he is good:) maybe it's not
argument, but that is precisely why we do not leave?]


   Murray: sad, how sad: (


   Noart: approach to platforms such as PC and
Amiga.


   Diver: The Internet makes the spectrum a second wind. If
all come together, you will certainly survive.


   Point: do not die!


   Poma: pipe Specchia, seem :(((( [well, I do not drive,
it is in St. Petersburg a pipe ???].


   Prof: I think that the prospects for development
Spectrum consists in further increasing the iron
and writing in the future under its new, flexible
operating system.


   Raver: Well maybe even a scene will remain.


   Random: hard to say ... likely he
will remain so as he is - a cult
Machine, Thrust fanatics. I do not think that after all
Speccy will not move from this position ... game over,
man, game over: ([well damn bent in from England, could also
written in Russian ... Here it was necessary to make you
all transleytid;)].


   Ravon: hmm .... Well I use it only in my
TI [Texas Instruments - krutuschy calculator:].


   Samuraj: hmmm ... sad, but I think he is going to
loss :(((.


   Sancho: both platforms - the prospects do not see
Competition is big, but a machine for the elite
creativity - sure, it's true :))).


   Slam: I think 1999 - will be the last year
Speccy [Amig'i it with a scowl
opens, or just in Moscow so bad?].


   Spasm: we'll keep him alive as
at least until the next millennium;)) and then
we'll see.


   Seliga: I am very surprised that he did so
still live, some new programs look
much better than some of the demos for PC and Amig'e
(If you know the possibility of Speccy). I do not
like the Russian way of creating programs (only
BetaDisk, only the Pentagon / Scorpion, only the Russian
text), because in Slovakia (and Czech), many
normal 48k/128k machines with D80 (our local
disk system) and we are quite difficult to read
Russian texts (well, at least for me ...). I used to
thought that the peak capacity was Speccy
achieved somewhere in the 93-94 and now we have no
limit opportunities Speccy (thank to BUSY, K3L,
CODE BUSTERS, PROGRESS and all elite demo / game
makers). SPECCY FOREVER!


   StarSoft: a hobby for amateurs.


   TDM: a good rest for me.


   Tritol: on the page
http://www.atlantic.net/ ~ adansby / sinclair.html is
cool picture: Sir Clive stylized
James Bond says: "ZX Spectrum never dies".
That's my opinion.


   Tygrys: just a hobby for maniacs Speccy.


   Useless: hmmm ... remain a handful of fans ... and
so for the whole world dies: (.


   WWW: Internet. It would be cool to connect the Speccy
to the network, creating on it something like Unix.


   Chrysagon: Never leave it .... EVER!


   Zilog: Speccy 4ever, keep it alive, and be happy.


   Zool00k: Forever. [Well, I think Arty
confirm:)]


   On this optimistic note and finish:). Wait
soon the next number.