On-Line #01 02 сентября 1995

Люди

Hacker - the same people - The work of Hacker in our country.

              Hacker - are people too!


Note: I have nothing against e-zine "SPECTROFON" and I must say 
that he was the only publication to Spectrum in our country, 
which was worth paying attention to. And praise them for it, 
and respect. But with all due respect to the editors of the 
magazine, I fundamentally disagree with their point of view on 
this issue, which is hard, has consistently advocated by them. 
And according to this reading ... 

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All have some accustomed to the constant "attack" e
magazine "SPECTROFON" on Hacker. The absence of a coherent 
argument of their claims and, more importantly, most 
good-natured Hacker, allowed them to ignore such statements. 
Except addition, there was no alternative publication (it is 
suspected that letters in support of Hacker simply ignored by 
the editors, it is difficult believe that such letters was not 
at all). But here came the 14 th issue of the magazine, where 
it came to the absurd, and patience snapped. I can not say that 
the publication of this the article was the main reason a 
newspaper, but I can not claim and the fact that such a 
prospect did not support me its decision ... But let's start 
from the beginning. The first issue was really cheer me up 
statement: 

"By downloading the game, the user faced with such a gentle but
very intrusive question for: "INFINITE LIFE ?"... Yielded
temptation, you plunge into this game and an hour and sometimes 
faster, pass it to the end and more to her will never come 
back. " 

Well, dear user, poroytes in their own diskettes. Y
Everyone will find a lot of "shooter" with "INFINIT-s" and only 
a few without them (and then only by the fact that Hacker hands 
before they not reached). Normally, when a normal person faced 
with the game , Converted from the gaming machine, type 
"kill-them-all", and on its passage you are offered three 
attempts, the result is known in advance ... Just in time for 
such games then more and not come back! Indeed, in the same 
slot machines, you are invited to choose a certain number of 
CREDITS, leaving a certain amount of chips, and sometimes add 
them during the game. In addition, the game type of "DIZZY" and 
eternal life "in an hour, sometimes faster," not could still 
pass or anyone. In the same issue "SPECTROFON" "foreseen" and 
counter-arguments from opponents (single letter no single 
opponent nobody saw) 

"Typically, two of them: you do not want eternal life - choose 
normal and the second argument - people with low response rate 
sometimes very difficult to beat the game, almost impossible. 
Regarding the first argument, we are generally already said 
that should not tempt people by offering a descent lightweight 
version of the game 

   The second argument does not convince us, too: people with 
normal reaction sometimes can not get any delicious shooter or 
successfully complete the road race, but it's not a reason in 
order to cripple the program. " 

And rises before the eyes of the unfortunate image of a player: 
tousled hair, bulging eyes, trembling hands, he tries to reach 
the keys "N", a view confined to key "Y", and he spends in this 
state most of his life, and not sleeping at night, and wasted 
the family nervous cries in his sleep, "I do not want u in 
forever live, I do not want-at !!!", but this time some Hacker

sitting at the machine and with a satisfied grin, "Oh I'll make 
you the" eternal heavenly "life!" break another "begalku" ...

Gentlemen editors e-zine "SPECTROFON": if you
and pulls to press the wrong key, you'd like, maybe it's worth
think about changing their business??
With regard to "disprove" the second argument ... "People can 
not, but this is not the reason. "It seems to me that" it "is 
just an excuse. If too, and players with a normal reaction "can 
not", then this game will on its own without the "CHEAT MODE" 
ugly. 

There were many other equally "interesting" observations and 
recommendations "Hacker, but all this petty compared to the 
14th number Journal:

Sim OLEG (Volgograd), shared his thoughts about 
rastranzhirovaniya Hacker disk space by connecting to a game 
downloaders "INTRODUCTIONS" (actually translates as 
"Introduction"), with greetings, names Hacker, publisher of 
this version, etc. And "expensive edition of" his strong 
support. And so what we've got the "disk space": Each regular 
issue of the journal "SPECTROFON", since the 7 th, takes up 
almost an entire disk, because of the persistent reluctance of 
editors prodelyvat "menial jobs Hacker" - compress his 
creation. As a result, we have 14 disks filled magazine instead 
of 4-5. That same story with the "Star Heritage" ...


Now about the "Introduction", but rather on HAKKERSKIH RIGHTS 
(who translated into English - ozolochu). To get started: Who 
is Hacker? 1. Programmer capable of writing a program without 
first development of detailed specifications and promptly make 
corrections to running programs that do not have documentation. 
2. User of a computer network, discovers illegal ways to gain 
access to protected data.                         
ENGLISH-RUSSIAN                         DICTIONARY OF

                        COMPUTERS AND
                        PROGRAMMING

Yes, on the second definition about any right to say no
necessary. It sounds menacing, even though only means removal
protection (and do not have to fart about the shot 
MICROPROTECTORa, protection should steepen), in particular with 
tape loaders to adapting programs to disk.

Now let's talk about the definition of number one. Dear Oleg, if
have you got a tape copy of the game (there are people, too, 
Hacker involved with the delivery of new games from abroad, for 
example, the firm "OUTLAND"), adapt it to work with the drive, 
restored after the "hackers" (there are such people), removed " 
glitches, missed by the authors themselves (happens quite 
often), maybe even turned the game on the Russian language, was 
it "and from" and wrote HELP , Organized the 128th mode (if no 
brand), and finally, spent a lot of time and nerves, and then 
decided to free or for a pittance to give it raspostranitelyam, 
and so, if you tried to do all this work, I would have looked 
much sectors, you will not regret would "INTRODUCTION", which 
is comparable to quality of work done by you, and how many 
kilobytes of text you would have spent on their regards to 
everyone who helped you and those who are for it time made no 
less remarkable things, as well as the thoughts that crowded 
your head (no offense). With regard to the inscriptions 
provoked from Oleg Sim such nostalgia "CRACKED BY BILL 
GILBERT", "DISKED BY ANDY CHERNIKOV" and similar , Then surely 
these people were doing at the time that only merited a single 
line: BILL GILBERT it broke the game (I have not seen a game 
that went through his hands and not requiring restoration) and 
ANDY CHERNIKOV only diskoval games, not by resuscitating them 
(because these programs have already visited a BG) and not 
paying attention to the absence of several levels.

Hacker has the property Copyright, did a good job. If you 
gentlemen users "of such a service is not necessary, try to 
arrange an alternative if you can think of better. Experience 
"SPECTROFON" is not convincing: the majority of programs 
included in the application require serious repairs, but not 
"format the drive on 40 tracks, with one side" ... Marasmus 
what. 

Surprised me too "valuable thoughts" editorial on whether 
proliferation at the software market different versions of the 
same game. Excuse me, but even beer Zhigulevskoe " (Or, if you 
like - a yogurt, anything), released in g.Klinske very 
different from the same "Zhiguli" brewed in Moscow , Even 
though both are inferior to "Baltic Sea" (that's someone Hacker 
not needed). Savvy to what I have it? 

With such an attitude to the magazine Hacker is not surprising 
that they more than a year can not get the storeroom or a 
version of its "ELITE".

                Still a fan of "SPECTROFON",
                Hacker and Editor in Chief
                computer paper "ON-LINE"
                Dmitry Grigoryev (OLDMAN)
                09/08/1995 Tel: 496-8508