Interview - an interview with a famous coder'om, one of the founders M & U Sinclair Club, and later eTc group - Lazy.

<b>Interview</b> - an interview with a famous coder'om, one of the founders
M & U Sinclair Club, and later eTc group - Lazy.

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    We offer you an interview
with known coder'om, one of the founders
M'U Sinclair Club, and later eTc group -
LAZY.

For reference: SM - Sergei Movchan aka DEVIL,
EM - Eugene Mironchuk aka LAZY.

SM> For a start Tell a little about yourself:
Name, where you live, what do you do?

EM> My name is Eugene Mironchuk. Born and
I grew up in Cherkassy in 1975, where
now live. Now nothing special
doing. Looking for work:)

SM> Tell me about your first meeting with
computer, when and how you became interested
Spectrum'om?

EM> first time I saw a comp somewhere in 12 years.
Then this business has flourished: it is necessary pieces
3 PC "Atari", and for a
the amount you can play with. I then
watched for hours, as played by other children,
because the money to spend on games I do not like.
In grade 10 my dream came true, and I
bought my first computer - Robic. " This
analogue of the Spectrum-48. However, many toys
it did not work, but ... For me, it
there was joy. About a year I played
parallel I tried to write a toy on
BASIC:) And asmom forced me to do
obsession to make the boot loader
colored strips. With this in general, and all
began. I was also knocked out of this is that
money on the tapes I had, and comp
I do not turbo. As it turned out
PZUhi it is not pulled 7 MHz:) And now
stuck in my head obsession
do the same to "Robic" Georgia bend in
Turbo mode. In "Robic" there is a possibility
substitution of 16K ROM memory. Using
it, I shoveled the program to work with
tape in the ROM and still did it. Here
as "the difficulties that can not kill you makes you
us stronger ":)

SM> share with readers the story
create eTc group, who participated in this,
What were the first projects? (More)

EM> How it all began? When I was still only
made the first steps in programming
ACME (and it was sometime in 1993, and they
were nearly always associated with downloading from the
Tape - various loader'y), I
acquainted with some Maxim (Lemming, and
later on Cancer). I was shocked: he had
drive, and AY. I was a lot of time
carry with him, especially after
My "Robic" after many attempts artisanal
modifications ordered to live long. I wrote
prog-vapor at the Institute on paper, while
Max we type them in GENS4. About 128K we
only dreamed of. So there was M'U Sinclair
Club. In this part we have been until
yet we have not met with Konstantin Teterin
(KT-Soft). To him and the idea
be called ETC Group. Together with him we are still in
Conceived in 1995 to write Confusion, but
it so happened that on the demo worked
I alone, and Kostya in that time has released Free
Format, and then - Crime Santa Claus. Me in
comes to mind too few ideas
therefore, work on the demo has stalled.
We wanted her to do badly, and heaped
I was doing only those effects that were not
implemented at the time. For example,
balls on the screen, I wrote back in 1995
year, scroll the screen one INT - also in
1995. Sinusoid on the curb at all
GIFT Cancer'u planned as a day
born in the summer of 1996. But in the version
was even a picture on Multicolor'naya
quarter of the screen:) I remove it, because
this whole thing too much eat off
memory. Somewhere in the 1996-1997 year, I have come
tackle the problem of compression. That was then
written LazyPack. But the desire to formalize
work as a finished project, I do not
enough. It turns out that LazyPack
comes out only now - two years
after writing:))) It was in
the beginning of 1996 we met with
Wolf'om. He had just started
program. But this excitement I did not
seen yet from anyone:) It took up all
in a row and did it. Not for someone, but for
themselves. Just to learn. Confusion
consists mainly of my parts, but
BOOM almost completely wrote Wolf.
In addition, he brought with him Kenotron'a -
principal musician ETC Group. Panda
worked mainly with KT-Soft'om and
Cancer mildly nothing
did, and the number in the group with the rights
founder:) But no. He wrote music in
DigitalStudio, which use soft
speaking difficult. I have it Mouzon
have so far, and I probably will release them
that the people listened to - there are some
really good. Here is a brief
My story in the ETC Group. Last summer I
somehow smoothly away from the Spectrum, and from the
programming in general. I just
was not enough time, since I
graduated and started working.

SM> What computers do you have and what
left after they experience?

EM> Yes:))) computer, I really
was not alone:) At first I was "Robic."
We have the whole city is flooded, "Robic." Y
I even now there are one or two. The point
that the plant that produced them, see
from my window:) His (PC), I finished it off after
several experiments, and lumped
cherished $ 20, bought a card, "Moscow
128 ". With these computers and related my" life "
on the Spectrum. For the record: it is
"The Pentagon-compatible" PC. With him I
associated with the most pleasant memories of my
Spectrum. Although the question of compatibility -
rather controversial, but I can say one thing:
The Pentagon has really deserved
standard for the demos. And curse him
mostly those who have it or never
worked, or defends his wheelbarrow. May
be terribly complex, true-but-equal
inability to compete with the Pentagon.

  Then, in December 1996 I went to
Kiev and bought a Amiga 600. This machine I
still recall with amazement.
Despite the power of modern PC, Amiga
really deserves a huge
respect. However, the problems associated with
difficulty to get more and more software
drew my eyes toward the PC. Last
drop was Max Iwamoto. This "amateur
Amiga "just robbed us, and this killing
Amiga in our city. But we could
to become his regular customers. I sold
Amiga and somewhere half a year ago bought
his PC. Now I have Cyrix6x86MX-PR166 and
I am very pleased with them. Bunch of software, including
including Spectrum emulator, which we
Amiga, unfortunately, have not seen.
Many thanks on this occasion I want to
Vladimir Yudin said his "Pentagon"
as the ZX-Emul and Nicholas Shalaev for his
"Reactive" emulator:) "BOOM" and
"LazyPack" almost completely been
written in these emulsions.

SM> Tell about his attitude to demomeykerstvu what demos like 
what no ...


EM> My attitude? Demomeykerstvo - is
Art! It is in writing demos
IMHO, learning to programmers. In addition,
demos people write from the heart, rather than
for profit - in fact for that no one pays.
And personally, I always look at the demo from the point
of the encoder: the complexity effect
how to make it. But despite this, even
the most difficult and unimaginable effect
is worth nothing if it is not designed
properly. So we conclude: ALL
must be nice. And the code and graphics, and
music.

SM> What is going to do in the future. Not
sobiraeshsya whether to return to the scene and re-
conquer the world with his new demoy. :))

EM> Back - it is unlikely. There is no longer that
desire and time. I have now completely
other problems, but to be honest, sometimes
are drawn to do something good for
Spectrum. :) Actually, I do not link their
further life of active work on
computer. But eventually lose touch
with Spectrum I'm not going. I continue to
keep node FidoNet, and if suddenly will
some communication problems with the ETC Group -
write on 2:4635 / 100, this address change
will not, but the soap I read regularly:)
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