ZX-News #07 06 октября 1996

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Fido-conversations - The history of "Alias" or who and why is called ...

         Fidoshnye conversations ...



  Stories about the "pseudo" or about what

   conversation started Mednonogov Glory ...



  It all began with an innocuous letter from
some DeVoreaux White ...


    From: Vyacheslav Mednonogov

  Who: DeVoreaux White

  Subject: Spekovskie pirates


           Get msg, DeVoreaux!

04 Jan 1980 19:22 DeVoreaux White said
All about pirates Spekovskie:

 DW> Dryzya comrades, tell
 DW> some funny stories on the ety
 DW> temy, about
 DW> Gilbert and others hyliganov!
 DW> Communicate with them if someone nibyd that
 DW> they do now? etc etc ..

There is a similar idea: who knows, let tell you why he or 
someone he knows so called.


 Well, for example - Max Iwamoto. In childhood
Max hachil toys on the MSX, and, of course, liked to leave his 
mark there. In Most games present a Iso Iwamoto. Instead of 
'Iso' Max happily inscribe 'Max'. 

 RST7. As a child, liked to program in KR580, which restarts 
are numbered 0 to 7. He especially loved last restart, because 
it is often used - his name and he took me for a nickname.

In connection with the transition to the Spectrum he wanted
rename RST8 or, at worst, the RST # 38, but somehow forgot it 
all do. That and his name is now close

friends kindly "left restarting.

 MOA. As a child was reading the great works of Mao, but not to 
be accused of cult of personality, changed the last two

letters. However, his friends at "Peter"
Knowing that his little weakness, often
changed them back. Then set as MAO Service,
then Gens4D of MAO appears, etc.

 LOGROS. The organizer of this company was Mikhail Loginov from 
Russia. Log-Ros. Then Misha came to Ivan and Loginov vanished.

M. Akimov somehow ashamed to rename AKIROS, so it remained - 
LOGROS. 

 SOPPER FEET. Everything is simple. The first four or five 
years at Sinclair I had great difficulties with the 
Russification (there was no Russian letters on the keys). So I 
just translated his last name - Brass Legs - Copper Foots. 
Okazalos, I still had problems with English, because Foot in 
the plural will Feet. Thank you, good people prompted. 

 XL-DESIGN. XL - cokraschenie from eXeLlent.
Favorite Commodore firm attachment to its
developments, as well as in the XL-DESIGN'e all
in this rotated, they have named.
Well Design - just the way I had to.

 Nicolas Rodionov. In Nicholas is the brother of Jura
named Rodionov, and Nick was very fond of him and always a 
little envious of him. That decided under his name in the world 
appear. 



But fame did not stop, and sent more
few letters:



 Then one formatovets (M. Romanov), who
came up with the name of the magazine and the group was 
outraged. Am submitting the correction. In XL-Design XL 
_bolshoy_ means, as an example of Max pointed out that 
sometimes it written on the bottom lingerie large sizes or on 
the Hi-drives:) A design is not a word had to, and just 
beautiful sounds together. 

 ZX FORMAT. Firstly, by analogy with the PC
Format and Amiga Format. Secondly, in memory
about the utility on the IBM c the same title.
I remember when the first issue, it unknowingly, many sellers 
are touting as a new universal program format. 

 ISKRA-Soft. Five people who had organized the case (including 
Eliseeva) long time before working in the youth organization 
Komsomol (Young Communist League), where their favorite motto 
was - "The spark will kindle flame. "In memory of his reckless 
youth, the fire they called themselves Spark-Soft. 

 Publishing House "Piter". Even before
become simply by Peter V. Usmanov (Commercial Director) and 
Maltsev (or Molodtsov, I do not remember, CEO) long thought to 
call a company so that in English and in Russian it is equally 
called. Decided in a simple - "Peter". AND still have not 
guessed, since then they six months to call from the Department 
of Philology of the University and said that Peter is in 
English will be Peter. 

 VL. If you find where these two letters, then
know that it is not Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir stalls. Actually, 
he is nominally a member of Technoman Group, but sometimes 
wants to somehow stand out from them. 

 Max Romanoff. First, simply called himself
RML (it's his name), then added Max
Romanoff, then one day I heard Sound
Blaster and added Sreative Lab. But this
It seemed to him a little, and he described himself as more
and Mad Max. That's why OLDMAN, making
Review Games Spectrofon'e, wrote that The
Turn did a whole group. Haha, it was
one person.

 By the way, OLDMAN. This alias is well suited to him, because 
He came to the Spectrum already after retirement. That is why it

article in the ON-Line written so maturely
and thoughtfully.

 STEP. Something they wrote about their name
in the ZX-Pevyu. Literally, I do not remember, but the point
that as the motto of the group were
from the words amer.astronavta Armstrong, who first landed on 
the moon: "One small step [step] for a man - a huge step [step] 
for all mankind. "In, As.


 KSA. After Inlayta KSA three days visiting
in the firm Scorpio, and this is what he told
Ilya Fomin: "As a teenager, my favorite hero
Kish was Vorobyaninov. Because the letter 'H' on
the keyboard was lacking, I just threw it and called himself a 
CSA. And then ask my Fans have altered me in KSA in the English 
fashion. " 

 Cris. At one time he was fond of creativity one Irish band, 
where the soloist was a Sris. So that all the prosaic. Real No 
Name (as requested Novikov) - Alex Bogdanov. His companion - 
Ivan Stunner, ie John Konovalov. Together they form

Virtual Brothers, which means "milk
brothers, or about it. (on the same topic).
A third of them that Max Petrov (author XaS),
then Vitaly Romanov and mood.

 Dr.LAV. Musician. Litvinov, Andrei batkovich. Hopes to become 
a doctor. 

 Tov.Sergey ZONAL. If you remember, he released one of the 
first boards of Spectrum in the Union. And called it Leningrad. 
But still for some reason began to call her band. Zone da Zone. 
A camp-ka I Zonov "- thought Sergey. And

was.

 TITUS. Many people think it's because of his surname - Titov. 
No, just one day, he played in prehistorika_2. And there on the 
splash screen was a beautiful little pup. "It is necessary, as

at me like "thought Titov, -" and the name of which he 
attributed to a beautiful bottom - Titus. I will like it. "And 
also began. 

 NIKODIM. A very long time begged the firm Nikita, but there he 
was told that from Yaroslavl without registration not taken, 
only from Moscow. "Just think, Nikita from Moscow, and I will 
Nicodemus from Yaroslavl - up to 100 times cooler. "And He also 
became who I wanted. 

 JOKER. Then I did nothing away to say
I will not, and will refer to a quotation from a speech by Max
Iwamoto: "Ugly, dirty, lazy type.
Always drunk. Money spent on drinks all the money that he 
manages to lure a gullible programmers and distributors. 
Recently took the STS 4.3 and sent it to Peter, allegedly from

Stalker. All the cheats. Just a real joker, worse will not 
tell. "And the truth, what else to say.


 MAFIA. Is Ukraine Vseukrainsky Club
Suffering from insomnia. Agreed there
as a three comrades, lovers Sinclair.
Decided to organize their own organization to
this soil. But what to call it? "Well, if we
not napping, so we - MAFIA! "And since
then, they never sleep! Fear
them!

 Nick CKACHKOV. And here, who did not ask, nobody knows. 
Moreover, that no real name or surname or appearance

not even close to similar. Maybe Nick himself
tell?

 MI'DI. Anyone would understand that this is Misha and Dima
lovers of good and sound quality.
Who is Dima and where was she, the history
silent, but Misha grew up
M. Kondratiev.

 STALKER. Behold, he spoke before Inlaytom: "From childhood 
dream to become a Cobra or Max Iwamoto. Even Doom-demo, I had 
hung on the walls of their pictures with their names. But the 
years go by, Max and Cobra are still alive. I had to become 
just Stalker. "And so he smiled sadly (and, and more three 
times a sigh) :(((( 



         But the glory that is not enough ...



If we are to remember, so all, and if it
write, so only the truth.

 Someone here asked about Bill Gilbert.
That's what we found out: for great contribution to the 
popularization of Spectrum personally Sir K. Sinclair awarded 
him the honorary title "Sir" with the addition of prefixes de 
'to the name Bill. Newly-born Sir Gilbert de'Bill

somehow shy of his new rank and
decided not to appear on the Spectrum scene, so as not to 
produce envy and sycophants. That's how we all orphaned

overnight.

 Still here thought of H. Rodionova. So
discourage mercenary hackers and unscrupulous users, Nikolai 
each BASIC loader program inserts its

ctrashnuyu phrase - 'King goes to safary?'. I
personally on her failed, he thought: "Yes
Well still, contact. These are the tough defense put it back in 
those troubled times. 

 C-DOS. Originally conceived as a new operational system, as 
opposed to TR-DOS. However, to the surprise of the developers,

the fruit of their labors was the multi-board
modem. Well, maybe it's for the best.

 Virt Soft. Secret admirers teaching Wirth. Write only HiSoft 
Pascal and then issue their works for the written pure 
assembler. Try their 'Country Dragons' (when released) and feel

difference.

 OMEGA Group. Their work has become,
For example, ZX News. The question: "Why do you
so called? "their representative gave
extremely honest answer: "It was necessary
once called ".

 DiGiTAL REALiTY. Here in my knowledge gap. Novgorod, ay-y!

 KANO. Apparently, all members of the former Mortal
Kombat HG chose their pseudonyms names of the heroes of this 
game. And Cano is no exception. At Enlight'96 was awarded an 
honorary Doctor KANO. What's that, and he always treated able.


 IMP. Guess for yourself. For the slow-witted would recommend 
to play Doom. 

 SLASH. First, he called himself FLASH (Shining), but then went 
the endless confusion between him and FLASH Inc. In order not 
to aggravate relations between the Novosibirsk and Ryazan, 
replaced the first letter on S. 

 By the way, flash, according to X-Trade, argue that the Elite 
does not put anything further developed, and mined somewhere in 
the full corporate version and write there own name. Sensation! 

 By the way, about the X-TRADE. He (now they)
most closely associated with Moscow, and constantly missing 
them all sorts of new words. When the fashion for all sorts of 
"traders", he himself as X-TRADE (eXtended TRADEr). A

earlier was just a thank Dangerous.



       Do you think all? As it were, is not so!


          To be continued ...


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