ZX-News #22 25 февраля 1997

Люди

about people ... - On the history and plans of Virtual Brothers.

         ABOUT PEOPLE



  Began the interview, of course, beer. Beer and finished ... 
In general, "Brother," as they call themselves, or Virtual 
Brothers, as are all used to call them, like beer, and putting 
it mildly ...:) 


  Duc lo, Zatar case of beer, sit
y John'a Stunner'a home, well, the interview-take a give ... :)

 - Okay, let's go, - said the attacker Chris.
And went ...


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                      (C) Alexei Mikhailov


             VIRTUAL BROTHERS

Arno: Some general issues of traditional
       owls ...
Cris: (interrupting) Well, of course ... We all
      the first three - it's John Stunner, Vitaly

      Romanov and I am a hacker Cris ...
John: Yes, initially we had only two -

      Vital came later ...
Cris: Yeah ...
Arno: You have a pretty unusual name.

      Why did you decide to name it

      "Virtual brothers"?
John: Once I was riding the subway and saw

      on one of the handouts

      word Virtual. Somehow immediately come

      the idea of ​​using it in the title

      group. I called Chris, he also

      likes ... At that time, and

      Now, too, Chris calls all

      "Brothers" ...
VR: Everyone - Brother!
John: Yes ... So it happened - Virtu
      al Brothers ...
Cris: In general, VB formed somewhere in the

      May 95'ogo ...
Arno: So, you've done your group. With Th
      From the very beginning your joint activities
      sequence?
Cris: Well, first we broke all

      Only you can break ...
John: In fact, the first major pro
      On the other, that Chris broke, was a UFO.
Arno: Rumor has it that you have because of this

      there was a conflict with its author,

      Slava Mednonogovym ...
Cris: The conflict - not the right word, just a village
      le of how I broke her, she singing
      wound on bbs'kah, but he certainly
      camping, it's not very much ...
John: At the time, broke everything that

      out of the hands, but his whole

      life of traders, we have not received

      penny ...
Arno: So you were breaking only for the sake of

      to break, so to speak, for

      feelings for their own satisfaction?
John: Yes, no "selfish" interest ...
Arno: Nevertheless, you happened to me
      of, how about the coolest hacker

      country. Not by chance because of echo

      ZX.SPECTRUM Cris'a called hacker

      year ...
Cris: Well, it is strongly preuvelichino ... Although

      I was pleased.

(Laughter)

Arno: Have introshki / Infinity / loaders?
Cris: There were, but not very much ...
Arno: OK, then, seems to have appeared Vita
      face?
John: Yes ... We were initially a month

      only on the phone talking

      about all sorts of procedures ...
VR: (looking up at the second from a bottle)

      Was the case ...
John: And then I introduced him to Chris.
Cris: I come to John, and then people ka
      Coy is sitting. Since they were introduced.
John: Then came the idea to invite Vitali
      ka in VB. The guy he was distinct from
      LIMITED, besides we have already begun to pony
      mother that the time spent, and

      virtually nothing has been done. And so

      we have gained in the face and odnm code
      pa, and a musician and artist ...

(More followed by a series of jokes, are
which boiled down to why some
Children are born healthy, and some -
tricky ... :)

Arno: And what Vitali was engaged before

      became one of the "Brother"?
VR: (opening the tenth packet of nuts):

      Well, kodil little music he wrote,

      too little for the soul, when the crust
      swarming there. I do not respect those muse
      Kant, who are engaged in stamps
      Coy Mouzon - monotonous music

      as if she was not well written,

      quickly become boring ...
John: I called Vitale and told him that

      its place - in our group. He
      thinking and ... Agreed.
Cris: I remember how we sat and zatsenivali

      his first job - Lissajous ... For

      the time when we actually

      got out of the novice coders / hackers
      ditch in humans, it was cool ...
John: It's time to talk about our

      plans ... ;)
All: Yes Weather you with their plans ...:)

(Laughter)

Arno: In general, people say that MAX

      PETROV is as though unofficial

      member of the VB, and why he was not included in

      The group?
Cris: Well, MAX cool guy, we do

      with him in very good friendships from
      respects, but when he was invited to

      VB, he refused - has decided to kodit

      alone, since it was originally

      coder, and we - hackers ...
Arno: What do you think about computer pres
      Behold, I mean the Spectrum, and

      In particular Spectrofon and ZX-Format?
Cris: My opinion and the opinion of all the "Brazil
      ditch, "which still makes Spectrofon

      Format the content ... Obolchka in

      magazine - the right thing, but contains
      of important ...
VR: The level of the texts in the format of all the decay
      exists and falls ...
Arno: In light of the foregoing such global
      Ballroom question: Moscow and St. Petersburg. Ka
      Who of these two cities more

      suitable epithet "Center of the country,

      In other words, what is cooler?
John: Definitely can not say. In some

      Peter in front of something Moscow ...
Cris: Yeah, that's like the center demomey
      King nor Peter, nor Moscow called

      can not - in my opinion he is stolen
      not ...
Arno: A Gomel? A Novgorod? Or Kharkov

      they are not competitors?
Cris: Competitors, they were not giving
      but, and I think that Kharkiv is not

      surpassed ...
John: But Peter could be called the center

      geymmeykinga!
VR: It is yes. And the UFO, and Irons, and Winnie the Pooh

      Dizzy with all sorts as opposed to bridge
      Stark Heritage ...
Cris: Moscow - city of hackers, and Peter -

      coders ...
Arno: And what about music, Peter is also impres
      mong. In Moscow, a KSA, in St. Petersburg

      was LAV ... That is, they are now

      there, but the music on Speke actually

      do not write. And so, in Moscow and not wasps
      talos anybody else, and in Peter

      Musicians still have ...
John: About the graphics nothing can be said,

      there is nothing to compare. Although Enlight wasps
      talsya for Muscovites ...
Arno: By the way, at the expense of Enlight'a ... Most

      Interestingly, not everyone knows about

      Fast Coded ...
VR: Well, "Fast Coded" - this is our demo,

      we've done on Enlight, but

      by the will of the circumstances, it is not there

      got ...
Arno: Duc you give details of interest
      but then ...
VR: Somewhere in the three weeks before the party ever,
      dil me one piece ... And a half

      weeks left in the campaign. In principle,

      the entire demo was done for the remaining
      Xia ten days. Finish / reserves
      kovyvalas it at night between the first and

      Enlight'a second day, that's just

      Cris, instead of stick

      hard, went to a disco with

      the guys from Digital Reality, came

      morning in early drunk, of course
      Xia, sat pack, there is then another

      Bug found, had perepakovy
      vat ... In short, for two hours

      opazdali to deadlines for

      com ...
Arno: And then what?
VR: Well, then we went to drink ...
Arno: Not in the sense that later with demos

      become?
VR: We released it, gave all his friends

      watch and forget about it ...
Arno: She's on the BBC lay Dyk

      comments - very bestovo. IMHO, the demo

      is not the last place:

      would ...
VR: Thank you. Unfortunately, it appears that

      it is not very dispersed ... Although, as

      know ...
Arno: Are you planning to take part in

      com on Enlight '97?
Cris: Yeah, probably.
Arno: since I started talking about the demo, so

      question: what can be called DeMouy

      the best on the Spectrum?
VR: For its time, no doubt about it

      Satisfaction and Insult. While

      RST7 made such as bolshins
      GUT encoders that time, except

      "Impossible" is not mentioned. Main -

      ideas and methods of implementation. Although this
      hour Code Busters'y are not the same: RST7

      long ago wrote nothing, and MAXI

      too much time to the Phi
      to ... In order to support

      his name at the level they need now

      to do something, otherwise at the next

      Enlayte they remain without a "vote

      for the name of "... And on the Enlight '96, in my

      opinion, the coolest deme - Action

      by VAV. Music - simply Best. Fires
      lui music - one of the main arguments
      moments: cool demo synchronized
      Wan with the music ...
Arno: A Vibration?
VR: All About Vibration effects can be

      immediately say how they are made, and

      on how to make the effect of Ac
      tion'e, we should at least hearth
      mother ...
Arno: Why, then, not even on the Action
      fell into three?
VR: camera, bad television sets,

      which point the schedule despite
      las in general, a bad sound ... Incidentally
      TI, said that VAV now writes

      Something very cool ...
John: This is an order of magnitude higher than

      E'96!
Cris: And I really like SEAMANS'ovskie

      demos, in particular, Influence. Oso
      especially ksashnaya music in the first hour
      Thi ...
Arno: Well, how many people, so many

      opinions ... Recently, a very

      has become fashionable to talk about other

      platforms. Amiga and PC. Opinions vir
      tual Brother ...
John: I - amizhnik almost in the full sense

      the word, because I like
      Xia Amiga, on Monday posed
      Liu currently 1200-ku, screw, and Poti
      honku begin to accumulate on the axel ...
Cris: I amizhnik just in my heart: I know

      that on the Amiga money is still not

      enough, and I also know that sooner or

      too late to put yourself PC ...
VR: In "Brother," I'm the only one who

      Neutral refers to the question of

      Amiga / PC 'huh ... Me, in principle,

      would suit any of these companies ...
Arno: What models of the Spectrum-compatible

      computers do you prefer and

      what work?
VR: Oh! We have my brother, probably, two

      Pentagon of three in St. Petersburg. Third,

      like, the Mednonogova, but he and they are not

      enjoys even ...
Cris: I've got something homemade ...

      In principle, the scheme - the "zone", the truth

      I did myself a little bit refined ...
Arno: And what is your configuration has

      first comp?
Cris: Like most sinkleristov I

      started with 48 kB tape. I have two

      was, and the second is not staid and

      two weeks - I'm at it 220 volts

      filed ...
Arno: What if, say, compare Peters
      Kie computers, in particular early
      pion and Kai?
Cris: Well, my comp up to the Scorpion I

      bring a couple of hours, and Kaya, if

      Honestly, never seen, but because

      I can not compare ...
Arno: As a rule, each team has

      coders, musicians, artists, jelly
      zyachniki ... Who in "Brother" to all

      all of mending?
VR: Cris, who else. By the way, here at IU
      AE Monitor recently broke (the village
      motrel toward Cris'a) ...
Arno: Regarding your new toy

      "Magic Stripes". In Moscow, she was

      the second week hit number one, and in

      Peter it's not even in the top ten ...
VR: Firm Welcome, on the basis of sales to
      Torah compiled a hit-parade

      Newskah, refused to sell our

      game, claiming it to some

      "Immorality" ...
Arno: I think that if not for that, Magic

      Stripes would be the first line and

      We, like any domestic authors
      Torskaya program ...
Cris: Yes, she is in first place,

      only from other vendors ...
Arno: I think our readers will be an Internet
      It is interesting to find out "record"

      "Brother," and when that was sdela
      but from the programs, demos, utilities ...
Cris:

      Jonny mega gift VB / GALAXY / HARE / HPM

      May 1996


      Enlight info 1/2/3 VB / TMG

      Winter-Summer 1996


      Fast Coded demo / VB

      August 1996


      Magic Stripes 128 / VB

      December 1996


    + A number of systemic prog

    + Some intros for games

    + A lot of hacks and restore games


      At this moment Brother is not bent

      and we are preparing for more serious

      work and kopim forces (but already STE

      another story)


      We will try in time to announce

      Our work in e-newspapers and

      magazines, as well as other vitrual
      different methods ...

John: And now about the plans ... :)

(Laughter)

VR: Now we have one more exam to pass,

      then monitor repair ... And there already

      Enlight and on the nose ...
Cris: Well, of course, the beginning

      large project, which is likely

      likely to be completed next

      fall. Sure, it would be a pain
      Shai game, but let's not bu
      dem about it, okay? ..


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  And we all sat and sat - was beer
enough for mafone played THE PRODIGY -
group, the beloved and revered by all, "Brother", the window 
was rain and a company of Red Army ... 


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