ZX-News #45 18 февраля 1999

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Interview - Opening the Spectrum: Vyacheslav Mednonogov / Copper Feet, Pavel Fedin, Alexander Mayorov / MAS, Andrew Savichev.

                Interviews



  So, we publish the second part of an article on
Speccy history of the emergence of well-known
spektrumistov.


        -= Opening Spectrum =

              Part Two.

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   Vyacheslav Mednonogov / Copper Feet:

ZXN: When and how did you get a Speccy?

Copper Feet: How come from? Yes, like everyone else ..
Came from the army and the country's new trend - home computers 
(a lot different: BK0010, RK86, Search, Spectrum ...). And 
although I have long worked in the EU, and the ARC, and the XT

(EC1840), still one thing the computer
Institute, and quite another thing - at home ...


  I saw the familiar BC (some political special, with the 
Indian keyboard, not film). Prices do not remember exactly, but 
she told me explicitly not in the pocket has been ... Then he 
saw at the Spectrum. And though he was black / white seen the 
first two programs (Savage and Laser Basic) long caught the 
imagination of ... 


  Together with the other went to Avtovskaya market, to buy 
parts ... I soldered a computer himself, set up by friends. But 
after working half a day, it burned down (the power supply was 
to "snot"). And he had lain six months dnikomu not required 
until the summer of 1991 it do not mend my uncle. That's it. 
But by August 1991 there has been the "Thrown a fool." :)

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   Pavel Fedin:

ZXN: When and how did your Speccy?

Paul: I do not even remember when I first got in touch with 
computers. It seems that this was in class 7, when our school 
was The Computer-circle. Prior to this

I loved, like everyone else, play the slot machines, which were 
very popular then (Later I saw on the Speccy all the same toys, 
and I realized that standing in these boxes). But it was, of 
course, paid or and the group was free. So I went there to play 
for free. But I cherish from childhood weakness for any kind of 
technology. I do not time wondering what was inside and how it

work. It happened at this time. My
first programming language was BASIC
BK-0010.


  As time passed, I began to dream of his own car. I did not 
have enough of those hours that I spent in the computer

class, and the framework in which he pounded me. I wanted to do 
something useful to do. And about a year I have appeared first 
ZX-Spectrum. It was a Pentagon-48, and once with the drive. 
Only the seller has got some unfair, machines worked poorly, 
and after a couple of weeks, suffering I was forced to leave

the computer. In addition, at the time I
There were no descriptions, and BASIC on it
very different from the one thing that I
Then he knew. It was enough to make up
bad opinion about him.


  This view lasted for about six months, when a classmate gave 
me a book for some reason - a description ZX-Basic company 
"Solon." I really got carried away then, literally I read it 
all, and I realized that not enough it's a bad thing. And six 
months later I got a second Spectrum, also 48 kbps. I 
unfortunately I do not remember the name of the card. It is 
collected in the likeness of quanta at ULA. On I long for it to 
work, improving their knowledge. I did not do anything if only

for themselves. I knew nothing, except BASIC.
And once I felt cramped in it, and I decided to find out what 
lies behind the mysterious stitch "RANDOMIZE USR 24500. 
Inforkomovsky bought a three-volume, and the case gone ... This 
machine worked for a very long time, has broken only once - 
once I climbed inside to take the ROM to verify

another machine, and stuck it improperly.
Chip burned. This was my first
attempt to do something inside the machine, but
I was not scared, but on the contrary,
encouraged to further explore the apparatus. I wanted to know 
and more. 


  Gradually, my computer appeared
second disk drive, an improved block
Power ... All this I have done myself. This
computer stayed on my desk about four years. By the time I did 
not have enough memory, and I gave it to upgrade to one friend, 
whose name is remembered forever. Comrade doing this job for 
six months. When computer back to me, he had 128

Kb, enhanced keyboard, and a new building. But ... He worked 
awfully bad. Buggy, sboil, reset ... Bungler offered to fix it, 
but knowing the time, I refused. Exit I saw, I was advised just 
buy a new computer. While I bought CDOS-modem. This opened up 
for me World BBS, and later - ZX-Net. It is on the BBS

heard my cry for help. Finally, one person responded, quite
free. I took him to the computer, and through
week to learn that these machines are not upgradeable
subject. Always get something in
this sort. While one of his familiar
selling fee Pentagon-128, which I
bought. This machine worked well for
with one exception. What was it, do not know
Nobody, but in some programs, such
as Tasm, some Commanderie, and others it hangs when polling the 
keyboard. As if the interruption is prohibited. Then I

have little understanding in the gland, I
appeared AY-Mouse, building a mini-tower ...
This Pentium (as I jokingly called it)
I stood there for several months. Then I
acquainted with another man, who had pros. When I heard about 
his characteristics, I lost in dreams. And then he pulled out 
board another Profi. He was a good man and has changed me, 
these two boards In my pentagon and plus a lot of any spare 
parts in the form of old clothes, which I was a lot - I tried 
poking around in the equipment. 


  It was a hybrid (v4 and v5 motherboard peripherals). Prior to 
the complete happiness in him is not enough just yet 512 KB of 
RAM and a palette. This car is very nice to me. It

and was completed set my only work, saw the light - a 
disassembler TRDOS. 

 Now I have Profi v5. I changed the same
motherboard. Megabytes of memory, palette, Winchester ... Plus 
emulator ROMs my own design. Works great. Only trouble is - who 
would have tossed me a case for the keyboard, and where to find 
a normal monitor. My VTTS32 really went wrong ... 


  I no longer worked on my Speccy.
Solely due to the monitor. Now, if
modify the firmware reference sync to connect the VGA! I do not 
want EGA - it is digital, but for me, as a systems analyst, I 
am sorry to lose palette. All of a sudden itch to use it!

It is interesting to me to study, pick ... I
almost all of its accessories
could tap into. I would like to help work
over NeOS, so the monitor just does not work. And no money. So 
now I sit on the rocks. I hope to recover and be back on 
Spectrum scene. __________________________________________



   Alexander Mayorov / MAS (Omega Group):

ZXN: When and how did your Speccy?

MAS: So, commenced with the fact that in the annex to the "UT" 
in the 89-year published scheme at the company 580VM80. True, 
the very circuit solution I did not like and waiting rooms of 
all the schemes (ie almost to the end of the year), I sketched 
out a scheme of the same company, but more compact. 


  Had already purchased all detalyushki, drawn and etched board 
... But then a friend who lived in the same house with me, 
showed Speccy. The first toy that I saw on it was "Erik and the 
floaters". ;-) Well, then followed by trips to visit

and playing Speccy ... In general, the thought occurred
make a Spectrum. Soon otovarilsya
detalyuhami, wired payment. Included - not
work. : (The method of climbing and probe
Logical reasoning found a "nozzle" on
data bus. Removed, including. And the evening of 25
August 1990 I first saw the house
Intro Specchia. :-))) By the way, my first
Speccy is still in working condition is on the shelf. :-)


  And then went to stage games - forgot to say
- The same friend that lived in one house, selling spekkovskimi 
cassettes toys that I was more or less assured.

:-) Then I went time programming
BASIC'e, and then slowly "crawled" to
assembler, good, I programmed "to
a piece of paper "quite a lot - yet understood
with UT-88, almost all ROM-who handles not
decompiled. :-)))


  Naturally understood as it should be, without any 
description. :-) 


  Well, the first program was hacked
very unhappy "Erik and the Floaters", in which he asked to add 
the most familiar of Kempstondzhoystika management and change 
year program. It was in early 1991 ... Moreover, as it turned 
out, the program was zaschitka - primitive ksorka. But it 
managed to break through, _nichego_ about not knowing. ;) 


  Then it all flew by faster - at first I
Speck riveted second, more spacious
housing, with an extended clave. At first I
there ponapihal different periphery, then
Almost all took and riveted the 128-kilobyte
with AY - then long kayfovat: Well, because there is
music and much more beep'ovskoy. ;-)))
Then put the floppy drive. Knocked him to the head and
to align itself. As always showing
resourcefulness - someone tried to adjust the drive through 
_naushnikov_? As it turned out pretty easily! ;-)))



  Then came fun. Well, the year was somewhere
near 93rd, Scorpion has already been ... But buying price was 
expensive and too lazy;) so I bought a ROM and a description. 
With the help of descriptions, the benefit of the Tama have 
been painted with the address ports and which bit is 
responsible for what, I the basis of an unhappy 48-second 
"Leningradki" gathered Scorpio. The funny thing was that when I

Then with, took the scheme Scorpio, and compared with
his "revision" - schemes were very similar, and sometimes even 
identical leg of chips! ;-))) This plpta plowed me up 96-year, 
until the drive controller was dead. That had to take this 
skorpovuyu fee. 


  But it was this about iron. As for
programming, then here it is merry ... The first program I 
wrote in MONS'e. Not even in it, and wrote the paper entity 
itself Assemblée (still remember the code many teams;)) and 
drove MONS'e HEXdamp. 


  Of course it was something awful, so
then I remember how terrible dream piece of code:


        PUSH DE

        LD DE, # 0100

        ADD HL, DE

        POP DE


  Well, I got to do with it? The description was
said that the need to increase the HL at # 0100,
Well, that's ... ;-)))


  Then he moved on to GENS, well, that was a good assembler. 
There was, however, more convenient ZEUS, but with the disk did 
not work. 


  Riveted like a toy ... By type of "TANK
WAR ". When the post came on the Spectrum" TANK
WAR ", we somehow compare it better. It turned out that" 
SKIRMISH "- better (why so named - can not remember).



  At this time I was in LEIS, and there
met * KSV *, it is true that he -
* KSV * he did not know. ;-)))
And there KIR appeared ...


  Vobschem were written after some prog
mostly "under itself", at this same time the
I played defense well, and similar stuff.
:-))) After a while * KSV * tired
Dangle me for prog, etc. (As you know, I lazily leave home :-))
and we had to gather up modems. Poyuzat terminalku, you could 
find, and decided that it would be better to write something of 
my own. That is so and appeared MMD 1-th version. Unfortunately

(Or fortunately?)) Neither the program nor the
sources have not survived.


  Then there was the written version of the 2-I, and indeed it 
was and still is (Well, with some modifications). It was a

somewhere in the 95-th - early 96-th. Approximately
the same time I "went" through the market in Avtovo E. Yu 
Budera (Welcome), good, live next. ;) A "Welcome" met

Arno. Now, where Enlight-96, ZX-News,
SPbZXNet, etc., but that's another
story ...
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   Andrew Savichev (Census Group):

ZXN: When and how did your Speccy?

Andrew Savichev: That was long ago. ;) 1989
year, if my memory serves me. Go to the Spectrum, I have 
watched one and a half years. On my work in VNIITVCH was 
"booming home of computer, actually, of course, not all great 
at that time the institute, and in two divisions: NIO-7 
(Automation), where I worked and NIO-8, our neighbors ( medical 
ultrasonic devices). We then vengeance is already used 
microprocessors K580 (MSUVT B7) and K1801VM1 (DCC-1). A Z80 was 
certainly a novelty (in 1985 I first read about it in German in 
some dederonovskom journal Electronic), and the first card was

such a great,;) that, despite the color
graphic screen and connecting to domestic
TV and cassette recorder, making it the most desire to have 
arisen. But Radio-86RK, I gathered myself, good, all parts were 
almost Freestuff from work, so VG75 only had to wait almost six 
months. But the trip to the old St. Petersburg More radio 
market in Avtovo, slowly but inevitably tip the preferences of 
the Spectrum of the abundance of software and when it became 
Sergei Zonova small fee, I finally bought a Z80 and began to 
collect the Spectrum 48. And it cost at that time is not small, 
1 / 7 the average soviet zryaplaty something about 30 rubles 
(about as ready computer 300 rub., Ie, almost half a color TV). 
But to play on it, "the soul" when I had gathered, I did not 
have to. On work there, including me,

286-e pisishki and the first game, which I
flirted till night, was PRINCE OF PERSIA.
At the same time came for me and Spectrum emulator Makovsky, 
and almost all games I had by that time were able to "overtake" 
in pisishku. So the reason to hate "pisi" I have! :) She took 
her I have 7 years of active creative life. ;)



  Well, I learned other spektrumisty,
through networks, ZX.SPECTRUM primarily, of course. I met with 
Yevgeny Tyukaevym of Rovno, Sergey Novikov from Moscow, and 
through it already with Dimitri Grigoriev (Oldman'om), Vladimir 
Bulchukeem, Vladimir Frunze (Hex'manom) from Chisinau.



  Thanks to Spectrum I had
many friends and acquaintances, cut a talent
organizer, journalist and writer. ;) More
I am thankful that he met a true friend, as Igor Maznytsya
(Incidentally a very talented and productive
spektrumista). Together with Eugene Tyukaevym,
Vsevolod Potapov and Dmitry Grigoryev, with dozens of partial to
spektrumistov new endeavor, we were able to open an echo in 
Relkome dedicated Spectrum (relcom.comp.speccy), komoderatorom 
where I am. 


  It so happened that a major bias on the Spectrum for me is 
the electronic press. My first article published Novikov, in 
RVL # 4. Then there were several publications in the "Nikrone. 
I promised publish their own electronic newspaper

(Crazy Speccy Abyss) and I will try as soon as possible to 
fulfill this promise. Materials I have very much. :) True, 
koechto have already managed to become out of date, almost all 
"Literary work" unfinished. But continuously born and many new 
things. And all this, I confess, almost 10

stories, novels, short stories (mostly
fiction, dyavoliady, where certainly there
among the main characters of programmers, where
unusual perspective to the reader appear computers (especially 
the Spectrum:)) artificial intelligence, where there is unusual

adventure and travel in time and
space. :) But what I did not write, I
I always try to write about Russia. I love computers, networks, 
free creativity work, but most of our beautiful country and its 
wonderful people! This does not mean I do not see her ulcers 
and deformities, but still I believe in Russia! In Great Holy 
Rus! A Spectrum for me is a national

pride, the focal point of her young intellect and creativity. 
Spektrumisty - nice, free, free, anarchistic in the best sense 
of the word nation one word - spektrumistskaya wrestler!



  What am I dreaming? Fulfill all their
commitments and implement all your creative vision. There is a 
desire to write game stories. There are a few ideas of games. 
And do not only games, but the system software. If

God willing, all this hidden potential can be seen as ready
programs and other things. ;)

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