ZX-News #02 08 сентября 1996

Enlight'96 - Letters: reviews of visitors Enlight'96. Why Spectrum looked attractive PC.

                 Letters

        (About Enlight and not only)


We simply can not talk about Enlight - has already been said a 
lot and, together with so little. Do not stop the flow of 
letters to bbs from the participants and guests of the party. 
In this issue we publish two of them. Unfortunately, this is 
indisputable, the entire computer The world is divided into two 
camps: IBM and Amiga + Zx. And, sometimes, both sides often

lose the truth, trying to one-argue
other. Theme "Fighting monsters, and where
here Zx ... "We will devote a separate series
articles, and now back still to the Enlight.

About that, what are shared by authors of the letters you 
completely understand the content. The editors declined to 
comment (although I confess that the temptation was strong), 
providing, thus, to you, dear readers, to decide who is right 
and who is wrong. The texts of letters are presented without

changes.


[Skipped from Alexey Emelyanov]

Here E `96 passed.

I was very worried about how the Amiga itself
show an equal footing with the HRC and ZX-ohm.
But what he saw exceeded all expectations. A
namely:

1. ZX was more attractive than the ibm pc.
2. Amiga was all the more attractive.
OBJECTIONS TO BE? M:)

And if the details:

ZX for their resources were utterly cool -
everything moves flickered and played surprisingly quickly and 
smoothly. It's like not to ZX:) 

ibm pc showed us his basic demo - Norton Commanderie sort is 
called. Nothing a demo - blue as melancholy. AND

a strange kind of car hihi! all start with the N-Noah attempts! 
After groaning and long-term effort. The truth result of all 
this such a great software NUMBER OF MACHINES BY PLATFORM AS 
ibm pc bare only two memorable demos - first with

golden torus, which has been shown several times already, and 
the second one where the space the ship is flying around the 
city. Probably cool for the ibm pc. And one more uncertainty - 
why this wonderful machine is either sound or image, and if you 
do and then both together, then separated in time

minutes, so at N ?????? Who will explain to me
this secret?

Well Amiga .... :)

What can I say! It was enough to see
people's faces when the show first
Amiga demo (like BINARY if not mistaken), and quite old demos. A
much about that, where the black tunnel and beautiful
say nothing. People just stood up, and
opening their mouths and eyes to the width of shoulders looked 
like all this is happening! And the quality of audio and video 
monitors have been directly say not so ...................


Here I swear, I was sad sitting before
all saw it, but now the mood has risen as much! :)))

So it was clearly visible to the naked eye:

- Graphics colorful, full-screen, smooth
and just artistically beautiful. - Sound
juicy, with a powerful attack and deep bottoms, with good 
volumetric. - Image and sound absolutely in sync - a pause

between runs Amiga demos at less than 1-2
minutes! - A minimum of disruption during work
demos. ...... and have a lot of good impressions ....

And then, a handful of people gathered on the street
at the entrance, and began a conversation on the classroom
free ibm pc and Amiga. I unfortunately do not
unable to attend until the end of the discussion, but here 
pisishniki tormented! poor. 

Anyway, in general, I'm tired as hell -
interview here know any, but then
assessment of the Muses. works in an amount
pieces as the 20, shorter than head became so heavy and sick 
..... : (But cool though! 

By the way, the organization of party:

>>>> Dear ORGANIZERS!
All certainly great, but:


- NO NEED TO AMPLIFIER put such a wild VOLUME AS OF THIS WILD 
distortion occurs and the protection of HE Triggered. YES AND 
HEAD SICK .... :)


- INSTEAD OF THESE THREE Tortured Soviets
TVs It would be better to hire
A projection TV with a diagonal
More meters. It looked an order of magnitude
BETTER, YES AND IT WOULD BE LESS PROBLEMS.

- POLOHOVATO WAS WITH INFORMATION FOR GUESTS OR HOW TO GET ANY 
INFORMATION THAT GOES AND WHOSE It has been difficult. 
Sometimes It is doubtful which computer ALL THIS generates on 
ibm pc for example, or AT ZX-Spectrum. PERHAPS THIS AND ALL MY 
WISHES FOR THE NEXT E `97! 

Sorry for the criticism, maybe it will help
You!


[End of skip]


The second letter came to me netmail'om
from an acquaintance PC'shnika:


[Skipped from Andrey Tereshkovsky]

Hello dear Alex!

All you have agitated me to go to the Enlight ... Well, I went, 
taking with him a couple of people.


MDA, total darkness. I do not know how it was in
Sunday, but Saturday we almost with longing
not dead. And you call this compo? Over
that shown for Sinclair, we pinned then two days. I do not say
that Sinclair died, but I did not believe because
had heard of his successes from you. But
now (Lech, you too I'm sorry) I do not think so. With all my 
friendship to you personally my relationship to Sinclair

turned into nothing. I have him now does not belong. I believe 
that such computer not exist in nature. As

you still have not kicked him to such a grandma?

We looked at the vaunted Ami-gu-gu-gygy-gee-gee. All that we've 
seen quite possibly be seen on the foursome. And that's all 
called the graphics? I have a toy on eight compact, so there 
schedule so schedule. If you had a Pentium 133

Pro like me, more powerful cards, screw in
gigabytes, you would Amigo and did not look
even.

I was very amused approval of a good schedule for the Amiga 
that is connected to TV. You ever heard of such things as 
synchronization and graphical extension? Take any book on SVGA 
and compare the data with what is written in passport to your 
TV. 

And that showed on the IBM, can be called
short and clear: shit [Russian analogue replaced editors]. 
Amizhniki all specially tweaked to their demos look though, 
would be worse. Remember, Lech, such as since you showed me UFO 
Sinclair? So compared with the first program on the PC

it looked like, would be cool. And if compared with the toy at 
8 cd, how ... [Here was untranslatable into English

phrase, consisting of purely Russian expressions, for which he 
was cut edition]. 

The people were many. And it's strange if
take into account the boredom that prevailed at all times. In 
general, the left we have not dosidev to the end. 


[End of skip]


[REM]

Received some ask why we
not correct grammatical errors in the
published letters. The answer: if you
received a letter from her grandmother, who lives somewhere
in the village, you do not rush to fix a few bugs before the 
show the rest of his family?


[END OF REM]


In front of you, dear readers, two
letter. They prenadlezhat people with different
platforms, living in different cities. But their
one thing in common - life in computer. Us
many - how many people, so many opinions.
Tak let us respect the opinions of others.

By the way, what is your IMHO? E-mail us if you want to know 
all about it! 


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