Interview - an interview with the developer of the clone HOBBIT (Part 2).

<b>Interview</b> - an interview with the developer of the clone HOBBIT (Part 2).

interviews DI Mikhailov.


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ZX-FORMAT: - How did your fascination with Amig'oy-?

Dmitry Mikhailov: - First, to
Amig'e I played one single game - racing vintage
aircraft. What's inside me
wondered a little. Of course
kick-ass graphics, a completely
incredible sound, all at a
size not much larger than
"The Hobbit", but I still worked
with the "Hobbit." Amiga, of course,
excellent machine, good toys - well, let them worthwhile.
No information, books, documentation of it was not.


   When stopped saga
"Hobbit" I decided a little glimpse into this little box on my
table, called the Computer
Amiga. Well I had a feeling as if a bomb before
eyes exploded! I grasped
full horror of what I lost
so much time. "The Hobbit" I forgot for a few seconds.
You can of course ask why I, like all normal people are not 
moved to "The Hobbit" on IBM PC-? Well, not attracted. I

just felt that there
stinks. I did not leave
feeling of "ugliness" IBM PC.
And I immediately felt Amig'e
beauty, built in the thousands
degree. This machine just saved me, like a dolphin rescues
drowning, forcing it to
surface.


   And in 1992, I was having Amig'u, went to England. AND
there, during a meeting with reporters, said that in my Amiga. 
As they rushed at me. I managed to give five or six

interviews, not really knowing what
is Amiga.


   After half a year when I was
already in St. Petersburg, called me assistant captain with the 
British ship, who was chairman of

some Amiga club. He
invited me to ship a bunch of Nadaraya SOFT'a, sound
Sampler and asked me not to throw
Amig'u. Later, I wrote a letter
a fan club Amig'i. Asked me to register and, if possible, 
vyslatd any background information. They sent me a diskette 
with the SI-kompillyatorom. Before that I was already familiar 
with SI why not learn the SI was

problems. But most importantly,
came to the files describing the function
Libraries Amig'i. At that moment,
When I opened the list of those
functions, as if I was born again. And, as you probably realized
me on this computer was
no longer pull their ears.

ZF: - What is different programming on an IBM PC of programming 
Amig'e-? 

DM: - Imagine that you're a carpenter. Here are three hammer. 
One weighed in at 500 kilograms, another in the "thingies", 
right jewelry masterpiece, and the third hammer perfectly fits 
in your hand and you do not think about it. You have to hammer 
a nail - hit and score. This small example vividly shows the 
difference between Programming the IBM PC by

Programming Amig'e.


   Programming on the PC you're
heroic battle. It is necessary to break even at 10 bytes ahead, 
and what would it all collapsed. IBM

PC utmost rejects all
attempts to program it.
IBM PC should buy, and then
tell everyone how much you have
there megahertz, terribly proud of it. And nobody ever
asks: "Why do you need these-megahertz?"


   In general, IBM PC can be compared
with an oil rig, from which
Oil gushing fountain, but close
standing man with a pipette and with
happy smile on his face, trying to scoop up this pipetochkoy
nekotrye oil.


   System in Amig'e gives full
expanse of the most savage and sophisticated
imagination, resolves all, does not prohibit anything. It is 
stable! By indicator of resource it

at least an order of magnitude higher than
computers on other platforms. Try to put the IBM PC 7
MHz and run the Multimedia. Try to do the same for Amig'e, and 
if you then questions, it means I'm

this life for something I do not understand.

ZF: - Why Amig'a at relatively low clock frequency
manages to work with such a high-efficiency?

DM: - If your PC all the responsibility of the
poor processor, then Amig'e
processor just sleeps until it
not "dernet leg" any
Device: "Listen, I've finished with it." Processor: "Relax." - 
And once again asleep. While of course there are problems where 
the speed of the processor is put into paramount. For example 
Doom. Here, all lie on the wet processing power. A general 
machine, the architecture of such IBM PC, like a surreal plant, 
where the director ever worn on the machine to machine tools, 
while in his office constantly ringing phones. A Amig'a steel 
is highly over what was done beautiful. What are 24 channels

direct memory access, only
one of which runs on the processor and the rest distributed 
smart chips, who know very well how

take advantage of these channels,
in order to solve the problem.


   In short, if the IBM PC
lion's share of the job executes
processor, the Amig'e
CPU command
others, specially created
for this chip, periodically connecting to a work order
to help them.

ZF: - Try to compare in terms of quality, price and quantity of 
software for Amig'i and IBM PC. 

DM: - Forming a program for
IBM PC you're breaking the head concrete wall. And, 
respectively, for it is you want to get the corresponding

corresponding money. At Amig'e
programming is much simpler
respectively, to write
the program takes less time
and effort and cost it would be much cheaper. In general, for 
SOFT Amig'i gets a very

free or very cheap.
As for quality, the Amiga programs take an order of magnitude 
less memory than the program for PC. If we take "a fancy" 
package, which does not with nothing to compare to the 
opportunities and capacities for $ 20, I imagine how much it 
would cost a similar package for the PC, if it existed, 
probably somewhere $ 1500. No, guys! Amiga us

provide such opportunities, which
PC reaches ever, and the quality of programs consistent
of the computer. Of course
spread Amig'i in Russia
leaves much to be desired, and therefore the number of software 
for Amig'i proposed sale is not enough, but I'm sure that soon 
there will be people who seriously it will be engaged. But in

I, for example, 14 GB SOFTa and
this without toys.

ZF: - How is it that such a
beautiful car is so small
common, and so little about it
know, at least we-?

DM: - The fact that the best in
PC World fell into the clutches of the worst in the world of 
the firm. More notorious and stupid company than the company 
was Comoddore, difficult to find. So, this company received, in 
the hands of a diamond did everything that this diamond crush, 
crush on pieces, and change for the end

discard ends. Information about
Amig'u worldwide spread rumor, as the firm Comoddore felt no 
need to spend money on advertising in any appreciable 
quantities. If one sold by Apple Macintosh spent about $ 800 
for advertising, then Amig'i figures were around 3-4 $.



   But the class Amig'i already looked through that all the 
computers, manufacturers are went bankrupt, were forgotten, and

Amig'u bought. And now the manufacturer has Amig'i
quite a different policy than
led the firm Comoddore. Let's hope that this will give tangible
results and show the world,
what the Amiga.

ZF: - What suggestions can you
express the readers of our magazine?

DM: - Guys! Do not beat face of Spectrum! I understand
that well so to speak from the height
4000 Amig'i but pity myself.
At Spectrum'e not normally
create, deploy full-
the power of their imaginations. Well, if so
Your finances do not allow us to pass on the car of a higher
level, then nothing can be done about it. In general, remember 
that Russian programmers - very

strong programmers. Nowhere in the
the world is not such fanatics as
programmers from Russia. This is me
I know for sure. Travel the world,
looked. So when you (and you ever will)
choose a more "high" car
at least look at what
Amiga. If you already have raised
Spectrum on such a height, I
imagine that you can mess things up at a classroom computer, 
how Amiga! 

Good luck!

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