Wallpaper #08 31 июля 2000

Опросы

Letter to the room - the results of global survey spektrumistov from all over the CIS.

            4. LETTER TO THE NUMBER



   From the Editor: If the reader remembers the
last issue we reported on a global survey, conducted among 
spektrumistov CIS. We suggest you to read with the results.




   In total 65 questionnaires were processed.

1. Age of respondents:


      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 count

 15
 16
 17
 18
 19
 20
 21
 22
 23
 24
 25
 27
 28
 29
 32
 33
 36
 37


   years


   As can be seen from the graph - the average age
modern, more or less active spektrumista is 21 years.

   The two questionnaires, answer not wish
indicate your age.

2. Place of residence:


   Geography poll came out not as extensive as hoped it, but 
still pretty impressive.



   St. Petersburg 7

   Chernogorsk 7

   Dnepropetrovsk 6

   Moscow 5

   Tashkent on 3

   Odessa 3

   Chirchik 3

   Gomel 2

   Donetsk 2

   Apatity 2


   Volgodonsk, Grodno, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Kaliningrad, 
Kirov, Leningrad area, Lugansk, Mariupol, Minsk, Mozhaisk, 
Nizhny Novgorod, Novomoskovsk, Novosibirsk, Obolensk, Orenburg, 
Perm, Pushkin, exactly, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tula, Cherepovets, 
Schekino - 1 form. 


3. Possession of computer technology:


  Spectrum - 61

  HRC - 8

  Amiga - 6

  Specialist - 4

  RK86 and clones - 3

  Orion - 2

  BC - 1

  MSX - 1


   Since we are interested in more
Spectrum, then look in more detail on this 61
machine (of which 20 remained unrecognized):


  Compact128 - 1

  Leningrad - 3

  KAY - 2

  GRM - 2

  Composit - 1

  The Pentagon - 12

  Pros - 6

  Scorpion - 11

  Sprinter - 1

  Turbo-2 + - 1

  Orel - 1


   Many of them have different hardware makeweights, such as:


  Memory 256/512/1024K 08/13/1913

  video mode 512h192 4

  CMOS 4

  GlukROM 2

  General Sound 4

  HDD 2

  Cache 10

  Modem 12

  Mouse 1910

  PC Keyboard 5

4. 64 out of 65 respondents expressed confidence in the 
feasibility of further development platform ZX. 

   And in the priorities of the necessary software distributed 
as follows: 


  New OS 58

  Game 48

  graf.redaktory 47

  programming language. 46

  Commanderie 44

  tekst.redakt. 43

  Assemblers 40

  muz.redakt. 38

  muz.pleyery 34

5. 57 spektrumistam just need a new, more powerful Spectrum. 
What they would like it to have? Here's what: 

 Processor Z80/Z180/Z380 8/5/43
 DMA 4 / 8 Channel 7 / 34
 Interrupt Controller 1948
 musical card for AY 1944
 General Sound 33
 DMA Sound 29
 Parallel Interface 45
 serial 44
 IDE interface 21
 Keyboard & Mouse PC 50
 disk controller on the VG93 1930
 Multicard RS 1936

6. Required Spectrum is currently the amount of memory. Very 
interesting answers to this question. I beg to draw the 
attention of those are trying to impose their views on the 
inappropriate increase of RAM. 


    128K 1

    256K 8

    512K 1

   1024K 4

   2048K 1

   4096K 1919

   from 4096K to 32768K 21

   More than 8 32768K

7. Vexed question. Graphics capabilities of the Spectrum: 
should they improve? 62 of those surveyed believe that. But 
how? The answer is obvious:



  standardized modes

  512h192, byte attributes for

  byte pixels, etc. 19


  completely new graphics

  screen that is serviced by about
  Spectrum core processor 1912


  video card with a separate

  processor 1941


  use graphics

  from RS 21


   In the last section were asked to indicate the desired type 
of tires for your graphics card. The voices of those who did it 
was as as follows:



  ISA 5

  ISA / PCI 3

  PCI 2

  AGP 1


   Most popular graphics resolution of 640x480 has been named 
to the 8-bit color.


8. What sacrifices are willing to incur spektrumisty in 
translating the above super-Spectrum: 


  sound AY / Covox / Sound Drive 32

  multicolor 39

  , Only for TR-DOS 19

9. Here we will see how many are willing to lay out his blood 
for the motherboard desirable features:



  $ 1 May

  $ 20 May

  $ 21 - $ 40 14

  $ 41 - $ 60 14

  $ 61 - $ 80 14

  $ 81 - $ 100 5

  $ 101 - $ 120 3

  $ 121 - $ 200 1

10. Categories of respondents to the questionnaires, their 
occupation on the platform ZX. 


  inactive lover 47

  gamer 35

  svapper (software exchange) 27

  programmer, systems analyst 20

  "Zhelezyachnik" 20

  programmer, an applied 16

  developer "iron" 15

  musician 13

  Artist 1911

  demomeyker 9

  trader 6

  SysOp BBS 4

  Publisher (newspaper / magazine) 3

  Other 18

11. What kind of electronic networks in use constantly:


  Internet 25

  Fidonet 1950

  ZXnet 29

  SkyNet 1

  I do not use 8



   Editors note: what the picture a bit clearer. At least one 
thing is clear - people are, and these people need more 
Spectrum powerful than the one they have now.