Insanity #08 19 января 2001

Будущее Спектрума

Ins! De - Spectrum and its potential: the establishment of a global print publications, care Mednogova with Spectrum, etc.

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    $% Stingrey



    Contrary to stereotypical expectations in the minds of some 
"superkrutyh" scenery that, in connection with the mass exodus 
of users platform, Commercial Spectrum died and, therefore, 
everything must be freeware, I want to say.



    I even funny to read the arguments about communism in a 
separate taken the society, all ideas about some rules of the 
stage, crack releases, etc. - Utopia, leading to what is on 
Spectrume remain only 5-6 teams demomeykerov constantly bump

each other in the fact, whose code is steeper). In fact, this
not so. Spectrum is not dead, but a freebie is over.


    About 80 percent of users are now in the shadows
since most previous relationships fell apart, and new more
just created. And since I was in constant communication with
NEMO (although I'm not all agree with him), I also
know that recently there has been an influx of new
users to the platform, as far as I know, at the
Over the past year demand for new Speccy-hard
(Motherboards, General Sound, etc.) Consistently over
production possibilities.


    You must be aware that in 1999, in St. Petersburg, was
A new company producing the periphery - CPG COMPEX,
which bought out the X-TRADE all the rights to produce GS. So
Now, returning to the commercial prospects of the project ...


    Please note that with the Speccy piled only those
(Cover of talking about the inevitable agony), who was in fact
nachhat deeply at him, and for whom it was merely a means
meet their own ambitions, and basically it is the capital
leaders who are accustomed to getting money, guided
konyukturnymi interests, offering all sorts of odious ideas, or
by pumping the western soft'a - in short, from the air, when
this! penny! not invested in the development of the platform! 
This, however, does not apply to Inforkom, FormaKu, LOGROS'u, 
CONDOR'u - reason for their departure or collapse served as 
force majeure circumstances and (or) marketing and economic 
failures. 


    And if you take a more global, then the majority Spectrum'e
just do not know and do not know how to do business!


    When it comes to the stage distribution of the program, such
important process of ride, maybe yes and buy a living creature.
Do not buy! Only a few are doing something for publicity and 
promotion product, such as B. Mednonogov - and the result is 
obvious: on average 2000 - 3000 dollars of net profit for each 
project. 


    And most of limited advertising in
any one (usually their own) Spectrum media, and
because now there is no leading publications such as 
Spectrofon'a or ZXFormata, something about their prog finds a 
very limited number of people moreover, mostly only locals.



    Internet is also not saved, because to him have access
limited number of users. Output is to create
global inclusive information carrier
preferably printed magazine to all, and to break off
crackers.


    The idea of ​​creating such a journal now hovers in the 
minds of some people, but the money invested so far no hurry, 
since again well known - how to convey information about the 
appearance the new edition to the maximum number spektrumistov 
(for project to be viable, the circulation should be implemented

at least 5000 copies, and this is a mass medium
information to be recorded as such in the organs
Ministry of Justice).


    But in general, now the maximum coverage of the audience is 
free ware project Open Letters (which equals the number of 
clients of firms Nemo, IskraSoft, CPG COMPEX combined). One 
could argue that Commercial success in spite of previous 
projects Mednonogov all yet announced the elimination of FT-2, 
but, first and foremost this is due the fact that it is 
currently linked to Commercial commitments to certain union 
trying to develop games for the PC or is it one of his moves 
that fuel interest in the game itself.



    There are different ways to treat this deed Vyacheslav by
At least now he gets a guaranteed salary, but I
much doubt as to the commercial and creative success in the
ptsshnoy firm (based on the information and screenshot'am he
We sent) data initiatives. Currently, neither a purely
The Russian team pc-games are not able to make
any competition western monsters gamedev.


    Time for a possible loss of competition was back in 1996-98
respectively. But even then _NI PROEKTOV_ one of the game (even 
those slaughter, for example, GAG) in Russia has not paid off. 
AND most of the game-maker'ov ceased to exist. Same as

who were either engaged in adapting Western games, or at
Example A. Pajitnov, hired in zabugornye firm. That
basically the same - both money and brains from Russia swim 
away. 


    Moral and patriotic aspect. If we take the same
Pajitnov when he created Tetris, and subsequently created the
great program working in the company "Arsenal", his name had
on everyone's lips, everyone knew that Pajitnov = quality, that 
Russia rulez! And what we have now, when he went to work at 
Microsoft? And we have a boring (but for 50 bucks) by mediocrity

Microsoft, by USA. As rightly observed, even such propisishny
magazine as GAME.EXE: "If they say it - Pajitnov not
Believe it! This is - Microsoft! Lots and boring ... "


    Of course, it remains a small number of developers Russian
games thanks to the patronage of business software giants such 
as 1C, but they, by their own statements, released in the first 
game turn for the western market! And who will write commercial

Games for the domestic market PC-soft'a when legal copies
not sold more than 2 percent!


    All the above information I got was not from the ceiling!


    I was a few years in the state of one of the major audit
firms Udmurtia - Company "MIR", as a consultant on
Information Technology (and even now, when the money runs out,
offer a service branch of the firm, and some of its
enterprise customers;) and the nature of their work to me
had contact with many computer-related firms
(NTVP "Cedar", Time, UralInformatika, Beeline), so I
really know how things are in the computer market, and due to
what means he is still not covered.


    Everything is built namassovom lip service, not a damn
versed in the company clients and the development of the 
pyramidal business. The main joke is that considered themselves

professionals, local computer scientists themselves zombie 
pisishnoy propaganda, and childishly naive, the trees can not 
see the forest. 


    However, enough of the PCs, too much honor! Let us return 
to our sheep, I mean - to Spectrum'u. In my estimation, the 
Speccy now the proportion of licensed copies of the programs is 
20-25 percent. 


    Notice at least ten-fold superiority over the
legal market for PC! Every cloud has a silver lining - the 
disappearance of local pirate-traders switching to trade CD-ROM 
for PC, favorably affected the percentage

pirated / legal copies - the new program now available
buy only directly contacting the authors.


    So it turns out, for which platform to write profitable
soft? Of course, in absolute terms, the revenues of the Spectrum
less than that of the PCs, but then the costs are not 
comparable. Quite possible that Mednonogov not completely 
withdraw from a Spectrum in at least CC'000 he was present in 
the circle spektrumistov ...



    Ticklish Jim from BrokimSoft too, without any hope at least 
for kakuyunibud profit, has released full version of "Crime of 
The Santa Claus: Deja Vu "and this was going to complete its

Spectrum-activity, and recently admitted that the number of
copies sold exceeded their expectations, and now has
probability that BrokimSoft zarelezyat also "CSC-2."


    Something to think about every-where fucker'am-cracker'am,
ratuyuschim for freewar'nost Spectrum programs. In short, from
our respect for the authors of the programs depends on - or
We will drive sobstvenoruchno Spectrum in the grave, or - 
Spectrum alive forever!