Interface - Opinion: on acquaintance with the PC.

<b>Interface</b> - Opinion: on acquaintance with the PC.

     (C) PLAYER


                OPINION.


     Quite often in the pages of email. media platform ZX 
debatable: PC IBM or AMIGA. In this case, provides technical

data, value, description of programs and
opportunities. And sitting just a simple guy in front of the 
monitor and wondering what to take, unless, of course, guesses, 
and not spitting. But neither once (only once in the "ZX-FORMAT 
N6" on "AMIGA") I do not read articles from those who

disillusioned with the PC or AMIGA, While visiting Neringa their
user (for whatever reasons).
So I plucked up courage and I want to tell you about my 
acquaintance with the IBM PC. 

     It all started with what else, the
2-2, 5 back, still at 386 from a friend I saw "DUNE II". The 
game was in Russian and as an outspoken strategy genre, I'm on 
it "crush". After playing with a friend, I realized that 
"hotstsa" to play at home in himself, but gradually cool down, 
since even the 386 I was worth the 4 "Scorpio". Time passed, I 
finished it off in an ecstasy of the two "UFO" (incidentally, a 
complete analog IBM - cal, only in color and in English. And I 
will say honestly that I have an IBM they did not play - bummer 
repeated), and One day, going to the other guy, the transferred 
smoothly on the PC, since the money are found, I saw:


     1. "Sovereign LANDS II"

     2. "WARCRAFT"

     3. "HEROES OF MAGIC I & II"

     All of them were in Russian and
Beautiful graphics, music, story, cries:
"Come on, embedding them!" "Do not be shy, guys!" "Yes, my 
lord!" I "killed", and began to slip the idea that ZX I have 
nothing of the strategy is not steepest I see, and here: and 
strategy, and 3-D type "Duke" or "DIABLO", and race, and jokes

type "LARRY 7", in short, the sea of games that are not just 
interesting, but beautiful and interesting, not just bang-bang, 
but a steep bang-bang! A friend came to meet me (he

just needed an upgrade) and I spihnul
in installments as follows miracle of technology: IBM
486AmDh4/100 + video 1mb 4 hCD-ROM +8 MB + SB16 +
+ Vint1, 1GB + simple SVGA "14" + Claudia +
+ Mouse. In those days it was a 2700 TR
or 450 "Baku". And in order to
fuck it, I sold my great
"ZS-256" (5.25 + 3,5) with all the modifications for the 500r., 
The new monitor, "WTC-32 + + Sound for 350r. And laid the tile 
of his mother in vannoy for 350r. And then slowly

with receipts and the "quickie" to give it 200,
100, 50p. I baldel! Scored a "screw"
strategies, squeezed them and picked up a good
collection of games. At the time of purchase itself
coolest cars was a stump-166MMH, and I
his "Quartet" was not very cheated, since passed 75% of 
software, and if there 16MB went to 85%. I drove to the "Z", 
"RED A. "," OFF "and do not run nearly ZX. I

I write in such detail because many people think: "What to 
buy?" And what will happen next? " . So listen, dear 
detishechki, Now I will tell you a terrible tale.

Of course, I bought an older model, but
because of resource constraints. While
PENTIUM was still in the price. But I reasoned
something like this: "Nothing, plastic games at IBM
for so many years is enormous, Play from the heart
couple of years in what is, the memory will not
increase, since the old road, and the year
two "mom + Protsyk" stump will cost
penny here and do an upgrade. "Meanwhile, on the horizon too 
quickly emerged PENTIUM II. And in one of the nights of thunder

August, I was knocked out, "Mama" (in Specchia
no such problems). And here's my status
on this point:

     1. Has yet to 600r. for PC, not counting 1000r, still 
hanging in connection with the purchase of houses in the 
village. 

     2. Fly quite outdated mom
Dh4/100 or again "rip gut" and buy my mother at least a PENTIUM 
+ processor 133mts 32 mb?


     3. This, again, sucks, because your friend on 166MMH, but 
with only 1mb video Wildly brakes are not too cool game

"SPECCOP".

     4. We need to change the graphics card (at least
to 4MB), and then flooded 3D accelerator ...

     5. May sell all to hell, but at least give the debts?

     I finally decided: the fifth! But
again, bummer: no one needs! Ad phoned a man, but by ZS-256 
rang 10-12 and bought! Well, that through another installment 
spihnuli: I-everything-it "mom + processor P-120" (already 
sucks!). He made the next upgrade, but I lost 600-700 in 
rubles, as 9 months fell and bad:


     1. Motherboard;

     2. Processor;

     3. Winchester;

     4. Sound card;

     5. CD-ROM.


     But I am glad that at least this way spihnul
"Dengosos. And now to what I came to the conclusion: the IBM 
has an excellent, exciting games that were played - just buzz, 
but all crossed out expensive new hardware, and most 
importantly, its fragility (how much waste 486-I, and PENTIUM 
is three times faster than was dead). A the most offensive, if 
you're just a hard worker, you have a family and spend their 
"blood" on These "things" that are a year longer

"Pull"! I'd better play "Black Crow" (kowtow to all those who 
wrote to ZX), and the money spent on children, a house wife. So 
if you're just a gamer, then IBM - a good toy, but you must have

good income, to keep spending
money on it and not tear away the last piece. I hope that 
someone in my experience useful, for example, I do not 
truthfully, relieved by selling IBM. Not for

I can afford it, and a year later it all behind
1000r. shove the joy would be if
yet there is a fool.



     P. S. At AMMY prices also bite, so
even steeper, and a friend went to St. Petersburg at the firm
of "Amigo", so says the game's all old in the directory. Oh, 
and if the defect PC in a small town is easily removable, then

trouble with "Amigo" - it failed. Service, he and
Africa service. But my opinion - just
argument, since everyone lives and makes
own way. I choose the ZX-SPECTRUM, perhaps, SPRINTER. Esche 
Thanks again to all who produce a catalog of games for an old 
man SPECCY are year 1982-1998 ...