ZX Time #08 30 апреля 2002

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Opinion - Thoughts on the System Software on the Spectrum.

Opinion. Thoughts on the System Software.


                                    Nuts


  I have, that is Nuts'a again verbal diarrhea. Rove all 
thoughts. Thoughts on account of any rulezu and software.



  All here thoughts on the competition for the best software. 
And it turns out that the idea is not so good as it seems. 
After all, if you figure out just the best software is not 
always mean that it is the favorite, comfortable and most 
commonly used. Thoughts such went when compared commanders. Here

because there are plenty of very cool and clever kommandeov it 
even if you do not believe that some are buggy or have theirs 
only a demo. Even if we take otnositelno standard or with a 
couple of extra chips, then, in my vzgdyad, people do not enjoy 
the steepest, and then choose how to imagine, for whatever 
their inner feelings and personal

requirements. In a word - the taste and
color ...


  I have long compared the Commander used my friends and 
acquaintances. As it turned out, people prefer to mostly

the same style: the good old
Conver, with fine print. I do not know
Is the font, design, hard to say. But the lead was good old 
Jemmini, Conver, Real and Global. And the transition

even with Global mnogoglyuchnogo at Real 1.8
is practically impossible.
Affect existing stereotypes. Even
Similar in design and OMEGA HONEY not take root. But nothing of 
TOTAL, Turbo, Gun, with their unusual design ... Nevertheless, 
Cmdr all kodyat and kodyat: all sorts, different. 


  Again, all the same, and with graphics and
sprite editors. Ponadelano their
any weight. Forget also for a moment that
a lot of them work in his undocumented format, and not always 
even allows you to cut the schedule from the standard screen! 
Important that many have quite remarkable features. But

hudozhnichki something we always put the blame on
inoplatformennye editors - basic
arguments are the windows of arbitrary shape, lots of colors 
and filters that allow artists, especially not to waste time. 
Joke is that the more loaded the good old ART STUDIO and the 
pictures painted there. Here talents are manifested only as

coloring.


  Actually, if the only important result, it is possible and 
so, as if the artist PCs do not? Or is there a danger that

artist, and after watching trukolora hayreza perish forever 
with spectrum? Or before that he did not see the components and

Someone told him that "HRC - RULEZ: (
Here is where the need SPEKovsky editor, adapted to the needs 
of the artist. 


  Here, for example, DIVER This process rides, well written - 
that he needed to photo editor, brought a lot of original ideas 
and ... 


  In short, users are recommended software often kicking 
softoproizvoditeley (mind you, not me:) c requirements of 
concrete improvements in the software. And then we have Many 
authors, having zyvyshennoy whether modesty, or coolness, and 
write sistemki, igruhi, newspapers and magazines purely

for myself, not humiliated before contact with the stupid user. 
Polohim consequence of this is the complete absence HELP, 
documentation and setup in the produced programs. 


  The positive side of the undocumented is the sharp increase
hacker-modifikatorskoy activities.
At least people are working, and then write something yourself. 
Are better. Q: Does the anger just bend the author on such 
crackers, if this prog with all possible, documentation is only 
the inscription that the program is distributed freely, 
provided non-payment change?



  In other programs, described in detail
format everyone there overlays, so what? This program also did 
not want to use it - still, inconvenient. 


  The result is a lot of unnecessary work: people write and 
break, break and write, break and write, but no good there. 
There is no perfect program. 


  A must: the service and setup, detailed
management and documentation. It would be nice
porasprashivat around and around saying what they need in this 
prog, and whether it ought markups. And rasprashivat to an 
addiction - which can be interesting in mind. This will not 
create sverhnavorochennye and no unnecessary complexes not 
finish until the end and scary glyuchaschie, not compact, but 
very convenient and useful files of. It should be just a little 
bit to try to ease No programming is turned inconvenience in 
use. 


  It was after this work badsome
You can organize competitions for the best
software - unless a new, worthy of such consideration. Moreover,
in the evaluation and the new and old software is good to 
further divide the detail say, choose not the best sistemku and

the best editor, viewer, assembler, debugger, Cmdr. But now 
representatives of some of the nominations quite a few others - 
a little, and have to choose only some of them, while others 
leave unaddressed because of lack competition.



            CALL CODER!

             Come to Him!

           Make it a scruff!

       And tell me what do you want!


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