Deja Vu #03 31 декабря 1997

Будущее Спектрума

Topic - Speccy and the future ....

        (C) CAV Inc. / Auryn / C.P.U.
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           Speccy and the future ....
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     Currently, in many publications
appeared pissimisticheskie articles on the topic
Spectrum is dead. " Among users of all
more people selling Speccy and dumps
to other platforms. It's no secret that the Speccy obsolete in 
90 year. But! There is always one thing. While Speccy

is most accessible from a computer
all. (If the Amiga was going the same way as
Speccy, then everyone would have long-standing and Amiga
pC at all would not care). What caused
growth in popularity of Speccy in 90-94-ies?
That's right, ease of assembly and the large number of toys. 
There are not any creepy translators in the high-level 
languages ​​and other such Labuda. How many remember the Soviet 
computers of the time. Where are they now? Probably not many 
users SPECCY be able to tell what happened to other platforms, 
the same RC-86, Orion, Vectors, BC. Although there is 
information about BC. In Currently BC is still alive and 
evolving, while in Samara it drag on demos

Spectrum!

  So, go to the main issue of our
articles, how to prolong life to our favorite.
Extend the life of our platform can attract new users. And do 
not seek to teen revenue from sales of software. Yes,

authors need to pay, yes, of course not many people willing to 
work for this (heavy, however, time). But, fellow writers, you 
yourself First of all do not want and do not buy

software from other authors. In the best case, you
exchange it for something their own, (in
Basically the normal way of cooperation) in
worst, simply use the pirated copy
So, fellow writers, if you want
have a lot of money, you can blame on MS and
popytatsya there to earn (if enough
mind). Who can I call people before
widely known in the Speccy, and now also
widely known in the PC? I can not (although
I can just about them have not heard anything).
Many had gone to SPECCY to another platform just lamer. Think 
about this. You that hunting is becoming lamer (or

best nick)? What do you do for pC? Game? Juzat for yuzaniya?
Try to make money? Let
ask, how? Klepaya accounting software? Why accounting? Because 
if you're a programmer, you have nothing else to do there. If 
you are a musician or graph (especially the latter), you may 
find and use their talents, although here, too many complicated 
and controversial. A programmer can not be helped. Rather space 
for activities is very wide, it's operating systems, games, 
text editors, and generally a lot of things. I have not made a 
reservation, all this is not enough for pC (or rather is,

but in a terrible pen). Our GAMEDESIGNER'y already
make their way into the world market. (See
GAME.EXE) Those firms which something kodyat
(Buh. program) will not do it.
They have no faith in the venture, they have
All done, all invented, but the fact that almost
all works MicroSoft skew .. Well,
means this is the fate, for nothing else
no. Therefore, no, that nearly everyone thinks
and tend to go under one kryluschko
from well-known western companies. Nobody
want to disturb his peace and to fight. Therefore we get from 
the once famous Specrum'ista mediocre rC'ishnika. Yes

Of course, that would make pC to do something, (your desired) 
will have more poizvraschatsya than the Speccy, but worth 
ovchinka manufacture, I believe that people behind a

which was a school Spectrum'a, will be able to turn history of 
computers with the path was laid out by Bill Gates. But the 
preparation programming is one thing (to be honest in

our business is not as important a programmer, as
developer, because programmer can learn in two weeks, and be a 
developer Is you do not have two fingers about .. mb) is 
important training of users, users, because we are nothing 
without the user, so a handful of people sostayaschaya special 
clan. A man needs a past school Speccy and properly looking the 
problem of comfort and beauty work. You I can not believe it 
can challenge my words, but I know what I mean. As has been

once written in Adventurer'e, I worked on UKNC, SPECCY and MS 
and can compare where it is convenient to work with.


  So, we got to the most important thing to
how to keep the user and, if possible
find new ones. The first thing we should learn
is the fact that the overwhelming majority
population associated with the word computer
pC. Therefore, you should convey to the people that
there are other, not like on a PC machine.
So after one such action in the Rybinsk
ADEVENTURER'a joined the editorial staff
several people, and appeared on the market
several new customers. Many simply
did not know that Spectrum esche alive! On the day of my 
departure from Rybinsk, the market came people who wanted to 
buy a Spectrum or to fix long-standing mashiiny! Therefore, we 
should frequently vyhodt in people giving more information in 
the newspapers, to try to break into the local television (Oh, 
we did not succeed). True to the arguments will be difficult, 
because the former argument, cheapness, gradually eroding. If 
the new Scorp stand a little more lemon, and 286 have less 
(even with the monitor), then very difficult to convince the 
inexperienced user that he needs it SPECCY. Although there is a 
strong argument, but namely programs. Now find something

for "kopeck piece" is not just (can, of course), and
upgrade "kopeck piece" ;-). You can popytatsya
abut that Speccy is my world and he
richer than the world of pC as Speccy - it
cult car. And this is confirmed
PC'shniki that run under the emulator our
program and play our game. Because
that only we and Amizhnikov is a cult.
What is a cult? The cult of the computer, and
not all, but a single platform. This
love for his car to his community.
No one will love a lot of changing of iron, sometimes does not 
fit together. Life pisishnika is a solid upgrade. No

Of course, upgrading is a good thing, but not as
at the same pace and with the same price!

  Ask a petition for partial distance
topic article but it was needed. So, the question still 
remains, what to do with Speccy. What he leaves the scene no one

doubt, but we can try,
that it was as late as possible. Think,
that can be used to extend
Life Speccy. First, we need a new video processor (map) because 
the development of new machines is good, but not quite, because 
not anyone can put even half a lemon over

customized fee (or lemon to the new model). Inexpensive (around 
200 tons) easy to connect video blaster would be very helped to 
extend the life of Speccy. Second, need as much as possible to 
use terminology and ideas from other platforms. For example, 
the problem of a shortage of disk 5'25 DD can be solved with 
the help of HD 3'5 drives. Treshechnye disks lying around 
everywhere, and the drive 3'5 is a little more than a hundred 
thousand (from $ 18 and above). What else to adapt, invent

themselves. In general, the easiest is to sit idle
hands and do nothing. But this path is not
for us. Once we are able to keep the Speccy
afloat and kick ass microsoft, not
only need to lose faith in yourself and have a
purpose in life.


  Written 26/11/1997, at 1:42 local

                 time


P.S.
Ed: I, as well as my colleagues join abandoned CAV'om call. 
Fellowship! Do not throw SPECCY! When you've bought

currently "cool" a stump or Ammy, think again
times, before selling it is a miracle! Many of
the sale you will not bail out and lose
immeasurably more ...


                  With hope for the future ...

                          / Ze Pagan /